#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|
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Apparatus 22 (RO/BE)

About Apparatus 22

Apparatus 22 is a transdisciplinary art collective founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 - 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Since 2015 they are working between Bucharest and Brussels.

They see themselves as a collective of dreamers, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists interested in exploring the intricate relationships between economy, politics, gender studies, social movements, religion and fashion in order to understand contemporary society. An important topic of research and reflection in the practice of Apparatus 22 is SUPRAINFINIT universe: a world-making attempt to use hope critically in navigating present and future.

In their very diverse works - installations, performances, text based-shapes, reality is mixed with fiction and storytelling and all merge with a critical approach drawing knowledge & experience from design, sociology, literature and economics.

The work of Apparatus 22 was presented in exhibitions at La Biennale di Venezia 2013, MUMOK, Vienna (AT), BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BE), Museion, Bolzano (IT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (BE), Brukenthal Museum Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu (RO), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), KunstMuseum Linz (AT), La Triennale di Milano (IT), Loft - Servais Family Collection, Brussels (BE), TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU), Futura, Prague (CZ), Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (RO), Onomatopee Eindhoven (NL), TIME MACHINE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK UNDERGROUND, Konji (BIH), Osage Foundation (Hong Kong), Progetto Diogene, Turin (IT), Closer Art Centre, Kiev (UA), CIAP, Hasselt (BE), Barriera, Turin (IT), Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest (RO), GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna (IT);

Performances and interventions at MAK, Vienna (AT), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT), Stedelijk Museum with De Appel CP Amsterdam, (NL), Yarat Academy, Baku (AZ), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), Villa Empain, Brussels (BE), SMAK Gent, (BE), …

Apparatus 22 also works beyond institutions via performances in public spaces, interventions in private spaces and other hybrid forms.

Performance: The Elastic Test

Apparatus 22 Takes Over Kunsthal Gent

Apparatus 22 Artist Talk

Apparatus 22: The Continuum Broadcast

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