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The whole in the flag remained the symbol of the revolution. Workshop with Iosif Király.
Iosif Király is one of the most renowned artists working with photography in Romania. His work investigates the relationship between perception, time, synchronicity and memory through photography, installation-art, drawing and more recently, video. He has initiated, coordinated, and, together with architects, visual artists, and anthropologists, participated in research projects related to the changes having occurred…
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Moral injury. Workshop with Emilia Mihali.
Emilia Mihali Emilia Mihali is a highly experienced Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Supervisor dedicated to supporting children, young people, and families in England. She works for the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NHS) with adoption, refugees, and looked-after children, as well as at NHS Practitioner Health with adults. Her expertise spans various therapeutic approaches, including Psychodynamic…
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Post-memory and cultural trauma. Workshop with historian Claudia Dobre.
Claudia Dobre Claudia-Florentina Dobre holds a PhD in history from Laval University (Québec) since 2007with a thesis on the memory of communist political persecution from a gender perspective. Winner of several research grants, including the Robert Schuman grant of the European Parliament (in 2007), Claudia-Florentina Dobre co-organized 10 international conferences, edited several volumes and scientific…
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AFAR TALK. Textile Art: Crafting a Path to Inclusion and Equality
Nicole Colin is Professor of German culture at Aix-Marseille University (AMU), Director of the German-French graduate school “Conflicts of cultures – cultures of conflicts” (AMU / University of Tübingen) and an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She works on German cultural history (with a focus on literature and theatre), the theory of…
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Meeting with Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean: Artistic Metodology and social-political context in CCs film
Artistic Metodology and social-political context in CCs film Speakers: Irina Botea Bucan, Jon Dean Monday, October 14th, 17:00 – Anca Poterașu Gallery, Popa Soare 26 IRINA BOTEA-BUCAN & JON DEAN, CCs, video, 21 min. 31 sec., 2019. The event is part of My Brilliant Friend exhibition and project, funded by AFCN. About the project: Within…
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Screening of the film Stop cadru la masă, followed by a discussion with writer Ana Maria Sandu
Ana Maria Sandu is a writer, journalist, and editor at Dilema Veche. She made her debut with the volume Din amintirile unui Chelbasan (From the Memories of a Chelbasan) and went on to publish the novels Fata din casa vagon (The Girl from the Wagon House), Omoară-mă! (Kill Me!), Aleargă (Run), the short story collection…
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AFAR TALK. Curator Julie Crenn in dialogue with artist Delia Popa
Julie Crenn is an art historian, art critic (AICA – International Association of Art Critics) and independent curator. Since 2018, he is associate curator of Transpalette – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bourges. In 2005, he obtained a master’s degree in art history and criticism at the University of Rennes 2, with a thesis on the…
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Art within Technical Museums. Talk with Elisabeth Limbeck – Lilineau
Elisabeth Limbeck – Lilineau Speaker: Elisabeth Limbeck – Lilineau May 11th, 18:00 – Anca Poterașu Gallery, Popa Soare 26 This talk is organized by ARAC with the suppport of Austriac Cultural Forum We will discuss art in technical museums following a lecture by Elisabeth Limbeck-Lilienau, Head of the Exhibitions Department at Technische Museum Wien, “Art…
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AFAR TALK. Curator William Ewing in dialogue with artist Iosif Kiraly
William A. Ewing is an author, curator, and former museum director, having spent half of his 50-year career in America, and half in Europe. Formerly the director of exhibitions at the International Center of Photography Museum in New York, and the director of the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, he has curated exhibitions seen at hundreds of…
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AFAR TALK. Memory Practices by Zoya Laktionova
Zoya was born in Mariupol, in a working class family in 1984. Zoya first appeared in the world of documentary cinema as a character in the film “Ma”(10’) in 2017, and a year later made her first short documentary “Diorama” about the mined sea at the Mariupol area. The film won an award in the…
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AFAR TALK. Luiza Teixeira de Freitas in conversation with Alina Șerban
Luiza Teixeira de Freitas is an independent curator based in Lisbon. Among the various projects she is involved with, her curatorial work with private collections stands out, as well as her active relationship with independent publications and artist books, having launched her own publisher Taffimai in 2018. Although based in Portugal, she frequently works with projects…
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AFAR TALK. Anja Lückenkemper in conversation with Alexandru Bălășeșcu
Anja Lückenkemper is an independent curator based in Berlin, Germany. She is co-initiator and curator of GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP, a platform for performative events and exhibitions focussing on the productive potentials of ”gossip” as a queer-feminist strategy of resistance, solidarity, and knowledge production. Currently she is pursuing a practice-based curatorial PhD research on critical ecologies, decoloniality,…
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Săcel Art Residency exhibiton
Pe parcursul a două săptămâni, un grup de artiști — Morgane Denzler, Damien Rouxel, Delia Popa, Ioana Cîrlig, Andreea Medar și Ilie Mihali — au reactivat proiectul la Săcel (Maramureș, România), la invitația Ancăi Poterasu (ARAC). A fost un timp colectiv de reflecție, întâlniri, experimente artistice, discuții îndelungate și intrebări asupra realităților agricole ale locului. Rămânem profund conștienți de fragilitatea acestor practici agricole.
