pavilion newsletter
April 05 & 07, 2008

PAVILION & BB3:
Temporary Structures


Live talk about BUCHAREST BIENNALE and its generator, PAVILION magazine.
April 5, 2008 — 17.00 h.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Clubraum (3rd floor)
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin


Public debate on the social involvement of Pavilion magazine
April 7, 2008–19.00
Rumanisches Kulturinstitut “Titu Maiorescu” Berlin
Koenigsallee 20A, Berlin

Participants:
Razvan Ion (RO), Eugen Radescu (RO), Felix Vogel (DE), Christoph Tannert (DE)


Bucharest Biennale – Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art – generated by Pavilion, integrates the city in its curatorial project, proposing both a spatial and temporal, itinerant trajectory to the visitor, which leads to the discovery of hidden geographies.

Despite being in a rather introductory stage, the Bucharest Biennale has already positioned itself internationally, and the third edition is expected to express the growing potential of this type of artistic encounter. BB3 questions cartography and proposes a remapping of contemporary art, in extending the art concept towards discursive manifestations with a sociopolitical impact.

The third edition of BUCHAREST BIENNALE is under Swedish curatorship of Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Johan Sjostrom (May 23 – June 21, 2008).

PAVILION, the magazine, is a structure, which is mainly located in the present, although it sometimes deals with the recent past and is often used as a source of reference for the future – in the future as a reference to the past – and it sometimes presents clairvoyant visions of the future. The mission of a magazine for contemporary art and culture is to analyze the present and to make a statement about what this present could be – the decision of “which present” to display comes with certain responsibility.

It is no longer possible to make a clear distinction between politics and art/aesthetics. Therefore, it could be viewed as one of the main missions of a contemporary magazine to have a clear vision of the present and to make an analysis of the strategies of representation by means of aesthetics, ethics and politics. This undertaking can only be successful, if the magazine/biennale maintains its temporary structure. 

BUCHAREST BIENNALE is proudly sponsored by Pilsner Urquell and has as strategic partner Unicredit Tiriac Bank.

Christoph Tannert
Curator and theoretician, author of numerous exhibtions, director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien and editor of BE magazine.

Felix Vogel
Ttheoretician and curator. He is co-curator of the 100 MINUTES exhibition series, member of the advisory board of PAVILION and contributor for different magazines. Currently, he is living and working in Karlsruhe and Konstanz, Germany.

Razvan Ion
Theoretician and political activist. Co-editor of Pavilion and co-director of the Bucharest Biennale. Razvan Ion has given lectures at University of California, (Berkeley), Headlands Center for the Arts, California, O3one, Belgrade, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, Cluj, Facultatea de Arte, Timisoara, etc. His studies and texts have been published in various magazines. Razvan Ion is living and working in Bucharest.

Eugen Radescu
Curator, theoretician and co-editor of PAVILION. Eugen Radescu has produced art projects and mixed media performance, and has given lectures at the Art Academy in Timisoara. He was appointed curator for the 1st Bucharest Biennale, where he produced the exhibition “identity_factories”. Eugen Radescu writes for various art magazines and is currently working on the curatorial project “How Innocent Is That?” and his book “Moral Relativity and Ethics”. In 2006, he was appointed co-director of the Bucharest Biennale (together with Razvan Ion). Eugen Radescu is living and working in Bucharest.

For more information on the Bucharest Biennale and Pavilion:
www.pavilionmagazine.org
www.bucharestbiennale.org

For more information on the Romanian Cultural Institute in Berlin:
www.rki-berlin.de

Special thanks to: Irina Ionescu, Adriana Popescu, Christoph Tannert, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Johan Sjostrom, all team of ICR Berlin + Bucharest.



February 22 & 26, 2008

PAVILION & BB3:
Temporary Structures

Friday, February 22, 2008, 12.00 h.
La Casa Encendida
Ronda Valencia 2, Madrid

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 17.00 h.
Gulbenkian Museum
Av. de Berna 45A, Lisboa

Live talk about BUCHAREST BIENNALE and its generator, PAVILION magazine.

