exhibi-skin
- One-to-one performance
- Tactile choreography
- Recommended age: 14+
- Free admission with registration
November 6, 7, 8
06.11.2026
Friday
11:00
Info
”At exhibi-skin, the visitor was invited to welcome a tactile and sound experience – inspired by a sculpture in the exhibition – on her/his own body. Themes such as form, dynamics, volume, texture, materiality were transferred and translated into the non-visual, tactile and sensory world, and paired with the biological/somatic/imaginative substance of the human body. In this setup, the body is the “stage”, and the emotional texture is the subjective surface. The living cellular structure interacts with the sound and the (referenced) sculpture, with its image, atmosphere, and “story”. exhibi-skin sets out to appropriate the sculptural medium in an experiential approach. This proximity leads to multiple mutations, creating and dissolving spaces and relationships: the contemplative gets lost in the sensorial, the viewer is transformed into a subject/object, the artist-spectator relationship morphs. The addition of the tactile sphere3 to the exhibition framework aspires to a de-ranking of the sense of vision, shifting the attention towards perception and sensory experience. This approach alludes to a precursory stage to aesthetics, to the return to aísthēsis – the sensory experience and perception as a means of gaining knowledge, preceding the visual and the representable.” (Mădălina Dan)
The artwork was conceived and presented for the first time in the “Brâncuși. Sublimation of Form” exhibition at BOZAR, Brussels as part of the Europalia 2019 Arts Festival. For “after SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE after”, new tactile and sound pieces – inspired by the sculptures of artists in the permanent exhibitions housed at the U Barracks: Dan Vezentan, Mircea Cantor, Peter Jecza, Paul Neagu, Andreea Anghel, Alexandra Satmari, Adrian Kiss, Nimbert Ambrus – were designed and performed.
Artist: Mădălina Dan
Sound design: Lala Misosniky, Joëlle Marie McGovern
Participation
Admission is free, subject to registration using the form available HERE.
Schedule
November 6, 7, 8
Daily from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Biography
Mădălina Dan is a choreographer and performer, one of the established creators of contemporary dance in Romania, active on international stages, but also very present and involved in the local choreographic context, in which she generously invests time, energy and knowledge. The artist creates complex contents and sophisticated working methodologies that she shares in contexts that become spaces of communication, being a true explorer and connector between people, collectives and ideas.
She is a graduate of the “Floria Capsali” Choreography High School in Bucharest and of the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Arts in Bucharest – Choreography section; she also graduated from UNATC with a Master in dramatic writing. Between 1998 and 2003 she was a member of the dance company “Oleg Danovski” in Constanta. Between 2014-2016 she studied in Berlin at HZT (Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin) in the SoDA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) master program.
She works through physicality, the body, writing, through coincidences and connections between projects, life and art, through encounters with people and other beings, places, communities and memories. Her projects take place in theaters, galleries, apartments, public spaces, old people’s homes, summercamps.
In 2015 she received the CNDB Award, and in 2016 she is Associate Artist of the National Center for Dance Bucharest. She is involved in a mentoring program within the Dance and Performance Academy, an intensive education and training program in contemporary dance, run at the National Dance Center.
Her work has been presented at Springdance Festival Utrecht, Balkan Dance Platform – Novi Sad, eXplore Dance Festival – Bucharest, Temps d’Images – Cluj, SouthBank Center & Chisenhale Dance Space – London, Fabrik Potsdam, Hebbel am Uffer – Berlin, TanzFabrik-Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Dance Theater Workshop – New York, Firkin Crane-Cork, Alta Theater – Prague, Art Stations Foundation – Poznan, Sophien Saale – Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, Impulse Festival- Mulheim, Lyon Dance Biennale, Schauschpiel Leipzig, Hellerau – Dresden, Bozar- Brussels, Sarralves Museum of Contemporary Art- Porto etc.
Iridescent 2026 partners
Institutional Partners
Ministry of Culture · Aerowaves · Moving Balkans · European Union · Onassis Stegi · Greek Embassy in Bucharest · Hellenic Union of Romania · Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest · MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania · “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater · “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History
Cultural Partners
LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center · /SAC @ Berthelot & Malmaison · Tangaj Collective Association · Cărturești · Cinema Union · Terapie Pentru Mișcare · Petec Association · O2G Association · Theaters
Main Media Partner
Radio Guerrilla
Media Partners
Zile și Nopți · Matca Magazine · Scena Magazine · Arta Magazine · ELLE · TVR Cultural · Munteanu Recomandă · AGERPRES · VisitBucharest · Radio România Cultural · Haute Culture · Liternet · The Institute · Ceașca de Cultură · Daily Magazine · Modernism · Zeppelin · Iscoada · B-Critic · România Pozitivă
