„Crash Mail of a Five Year Accident” - proiecție și discuție cu Alex Mirutziu

Added on August 10, 2021 by Alex Mirutziu.

Joi, 12 august, începând cu ora 18:00, vă invităm la un eveniment cu totul deosebit.

Fundația Art Encounters are onoarea să prezinte în premieră filmul „Crash Mail of a Five Year Accident”, realizat de artistul Alex Mirutziu pe parcursul ultimilor cinci ani.

Evenimentul va avea loc la Pavilionul ISHO, Bulevardul Take Ionescu nr. 46C, Timișoara, și va cuprinde proiecția filmului, precum și o discuție cu artistul moderată de Diana Marincu, respectiv o sesiune de întrebări din partea publicului.

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Alex Mirutziu despre „Crash Mail of a Five Year Accident”:

„Filmul se dezvăluie sub forma unei dramatizări a unor teme variate care au făcut parte din practica mea artistică, sub diferite forme, încă din anul 2000, concentrându-se pe ultimii cinci ani, 2016-2021. Cele mai multe dintre materialele folosite nu au fost până acum rulate sau prezentate public. Mărturii, crezuri, perspective poetice și filosofice, reflecții proprii, citate, date biografice și autobiografice, note de subsol se acumulează într-un ritm rapid, fiind suprapuse sau plasate în opoziție pentru a releva relațiile ierarhice dintre societate și individ. Accentul este pus pe paradoxul acțiunilor desfășurate în vederea satisfacerii nevoilor noastre, în lipsa unui tablou complet al consecințelor."

Alex Mirutziu este un artist care lucrează cu performance, instalații, film, text, explorând conflictul dintre dorință si acțiune strategică. Dincolo de activitatea sa artistică, Mirutziu e interesat și de practicile teoretice, colaborând cu artiști, scriitori, muzicieni sau filosofi, printre care: Grit Hachmeister (Germania), Elias Merino (Spania), Graham Foust (SUA), Graham Harman (SUA). Proiectele lui au fost prezentate, printre altele, la Royal College of Arts, Londra, Von Kraal Theatre, Estonia, Konstfack, Stockholm, Bezalel University of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Powerplant, Toronto, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapesta, Centrul de Artă Contemporană și Muzeul Național de Artă, Varșovia, Muzeul Național, București, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kunsthalle Bega, Centrul de Artă Contemporană, Tel Aviv, Royal Academy of Arts, Londra, si Bienala de la Veneția.

Acest eveniment face parte din proiectul cultural „Arta în Acțiune”, co-finanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național.

Proiectul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziția Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă de conținutul proiectului sau de modul în care rezultatele proiectului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării.
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Acest eveniment face parte din „MAP - Mentorate, Artiști, Parteneriate”, program cultural realizat cu sprijinul Primăriei Municipiului Timişoara şi al Consiliului Local Timişoara.

Programul cultural nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziția Primăriei Municipiului Timişoara şi a Consiliului Local Timişoara. Conținutul programului cultural și modul în care rezultatele acestuia pot fi folosite reprezintă responsabilitatea exclusivă a autorilor și beneficiarului finanțării. Primăria Municipiului Timişoara şi Consiliul Local Timişoara nu sunt responsabile pentru conținutul materialului și modul în care acesta ar putea fi folosit.

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

Added on June 9, 2021 by Alex Mirutziu.

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).

Balázs–Dénes Collection to show Alex Mirutziu's work in Budapest Photo Festival 2021

Added on May 18, 2021 by Alex Mirutziu.

*Alex Mirutziu - Unit of Survival #3, lightbox, 2017*

Private and Public Spaces – A Photo-based Selection from the Balázs–Dénes Collection

Artists:

Asztalos Zsolt, Csákány István, Csoszó Gabriella, Csörgő Attila, Eperjesi Ágnes, Esterházy Marcell, Andreas Fogarasi, Halász Károly, Károlyi Zsigmond, Kis Varsó, Kokesch Ádám, Eva Kotatkova, Kútvölgyi-Szabó Áron, Lakner Antal, Maurer Dóra, Alex Mirutziu, Ősz Gábor, Dan Perjovschi, Puklus Péter, Kamen Stoyanov, Szabó Dezső, Szacsva y Pál, Szegedy-Maszák Zoltán, Szemző Zsófia, Jirí Thyn, Zalavári András

13 – 24.05.2021

Opening hours:

Monday to Sunday: 13.00-21.00, Tuesday: closed

FUGA – Budapest Center of Architecture – 1052 Budapest, Petőfi Sándor utca 5

With neo-avant-garde and post-conceptual art being a major component of the Budapest-based private collection of Árpád Balázs and Andrea Dénes, many of their works reflect on issues of society closely linked to the transformation and the symbolic messages of the private and public spaces that surround us. From the 1970s to date, artists have repeatedly visualised these topics with the vocabulary of photography.

Thus, the focus of the exhibition dovetails with FUGA’s profile while the engagement with photography bolsters the Festival’s mission. Works of a critical penchant, and often of humorous even provocative overtone, define the show.

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

Added on May 13, 2021 by Alex Mirutziu.

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)

UN/MUTE /10002 by Undercurrent: join the celebration of the unveiling of this project May 9th

Added on May 3, 2021 by Alex Mirutziu.

”We invite you to the concluding event, the Unveiling, of UN/MUTE /10002, a 3-month collaborative project that enabled ten European artists who had never been to NYC to engage in an online residency and collaborate with ten New York City artists. In a series of weekly recorded Zoom sessions, participants from a wide range of disciplines worked in teams of two to create new works that can be followed at unmute.nyc.

Join us in the celebration of this project, the artists, and Europe Day 2021 on May 9th at 1pm EDT.”

UN/MUTE-10002 follows the narratives of ten European artists who have never visited New York City and ten NYC-based artists, paired into teams of two, one European with one New Yorker. Additionally, one artist is a digital immigrant, born before 1986, and the other is a digital native, born into the world of web browsers and email, after 1986. Over a series of Zoom sessions, each team’s collective creative process will unfold in a series of video recordings. The online world that has emerged in response to the pandemic reshapes our definition of social contact, obscures our private and public environments, and circumscribes the evolution of communication.

/Language serves as the first cultural indicator of change. At constant risk of complete extermination, the Amazon is now more recognized as an online shopping platform than one of our planet’s richest natural resources. We stream video content into our living rooms while drinking bottled water branded with pictures of mountain springs, and our most priceless memories are hidden away in a cloud. We sit a virtual world apart from each other – far more than the recommended six feet – obscuring the socioeconomic divisions of race, color, national origin, gender identification, sexual orientation, religion, and age. The present state of being often sounds more like mythology or folklore than reality.

/As the internet conditions our lifestyle, we aim to find new normalcy amidst a shortage of vaccines, new virus strains, unsettling unemployment rates, and a Western world trying to mitigate racism and xenophobia during a delicate sociopolitical epoch. Regardless of our facility with digital technologies, how do we progress without compromising the past? How can we learn from each other’s individual histories and experiences? Embodying inclusion, multilingualism, and digitalization, UN/MUTE provides an opportunity for two transatlantic strangers to collaborate on a singular project for a sustainable future.

/Creating a fair and equitable space after COVID shuttered artists from residencies, travel, studio visits, exhibitions, and physical networking, UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City. This project is co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Culture’s New York Cluster. It went live on February 12, 2021, in concurrence with the Lunar New Year, and will continue through May 9th, celebrating Europe Day.

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UN/MUTE-10002 is a project by EUNIC NY and Undercurrent, realized with financial support from EUNIC — European Union National Institutes for Culture — Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 36 members from all EU member states. This project was initiated by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Consulate General of Estonia in New York and is co-organized by Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Wallonia-Brussels International in New York, Czech Center New York, Delegation of Flanders to the USA, Goethe-Institut New York, Arts Council Malta in New York, Polish Cultural Institute New York, Romanian Cultural Institute, the Hope Recycling Station, the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, and supported by the European Union Delegation to the United Nations.