During the days of the NATO summit, one of our Viennese group members was held for three hours at a Bucharest police station, for having one issue of Lia Perjovski’s art magazine with him, with a sattelite photograph of Bucharest on the cover with the headline:  “Detective Draft”.

Welcome Party at OTA

Visit at the Red Dragon (china town) with Stefan Tiron

Lecture and discussion with Florin Tudor at Andreiana Mihail Gallery

Studiovisit Lia Perjovschi

Lecture and discussion with Iosif Kiraly, one of the founders of the photo/video department of the university of arts in Bucharest

Visiting Chitila and the outskirts of Bucharest

Watching ‘12:08 East of Bucharest’ and discussing with director Corneliu Porumboiu

Group picture at Hannes’ doghouse

Party at the Bildhauereiatelier

On Feminism in the Romanian Art Scene
Panel discussion at the International Women‘s Day at the VBKÖ
With: Alexandra Croitoru, Diana Duta, Madalina Zaharia

Studio visit Johanna and Helmut Kandl

Lecture and discussion Josef Dabernig

Archive in Residence
Vienna/Bucharest
March 2008

AGENDA

06.03: 2 - 7.30 pm
Artists on Tour:  Participation at the symposium and exhibition “Traum vom Süden”
Gemäldegalerie, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
http://www.backstage-tourismus.net/ontour.html

07.03: 8 pm
Party at the Bildhauereiatelier, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Kurzbauergasse 9
1020 Vienna

08.03: 7 pm
On Feminism in the Romanian Art Scene
Panel discussion at the International Women‘s Day
With: Alexandra Croitoru, Diana Duta, Madalina Zaharia
VBKÖ - Austrian Association of Women Artists
Maysedergasse 2
1010 Vienna
Tel +43-1-513 64 73

www.vbkoe.org

Our presentation is going to sketch a development of feminist positions that are echoed in the works of Romanian women artists from the 70s to the present day. Feminist discourse followed a slightly different path in Romania (as a former communist country) than it did in all of Western Europe. And this is mostly because before ’89, manifestations and protests of all kinds were totally out of the question for both men and women. It was only in the ’90s that feminist manifestations actually started to be present in the Romanian art scene, as an attempt to keep up with all the politically correct strategies of Western civilization. A softer face of feminism was adopted then, usually inflicted with a personal touch and a search for identity. Today, Romanian women artists are more synchronized with the major international trends and operate in a less militant way, being more concerned with all the clichés about what it means to be a woman in our times. Being able to offer a broader range of positions on this subject, women artists now share a greater interest in all the new issues raised by our contemporary society, and have finally left behind the ‘sex-war’.

11.03: 7 pm
Opening: Archive in Residence
Exhibition: 12.03 – 22.03
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 3 pm - 7 pm
VBKÖ - Austrian Association of Women Artists
Maysedergasse 2
1010 Vienna
Tel +43-1-513 64 73

www.vbkoe.org

Ovidiu Anton + David Bosch Pujadas + Michele Bressan + Caecilia Brown + Diana Duta + Gabriele Edlbauer + Irina Gheorghe + Christina Gillinger + Helmut Heiss + Julia Hohenwarter + Phillip Hohenwarter + Katrin Hornek + Catalin Ilie + Cristian Iordache + Elvedin Klacar + Amelie Loy + Teresa Novotny + Ekaterina Obermair + Adrian Parvulescu + Alina Popa + Nora Rekade + Marusa Sagadin + Silvia Sencekova + Larisa Sitar + Gabriel Tempea + Anna Witt + Madalina Zaharia + Hannes Zebedin

I cheated a bit and made this sort of group-collage-photo with all of us.. because we keep forgetting to make a proper photo so I guess this works too.

cheers!

diana.