Vienna Biennale invites us to create our own Bucharest

Vienna Biennale 2015 comes with a challenge for Romanian artists, designers and architects, who are tested to the competition Create Your Bucharest. In his study The Long Revolution (1961), Raymond Williams dives into globe-spanning processes of theoretical and actual revolutions. Societies communicate through creativity that emerges as an idea, takes on cultural forms, mediates between the individual and society, and is represented through language. In their current relevance, cultural, political, and industrial revolutions develop in parallel and trace developments that create new realities in art, architecture, and design. The exhibition highlights the contemporary scene in Bucharest and Romania against the background of past avant-garde movements as Dada, founded in 1916. The award-winning entries from the artists, architects, and designers in the idea competition Create Your Bucharest will be shown in the exhibition.

The aim of the open competition is to find new patterns of social and cultural perception in the Romanian and international communities and to make this potential accessible to the public within the context of Bucharest.

Until 15 January 2015, entrants can submit innovative concepts and site-specific works for one of the most dynamic urban centers in Southeast Europe. The results of Create Your Bucharest will be presented in the MAK exhibition Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016, one of the central projects of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2015: IDEAS FOR CHANGE (12 June – 4 October 2015), which was initiated by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director MAK.