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MNAC exhibition showcases highlights from the combined recent artworks acquisitions 2020x2022

Added on October 30, 2023 by Alex Mirutziu.

HeartBeat 21

November 2, 2023 - March 31, 2024

National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest

The exhibition can be visited on the first floor of the museum. / Expoziția poate fi vizitată la etajul 1 al muzeului.

www.mnac.ro

[EN]

Through the repeated acts of generosity by the Ministry of Culture, in 2020 and 2022 a total of 385 artworks (359 acquired, 26 donated) entered the MNAC Bucharest collection. HeartBeat 21 brings together a selection of works from both sessions and obviously benefits from the gains and conclusions of both episodes. HeartBeat 21 no longer has the dramatic nature of the 2020 exhibition of the first session of acquisitions (presented at MNAC under the title 12 Years After, and at Kunsthalle Bega, respectively Craiova Art Museum under the title HeartBeat 20), but introduces us to other challenges.

The spatial layout of the 2020 exhibition underlined the volatile nature of the relationship between the Museum and local artistic production, emphasising ephemerality, improvisation, and chance. Three years later, in the main space of MNAC, the exhibition showcasing highlights from from the combined recent acquisitions (2020 and 2022) reflects the fact that we (artists, professionals, audiences) participate in the process of building the collection of an institution whose role is (among others) to elaborate the canon of artistic production pertaining to those from/active in post-war Romania.

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[RO]

Prin generozitatea reiterată a Ministerului Culturii, în anii 2020 și 2022 au intrat în patrimoniul MNAC un total de 385 lucrări (359 achiziții, 26 donații). PULS 21 aduce laolaltă o selecție de lucrări din ambele sesiuni de achiziții și beneficiază în mod evident de câștigurile și concluziile ambelor momente. PULS 21 nu mai are dramatismul expoziției primei sesiuni de achiziții din 2020 (prezentată la sediul MNAC sub titlul După doisprezece ani, iar la Kunsthalle Bega, respectiv Muzeul de Artă Craiova sub cel de PULS 20), dar ne aduce în fața altor provocări.

Desfășurarea spațială a expoziției din 2020 sublinia caracterul volatil al relației Muzeu-producție artistică, punea accentul pe efemer, improvizație, hazard. Trei ani mai târziu, în spațiul principal al MNAC, selecția prezentă în expoziția combinată a achizițiilor 2020 și 2022 reflectă de această dată faptul că participăm (artiști, specialiști, public) la procesul de construire a colecției unei instituții al cărei rol este (printre altele) să elaboreze canonul producției creatorilor de vizualitate provenind din/activi în România postbelică.

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Artists / Artiști [selection from the 2020x2022 acquisitions / selecție din achizițiile 2020x2022]

Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Antik, Apparatus 22, Olimpiu Bandalac, Dragoș Bădiță, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Biroul de Cercetări Melodramatice, Rudolf Bone, Irina Botea Bucan, Ștefan Botez, Răzvan Botiș, Claudia Brăileanu, Michele Bressan, Liviu Bulea, Cătălin Burcea, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Andrei Chintilă, Anetta Mona Chișa, Ciprian Ciuclea, Radu Comșa, Ion Condiescu, Ștefan Constantinescu, Judit Crăciun, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Giulia Crețulescu, Casia Csehi, Miklósi Dénes, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Arantxa Etcheverria, Florin Ghenade, Irina Gheorghe, Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Teodor Graur, Ion Grigorescu, Dragoș Hanciu, Dorina Horătău, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Lucia Ghegu, Viorica Iacob, Gheorghe Ilea, Pavel Ilie, Lucian Indrei, Adelina Ivan, Péter Jecza, Mihaela Kavdanska & Dilmana Yordanova, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Szabolcs KissPál, Kund Kopacz, Peter Krausz, Stela Lie, Maxim Liulca, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Mandea, Maria Manolescu, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Ana Maria Micu, Mihai Mihalcea, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Adina Mocanu, Gili Mocanu, Sebastian Moldovan, Patricia Moroșan, Ciprian Mureșan, Ion Aurel Mureșan, Vasile Mureșan (Murivale), Sarah Muscalu, Sorin Neamțu, Dumitru Oboroc, Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Păsat, Szacsva y Pál, Cosmin Paulescu, Romelo Pervolovici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Eugenia Pop, Delia Popa, Maria Pop Timaru, Laurențiu Ruță Fulger, Marilena Preda-Sânc, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Cristian Răduță, Șerban Savu, Decebal Scriba, Larisa Sitar, Alexandru Solomon, Ioana Stanca, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Radu Șerban, Patricia Teodorescu, Mircea Tohătan, Iulia Toma, Titu Toncian, Doru Tulcan, Ștefan Ungureanu, Dan Vezentan, Bogdan Vlăduță, Ecaterina Vrana, Mădălina Zaharia & Ryan Ormonde, Mihai Zgondoiu

