Răzvan Sădean despre Alex Mirutziu: Screening of the 2010-2012 performances

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4 ore de proiecţii video a celor mai epifanice performance-uri ale artistului Alex Mirutziu, la Galeria Sabot


Sursa: LiterNet - Iunie 2012 / autor: Răzvan Sădean


Vineri, 1 iunie 2012, în prima zi a Festivalului Internaţional de Film Transilvania, a avut loc vernisajul expoziţiei Film Program: Alex Mirutziu, screening of the 2010 - 2012 performances, o colecţie retrospectivă care însumează înregistrări video ale performance-urilor artistului român Alex Mirutziu din perioada 2010 - 2012, la Galeria Sabot din incinta Fabricii de Pensule, Cluj - Napoca. Pentru prima dată în România, publicul se va putea familiariza cu lucrările artistului, produse şi prezentate în Austria, Italia, Statele Unite, Elveţia, Germania, Portugalia şi Suedia.





Vernisaj Film Program: Alex Mirutziu, screening of the 2010 - 2012 performances

Expoziţia va putea fi vizitată până în 14 iulie 2012, de marţi până sâmbătă între orele 18:00 - 22:00. Seria de proiecţii include 9 înregistrări a celor mai epifanice performance-uri realizate de artist în ultimii 2 ani:

> Five Moments of Silence for Pending Work #7


Five Moments of Silence for Pending Work #7 (performance pentru cameră, Centrul IASPIS, Stockholm, 2012) 


> History is Nothing but Muscles in Action

(performance pentru cameră, Centrul de Artă ZDB, Lisabona, 2011)


History is Nothing but Muscles in Action 

Filmat în încăperile somptuoase ale Palatului Santa Catarina din Lisabona, performance-ul este o renunţare intenţionată la elementele spectaculare care servesc actul artistic. Încărcătura arhitecturală monumentală a palatului se transformă ea însăşi într-un performer cu care artistul relaţionează prin simpla sa prezenţă în spaţiu. Acţiunile cu accente groteşti şi suprarealiste nu sunt construite prin amplificare artificială, ele constituie o succesiune deîntâlniri între mai multe corpuri fizice capabile să interacţioneze.


> Action is Guilt / Method to Rourke

(performance, Galeria Vault, Italia, 2011)

                       Action is Guilt / Method to Rourke 
Confruntarea nefinisată dintre un bodybuilder şi artistul Alex Mirutziu investighează printr-o poetică dramatică simulată, specifică luptelor de wrestling, graniţa imponderabilă dintre propria memorie afectivă şi metodele mecanice de deprindere a gândurilor sau emoţiilor care nu ne aparţin. Fiecare parte a performance-ului este punctat de un moment de reculegere în care publicul meditează la propriile mecanisme de încasare, încărcare şi păstrare în memorie a tragismului unor evenimente cu care s-au confruntat în mod real.


> Pending Work #3

(performance pentru cameră, 2011)

Pending Work #3 

Dramatic şi emoţionant, acest performance surprinde paradoxul unui public lipsit de conştiinţa realităţii trecute care sub îndrumarea artistului păstrează momente de reculegere în memoria unor evenimente tragice din istoria recentă a umanităţii. Amploarea şi importanţa unor întâmplări catastrofale traumatice pentru omenire sunt compromise în faţa individului (grupul de copii) incapabil să le înţeleagă identitatea şi valoarea.


> When Love Melted Cavalries in Our Hearts

(performance, Galeria Barbara Seiler, Zurich, 2011)


When Love Melted Cavalries in Our Hearts 

Performance-ul a fost prezentat de Alex Mirutziu în deschiderea expoziţiei Spending Time in Relation to Usage găzduită de Galeria Barbara Seiler din Zurich şi este rezultatul unei cercetări întreprinse de artist în cadrul unei rezidenţe desfăşurate în toamna anului 2011 la Lisabona. Vizibil interesat de măşti mortuare şi anatomia corpului uman, performance-ul este o suită de imagini estetizate care înfăţişează însuşi corpul artistului ca obiect vulnerabil sfâşiat de o suferinţă metaforică a unei iubiri extraordinare. Lirismul, candoarea şi fragilitatea expunerii lascive şi hipersensibile fără pudoare a propriului corp fac din acest performance cea mai intimă şi revelatoare experienţă din portofoliul artistului Alex Mirutziu.


