Europalia — Programme 2019

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— Programme 2019

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02.10.2019 - 12.01.2020
Brancusi. Sublimation of Form.

EUROPALIA ROMANIA brings Brancusi to Brussels for the first time

05.10.2019 - 12.01.2020
ABC-Studio

A Brancusi-inspired workshop for all generations

15.11.2019
Angela Gheorghiu
& Alexandra Dariescu

Soprano superstar and piano prodigy take opera to a new glamorous level

30.11.2019 - 02.02.2020
Ion Grigorescu
- Cinema

Retrospective exhibition with cinema as the common thread

06.10.2019 - 12.12.2019
URS GEEST

A ritual parade of dancing bears reinvented by a Belgian-Romanian duo

19.10.2019 - 26.04.2020
Dacia Felix -
Romania’s Glorious Past

A fascinating encounter with six peoples of classical antiquity

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27.10.2019
Valentin Radutiu and Per Rundberg

A dazzling duet between cello and piano

28.09.2019 - 01.12.2019
Virginia Lupu
- Alias

Lupu produces a new body of photographic and video work focusing on the major witches’ reunion taking place in Romania this year

19.10.2019 - 26.04.2020
Dacia Felix -
Romania’s Glorious Past

A fascinating encounter with six peoples of classical antiquity

21.10.2019 - 14.12.2019
Dan Perjovschi

One week of live drawings by Dan Perjovschi

09.10.2019 - 11.10.2019
Eirwud Mudwasser DJ-set

Eclectic DJ-set, between the electronic and the organic

22.11.2019 - 19.12.2019
Ioana Paun
- The Birth of Violence

Symbolism, philosophy and sculpture shed light on radicalised youth

01.11.2019 - 30.11.2019
Madalina Dan
- The Agency of Touch

Tactile experience/performance reverses the roles of artist and audience.

13.12.2019 - 15.12.2019
Anton Pann Ensemble

A modern take on the sounds of historical Romania

17.11.2019 - 13.11.2019
Touch Me Not

A personal research project about intimacy

20.11.2019 - 06.12.2019
Alex Simu Quintet
- Echoes of Enescu

Orchestral compositions in a chamber jazz setting

11.10.2019
Zmei3

Rough Romanian Soul

14.12.2019 - 26.01.2020
Europalia Curator's Award: HIT

For the third edition of this unique prize, curator Els Vermang creates a HIT with artist Claudia Radulescu

06.11.2019
L’anecdote dans le contexte de l’histoire européenne commune (in FR)

What role does the anecdote play in European history? Writers Matei Visniec, Adrian Cioroianu, and Baudouin Decharneux take a closer look at the short narrative form.

17.01.2020 - 18.01.2020
Eszter Salamon
- Monument 0.8: Manifestation

Five dancers bring the Eastern European feminist emancipation back to life in a choreographic manifestation

17.12.2019 - 19.12.2019
Theater Radu Stanca
- The Scarlet Princess

Spectacular Kabuki theatre bridges the gap between European and Japanese tradition

06.12.2019
The Reenactment

Two students are forced by the court to reconstruct a drunken evening in front of the cameras

15.11.2019
Angela Gheorghiu
& Alexandra Dariescu

Soprano superstar and piano prodigy take opera to a new glamorous level

21.10.2019 - 18.12.2019
Videograms of a Revolution

The reconstruction of the fall of Ceausescu through television images.

28.11.2019
Double bill - Alex Simu Quintet / John Ghost

Romanian chamber music with a touch of Ghent jazz

26.10.2019 - 19.01.2020
Ciprian Muresan

Ciprian Muresan takes works from the permanent collection of S.M.A.K. as the starting point for a dialogue with his own work

03.10.2019
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

~ New creation Brancusi exhibition ~ Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates a choreographic object in which Brâncuși’s shapes resonate

A musical journey to the birthplaces of famous composers

08.01.2020 - 10.01.2020
Ensemble Raro-SoNoRo

Romanian chamber music as you’ve never heard it before

11.01.2020
ConTempo Ensemble
- Different Trains

‘The ABBA of classical music’ brings a Romanian touch to American minimalism

08.10.2019
Opening 101 Livres-Ardoises with Wanda Mihuleac and guests

Poetic performances and video to open the exhibition 101 Livres-Ardoises in beauty

03.10.2019 - 05.10.2019
Bogman

Party as a local at one of the hippest parties from Bucharest, now in Brussels

05.12.2019 - 06.12.2019
Alexander Arpeggio
& Maria Balabas

Berlin producer meets eclectic Romanian singer and sound-artist

10.10.2019 - 11.10.2019
Kinema Ikon

Re-scoring the lost shorts from Romania’s communist times

07.12.2019 - 12.12.2019
Simona Popescu

Award-winning prose writer and poet Simona Popescu is a guest at Maison de la Poésie

