White Night of Art Galleries NAG#3 @ UNAgaleria // Opening: 12 June 2009 // 19h00
Selection of the best undergraduate and graduate works from the National University of Arts Bucharest
Every year, the three main faculties of the university (holding 13 different departments in total) nominate and award a prize to their best graduates. Also, the Grand Prize of the University is awarded to one of the graduates of the MA programme.
The exhibition showcases all nominated works and is open until June 17th.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Open Encounters
23 – 30 May 2009
Opening: Saturday 23 May 19h00
Saturday May 23rd is Open Day at the Bucharest National University.
On this occasion, we have the pleasure to invite you to “Open Encounters”, a dialogue between students from the Graphic Design and Painting Departments curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Ioana Mandeal, students at the Art History Department who challenged their colleagues to step away from the studio and into the gallery.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Life after Life Wojciech Wilczyk 27.03 - 16.04.2009
Opening: Friday 27 March 18h00
curator: Adam Mazur (Warsow Zamek Ujazdowski Center of Contemporary Art).
Car fetishes, former owners cannot abandon, transform into side roads monuments, poetic collages, poor relatives of stylized advertisements of motor business, completely magical objects...
supported by The Polish Cultural Institute in Bucharest
Friday, March 13, 2009
Evolution and Strategies of Italian Fashion System Monday 16 March 2009 18h00 Presented by Fabrizio Tovaglieri (Istituto Marangoni)
The lecture aims to introduce the main features of the Italian fashion system. More precisely, the presentation will stress the value of the Italian fashion industry in terms of total turnover, employment rate and commercial balance through a snapshot of some key economic data. In order to understand the origins of Italian Fashion System, a look will be also shed towards the time of French haute couture and to some French styling campaigns from the 40’s and 50’s.The focus will be then shifted to some success factors of the Italian fashion system and, namely, the supply chain, the diversified structure of industrial fashion groups, the industry clusters, creativity and the unique combination of image and communication, i.e. the role of styling. Some concluding remarks on careers in fashion will be made at the end of the presentation. Summary: Part 1 – The Italian Fashion System, key economic data Part 2 – The time of French fashion Part 3 – From French Haute couture to Italian “prêt-à-porter” Part 3.1 – The role of Italian textile companies and fashion designers Part 3.2 – Main Italian fashion designers Part 4 – Features of Italian fashion industry Part 4.1 – The supply chain Part 4.2 – Fashion industrial groups Part 4.3 – Industry Clusters (Business clusters and Geographic Clusters) Part 4.4 – Creativity Part 4.5 – The value of image and communication: Styling Part 4.6 – Styling projects Part 5 – Careers in the Fashion System Part 6 – Questions and Answers session
Curators: Ann Albritton (Ringling College of Art and Design, FL) Elaine O’Brien (Sacramento State University, CA) Carmen Iovitu (MNAC, Bucuresti), Mirela Ivanciu (Universitatea Nationala de Arte, Bucuresti)
TRACES: CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN ART presents sixteen young Romanian artists who—sometimes straightforwardly and often ironically—explore issues of culture as well as gender through a variety of work: photography, videos, hand sewn projects, small objects, and paintings.
The exhibition first traveled to CIAC Gallery in Pont Aven, France, July 12 to August 14, 2008; to the Robert Else Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA from Sept. 2 to Oct. 15, 2008; and to the Selby Gallery, Sarasota, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 16, 2008
Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday 21 / 11 / 08 11h00
Collecting as an activity between Art and Antropology
by Dr. Laszlo Beke
Laszlo Beke is historian and critic of art living and working in Budapest, director of the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
WRO Art Center presentation and screening
Tuesday 18/11/08 18h00
supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in Bucharest
The new WRO Art Center (Centrum Sztuki WRO), located at Plac Teatralny 5, Wrocław, arose from the experience and activity of the WRO Foundation Media Art Center, founded in 1989, the only independent organization in Poland specializing in contemporary art, media and technology. The WRO Art Center features regular presentations of contemporary art intertwined with the development of communications tools and processes.
The WRO Art Center offers exhibitions, showings, concerts, screenings, lectures, workshops and publications featuring both Polish and international art. It is designed for artists, curators, critics and art theoreticians as well as for the active and creative culture-oriented public, while original projects cultivating creativity encourage children and teenagers to get familiar with media art. The Center’s aims are to support artistic and educational activities, and to organize international cultural and intellectual exchanges by expanding the WRO collection, making it accessible, collaborating with renowned international art galleries and institutions and through a program of residencies for artists and curators. The WRO Art Center’s gallery, laboratory, archives, reading room and offices are housed in the renovated heritage interiors in the loft of the former Otto Stiebler coffee-roasting plant at the corner of Wrocław’s Plac Teatralny and Widok Street. The specially designed Widok Street façade and entryway also serves as a projection screen in the public space. The Center is open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday. The WRO Art Center is funded by the City of Wrocław and is based on the agreement between the WRO Foundation and the Wrocław municipal authorities.
The presentation will be followed by the screening of several video works from the centre’s archive:
1.Aki Nakazawa, Negai wo hiku, Japan / Germany 2006, 4:35 (premiul I)
2.Pascual Sisto, 28 Years in the Implicate Order, USA 2005 (premiul II)
3.Stadtmusik, Mauerpark, Austria 2007, 17:25 (menţiune specială)
UNAgaleria (10 G-ral Budisteanu, Bucharest)is the exhibiting space of the Bucharest National University of Arts, dedicated to the organisation of events – exhibitions, seminars, workshops, round tables, interdisciplinary projects – that promote the university and foster creativity and innovation in the academic curriculum as well as the other activities of students and professors.
UNAgaleria is run by a curatorial board that proposes, selects and coordinates the activities taking place in this venue. The board members have different backgrounds and specific responsibilities in organising and coordinating gallery events.
The yearly programme of the gallery is launched through semestrial calls for projects; proposals come from students and professors from the university as well as from guest artists and curators.
