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Alex Mirutziu is showing at the 5th Mediterranean Biennale in Haifa

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ANYBODY HOME?

The 5th Mediterranean Biennale

Haifa, Israel

January 18 - March 7, 2024

Curators: Avital Bar-Shay & Belu-Simion Fainaru

Participating artists: 
AES+F, Elmgreen & Dragset, Carlos Amorales, Guy Ben-Ner, Moshe Gershuni, Ori Gersht, Jenny Holzer, Meirav Heiman, Pavel Wolberg, Yigal Tumarkin, Ziva Yalin, Ciprian Murresan, Alex Mirutziu, Shahar Marcus & Nezaket Ekici, Belu-Simon Fainaru, Adel Abdessemed, Jannis Kounellis, Meinrad Schade, Angelika Sher, Hannah Abu-Hussein, Lela Ahmadzai, Avital Bar-shay, Burak Delier, Almagul Menlibayeva, Or Fainaru, Hacer Kiroglu, Boaz Kaizman, Marina Zaikina

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It is tempting to view time in seconds, minutes, and hours, before and after October 7, 2023. Moments connect to places, pinning memories, like flags on a map; moments which no one dares to forget in the face of violence, suffering, and profound pain. How can one rise from the abyss of darkness? What kind of people will we be? What kind of society will we create? What does the future hold? On what values will we raise our children? Where does one find the strength to re-build a home in such a world?

The question "Anybody home?" challenges the assumption that "home" is a stable site of belonging representing shelter, refuge and safety, peace and identity; a place that protects its occupants. The boundaries delineating this everyday space have been abandoned, and are now more blurred than ever. Peace has been violated by elements of chaos and insecurity, by an experience of disrupted normality. "Home" has become more traumatic than comforting.

The exhibition "Anybody Home?", presented as part of the 5th Mediterranean Biennale, responds to the current reality, exploring issues pertaining to home, loss, pain, longing, and hope, in search of meaning in a violent, cruel world. The works invite the viewer to contemplate experiences of emotional detachment, helplessness and distress, striving to remind us of the importance of help, empathy, and understanding in the chaos of life. Works of art are a manifestation of the human spirit and of art's power to inspire hope even in difficult moments, in the shadow of war; of its ability to strengthen and heal, to offer support and a remedy for the soul and give hope, to introduce humanism, solidarity, and social resilience in open, secure spaces where people can gather, share their grief, engage in sincere conversation, and strive for a better, peaceful future.

The Mediterranean Biennale was inaugurated in 2010 as a model for multicultural cooperation and dialogue among diverse outlooks and opinions held by different communities and groups in the Middle East and the Mediterranean countries. The biennale's underlying vision is to promote peace through artistic activity intended to build mutual trust in the region, by promoting cooperation based on equality and reciprocity; to bring a new approach to the region via artistic activity in the hope of creating a basis for human dialogue and coexistence between communities that are still in conflict and seek to promote education for peace, tolerance, and non-violence.

The biennale aims to bridge gaps in the perception of the other and encourage cultural diversity, so as to create an environment where individuals and groups share common values and exist in peace. By turning the spotlight on artistic work and universal human feelings based on a vision for a shared future and human dignity, we hope to avoid politics and regional disputes, in the pursuit of creating a better future for coexistence. The Mediterranean Biennale offers an alternative platform, highlighting the local processes being created in the region, and enhancing their cultural impact by means of art directed towards the community, that bridges between cultures; art that leaves the museum, integrates with the city, and transforms the city into a museum.

The biennale will serve as a place in which to raise various issues, such as: How to return art to society? What is the relevance of art in today's world? How is the role of art as a bridge between cultures manifested?

The exhibition "Anybody Home?", presented in the city of Haifa, is the second part of the 5th Mediterranean Biennale (2023-24). For the first time this year, the biennale's first part is held outside of Israel, in Istanbul, under the title "I am another you, you are another me," thus realizing the biennale's vision for an intercultural discourse in the Mediterranean basin.

