Organizers team:
Matei Bejenaru – biennial director
Lavinia German – curatorship
Cătălin Gheorgh... more Organizers team:
Matei Bejenaru – biennial director Lavinia German – curatorship Cătălin Gheorghe – curatorship Cristina Moraru – conference and critical theory workshop Cristian Nae – curatorship Cătălin Soreanu – communication
Curators:
Lavinia German Cătălin Gheorghe Cristian Nae
Reviewers, Critics, Moderators:
Răzvan Anton Matei Bejenaru Louise Clements Cătălin Gheorghe Markus Hartmann Iosif Kiraly Denes Miklosi Cristina Moraru Cristian Nae
Artists:
Dan Acostioaei Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu Bianca Basan Matei Bejenaru Lucian Bran Tudor Bratu (RO/NL) Michele Bressan Alexandra Croitoru Minim (Diana Dulgheru) Tatiana Fiodorova (MD) Ion Grigorescu Nona Inescu Andrei Mateescu Alex Maxim Andrei Nacu Mihai Nistor Mihai & Horațiu Șovăială Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor Andrei Venghiac
catalogue, In times of hope and unrest: critical art from Iași, 2015
In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași
Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu,... more In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Liliana Basarab & Bogdan Pălie, Matei Bejenaru, Cezar Lăzărescu, Dumitru Oboroc
Partners: Universitatea de Arte ”George Enescu” Iași, Asociația Culturală AltIași (Borderline Art Space), Centrul de Fotografie Contemporană, Iași
3rd Floor
Photo: Matei Bejenaru, Palas Building Site, Iași, 2009
Beginning with the end of the 1990’s, in Iași, one of the Romanian cities which experienced an elaborated process of industrialisation during communism, a new contemporary art institution emerged. Interested in the critical analysis and the cultural interpretation of recent processes of social and political transformation, a group of artists, engineers, and theorists from Iași became agents of artistic action. They founded a festival of performance art, called Periferic, which later became an International Biennial of Contemporary Art. At the initiative of Matei Bejenaru, a visual artist, at the beginning of the 2000, Vector Cultural Association was founded. This artist-run institution generated a series of critical platforms: Vector Gallery (2003-2007), the project of social culture cARTier (2003-2007), Vector Publications (2006 – going on), Vector Studio (2007-going on). After 2010, the artists and theorists engaged in Vector Association’s projects were involved in personal artistic productions, although retaining a political rhetoric and the interest for poetical or ironical forms of social criticism. The exhibition “In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași” assumes the theoretical coordinates of local regionalism and responds to the interest of the Museum of Contemporary Art for the historical mapping and extensive documentation of the Romanian art scene. The term “critical art” does not only designate the inherent process of self-reflection on the medium and the artistic language employed, or on some concepts and issues of immediate interest; it is also and mainly an abbreviation of a specific artistic attitude which understands art as a social practice. It prioritizes social analysis, the critique of ideology, and the reconsideration of the unstable configuration of power relations in which contemporary art is inserted. The exhibition, conceived as a retrospective view, consists in recent artworks by artists who have maintained a close relation with the programmes and projects developed in Vector’s micro-community since the beginning of 2000, and a selection of artworks produced in Iași in the last 15 years. The selected works characterise problematic situations of Romanian society after 1989, their spatial articulation presenting a co-existence of the contraries: of technocratic rationalism with mystical intuition and religious belief, responding to collective anxieties and utopian hopes; of the rhetoric of institutional and national (re)construction and security policies with forms of reflexive nostalgia and of spontaneous civic commitment and solidarity with public and deeply rooted forms of extremism and intolerance.
This edition of Vector - critical research in context is conceived as an artist’s book based on a... more This edition of Vector - critical research in context is conceived as an artist’s book based on an extended project by Dan Acostioaei and exhibited as an art installation between 13.10 - 11.11.2012 in the exhibition series of the Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst Münster, curated by Olivia Fuhrich, Elena Höckmann, Anna Katz and Marijke Lukowicz.
an artist's book by Dan Acostioaei
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe
Designed by Lavinia German
Published by the University of Arts "George Enescu" Iaşi
Supported by the Administration of National Cultural Fund in Romania and Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Münster
This publication, which can be viewed at the same time as an experimental book and as a gallery-p... more This publication, which can be viewed at the same time as an experimental book and as a gallery-printed-on-paper or distributed as a pdf file, introduces the contributions of several artists who have collaborated with Vector institution in realising works for various projects carried out in the past ten years, either for the Periferic Biennial agenda, or for the Vector Gallery programme. Each artist was asked to contribute one project (text, drawing, graphics, photography), to be displayed across four pages, specifically, to illustrate or enunciate a concept integrated in an 'artistic research' or a reflection in the form either of a political diagnosis as an analysis of the project's relation with Vector's objectives and productions, or in the form of a poetic prognosis, as a projection of the potentialities of the context in which Vector operates.