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest has acquired works by Alex Mirutziu. The results of the 2022 session of art acquisitions will be on display in the February 2023 exhibition

Added on November 10, 2022 by Alex Mirutziu.

Alex Mirutziu - Sock Face [2010] Light Box

[EN] The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania announces the end of the 2022 session of art acquisitions for the extension of its collection. MNAC Bucharest thanks first of all the Ministry of Culture for renewing, just two years after the former art acquisitions session, the budget of RON 2 million made available to MNAC for this important project. MNAC expresses its gratitude to the artists who signed up, understanding the legal context of the process and thus contributing to its completion; to the members of the jury who, with admirable competence and dedication, have succeeded in providing the Museum with a selection of artists and works remarkable for their empathy and accuracy; to all the colleagues in the Museum staff who, for almost a year, have dedicated their energy, creativity and talent to the completion of this complex acquisition. The results of this collective effort will be on display in the exhibition opening in February 2023 at the Museum.

Artists whose works have been acquired:

Ana Adam, Arina Ailincăi, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Alexandru Antik, Apparatus 22, Olimpiu Bandalac, József Bartha, Liliana Basarab, Cătălin Bălescu, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Alex Bodea, Irina Botea Bucan, Lucian Bran, Michele Bressan, Liviu Bulea, Cătălin Burcea, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Andrei Chintilă, Aneta Mona Chișa, Dan Cioca, Ciprian Ciuclea, Radu Comșa, Ștefan Constantinescu, Judit Crăciun, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Giulia Crețulescu, Casia Csehi, Miklósi Dénes, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Suzana Fântânariu, Florin Ghenade, Irina Gheorghe, Dani Ghercă, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Teodor Graur, Ion Grigorescu, Dorina Horătău, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Lucia Ghegu, Gheorghe Ilea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Pavel Ilie, Lucian Indrei, Adelina Ivan, Péter Jecza, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Szabolcs KissPál, Kund Kopacz, Peter Krausz, Stela Lie, Maxim Liulca, Petru Lucaci, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Mandea, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Mihai Mihalcea, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Adina Mocanu, Sebastian Moldovan, Ciprian Mureșan, Ion Aurel Mureșan, Vasile Mureșan (Murivale), Sarah Muscalu, Andrei Nacu, Dumitru Oboroc, Christian Paraschiv, Alexandru Păsat, Szacsva y Pál, Cosmin Paulescu, Eugenia Pop, Maria Pop Timaru, Dana Popa, Iulia Toma, Laurențiu Ruță Fulger, Mircea Tohătan, Titu Toncian, Marilena Preda-Sânc, Șerban Radu, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Cătălin Rulea, Șerban Savu, Elena Scutaru, Larisa Sitar, Ioana Stanca, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Ștefan (Afane) Teodoreanu, Patricia Teodorescu, Dan Vezentan, Ecaterina Vrana, Mădălina Zaharia & Ryan Ormonde, Mihai Zgondoiu.

The following artists have donated works:

Michele Bressan, Nicolae Golici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Dana Popa, Patricia Teodorescu

Members of the jury who have selected artists and artworks for direct negotiation:

Horea AVRAM – President of the Romanian branch of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), representative of the Union of Romanian Visual Artists

Cătălin DAVIDESCU – Curator, art critic, Craiova

Prof. Univ. Dr. Ruxandra DEMETRESCU – Doctoral School of the National University of Arts in Bucharest

Dr. Zoran ERIĆ – Independent curator; 2002-2021: Chief curator of the Belgrade Contemporary Art Museum (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)

Conf. Univ. Dr. Cătălin GHEORGHE – the Art History and Theory Department of the Visual Arts and Design Faculty, the “George Enescu” National Arts University in Iași

