CURATOR:

OLIVIA NIȚIȘ

ARTISTS:

CĂTĂLIN BURCEA
COSMIN HAIAȘ
DECEBAL SCRIBA
DELIA POPA
MATEI BEJENARU
VALERIU ȘCHIAU
ZOIȚA (DELIA CĂLINESCU)

The exhibition can be visited at the Timișoara Garrison Command, in Libertății Square.

Europa Wonderland is a project that questions issues related to the European context, identity and politics through works that openly engage in the process of probing the discourses of power, placing under the critical lens the legitimacy of a united Europe. Europe is the land of wonder, the realm of questions, of searches, a concrete reality and at the same time a socio-political utopia. Artists are attentive to current socio-political phenomena, filter and critically debate the dynamics of today’s world and also propose new solutions for artistic approach relying, in complicated economic and cultural moments, on artistic production, but also on research and dialogue. Europe is not defined as the EU but as an extended geographical region.

Artists question the meanings of European identity, discuss the needs and expectations of European citizenship. Europa Wonderland is a space for search, research, query, a space for identifying tools through which citizens can reach forms of solidarity, partnership, empathy and stability.

CURATORS:

OLIVIA NIȚIȘ

DANA SARMEȘ

ARTIȘTI:

Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic
Andreea Cioară
Ardan Özmenoğlu
Ciprian Homorodean
Claudiu Cobilanschi
Elana Katz
Mălina Moncea
Renée Renard
Sandra Sterle
Sarah Muscalu
Sorin Oncu
Véronique Sapin
Xenofon Sachinis

The exhibition can be visited at the Timișoara Garrison Command, in Libertății Square.

Body Space: Citizenship and Territories investigates the role of social interaction and its limitation, personal space, extrapersonal and interpersonal space, the social value of cognitive and emotional processing of space, as well as the extent and transgression of racial, sexual, ideological and class boundaries. The concept of space in socio-political terms meets with psychology and scientific knowledge in order to create a landscape with multiple perspectives on issues apparently different but actually interconnected. Important questions and topics about space and our citizen bodies, the ubiquity of the European space, migration, the European diaspora, the future European identity are underlined in a project that calls into question the relationship between emotional space and political space, center and periphery, the new nomadism, the life of the expat community as well as the meanings of Dinstancing, Citizenship and Territory . The mission of the project is to engage artists and the public in a meaningful dialogue around the major topics of today’s society – BORDER, TERRITORY, CITIZENSHIP as well as to the current concept of physical distancing (previously named social distancing).

The spaces where the exhibition will be installed are in the Garrison Building, recently returned by the Romanian Army to the Ministry of Culture, as the future space of the Museum of the Romanian Revolution and the related streets. The Garrison Building is a symbolic building for Timisoara. This is the first major contemporary art project in this building. Our intention is also to draw attention to the oldest baroque building in Timisoara and to the extraordinary potential that this space has. The fortress of Timișoara and the entire Banat, transformed, after the Peace of Passarowitz, into the imperial province of the Habsburg House, depended directly in the first decades on the Aulic War Council and the Chamber of the Court in Vienna. In those years, many military buildings were built, the city of Timisoara being considered, along with Belgrade, as having a strategic role of great importance for the defense of Central Europe. The Garrison or the House of Governor Mercy is the first baroque construction în Timișoara în 1727.