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Loc de Acțiune – Crețesti
Din 2020, Delia Popa se concentrează asupra locului său, satul Crețești, situat în comuna Vidra, în sudul județului Ilfov. În casa bunicilor, își stabilește studioul. În 2022, pornind de la această locație, lucrează în armonie cu casa: mobilierul, plăcile ceramice care împodobesc soba cu lemne, arhitectura, lemnul, obiectele cotidiene. De asemenea, lucrează cu ecosistemul grădinii: nucul, sera, culturile, locuitorii umani și mai-puțin-umani.
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Expoziția A Journey to the Center of the Earth face parte din proiectul Bridging Horizons: An Artistic Journey from Bodø to Maramureș, dezvoltat în timpul rezidenței artistice, explorând cultura Sami și legăturile dintre Norvegia și Maramureș, cu accent pe arta textilă.
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You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
Expoziția ”You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It” face parte din proiectul „In(Visible) Traces. Artistic Memories of the Cold War”, inițiat de Documenta, Zagreb, și organizat împreună cu Asociația Română pentru Artă Contemporană, București; Blockfrei, Viena și Memorialul Bautzner Straße, Dresda. Proiectul își propune să implice artiști, cercetători, educatori, factori de decizie și cetățeni în reflecția, păstrarea și discutarea patrimoniului cultural european, cu accent pe siturile istorice din perioada Războiului Rece care au fost neglijate.
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The Line of the Valley – Part II
In the summer of 2024, around twenty artists from different practices and nationalities gathered in Săcel, in the Maramureș region, in a residency hosted by Anca Poterașu. During the residency, the artists had the opportunity to learn traditional techniques in weaving, sewing, and textile dyeing from local craftsmen, applying these skills in contemporary creations
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The New Empire
The solo exhibition “The New Empire” is a lecture on sustainability and the importance of the plants around us and photographic practices, curated by Julie Bonzon and artist Ioana Cîrlig.
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Prietena mea genială/ 나의 눈부신 친구/ My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend is a project born out of the curatorial friendship between Seolhui Lee and Anca Mihuleț. The two curators met in 2019 while working for the Busan Biennale and Singapore Biennale, respectively, trying to solve the mystery around a video work by the Romanian-Cuban artist Sandu Darie.
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Linia Izei – Săcel, Maramureș
The group exhibition curated by Marie Maertens presents works created during the residency by artists Yana Bachynska, Željko Beljan, Tanja Boukal, Anetta Mona Chișa, Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Megan Dominescu, Bogdan Rata, Dan Visovan, Delia Popa, Mihaela Moldovan, Loredana Ilie, Donald Simionoiu,Bernhard Frue, Ilie Mihali, Christina Zurfluh, using textile and recyclable materials. The works reflect both local and cultural influences and contribute to critical research aimed at developing a strategic action plan for the sustainable development of our community.
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Ecology after Life
The exhibition serves as a metaphor for the regeneration of life as a whole, exploring not only human existence but also the intricate connections between organisms that sustain life on Earth. From Aurora Király’s landscapes to Delia Popa’s introspective reflections, Iosif Király’s blurring of reality and fantasy, Ioana Cîrlig’s documentation of coal miners, and Matei Bejenaru’s chronicles of forgotten spaces, Ecology of the Afterlife contemplates the interconnectedness of living beings.
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Memory Practices
Zoya Laktionova is an artist working with photography and video art around the concepts of memory, war and personal stories. During her Artists for Artists Residency (AFAR) in Bucharest she continued her exploration of local history, which transforms the ephemeral into the eternal, capturing fleeting moments that resonate deeply with viewers.
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