#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#54: What about disabled artists?|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#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.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#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.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#26: More artists, less borders.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#54: What about disabled artists?|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#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.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#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.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#26: More artists, less borders.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#91: Embrace doubt.|
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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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