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Upcoming events at Artfoyer

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jan 17, 2012, 7:20 am
Transition Worlds is a video program that focuses on personal, environmental, political, social, economic, and psychological change or transition in homage to, and in recognition of, the global turbulence of 2011. Program is curated by Olga Stefan. The program will take place at the Artfoyer, an in...
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Declining Democracy exhibition at CCC Strozzina, Florence

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jan 14, 2012, 6:45 am
I’m posting some photographs from the exhibition, Declining Democracy, which I found absolutely fantastic.  Great installation and great work, including examples of collective action projects that would not be traditionally considered art. For detailed information on each project, visit: http://...
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Alternative Strategies of Art Production in Romania and Switzerland

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jan 11, 2012, 5:43 am
This panel is part of Just Another Brick in the Wall: Models of Art Production in Romania, which took place in Zurich at Barbara Seiler Gallery, Dec. 2011 Panelists are Mihai Pop, Plan B Gallery, Adrian Bojenoiu, Club Electro Putere; Alina Serban, Center for Visual Introspection; Esther Eppstein, M...
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Societé Réaliste in Zürich

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jan 3, 2012, 3:00 pm
In Flash Art, January/February 2012: download the PDF here Anne Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zürich, CH At first, Société Réaliste’s Zero Euro (2010) and Infinite Dollar (2011) sculptures seem like facile comments on the economic situation and the stability of the political structures supporting ...
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Exhibition and Vernissage

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 21, 2011, 10:20 am
Rudolf  Bone Club Electro Putere Lia Perjovschi CAA and Rudolf Bone The Bureau for Melodramatic Research Center for Visual Introspection   From the Vernissage, Thursday, December 8, 2011 “Romanian Hospitality”, Paradis Garaj h.arta
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Interview with The Bureau for Melodramatic Research

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 20, 2011, 4:57 am
The Bureau for Melodramatic Research is an art project initiated by Irina Gheorghe and Alina Popa, who live and work in Bucharest. OS: Your practice aims to reveal how our emotions are manipulated by the power structures to create the narratives that support the status quo, or those structures’ ...
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Interview with H.Arta

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 19, 2011, 6:42 am
H.Arta is a collective composed of Maria Crista, Anca Gyemant, and Rodica Tache. They live and work in Timisoara. OS: You are a collective composed of three female artists: Maria Crista, Anca Gyemant and Rodica Tache. How do collaborations evolve among you, and how do you manage to set aside egos...
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Interview with Matei Bejenaru

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 15, 2011, 4:35 pm
Matei Bejenaru is an artist and founder of Periferic Art Festival. He lives and works in Iasi. OS: We met in 2001 when I was visiting Romania to research the development of the art scene for my masters’ thesis and you were interested in doing a residency through Artslink but needed a partner or...
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Interview with Center for Visual Introspection

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 14, 2011, 1:51 pm
The Center for Visual Introspection was co-founded by Alina Serban – AS, Anca Benera -AB, Arnold Estefan – AE, and Catalin Rulea -CR. It is located in Bucharest. OS: The Centre for Visual Introspection is a cultural platform that undertakes projects that critically examine the relationship bet...
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Just Another Brick in the Wall: Interview with Club Electro Putere

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Dec 13, 2011, 7:29 am
Club Electro Putere is a contemporary art exhibiting initiative located in Craiova, managed by Adrian Bojenoiu and Alexandru Niculescu. OS: You opened your exhibition venue in 2009 in Craiova in the former cultural center of the Electroputere factory, which until ’89 was used to entertain the wor...
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Drawn Together, more images

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Oct 31, 2011, 8:46 am
Danny Hein and Ray Hegelbach collaboration When the plastic comes off…   Jennifer Mannebach and Loredana Sperini collaboration Jennifer Mannebach   Loredana Sperini Selina Trepp and David Chieppo collaboration Selina Trepp and David Chieppo David Chieppo Tom Fellner and Cody Hudson col...
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Drawn Together, group show in Lucerne, CH – progress report

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Oct 24, 2011, 7:11 am
Progress report in images from the pairs working together on drawing-based collaborations for Drawn Together, a show I’m curating at the Alpineumproduzentengalerie in Lucerne. The projects are really coming together. The opening of the show is Friday, November 11, 7-10pm. Dianna Frid and Monika ...
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A Look at Romania's Art Scene

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Aug 22, 2011, 3:01 pm
Originally published on ArtMargins on July 17 Łukasz Jastrubczak, MIRAGE, SABOT gallery, Cluj. Installation View. Image courtesy of the author. Preparing for my first time back in Romania after seven years I was filled with a certain anxiety: those stray dogs I remembered wandering the streets in...
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Shana Lutker at Barbara Seiler: A. G. L. & X.

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jul 17, 2011, 4:59 pm
An enigmatic yet appealing show by Los Angeles-based artist Shana Lutker. In this exhibition featuring photographs and installations, Shana Lutker uses found objects such as sticks, stones, rope, cones, but also constructed objects placed among them, which allude to the collection of fetishized obj...
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Irina Botea feat. WeAreTheArtists at Kunsthalle Winterthur

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jul 10, 2011, 5:10 am
The development of the collaborative project of Irina Botea and WeAreTheArtists, the process of getting the show together, was as much a part of the exhibition as were the videos playing in the Kunsthalle space by the Chicago-based Romanian artist, Israeli duo Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir, and Turkish ...
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The Better-Late-Than-Never Basel Top 10 at Statements and Unlimited

