Two Romanian art projects presented at La Biennale di Venezia this year

Following a national competition for the selection of projects that will represent Romania at the 55th edition of the Venice Art Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia), organized by the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), Romania will present “An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale” and “A reflection of the suspended history. A test”, according to ICR Venice.

“An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale”

Artists: Alexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmuş

Curator: Raluca Voinea

Project coordinator: Corina Bucea

Exhibition space: Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale

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Opening: May 29.

The project “An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale” presents the entire history of the Venice Biennale and reflects it in a national pavilion as in a fragment of a mirror. The retrospective can be seen as an ephemeral monument to the biennale, a critique of its Euro-centrism, vain display of power and luxury or of mere conservatism but also a celebration of its openness for experiments, for the coexistence of virtually all the trends, media, genres, that art uses or represents. Yet, it is also something more. Throughout this year’s Venice biennale, during its opening hours, the performers in the Romanian pavilion are recreating their version of a world’s exposition, one hundred years of history in a day, every day.

“A reflection of the suspended history. A test”

Artists: Apparatus 22, Irina Botea and Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matthew, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan

Curator: Anca Mihulet

Exhibition Space: New Gallery of the Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice (Cannaregio 2214-30121)

Opening: May 29

This project is a visual exploration of spatial and minor histories, suspended behind major events. The exhibition brings together five approaches of the young artists from Romania, which joined an artist from Poland, and tries to answer some of the conceptual challenges of the biennial general curator, Massimiliano Gioni: the Biennial proposes to exercise the de-contextualization of the art history and principles of presentation of works of art.

 Oana Vasiliu