"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

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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

O sută de lucrări ce abordează teme queer, într-o expoziție-eveniment la Combinatul Fondului Plastic din București

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SIMȚI ~ ALUNECI ~ CÂNȚI (1- 245)

4 decembrie 2021 - 19 ianuarie 2022

Artiști:

Apparatus 22, Alex Bodea, Ștefan Botez, Patrick Brăila, Cornel Brudașcu, Irina Bujor, Liviu Bulea, Andrei Chintilă, Lorena Cocioni, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Paul Dunca / Paula Dunker, Julio Elvisey Pisică, Vergine Santa Frida, Alex Horghidan, Limba semnelor de întrebare / The Language of Question Marks, Luca Istodor, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Katja Lee Eliad, Mihai Lukács, Mihai Mihalcea, Alex Mirutziu, Sebastian Moldovan, Paul Mureșan, Vasile Mureșan (Murivale), Ioana Nemeș, Mircea Nicolae, Adrian Oncu, Sorin Oncu, Ileana Pașcalău, Manuel Pelmuș, Adina Pintilie, Veda Popovici, Lea Rasovszky, Flaviu Rogojan, Miron Schmückle, Aris Tureac, Mihaela Vasiliu (Chlorys)

Curator:

Kilobase Bucharest

Combinatul Fondului Plastic - strada Băiculești, nr. 29, București

Program: miercuri - duminică, 13:00 - 19:00

Switch Lab - strada Ion Brezoianu 23-25 / Palatul Universul, etaj 5

Program: miercuri - duminică, 12:00 - 17:00

(excepție fac zilele 23, 24, 25, 26 și 31 decembrie 2021 și 1, 2, 3 ianuarie 2022)

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TRIUMF AMIRIA. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?], în parteneriat cu Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană (MNAC), prezintă prima expoziție din seria Simți ~ Aluneci ~ Cânți (1- 245), în perioada 4 decembrie 2021 - 19 ianuarie 2022, la Combinatul Fondului Plastic (strada Băiculești 29, București).

Simți ~ Aluneci ~ Cânți (1- 245) include peste 100 de lucrări și serii produse de 38 de artiști/ artiste/ artistx și colective și este unul dintre rezultatele vizibile, în format de expoziție, ale cercetării despre practici artistice queer în România, în intervalul de 20 de ani de la un moment important în istoria politică recentă: decriminalizarea relațiilor între persoane de același sex odată cu abrogarea articolului 200 din Codul Penal, în 2001.

În bunul spirit fluid TRIUMF AMIRIA, duo-ul curatorial KILOBASE BUCHAREST – format din Dragoș Olea (de asemenea curator al secțiunii de arte vizuale Triumf Amiria) și Sandra Demetrescu, co-curatoare a expoziției și chief curator MNAC, – a selectat lucrări produse de artiști care se identifică queer, lucrări care abordează teme queer sau lucrări realizate într-o cheie critică, sau cu intenția de a pune în mișcare procese de schimbare.

Expoziția se poate decoda în nenumărate feluri:

*) un puzzle multidimensional în care coexistă și plutesc în dialog aproximativ 245 de scene narative queer în care dragostea, empatia și spiritul critic sunt ridicate la putere hiperbolică

*) un forum absolut necesar ~ fragil ~ prețios în continuă reformulare în care granițele între spațiul public (agora) și cel privat se topesc și se reiterează succesiv datorită lucrărilor și datorită unei arhitecturi de expoziție aventuroase ~ magice ~ surprinzătoare realizate împreună cu arhitecta Laura Paraschiv / CIRCA 1703 -3071

*) o retrospectivă nonlineară așteptată ~ neașteptată ~ imersivă a două decenii de producție artistică queer, în care temele nu au fost impuse de un grid preformatat, ci s-au ridicat la suprafață progresiv, în urma cercetării în profunzime și a discuțiilor cu artiștii.

*) o celebrare fără festivisme în care ești invitat să simți ~ aluneci ~ cânți printr-un repertoriu vast de expresii artistice queer despre identitate, dorință, traumă, ecologie, ritualuri și vindecare, viitor în cele mai progresiste forme, diferență, stigmatizare, rasism, sistemul artei contemporane, recuperarea spațiului public, dezmembrarea definițiilor și a normelor opresive, limbaj și neologismele unui vocabular extins, fluiditate, generozitate.

Procesul de documentare și producție a fost intens – accelerat ~ complex ~ entuziasmant, dar și epuizant, pe alocuri. Curatorii au avut de consultat, citit și procesat nenumărate portofolii, site-uri, materiale de presă din media culturală, materiale video și interviuri online cu artiștii, dar și discuții cu aceștia. La explorarea peisajului media care a scris despre practici queer în cele două decenii incluse în cercetare au participat și câțiva studenți voluntari de la Centrul de Excelență în Studiul Imaginii (CESI).

