TIMIȘOARA 2023 continues with an effervescent cultural program with a diverse and complex palette, from sound forays to conceptual art, workshops and installations, concerts, dance workshops, guided tours of Art Encounters exhibitions, Sound Narratives, sculpture, extraordinary musical moments and orchestral collaborations under the Romanian Chamber Orchestra brand, a performing arts festival, book launches, baroque music festivals, contemporary jazz through the JazzX Festival and electro through the Flight Festival – District23 and the UNITER 2023 Awards Gala.
June’s surprises include interventions by artists from many countries, who will continue to perform in a new edition of the Sonic Narratives project, already traditionally organized in Timișoara by the Simultan Association.
The general public is invited to go through an immersive sound and visual program, divided into themes that create opportunities for dialogue with the guest artists, related to fluid, urban concepts, resonances and objects.
As part of the Sound Narratives project, on June 9, Mirian Kolev will present the Sound of Abandonment, a musical performance with field recordings from abandoned places and buildings. The recordings are made in ghost villages in the mountains of Bulgaria, where there are more than 100 villages with a total population of about 1,000 people – a kind of extinction pandemic, but which for nature is a completely natural process, part of its normal cycle. Also on June 10, Makunouchi Bento brings Like a cricket on a green glass, a performance based on field recordings, a sound creation that explores the auditory adventure of a virtual cricket on a bottle, floating on the Bega river as it passes through the city of Timișoara.
Also in June, the cultural center MV Sci-Art opens the exhibition The Sun is Eating With a Thousand Mouths, by the artist Alexandra Boaru, an event that consists of a site-specific long-term performance, where everything takes place in the context of exploring the speculative metamorphosis in that the “human” being becomes the “plant” being.
INDECIS Artist Run Space proposes for June 17 the presentation of the volume of comics by the artist Sorina Vazelina, united and printed through the Atelier project. This project brings together a series of workshops in Timișoara, where craftsmen and artisans persevere in their fields.
Between June 23 and 25, Centrul de Proiecte presents Zestre: Șezătoare, a personal exhibition with the latest works of the artist Larisa Petcuț, who is carrying out a doctoral research through which she wants to revisit and revitalize traditional textile resources and techniques through a feminist and contemporary approach.
From the educational sector, between June 19 and 25 the Training School | REMIX ID, a project organized by Asociația Meta Spațiu, which addresses teaching staff from Timișoara and Timiș county, including workshops supported by REMIX ID lecturers based on the experiences accumulated during the five years of the project.
Also in June is the Semi Silent Sonic Future Residencies program, composed of collective and individual residencies, as well as commissions for artists who travel, live abroad, or have a special relationship with the environment. Semi Silent Sonic Future Residencies explores the specificity of the sound environment in the Romanian rural areas, inviting artists to evaluate and archive these sounds.
Exploring the cultural journeys started in May, the International Festival of Culture and Digital Heritage organized by the Politehnica University of Timișoara and the Banat Museum, continues with augmented reality demonstrations in cultural, historical, scientific, educational fields and installations created for heritage buildings, events intended children and families, in various locations in Timișoara: Experimentarium TM and the Technical Museum of UPT – Science and Tech Playground, in Cazarma U – Digital Culture Space, the hall of the Electro building – Culture Fun Space and in the spaces of the National Museum of Banat – Digital Heritage Dome.
At the invitation of the Triade Foundation, in June you can still visit, in the Jecza Gallery on Calea Martirilor 1989 51/52 in Timișoara, the new personal exhibition of the artist Tincuța Marin, Distant realities/Realități îndepărtate curated by the British curator Mark Gisbourne, which proposes a concept borrowed from surrealism, “guiding us into a world that resides in each of us, where good fights against evil, as in a contemporary fairy tale about the current world”, as Andrei Jecza describes this exhibition.
Also the fifth edition of the Art Encounters Biennale – My Rhino Is Not a Myth. art science fictions, dedicated to the intersection between art, science and fiction, continues until July 16, in 15 exhibition spaces, in multiple locations around the city.
The National Cultural Program “Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” is financed by the Municipality of Timișoara, the Ministry of Culture and the Timiș County Council.
Main partners: Banca Transilvania, Catena, Linde Gaz Romania, Cramele Recaș, Iulius Town, Profi
Official broadcaster: TVR
Mobility partner: Automobile Bavaria
The complete program can be accessed here.