Diana MARINCU – Artistic director, Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara

Frances MORRIS – Director, Tate Modern, London (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)

Conf. Univ. Dr. Mara-Victoria RAȚIU – Rector, The Arts and Design University in Cluj-Napoca (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)

Jarosław SUCHAN – Curator independent; 2006-2022: Director Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Polonia (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)

Andrei SICLODI – Director of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (member of the MNAC Scientific Board)

The public acquisitions session for the MNAC collection, facts:

Applications: 396

Applications submitted to the jury after technical verification: 393

Applications selected by the jury for direct negotiation: 140

Artists and artist groups selected for acquisition following direct negotiation: 99

Artworks acquired: 192

Number of artists who donated works: 5

Female artists acquired: 42

Artists under 35 acquired: 13

Artists in the category 35-65 acquired: 63

Artists over 65 acquired: 23

Deceased artists acquired: 6

The works acquired are made between 1964 and 2022

Alex Mirutziu - Self-portrait at 32 [2014] Single channel video, 1”

[RO] Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană al României anunță încheierea sesiunii 2022 a procedurii de achiziții opere de artă pentru completarea colecției sale. MNAC mulțumește în primul rând Ministerului Culturii care a reînnoit, la doar doi ani de la precedenta sesiune de achiziții, bugetul de 2 milioane RON pus la dispoziția MNAC pentru acest important proiect. MNAC mulțumește artiștilor care s-au înscris în procedură, înțelegând contextul legal al proiectului și contribuind astfel la realizarea sa; membrilor juriului, care, cu o competență și o dedicație admirabile, au reușit să ofere Muzeului o selecție de artiști și lucrări remarcabilă prin empatie și acuratețe; tuturor colegelor și colegilor din Muzeu, care timp de aproape un an și-au dedicat energia, inventivitatea și talentul aducerii la bun sfârșit a acestei complexe achiziții. Rezultatele acestui efort colectiv vor putea fi văzute în expoziția care se va inaugura în luna februarie 2023, la sediul Muzeului.

Artiștii ale căror lucrări au fost achiziționate:

Au donat lucrări:

Michele Bressan, Nicolae Golici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Dana Popa, Patricia Teodorescu

Componența juriului de selecție a artiștilor și lucrărilor care au intrat în negocierea directă:

Horea AVRAM – Președinte Asociația Internațională a Criticilor de Artă (AICA), filiala România, reprezentant al Uniunii Artiștilor Plastici din România

Cătălin DAVIDESCU – Curator, critic de artă, Craiova

Prof. Univ. Dr. Ruxandra DEMETRESCU – Școala Doctorală, Universitatea Națională de Arte București

Dr. Zoran ERIĆ – Curator independent; 2002-2021: Curator șef, Muzeul de Artă Contemporană Belgrad (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC)

Conf. Univ. Dr. Cătălin GHEORGHE – Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu” Iași, Facultatea de Arte Vizuale și Design, Departamentul Istoria și Teoria Artei

Diana MARINCU – Director Artistic, Fundația Art Encounters, Timișoara

Frances MORRIS – Director, Tate Modern, Londra (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC)

Conf. Univ. Dr. Mara-Victoria RAȚIU – Rector, Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC)

Jarosław SUCHAN – Curator independent; 2006-2022: Director Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Polonia (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC)

Andrei SICLODI – Director Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC)

Sesiunea de achiziții publice pentru completarea colecției MNAC, fapte:

Dosare depuse: 396

Dosare înaintate juriului după verificarea tehnică: 393

Dosare selectate de către juriu pentru negocierea directă: 140

Artiști (și grupuri de artiști) achiziționați în urma negocierii directe: 99

Număr de lucrări achiziționate: 192

Număr de artiști care au donat lucrări: 5

Număr de artiste achiziționate: 42

Artiști din categoria sub 35 de ani achiziționați: 13

Artiști din categoria 35-65 de ani achiziționați: 63

Artiști din categoria peste 65 de ani achiziționați: 23

Artiști decedați achiziționați: 6

Au fost achiziționate lucrări realizate între 1964 și 2022

Alex Mirutziu's works are recent additions to MNAC Bucharest collection. A special exhibition reflecting new acquisitions opens today

Added on December 11, 2020 by Alex Mirutziu.

