McCannNightShift | NAG #4

Come see 5 of Romania’s finest street artists and illustrators of the moment – Aitch, Irlo, Noper, Saddo and Sinboy – work the Night Shift at McCann Erickson Pop-Up Gallery. We put in hard hours during the day; they take over during the night.

The result is nocturnal, dreamy, light and magical, which borders dark, violent, nightmarish and straight-up horror. Showcasing some of their work on paper, carton and wood, drawing directly on the walls of the Gallery, experimenting with characters and symbols and playing with lighting of the space, the artists will go for a unique atmosphere all throughout the show.”

McCann Erickson Pop-Up Gallery pops up for two weeks only, June 11-25. On the opening night of June 11 we are officially one of destinations inside an all-in-all exciting night for art.  Expect: a live performance by all 5 artists, special prices for special pieces, good beats, vibrant crowd, give-aways and refreshments as they last. Night Shift as it should be.

Joakim @ Chestionabil Joint #6

Event: Very Sweet Tafel Salz Workshop + 2 Years of Electrocutare.ro Party @ Front (The ARK)

Very Sweet Tafel Salz / Workshop
14-18 Dec @ FRONT/ The Ark Bucharest
Ioana & Ruxandra Muszinkiewicz, Sorin Moisescu,
Diana Ionescu, MaiBineNU, Rok, coordinated by Andra Iachim.

+ 2 Years of Electrocutare.ro Party
18 Dec, 22h00 @ FRONT / The Ark Bucharest
Logan, Lucas & Emap, Eusebio, Mr. Disko, Toni

100 to watch

100 to watch – Directory of Contemporary Romanian Artists is launched today, October 20th in Berlin, at the Plan B Gallery. Besides the album you can check the online version.

“The creative scene in Romania is one of the most vibrant and exciting in Europe. This directory was put together to illustrate what makes it so special. A listing of 100 of the most talented artists in Romania today, from conceptual art to contemporary dance, literature and theatre to music and fashion, it’s a snapshot of an entire generation – the Romanian New Wave. Every single artist between these pages is part of the reason why Romania is such an exciting place to be right now. It’s indicative of just how much talent there is in the Romanian New Wave.”

Anim’est 2009

Anim’est 2009 is an International Animated Film Festival competition. The festival is open to short and feature film, video clip and advertising, student film & Romanian shorts and it comprises five official categories and a non-competitive one. During the festival, there will also be seminars, workshops, forums and retrospectives.

Later edit: Anim'Est Shakes Your World!

Rokolectiv ‘09

ROKOLECTIV ‘09
FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS

The fourth edition of Rokolectiv - festival for electronic music and related arts - kicks off between 10th and 12th of April 2009. Over 20 artists will participate with concerts, installations, and special events.

The first two days of the festival are hosted by a new spectacular venue - Bucharest’s creative commodities exchange The Ark, a neonesque industrial building reconverted into space for contemporary culture. As usual, MNAC supports the last day of the festival.

Rokolectiv presents outstanding live acts of the moment, most of them a Bucharest premiere, starting with the rare appearance of the Norwegian dizzying disco magician Lindstrom, followed by Canadian house experimentalist Frivolous and Berlin’s biggest deepologist Prosumer, in an obsessively dancing Saturday night.

On top of everything, to spice up the magic during the night program - some floral and animal interactivity, and a bit of playfulness with Lego sounds…

Friday is a dubstep goes techno night with special appearances from Shackleton, 2562 and Deadbeat, under the close supervision of the Romanian producer of the moment TRG with a mind-blowing DJ set.

Fennesz brings on Sunday some of the Black Sea’s waves to MNAC, following the recent release of his new album. An eclectic night completed by a display of Optical Machines, a grand finale combustion by the noisiest neo-metal funksters MoHa, and a spacecraft managed by half of Zombie Zombie - Etienne Jaumet - and the Romanian duo Minus si Ion, in a quest for a deeper sound.

Friday 10.04 / The Ark / 22h00
2562 (NL)
Larytta (CH)
Shackleton (UK)
Deadbeat (CA)
TRG (RO)

Saturday 11.04 / The Ark / 22h00
Legoloop(CH)
Bogdan (RO)
Lindstrom (NO)
Frivolous (CA)
Prosumer (DE)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)

Sunday 12.04 / MNAC / 19h30
Optical Machines (NL)
Fennesz presents ‘Black Sea'(AT)
Etienne Jaumet (FR)
Minus si Ion (RO)
MoHa (NL)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)

Anim'est 2008

Anim’est 2008 | 3 - 12 Oct
Bucharest - Scala, Elvira Popescu

Anim’est 2008 is an International Animated Film Festival competition open to short and feature film, video clip and advertising, student film & Romanian shorts and it comprises five official categories and a non-competitive one. During the festival, there will also be seminars, workshops, forums and retrospectives.