13.12.2019 - 16.12.2019
Bright Bridges

Belgian violinist reunites Romanian and Turkish sounds

09.11.2019 - 09.02.2020
Rethinking the Image of the World
- Projects and Sketches

An exploration of contemporary Romanian art of the last decade

25.10.2019
Carmen Lidia Vidu
- Romania Diary. Constanta

Documentary-theatre by six actresses about, with and addressed to their hometown, Constanta

29.11.2019 - 01.12.2019
Belgian National Orchestra

The National Orchestra steps out of its comfort zone

07.11.2019 - 10.11.2019
Daniel Petrica Ciobanu

Audience favourite's enchanting piano sounds

03.10.2019 - 05.10.2019
Dragos Rusu - The Attic

Eclectic set by a key figure in Bucharest's nightlife scene

19.11.2019
Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri
- Oedipe Redux

A radical re-imagining of George Enescu’s Oedipe

12.01.2020
Florian Mitrea

A composer’s sorrow

22.11.2019
Double bill - DUMItRIO / Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri

A modern take on the origins of Romanian wisdom

Brancusi
- New Creations

Seven contemporary performances and installations interpret Brancusi

15.10.2019
Lecture by studioBASAR

A lecture focusing on public actions, community projects and educational programmes developed by studioBASAR in Bucharest

09.12.2019
Toto and His Sisters

A moving portrayal of three Roma children in Bucharest

11.12.2019
Sergiu Matis
- Nocturne for Broken Vocal Cords

In this solo show, Matis’ voice dances as much as his body

17.01.2020 - 05.03.2020
Enchanting Views

Romanian Black Sea Tourism Planning and Architecture of the 1960s and ’70s

23.10.2019 - 03.11.2019
Iosif Kiraly -
88 Clouds Will Rain For You

Deep listening to Romanian sound art with the sound of water traveling through space

09.10.2019 - 11.10.2019
Khidja AV-LIVE

World premiere of Khidja’s live band & new audiovisual show

17.12.2019
Ricercar Consort

A concert based on centuries-old manuscripts from the court of Vasi Lupu

08.11.2019
Ionica Minune Band

The king of accordion mixes jazz and Gypsy

04.10.2019
Octavian Nemescu
& Caroline Profanter

Octavian Nemescu seminal work spatially interpreted by Caroline Profanter

Gaëtan Rusquet & Philip Janssens - The eye in the light in the eye (working title)

Echoing the work of Brancusi, Gaëtan Rusquet makes visible the desire for the absolute by highlighting or concealing the real

02.10.2019 - 12.01.2020
Brancusi. Sublimation of Form.

EUROPALIA ROMANIA brings Brancusi to Brussels for the first time

17.11.2019
Alexandra Dariescu
- The Nutcracker and I

A multimedia performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker

19.09.2019
A.A.I.R - OK

A research residence about Brancusi’s Targu Jiu monument, commissioned by the National Women’s Union of Gorj

24.01.2020
Deliric
x Silent Strike

Romania’s Hip-hop icons in Belgium for the first time

07.12.2019
The New Romanian Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema)

An innovative collection of essays on contemporary Romanian cinema

09.10.2019 - 30.10.2019
Wanda Mihuleac

Graphic arts and poetry, an encounter with Wanda Mihuleac

03.10.2019
Dan Coman @ Transpoesie 2019

The second poetry-reading of Transpoesie 2019 is a unique evening with five contemporary poets, among whom Dan Coman from Romania

30.11.2019 - 02.02.2020
Ion Grigorescu
- Cinema

Retrospective exhibition with cinema as the common thread

27.11.2019 - 29.11.2019
Deathbycoconut

Bucharest Postpunk & Krautrock newcomers for the first time outside of Romania

05.12.2019 - 04.12.2019
De la force poétique

Five female poets, five voices, three generations

16.11.2019 - 16.09.2019
De l'art du paysan roumain à la création contemporaine: bref parcours

A symposium with anthropologist and Romania specialist Marianne Mesnil

23.11.2019 - 29.11.2019
Double bill - Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri / Alex Simu Quintet

A surprising reworking of Enescu's repertoire

18.12.2019
The Power of Memory - Romanian Writers, 30 Years after the Dictatorship

Romanian writers Gabriela Adamesteanu, Mircea Cartarescu, Ioana Parvulescu and Catalin Pavel look back at the Revolution of '89

28.11.2019 - 28.09.2019
Madalina Dan - ex-peau-sition

A choreography about tactile perceptions

28.11.2019 - 01.09.2019
Karpov Not Kasparov
+ Anthony Nti

Newly commissioned videoclip of ‘Karpov not Kasparov’ by Anthony Nti

14.10.2019 - 20.12.2019
LOCI

Conferences and exhibitions programme on architecture and urbanism in Romania

05.11.2019
Collectif du Lion
- Brancusi 'est-ce un oiseau?'

A performance about the definition of a work of art

12.10.2019 - 14.12.2019
Au⁷⁹ – Textures patrimoniales

New creations by Daniel Henry in dialogue with traditional Romanian textiles

02.10.2019 - 12.01.2020
Perspectives

An introduction to Romania and its national identity

08.10.2019
Manuel Pelmus - A Luxury That We Can't Afford

An intangible, live version of Wisdom of the Earth, Brancusi’s sculpture that provoked controversy in 1907

