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Cosmin Costinaş
curator, Utrecht (BAK)
2011
Research Exhibitions
Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things
Video
Conversation: How can realism be critical today?
Olga Chernysheva and Cosmin Costinaş
Research Interviews
Interview with Olga Chernysheva
Cosmin Costinaş
Research Exhibitions
Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things
Texts
In the Middle of Things
Cosmin Costinaş
Olga Chernysheva is, in many ways, representative of the generation of artists and intellectuals that came of age in the late 1980s during the turmoil and uncertainties of perestroika, and matured in a struggle to establish one’s individuality during the 1990s, in what could be considered the lawless years of “primitive accumulation of capital” that defined Russia under Boris Yeltsin, through to …
2010
Research Interviews
Interview with David Riff
Cosmin Costinaş
Research Interviews
Interview with Miguel López
Cosmin Costinaş
Research Interviews
Interview with Rabih Mroué
Cosmin Costinaş
Research Interviews
Interview with Paulo Herkenhoff
Cosmin Costinaş
Research Interviews
Interview with Dmitry Vilensky
Cosmin Costinaş and Maria Hlavajova
2009
Research Congresses
1st
FORMER WEST Congress
Video
Conversation
Cosmin Costinaş, Tom Holert and Pablo Lafuente
Research Congresses
1st
FORMER WEST Congress
Text
Report Day 2
Nathalie Zonnenberg
The second day of the 1st
FORMER WEST
Congress concentrated on “Art, its Discourses and the World at Large (1989/2001/2008),” as the title of the day’s sessions announced. Pretty much about everything one could assume—if it weren’t for the additional years in between parentheses. In the first session with Tom Holert and Pablo Lafuente, the latter concentrated precisely on these years, …
Research Exhibitions
Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor: Surplus Value
Text
Surplus Value
Cosmin Costinaş
Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor have been working together since 2000. In a practice that spans a variety of media—from installation to painting to photography to film—their work is dedicated to an exploration of the formal manifestations of and shifts in ideologies (be they communist or capitalist). The artists engage with the politics of memory in their examination of the material and symbolic …
Education Platform
Becoming Former West. One-day Conference
11 March 2010
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Research Exhibitions
Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor: Surplus Value
5 September–9 November 2009
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL)
Research Exhibitions
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
8 October–23 December 2011
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL)