My work `Girl with Tentacles/Flag I after Hokusai" which had been acquired by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020 has been included in a recent exhibition there.
Through the repeated acts of generosity by the Ministry of Culture, in 2020 and 2022 a total of 385 artworks (359 acquired, 26 donated) entered the MNAC Bucharest collection. PULS 21 brings together a selection of works from both sessions and obviously benefits from the gains and conclusions of both episodes. PULS 21 no longer has the dramatic nature of the 2020 exhibition of the first session of acquisitions (...) but introduces us to other challenges.
The spatial layout of the 2020 exhibition underlined the volatile nature of the relationship between the Museum and local artistic production, emphasizing ephemerality, improvisation, and chance. Three years later, in the main space of MNAC, the exhibition showcasing highlights from from the combined recent acquisitions (2020 and 2022) reflects the fact that we (artists, professionals, audiences) participate in the process of building the collection of an institution whose role is (among others) to elaborate the canon of artistic production pertaining to those from/active in post-war Romania.
The exhibition can be visited on the first floor of the museum.
Artists
[selection from the 2020x2022 Acquisitions]
Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Antik, Apparatus 22, Olimpiu Bandalac, Dragoș Bădiță, Ioana Bătrânu, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Biroul de Cercetări Melodramatice, Rudolf Bone, Irina Botea Bucan, Ștefan Botez, Răzvan Botiș, Claudia Brăileanu, Michele Bressan, Liviu Bulea, Cătălin Burcea, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Andrei Chintilă, Anetta Mona Chișa, Ciprian Ciuclea, Radu Comșa, Ion Condiescu, Ștefan Constantinescu, Judit Crăciun, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Giulia Crețulescu, Casia Csehi, Miklósi Dénes, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Arantxa Etcheverria, Florin Ghenade, Irina Gheorghe, Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Teodor Graur, Ion Grigorescu, Dragoș Hanciu, Dorina Horătău, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Lucia Ghegu, Viorica Iacob, Gheorghe Ilea, Pavel Ilie, Lucian Indrei, Adelina Ivan, Péter Jecza, Mihaela Kavdanska & Dilmana Yordanova, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Szabolcs KissPál, Kund Kopacz, Peter Krausz, Stela Lie, Maxim Liulca, Dragoș Lumpan, Maria Mandea, Maria Manolescu, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Ana Maria Micu, Mihai Mihalcea, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alex Mirutziu, Adina Mocanu, Gili Mocanu, Sebastian Moldovan, Patricia Moroșan, Ciprian Mureșan, Ion Aurel Mureșan, Vasile Mureșan (Murivale), Sarah Muscalu, Sorin Neamțu, Dumitru Oboroc, Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Păsat, Szacsva y Pál, Cosmin Paulescu, Romelo Pervolovici, Cătălin-Marius Petrișor-Hereșanu, Eugenia Pop, Delia Popa, Maria Pop Timaru, Laurențiu Ruță Fulger, Marilena Preda-Sânc, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Lea Rasovszky, Bogdan Rața, Cristian Răduță, Șerban Savu, Decebal Scriba, Larisa Sitar, Alexandru Solomon, Ioana Stanca, Liviu Stoicoviciu, Radu Șerban, Patricia Teodorescu, Mircea Tohătan, Iulia Toma, Titu Toncian, Doru Tulcan, Ștefan Ungureanu, Dan Vezentan, Bogdan Vlăduță, Ecaterina Vrana, Mădălina Zaharia & Ryan Ormonde, Mihai Zgondoiu
Watch Exhibition Video here