The special guest of the Festival is the twice nominated for an Oscar independent animator Bill Plympton who will present to the Romanian audience the premiere of his latest feature film - Idiots and Angles. Born in 1946 in Portland, Plympton became one of the best known names in the history of animation thanks to his first nomination for an Oscar (for best animated short, in 1988) for his famous short Your Face (1987). This was the beginning of a successful career and the admitance ticket to the top league of world animators where he distinguished himself through his distinct style.

Minus & Vali Chincisan @ AVion 10

Minus & Vali Chincisan @ AVion 10
CASTOFON performance live
4 Jun / 20:00 @ Orange Concept Store

Minus: “I’ve been making tracks for a few years, trying to focus on the emotional aspect of music rather than its technical side. The style ranges from 8-bit and oldschool-electro to dub, downtempo and ambiental music with vague references to maths, fuzzy childhood memories and old video games."

noaptea albă a galeriilor #2

NAG#2 / Bucharest
23.05 2008 / 18h00-04h00 / more than 70 artists!

Omagiu XXX | Out Now!

Rokolectiv 2008 | Playground

11 apr / Session / 22h00
An on Bast [PL]
Pantha du Prince [DE]
Dat Politics [FR]
Underground Resistance [US]
The Model [RO]
[After] Dandy Jack & Sonja Moonear [CH/ CL]
Vali Chincisan / SKVJS [RO] / Suso33 [ES]

12 apr / Session / 22h00
Tom Wilson [RO]
Kalabrese pres. The Rumpelorchestra [CH]
Mungolian Jet Set [NO]
Elektrofant [NO]
Bjorn Torske [NO]
Dreamrec [RO]
[After] Magda [PL] [Sunrise event / not included]

13 apr / MNAC / 18h30
Mira Calix [UK]
Sillyconductor [RO]
Planningtorock [UK]
Khan of Finland [DE]
Daedelus [US]
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam [FR]

Bucharest Biennale 3 | Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art
23.05 -28.06 2008

'BB3 attends to the geographical turn in contemporary creativity and currrent representational practices. Promoting cartographic literacy, imagining the map as a problematic and unpredicatable and productive and liberating instrument, BB3 invites mapmakers, cartographers, navigators, mapreaders, guides, maptravelers, mapprogrammers, mapdevotees, mapdestroyers of all kinds. Join us in mapping our moment, join us in being exactly here, which, as Joyce had it, is the same as being everywhere. And nowhere.'

Artists: Kristoffer Ardena (ES/PH), Lauri Astala (FI), Milena Bonilla (CO), Bureau D'Etudes (FR), Counter-Cartographies Collective (USA), Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (FR), Lukas Einsele (DE), Buckminster Fuller (USA), Atlas Linguarum Europae (EUR), Eduard Freudmann & Can Gülcü (A), Lucia Ganieva (RU/NL), Frances Goodman (ZA), Hackitectura (ES), Mona Hatoum (PS/LB/GB), Brian Holmes (GB), Ashley Hunt (USA), Karlo-Andrei Ibarra (PR), Johan Järnestad (SE), Emma Kay (GB), Maria Lantz (SE), Cezar Lazarescu (RO), Le Monde Diplomatique (FR), Dinu Li (GB/HN), Armin Linke (DE), Mikael Lundberg (S), Bertien van Manen (NL), Adrian Matei (RO), Christina McPhee (USA), Randa Mirza (LB), Oliver Musovik (MK), Josh On (USA), Yoko Ono (USA), Lia Perjovschi (RO), Arno Peters (DE), Sabine Rethore (FR), Jan Svenungsson (SE/DE), Adriana Varejao (BR), Karina Nimmerfall (A), Arjen Van Susteren (NL).

Scanner @ Avion07

Scanner (UK) - AV projects + screening + Q&A
AVmotional @ Orange Concept Store / 12 dec / 19:00

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Nicolae Comanescu | dust 2 dust

"Art seems to employ a myriad of textures and materials – and even no materials at all – in order to express itself. Yet there is something which has been used from the very start of this thing called art, when our cave-dwelling ancestors began leaving their spiritual mark on this world. I am talking about dust, about dirt, earth, humus. The Neolithic "artist" imprinted his thought firstly and foremost by using charcoal and various types of dust, preferably of the reddish variety. The results are stunning even nowadays, after millennia and millennia. And they are born out of one of the most elemental materials available to humankind, something that just lies around in every corner and, indeed, everywhere one cares to look. [...] The art with dust I would like to talk about is the sort of art that is really connected to people. We can add to this small but nevertheless illustrious gallery our own Nicolae Comanescu, the painter of Romanian disconnected realities."