„Coagularea unei expoziții sau, mai precis spus, al unui set de expoziții într-o stare „in-between” – fluidă, miria-narativă și tentaculară, precum SIMȚI ~ ALUNECI ~ CÂNȚI – a presupus lucrul în profunzime cu mai multe comunități artistice, fiind ghidați la tot pasul de mai multe întrebări: cine sunt, sau trebuie să fie, artiștii invitați având în vedere că bugetul inițial includea 30 de poziții artistice? Cum putem să prezentăm în expoziție un spectru cât mai generos, nuanțat și surprinzător de lucrări despre subiecte queer și procese artistice de queering / „queerificare”? Cum să menținem o balanță constructivă între voci care au contribuit consistent la discursuri queer în România, dar și internațional, în cele două decenii cuprinse în cercetare, precum și voci emergente, între numeroase expresii de gen etc”, explică membrii Kilobase Bucharest.

TRIUMF AMIRIA. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?] este un proiect de recuperare a producției culturale queer din ultimii 20 de ani care se axează pe trei direcții: literatură, arte vizuale și arte performative, realizat de Asociația MozaiQ în parteneriat cu Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Centrul de Teatru Educațional Replika și artista Kjertsi Vetterstad (Norvegia). Proiectul propune, de-a lungul anului 2021, o serie de evenimente menite a sublinia importanța culturii queer în ultimele decenii, dar și a încuraja producția culturală nouă prin expoziții, ateliere, tururi ghidate, spectacole de teatru și performance-uri, lecturi publice și evenimente de networking.

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TRIUMF AMIRIA. The Museum of Queer Culture [?], in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC Bucharest), present the first exhibition in the series You Feel ~ And Drift ~ And Sing (1- 245), which includes over 100 artworks and series produced by 38 artists/artistx and collectives and is one of the visible results, in exhibition format, of research on queer artistic practices in Romania, in the 20 years since an important moment in the recent political history: the decriminalisation of same-sex relationships with the repeal of Article 200 of the Criminal Code in 2001. 

In the good fluid spirit of TRIUMF AMIRIA, the curatorial duo KILOBASE BUCHAREST - comprised of Dragoș Olea (also curator of the Triumf Amiria visual arts section) and Sandra Demetrescu, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of MNAC Bucharest, - have selected artworks produced by artists who identify as queer, works that address queer themes or that were made in a critical key, or with the intention of setting processes of change in motion.

The exhibition can be decoded in numerous ways:

*) a multidimensional puzzle in which some 245 queer narrative scenes coexist and float in dialogue in which love, empathy and critical spirit are raised to hyperbolic power

*) an absolutely necessary ~ fragile ~ precious forum in constant reformulation in which the boundaries between the public (agora) and the private space melt and are successively reiterated due to the works and to an adventurous ~ magical ~ surprising exhibition architecture created with the architect Laura Paraschiv / CIRCA 1703 -3071

*) an expected ~ unexpected ~ immersive non-linear retrospective of two decades of queer artistic production, in which themes were not imposed by a pre-formed grid, but rose to the surface progressively, following in-depth research and discussions with artists.

*) a celebration without festivities in which you are invited to feel ~ drift ~ sing through a vast repertoire of queer artistic expressions about identity, desire, trauma, ecology, ritual and healing, the future in its most progressive forms, difference, stigma, racism, the contemporary art system, reclaiming public space, dismantling oppressive definitions and norms, language and the neologisms of an expanded vocabulary, fluidity, generosity.

The process of documentation and production has been intense - accelerated ~ complex ~ exciting, but also exhausting at times. The curators had to consult, read and process countless portfolios, websites, cultural media press materials, videos and online interviews with artists, as well as conversations with them. Several student volunteers from the Center for Excellence in the Study of the Image (CESI) participated in the exploration of the media landscape that reported on queer practices over the two decades included in the research. 

"The coalescence of an exhibition or, more accurately, a set of exhibitions into an «in-between» state - fluid, myriad-narrative and sprawling, like YOU FEEL ~ AND DRIFT ~ AND SING - involved working in depth with several artistic communities, being guided at every step by several questions: who are, or should be, the invited artists given that the initial budget included 30 artistic positions? How can we present a generous, nuanced and surprising spectrum of work on queer subjects and queering/queer artistic processes in the exhibition? How can we maintain a constructive balance between voices that have consistently contributed to queer discourses in Romania, as well as internationally, in the two decades covered by the research, as well as emerging voices, among numerous gender expressions, etc", explain the members of Kilobase Bucharest.

TRIUMF AMIRIA. The Museum of Queer Culture [?] is a recuperation project of queer cultural production from the last 20 years focusing on three directions: literature, visual arts and performing arts, carried out by the MozaiQ Association in partnership with the National Museum of Romanian Literature, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Replika Educational Theatre Centre and the artist Kjertsi Vetterstad (Norway). Throughout 2021, the project proposes a series of events aimed at highlighting the importance of queer culture over the last decades, as well as encouraging new cultural production through exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, theatre performances, public readings and networking events.

