CHIOȘC/KIOSK exhibition
Galéria HIT, Bratislava
April 17 – May 10, 2013
April 17, 2013, 6pm – opening

Eternal Play 2012, a film by Paula DURINOVA – screening
April 17, 2013, 8pm

http://www.galeriahit.com
http://chiosc.oberliht.org

participants: AREA Chicago, Aliona BALAN and Alexandru LOZINSCHI, Nataša BODROŽIĆ, Maxim CUZMENCO, Paula DURINOVA, Michal HOLY, Tonka MALEKOVIĆ and Ion FISTICANU, Ștefan RUSU, Jarek SEDLAK, Spălătorie Theatre, Gruppo Tökmag, Vadim ȚÎGANAȘ, Vladimir US.

curator: Vladimir US

Diana AROSIO, Ivy. Plastic Garden, installation, 2010

CHIOȘC/KIOSK project articulates and expresses the need for alternative cultural infrastructure to be created in Chisinau – a city where the cultural life is still dominated by institutions established during the Soviet period – as a model for sharing, education, production and presentation of socially engaged artistic practices.

Jarek SEDLAK, Power to Flowers, installation, 2011

The exhibition presented in HIT takes form of a furnished flat, thus making reference to the FLAT SPACE – a functional replica of a socialist apartment designed by Stefan Rusu and commissioned to represent the identity of KIOSK/CHIOȘC project. In its turn, the FLAT SPACE was conceived as a response to the existing self-sufficient and closed system of cultural institutions that is continuously supported by the Moldovan state within an outdated cultural policy framework.

The other important reference that FLAT SPACE has is the phenomenon of the apartment exhibitions that took place in the mid of 70s, in bigger cities in USSR like Leningrad, Moscow or Odessa, organized by artists whose works got censored or banned from being exhibited in the official exhibition halls.

Today, many years later, FLAT SPACE can still be read as an apartment exhibition space due to the lack of support that contemporary art and culture receive from the authorities of the recently-born independent Moldovan state, thus being marginalized and reduced to an invisible phenomenon.

In the course of 2009-2012 KIOSK/CHIOȘC project supported artists, architects, curators and activists to project new functions and sometimes add a different significance to the inherited social (in the past controlled by the Soviet state) space, by extending the limits of what could become later a public space and by inviting new actors to step in, thus opening the process of city planning and space distribution to other previously excluded social groups.

The current exhibition presents the works created by local and invited in the frame of KIOSK/CHIOȘC artist in residency program participants. By making use of abandoned, underused or mono-functional public spaces the artists along with Chișinău inhabitants, open new spaces of dialogue and critical reflection, and observation of the recent public space transformations, questioning in the same time the established order and the existing regulations along with the authority that maintains them.

The outcomes of these interventions and the reactions to them should encourage us to rethink the role that art could play and the artist could have when working in and with the public domain, regaining and opening new space of interaction in a landscape dominated by private political and economic interests.

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Catalogul CHIOȘC

În urma seriei de proiecte cu titlul INTERVENȚII (2006-2008) Asociația Oberliht a lansat, în 2009, proiectul CHIOȘC, întruchipat în APARTAMENTUL DESCHIS – un punct de informare cultural şi o platformă publică pentru participare, care oferă continuitate acțiunilor realizate anterior și se prezintă drept alternativă instituțiilor de cultură moștenite din perioada comunistă. Instalat pe un mic segment al teritoriului municipal, strecurat printre maşinile care ocupă în mod agresiv trotuarele, APARTAMENTUL DESCHIS joacă rolul unui agent activ caracterizat prin implicare civică conform unui model »de jos în sus«, interpretând angajamentul cultural ca acţiune socială şi generând, astfel, cultură critică. Activităţile desfăşurate în cadrul acestuia ţin de cele mai importante aspecte ale relaţiei cu spaţiul care îl înconjoară, una dintre preocupările majore fiind problema spaţiului public. Într-un sens mai larg, proiectul oferă premisele pentru o analiză a realităţilor culturale, sociale şi politice ale uneia dintre suburbiile Europei.

