Opened on May 19 in Timișoara, the Art Encounters Biennial 2023 is fast approaching its closing weekend (July 14–16), on which occasion we propose a special and extended program interspersed with guided tours, the official launch of the Biennial's Catalog, other events in the exhibition spaces and within the complementary platform, as well as a big final party!
Held under the sign of the dialogue between art, science, and fictions and bringing together exciting and challenging works made by 60 artists from 21 countries, the Biennial welcomed more than 19,000 visitors. Organized in an exceptional year for Timișoara, the European Capital of Culture in 2023, this edition proposed a highly relevant theme. Furthermore, it addressed essential topics to match the ambitious goal of an event of this magnitude and scope.
Starting from a curatorial concept developed by Adrian Notz alongside a curatorial team formed by Cristina Bută, Monica Dănilă, Ann Mbuti, Edith Lázár, Cristina Stoenescu, and Georgia Țidorescu, but also a very exciting, eclectic and relevant list of Romanian, regional and international artists, the fifth edition of the Art Encounters Biennial managed to connect highly varied, complex and layered histories, places, mythologies, and universes.
We invite you, therefore, to enjoy together the grand closing weekend of the Art Encounters Biennial, My Rhino is Not a Myth. art science fictions, according to the following schedule:
Friday, July 14, 11:00 – 20:00:
- 18:00 – 19:00: Guided tour – Timișoara Garrison Command;
- 19:00 – 20:00: Guided tour – The Banat National Museum / Huniade Castle;
Saturday, July 15, 11:00 – 20:00:
- 11:00 – 23:00: Cadavrul Autoexploatării/ The Corpse of Self-Exploitation, AiR Balamuc Gavril Pop and Lucian Barbu – Balamuc / playground and others;
- 12:00 – 13:00: Guided tour – Faber;
- 14:30 – 15:30: Tram tour no. 6, Mobile intervention Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud
, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square;
- 16:00 – 17:00: Tram tour no. 6, Mobile intervention Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud
, Departure point: Piața Libertății Station, Tram no. 6 route: Maria Square – Traian Square;
- 16:00 – Presentation of the project of the MA students in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts in Zurich, led by Dr. Marie-France Rafael (with the support of the Office of International Relations of the University of the Arts in Zurich) at the Loft of the Arts and Design Faculty in Timișoara;
- 18:00 – 19:00: Guided tour – Timișoara Garrison Command;
- 19:00 – 19:30: Guided tour – MNArT;
Sunday, July 16, 11:00 – 20:00:
- 12:00 – 13:00: Guided tour – ISHO D, ISHO Offices;
- 12:30 – 14:00: GiB – Generations in the Biennial (program for children and families) with Gabriela Robeci, STPT Multiplexity;
- 14:00 – 15:00: Guided tour – STPT Multiplexity;
- 16:00 – 17:00: Guided tour – Art Encounters Foundation;
- 18:00 - Catalog Launch - La Două Bufnițe Bookshop;
- 20:00 – Closing party – w/Chlorys – Aethernativ;