On Thursday, June 30, starting at 7.00 p.m., the Art Encounters Foundation will organize at the Projects Center in Timisoara a meeting with ADRIAN NOTZ, the curator of the fifth edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, scheduled next year between May 19 and July 16.
Adrian Notz, the future curator of the central exhibitions at the AE 2023 Biennial, will provide more details about his professional experience and the curatorial approach proposed for the 2023 edition of the Art Encounters Biennial.
Adrian Notz (b. 1977 in Zurich) is a well-known independent curator who has organized numerous exhibitions, events, and actions together with international artists, activists, and thinkers. From 2012-2019 he was a director at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, the birthplace of Dadaism. From 2010-2015 he was the director of the Department of Fine Arts at the St. Gallen School of Design. He is currently working at the Artificial Intelligence Centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the Tichy Ocean Foundation.
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The Art Encounters Biennial is one of the main events within the cultural program Timisoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture, supported by the Municipality of Timisoara through the Project Center.
“In the center of curatorial research and new productions of works of art, with which the Biennale has already accustomed the public, will be the desire to involve art, science, and technology, as a natural response to the current context of Timisoara, to its ambitions to become an innovative technology hub and to outline a new avant-garde of artistic thinking. Also, the aggression of the war in Ukraine requires an approach that goes beyond polarizing attitudes and produces a relevant, appropriate and necessary biennial model.
The exhibitions will outline the positive role that art and culture can play in the face of the reality of war, socio-economic tensions, and the instability caused by the pandemic. “A biennial of contemporary art and the Timișoara – European Capital of Culture program can be a place of reflection and, at the same time, a form of protest. Of course, the effects of art and culture are not immediate. But art can be a way not only to imagine but also to try to create a better reality and society,” says curator Adrian Notz.” (excerpted from the press release)
Organized in 2015, the Art Encounters Biennial has become a landmark event for contemporary art in Romania due to the quality of the exhibitions and the invited curators, a success that is due to a number of over 450 international, regional and Romanian artists who participated, but also to the expansion of the partnerships and collaborations that the Art Encounters Foundation has established in its 7 years of activity.
The Art Encounters Biennial is an event located at the intersection of an experimental art festival and a contemporary art biennial, focused on a curatorial research program that encourages dialogue with the local historical heritage and the socio-cultural environment of Timisoara. The mission of the Biennale is to become a meeting point for artists, communities, institutions, and ideas.
Access to the event is free of charge.