> Critique on How Temples Move Faster Than Their Shadows

(performance, Galeria Mihai Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2010)


Critique on How Temples Move Faster Than Their Shadows 

Alex Mirutziu revine asupra unui performance realizat în acelaşi an, 2010, dar surprinde printr-o cheie nouă gradul de distorsionare al lucrării adaptate unui nou spaţiu, unei noi dimensiuni, în care chiar şi numai o umbră în plus înseamnă un element nou pentru spectacol. Precizia şi liniştea cu care artistul îşi manufacturează, scenă cu scenă, performance-ul sunt dovada unor studii critice îndelungate întreprinse de artist în prealabil în cadrul unei rezidenţe.


> Feeding the Horses of All Heroes

(performance, Institutul Cultural Român din Roma, 2010)


Feeding the Horses of All Heroes 

Interesul artistului pentru catwalk şi fashion se materializează în această lucrare prin identificarea unei structuri mecanicizate specifice podiumului de modă şi deturnarea imaginii iconice a modelelor de fashion impregnată subliminal în mintea umană condusă de mania consumului şi a satisfacerii propriilor nevoi. A corupe o astfel de imagine instituţie înseamnă a brusca fără menajamente ideile prefabricate despre perfecţiune, iar moda este prin excelenţă industria care creează în serie perfecţiunea.


> The Remains of the East

(performance, Teatrul Wuk, Viena, 2010)


The Remains of the East 

Discursul performance-ului priveşte experienţele a trei performeri din timpul regimului comunist şi efectele, urmele, influenţa lor după mai bine de 20 de ani de la înlăturarea regimului. Întreaga atenţie se îndreaptă înspre sensibilitatea bolnăvicioasă a organismului lezat în mod repetat şi îndoctrinat de cea mai periculoasă dictatură împotriva individualităţii şi a propriei conştiinţe. Lupta interioară percepută ca un strigăt de ajutor mut în timpul comunismului se răsfrânge încă şi astăzi în faptele comise de o minte deja pătată.


> Pending Work #2

(performance pentru cameră, 2010)


Pending Work #2 

Dansul omagial al artistului este un răspuns la ultimul fragment din Norma de Giacomo Puccini interpretat de Leyla Gencer cu un scor care priveşte particularităţile vocii ei, volumul şi modulaţiile, care imprimă emoţie şi ingenuitate mişcărilor sacadate în slow motion.

FILM PROGRAM: ALEX MIRUTZIU at SABOT Gallery

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FILM PROGRAM: ALEX MIRUTZIU. Screening of the 2010-2012 performances

June 1st, 2012, from 6 to 10 p.m. 

The program will continue until July 14th, from 4 to 8 p.m. every weekday, except Sunday and Monday

For the first time in over five years a selection of my performance based works are shown together for the wider audience who did not had the chance to attend them live in Lisbon, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Los Angeles. If you hadn't had the chance to attend one of my performance works from 2010-2012, this is the chance to watch the recordings of nine of them, including my recent work from Stockholm with the public performing one of the Pending Works.

Listed works:

Five Moments of Silence for Pending Work #7 | 08:32min.

[IASPIS, Lucie Fontaine Studio, Stockholm, May 27th, 2012] 

The audience performs five moments of silence for five time frames of Pending Work #7, with the artist conducting. 

History is Nothing but Muscles in Action | 26:18min.

With Răzvan Sădean [Santa Catarina Palace, Lisbon, September 12th – 24th, 2011] 

This performance was eventuated as a collaborative work between Alex Mirutziu and Răzvan Sădean, both working within specific performative frames, debating powerful and controversial narratives with personal instrumentation. It originates in the idea that history rarely allows two lovers to share the same flow of time and space, to inhabit the ultimate moment in history, overlapping each other’s timeline. 

Action is Guilt / method to Rourke | 38:23min.

Performed with guest appearance by professional bodybuilder Paolo Iannettone [Spazio Vault, Prato, April 16th, 2011] 

Action is guilt questions the notion of action in relation to verifiable facticity and consensus, working with articulations and half articulations of what the artist understands as ‘action as a form of knowledge’, compelled to open itself to the event.

