Biennial of Young Artists, 4th edition, 2010

The Meta Cultural Foundation in partnership with Goethe-Institut Bukarest and the Romanian Cultural Institute organizes in Bucharest, October 8th – November 7th, 2010, the fourth edition of the Biennial of Young Artists. The exhibition will be held at the Stirbei Palace on Calea Victoriei 107.

Under the heading Police the Police, the 2010 edition tests the tension between two notions of concern: surveillance and sousveillance. The curator of this edition is the historian and art critic, Mica Gherghescu:

‘For some time, the contemporary art space has been under the need for direct, radical and possibly politically effective action in the cultural field. It is a need stated either through uncompromising cultural activism, theoretical and aesthetic remodeling or through exuberant inventions in the artistic practice. In an event dedicated to “young artists” (in spirit and not in the conventional boundaries of age) the exhibit tests our vicious and creative relations with the images of authority, with its intensely visible or vaguely invisible representations. Sousveillance, the key concept of this edition, integrates, therefore, the data of a deliberate imaginative camouflage’. (Mica Gherghescu, art critic and historian)

The events will gather in Bucharest artists and theoreticians from Germany, France, Austria, UK, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Albania, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Serbia, Slovenia, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, India and the United States.

The exhibition will explore various forms of art (photography, painting, object, new media), in full agreement with the idea of collaboration between the visual arts and science.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on October 8, and will be preceded by the theoretical symposium ‘Catcher in the Eye. On inconvenient creative practices, devices and strategies of sousveillance’. The participants in the symposium are Iara Boubnova (Bulgaria), Adrian Guta (Romania), Le Peuple qui manque – Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff (France), Thomas Y. Levin (USA), Marisa Olson (USA / Germany), Marta Smolinska-Byczuk (Poland) and Jason Waite (USA/UK).

The workshop Agents et provocateurs, as well as the portfolio review, will be held on October 9.

Project partners: Goethe-Institut Bukarest, Romanian Cultural Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, French Embassy in Bucharest, French Institute, Embassy of the Netherlands in Bucharest, Czech Centre, British Council, Polish Centre, Hungarian Cultural Centre.

The Biennial of Young Artists seeks to promote young creation and a better representation of Romanian contemporary art in the local and international context.

This project is supported by the European Union National Institutes for Culture, EUNIC.

Contact person:

Cristina Iurea
Project Assistant
Phone:+ 4 0771 602 769
+ 4 0771 602 769
E-mail: metacult@gmail.com
Web: www.metacult.ro