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Romanian Association of Contemporary Art (ARAC)
Bucharest, Romania
ARAC (The Romanian Association for Contemporary Art) is a non-profit organization founded in June 2012, in order to produce and promote contemporary art in Romania and abroad. The team of ARAC supports and promotes contemporary Romanian artists by attracting funds in order to ensure financial resources – as part of ARAC’s mission statement. An important objective of ARAC is to facilitate international cultural exchanges with artistic environments from around the world. Through the years, ARAC has organised residency programs (58 Plantelor Residency), exhibitions and published art books while actively investigating and reflecting upon emerging developments in contemporary art and culture.
In the next 2 years, between 2020 – 2022, ARAC will carry out, in partnership with the ARTAK350 residence in Iceland, a large-scale project that aims to expand the local contemporary art scene, through a series of cultural events and artistic residencies. The main topics of discussion set for the project: climate change, economic and war migration, new technologies, the gallery and ARAC aims to develop a dialogue about social developments and their perception at the global level. The exhibitions will be followed by a series of discussions and meetings with guest artists and curators for evenings of video and performance screenings called: “Insomnia Nights“. The 2 year-programme will finalize with the Exhibition of the public, a pilot project for the first time in Romania that further encourages the local public to interact with the gallery portfolio.
Projects
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The extended second. Sea.
Matei Bejenaru
24 photos taken in sequence create the “one second cinematic sequence”.
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Driving Forward While Looking in the Rearview Mirror
Iosif Király
Under this title, several projects about time, memory, and aging are brought together.
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12 Years
Larisa Crunțeanu
Numbers, graphs and statistics as standards for better reporting data, quantifiable and cross-matched within recognizable patterns, stereotypes, and even collective emotional states. Nothing can be alien to us again. We are all success stories, otherwise we would remain untold. In the uncanny valley of crypto bliss and covid charts, no next pandemic will catch us unprepared, unready to speculate economically from the self-confinement of our netflix screens.
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I prefer the old green
Iulian Bisericaru
The call for projects was directed to artists from all artistic disciplines who are associated by the institutions and academies of the European Alliance of Academies.
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