[photo credit: Serioja Bocsok]

Four locations in Israel are hotspots for Europe Day 2021 with video programme curated by Avi Lubin

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Photo 1 - Installation view at Eilat's Boardwalk - photo Avi Lubin // Photo 2 - Installation view at Habima Square - photo Avi Lubin // Photo 3 - Installation view at Habima Square - photo Tal Shahar // Photo 4 - Installation view at HaCameri Square - photo Tal Shahar // Photo 5 - Installation view in Haifa - photo Avi Lubin

Towards a New Community

(a video art event in public space)

Artists:

Adel Abdessemed, Nelly Agassi, Francis Alÿs, Pasi Autio, Irina Botea Bucan, Jordi Colomer, Brian Duggan, Nilbar Güres, Pavel Jestřáb, Sanna Laaban, Sigalit Landau, Danilo Milovanovic, Alex Mirutziu, Kira Nova, Yorgos Sapountzis, Jaan Toomik, Janaina Tschape, Guido van der Werve, Rona Yefman and Tanja Schlander, Rafal Zarski

Curator:

Avi Lubin

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One of Alex Mirutziu’s best known video work - “Tears are precious” - is part of the exhibition "Towards a New Community" - a video project curated by Avi Lubin commissioned by the European Union in Israel on the occasion of Europe Day 2021.

The project will be shown throughout June in four locations in the public space in three cities: The Promenade in Eilat (June 17) , The Turkish Market in Haifa (June 19), Habima Square, Tel Aviv (June 24) and HaCameri Square, Tel Aviv (June 29).

The exhibition is dealing with the ability to talk about community and ideas of being together and being alone, against the backdrop of the quarantines and isolations we have all experienced over the past year. It raises questions about the idea of ​​solidarity and cooperation, about the possibility of protest and resist, and asks: is it possible to be together when we are alone? Discover solidarity and empathy when everyone is with themselves? Resist together when everyone is alone?

The exhibition features twenty short video works. In each work one person is alone in the frame immersed in a simple action of communication, healing, empathy, resistance or protest. In each location the works will be projected simultaneously on four huge LED screens (four meters wide each).

Kunsthalle Bega presents ”HeartBeat 20” - new entries in The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

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HEARTBEAT 20 / PULS 20

May 14 - July 11, 2021

Artists:

2 META, Dan Acostioaei, Ana Adam, Felix Aftene, Andreea Anghel, Apparatus 22, Cătălin Bădărău, Dragoş Bădiţă, Liliana Basarab, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Biroul de Cercetări Melodramatice (Irina Gheorghe & Alina Popa), Răzvan Boar, Andreea-Lorena Bojenoiu, Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu, Irina Botea Bucan, Ștefan Botez, Claudia Brăileanu, Michele Bressan, Cătălin Burcea, 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, Irina Gheorghe, Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Daniel Gontz, Teodor Graur, Dragoș Hanciu, Dorina Horătău, Gheorghe Ilea, Adelina Ivan, Mihaela Kavdanska, Iosif Király, Aurora Király, Kund Kopacz, Stela Lie, Petru Lucaci, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Manolescu, Ana-Maria Micu, Mihai Mihalcea, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Gili Mocanu, Patricia Moroșan, Ciprian Mureșan, Sorin Neamțu, Maurice Mircea Novac, Alexandru Păsat, Cosmin Paulescu, Romelo Pervolovici, Delia Popa, Marilena Preda Sânc, Cristian Răduță, Sandu-Eugen Raportoru, Carmen Rasovszky, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Ioana Sisea, Larisa Sitar, Alexandru Solomon, Mircea Stănescu, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Patricia Teodorescu, Dan Vezentan, Bogdan Vlăduță, Dilmana Yordanova, Mihai Zgondoiu, Marian Zidaru, Victoria Zidaru

Curator:

Călin Dan

Opening: 14 May 2021, between 6pm - 9pm

Kunsthalle Bega

Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: 12pm – 6pm
Circumvalațiunii 10, Timișoara  (RO)

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[EN] Kunsthalle Bega and National Museum of Contemporary Art present ”HEARTBEAT 20” (new entries in the MNAC collections)

The National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest is 20 years old. Twenty years are 20 heartbeats in the body of a young Museum. Struggling for an independent growth, MNAC had to feed its burgeoning identity with the heavy materials of a ready-made collection, inherited from times when concepts like contemporary and collecting had altogether a different meaning. In a few cautious steps, MNAC enlarged its inventory, most recently last year, when an important number of pieces (180 precisely) were added by purchase to an on-going narrative about the visual culture produced here.