Mirutziu is interested in a cognitive action that is distracted, hanging around, unresolved, resistant to the impetuous logic of the project and the fixed functional form corresponding to it. Its purpose is not to represent something, but rather to make it happen.

Pending Work #3 | 15:38min.

[performance to camera, February 6th, 2011]

Surely something so basically human - closing one’s eyes, standing in silence, and allowing grief to wash over you - has no history. Or rather it encompasses all of history, so seemingly ingrained in our emotional DNA in the Act. At its core, marking occasions of great violence with such an act acknowledges a simple truth: oftentimes there just are no words to be said. (Kayla Webley)

When love melted cavalries in our hearts | 18:16min.

[Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, January 14th, 2011] 

Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows | 47:23min.

[Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, December 11th, 2010]

An exceptional performance on the humanity of a terrible love; a shared architecture, muscled by words and rude liberty, about ‘fixing of the body’ over the exterior milieu, with the heart poised above the gut; a constructed metaphor for the astaticism of love, that sometimes you just have to tell the whole world about. 

Feeding the Horses of All Heroes | 28:08min.

[Romanian Academy in Rome, May 25th, 2010] 

What is it that strikes you about pictures of models crashing on the runway? What is striking in these pictures, and implicitly in the series of video performances called “Runway spills”, is the diffusion of focus away from the garment and onto a situation that disrupts a specific convention (falling on the catwalk); the now of fashion live performance that sometimes corrupts, and contradicts itself, in its redeployment of functions from the existence of an abstract idea to the tangible production. (Monopol Magazine | April, 2010 | interview by Barbara Gartner) 

The remains of the East | 26:48min.

With Angelique Lehmann, Alina Șerban [Wuk Theatre, Vienna, April 10th, 2010] 

The work is based on the artists’ common experience as individuals growing up under communist regimes in East Germany and Romania, on sharing life stories and trying to question the present by confronting themselves with the past. The focus lies on the history written on bodies and on the marks dictatorship leaves on skin and mind. 

Pending Work #2| 03:45min.

[performance to camera, April 4th, 2010] 

Pending work #2 adds a kind of gentle response to “La Diva Turca”, Leyla Gencer, specifically to her interpretation of Norma by Giacomo Puccini; working with fragmented narratives, interviews on technical particularities of voice and its weight, volume and modulation. 

Alex Mirutziu at IASPIS // PUBLIC OF STOCKHOLM TO PERFORM PENDING WORK #7

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Five moments of silence for Pending Work #7 



Note #3 to Pending work # 2 (Homage a Gencer) 2011 - Digital print on
photographic paper

ALEX MIRUTZIU 
WHAT IS THE REALITY OF NEVER?

MAY 27 - JUNE 12 2012
Lucie Fontaine Studio
Iaspis, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm


Lucie Fontaine and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm are proud to present the fourth exhibition at Lucie Fontaine’s Stockholm satellite, located at Iaspis, on Maria Skolgata 83. Entitled “What is the reality of never?” the exhibition presents a selection of works by Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu, who for this occasion will perform a new work entitled Five moments of Silence for Pending Work #7 (2012). The performance is accompanied by the following synopsis:

Pending works reside in few answering curves of theory. They are irreducible to any medium and their room is multifaceted and complex. This body of work explores the idea of classicism and the establishment of drama, stressing how the work makes it or doesn’t make it through the play, buffering in the instantaneous present.

There are two important conceptual triggers related to the pending works machinery. The first question is the reliability of the event and its performativity within a fluctuating timeline. The second refers to the cathexis of time and action versus duration, anti-duration and political evidence. Ultimately the chief interest of the pending works lies in the dialectic between evidence and the event as transformative of each other.

On one hand the artist’s extensive engagement with performance and installations aims to open an ontological terrain inside his so-called “Pending Works and Scotopolitic Objects.” He is the only artist to have made a group with a hyper-object, namely with himself at 29 and exhibit as a collective for the first time at Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zurich. The artist and himself at 29 is a medium. None is superior to the other and none can comprehend the fullness of atoms that shape each other. The biggest question is who arrived at whom first, faster or even at all? The question therefore rests upon distance. Is there any distance separating them? Can there be a possible distance between them, or is the artist at 29 years old collapsing into the artist now? Considering these projects one of the critical aspects in his work is that it resists closure by asking: What is the reality of never?