Participants:
Madrid: Razvan Ion (RO), Eugen Radescu (RO), Kristoffer Ardeña (PH/SP).
Lisbone:  Razvan Ion (RO), Eugen Radescu (RO), Nuño Faria (PT).


Bucharest Biennale – Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art – generated by Pavilion, integrates the city in its curatorial project, proposing both a spatial and temporal, itinerant trajectory to the visitor, which leads to the discovery of hidden geographies.

Despite being in a rather introductory stage, the Bucharest Biennale has already positioned itself internationally, and the third edition is expected to express the growing potential of this type of artistic encounter. BB3 questions cartography and proposes a remapping of contemporary art, in extending the art concept towards discursive manifestations with a sociopolitical impact.
The third edition of BUCHAREST BIENNALE is under Swedish curatorship of Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Johan Sjostrom (May 23 – June 21, 2008).

PAVILION, the magazine, is a structure, which is mainly located in the present, although it sometimes deals with the recent past and is often used as a source of reference for the future – in the future as a reference to the past – and it sometimes presents clairvoyant visions of the future. The mission of a magazine for contemporary art and culture is to analyze the present and to make a statement about what this present could be – the decision of “which present” to display comes with certain responsibility.

It is no longer possible to make a clear distinction between politics and art/aesthetics. Therefore, it could be viewed as one of the main missions of a contemporary magazine to have a clear vision of the present and to make an analysis of the strategies of representation by means of aesthetics, ethics and politics. This undertaking can only be successful, if the magazine/biennale maintains its temporary structure. 

BUCHAREST BIENNALE is proudly sponsored by Pilsner Urquell and has as strategic partner Unicredit Tiriac Bank.

Kristoffer Ardeña
Kristoffer Ardeña (Philippines/1976), currently residing in Madrid, Spain.  In 1997 received a 4 yr full scholarship to pursue his BFA in Painting at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, CA, USA. His artistic practice shifts between mediums – drawing, performative and site specific installations, photography, artist book, public interventions and happenings. He is participant in Bucharest Biennale 3.

Nuño Faria
Curator and theoretician, author of numerous exhibtions arround the world.

Razvan Ion
Theoretician and political activist. Co-editor of Pavilion and co-director of the Bucharest Biennale. Razvan Ion has given lectures at University of California, (Berkeley), Headlands Center for the Arts, California, O3one, Belgrade, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, Cluj, Facultatea de Arte, Timisoara, etc. His studies and texts have been published in various magazines. Razvan Ion is living and working in Bucharest.

Eugen Radescu
Curator, theoretician and co-editor of PAVILION. Eugen Radescu has produced art projects and mixed media performance, and has given lectures at the Art Academy in Timisoara. He was appointed curator for the 1st Bucharest Biennale, where he produced the exhibition “identity_factories”. Eugen Radescu writes for various art magazines and is currently working on the curatorial project “How Innocent Is That?” and his book “Moral Relativity and Ethics”. In 2006, he was appointed co-director of the Bucharest Biennale (together with Razvan Ion). Eugen Radescu is living and working in Bucharest.

For more information on the Bucharest Biennale and Pavilion:
www.pavilionmagazine.org
www.bucharestbiennale.org

For more information on the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid & Lisbone:
http://www.icr.ro/filiale/MADRID
http://www.icr.ro/filiale/LISABONA

Special thanks to: Irina Ionescu, Horia Barna, Rares Cristea, Pablo Espana, Oscar Alonso Molina,  Anca Milu, Virgil Mihaiu, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Johan Sjostrom, all team of ICR Madrid + Bucharest.



February 03, 2008

PAVILION & BB3: Temporary Structures
Public debate

20.00, ICR Paris, rue de l’Exposition

Participants: Razvan Ion (co-director BB3 & co-editor Pavilion), Eugen Radescu (co-director BB3 & co-editor Pavilion), Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (artist, participant BB3), Felix Vogel (curator & theoretician), Jens Emil Sennewald (theoretician) and Alexandra Fau (curator).


