Announcing Public Art Bucharest 2007
Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007
Spatiul Public Bucuresti |
Public Art Bucharest 2007
20 April – 15 October 2007
Bucharest – Romania
Curated by Marius Babias and
Sabine Hentzsch
Assistant curator: Raluca Voinea
Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 is a pilot project which creates a platform for trans-disciplinary discussions and debates exploring how public art encourages a critical engagement with the structures of power which are dominant in society.. The non-existence of a public sphere in Romania during Communism created the conditions for the unfettered capitalism of the post-Communist period to acquire a monopoly on the public space. Bucharest is one of the fastest developing cities in Europe, however one where post-Communism and globalization have created specific tensions and eccentric juxtapositions in the architecture, urban environment and social life. The ways in which people in the city perceive, experience and respond to these tensions define an active public space, which needs to be acknowledged by the cultural discourse and analysed in open debates.
The project Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 has three objectives: