January 10 – 19, 2011

1. Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, USA

January 6 - 17, 2011

Palm Springs International Film Festival, CA

Following its U.S. theatrical premiere on January 5, Florin Serban's IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE will travel West to the Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival, in the Awards Buzz: Best Foreign Language Film category. The festival's New Voices/ New Visions program features the U.S. Premiere of another surprising Romanian feature debut: Alexandru Maftei’s HELLO! HOW ARE YOU?, a romantic comedy about a husband and wife who fall in love via the internet, hiding their true identities. Directors Alexandru Maftei and Florin Serban, and actress Dana Voicu (HELLO! HOW ARE YOU?), will join the screenings for Q&A, with the support of RCINY. The important Romanian presence at PSIFF will also benefit from the participation of film critic Mihai Chirilov to this year's FIPRESCI Jury, and of RCINY director Corina Suteu.

January 8 – 22, 2011

MOVING DIALOGUE II: Ana Catalina Gubandru and Valentina De Piante Niculae joins the Bucharest / New York Dance Exchange

Movement Research at Eden 's Expressway

The Bucharest /New York Dance Exchange that kicked off in October 2010 in NYC continues this January with the NYC residence of Romanian dancers and choreographers Ana Catalina Gubandru and Valentina De Piante Niculae. The residence will allow the two artists to take part to Movement Research's MELT Intensive, the renowned NYC series of contemporary dance workshops with internationally recognized choreographers, and to explore the NYC dance scene. Moving Dialogue is an exchange presented by Movement Research, RCINY, National Dance Center Bucharest, Dance Theater Workshop and Gabriela Tudor Foundation, with additional support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, continuing through 2011.

2. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai, Belgium

January 7 – March 28, 2011

L’Afrique rêvée

September 4, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Bob Dylan: the Brazil Series

Experience a whole new aspect of the work of one of the 20th century key cultural personalities. The exhibition presents 40 all-new, never-before-seen paintings created by Bob Dylan specifically for this exhibition. Bob Dylan has been active as a visual artist since the 1960s, or, as he himself puts it: “I have always painted.”

October 16, 2010 – January 30, 2011

VALIE EXPORT. Zeit und Gegenzeit

VALIE EXPORT is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of media art. In over four decades she has achieved a large and consistent oeuvre encompassing performance, action, photography, film, “expanded cinema”, sculpture, text, and media installation.

October 10, 2010 – March 30, 2011

Eugène Leroy

Le Musée des beaux-arts de Tourcoing célèbre les 100 ans de la naissance d’Eugène Leroy avec la présentation de près de 190 chefs-d’oeuvre issus de grandes collections publiques et privées internationales.

December 8, 2010 – January 23, 2011

Ben Johnson: Modern Perspectives

October 13, 2010 – January, 16, 2011

Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

This exhibition presents the finest assembly of Venetian views since the much-celebrated display in Venice in 1967. It features works by Canaletto and all the major practitioners of the genre.

7. Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE

January 7 – April 4, 2011

Abu Dhabi Festival

December 16, 2010 – January 15, 2011

Yigit Altiparmakogullari

Exhibition

October 15, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Picasso

The Kunsthaus Zürich revives the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso had organized a very personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neo-classical phase as well as Surrealist creations, and the homage now on show reconstructs this subjective survey. With 100 works from celebrated international collections it offers an outstanding overview and is on display exclusively in Zurich.

December 30, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Mark Morrisroe

December 9, 2010 – January 20, 2011

7ª Biennale dell’immagine – Chi siamo / About us

Photo

December 31, 2010 – February 1, 2011

David LaChapelle

Photo

November 28, 2010 – January 16, 2011

“On&On”

Evolution, dissolution, memory, fragility and decomposition are some of the themes found in on&on. The curators Flora Fairbairn and Olivier Varenne have chosen 14 artists from different generations and countries to explore their work.

January 15 – March 27, 2011

„Trans(a)gressive Millennium” - Tara (von) Neudorf

“Trans(a)gressive Millennium” represent the first Tara’s (von Neudorf) solo exhibition in the framework of an international museum. Tara (von Neudorf) exhibits in 2009 to MODEM a couple of works in the large international group exhibition “Messiahs”.

Trans(a)gressive Millennium samples the work of Romanian artist Tara (von Neudorf), deemed controversial and often censored due to his scathingly critical attitude to contemporary society. Born in 1974, the artist has over one hundred pictures and objects in the exhibition, which were chiefly inspired by his decade-old interest in conflict-stricken regions of the world. Tara (von Neudorf) incorporates into his work all the contents of people’s behaviours, memories, fantasies or nightmares, reflecting the world as it really is, in an organic and many-coloured way. The accumulation of symbols, the simplification of shapes, the use and reuse of unconventional materials present an abject, parasitical, almost necrophagous aspect of human life.

Trans(a)gressive Millennium is the vision of a sanguine and visceral world in which events are not recorded according to conventional human chronology but rather through the concentration of several centuries’ routine, as if all of it – agony and ecstasy, crime and punishment, faith and blasphemy – existed in one and the same instant. The artist’s works have to do with the concept of transgressive art, a type of art that opposes and violates the notions of morality and sensitivity.