Bucharest Biennale – Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art – generated by Pavilion, integrates the city in its curatorial project, proposing both a spatial and temporal, itinerant trajectory to the visitor, which leads to the discovery of hidden geographies.

Despite being in a rather introductory stage, the Bucharest Biennale has already positioned itself internationally, and the third edition is expected to express the growing potential of this type of artistic encounter. BB3 questions cartography and proposes a remapping of contemporary art, in extending the art concept towards discursive manifestations with a sociopolitical impact.

Pavilon is a structure, which is mainly located in the present, although it sometimes deals with the recent past and is often used as a source of reference for the future – in the future as a reference to the past – and it sometimes presents clairvoyant visions of the future. The mission of a magazine for contemporary art and culture is to analyze the present and to make a statement about what this present could be – the decision of “which present” to display comes with certain responsibility.

It is no longer possible to make a clear distinction between politics and art/aesthetics. Therefore, it could be viewed as one of the main missions of a contemporary magazine to have a clear vision of the present and to make an analysis of the strategies of representation by means of aesthetics, ethics and politics. This undertaking can only be successful, if the magazine maintains its temporary structure. 


For more information on the Bucharest Biennale and Pavilion:
www.pavilionmagazine.org
www.bucharestbiennale.org

Special thanks to: Irina Ionescu, Magda Carneci, Sorin Ghergut, Simona Edwards, Mirela Sofronea, Raluca Cimpoiasu and all the team of ICR Paris + Bucuresti.


November 21, 2007, 18.30 h.

EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES – URBAN MYTHS
Lecture by Adrian Majuru

National Center for Dance, Bucharest
Bd. Nicolae Balcescu, nr. 2 (TNB, 4th Floor, Ronda Hall)

History also maps apparently imperceptible dimensions.  These are difficult to detect, deviate and calatogue, since they easily traverse different historical periods, however, once they have penetrated the imperceptible, answers to secular questions may be unveiled. How come we often forget where we started from? How come doing good has a negative connotation? How come “the asses never forigive one of their kind for having risen above media”?  (Stefan Zeletin, “From the land of asses”). The emotional geographies are cartogaphies, whose historical fluctuation traverses many epochs and social hierarchies. They are the most sensitive sensors, through which nature strives for or forces an adaptation in a history of its own!
The lecture of Adrian Majuru deals with an emotional cartography of Bucharest, which in a way anticipates the theme of next year’s BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3: “Being here. Mapping the Contemporary” curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom si Johan Sjostrom.

Adrian Majuru (born 1968, Bucharest) coordinates Folk Art Museum “Dr. Nicolae Minovici” and is one of the initiators behind the founding of the Museum of Urban Anthropology. He is the author of several publications, such as  Bucharest of  the outskirts or the periphery as  a mode of existence (Compania 2003) and Childhood according to romanians (Compania, 2006).



Istoria cartografiaza si dimensiuni aparent insesizabile. Sunt dificil de surprins, decalat si catalogat deoarece traverseaza cu mare usurinta perioade istorice variate, insa odata penetrat insesizabilul, pot fi descoperite raspunsuri la intrebari seculare.
De ce uitam adesea de unde am plecat? De ce a face bine are conotatie negativa? De ce „magarii nu iarta niciodata unuia dintr-ai lor faptul de a se fi ridicat deasupra mediei”? (Stefan Zeletin, “Din tara magarilor”)
Geografiile emotionale sunt cartografieri a caror fluctuaţie istorica traverseaza multe epoci si multe ierarhii sociale. Ele sunt cei mai sensibili senzori prin care natura umana incearca sau forteaza o adaptare in propria-i istorie!
Prelegerea lui Adrian Majuru se doreste o cartografiere emotionala a Bucurestiului anticipind intr-o masura tema BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3 de anul viitor: “Fiind aici. Topografia contemporaneitatii” curatoriata de Jan-Erik Lundstrom si Johan Sjostrom.

