Exihibitions

In conjunction with the Swiss Museum of Architecture we will be presenting the exhibition «Remix, fragments of a country», as shown at the Biennale in Venice, 2006. The territory of Rumania, previously closed off, has not developed into an open area as far as inhabited spaces are concerned; it is more of a no-man's land of private and hermetic units. How can these disparate habitats be connected with each other? Will this happen before the last natural and historical remains have disappeared? The exhibition pursues this question playfully and documents the developments of the last 17 years in comparison to Rumania's past.

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Lia Perjovschi, who works as a conceptual and socially-critical artist in Bucharest, will present her project «Contemporary Art Archive / Centre for Art Analysis 1990–2007» in the Kunsthalle Basel. This project, which is in constant progress, consists of an archive with texts, objects, fi lms and pictures from the international and Rumanian art scene. CAA/CAA functions, with its open and changing form, as a space for debate and criticism as well and focuses a precise analysis of both contemporary artistic activity and its socio-political context.

Dan Perjovschi (*1961) has achieved international recognition with drawings that he makes directly on the walls of museums and art institutions with waterproof marker pens (for example at the MOMA in New York, 2007; Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, 2006). His cartoon-like pictures comment on the social-political events of his surroundings, as well as current world events, with biting humour and irony. In addition to his artistic activities, Perjovschi has been working since 1991 as a cartoonist and columnist for the cultural magazine «Revista 22» in Bucharest. He will be creating a new work for the Kunsthalle Basel, on the rear wall of building, entitled «I Am Not Exotic – I Am Exhausted».