2023, Bastion Colț și Palatul Poștelor Timișoara
Curator Maria Orosan-Telea
ABOUT
Our Statement
Timisoara-based collective Avantpost is a site-specific artistic production platform whose activity is manifested through unconventional themes and locations that give the projects uniqueness, originality, unrepeatability. The team includes over 10 artists and a curator. During their 13 projects, artists from Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, England, Germany, Spain contributed to an international experience.
The projects referred to the old citadel of the city (Bastionul Theresia / 2015, 2016) or used history as a critical ideology (Revolution Memorial / 2015). The issue of the cultural reconversion of disused spaces, such as the North Railway Station (2019) or the post-industrial heritage (Timco Halls / 2014, Fabrica de Baterii Elba / 2017, Ateliere STPT / 2019) was also addressed in the sense of the temporary insertion of these space into the cultural context of the city. In 2021, the platform used a green area on the edge of the city to debate the issue of the accelerated development of the city at the expense of the natural urban landscape (Stațiunea Tinerilor Naturalisti).
Currently, the Avantpost strategy takes into account the participation in creating a coherent image of the local independent cultural sector in the context of Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture, but also within the international artistic scene mediated by the telecommunications network, which allows the debate of various aspects of the global crisis.
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Our Exhibitions
Oasis. Green Identity
2021, Stațiunea Tinerilor Naturaliști Timișoara
Curator Maria Orosan Telea
In Vitro Veritas
2019, Spațiul alternativ Gara de Nord, Timișoara
Curator Maria Orosan Telea
Hidden Agenda MTAC
2016, Muzeul Temporar de Artă Contemporană, Timișoara
Curator Cosmin Haiaș
Becoming Connected
2015, Muzeul Revoluției, Timișoara
Curators Nathalie Hoyos and Raynald Schumacher