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe and Livia Pancu
Book Design: Matei Bejenaru Specific Projects Design: Dan Acostioaei, Liliana Basarab and Costel Chirila, Matei Bejenaru, Rozalinda Borcila with Jérôme Grand, Albert Braun, Guillaume Désanges, Felix Dragan, Andrea Faciu, Dora García, Lavinia German (text by Luminita Apostu), Alex Grigoras, Florin Grigoras, Andrea Hajtajer, H.arta, Antonia Hirsch, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Laura Horelli with Ann Kaneko, The Institute for Wishful Thinking, Daniel Knorr, Cezar Lazarescu, Matts Leiderstam, Elke Marhöfer, Ioana Nemes, Dumitru Oboroc, Joanne Richardson, Stefan Rusu, Katya Sander, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Bogdan Teodorescu, Florian Zeyfang
Published by Frieze Foundation
Supported by the National Book Center / Romanian Cultural Institute
Organizers team:
Matei Bejenaru – biennial director
Lavinia German – curatorship
Cătălin Gheorgh... more Organizers team:
Matei Bejenaru – biennial director Lavinia German – curatorship Cătălin Gheorghe – curatorship Cristina Moraru – conference and critical theory workshop Cristian Nae – curatorship Cătălin Soreanu – communication
Curators:
Lavinia German Cătălin Gheorghe Cristian Nae
Reviewers, Critics, Moderators:
Răzvan Anton Matei Bejenaru Louise Clements Cătălin Gheorghe Markus Hartmann Iosif Kiraly Denes Miklosi Cristina Moraru Cristian Nae
Artists:
Dan Acostioaei Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu Bianca Basan Matei Bejenaru Lucian Bran Tudor Bratu (RO/NL) Michele Bressan Alexandra Croitoru Minim (Diana Dulgheru) Tatiana Fiodorova (MD) Ion Grigorescu Nona Inescu Andrei Mateescu Alex Maxim Andrei Nacu Mihai Nistor Mihai & Horațiu Șovăială Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor Andrei Venghiac
catalogue, In times of hope and unrest: critical art from Iași, 2015
In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași
Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu,... more In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Liliana Basarab & Bogdan Pălie, Matei Bejenaru, Cezar Lăzărescu, Dumitru Oboroc
Partners: Universitatea de Arte ”George Enescu” Iași, Asociația Culturală AltIași (Borderline Art Space), Centrul de Fotografie Contemporană, Iași
3rd Floor
Photo: Matei Bejenaru, Palas Building Site, Iași, 2009
Beginning with the end of the 1990’s, in Iași, one of the Romanian cities which experienced an elaborated process of industrialisation during communism, a new contemporary art institution emerged. Interested in the critical analysis and the cultural interpretation of recent processes of social and political transformation, a group of artists, engineers, and theorists from Iași became agents of artistic action. They founded a festival of performance art, called Periferic, which later became an International Biennial of Contemporary Art. At the initiative of Matei Bejenaru, a visual artist, at the beginning of the 2000, Vector Cultural Association was founded. This artist-run institution generated a series of critical platforms: Vector Gallery (2003-2007), the project of social culture cARTier (2003-2007), Vector Publications (2006 – going on), Vector Studio (2007-going on). After 2010, the artists and theorists engaged in Vector Association’s projects were involved in personal artistic productions, although retaining a political rhetoric and the interest for poetical or ironical forms of social criticism. The exhibition “In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași” assumes the theoretical coordinates of local regionalism and responds to the interest of the Museum of Contemporary Art for the historical mapping and extensive documentation of the Romanian art scene. The term “critical art” does not only designate the inherent process of self-reflection on the medium and the artistic language employed, or on some concepts and issues of immediate interest; it is also and mainly an abbreviation of a specific artistic attitude which understands art as a social practice. It prioritizes social analysis, the critique of ideology, and the reconsideration of the unstable configuration of power relations in which contemporary art is inserted. The exhibition, conceived as a retrospective view, consists in recent artworks by artists who have maintained a close relation with the programmes and projects developed in Vector’s micro-community since the beginning of 2000, and a selection of artworks produced in Iași in the last 15 years. The selected works characterise problematic situations of Romanian society after 1989, their spatial articulation presenting a co-existence of the contraries: of technocratic rationalism with mystical intuition and religious belief, responding to collective anxieties and utopian hopes; of the rhetoric of institutional and national (re)construction and security policies with forms of reflexive nostalgia and of spontaneous civic commitment and solidarity with public and deeply rooted forms of extremism and intolerance.
