Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score

Exhibition and performance project

13 September – 1 October

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Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – is traveling to Bucharest. It is to be the fourth activation of this exhibition and performance project, which Pierre Bal-Blanc realized for the first time in 2017 as part of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. The Kontakt Collection subsequently initiated a second version of this project entitled “Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score”. Since 2019, this version has been realized multiple times with project partners in Vienna (Austria), Leuven (Belgium), Paris (France), and Lisbon (Portugal). As with its previous iterations, the Bucharest activation focuses on artistic gestures that arose in Eastern Europe during the 1960s and ’70s and resurface in various works held by the Kontakt Collection. These works include pieces by key figures of the Romanian neo-avant-garde. Moreover, works by artists of the 1989 generation who reinvoked the emancipatory potential of their predecessors are likewise featured.

In Bucharest, the artworks’ activation will take place in the European Wing of The National Museum of Art of Romania. This venue offers the perfect environment in which to put the Eastern European neo-avant-garde in contact with Western European schools of painting from Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, and France.

To extend this dialogue between the cultural legacies of the former West and former East, an exhibition of artworks from the Kontakt Collection and other lenders will be shown concurrently at the Omnia Hall. These works represent the starting point for the gestures that will be performed at the National Museum of Art of Romania. The Omnia Hall (Sala Omnia) is part of the former headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that then became the Romanian Senate’s post-1989 home and is now to become the principal venue of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest.

Information about the project is also available HERE.

Curated by: Pierre Bal-Blanc
Choreography: Manuel Pelmuș
With works by: Milan Adamčiak, Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Geta Brătescu, Anna Daučíková, VALIE EXPORT, Stano Filko, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Iveković, Anna Jermolaewa, Július Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Katalin Ladik, Simon Leung, Karel Miler, Paul Neagu, Manuel Pelmuș, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak.
Performances by: Jack Hauser, Maria Mora, Nanci/Cristian Nanulescu, Adriano Vicente

Comissioned by
Kontakt Collection

Coproduced by
The National Center for Dance Bucharest & The National Museum of Art Romania

Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – Bucharest 2023 is accompanied by a guidebook designed by Daniel & Andrew.

Duration, timetable and venues
13 September – 1 October 2023
Visiting hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 2-6pm
Location: Omnia Hall – National Centre for Dance Bucharest (Cristian Popișteanu 3, Bucharest);
National Museum of Art Romania, Calea Victoriei 49-53, Bucharest

Opening
on 13 September 2023, 6-8 pm (both spaces open at 2 pm)

Partners
kontakt, Erste Foundation, Erste Group Bank AG, The National Center for Dance Bucharest, National Museum of Art Romania

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The Flemish and Dutch Schools Room, The European Art Gallery, The National Museum of Art of Romania
Exhibition view, Exposição Coletiva para um Único Corpo – A composição Privada (Lisboa, 2021), Galeria Quadrum, 2021 © Alfredo Brant
Omnia Hall – The National Centre for Dance Bucharest © Cristian Crisbășan

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