Creative Sweden

Building Blocks, Bucharest 2016

Text: Andreea Ilinca
Photo: eematico, Bogdan Dincă, Iuliana Dumitru    

We, the grown-ups, believe we know it all. We went to schools and have enough experience to be convinced that we understand everything better. Better than whom? Than children, most certainly.

We create the Swedish mood with a delicious selection of short and long films, fiction, animation and documentaries that showcase pretty much everything we know about the Scandinavian cinema. That is: a special light, not to be found in any other place, with twilight and boreal sparks, flawless photography, an imaginary sometimes bizarre and otherwordly, activism, dramas with comed inserts, or unsettling comedies.

18 October – 15 November 2016 @ MNAC Dalles
Opening: Tuesday, 18th October, 7 pm

7 Swedish project in an exhibition dedicated to sustainability, identity and aesthetics in Swedish contemporary architecture. The architecture offices taking part are: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, Kjellander Sjöberg, Notedesignstudio, Petra Gipp Arkitektur, PS Arkitektur, Wingardhs and IceHotel.

Saturday, 15 – Sunday, 16 October: pavilion @ Creative Est Festival (Industria Bumbacului & Nod Makerspace – Splaiul Unirii 160, Bucharest)

Opening: Saturday, 5 pm

Thursday, October 6^th, 6:30 pm @MNAC Dalles

An international conference that brings together design, technology, STEAM education and entrepreneurship. A dialogue between Romanian and Swedish experiences and initiatives. Our guests are the ones who actively transform education from institution to a complete learning experience, where a static and cumbersome process becomes dynamic, interactive and fun. 

5 October – 15 November @MNAC Dalles 

Visiting hours: Wednesday-Friday: 4-21 / Saturday-Sunday: 12-20 / Monday-Tuesday: closed

We begin the fall season and Creative Sweden #3 program with magi*k – an interactive exhibition about the history of mass media emergence in Bucharest. We begin with the art deco radio antennas and reach the contemporary era, when the city is plugged in to the global network.

For two months we’re bringing the Swedish culture to Bucharest, we discuss and experiment the Scandinavian creativity, we give it a local context and we look into the future. A northern season in Bucharest’s effervescence.