This edition of Vector - critical research in context is conceived as an artist’s book based on a... more This edition of Vector - critical research in context is conceived as an artist’s book based on an extended project by Dan Acostioaei and exhibited as an art installation between 13.10 - 11.11.2012 in the exhibition series of the Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst Münster, curated by Olivia Fuhrich, Elena Höckmann, Anna Katz and Marijke Lukowicz.
an artist's book by Dan Acostioaei
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe
Designed by Lavinia German
Published by the University of Arts "George Enescu" Iaşi
Supported by the Administration of National Cultural Fund in Romania and Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Münster
This publication, which can be viewed at the same time as an experimental book and as a gallery-p... more This publication, which can be viewed at the same time as an experimental book and as a gallery-printed-on-paper or distributed as a pdf file, introduces the contributions of several artists who have collaborated with Vector institution in realising works for various projects carried out in the past ten years, either for the Periferic Biennial agenda, or for the Vector Gallery programme. Each artist was asked to contribute one project (text, drawing, graphics, photography), to be displayed across four pages, specifically, to illustrate or enunciate a concept integrated in an 'artistic research' or a reflection in the form either of a political diagnosis as an analysis of the project's relation with Vector's objectives and productions, or in the form of a poetic prognosis, as a projection of the potentialities of the context in which Vector operates.
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe and Livia Pancu
Book Design: Matei Bejenaru Specific Projects Design: Dan Acostioaei, Liliana Basarab and Costel Chirila, Matei Bejenaru, Rozalinda Borcila with Jérôme Grand, Albert Braun, Guillaume Désanges, Felix Dragan, Andrea Faciu, Dora García, Lavinia German (text by Luminita Apostu), Alex Grigoras, Florin Grigoras, Andrea Hajtajer, H.arta, Antonia Hirsch, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Laura Horelli with Ann Kaneko, The Institute for Wishful Thinking, Daniel Knorr, Cezar Lazarescu, Matts Leiderstam, Elke Marhöfer, Ioana Nemes, Dumitru Oboroc, Joanne Richardson, Stefan Rusu, Katya Sander, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Bogdan Teodorescu, Florian Zeyfang
Published by Frieze Foundation
Supported by the National Book Center / Romanian Cultural Institute
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Matei Bejenaru – biennial director
Lavinia German – curatorship
Cătălin Gheorghe – curatorship
Cristina Moraru – conference and critical theory workshop
Cristian Nae – curatorship
Cătălin Soreanu – communication
Curators:
Lavinia German
Cătălin Gheorghe
Cristian Nae
Reviewers, Critics, Moderators:
Răzvan Anton
Matei Bejenaru
Louise Clements
Cătălin Gheorghe
Markus Hartmann
Iosif Kiraly
Denes Miklosi
Cristina Moraru
Cristian Nae
Artists:
Dan Acostioaei
Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
Bianca Basan
Matei Bejenaru
Lucian Bran
Tudor Bratu (RO/NL)
Michele Bressan
Alexandra Croitoru
Minim (Diana Dulgheru)
Tatiana Fiodorova (MD)
Ion Grigorescu
Nona Inescu
Andrei Mateescu
Alex Maxim
Andrei Nacu
Mihai Nistor
Mihai & Horațiu Șovăială
Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor
Andrei Venghiac
Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Liliana Basarab & Bogdan Pălie, Matei Bejenaru, Cezar Lăzărescu, Dumitru Oboroc
Micro-archive: Platformele Vector / Vector Platforms
Curators: Cătălin Gheorghe, Cristian Nae
MNAC Coordinator: Sandra Demetrescu
Architect: Atilla Kim
Partners: Universitatea de Arte ”George Enescu” Iași, Asociația Culturală AltIași (Borderline Art Space), Centrul de Fotografie Contemporană, Iași
3rd Floor
Photo: Matei Bejenaru, Palas Building Site, Iași, 2009