"The "Dust 2.0" series goes one step further in showing us the darker, even more serious side of Nicolae Comanescu, and this is more than likely aided by restricting the chromatics to various shades of dust. But we have to observe another preoccupation in the artist's mid. These new works depicting the neighbourhood of Berceni literally convey the life of the artist, and I would make so bold as to compare them to Utrillo's Montmartre paintings. What we see is the artist's immediate environment, the places where he spends a great deal of his time, and where some of inspiration comes from.[...] I think that Nicolae is the first Romanian artist to treat this underrated medium with the respect it deserves. One of the basest things in life, dirt, has been elevated to the rank of artistic endeavour. The metaphor-lover would go on to say that by this act, the artist has emphasised the transitoriness of life, and that all we are is dust in the wind and from dust we come and to dust we shall return, or even that life is dirt." (by Mihai Risnoveanu)

Galeria 26 / OTA
Opening: 28 Nov / 19.30

Bucharest | (re)lansare Atelier35

Atelier35 se (re)lanseaza vineri, 9 noiembrie, 2007, incepand cu 19.30, prin evenimentul “Atelier 35 despre Atelier 35”. Prin acest eveniment, Atelier 35 îsi propune sa se (re)lanseze ca un spatiu destinat tinerilor(pâna în 35 de ani), ce promoveaza cercetarea artistica experimentala, new media si comunicarea între medii. Din program: expozitie de materiale audio-vizuale documentare despre ce a insemnat Atelier35 de la infiintare(1970) pana in prezent, turta dulce si visinata. Afterparty: 20.30 – 00.00.

Atelier 35 / Strada Selari 13

camera80@carturesti

Kid606 @ Arenele Romane

KID606 aka Miguel Depedro, born 1979 in Venezuela and raised in California, dropped out of school and life to make music and run around the world bringing his uniquely reckless fucked up and beautiful music to our fucked up and beautiful world (one dance party at a time). Inspired by the best of electronica, punk, jungle, hiphop, Bass, dancehall and techno, kid606 fuses it all together with a love of pop culture that andy warhol would approve. Critically acclaimed releases (both legal and illegal) on ipecac, mille plateaux, fatcat, 555, his own tigerbeat6 label as well as remixes for artists as disparate as depeche mode, the locust, peaches, and super furry animals have painted a clear portrait of kid606 as a inspired, angry and iconoclastic artist more concerned with emotional content then popularity and unwilling to be pigeonholed in any vacant scene or soulless musical genre. Open your ears and shout along, or close your eyes and dance but always expect the unexpected.

N0-Domain @ AVion_04 / AVmotional

AVion_04 / AVmotional @ Orange Concept Store / 28 sept / 19:00
N0-Domain / Barcelona /motion graphics, visuals, audio / presentation / screening / Q&A

„No-Domain is an audiovisual design studio based in Barcelona. Within our clients we can list Nike, Heineken, Adidas, Seat, Fox, Nestle, Levi's, Red, United Nations, Euroleague, VH-1, Mtv and many more. We combine our animation and broadcast design work with a long list of live visual performances for festivals such as Sónar (Barcelona, Guadalajara, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires), Sperm (Praga), Bitfim (Hamburgo), Mapping (Geneva), Design Mai (Berlin) Full Pull (Malmö); where we have had the opportunity to perform for artists including Prefuse73, Kid Koala, Four Tet, Dave Clarke, Dj Krush, James Murphy, Edan, Patrick Wolf, Buck65, Matthew Herbert Lichee Lassy, Chris Clark, Daedelus and Birdy Nam Nam among others. Our work may be defined as graphic design mixed with video art, mixed with illustration, mixed with animation, mixed with experimentation, mixed with advertising, mixed with large doses of pop, lo-fi, hi-fi and improvisation."

AVion - the AVmotional series of events for professionals and AV addicts: AVmotional Platform undertook a challenge from the start: bringing together visual artists who love music and experimentation and electronic music performers who have a thingfor experiments and video, all on an uncensored playground. Keeping the freshness and effervescence of the interaction between representatives of different media is vital. So is the continuing experience exchange between Romanian and international artists, with its substantial influence over the contemporary AV and cross-media art scene. Thus, in time, a dynamic network of professionals will emerge and act in different zones of art and culture and will facilitate the accomplishment of new cross-media, interdisciplinary projects and long-term AV cooperation.

AVion - innovative, experimental & non-commercial: meetings and free discussions between professionals / screenings and AV Project presentations, Romanian or from abroad / networking & good vibe /AV leaders of the international scene, invited for workshops, presentations, live concerts.

anim'est 07 | International Animation Film Festival, 2nd edition

animest 07 / 5-16 October / Bucharest

What is anim’est? Its aim is that of facilitating contact with artistic creations, with major animation schools all over the world, with imagination and experiment put into images, colour and sound. It is not a multimedia festival, it is not a display of what computers can do, it is a praise of art, imagination and skill.

Kompakt Showcase | Reinhard Voight, DJ Koze & Wighnomy Brothers in Bucharest

28 sept / 22h 00 / Casa de Cultura a Studentilor Preoteasa
Reinhard Voight, DJ Koze & Wighnomy Brothers