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jul 8, 2011, 9:47 am
Overall, Art Statements was quite weak this year but there were many installations at Unlimited that impressed. I wish I had more time to write some actual thoughts, but I don’t…so I’ll let the photos speak for themselves, and I’ll just add my 2 cents – really only 2 cents. Petrit Halila...
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Venice Biennale part 2

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jun 20, 2011, 10:52 am
The second day of art consumption during the Biennale took me to the Giardini. The Swiss Pavilion was waiting for us near the entrance – with a typically extravagant and over-the-top installation by Thomas Hirschhorn, very aptly treating the theme of consumption, among many others, in Crystals of...
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Venice Biennale Part 1

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jun 9, 2011, 9:34 am
Venice is no longer the romantic and serene place of Canaletto’s paintings – not during tourist season anyway. And during the opening weekend of the Biennale it was a truly nasty and unpleasant city. Besides the fact that it was extremely hot, unimaginable crowds were pushing and shoving to mo...
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Thoughts on VIENNAFAIR

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 24, 2011, 5:33 am
Published on Artslant Although in its press release it boasts ‘success in its chosen path’, the feeling on the ground was much more sceptical. Many galleries at the VIENNAFAIR were restless and unconvinced. Some even said they were not going to come again. And yet this year the VIENNAFAIR...
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The Bucharest Biennale: Somewhere Between Here and There

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 13, 2011, 5:30 am
Flashart, May 2011 Romania is a country where religiosity is among the highest in the world along with Uganda and Iran, with 92% of the population considering itself religious. Here the government financially supports all church activity in order to promote national identity and moral values, resu...
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Bucharest Biennale: Somewhere Between Here and There

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 6, 2011, 5:50 am
April 2011 The Bucharest Biennale: Somewhere Between Here and There Romania is a country where religiosity is among the highest in the world along with Uganda and Iran, with 92% of the population considering itself religious. Here the government financially supports all church activity in order to...
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Berlinde de Bruyckere at Hauser&Wirth, Zurich

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Aug 19, 2010, 3:41 pm
Published in Sculpture Magazine Is religious art compatible with today’s post-modern and cynical attitudes? Very rarely does one see contemporary artwork infused with the sublime: that characteristic that makes you feel as if there really is something beyond the physical self, something more per...
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Interview with Mihai Pop at Plan B Gallery, Cluj

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jul 7, 2010, 6:27 am
To see the entire interview, please click on Vernissage TV Plan B is a gallery that opened in September 2005 in Cluj, the main city of the Romanian province of Transylvania. Initiated by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie, Plan B functions as a production space for contemporary art; at the same time it is...
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Interview with Michal of Lokal 30 at LISTE

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jun 24, 2010, 11:04 am
To see this interview, click on Vernissage TV For the fourth time, Lokal_30 is presenting its program at Liste – The Young Art Fair in Basel. The gallery is located in a former artists’ studio in a pre-war house at Foksal street in Warsaw, Poland. It has been open to the public since 2003 and i...
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Art Unlimited 2010

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jun 21, 2010, 5:02 am
Even at Art Basel, the Politics of Culture – this review appears on Artslant Worldwide Comprised of special installations by individual artists, the Art Unlimited section of the influential fair Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, always seemed an attempt by the gallerists to feel a little more mus...
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Swiss Art Awards 2010 – Pauline Julier

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - Jun 21, 2010, 4:58 am
This review appears on Artslant Worldwide Walking into yet another darkened viewing room at the annual Swiss Art Awards, I thought “when will all this video end?” Although it’s likely heresy to propose that most art videos are boring, after having watched more than 15 in an exhibition featuri...
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Selina Trepp: Things Happen or Not…

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 18, 2010, 11:32 am
this review appears on Artslant worldwide Selina Trepp Things happen. or not… Christinger de Mayo Zurich, CH Entering Christinger de Mayo Gallery in Zurich, a new gallery started in 2009 through the merge of two existing alternative spaces, is like transitioning from one state to another. Th...
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"White on Black", Interview with Dan Perjovschi

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 14, 2010, 2:16 pm
To see the interview, click here: vernissage.tv An internationally renowned artist, Dan Perjovschi creates site-specific and ephemeral works of art that are composed of countless images and texts, applied directly onto internal or external architectural surfaces. He gets his inspiration from the c...
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May 8 Art Tour of Lucerne

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 8, 2010, 2:29 pm
Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day – sunny and warm – perfect for a tour of the city. We started our tour at the Bahnhofplatz Infopoint, where Mathias Walter discussed his piece, Safetypoint, its implications, and humorous position next to the Fumetto Infopoint and the newly city-install...
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Comic art festival puts Lucerne at cutting edge

Olga STEFAN posted an article on Correspondences - May 1, 2010, 12:58 pm
Click here to see the article on Swissinfo.ch Lucerne may be a perfect tourist destination but until now it has not been known as a centre for cutting edge art. This may be about to change, as the Fumetto International Comix Festival this year celebrates its 19th anniversary with a series of intrig...
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About Me

I am currently a free-lance arts writer and curator living in Zurich, Switzerland. Before, was the executive director of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, from 2005-2008 and the executive director of Around the Coyote Arts Festival from 1998-2003. From 2003-2005, when I took time off to be with my new son, I free-lanced as the grant writer for Woman Made Gallery. I’ve curated several exhibitions, including the upcoming “For a Limited Time Only” featuring ephemeral installations, an international show, “Palpable Disequilibrium: Contemporary Art in Romania” at Sonnenschein Gallery at Barat College and LIPA Gallery in Chicago, “Resurrection” at Yello Gallery and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, “Please Print”, “April is the Cruelest Month”, and many others at ATC Space. I have also served as juror for several festivals, shows, and granting agencies.

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