{"id":482,"date":"2025-08-13T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.arac.ro\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=482"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:34:26","slug":"you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/exhibition\/you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group event-content-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile event-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column event-artist-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border size-large event-artist-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-483\" style=\"border-radius:20px;width:370px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kuluncic-Goli_otok-2021-photo_Ivo-Martinovic-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center event-artist-name\">Andreja Kulun\u010di\u0107<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"event-artist-description\">Este artist\u0103 vizual\u0103 \u0219i locuie\u0219te la Zagreb. Practica sa artistic\u0103 se bazeaz\u0103 pe explorarea unor noi modele de sociabilitate \u0219i situa\u021bii de comunicare, pe interesul pentru teme sociale, pe implicarea diferitelor categorii de public \u0219i pe colaborarea \u00een proiecte colective. \u00ce\u0219i construie\u0219te propriile re\u021bele interdisciplinare, privindu-\u0219i munca artistic\u0103 drept cercetare, proces de cooperare \u0219i auto-organizare. Ea invit\u0103 adesea publicul s\u0103 participe activ la lucrare. Unele dintre temele frecvent abordate de Kulun\u010di\u0107 sunt leg\u0103turile dintre economie, tranzi\u021bie, feminism \u0219i rasism. Oper\u00e2nd \u00een zonele marginale ale opozi\u021biei \u0219i concentr\u00e2ndu-\u0219i critica asupra valorilor centrale ale institu\u021biilor imaginare ale societ\u0103\u021bilor \u0219i a diviziunilor condi\u021bionate de acestea, contribu\u021bia ei artistic\u0103 extinde arta \u00een a oferi un teren polemic pentru reg\u00e2ndirea \u0219i dizolvarea anumitor rela\u021bii \u0219i crearea altora noi.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"event-artist-description\">Her work has been presented at major international exhibitions, such as Documenta11 (Kassel); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt\/Main); 8. Istanbul Biennial; Liverpool Biennial 04; 10. Triennale-India (New Delhi). At collective shows in museums, including Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); PS1 (New York); Museo Universitario Arte Contempor\u00e1neo \u2013 MUAC (Mexico City); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Etienne, etc. At solo shows, including Museo Universitario Arte Contempor\u00e1neo \u2013 MUAC (Mexico City); Jorge B. Vargas Museum (Manila); Modern Gallery (Podgorica); Museo Madre (Napoli); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"event-artist-description\">Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreja.org\">www.andreja.info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column event-details-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p>Artist: Andreja Kulun\u010di\u0107<br>Curators: Irena Bekic, Anca Mihule\u021b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17.12.2024-31.01.2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARAC, Anca Potera\u0219u Gallery<br>Strada Popa Soare 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Expozi\u021bia You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It face parte din proiectul \u201eIn(Visible) Traces. Artistic Memories of the Cold War\u201d, ini\u021biat de Documenta, Zagreb, \u0219i organizat \u00eempreun\u0103 cu Asocia\u021bia Rom\u00e2n\u0103 pentru Art\u0103 Contemporan\u0103, Bucure\u0219ti; Blockfrei, Viena \u0219i Memorialul Bautzner Stra\u00dfe, Dresda, cu sprijinul Uniunii Europene. Proiectul \u00ee\u0219i propune s\u0103 implice arti\u0219ti, cercet\u0103tori, educatori, factori de decizie \u0219i cet\u0103\u021beni \u00een reflec\u021bia, p\u0103strarea \u0219i discutarea patrimoniului cultural european, cu accent pe siturile istorice din perioada R\u0103zboiului Rece care au fost uitate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prin interven\u021bii artistice spa\u021biale la siturile Goli Otok \u0219i Sveti Grgur, expozi\u021bii, publica\u021bii \u0219i o serie de ateliere, grupuri de lectur\u0103 \u0219i discu\u021bii, proiectul deconstruie\u0219te amnezia deliberat\u0103 legat\u0103 de istoria femeilor de pe Goli Otok pentru a deschide un drum c\u0103tre memorie. \u00cen acest demers, se contureaz\u0103 o form\u0103 subversiv\u0103 de comemorare \u2013 un anti-monument \u2013 care nu impune memoria, ci o caut\u0103 \u00een p\u0103trunderea constant re\u00eennoit\u0103 a memoriilor disputate \u0219i a cuno\u0219tin\u021belor \u0219i sentimentelor publicului larg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The exhibition is conceived as a place of different flows. It becomes an island, an island ambience,&nbsp;a place of remembrance, an island simulacrum, a conduit for existence, a link between a past event&nbsp;and memory: a space for reflection and complementary thinking containing visual materials \u2013&nbsp;drawings, photographs and objects \u2013 some of the outcomes of the artistic research; a site for the&nbsp;gestural interpretation of the daily tortures endured by the women on Goli Otok and Sveti Grgur in&nbsp;the form of a video installation; and a zone for participation, which includes making female figurines&nbsp;from clay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figurines are made by the visitors of the exhibition, during a series of organized&nbsp;workshops or simply as a natural expression of their feelings after visiting the exhibition. It aims to&nbsp;deliver ways of activating memory, while participatory threads are constantly reconfiguring the&nbsp;mechanisms of understanding a marginal historical phenomenon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09620-scaled-1-18x12.jpg 18w\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09919-scaled-1-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VCD09489.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20241220_120238-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20241220_120238-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20241220_120238-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20241220_120238-768x512.jpg 768w, 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Artistic Memories of the Cold War<\/em>, initiated by Documenta in Zagreb and organized together with the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Blockfrei, Vienna&nbsp;and The Bautzner Stra\u00dfe Dresden Memorial, Dresden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>The project is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. <\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>More information on the website: <a href=\"https:\/\/kulturasjecanja.documenta.hr\/en\/projects\/invisible-traces-artistic-memories-of-the-cold-war\/\">Invisible traces artistic memories of the Cold War <\/a><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Parteneri:<\/strong> Documenta Zagreb, Blockfrei Vienna, The Bautzner Stra\u00dfe Dresden Memorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Local partners:<\/strong> LG Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub><strong>Graphic design credit<\/strong>: Andrei Reg<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expozi\u021bia \u201dYou Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It\u201d face parte din proiectul \u201eIn(Visible) Traces. Artistic Memories of the Cold War\u201d, ini\u021biat de Documenta, Zagreb, \u0219i organizat \u00eempreun\u0103 cu Asocia\u021bia Rom\u00e2n\u0103 pentru Art\u0103 Contemporan\u0103, Bucure\u0219ti; Blockfrei, Viena \u0219i Memorialul Bautzner Stra\u00dfe, Dresda. Proiectul \u00ee\u0219i propune s\u0103 implice arti\u0219ti, cercet\u0103tori, educatori, factori de decizie \u0219i cet\u0103\u021beni \u00een reflec\u021bia, p\u0103strarea \u0219i discutarea patrimoniului cultural european, cu accent pe siturile istorice din perioada R\u0103zboiului Rece care au fost neglijate.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":494,"template":"","meta":{"arac_exhibition_start":"2024-12-17","arac_exhibition_end":"2025-01-31"},"class_list":["post-482","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arac.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}