Program Biennial

Friday, May 19^th

16:00 – 17:00 – Official Opening of Art Encounters Biennial 2023 (ISHO area) EN

17.00 – 18:00 – Guided tours with artists and curators Art Encounters Foundation, ISHO Offices and ISHO D EN

18:00 – 18:30 – Guided tour, complementary platform – AVANTPOST, Bastion

19:00 – 19:30 – Guided tour, complementary platform – LAPSUS  

Saturday, May 20^th

10:00 – 12:00 – Guided tours with artists and curators (Timișoara Garrison, public space artworks and The National Museum of Banat/ Huniade Castle) EN

12:30 – 13:00 – Guided tours with artists and curators, The National Museum of Art Timișoara EN

13:30  – 14:30 – Performance Arantxa Etcheverria, BABEL, at Faber

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram Tour (Tram no. 6) with Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud 
Departure point: Piața Libertății Station
Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

15:30 – 17:00 Conference “Transitions: from Contemporary to Digital, and Back Again” by Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera at The National Museum of Art Timișoara EN

17:00 –  18:00 – Guided tour in the exhibition Adrian Ghenie, The Impossible Body EN

18:00 – 19:30 – Guided tours with artists and curator (STPT Multiplexity and Faber) EN

20:00 – Opening party SPONTAN FEST x ART ENCOUNTERS, at Faber
Admission by tickets available online at the following link:
www.livetickets.ro/bilete/spontan-fest-x-art-encounters

Sunday, May 21^st

11:00 – 13:00 – Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe – Picnic with artists, guests and curators, and visit of the exhibition Expanded Nature at the Urseni Water Treatment Plant

13:00 – 14:00 Guided tour, complementary platform – BARAKA

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram Tour (Tram no. 6) with Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud 
Departure point: Piața Libertății Station
Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

15:00 – 16:00 – Guided tour, complementary platform – BALAMUC

16:00 – Performance by Farah Mulla, Aberrant: A Noise performance, at STPT

17:00 – 18:00 – Guided tour, complementary platform, NAVA C2, Students Cultural House

Tuesday, May 23^rd

18:00 – 19:00 – Artist Walk with Alina Cioară, ISHO D

Wednesday, May 24^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Intro in contemporary art with Maria Orosan Telea, Timișoara Garrison

Thursday, May 25^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – Screening in collaboration with Contrasens Cultural Association and Cinema Victoria, at Cinema Victoria
Selin Davasse, Homo Economicus, 2021
MarksMara, Group Chat, 2022
Mihai Grecu, Under the Centipede Sun, 2010
Adrian Ganea, Dance of the Butterflies, 2022
Larissa Sansour, In Vitro, 2019

18:00 Workshop Neuroplasticity & Creativity with Alina Cioară and Cosmin Gheorghe ISHO D

Friday, May 26^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only)
All exhibition spaces

Saturday, May 27^th

12:30 – 14:00 Art Laboratories – artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics) with Alex Higyed, Art Encounters Foundation

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud,
Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours (by appointment only),
All exhibition spaces

Sunday, May 28^th

12:30 – 14:00  GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) With Gabriela Robeci, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

Wednesday, May 31^st

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

17:00 Guided tours, complementary platform – SIMULTAN, TTS2x / talking-to-strangers, Sillyconductor, Ami Lungu

18:00 – 20:00 Mind mapping – critical thinking games with Gavril Pop, FABER

Thursday, June 1^st

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only)
All exhibition spaces

Friday, June 2^nd

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 19:30 Performative lecture in collaboration with Două Bufnițe, Art Encounters Foundation

Saturday, June 3^rd

12:30 – 14:00 Art Laboratories – artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics), With Andre Rădulescu Timișoara Garrison

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00  Guided tours (by appointment only),
All exhibition spaces

Sunday, June 4^th

12:30 – 14:00 GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) With Gabriela Robeci, Timișoara Garrison, Tuesday, June 6^th           

18:00 Artist Walk with Mihai Toth, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

Wednesday, June 7^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Intro in conteporary art with Maria Orosan Teleam, Art Encounters Foundation & ISHO D         

Thursday, June 8^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 Screening in collaboration with Contrasens Cultural Association and Cinema Victoria: Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess, Asia Bazdyrieva)  –  Making of Earths (2021)

Solveig Qu Suess  –  AAA Cargo ( 2018)

18:00 Workshop Neuroplasticity & Creativity with Alina Cioară and Cosmin Gheorghe, ISHO D

Friday, June 9^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Saturday, June 10^th

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud

Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud
Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Sunday, June 11^th

12:30 – 14:00  GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) With Gabriela Robeci, Faber

Wednesday, June 14^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Mind mapping – critical thinking games with Gavril Pop STPT Multiplexity

Thursday, June 15^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 Screening in collaboration with Contrasens Cultural Association and Cinema Victoria:
Chrystele Nicot & Antoine Alessandrini, Intentional Sweat (2019)
Thale Blix Fastvold, I am Hydra (2021), Cinema Victoria

