SenzArt

MNAC, 3rd Floor: 5th of June – 30th of November 2014

Opening: THU, 5th of June 2014, 19h00

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Romania, Friends of MNAC Association and Orange Foundation Romania are pleased to present SenzArt, an exhibition of interactive multimedia installation: MEM-NON by Martin-Emilian Balint; SIMTE PULSAȚIA!by Cătălin Crețu; POESIA DOMESTICA by Matthias Neumann in collaboration with Cristina David; FluO by Paul Popescu. SenzArt is dedicated to those suffering from visual and hearing impairment and wishes to promote to the general public the possibilities of contemporary art for communicating its messages on so many different levels of perception and with such a variety of means of expression, actively acting as a facilitator for communication.

All four installations are winners of SenzArt Call for Applications launched in Feb 2014 and had been carefully selected by the members of the jury from seventeen eligible applications. (Jury: Irina Botea - visual artist, Asst. Prof., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Aurora Kiraly - visual artist, Assoc. Prof., National University of Arts Bucharest; Alexandru Patatics - visual artist; Larisa Sitar - visual artist; Raluca Velisar - curator, Head of Curatorial and Research Dept., National Museum of Contemporary Art); Dana Deac - Chair of Board of Directors, Orange Foundation Romania, Mary Lisa Durban - Corporate Philanthropy International Development Manager, Orange Foundation).

A series of educational workshops destined for children aged 5 to 16 will be held during the entire time of the exhibition, as follows:

THU, 12th of June, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 21st of June, 11h00-13h00

THU, 17th of July, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 26th of July, 11h00-13h00

THU, 14th of August, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 23rd of August, 11h00-13h00

THU, 11th of September, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 20th of September, 11h00-13h00

THU, 9th of October, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 18th of October, 11h00-13h00

THU, 13th of November, 11h00-13h00

SAT, 22nd of November, 11h00-13h00

For details and reservations please contact us at info@mnac.ro and 021 318 91 37.

Special arrangements can be accommodated upon request for organized groups, outside current schedule.

Curator: Raluca Velisar

Project Manager: Silvia Rogozea

Communication and production: Suzana Dan, Alina Bucur, Gabriela Popp, Larisa Sitar

Educational program: Mălina Ionescu, Irina Radu

Organizer: Orange Foundation Romania

Co-organizers: The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) and Friends of MNAC Association

For more information, please visit mnac.ro; amiciimnac.ro or fundatiaorange.ro.