Chronic Desire - Sete cronică Main group exhibition

"Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică" (February 17 - April 23), the central group exhibition of the opening of Timișoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture, is a proposal of new vocabularies: those of looking, feeling and writing, which can be useful instruments in reading the brutal present. This exhibition proposes artistic practices that explore history and can thus bring into discussion the current critical moment - political and ecological.

The exhibition includes works by 34 artists, in 4 exhibition spaces, with 22 new commissioned works, 5 commissioned works for public space and a rich mediation program.

"Chronic Desire - Chronic Thirst" can be visited until 23 April in 4 locations:

  • Timișoara Garrison Command, 1st floor - Libertății Square
  • Public Transport Museum "Corneliu Miklosi"
  • Stefania Palace - Traian Square
  • Maria Theresia Bastion

Visiting schedule:

Wednesday - Saturday: 13:00 - 20:00

Sunday: 11:00 - 18:00

Education through culture and cultural mediation

The waves of contemporary hostility and a weaponised climate today leave us thirsty for a vocabulary that imagines new configurations, and activates a transformative and critical thinking. From the civil rights and women’s liberation movements art, as in images, as in language, as in forms, as in sounds, reveals ugly facts, raises awareness, and ignites united fronts.

Chronic Desire – Sete Cronică is a proposal for vocabularies of looking, feeling and writing, which can be useful instruments for reading the brutal present. This exhibition showcases art practices which can cut in and cut through history and address the current critical political and ecological moment.

When hegemonic histories incline to split us, our situations must be confronted for another kind of freedom that enables our dissimilarities to arise. By shifting our position and worldview, we populate orbits of intersected realities that are in continuous movement. As we move and shift in alliances with each other, we fissure the ground, demolish barriers, and shape new connectors/channels. The title Chronic desire – Sete cronică points, on the one hand, to a recurring, persistent state and, on the other, to the double meaning of the Romanian word “sete”, which means both thirst and desire.

The exhibition Chronic desire – Sete cronica follows three threads: Commons – Landings – History and Subjecthood. These threads meander through the different venues around the city of Timişoara and their legacies of military and industrial heritage.

How do we generate new 'Commons' in the name of revolutionary struggles across race, class, gender, ability, age and sexuality? Landings is devoted to crossover readings of land histories, geological agency and rurality. While colonial histories of western Europe and the Third Worldist projects of the 20th century are evoked in critical global discourse as typical configurations of modernity, the vocabularies of land history, agricultural struggle and supply industries are hardly considered as key narrative protagonists. History and Subjecthood grapples with current toxic climates, from political to environmental landscapes, condensed in the most liminal sense, the one of thirst-sete.

Artists:
Ana Adam, Leonor Antunes, Tarek Atoui, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Irina Botea Bucan, Pavel Brăila, Anca Bucur, Dana Catona, Lia Dostlieva și Andrii Dostliev, Saskia Holmkvist, Shilpa Gupta, Joan Jonas, Hiwa K, Zhanna Kadyrova, Ana Kun & Noemi Hügel, Susanna Jablonski & Santiago Mostyn, Adriana Lucaciu, Silvia Moldovan, Harun Morrison, Dan Perjovschi, Agnieszka Polska, Renée Renard, Marinella Senatore, Alexa Szekeres, Slavs & Tatars, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, Rosa Whiteley, RomaMoMA (Ionela Mihaela Cîmpeanu & Sead Kazanxhiu)

Curators:
Cosmina Goagea, Corina Oprea, Brîndușa Tudor

The exhibition "Chronic desire - Sete Cronică" is organized by the Center for Projects of the Municipality of Timisoara, as part of the Opening of Timisoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture.

Events from project 8

Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică | Program pentru școli
Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică | Program pentru șc…

Feb. 17, 2023 – April 23, 2023

Programul de tururi ghidate este construit în jurul expoziției Chronic desire – Sete cronică, dedicat …

Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică | Program pentru familii și copii
Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică | Program pentru fa…

Feb. 17, 2023 – April 23, 2023

Un program de mediere cu un design pedagogic modern ce cuprinde atât educație prin cultură, …

Guided Tours SRB | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Guided Tours SRB | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

Feb. 25, 2023 – April 18, 2023

Guided group tours will be organized every weekend, free of charge, in different languages: Romanian, …

Artă și ecologie | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Artă și ecologie | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

March 1, 2023 – April 12, 2023

This guided tour investigates our relationship with nature and those around us. Audiences will explore …

Adevăr sau provocare, program pentru companii | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Adevăr sau provocare, program pentru companii | C…

March 3, 2023 – April 21, 2023

Ce ar vrea artistul să-mi spun? – participanții vor învăța cum să abordeze teme cu …

Guided Tours DE | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Guided Tours DE | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

March 4, 2023 – April 1, 2023

Tururi ghidate de grup vor fi organizate în fiecare weekend, gratuit, în diferite limbi: română, …

Tur de arhitectură și artă | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Tur de arhitectură și artă | Chronic Desire - Set…

March 5, 2023 – April 26, 2023

A light tour of architecture in the historic districts of Fabrik, Cetate, Tipografilor followed by …

Poetry performance | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Poetry performance | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

March 9, 2023 – April 20, 2023

Un performance de recitare și spoken words în acompaniament de muzică; versurile sunt alese în …

Evenimente încheiate 3

Guided Tours EN | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Guided Tours EN | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

Feb. 25, 2023 – March 18, 2023

Guided group tours will be organized every weekend, free of charge, in different languages: Romanian, …

Guided Tours HU | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Guided Tours HU | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică

Feb. 25, 2023 – March 18, 2023

Guided group tours will be organized every weekend, free of charge, in different languages: Romanian, …

Critical thinking, visual thinking | Chronic Desire - Sete Cronică
Critical thinking, visual thinking | Chronic Desi…

March 2, 2023 – March 20, 2023

This tour involves practicing critical thinking skills such as argumentation, detecting logical errors, formulating questions, …