Alex Mirutziu is an artist based in Sibiu, Romania. He had solo shows at Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich (2011), Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2010), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2010) and Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2009). His work is included in “European Travelers – Art from Cluj Today,” currently on view at Műcsarnok | Kusthalle Budapest.

The show is made possible through the support of Iaspis and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. If you need further information please contact Lucie Fontaine’s employees: employee@luciefontaine.com.


All images and video belong to Alex Mirutziu

Alex Mirutziu: What is the Reality of Never? at IASPIS, Stockholm

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ALEX MIRUTZIU : WHAT IS THE REALITY OF NEVER?

27 mai – 12 iunie 2012

Studioul Luciei Fontaine, Iaspis, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm

Vernisaj duminică, 27 mai, ora 18.00

Performance de Alex Mirutziu: Five moments of Silence for Pending Work #7

Institutul Cultural Român de la Stockholm şi Lucie Fontaine prezintă prima expoziţie individuală a artistului Alex Mirutziu în Suedia, găzduită de Lucie Fontaine în studioul său de la Iaspis, transformat într-un satelit al spaţiului expoziţional pe care aceasta îl conduce în Milano. Expoziţia “What is the Reality of Never?” prezintă o selecţie de lucrări ale artistului Alex Mirutziu, incluzând performance-ul Five moments of Silence for Pending Work #7, ce va fi prezentat în premieră la vernisaj. Performance-ul este acompaniat de următorul discurs:

Pending works reside in few answering curves of theory. They are irreducible to any medium and their room is multifaceted and complex. This body of work explores the idea of classicism and the establishment of drama, stressing how the work makes it or doesn’t make it through the play, buffering in the instantaneous present.

There are two important conceptual triggers related to the pending works machinery. The first question is the reliability of the event and its performativity within a fluctuating timeline. The second refers to the cathexis of time and action versus duration, anti-duration and political evidence. Ultimately the chief interest of the pending works lies in the dialectic between evidence and the event as transformative of each other. (Alex Mirutziu)

Interesul lui Alex Mirutziu pentru performance şi instalaţii a dus la crearea unui teren ontologic în cadrul lucrărilor din seria Pending Works and Scotopolitic Objects. Mirutziu este primul artist care a format un colectiv cu un hiper-obiect şi anume artistul însuşi, aflat la vârsta de 29 de ani. The Artist and Himself at 29 subliniază încă o data înclinaţia lui Mirutziu pentru studiul existenţei, lucrările sale opunându-se limitărilor prezente prin încercarea de a defini realitatea infinitului temporal.

Alex Mirutziu: What is the Reality of Never? este parte a proiectului Body of Work dezvoltat de Lucie Fontaine în colaborare cu Iaspis. Pe parcursul rezidenţei sale la Iaspis, Lucie Fontaine găzduieşte o serie de discuţii şi va organiza o serie de expoziţii având la bază teme precum condiţia autorului şi autenticitatea operei de artă. Toate activităţile vor avea loc la Iaspis, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm, în studioul Luciei Fontaine. Anterior expoziţiei lui Alex Mirutziu Lucie Fontaine mai organizează proiecte şi discuţii cu Agnieszka Kurant, Claire Fontaine, Daniella Isamit Morales, Alice Tomaselli & Alice Mandelli şi Josefine Wikström.

Alex Mirutziu (n. 1981) locuieşte şi lucrează la Sibiu, România. În 2011 a avut o rezidenţă la The Glass Factory, Boda Glasbruk, Suedia, unde a colaborat cu artista suedeză Åsa Jungnelius. A avut expoziţii personale la Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich (2011), Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2010), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munchen (2010) şi Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca (2009). În prezent participă la expoziţia de grup “European Travelers – Art from Cluj Today” de la centrul de artă Műcsarnok din Budapesta.

Lucie Fontaine este un personaj fictiv în numele căruia acţionează un grup de artişti, curatori, colecţionari, editori şi scriitori, ce se autointitulează angajaţi ai Luciei Fontaine, aducând astfel în discuţie problema identităţii artistice. Prin urmare, Lucie Fontaine se prezintă ca un angajator în deomeniul artei, şi prin relaţia cu angajaţii săi, îşi permite să fie activă ca artist, curator, dealer, colecţionar, editor, scriitor etc.