26.10.2019 - 20.11.2019
Electrecord
- Romania in Vinyl Covers

Electrecord, a legendary record label and witness of the communist era

05.12.2019 - 17.12.2019
Gherasim Luca, déraison d’être

Three comedians pay tribute to the famous Surrealist poet Gherasim Luca

18.10.2019 - 12.12.2019
In de Wind – Aan de Wand :
Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova

Humain hair is big business

01.11.2019
Balanescu Quartet

A tribute to Maria Tanase

08.12.2019 - 18.12.2019
Wim Vandekeybus/ Ultima Vez
- TRACES – A DANCED CONCERT

Choreographic and musical search for our inner primal beast

16.10.2019 - 20.10.2019
Mahala Rai Banda

Wild Gypsy beats from the Romanian suburbs

18.11.2019
The Great Communist Bank Robbery

The reconstruction of the strangest bank heist in Romanian history

20.11.2019 - 21.11.2019
Taraf de Impex

Gipsy tradition meets modern electronica

08.11.2019 - 26.04.2020
Roots,
the Danube civilizations

The Romanian Neolithic and Bronze Age seen through pottery, anthropomorphic figurines, jewellery and weapons in gold and bronze from the Danube region

23.11.2019
Soirée polar with George Arion (in French)

Crime writers George Arion, Alain Berenboom, and Liliana Lazar discuss why crime novels are more popular than ever

05.12.2019 - 05.01.2019
Larisa Sitar
- Robust Boast

An absurd and ahistorical combination of styles

28.10.2019 - 09.10.2019
Rodion G.A. presents
Misiunea spatiala Delta

New soundtrack and screening of Romania’s cult animation film

20.11.2019 - 21.11.2019
Fanfare Ciocarlia

Fierce and Funky Balkan Groove by a well-known Gipsy Brass band

19.10.2019 - 20.10.2019
Cimbalom workshop
with Marius Mihalache

Cimbalom for beginners

30.11.2019
Nous sommes tous un peu dada

Panel about the pioneering role of the Romanian avant-garde in Dada and the surrealist movement

28.11.2019
Alexandra Croitoru & Vlad Basalici - Untitled

An ironic approach to the fetishisation and exploitation of Constantin Brancusi’s work

05.12.2019 - 06.12.2019
Agata Siniarska/ Madalina Dan
- Mothers of Steel

Two futuristic female robots question the political power of grief

05.12.2019 - 25.10.2019
Bogdan Orbita

Dissonance as an engine for musical innovation, an unpredictable DJ set, from Krautrock, Industrial, Dub to tribal moods

06.10.2019 - 12.12.2019
URS GEEST

A ritual parade of dancing bears reinvented by a Belgian-Romanian duo

22.11.2019 - 24.11.2019
Maria Raducanu Quintet

21st century Maria Tanase creates a melting pot of Romanian sounds

30.10.2019 - 31.10.2019
Ada Milea & Balanescu Quartet

Comical mini-opera with thrilling soundtrack

02.10.2019 - 12.01.2020
Lia Perjovschi

Using collages, photographs and black-and-white works by Brancusi, Lia Perjovschi illustrate the live of the sculptor

19.07.2019 - 29.09.2019
Mihai Topescu
and Doina Levintza

A preview of Romania at Beloeil this summer

03.10.2019 - 04.10.2019
Raze de Soare

Romanian 90s oriental gipsy and 21st-century electronic beats

05.12.2019 - 06.12.2019
Borusiade

Audiovisual live show by female producer Borusiade, from gloomy new wave to industrial sound

12.12.2019
Carmien Michels, Simona Popescu, Andreea Rasuceanu & Catalina Oslobanu

Accompanied by translator Catalina Oslobanu and writers Simona Popescu and Andreea Rasuceanu, poet Carmien Michels tells about her residency in Timisoara

15.01.2020 - 17.01.2020
Florin Niculescu

A musical bridge between East and West

03.10.2019 - 04.10.2019
The Attic presents -
Milan W. & The Tulnic Ensemble of Avram Iancu

Antwerp-based Milan W. composes music for the tulnic, a traditional Romanian instrument

13.11.2019
Migration / Multilingualism (in English)

Claudiu M. Florian and Tatiana Tibuleac, two Romanian writers, start a discussion on migration and multilingualism

18.10.2019 - 12.12.2019
Displacement and Togetherness

Historical and cultural perspectives on migration

04.10.2019 - 19.01.2020
BE & RO:
LOOKING BACK, THINKING FURTHER

Six Romanian and Belgian photographers in dialogue with the museum’s collections