Adrian Majuru (n.1968, Bucureşti) coordonează Muzeul de artă populară dr.Nicolae Minovici şi este unul dintre iniţiatorii înfiinţării Muzeului de antropologie urbană. Este autorul mai multor cărţi între care amintim selectiv: Bucureştii mahalalelor sau periferia ca mod de existenţă (Compania 2003) si Copilăria la români (Compania, 2006).

Finantat de/Supported by:

PAVILION | art & culture magazine
www.pavilionmagazine.org

Partener/Partner:

Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti
www.cndb.ro

Parteneri media/Media Partners:

Alternativ.ro
Feeder.ro

October 24 – 25, 2007
PAVILION & BB3: Temporary Structures

Bucharest Biennale – Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art – generated by Pavilion, integrates the city in its curatorial project, proposing both a spatial and temporal, itinerant trajectory to the visitor, which leads to the discovery of hidden geographies.

Despite being in a rather introductory stage, the Bucharest Biennale has already positioned itself internationally, and the third edition is expected to express the growing potential of this type of artistic encounter. BB3 questions cartography and proposes a remapping of contemporary art, in extending the art concept towards discursive manifestations with a sociopolitical impact.

PROGRAM

24 October 2007
ICR Stockholm, Skeppsbron 20, Stockholm

18.00 h
The Magazine as a Temporary Structure
A lecture by Eugen Radescu (RO) on the structure of Pavilion – contemporary art & culture magazine.
The magazine is a structure, which is mainly located in the present, although it sometimes deals with the recent past and is often used as a source of reference for the future – in the future as a reference to the past – and it sometimes presents clairvoyant visions of the future. The mission of a magazine for contemporary art and culture is to analyze the present and to make a statement about what this present could be – the decision of “which present” to display comes with certain responsibility.
It is no longer possible to make a clear distinction between politics and art/aesthetics. Therefore, it could be viewed as one of the main missions of a contemporary magazine to have a clear vision of the present and to make an analysis of the strategies of representation by means of aesthetics, ethics and politics. This undertaking can only be successful, if the magazine maintains its temporary structure. 

19.00h
BB3. Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary
Live talk on the topic of Bucharest Biennale 3.
Participants: Maria Lantz (SE), Jan-Erik Lundstrom (SE), Razvan Ion (RO), Eugen Radescu (RO).
Mapping is, in fact, not a mimetic exercise, a process of analogue imitation by way of reduction and abstraction, a means towards the splendid and refractory lives of copies and reproductions. Maps are, rather, parallel worlds, rich and powerful out of their own specific properties, producers of other spaces and alternative geographies. And exactly because of this: resourceful and productive and beautiful instrumentalities for the contemporary moment, for navigation ‐ or withdrawal? In these strange times, in the midst of the landscapes of terror, fear and loss, of the territories of restricted movement, control and surveillance, of borders which are walls, of globalization with its promises and defeats.
Curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom & Johan Sjostrom, BB3 (23 May – 21 June 2008) attends to the geographical turn in contemporary creativity and current representational practices.
Bucharest Biennale is proudly supported by Pilsner Urquell. 
 
Launch of the latest issue of PAVILION “What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next”.
Open buffet.


26 October 2007, 12.30 PM
Galleri Mejan, Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm (in front of Moderna Museet)

Political Statement of the Biennale  
Open lunch talk with Eugen Radescu (RO) & Razvan Ion (RO)
Participants: students of the Royal University College of Fine Arts and the public.


Maria Lantz
Artist and teacher at the Royal University College of Fine Arts. She is also editor of Motiv magazine. She has exhibited widely and in 2008 will be part of Bucharest Biennale 3.

Jan-Erik Lundström
Born in 1958, Jan Lundström is the director of BildMuseet, Umeå University in Umeå Sweden, a museum of contemporary art and visual culture. He is equally involved in curating, organizing, giving lectures and writing. Previously, he was the curator of the Tirana Biennial, as well as the Thessaloniki Biennial. Furthermore, he is a guest professor at HISK in Antwerp, Belgium and at the Kunstakademie in Oslo, Norway. Jan Lundström is a prolific international lecturer and writer, having contributed to various international symposia and to cultural magazines such as Glänta, European Photography, Paletten and tema celeste. He was appointed curator of Bucharest Biennale 3 together with Johan Sjöstrom.