Beginning with the end of the 1990’s, in Iași, one of the Romanian cities which experienced an elaborated process of industrialisation during communism, a new contemporary art institution emerged. Interested in the critical analysis and the cultural interpretation of recent processes of social and political transformation, a group of artists, engineers, and theorists from Iași became agents of artistic action. They founded a festival of performance art, called Periferic, which later became an International Biennial of Contemporary Art. At the initiative of Matei Bejenaru, a visual artist, at the beginning of the 2000, Vector Cultural Association was founded. This artist-run institution generated a series of critical platforms: Vector Gallery (2003-2007), the project of social culture cARTier (2003-2007), Vector Publications (2006 – going on), Vector Studio (2007-going on). After 2010, the artists and theorists engaged in Vector Association’s projects were involved in personal artistic productions, although retaining a political rhetoric and the interest for poetical or ironical forms of social criticism.
The exhibition “In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași” assumes the theoretical coordinates of local regionalism and responds to the interest of the Museum of Contemporary Art for the historical mapping and extensive documentation of the Romanian art scene. The term “critical art” does not only designate the inherent process of self-reflection on the medium and the artistic language employed, or on some concepts and issues of immediate interest; it is also and mainly an abbreviation of a specific artistic attitude which understands art as a social practice. It prioritizes social analysis, the critique of ideology, and the reconsideration of the unstable configuration of power relations in which contemporary art is inserted. The exhibition, conceived as a retrospective view, consists in recent artworks by artists who have maintained a close relation with the programmes and projects developed in Vector’s micro-community since the beginning of 2000, and a selection of artworks produced in Iași in the last 15 years.
The selected works characterise problematic situations of Romanian society after 1989, their spatial articulation presenting a co-existence of the contraries: of technocratic rationalism with mystical intuition and religious belief, responding to collective anxieties and utopian hopes; of the rhetoric of institutional and national (re)construction and security policies with forms of reflexive nostalgia and of spontaneous civic commitment and solidarity with public and deeply rooted forms of extremism and intolerance.
Books by Dan Acostioaei
an artist's book by Dan Acostioaei
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe
Designed by Lavinia German
Published by the University of Arts "George Enescu" Iaşi
Supported by the Administration of National Cultural Fund in Romania and Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Münster
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe and Livia Pancu
Book Design: Matei Bejenaru
Specific Projects Design: Dan Acostioaei, Liliana Basarab and Costel Chirila, Matei Bejenaru, Rozalinda Borcila with Jérôme Grand, Albert Braun, Guillaume Désanges, Felix Dragan, Andrea Faciu, Dora García, Lavinia German (text by Luminita Apostu), Alex Grigoras, Florin Grigoras, Andrea Hajtajer, H.arta, Antonia Hirsch, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Laura Horelli with Ann Kaneko, The Institute for Wishful Thinking, Daniel Knorr, Cezar Lazarescu, Matts Leiderstam, Elke Marhöfer, Ioana Nemes, Dumitru Oboroc, Joanne
Richardson, Stefan Rusu, Katya Sander, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Bogdan Teodorescu, Florian Zeyfang
Published by Frieze Foundation
Supported by the National Book Center / Romanian Cultural Institute
Matei Bejenaru – biennial director
Lavinia German – curatorship
Cătălin Gheorghe – curatorship
Cristina Moraru – conference and critical theory workshop
Cristian Nae – curatorship
Cătălin Soreanu – communication
Curators:
Lavinia German
Cătălin Gheorghe
Cristian Nae
Reviewers, Critics, Moderators:
Răzvan Anton
Matei Bejenaru
Louise Clements
Cătălin Gheorghe
Markus Hartmann
Iosif Kiraly
Denes Miklosi
Cristina Moraru
Cristian Nae
Artists:
Dan Acostioaei
Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
Bianca Basan
Matei Bejenaru
Lucian Bran
Tudor Bratu (RO/NL)
Michele Bressan
Alexandra Croitoru
Minim (Diana Dulgheru)
Tatiana Fiodorova (MD)
Ion Grigorescu
Nona Inescu
Andrei Mateescu
Alex Maxim
Andrei Nacu
Mihai Nistor
Mihai & Horațiu Șovăială
Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor
Andrei Venghiac
Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Liliana Basarab & Bogdan Pălie, Matei Bejenaru, Cezar Lăzărescu, Dumitru Oboroc
Micro-archive: Platformele Vector / Vector Platforms
Curators: Cătălin Gheorghe, Cristian Nae
MNAC Coordinator: Sandra Demetrescu
Architect: Atilla Kim
Partners: Universitatea de Arte ”George Enescu” Iași, Asociația Culturală AltIași (Borderline Art Space), Centrul de Fotografie Contemporană, Iași
3rd Floor
Photo: Matei Bejenaru, Palas Building Site, Iași, 2009
Beginning with the end of the 1990’s, in Iași, one of the Romanian cities which experienced an elaborated process of industrialisation during communism, a new contemporary art institution emerged. Interested in the critical analysis and the cultural interpretation of recent processes of social and political transformation, a group of artists, engineers, and theorists from Iași became agents of artistic action. They founded a festival of performance art, called Periferic, which later became an International Biennial of Contemporary Art. At the initiative of Matei Bejenaru, a visual artist, at the beginning of the 2000, Vector Cultural Association was founded. This artist-run institution generated a series of critical platforms: Vector Gallery (2003-2007), the project of social culture cARTier (2003-2007), Vector Publications (2006 – going on), Vector Studio (2007-going on). After 2010, the artists and theorists engaged in Vector Association’s projects were involved in personal artistic productions, although retaining a political rhetoric and the interest for poetical or ironical forms of social criticism.
The exhibition “In Times of Hope and Unrest. Critical Art from Iași” assumes the theoretical coordinates of local regionalism and responds to the interest of the Museum of Contemporary Art for the historical mapping and extensive documentation of the Romanian art scene. The term “critical art” does not only designate the inherent process of self-reflection on the medium and the artistic language employed, or on some concepts and issues of immediate interest; it is also and mainly an abbreviation of a specific artistic attitude which understands art as a social practice. It prioritizes social analysis, the critique of ideology, and the reconsideration of the unstable configuration of power relations in which contemporary art is inserted. The exhibition, conceived as a retrospective view, consists in recent artworks by artists who have maintained a close relation with the programmes and projects developed in Vector’s micro-community since the beginning of 2000, and a selection of artworks produced in Iași in the last 15 years.
The selected works characterise problematic situations of Romanian society after 1989, their spatial articulation presenting a co-existence of the contraries: of technocratic rationalism with mystical intuition and religious belief, responding to collective anxieties and utopian hopes; of the rhetoric of institutional and national (re)construction and security policies with forms of reflexive nostalgia and of spontaneous civic commitment and solidarity with public and deeply rooted forms of extremism and intolerance.
an artist's book by Dan Acostioaei
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe
Designed by Lavinia German
Published by the University of Arts "George Enescu" Iaşi
Supported by the Administration of National Cultural Fund in Romania and Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Münster
Edited by Catalin Gheorghe and Livia Pancu
Book Design: Matei Bejenaru
Specific Projects Design: Dan Acostioaei, Liliana Basarab and Costel Chirila, Matei Bejenaru, Rozalinda Borcila with Jérôme Grand, Albert Braun, Guillaume Désanges, Felix Dragan, Andrea Faciu, Dora García, Lavinia German (text by Luminita Apostu), Alex Grigoras, Florin Grigoras, Andrea Hajtajer, H.arta, Antonia Hirsch, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Laura Horelli with Ann Kaneko, The Institute for Wishful Thinking, Daniel Knorr, Cezar Lazarescu, Matts Leiderstam, Elke Marhöfer, Ioana Nemes, Dumitru Oboroc, Joanne
Richardson, Stefan Rusu, Katya Sander, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Bogdan Teodorescu, Florian Zeyfang
Published by Frieze Foundation
Supported by the National Book Center / Romanian Cultural Institute