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New acquisitions to be shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest

Added on March 11, 2023 by Alex Mirutziu.

HeartBeat 22

March 16 - October 01, 2023

National Museum of Contemporary Art - Bucharest

Aripa E4

www.mnac.ro

Due to the repeated generosity of the Ministry of Culture, a total of 385 works (359 acquisitions, 26 donations) entered the MNAC Bucharest heritage in 2020 and 2022. HEARTBEAT 22 focuses, of course, on last year's session, but clearly benefits from the gains and conclusions of both moments.

HEARTBEAT 22 no longer possesses the drama of the previous exhibition (presented at the MNAC Bucharest headquarters under the title 12 Years After, and at Kunsthalle Bega and the Craiova Museum of Art respectively, under that of HEARTBEAT 20), but brings us face to face with new challenges.

The spatial layout of the 2020 exhibition underlined the volatile nature of the relationship between the Museum and artistic production, emphasising ephemerality, improvisation and chance. Two years (and a bit more) later, in the main space of MNAC Bucharest, the acquisitions exhibition reflects the fact that we (artists, specialists, public) participate in the process of building the collection of an institution whose role (among others) is to elaborate the canon of the production of visual creators from/active in post-war Romania.

Concluding the event, in the Dialog space on the 4th floor of the museum, a new exhibition opens, in which seven young artists at the beginning of their career engage in a collective creative and curatorial exercise.

You will see artworks purchased from the following artists: 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. And artworks donated by: Michele Bressan, Nicolae Golici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Dana Popa, Patricia Teodorescu.

JURY MEMBERS

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)

"Romanian Film Lounge #Berlinale 2023": films by Alex Mirutziu from the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania collection were shown at the Rumanisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin

Added on February 26, 2023 by Alex Mirutziu.

A survey of Romanian video art and its developments as seen from a historical, aesthetic but also socio-political viewpoint, spanning from the end of the 70s to the present day.

Alex Mirutziu’s (b.1981, Romania, living between Romania and the UK) practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including sculpture, film, drawing, poetry and performance as well as critical and curatorial projects. Mirutziu’s practice interrogates the difficulty of dying, the immediate triviality of guilt as manifested in actions whose consequences cannot be fully imagined. He questions continuity as an irreversible, irreparable paradigm in video, performance, and mixed-media installations, and he looks for ways to materialize the conceptual and visceral sides of notions like loss, alienation, and abandonment.

“At the border of photograph and moving image, Self-portrait at 32 is a split screen showing the tops of two dilapidated buildings out of which sprouts some vegetation. The image remains almost motionless apart the delicate and subtle sway of the stems in the wind. Spontaneous vegeta-tion grows in unattended areas of the urban environment, reclaiming the ones controlled spaces and their ruins. they indicate the low economic value of the empty lots and of the dereliction of the former industrial areas. nevertheless, recently it has been shown that they actually contribute significantly to the health of the urban and rural ecosystem, as a metaphor for the condition of the artist, and a gay male in society characterized by widespread homophobia, this piece is also a tribute to the marginalized that nevertheless constitute an essential component of the character of the whole of society. the loneliness and isolation the video evokes is an expression of the artist’s own internal struggle with his position in the world, but through resilience, as we also observe in the plants that create space for themselves and reclaim what was once theirs, he succeeds in spite of environmental adversity.” (text by Olga Stefan)

Self-portrait at 32 - HD video, 1’, 2014 | From the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania (MNAC Bucharest) collection

Tears are Precious - Video, 2’55’’, 2007 | From the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania (MNAC Bucharest) collection

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: