Romania

L'Istituto Culturale Rumeno segnala che Belu Simion Fainaru, Dan Mihaltianu e Miklos Onucsan sono le tre artiste che rappresenteranno la Romania, con la curatela di Cristian Nae e il supporto della Galeria Plan B di Cluj e Berlino.

L’evento avrà come titolo “Unfinished Conversations on the Weight of Absence”

Padiglione Romania

 

Al padiglione della Romania sarà proposta la mostra Unfinished Conversations on the Weight of Absence curata da Cristian Nae, con le opere di artisti Belu-Simion Fainaru, Dan Mihaltianu e Miklós Onucsán, che hanno  vinto la selezione nazionale e rappresenterà la Romania alla 58 ° edizione della Mostra Internazionale d'Arte - Biennale di Venezia .

Il progetto sarà proposto fra il padiglione nei Giardini e la sede dell'Istituto di Cultura e ricerca umanistica rumeno a Venezia.

Padiglione Romania

Romanian Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale

New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research

Preview

May 10th – 12th, 2017

Opening

May 11th, 5.15 p.m., Romanian Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale

May 12th, 7.00 p.m., New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research

Exhibition

May 13th – November 26th, 2017

Geta Brătescu – Apparitions will represent Romania at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition will take place both in the Romanian Pavilion in Giardini della Biennale and the New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice and will be open to the public from May 13th to November 26th, 2017.

Geta Brătescu’s participation in Biennale Arte 2017 brings together works representative of all the stages of her artistic trajectory – many of them shown for the first time –, demonstrating the ease with which she employs a multitude of artistic media. The exhibition Apparitions is conceived through the lens of thematic clusters, including the most recent phase in her artistic practice, in an attempt to provide a mirror of her studio space, understood both as a physical space and a meta-artistic entity. The physical and mental spaces of the studio blend together in a complex assemblage, and so do the literary texts with their visual conceptualisations, the feminine mythologies with the process of self-investigation, personal memory with cultural memory and imagination. “Memory is apparition; an epiphany, like art”, states the artist.

In the current context, Geta Brătescu’s presence at Biennale Arte 2017 is aimed at communicating art’s capacity to invent narratives that transcend the gloomy climate of the contemporary world, by means of an artistic reflection that highlights the transformative strength of femininity as the consummate embodiment of a “nomadic subject”. Geta Brătescu’s art finds itself in full consonance with the return to materiality, to the power of the artistic imagination, to art’s power to give shape. Her artistic practice resonates with the current debates about the role of art as a space that points to reality’s sore spots, but also as a means of instituting a specific language capable of generating new forms of subjectivity. [see full curatorial text]

Curator: Magda Radu

Project Manager: Corina Bucea

Assistant Curator: Diana Ursan

Communication: Cătălin Năstăsoiu, Oana Hodade, Cristina Curcan

Design: Raymond Bobar

Website: Dan Burzo

Photography: Ștefan Sava

[see full team]

Commissioner: Attila Kim

RCI Representative: Cristian Alexandru Damian

Special thanks:

Ștefan Sava, Marian Ivan, Mihai Pop / Fundația Plan B, Tiberiu Bucșa, Alexandra Croitoru

Special thanks to the institutions and collections which are lending works for the exhibition Geta Brătescu – Apparitions: The National Museum of Art of Romania, MNAC Bucharest / The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania, Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul.

Geta Bratescu per la Romania

Sarà la novantenne artista Geta Bratescu, ha rappresentare la Romania alla prossima Biennale, il progetto si intitola "Apariţii" (Presenze), avrà la curatela di  Magda Radu.

Era già stata selezionata nel 2013 per la Biennale di Gioni, oltre ad essere stata proposta nei principali musei internazionali. 

Online in sito di Adrian Ghenie - Romania

E' online il sito con le informazioni sul padiglione della Romania, artista Adrian Ghenie.

The Romanian Pavilion, curated by Mihai Pop, showcases Darwin’s Room, a selection of paintings organized across three rooms – according to the initial interior architecture of the Pavilion (from 1938) – and comprises a specific theme for each of these rooms: The Tempest, The Portrait Gallery (Self-portrait as Charles Darwin), and The Dissonances of History.

Expanding upon Darwin’s ‘laboratory’, Ghenie proposes an interpretive path into the notion of survival. He reads into the theory of biological evolutionism and the ways it has been skewed to transform societies. He also draws upon other historical sources in his updating of this image (fundamental to our self-perception), ‘contaminating’ it with a keen reflection on neoliberal competitiveness, extending across all areas and folds of social and affective life. Darwin’s studio broadens its scope and becomes an incubator where future ideas grow and develop. It is an interweaving of past and future histories that does not hold proof or speculation on species evolution, which neither distorts nor idealizes, but opens a path towards a reformulation of the social values that structure contemporary existence. To equal extents, this returns to an essential moment, when epistemological tables were turned, and uses Darwin’s scientific tabula rasa to project or inscribe a new image of our future.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room will be accompanied by a book edited by Juerg Judin and Mihai Pop and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. The Romanian edition will be published by Editura Humanitas.

Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinnings of local histories. The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle plays a central part in his work. Ghenie is, alongside other remarkable representatives of the same artistic community, one of the founders of the Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, which brings together some of the most dynamic artistic initiatives in Romania.

Previous solo museum exhibitions include: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga (2015); Museum for Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2010); and The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009). Past group exhibitions include: MAC Belfast (2015); SFMoMA (2012); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2012); Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest (2012); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (2010); and the Liverpool Biennial (2008). The artist currently lives and works in Cluj and Berlin.

Media Briefing: 7 May 2015, 4pm

Official Opening: 7 May 2015, 5pm

Professional Preview: 6-8 May 2015

(Please note that before May 9 access to the Giardini is restricted to pass holders only.)

A series of public events and guided tours in the Romanian Pavilion will accompany the exhibition between May 9 and November 22, 2015. They will include artist talks, curator and special guests roundtables.

The Venice Biennale Sundays, co-organised in partnership with Humanitas Publishing, will take place monthly in Bucharest, starting in May.

Romania is also represented at the Venice Biennale by a second exhibition at the New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research. Curated by Diana Marincu, Inventing the Truth. On Fiction and Reality features the work of Romanian artists Michele Bressan, Carmen Dobre-Hametner, Alex Mirutziu, Lea Rasovszky, Stefan Sava, and Larisa Sitar.

www.inventingthetruth.com

Opening: 8 May, 5pm

5:30pm: The Finnish Method, performance by Alex Mirutziu

The New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Research in Humanities

Campo Santa Fosca, Palazzo Correr, Cannaregio 2214, 30121 Venice

Adrian Ghenie per la Romania

Il pittore Adrian Ghenie è stato selezionato per rappresentare la Romania alla prossima Biennale di Venezia 2015 Arti Visive.

Info e foto sull'artista dalla Galleria Pace 

Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare, Romania) graduated in 2001 from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2012–2013); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuns (S.M.A.K.), Ghent (2010–2011); and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009–2010). His work has been included in exhibitions at the Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice; Tate Liverpool; Prague Biennial; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, among others. Ghenie’s work is held in a number of public collections, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; SFMOMA; and S.M.A.K., Ghent. In 2005, Ghenie co-founded Galeria Plan B, a production and exhibition space for contemporary art. He lives and works in Cluj and Berlin. Ghenie joined Pace in 2011.