12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS / DUPĂ DOISPREZECE ANI. PRODUCȚIA ARTISTICĂ DIN ROMÂNIA ÎN 180 DE LUCRĂRI

December 11, 2020 - May 02, 2021

National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest

Floor 2

www.mnac.ro

National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest presents a special exhibition: "12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works", resulted from an extensive acquisition of works of art process in 2020.

Inherited mostly from other institutions and reflecting, up until 1990, the purchase mechanisms of the former communist cultural propaganda structures, the MNAC Collection reflects a nuanced outlook on Romanian artistic life, from a perspective guided not only by value criteria but also by an overview of the social, not only by value criteria but also from the complex perspective of social, economic and political contexts. The art acquisitions sessions organized following the establishment of MNAC Bucharest completed this fund with significant works — independent of ideological, political, conjunctural pressures. Through this approach, MNAC Bucharest emerged as the reference institution for the collection, conservation, research and museographic capitalization of representative visual creation in post-1989 Romania.

In 2020, the MNAC Bucharest budget was supplemented by the Ministry of Culture with 2,000 000 lei for the public acquisition of contemporary artworks. Launched in the context of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the first procedure for public acquisition of contemporary art in the last 12 years was aimed at living visual artists from Romania, active within the country and abroad. Its role was to provide an incentive for current artistic production and to increase the Romanian cultural heritage managed by the MNAC Collection.

Artists whose works have been procured: 2META, Dan Acostioaei, Ana Adam, Felix Aftene, Andreea Anghel, Apparatus 22, Cătălin Bădărău, Dragoș Bădiţă, Olimpiu Bandalac, Liliana Basarab, Vlad Basarab, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Răzvan Boar, Andreea-Lorena Bojenoiu, Rudolf Bone, Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu, Irina Botea Bucan, Ștefan Botez, Răzvan Botiș, Claudia Brăileanu, Michele Bressan, Cătălin Burcea, Ștefan Câlția, Ion Condiescu, Elena Copuzeanu, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Giulia Crețulescu, Larisa Crunțeanu, Cristina David, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Daniel Djamo, Megan Dominescu, Arantxa Etcheverria, Belu Simion Făinaru, Norbert Filep, Biroul de Cercetări Melodramatice (Irina Gheorghe & Alina Popa), Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Daniel Gontz, Teodor Graur, Dragoș Hanciu, Dorina Horătău, Viorica Iacob, Gheorghe Ilea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Adelina Ivan, Mihaela Kavdanska/Dilmana Yordanova, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Kund Kopacz, Stela Lie, Petru Lucaci, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Manolescu, Ana-Maria Micu, Mihai Mihalcea (Farid Fairuz), Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Gili (Virgilius) Mocanu, Patricia Moroșan, Ciprian Mureșan, Andrei Nacu, Sorin Neamțu, Maurice Mircea Novac, Dumitru Oboroc, Marilena Oprescu Singer (Saint Machine), Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Păsat, Cosmin Paulescu, Bogdan Pelmuș, Romelo Pervolovici, Delia Popa, Marilena Preda Sânc, Cristian Răduță, Sandu-Eugen Raportoru, Carmen Rasovszky, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Decebal Scriba, Dumitru Șerban, Ioana Sisea, Larisa Sitar, Alexandru Solomon, Mircea Stănescu, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Alexandra Tatar, Patricia Teodorescu, Doru Tulcan, Ștefan Ungureanu, Dan Vezentan, Aurel Vlad, Bogdan Vlăduță, Dilmana Yordanova, Mihai Zgondoiu, Marian Zidaru, Victoria Zidaru

Artists who have donated works: Ioana Bătrânu, Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Iosif Király, Maria Manolescu, Maurice Mircea Novac, Romelo Pervolovici, Doru Tulcan, Mihai Zgondoiu

'Insidious fog' - happens sometimes: a performance on disintegration and growing small.

Added on September 19, 2017 by Alex Mirutziu.

Dignity to the unsaid

performance | 2017, Bucharest / Cluj-Napoca

- performers | Alex Popa | Irina Sibef |Cosmin Stanila

work commissioned by BIDFF (Bucharest International dance Film Festival), supported by MNAC and Sabot Gallery

presented in partnership with the Performing Arts Programme of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Ioana Paun.