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KIOSK catalogue

Following the series of projects titled INTERVENTIONS (2006-2008) Oberliht association launched the KIOSK project in 2009. Embodied in FLAT SPACE – a cultural information point and a platform for public participation, it aims to provide continuity to the previously organized activities and offer an alternative within a cultural sector dominated by institutions inherited from the Communist period. Installed on a tiny segment of municipal ground, squeezed in between cars aggressively taking over the sidewalks, FLAT SPACE plays the role of an active agent of bottom-up civic involvement, understanding cultural engagement as social action capable of producing a critical culture. The activities built around it address, in its immediate surroundings, the urgent question of public space. In a broader way the project offers the basis for the analysis of the cultural, social and political realities of one of Europe’s suburbs.

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Dear all,

I would like to invite you to visit our booth at Supermarket artists initiatives international art fair in Stockholm between 18-20 of February 2011: http://supermarketartfair.com
Oberliht Association will present several activities and projects that we have been organizing during the last few years:
Most of the space will be dedicated to CHIOSC project and events organized within its framework: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/chiosc
CHIOSC project / FLAT SPACE: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/apartament
CHIOSC project / Wind Protest: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/2010/04/07/protest-in-vint-wind-protest
CHIOSC project / Notes for People’s Atlas of Public Space in Chisinau: http://atlasofchisinau.wordpress.com

works by: Ion FISTICANU, Tonka MALEKOVIC, Ghenadie POPESCU, Stefan RUSU, Tokmag group, Zampa di Leone and other artists.

but also
INTERVENTIONS3: http://oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html
POSTBOX magazine: http://plic.oberliht.com
[Oberlist] mailing list: https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist

During the fair Vadim TIGANAS, Natasa BODROZIC and Vladimir US will invite you for Borsch and Compote for Culture fundraising event, cooked at the spot – a performance taking its origins in Soup network worldwide, but re-enacting one of the most successful business models that South has brought to the North – that one of a fast food restaurant.

Hope to see you in Stockholm!

The participation of Oberliht Association in Supermarket was possible due to kind support offered by Swedish Institute: http://www.si.se/English

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Asociația Oberliht vă invită să vizitați târgul internațional de artă Supermarket, în Stockholm, între 18-20 februarie 2011:http://supermarketartfair.com
Asociația Oberliht va prezenta mai multe activități și proiecte pe care le-a organizat pe parcursul ultimilor ani.
Se va pune accent pe proiectul CHIOȘC și pe evenimentele organizate în cadrul acestuia: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/chiosc
proiectul CHIOȘC / APARTAMENTUL DESCHIS: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/apartament
proiectul CHIOȘC / Protest în vânt: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/2010/04/07/protest-in-vint-wind-protest
proiectul CHIOȘC / Însemnări ale cetățenilor pentru un atlas al spațiului public din Chișinău: http://atlasofchisinau.wordpress.com

lucrări de: Ion FISTICANU, Tonka MALEKOVIC, Ghenadie POPESCU, Stefan RUSU, Tokmag group, Zampa di Leone și alți artiști.

deasemenea
INTERVENȚII3: http://oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html
Revista la PLIC: http://plic.oberliht.com
[Oberlist] mailing list: https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist

Pe parcursul târgului, Vadim TIGANAS, Natasa BODROZIC și Vladimir US vă vor invita la evenimentele de strângere de fonduri supă / compot pentru cultură, pregătite la fața locului – un performance care-și are originile în rețeaua mondială de Supă, tinzând să reactualizeze un model de afacere de succes pe care sudul l-a dezvoltat în nord – cel al restaurantelor fast-food.

Sperăm să vă vedem în Stockholm!

Participarea Asociației Oberliht la Supermarket este posibilă datorită suportului oferit de Institutul Suedez: http://www.si.se/English

Tonka MALEKOVIC, Urban plastic – species (dis)appearing, Zagreb 2009

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Tonka Maleković, visual artist and member of the Loose Associations/Slobodne veze has been awarded the prize for young artist of the year 2010 by the Croatian Association of Artists. She is awarded for her public space interventions “The Fountain City” and “Urban plastic – species (dis)appearing”. “The Fountain City”  is the final stage of the collaborative project POSSIBILITY OF THE CITY realized by Tonka Maleković and Ion Fisticanu, produced within the CHIOSC artist in residency program (curated by Natasa Bodrozic ; ).

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