Razvan Ion
Theoretician and political activist. Co-editor of Pavilion and co-director of the Bucharest Biennale. Razvan Ion has given lectures at University of California, (Berkeley), Headlands Center for the Arts, California, O3one, Belgrade, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, Cluj, Facultatea de Arte, Timisoara, etc. His studies and texts have been published in various magazines. Razvan Ion is living and working in Bucharest.

Eugen Radescu
Curator, theoretician and co-editor of PAVILION. Eugen Radescu has produced art projects and mixed media performance, and has given lectures at the Art Academy in Timisoara. He was appointed curator for the 1st Bucharest Biennale, where he produced the exhibition “identity_factories”. Eugen Radescu writes for various art magazines and is currently working on the curatorial project “How Innocent Is That?” and his book “Moral Relativity and Ethics”. In 2006, he was appointed co-director of the Bucharest Biennale (together with Razvan Ion). Eugen Radescu is living and working in Bucharest.

For more information on the Bucharest Biennale and Pavilion:
www.pavilionmagazine.org
www.bucharestbiennale.org

For more information on the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm (Rumänska Kulturinstitutet):

www.rkis.se

Special thanks to: Dan Shafran, Giorgiana Zachia, Maria Lantz, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Raluca Mihu, Corina Truta and all the team of ICR Stockholm + Bucharest.


August, 07, 2007
Kite flying with local people
performance by Yoshinori Niwa
(
parallel event of Bucharest Biennale 3)

11.00 hours | Bucuresti, Piata Universitatii (in front of National Theatre)
“Kite flying with local people”
Making a flying kite with trash of Bucharest, he try to fly the kite in Bucharest.

12.30 hours | Bucuresti, Centrul National al Dansului (TNB floor 3/4)
“Kites, Catrina, Chickens and more”
Artist talk of Yoshinori Niwa

In Japan, for the cellebration of the New Year in early january, people traditionally fly kites. Usually made out of paper, taking mythical forms such as Octopus, Demon, Animals, etc. My project in Bucharest is to fly kites made out of garbage collected from the streets of the city, i.e. Plastic bags and/or cardboards. This action-art project is a way to collaborate with the people from Bucharest for the making of the kites, and in parallel it constitutes a communicating mixture of Japanese and Romanian culture. Local and global categories are under the scrutiny through this aesthetic action. Trash is part of the culture of any city, and in the garbage one may find the vestiges of international corporations, such as Fast Food chains, mixed with packaging from local producers. The kite will mix them reconstituting the microcosmos of Bucharest. This kite will be the material expression of commodity distribution system, a witness of contemporary global capitalism, and a commentary on the consumer society in Bucharest. The flying kite is untouchable, but it touches us and will make us rethink our socio-political context. The experience of collectively working on a kite with local people may remain in the memory of Bucharest cityscape.

Yoshinori Niwa is a physical performance artist who often incorporates animals, plants, and the environment into his work. Niwa’s aim is to explore how to live with others, especially those of other cultures and social classes. Niwa has performed works in Britain, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. In addition to his performance work, Niwa is curator and festival organizer. Niwa is currently coordinating an international art festival titled “Artist as Activist” in Tokyo.

Supported by:
Ecorom Ambalaje
Whirlpool Romania
National Center for Dance Bucharest
PAVILION | art & culture magazine
National Dance Center Bucharest

Special thanks to Bucharest Municipality.


June 21-24, 2007
CINEMA SUITCASE (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
“DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE”
(parallel event of Bucharest Biennale 3)

Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic Life
Travelling Video Installation: International Collaborative Media Project

Opening: May 21, 19.00
With public debate.

Desant, Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123, Bucharest

Curated by: Marko Stamenkovic (O3ONE, Belgrade).


May 17-21, 2007
Pavilion Meeting Place
(parallel event of Bucharest Biennale 3)

Friday 18 May 2007

20.00 Second launch of PAVILION magazine no. 10- 11 on the topic “What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next” with the exhibition “Holy Damn It”.

Saturday 19 May 2007

17.00 Breakfast At Pavilion
“The Magazine As Temporary Structure”, a lecture by Felix Vogel
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123 (intersection with Turda st.)
18.30 Breakfast At Pavilion
“Political Esthetics”, a lecture by Cosmin Marian
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123 (intersection with Turda st.)

Sunday 20 May 2007

17.00 Breakfast At Pavilion
“Being Here. Mapping the Contemporary”
Public debate with Jan-Erik Lundstrom & Johan Sjostrom, the curators of Bucharest Biennale 3.
Desant. Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123 (intersection with Turda st.)


May 11-25, 2007
Holy Damn It
On the Urgent Need for Radical Answers
50.000 posters

Opening May 11, 19.00, Desant, Bd. Ion Mihalache nr. 123, Bucharest

+launch of Pavilion #10-11

+Public debate. Participants: Dan Perjovschi, Vasile Ernu, Eugen Radescu, Alexandru Balasescu, Cristian Crisbasan, Adriana Zaharia, Andreea Grecu. Moderator: Razvan Ion.

www.holy-damn-it.org
October 31 (Timisoara),
November 2 (Cluj),
November 7 (Iasi),
November 13 (Bucharest), 2006


18.00 “100 Dutch Minutes”
video art from The Netherlands
Curated by Razvan Ion(RO) & Felix Vogel(DE).
For artists, text and dates download the pdf

 

October 19, 2006
18.00 “PAVILION Lecture Series”
“The Fool”
Lecture by Lara Taubman.
Lara Taubman is an art critic and curator based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Venue: American Cultural Center Bucharest, Str. Jean Louis Calderon 7-9.

 

May 26 – June 27, 2006,BUCHAREST BIENNALE 2

CHAOS: THE AGE OF CONFUSION

CURATOR: Zsolt Petrányi

ARTISTS: Erik Binder/Eduard Constantin/János Fodor/El Perro/Rainer Ganahl/Kátia Lombardi/Agent Mc/Sebastian Moldovan/Pedro Motta/
Ioana Nemes/Ilona Németh/Tatsumi Orimoto/Dan Perjovschi/Catalin Rulea/Janek Simon/Áttila Stark/Aya Tzukioka/Wang Qingsong

VENUES: Museum of Geology/Museum of Literature/Botanical Garden/National Dance Center/South Shop/Test Point/Skeateboard Park Herastrau/Audi Art Room

INFO POINT BB2: B-dul Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2, etaj 4, Laptaria lui Enache entrance
www.bucharestbiennale.org

 

May 26, 2006

17.00 “PAVILION Lecture Series”.
Lecture and public debate “Chaos: Flat images in the age of Confusion”.
Keynote speaker: Zsolt Petranyi, curator of 2nd Bucharest Biennale, director of Kunsthalle Budapest.
Participants: artists of the BB2

Venue: Info Point BB2, Bucharest, Bd. Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2, floor 4 (entrance from Laptaria lui Enache).

 

May 27, 2006

17.00 “PAVILION Lecture Series”
 “My misery with Karl Marx – or how I became an artist!”
Lecture and artist talk by Rainer Ganahl.

Rainer Ganahl is a postconceptualist artist, widely exhibited, whose subjects is language, learning systems, media and politics.

Venue: Info Point BB2, Bucharest, Bd. Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2, floor 4 (entrance from Laptaria lui Enache).

 

May 28, 2006

17.00 “PAVILION Lecture Series”.
Lecture and public debate “Queer in Photography”.

Keynote speaker: Marina Grznic, artist, curator, philosopher, new media theoretician based and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Venue: Info Point BB2, Bucharest, Bd. Nicolae Balcescu nr. 2, floor 4 (entrance from Laptaria lui Enache).

 

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