Interview by Marta Jecu // Dec. 14, 2018
The European identity remains without any concrete basis: the geographic indicators shift, the idea of the centre enters into local folklore and the monuments indicating it corrode…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu in Berlin // Nov. 15, 2017
‘Cosmopolis #1’ develops, under the curatorship of Kathryn Weir, a layered platform of creation and transmission of knowledge that incorporates long-term cultural experiments, social actions,…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu in Lisbon // Feb. 07, 2017
The idea of a potent architecture (a box that not only contains, but also generates solutions) has been a favored utopia across the ages: a house that is mobile, turns into a vehicle and flies…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu – in Berlin // Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2016.
Commenting on Romanian immigration back in 2014, Traian Basescu–president at the time–affirmed that it ‘helped’ the country by diminishing unemployment. The topic is no less ardent today, when, according to British statistics, Romanian immigration has reached its peak, while Romanian workers are payed 75% less than market…[read on…]
The following series of interviews look at the curatorial work within three pavilions at the 56th Venice Biennial. Not designed as receptacles of various forms of mixed and layered artistic content, but also not as multi-media platforms that annul the material persistency of architecture…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2015.
DEVOUR! is an exhibition spread across Berlin and Leipzig, a series of talks and screenings and art pieces that interrogate the idea of ‘social cannibalism’ in late-modernist architecture…[read on…]
Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 °CLAIR GALLERY “On the Move” – GROUP SHOW Exhibition: Mar. 17 – May 16, 2015 The German Association of Automobile Industry, Behrenstrasse 35 (click here for map) Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015 GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE “The painting fallen, and the collapse of Rome” – DANILO DUEÑAS Exhibition: Mar. 19 – Apr. 25,… Read more »
Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
The recently opened 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Close, Closer, aims to question the borders of the discipline, open it toward immediate civic use and a reactive criticism and distill the comprehension of architecture into that of a vital spatial practice correlating to the quotidian. With its luxurious and deserted charm…[read on…]
Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
Detached from a literal understanding of architecture, the triennial “Close, Closer” slides between various framings of the “living experience”. These frames – a fiction of social forms of organization as retro-futuristic living nucleuses in the exhibition “Future Perfect”, the institution understood as a fluid and adaptable hub in “The Institute Effect” exhibition, and a re-enactment of past hypostases of Lisbon’s famous Marques de Pombal’s birth palace in “The Real and other Fictions” – are all set as an agenda to extract from architecture its agency. A set of talks, performances and events are meant to put these frameworks of “living” architecture into practice
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Interview by Marta Jecu – in Istanbul; Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
This interview focuses on some of the controversial issues surrounding the 13th Istanbul Biennial, titled “Mom, Am I Barbarian”. In a discussion with artist Funda Özgünaydin, we addressed some of the statements made by the Biennial director, Bige Örer and the curator, Fulya Erdemci. Funda is a German Turkish artist and a newly…[read on…]
Interview by Marta Jecu in Berlin // Sep. 03, 2013
Recently divulged, the press release of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial titled Close, Closer, makes foremost a visual statement, three paper clippings…[read on…]
Blog post by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Monday, Mar. 25, 2012.
Lisbon’s Transboavista is a multiple art project installed in the Palace Marquis of Sampaio, which dates back to 1712 (and was partially rebuilt in 1952). The three stories and attic edifice, founded and directed by the collector Vitor Pinto de Fonseca, …
