Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages Group show
Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios and Diptych Art Space
Calea Plevnei, no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest
Plantelor Street 58, Bucharest
060011 Bucharest
Roumanie
Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages
Virus Diary is an international experiment that took place during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, and can be seen as a response by the participating artists to the restrictions imposed by the health crisis. Originally, Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi was scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the White Cuib gallery in Cluj-Napoca. Since the exhibition could not take place physically due to pandemic restrictions, the online networks of the White Cuib Gallery presented a wide range of visual interpretations for nine weeks. Artists from Romania, Germany, Spain, USA, UK, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Indonesia, Colombia, France, Malaysia, China, Japan, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Hungary and Montenegro contributed to the project.
After the end of the pandemic restrictions, the project was exhibited in Madrid, Satu Mare, New York, Iași, Brașov, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara, Heraklion, Braunschweig, Reșița, Vienna, Piatra Neamț, Cologne and Nuremberg.
Although the initial core of the group remained constant, there were several formulas of collaboration with various other artists and curators. These repeated exhibitions led to mutations in the project. In order to transform the first edition of the Virus Diary Biennial into a space for dialogue on the new socio-cultural paradigms imposed by the pandemic and the post-pandemic period, the four curators involved, Alina Andrei, Magdalena Pelmuș, Luciana Tamas and Silvia Trăistaru, invited new artists to present works appropriate to the current context—radically different from that of the lockdown restrictions.
These contributions complement the old formula in which the Virus Diary has been presented so far. As an international experiment, with representative names of the art scene, the curators consider the project valuable for the whole community, as it brings back into the collective memory an episode of recent history that led to a different approach to health challenges and created the conditions for the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The generic title of the new formula was specifically chosen to reflect the idea of mutation—both with the coronavirus and in society as a whole.
Locations:
Diptych Art Space, Plantelor Street 58, Bucharest and Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios, Calea Plevnei, no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest
Curators:
Alina Andrei, Magdalena Pelmuș, Luciana Tămaș, Silvia Trăistaru
Artists:
3 137 | Sabina Aldea (Minitremu) | Cristian Alexa | Zara Alexandrova | Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu | Alina Andrei | Daniel Andújar | Florin Arhire | Alrun Aßmus | Isa Balog | Ion Barbu | Lucian Barbu | Bartha Jozsef | Bartha Sándor | Beagles & Ramsay | Lola Gabriela Belecciu | Andra Beligan (Minitremu) | Benedek Levente | Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan | Naomi Bildea | Brent Birnbaum | Alex Bodea | David Böhm & Jiří Franta | Daria Borsa (Minitremu) | Răzvan Botiş | Luchezar Boyadijev | Vlad Brăteanu | Michele Bressan | Cosmin Bumbuţ | Cătălin Burcea | Cathy Burghi | Dan Burzo | Aurelian Busuioc | Frank Bz | Radu Carnariu | Squeak Carnwath | Andra Cati (Minitremu) | Dana Catona | Delia Călinescu | Banu Cennetoğlu | Simion Cernica | Ramona Chirica | Hans D. Christ | Ciprian Ciuclea | Eduard Constantin | Larisa Cont (Minitremu) | Răzvan Cornici | Oana Coșug | Mihail Coşuleţu | Alicia Crasiuc (Minitremu) | Lavinia Creţu | Ştefan Radu Crețu | Anton olius | Suzana Dan | Dăruieşte Viaţă | Megan Dominescu | Andrei Dosa | Latifa Echakkh | Farid Fairuz | Julian Faulhaber | Alexandru Faur (Minitremu) | Diana Filimon | Andrei Flocea (Minitremu) | Cristina Gagiu | Dora García | Julien Gardair | Cristi Gaspar | Bogdan Gârbovan | Bogdan Georgescu | Zoran Georgiev | Jan Gerngross | Aldo Giannotti | Diana Grigorescu (Minitremu) | Shani Ha | Cosmin Haiaş | Andreea Harabagiu | Jonas Hellborg | Olivier Hölzl | Gergely Hory | Ovidiu Hrin | Mihai Iepure-Gorski | Lucian Indrei | Susanna Inglada | Pravdoliub Ivanov | Tadija Janicic | Quentin Jouret | Rie Kawakami | Robert Maximilian Keller | Kispál Ágnes | Attila Kispál | Szabolcs KissPál | Takehito Koganezawa | Jadranka Kosorcic | Dana & Eva Koťátková | Levente Kozma | Ute Krafft | Mischa Kuball | Karolina Kubik | Ana Kun | Raphael Larre | Cezar Lăzărescu | Eirini Linardaki | Oana Lohan | Gloria Luca | Cosmin Manolescu | Natalia Marc (Minitremu) | Andreea Mare (Minitremu) | Tincuţa Marin | Alina Marinescu | Adreea Medar | Vincent Meyrignac | Alex Mihăileanu | Hortenisa Mi Kafchin | Milan Mikulastík | Isola Milano | Minitremu | Lala Misosniky | Alexandra Mocan | Bianca Mocan | Emilian Mocanu | Niţă Mocanu | Eliodor Moldovan | Vlad Moraru | Ivan Moudov | Alexandru Munteanu | Tudor Mureşan (Minitremu) | Simona Nastac | Cătălina Neculai | Mona Nicoară | Tuan Nini | Cătălina Nistor | Oberliht Association | Yuko Okumura | Miklós Onucsán | Christoph Ortega | Andrei Pacea | Adrian Paci | Eugen Palagub | Daniela Pălimariu | Vincent Parisot | Ana Patan | Tudor Pătraşcu | Bogdan Pelmuș | Magdalena Pelmuş | Manuel Pelmuş | Dan Perjovschi | Gluklya Pershina | Ana Petrovici Popescu | Mihai Platică | Cristi Pogăcean | Delia Popa | Camelia Popescu | Annekatrin Posselt | Caterina Preda | Joana Preda | Silviu Preda | Andrei Pungovschi | Abel Rad | Lea Rasovszky | Restu Ratnaningtyas | Saddo Raul | Matei Rădulescu (Minitremu) | Cristian Răduţă | Oliver Ressler | George Roşu | Patrick Roussel | Cristian Rusu | Şerban Savu | Marishka Soekarna | Dimitar Solakov | Nedko Solakov | Alexandru Solomon | Ada Stan | Raimar Stange | Sabina Suru | Iza Tarasewicz | Luciana Tămaș | Oana Tănase | Krassimir Terziev | Tudor Toader | Iulia Toma | Silvia Trăistaru | Andrei Tudose | Remus Ţiplea | Roberto Uribe Castro | Alina Ușurelu | Tomáš Vaněk | Jaro Varga | Sorina Vaselina | Casandra Vidrighin | Simona Vilău | Iuliana Vîlsan | Elena Vlădăreanu | Ioana Vreme Moser | Dorota Walentynowicz | Trevor Yeung | Laurenţiu Zbîrcea | Mihai Zgondoiu | Fani Zguro
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Visits only by appointment:
Diptych Art Space, Plantelor Street 58, 030167 Bucharest. diptych.artspace@gmail.com
and
Silvia Trăistaru Studio: Camera 30 | Malmaison Studios, Calea Plevnei no. 137C, B Side, 2nd Floor, Bucharest. silvia.traistaru@gmail.com