05 Feb 2014

Gergő Horváth (RO/HU) appointed curator for Bucharest Biennale 6

Gergő Horváth (RO/HU)
appointed curator for Bucharest Biennale 6
'Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding'

BUCHAREST BIENNALE 6 - Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art - will take place between May 23 - July 24, 2014 and will be curated by Gergő Horváth.

Bucharest Biennale promotes awareness and dissemination of the culture, particularly in the fields of the arts, by means of exchanges and cultural cooperation within Europe and beyond, at the same time developing strategies that would encourage mutual understanding and offer insights from different perspectives.

Bucharest Biennale is interested in the connection between creative practice and social development, and between the local, European and global contexts.

Bucharest Biennale wishes to operate in a way that demonstrates sensitivity and competence in dealing with the 'others' as the 'alter' from different cultural backgrounds.

Concept and Participants

Gergő Horváth  chose as the theme for the 6th edition of the biennial Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding, which attempts to question the possible tacit relations between fear and understanding that evade governance, in the everyday life and beyond it. Fear as an epistemic method and fear of understanding as a political strategy.

The curators selected representative participants for the projection of the theme, such as Erwin Wurm (AT), Chiara Fumai (IT), János Sugár (HU), Adrian Dan (RO), Dan Beudean (RO), Matei Arnăutu (RO), Zoltán Béla (RO) and many more. The final list of participants will be made public at the end of March 2014.

Venues

The venues selected include the Institute for Political Research, The Romanian Peasant Museum, Pavilion and Combinatul Fondului Plastic. 'Faur' Factory will be serve as the venue for various parallel events.

By appointing curators with a practice based on the social and educational areas, BUCHAREST BIENNALE 6 will be drawing theoretical and artistic lines uniting the involvement mechanisms generated lately in Bucharest and will try to engage a large number of participants from transdiciplinary areas, as well as gather a number of parallel events organized in collaboration with representative institutions.

Curators

Gergő Horváth (b. 1993) is an artist, with a special interest in curatorial activity and cultural management. He studied music and is presently studying art with a special interest in makeshift politics and DIY social structures. Since 2012, he collaborated in various instances with Pavilion. Recently he was exhibited in the 'Affluence of the working class from differentiation to collectivism' and curated '100 Hungarian Minutes'. He published several texts in different magazines. Currently he works and lives in Romania and is a Hungarian citizen.

Parallel events schedule

During the opening days and afterwards, there will be a series of important parallel events.
The list of parallel events will be made public soon on the BB6 website.

Official opening and press and professional preview will take place on May 22, 2014.

For images and details:
www.bucharestbiennale.org
www.bienalabucuresti.ro