Apparatus 22 (RO/BE)

#61: No all male install teams.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#36: We support production separately.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#54: What about disabled artists?|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#111: Do it together.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#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.|#61: No all male install teams.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#36: We support production separately.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#54: What about disabled artists?|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#111: Do it together.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#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.|

Over Apparatus 22

Apparatus 22 is een transdisciplinair kunstcollectief dat in januari 2011 is opgericht door de huidige leden Erika Olea, Maria Farcas en Dragos Olea, samen met Ioana Nemes (1979 - 2011) in Boekarest, Roemenië. Sinds 2015 werken ze vanuit Boekarest en Brussel.

Ze zien zichzelf als een collectief van dromers, onderzoekers, poëtische activisten en (gebrekkige) futurologen die geïnteresseerd zijn in het verkennen van de complexe relaties tussen economie, politiek, genderstudies, sociale bewegingen, religie en mode om de hedendaagse samenleving te begrijpen. Een belangrijk onderwerp van onderzoek en reflectie in de praktijk van Apparatus 22 is het SUPRAINFINIT universum. Dit universum is een poging om een wereld te creëren, om hoop kritisch in te kunnen zetten bij het navigeren door heden en toekomst.

In hun zeer uiteenlopende werken - installaties, performances en vormen met tekst als uitgangspunt - vermengen ze realiteit met fictie en het vertellen van verhalen, vanuit een kritische benadering die stoelt op kennis en ervaring uit design, sociologie, literatuur en economie.

Het werk van Apparatus 22 werd gepresenteerd in tentoonstellingen in La Biennale di Venezia 2013, MUMOK, Wenen (AT), BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussel (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), MNAC - museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Boekarest (RO), KunstMuseum Linz (AT), La Triennale di Milano (IT), Loft - Servais Family Collection, Brussel (BE), TRAFO Gallery, Boedapest (HU), Futura, Praag (CZ), Ujazdowski Castle - centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Warschau (PL), Salonul de Proiecte, Boekarest (RO), Onomatopee Eindhoven (NL), TIME MACHINE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORY ART, D-0 ARK UNDERGROUND, Konji (BIH), Osage Foundation (Hong Kong), Progetto Diogene, Turijn (IT), Closer Art Centre, Kiev (UA), CIAP, Hasselt (BE), Barriera, Turijn (IT), Suprainfinit Gallery, Boekarest (RO), GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna (IT);

Performances en interventies deden ze in MAK, Wenen (AT), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam met De Appel CP (NL), Yarat Academy, Bakoe (AZ), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), Villa Empain, Brussel (BE), S.M.A.K. Gent, (BE), ...

Apparatus 22 werkt ook buiten de kunstruimte, met performances in de publieke ruimte, interventies in privé-vertrekken en andere hybride vormen.

Performance: The Elastic Test

Apparatus 22 neemt Kunsthal Gent over

Apparatus 22 Artist Talk

Apparatus 22: The Continuum Boadcast