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Events

Regina José Galindo.Urgent Issues

10.02 - 20.04.2010
Curator: Ruxandra Balaci

opening and performance Object of Cult: February 10th, 18h30

Co-produced with: PrometeoGallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/ Lucca

Having been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the Venice Biennale in 2005, Regina José Galindo uses performance and her own body as main devices in the artistic process. Through a kind of re-enactment, the artist substitutes herself to the weak and the humble, to the tortured and the oppressed, staging limit situation. Her own delicate, feminine body is mistreated, in a kind of “self-exposure” and unselfishly substituting herself to various traumas inflicted upon other human beings in oppressive political regimes. Regina José Galindo's discourse thus relates to other works in the activist area and gender issues with reference to ancestral shamanic myths and exorcising gestures such as Ana Mendieta's and Sigalit Landau's, to the rituals of resistance in Tania Bruguera's and Teresa Margolles' work: impressive installations over death and the excluded of society.

Focusing on tough issues of an oppressed humanity, Urgent Issues presents a selection of the most important works created between 1999 and 2009 and will be followed by a catalogue edited by PrometeoGallery.

Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, 1974) took part in the Venice Biennale in 2001, 2005 and 2009. In 2005 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist.  Her works are now in several public and private collections and have been exhibited in many prestigious venues, including PS1 New York, Le Plateau Paris, CIFO Miami, Smak Ghent, Tirana Biennale, Museo de Arte Moderna de Guatemala, TEOR/ética Costa Rica.

DISCLAIMER:
THE CONTENT OF THE WORKS EXHIBITED IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR AN AUDIENCE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD.

Partners: BRD Groupe Societe Generale, Novotel
Sponsors: Murfatlar
Media Partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, Rfi Romania, feeder.ro, Cocor MediaChannel

Romania Today
European Central Bank Annual Photography Award

28.01 –28.02.2010

The European Central Bank has presented its Annual Photography Award every year since 2004. After last year’s competition, which, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the ECB, was open to all 27 Member States, as well as the previous competitions, which focused on the Member State featured in the respective year’s Cultural Days of the ECB, attention has now turned to Romania.

This year, the Award was organized in close cooperation with Banca Nationala a Romaniei (BNR). The prizes were granted by an international jury to. Nicu Ilfoveanu (1st prize), Iosif Kiraly (2nd prize) and Dragos Lumpan (3rd prize). The exhibitions also contains the works of the other seven finalists: Ufo Zoltan Egyed, Camen Obreja, Ioana Cirlig, Silviu Ghetie, Radu Constantin Ilea, Bogdan Croitoru, Tudor Prisacariu.

Publish it!

23.01 – 3.10.2010

Curator: Marieke van Oudheusde

The National Museum of Contemporary Art organize in collaboration with Graphic Design Museum, Breda, The Netherlands between 23.01 and 3.10.2010 –“Publish It”– a special program for children in the age between 8 and 14 years old.

‘Publish It' is an attractive learning environment in which the basic principles and functionality of graphic design are explained by understandable examples in combination with active (group) activities.

Children discover exactly what graphic design is. Why are objects around us designed? What can letters and colours tell us? Why is a carton of milk blue and not purple? What do the different types of letters on a film poster say?

A project by: GRAPHIC DESIGN MUSEUM, Breda
www.graphicdesignmuseum.com

In association with: De Designpolitie / Studio Laurens van Wieringen
www.designpolitie.nl / www.laurensvanwieringen.nl


With the support of: The Nederlands Embassy from Bucharest

MNAC Partner: BRD - Groupe Société Générale
Media Partners: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24fun, feeder, RFI Romania, Cocor MediaChannel

Kabbala in Kabul

26.01-26.02.2010 MNAC Auditorium

Screening: 87 min, Belgium , 2007 (loop)
director: Dan Alexe

There are only two Jews left in Afghanistan, and they live in the same place: a former synagogue in Kabul. But rather than bonding together, they can’t stand each other. The elderly Isaac lives on the ground floor and makes a living by selling amulets to his Muslim neighbors. Middle-aged Zebulon lives on the top floor and haggles with the same Afghans over his illegally produced wine.

"I lived three years in Kabul, I learned the local language and I think I started to merge with the caracters of the movie” Dan Alexe

Liberation : “Finaly a movie with Afghans that make us laugh …!”

MNAClab: opening

Thursday, 29.10.2009, 15h00

MNAC inaugurated on the 29 th of October, at 3 PM, the MNAClab , in the presence of the Ambassador of Japan. MNAClab is the first Romanian laboratory dedicated to the production and postproduction of contemporary multimedia projects, which aims to make real the proposals of a generation of artists that lacked the technical assistance before this time.

Owing to the Japanese Cultural Grant, MNAClab will be a technical infrastructure, a media laboratory that will preserve, research, produce and promote works and projects, at the intersection of technology, variable media and time-based arts (media arts, video, music, dance, etc).

Our purpose is to provide a space for projects realization (after the selection of the received applications ), from inception to completion. MNAClab's equipment allows in this moment to record and document sound works, to make video shootings that implies different cameras, to document performances, to work with multichannel projections and to operate all the aspects of the digital video postproduction. MNAClab will also facilitate the get-together of mixed teams made of artists, curators, researchers and specialists in related domains.

In the same time, this laboratory is wished to create a fertile environment for intellectual stimulation and a meeting space for different cultural mediators. The workshops, roundtables and exhibitions, in which artists and professionals are to present projects, technologies, software and hardware, artistic and scientific practices, will encourage the collaboration between people with different interests and backgrounds. These events could create a new community in Romania , specialized in technological and scientific disciplines that would also imply the artistic practices and knowledge (and vice versa).

MNAClab

The aim of the program is to support logistically a variety of projects that can be submitted by visual artists, or by composers, choreographers, performers, programmers and technicians. MNAClab will provide assistance for the realization of complete projects (from initial concept to full production) or for the different phases of a project (research of technical and artistic feasibility of a certain idea, creation of software or hardware, testing of completed works).

MNAClab's equipment allows in this moment to record and document sound works, to operate all the aspects of the digital video postproduction, to realize projects that involve HD video cameras, computers or video projectors.

For the projects that involve the research of different aspects in domains such as augmented reality, scientific visualization, audification, haptics, interface and interaction between humans and machines, auralization, etc., MNAClab can initiate the get-together of interdisciplinary teams, or can mediate the connection with the specialists qualified to offer solutions or to realize them.

MNAClab cannot sustain the projects that contain a commercial aspect or have as an objective the financial profits.

The applications can be sent at any time. They will be selected throughout the year. The selection procedure could suppose meetings with the applicants, interviews, feasibility studies and planning of all the project's aspects (concept, technical details, budget, technical and human resources, timeline and identification of external resources). The selection will be directed both to the concept and to the technical aspects of the project, and it can be realized by MNAC's specialists or by its collaborators.

The application must contain:

Letter of intention and the applicant's contact
Project description and materials relevant to the project's understanding (images, sketches, diagrams, algorithms, etc)
Documenting materials: CV, portfolio, press kit, DVD, url with previous works
Information about the next projects
A self-addressed and stamped enveloped in case of materials return

Materials have to be sent by post: Izvor st. 2-4, 050563, Bucharest

or by e-mail: medialab@mnac.ro

You will get an e-mail notification for receiving of the materials. The answer can be expected in maximum two months. We will try to answer in time for the proposals that are bound to a certain sequence of time imposed by the participation in festivals, conferences and exhibitions.

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