A lot can be said about this assembly of works, about the almost miraculous ways in which they manage to illustrate 50 years of local art production, about the fascinating diversity of personalities united through the inspirational effort made by a jury of specialists with high standing, and with a deep knowledge about the recent history of Romania. The session of art acquisitions organised by MNAC in 2020, with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, has not been just a mechanism of cultural politics. Through the synergy between an enthusiastic art scene (awaiting for 12 years this moment of recognition), and the expertise of the specialists within and around the museum, a remarkable act of collective curatorship has been taking place. The outcome is this exhibition, opened at the MNAC venue in Bucharest under the name ”12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works”, and now at Kunsthalle Bega under a more adequate title: ”HeartBeat 20”.

This has been probably the most naturally growing curatorial discourse in the short history of MNAC. ”HeartBeat 20” is actually an organism, resulting from living processes of interaction, and its move around the country, started inspirationally with this invitation at Kunsthalle Bega, is proof of it.

[RO] Kunsthalle Bega și Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană prezintă ”PULS 20” (noi intrări în colecția MNAC)

Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană – MNAC București împlinește 20 de ani. Douăzeci de ani sunt ca 20 de zvâcniri de puls în corpul unui muzeu tânăr. Căutând calea dezvoltării autonome, MNAC a trebuit să își hrănească identitatea cu materia grea a unei colecții moștenite de-a gata din timpuri când cuvintele contemporan și colecție aveau sensuri cu totul diferite. În câțiva pași precauți, MNAC și-a extins inventarul, mai cu seamă anul trecut, când un număr important de titluri (180 mai precis) au fost adăugate prin achiziție narațiunii în evoluție a culturii vizuale produse aici.

Se pot spune multe despre acest corpus de lucrări, despre felul aproape miraculos în care el reușește să ilustreze 50 de ani de producție artistică locală, despre fascinanta diversitate a personalităților reunite prin efortul remarcabil al unui juriu de specialiști cu o cunoaștere profundă a istoriei recente a artelor din România. Sesiunea de achiziții organizată de către MNAC în 2020, cu generosul sprijin al Ministerului Culturii, nu a fost doar un mecanism de politici culturale. Prin sinergia dintre o scenă artistică entuziastă (care a așteptat 12 ani acest moment de recunoaștere) și competența specialiștilor din muzeu și din jurul acestuia s-a născut un remarcabil act de curatoriat colectiv. Rezultatul este această expoziție, deschisă la sediul MNAC sub titlul ”După doisprezece ani. Producția artistică din România în 180 de lucrări”, și prezentată acum la Kunsthalle Bega sub un titlu mai adecvat: ”Puls 20”.

Discursul curatorial din care s-a născut ”Puls 20” a fost unul organic, expoziția dezvoltându-se firesc, asemenea unei ființe vii, prin acțiuni și re-acțiuni, prin provocări și răspunsuri, printr-o continuitate procesuală fără precedent. Cel mai spontan proiect curatorial al Muzeului Național de Artă Contemporană își începe un bine meritat traseu național prin această generoasă invitație la Kunsthalle Bega.

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Membrii juriului / Members of the jury

1. Horia AVRAM (președinte, Asociația Internațională a Criticilor de Artă (AICA), filiala România / President, International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Romanian branch)

2. Cătălin DAVIDESCU (curator, critic de artă / Curator, art critic)

3. Anca MIHULEȚ (curator, critic de artă / Curator, art critic)

4. Ruxandra DEMETRESCU (director, Școala Doctorală, UNArte, București / Director, Doctoral School, National University of Arts, Bucharest)

5. Zoran ERIĆ - curator șef, Muzeul de Artă Contemporană, Belgrad (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC) / Chief curator, Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art – MoCAB (member of the MNAC Scientific Council)

6. Cătălin GHEORGHE (conf. univ. dr., Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu”, Iași / Professor, "George Enescu" National Arts University, Iași)

7. Diana MARINCU (director artistic, fundația Art Encounters, Timișoara / Artistic director, Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara)

8. Frances MORRIS - director, Tate Modern, Londra (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC) / Director, Tate Modern, London (member of the MNAC Scientific Council)

9. Irina RADU (șef secție Colecții-Conservare, MNAC / Head of the Collections, MNAC)

10. Mara-Victoria RAȚIU - prorector, Universitatea de Artă și Design, Cluj-Napoca (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC) / Prorector, Arts and Design University, Cluj-Napoca (member of the MNAC Scientific Council)

11. Andrei SICLODI - director, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (membru în Consiliul Științific MNAC) / Director, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (member of the MNAC Scientific Council)