Acest proiect este o colaborare între ICR Stockholm, Lucie Fontaine şi Iaspis.

[EN]

ALEX MIRUTZIU : WHAT IS THE REALITY OF NEVER?

MAY 27 - JUNE 12 2012

Lucie Fontaine and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm are proud to present the fourth exhibition at Lucie Fontaine’s Stockholm satellite, located at Iaspis, on Maria Skolgata 83. Entitled “What is the reality of never?” the exhibition presents a selection of works by Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu, who for this occasion will perform a new work entitled Five moments of Silence for Pending Work #7 (2012). The performance is accompanied by the following synopsis:

Pending works reside in few answering curves of theory. They are irreducible to any medium and their room is multifaceted and complex. This body of work explores the idea of classicism and the establishment of drama, stressing how the work makes it or doesn’t make it through the play, buffering in the instantaneous present. 

There are two important conceptual triggers related to the pending works machinery. The first question is the reliability of the event and its performativity within a fluctuating timeline. The second refers to the cathexis of time and action versus duration, anti-duration and political evidence. Ultimately the chief interest of the pending works lies in the dialectic between evidence and the event as transformative of each other.

On one hand the artist’s extensive engagement with performance and installations aims to open an ontological terrain inside his so-called “Pending Works and Scotopolitic Objects.” He is the only artist to have made a group with a hyper-object, namely with himself at 29 and exhibit as a collective for the first time at Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zurich. The artist and himself at 29 is a medium. None is superior to the other and none can comprehend the fullness of atoms that shape each other. The biggest question is who arrived at whom first, faster or even at all? The question therefore rests upon distance. Is there any distance separating them? Can there be a possible distance between them, or is the artist at 29 years old collapsing into the artist now? Considering these projects one of the critical aspects in his work is that it resists closure by asking: What is the reality of never?

Alex Mirutziu is an artist based in Sibiu, Romania. He had solo shows at Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich (2011), Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2010), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2010) and Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2009). His work is included in “European Travelers – Art from Cluj Today,” currently on view at Műcsarnok | Kusthalle Budapest.

The show is made possible through the support of Iaspis and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. If you need further information please contact Lucie Fontaine’s employees: employee@luciefontaine.com.

EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS. Art from Cluj Today at Műcsarnok Kunsthalle

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EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS 

Art from Cluj Today

April 19 - July 1, 2012 

Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle

Curator:

Judit Angel

Artists:

Marius Bercea, Zsolt Berszán, István Betuker, Mihut Boscu, Razvan Botis, Mircea Cantor, Radu Comsa, Csaba Csiki, Duo van der Mixt, Oana Farcas, Adrian Ghenie, Simon Cantemir Hausi, Mihai Iepure Gorski, István László, Victor Man & Anna-Bella Papp, Szilárd Miklós, Dénes Miklósi, Alex Mirutziu, Nita Mocanu, Ciprian Muresan, Cristian Opris, Cristi Pogacean, Victor Racatau, Cristian Rusu, Serban Savu, Leonardo Silaghi, Mircea Suciu, Péter Szabó, Sergiu Toma, Gabriela Vanga, Szabolcs Veres

[EN] Cluj’s contemporary art has for years been the subject of special international attention. The term Cluj School in reference to new figurative painting – which appeared in the mid 2000s and has been the topic of debate ever since – and the Paintbrush Factory – which houses studios and independent cultural institutions – quickly became widely known in Europe. Of the Cluj artists, many have exhibited in such prestigious international venues as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MoMA in New York, the Kunsthaus of Zurich, and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Their works have been discussed in internationally significant publications and they have collaborated with distinguished galleries. The art institutions of Cluj have notable networks of international connections and continuously host prominent foreign experts. 

The success story of Cluj is no overnight “miracle” however, as it is a continuously growing, multi-layered phenomenon. Its development and evolution have not only required exceptional artistic talent, inspiration and perhaps a bit of luck, but in the background, are also the result of mostly private initiatives, as well as an immense amount of work, an open attitude, persistence and conscious self-positioning on the part of independent art institutions. 

