Pavilion UniCredit opens as the first independent art center in Romania
For the first time in Romania, a bank’s branch becomes an independent contemporary art and culture centre
The Pavilion UniCreditIt is an art hub and meeting place created in what used to be few months ago a branch of UniCredit Tiriac Bank. The Pavilion UniCredit is an independent space for the production and research in the fields of visual, discursive and performing arts. A space for the critical thinking, promoting a certain artistic perspective on art and cultural institutions, a space for the knowledge and interest in society and community.
A bank of art and knowledgeThe midpoint of Pavilion UniCredit is not “the show”, but “the archive, the information” as knowledge is the resource. A former branch of UniCredit Tiriac Bank becomes a bank of possibilities and cultural knowledge. The center will represent one of the most important art and culture information sources in the country consisting of The Contemporary Art Archive (created by Lia and Dan Perjovschi) and the Pavilion Resource Room (a non-archive created by Razvan Ion and Eugen Radescu).
Pavilion UniCredit will set up three or four exhibitions every year, discursive events, a film projection schedule and the Free Academy informal educational program to start September 2009.
The center is managed by a professional team of curators being the result of an extended cooperation between the Bucharest Biennale team and UniCredit Tiriac Bank.
The exhibition Statement curated by Lia Perjovschi will open the Pavilion UniCredit on the 19th of February. A symbolic name for a right beginning: “any new project should settle first of all what it wants to be and might be, through a mission statement”, says Ms. Perjovschi. So Statement is an expositional plan, a route, a process, a storyboard of the contemporary art center. It is mainly a multidisciplinary program, created with modesty and made out of books, newspapers and quotations. The resource in Statement is not only the art theorist or the cultural philosopher, but also the artist, the astronaut, the inventor… Are the artists also inventors? How does the world look when seen from outside the world? Is a T-shirt art? Is a postcard a work of art? What does the democratic access to information implies? We know what we are made from (our genome), we know where we are (in the Universe), but do we know why?
In fact, the very location of the center is a statement, an unusual architecture for a center of contemporary art which is designed in such a way as to preserve elements of the original space, of the communist building having hosted this former bank branch for the last 15 years.
Visiting address 1 Nicolae Titulescu (Victoria Square), Bucharest
Opening hours Tue – Fri: 12.00 - 19.00 pm
InfoFor further information, please visit www.pavilionunicredit.ro |
