The E4 wing of the Parliament Palace, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), celebrates spring with a series of exhibitions, most of them being winners of MNAC call for projects from the previous years. But what’s on display starting April 27?
The National Museum of Contemporary Art is opened Wednesday-Sunday from 10h00-18h00.
The address is Izvor St. 2-4, E4 Wing, Bucharest and the entrance from Calea 13 Septembrie.
MARSHALLING YARD
10.11.2016 – 08.10.2017
Ground floor
Exhibition design: atelier ad hoc
MNAC Coordinator: Irina Radu
Continuing to look at its own collection as a random database of artifacts (approach inaugurated in the exhibition The Collection as an Archive, 2015), MNAC uses the landmark spaces from the ground floor of its venue (formerly known as “the Palace of Ceaușescu”) as a marshalling yard, where artworks are brought in the open for (visual) browsing, but also for maintenance, in view of a thorough re-organization of the art depots.
THE EPHEMERIST. A MIHAI OLOS RETROSPECTIVE
Curator: Călin Dan
Assistant curator: Sandra Demetrescu
10.11.2016 – 08.10.2017
1st floor
Exhibition design: skaarchitects
The Ephemerist is a comprehensive inquiry into the work of Mihai Olos (1940 – 2015), probably the most important artist in post-WW2 Romania, spirit kindred to Buckminster Fuller, Yona Friedman and other such visionaries. Active between Romania and Germany, Olos left an impressive body of work, exploring various media (painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, fashion, performance, poetry) and stylistic trends of late modernism, like conceptualism and minimalism.The second installment of the exhibition inaugurated in November 2016 expands the knowledge about the life and oeuvre of Olos through photographs, documents, objects and a large selection of drawings. (Călin Dan)
ERROR 404. TERRITORIES OF ABSENCE
Curator: Horea Avram
Artists: Alexandru Antik (RO), Gary Hill (US), Kinema Ikon (RO), Mihaela Kavdanska (RO/BG/AT),Yann Le Guennec (FR), Klaus Obermaier (AT), Pipilotti Rist (CH), Dilma Yordanova (RO/BG)
27.04.2017 – 08.10.2017
2nd floor
MNAC Coordinator: Adriana Oprea
Partner: ElektroArts Association
Winner of the MNAC Call for projects 2014
Error 404. Territories of Absence is a research exhibition that takes its title from the message received by internet users when trying to access a broken website or a corrupted page link. The “error” is seen here rather in a metaphorical sense, indicating the absence of a functional and communicational space, of information itself. The artworks included in this project deal with the idea of error, blur, glitch and absence equally in a concrete way (technical, formal, visual) and in a conceptual sense, pointing to the (im)possibility of representation, communication and bodily interaction at the border between real and virtual. (Horea Avram)
METAREALIA – AT THE SAME TIME
2META / Maria Manolescu, Romelo Pervolovici
Curators: Raluca-Elena Doroftei, Andreea Drăghicescu
27.04.2017 – 08.10.2017
3rd floor
Architect: Radu Pervolovici
MNAC Coordinator: Magda Predescu
Winner of the MNAC Call for projects 2015
METAREALIA – At The Same Time exhibition reveals the most recent activity of 2META – Maria Manolescu and Romelo Pervolovici. Mostly known as media artists, they start using painting as a means of expression in 2010. The 2META painting seeks out breaches of reality, multiple realities, reality after reality – while the 2 artists work together on different canvases. At the same time a unique practice is drawn, with identifiable aesthetics, radically specific and unique.
APOSTROPHE. EVERYTHING STARTED WITH THE KEEPER’S HESITATION IRINA BOTEA BUCAN (RO)
Chapter VI of “The White Dot and The Black Cube”, an exhibition project in six parts
Exhibition conceived and curated by Anca Verona Mihuleț
Curatorial input: Diana Marincu
19.01.2017 – 14.05.2017
4th floor
Architect: Attila Kim
MNAC coordinator: Mălina Ionescu
With the support of: add, aiurart, BenQ, Anca Poteraşu Gallery
Winner of the MNAC Call for projects 2014
Irina Botea Bucan’s personal exhibition is the last chapter of the six-part curatorial project “The White Dot and the Black Cube”, that took place between November 2015 and May 2017. The show evolved in several stages, starting in 2014, and became a structure that revolves around three nuclei: firstly, a series of six films featuring secondary, suspended histories, for the most part unknown to the viewers; secondly, a selection of films focusing on behavioural gestures and fragments; thirdly a section that presents two personal stories marked by the antagonism between the private and the public in films presented at the Dalles Hall and thus visible from the street.
Photos courtesy of MNAC