The Műcsarnok exhibition aims to offer an authentic representation of the “Cluj phenomenon.” As a special point of interest, in addition to the artworks, the show also familiarizes viewers with the most important institutions of the local art scene, which are of many different types. These include centres that house contemporary art exhibitions and accommodate theatrical and dance productions, studios that experiment with digital media, publishing projects, as well as community and activist platforms. The University of Art and Design Cluj, with its strong emphasis on building international connections, also makes its appearance. The more than thirty artists and seventeen art groups and institutions that are featured in the exhibition have been selected with a focus on the – internationally also significant – developments in Cluj within the past decade. 

The international embeddedness of the contemporary art of Cluj is also well indicated by the fact that a considerable portion of the works has been borrowed from collections in Western Europe. Thepaintings, graphics, objects, photos, videos and installations featured in the exhibition include both newly realised and site specific works. Similarly to the artist generation of the nineties, albeit with less directness, these artists also react with sensitivity to the challenges of the local social and cultural milieu. The displayed works relate to the mechanisms of history and memory, the ambiguities of the transition period, and the changes in ideology with the same reflectiveness as they do to art history and painting traditions. Figurative painting and critical and lyrical conceptual tendencies – the two defining trends of the contemporary art of Cluj – are represented in a mutually complementing manner at the Műcsarnok.

As part of the special installation of the exhibition, visitors can enjoy an active resting area where they also have access to an abundance of information. 

www.mucsarnok.hu

***

[RO] Expoziţia „European Travellers. Art From Cluj Today” îşi propune să ofere o reprezentare autentică a „fenomenului Cluj”. Un interes suplimentar față de operele de artă expuse îl constituie familiarizarea publicului cu cele mai importante instituţii ale scenei de artă locală, din diferite domenii. Acestea includ centre care găzduiesc expoziţii de artă contemporană şi producţii de teatru şi dans, studiouri experimentale de artă digitală, proiecte editoriale, precum şi platforme comunitare şi activiste.

Arta contemporană din Cluj se bucură de o atenţie internaţională deosebită. Termenul „Şcoala de la Cluj”, cu referire la pictura figurativă – apărut în mijlocul anilor 2000 – a fost subiect al dezbaterilor, discutat în publicaţii importante la nivel internaţional şi Fabrica de Pensule, care găzduieşte studiouri şi instituţii culturale independente, a devenit rapid cunoscută în Europa. Artiştii clujeni au expus creaţia lor în muzeee şi galerii de prestigiu internaţional, cum ar fi, de exemplu, Muzeul Stedelijk din Amsterdam, MoMA din New York, Kunsthaus din Zürich şi Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Instituţiile de artă din Cluj au reţele notabile de conexiuni internaţionale şi găzduiesc continuu experţi proeminenţi din străinătate.

Universitatea de Artă și Design din Cluj, cu accentul său puternic pus pe stabilirea unor legături internaţionale, este prezentă în expoziția European Travellers. Cei peste 30 de artişti, 17 grupuri de artă şi instituţii participante în expoziţie au fost selectaţi/selectate ca urmare a evoluţiei lor pe plan internaţional.

Prestigiul internaţional al artei contemporane din Cluj este indicat şi de faptul că o parte considerabilă a lucrărilor au fost împrumutate din colecţii din Europa de Vest. Picturile, lucrările de grafică, obiectele, fotografiile, video-urile şi instalaţiile prezentate în expoziţie includ atât lucrări noi cât și lucrări site specific. Asemănător generației de artiști a anilor ’90, deşi nu într-o manieră atât de explicită, artiștii prezenți în această expoziție reacţionează cu sensibilitate la provocările mediului local, social şi cultural. Lucrările afişate se referă la mecanismele istorice şi ale memoriei, ambiguitățile perioadei de tranziţie, precum şi la schimbările ideologice, în același fel cu care o fac raportându-se la elemente din istoria artei şi tradiţiilor din pictură. Atât pictura figurativă, cât şi tendinţele conceptuale critice şi lirice – cele două tendinţe definitorii ale artei contemporane din Cluj – sunt reprezentate într-un mod complementar la Műcsarnok.

Ca parte specială a instalației expoziționale, vizitatorii se pot bucura de o zonă de odihnă activă unde au acces la o varietate de informaţii.