Remembering Landscape
November 15, 2018 - March 17, 2019
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

 

participating artists: Bogdan Bordeianu, Lucian Bran, Marianna Christofides, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Lukas Einsele, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gherc, Anne Heinlein & Göran Gnaudschun, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Markus Karstieß, Thomas Kellner, Jan Kempenaers, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Ciprian Mure?an, Andreas Mühe, Multiplicity, Alexandra Navratil, Cristian Rusu, Larisa Sitar, Milica Tomi & Sans Souci Collective, Unknown Fields of Division, Danny Veys, Paul Virilio, Kristof Vrancken.

 

Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana
Sector 5
Bucuresti 050563, Romania
www.mnac.ro

 

“The results are not related to disassociation; they do, however, encourage opening up many new possible interpretations in this direction.” Zehnder, Professor Frank Günter, PhD (Übersetzung von:Thomas, Nelly) Farbwelt 135-36 Kreis Düren, 2010,  Düren, page 45

Landscape that remembers

Artists: Bogdan Bordeianu, Lucian Bran, Marianna Christofides, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Lukas Einsele, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gherca, Anne Heinlein & Göran Gnaudschun, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Markus Karstieß, Thomas Kellner, Jan Kempenaers, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Ciprian Murecan, Andreas Mühe, Multiplicity, Alexandra Navratil, Cristian Rusu, Larisa Sitar, Milica Tomic & Sans Souci Collective, Unknown Fields of Division, Danny Veys, Paul Virilio, Kristof Vrancken

Curators: Sandra Demetrescu, Eva Schmidt, Kai Vöckler

Exhibition design: Irina Nem?eanu

A cooperation between: MGK – Musem für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Universität Siegen, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, MNAC Bucure?ti, De Markten Brussels, Sint-Lukasgalerie Brussels, CZKD – Centre for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade

With the support of: ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Forumul Cultural Austriac / Österreichisches Kulturforum Bukarest

Special thanks: Fundatia Plan B Cluj, Galeria Posibila, Thoma Collection, Sprüth Magers

Sponsors: Crama Opritor, Policolor, Grup Transilvae

15.11.2018 – 17.03.2019

Ground floor & Third floor

Landscape is an entity in flux, to be viewed in a cultural perspective, as pictorial and internal architecture of form, and to be understood as a situation in which political and economic histories have left traces behind. Then, the question raised by the exhibition is not “why we require an image of landscape at all?”, but rather “which image of which landscape do we need?”, and “what contribution to it can be made by artistic projects?” When thinking about landscape we tend to conceive of supposedly escapist, dreamy self-forgetfulness, apparently anachronistic notions of home and fatherland, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, to the tourist cliche´s. But how could a contemporary image of landscape be composed, acknowledging change, thematizing destruction, and simultaneously being capable of asking questions about the preconditions to a positioning?

These basic problems represented the start of the project Remembering Landscape, which shifts the focus towards aesthetic pictorial strategies and links them to aspects of the work of remembering and mourning.

Conceived by Eva Schmidt (MGK Siegen) and Kai Vöckler (HfG Offenbach), the project was further developed in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Decontamination (Branislav Dimitrijevic, Lola Joksimovic), MNAC Bucharest (Calin Dan, Sandra Demetrescu), the spaces Sint Lukasgalerie and de Markten din Bruxelles (Leen Engelen, Jan Cools, Nora De Kempeneer).