Friday, June 16^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only)
All exhibition spaces

20:00 – 21:30 Performative lecture in collaboration with Două Bufnițe Bookshop
Timișoara Garrison

Saturday, June 17^th

12:30 – 14:00  Art Laboratories – artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics) With Loredana Ilie, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours (by appointment only)
All exhibition spaces

Sunday, June 18^th

12:30 – 14:00 GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) With Gabriela Robeci, STPT Multiplexity)

Tuesday, June 20^th

18:00 Artist Walk with Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Art Encounters Foundation

Wednesday, June 21^st

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Intro in contemporary art with Maria Orosan Telea, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

Thursday, June 22^nd

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Friday, June 23^rd

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only)  All exhibition spaces

Saturday, June 24^th

12:30 – 14:00 Art Laboratories – artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics) with  Alex Higyed, Timișoara Garrison

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

Art &  Science Conference – in collaboration with ETH AI Center and Timișoara Polytechnic University EN
11:00 – 12:30 – Monica Bello and Anetta Mona Chișa in dialog
14:00 – 15:30 – Alice Sharp and Gregor Mobius in dialog
16:00 – 17:00 – Keynote speaker Andreas Guggenbühl
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote speaker Libby Heaney

18:00 – 18:30 Closing remarks

UPT Conference Center – Politehnica University Timișoara – Auditorium Hall

Sunday, June 25^th

12:30 – 14:00 GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) with Gabriela Robeci, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

Wednesday, June 28^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only) All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Mind mapping – Critical thinking games with Gavril Pop, ISHO Offices

Thursday, June 29^th 

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Friday, June 30^th 

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only)
All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 19:30 Performative lectures with Alex Mirutziu in collaboration with Două Bufnițe, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

Saturday, July 1^st

12:30 – 14:00 Art Laboratories – Artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics) with Bogdan Matei, Faber

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud

Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud

Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Sunday, July 2^nd

12:30 – 14:00 GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) with Gabriela Robeci, Timișoara Garrison

Wednesday, July 5^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Intro in contemporary art with Maria Orosan Telea, STPT Multiplexity

Thursday, July 6^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00  Screening in collaboration with Contrasens Cultural Association and Cinema Victoria:

Selin Davasse – Homo Economicus (2021)
Monika Czyżyk – Bamboocene: I want to build a rocket (2022),
Cinema Victoria

18:00 – 19:30 Workshop Neuroplasticity & Creativity with Alina Cioară and Cosmin Gheorghe, ISHO D

Friday, July 7^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Saturday, July 8^th

12:30 – 14:00  Art Laboratories – artists teachers / educators (experimental mediation program with various thematics), Mimi Ciora, The National Museum of Banat / Huniade Castle

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud
Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Carlos Amorales Installation, Black Cloud

Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours (by appointment only),
All exhibition spaces

Sunday, July 9^th

12:30 – 14:00 GiB – Generations in the Biennial (Program for children and Families – by appointment only) with Gabriela Robeci, Faber

Tuesday, July 11^th 

18:00 Artist Walk with Aura Bălănescu, Faber

Wednesday, July 12^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

18:00 – 20:00 Mind mapping – critical thinking games with Gavril Pop, Art Encounters Foundation

Thursday, July 13^th

10:00 – 12:00 My Art Encounters. Mediation program for schools (by appointment only), All exhibition spaces

Friday, July 14^th

18:00 – 19:00: Guided tour – Timișoara Garrison Command
19:00 – 20:00: Guided tour – The Banat National Museum / Huniade Castle;

20:00 – Guided tour of the ” after SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE after ” exhibition (CAZARMA U) – Collateral program

Saturday, July 15^th

11:00 – 23:00 Self-exploitation Corpse, AiR Balamuc, Gavril Pop and Lucian Barbu – Balamuc / playground and others

12:00 – 13:00: Guided tour – Faber

14:30 – 15:30 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Mobile intervention Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – 17:00 – Tram tour Tram No. 6, Mobile intervention Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square

16:00 – Presentation of the project of the MA students in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts in Zurich, led by Dr. Marie-France Rafael (with the support of the Office of International Relations of the University of the Arts in Zurich) at the Loft of the Arts and Design Faculty in Timișoara

18:00 – 19:00: Guided tour – Timișoara Garrison Command;
19:00 – 19:30: Guided tour – MNArT

Sunday, July 16^th

12:00 – 13:00: Guided tour – ISHO D, ISHO Offices
12:30 – 14:00: GiB – Generations in the Biennial (program for children and families) with Gabriela Robeci, STPT Multiplexity
14:00 – 15:00: Guided tour – STPT Multiplexity
16:00 – 17:00: Guided tour – Art Encounters Foundation
18:00 – Catalog Launch – La Două Bufnițe Bookshop
20:00 – Closing party – w/Chlorys – Aethernativ