8 SEPT, 2017

@THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Alex Mirutziu

I intend to look into ways in which one of the most important novelist of the twentieth century managed to create meaning through an abundance of means, said and unsaid, which I call — manners of holding the world. How Iris Murdoch closes what is already present in her work with what presents itself as— ‘something like’ — which has the potential to be. I am particularly interested in times when she holds meaning for brief moments into units of material nature (gestures, words, hesitations, body movements). When those moments take place in an interview situation for e.g., objects which are indeterminate and difficult to pin down are born. They differ from the common manifestations of form, be it writing or acting, and are susceptible of bearing no meaning whatsoever.

The question is how infiltrations of ‘what is not said’ instigate ‘what is said’ and vice versa. This line of enquiry looks at ways in which Iris Murdoch closes her distinctions in philosophical debates, with her intellect, but also her body language. And when she works the what is in language — which can only hold reality in inexact closures, communication is weakened due to the accumulation of consciousness, corrupted by memories and experiences wrongly wired to reality. The conceptual movement between said and unsaid, falls under the ever present fragmentation we manifest in holding the world as something like, a fatal aspect of our physical limitations. We fragment the world in order to understand and function within it. Such a fragmentation fails on the account of a world which is undifferentiated.

The upshot of this project is to bring into existence a new reading of Iris Murdoch’s oeuvre outside the common view of her novels letters and interviews, a reading of Iris Murdoch as a heterogeneous unit, to give her the chance, posthumously, to widen the complexity of her creation through added anchors of meaning and new setups for reflection.

The performance includes the sound installation CAUSAL VARIATIONS FOR SOMETHING LIKE (computer-generated sound, 3 x multichannel audio), created by Elías Merino, a series of autonomous synthetic sound objects based on a relational tissue involving sound and human actors within Alex Mirutziu’s performance frame. These sound entities are located/(un)located in the physical space hidden behind a mirrored appearance. Plasticity, non human dynamic entity, synthesis, irreducibility, discreteness, no objected, relation, ecology, temporal elasticity, rifts, disembodiment, algorithmic, sound sculpture, articulation, reductionism, structural gesture, permutation gesture, variation, no hierarchy, physicality, process of coexistence, miscommunication.

Alex Mirutziu's performative oeuvre on show at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest

Added on September 18, 2017 by Alex Mirutziu.

No Blood Bank Included

SOLO EXHIBITION

as part of BIDFF (Bucharest International Dance Film Festival) in partnership with the Performing Arts Programme of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Ioana Paun

@THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BUCHAREST (MNAC)

Exhibition visiting dates/hours | SEPT 9 - OCT 1| 12 PM - 8 PM (regular museum ticket)

- all photos by Alex Mirutziu with the exception of the last 6 in line, bearing the copyright of Doria Photography.

Alex Mirutziu

As long as against an artwork we position ourselves frontality, we tend to do so brutally charged and equally emotional. The works in the exhibition are impossible to be perceived frontally, be it visually or multi-sensorially, but only by detour, alas slowly digesting it to the point of loosing oneself. My most recent works move away from the logic of ‘me’ - ‘here — ‘the rest’ - outside, and deal with uncertain dimensions which exhibits one/other meaning as well as with links of co-existence between multiple presences, approaches or appearances of the individual and of the world in which he/she belongs that cannot ever run out of steam.

Even when ‘here’ and ‘now’ structure our understanding, these are contaminated by an act of re-installment, or re-demarcation of the creative act. Demand joining efforts, multiple foldings.I insist in creating a climate that brings forth the likes of something to be later metabolised. This selection of works are part of such a mechanism of making meaning from proximity. I’m not interested in approaching this mechanism in a critical way, rather the contrary, due to the fact that critique entails a sort of way of looking at the object from the outside, short-circuited by spilling consciousness. It has not been proved that such a way of accessing reality has ever had enough stamina to be able to arrive at the end of a demonstration.

For complete list of films follow the link: http://www.bidff.ro/alex-mirutziu-en

Many thanks for the thought and energy that went into production and instalment to: Simona Deaconescu (Artistic Director of BIDFF), Anamaria Antoci (Festival Manager), Irena Isbasescu (International Relations), Emilia Paunescu (Production Manager) an all the BIDFF team which made this show possible and for Ioana Paun, chief curator of performative arts at MNAC for her quick-thinking and functionalist approach.