Thursday, November 10, 2016, at 7 pm, in the presence of His Excellency, Mr. Werner Hans Lauk – the Ambassador of Germany in Bucharest, seven new exhibitions will open to the public at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC (The Palace of Parliament)
MARSHALLING YARD
MNAC Coordinator: Irina Radu
Exhibition design: atelier ad hoc
10.11.2016 – 08.10.2017
Ground floor
© Image credit: MNAC
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 art works 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
Exhibition design: skaarchitects
Partners: Olos Estate, Galeria Plan B Cluj / Berlin, Negrești-Oaș Museum, Baia Mare Art Museum, the Museum of the Municipality of Bucharest / Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection
10.11.2016 – 26.03.2017
1st floor
Image credit: Mihai Olos, Untitled, oil on wood, 30 x 20 cm., courtesy of Olos Estate.
Active between Romania and Germany in the years 1970-2000, Mihai Olos left an impressive body of work, exploring various techniques (painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, fashion, performance, poetry), and several stylistic trends (late modernism, conceptualism, minimalism). The Ephemerist is the first attempt at a comprehensive look into the work of probably the most important artist in post-WW2 Romania, spirit kindred to Buckminster Fuller, Yona Friedman and other such visionaries.
NISTOR COITA. RETROSPECTIVE
Curator: Ruxandra Demetrescu
MNAC Coordinator: Mălina Ionescu
10.11.2016 – 26.03.2017
2nd floor
© Image credit: Nistor Coita, Sauroctonies, acrylic on canvas, 115 x 99 cm, 2011, photo Ioan Cuciurcă, courtesy of Irina Predescu.
This retrospective showcases mainly the large series made after year 2000, from St. George and the Exercises in cohabitation, to the Mythological Studies, Passages and Cosmographies. The exhibition emphasizes the virtues of drawing, as Nistor Coita (1943-2013) defined himself as a graphic artist, and not a painter, cultivating drawing as an art form that has brought him nearer to the virtues of writing, in its original meaning of pictogram, and to the late modernity of Lettrism.
OLIVER RESSLER. PROPERTY IS THEFT
Curator: Adriana Oprea
10.11.2016 – 26.03.2017
Supported by: ERSTE Foundation, BKA – Kunst, Otto Mauer Fonds
3rd floor
Opening in the presence of the artist© Image credit: Stranded, photography, 2015.
© Image credit: Stranded, photography, 2015.
Property is theft! (La propriété, c’est le vol!, the famous declaration made by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1840, has the impact of a political slogan and serves as the title of Austrian artist Oliver Ressler’s first survey exhibition in Romania. The crisis of Neoliberalism, Oliver Ressler’s favourite theme throughout his activity over the past twenty years, points to the fundamentally economic understructure of all present social and political imbalances. Focusing on films and video-installations, the selection of works on display raises issues as global warming and the processes of rampant privatization in the former Communist countries, together with the reaction of people and the social movement to them – the strikes, protests, blockades of fossil fuel industry and occupation of factories and squares (Occupy!) that have recently occurred. The financial and economic crisis in the context of aggravating ecological, social and political problems, are topics presented as kaleidoscopic points of view around one single profound, apparently insolvable issue: contemporary capitalism.
Oliver Ressler’s new 2-channel video-installation “Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart” was produced for this exhibition with the support of ERSTE Foundation, BKA – Kunst and Otto Mauer Fonds.
THIS IS A SET-UP
Artists: Ioana Păun and Cătălin Rulea
Curator: Alexandru Bălășescu
Architect: Cristina Nicolaescu
MNAC Coordinator: Cerasela Barbone
Winner of the MNAC 2015 Call for Projects
Sponsor: AQUA Carpatica
Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, Bookaholic, Igloo media, beBlueAir
10.11.2016 – 15.01.2017
3rd Floor
© Image credit:Cătălin Rulea
In order to exist, all current and future events – from global pandemics to cyber attacks, terrorist killings or creation of life in laboratory – need a set-up stage for their performance to be both produced and consumed. The exhibition proposes a journey in a power-laden space of immersive communication, imagined in a series of three dioramas, or stages: Iconic Space (of Domesticity), Media Space, and Biopolitics Space, each engaging the visitors in the powerlessness of always already set-up conditions.
MEMORIES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE THETYS SEA.
MIHUȚ BOȘCU KAFCHIN
Curator: Diana Marincu
Curatorial input: Anca Verona Mihuleț
Chapter V of “The White Dot and The Black Cube”, an exhibition project in six parts
MNAC coordinator: Mălina Ionescu
Winner of the MNAC 2014 Call for Projects
08.09.2016 – 31.12.2016
4th floor
© Image credit: Mihuţ Boşcu Kafchin, “The Cabinet of Fortune”, site-specific installation in the exhibition Memories from the depths of the Thetys Sea, 2016. Photo credit: Larisa Sitar; MNAC.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest announces the extension of the exhibition Memories from the depths of the Thetys Sea by Mihuț Boșcu Kafchin until December 31 2016. The exhibition takes a clipping from the period in which the artist was working in his studio in Cluj (2009-2015). The cutout is a visual section layered in different time frames – from the prehistorically suggestions of the geographical identity of the place, to the visions of a future world ruled by robots. The agglomeration of images and different media – paintings, objects, installations and drawings – constitute a technological and organic workshop in which two distinct worlds collide.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS FROM ROMANIA
The National Book Design Contest, 5th edition
Curator: Anca Verona Mihuleț
Organizer: Association for Excellence and Culture
10.11.2016 – 15.12.2016
Awards ceremony: 10.11.2016, 6 p.m.
Ground floor
Each autumn for the last five years, there has been an event bringing the Romanian design books enthusiasts together. This year, the most beautiful books from Romania will be presented within an installation conceived by Raluca Popa, together with a selection of artist books and paper related objects from the collection of The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. This cultural project is supported by AFCN (Administration of the National Fund for Culture).
Cosăul Folk Ensemble will hold a recital as part of the exhibition The Ephemerist. A Mihai Olos Retrospective. The evening will be closed by an art-pop concert held by Fierbinteanu.
Sponsors: Crama Oprișor, Policolor, Saint – Gobain Rigips, Grup Transilvae, AQUA Carpatica.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest – The Palace Of Parliament, wing E4, acces from Calea 13 Septembrie, B3
www.mnac.ro /Fb event
