Artist walks are already becoming a tradition in the Art Encounters Biennial setting, consistently extending from one edition to the next, energizing the whole experience offered to the public willing to meet a particular version of the exhibition route projected by the curatorial discourse.
These guided tours are customized on a case-by-case basis through spontaneity, creativity and ingenuity on the part of the artists in relation to the biennial’s visitors.
The first artist walk in the Garrison Command is guided by artist Ana Adam.
Ana Adam (b. 1964, Ormindea, Hunedoara) lives and works in Timișoara, Romania. She studied at the Ion Andreescu Art Academy in Cluj-Napoca from 1986 to 1992. Since 1994, she has been a professor at the Visual Art High School in Timișoara. Recent solo exhibitions include What’s the Forgotten Thread that Connects Me to Myself? RKI, Berlin (2023);, Life Vest Under Your Seat, NMCA, Bucharest (2021); Drawing Is Witchcraft or the Other Way Round, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara (2020); and Hangs By a Thread, Borderline Art Space, Iași (2019). Notable group exhibitions include Courage, the Fulfillment Won’t Break You, Cazarma U, Timișoara (2023); Expanded Nature, META Space, Timișoara (2023); Pulse 22, (New Purchases in the Collection of NMCA), NMCA, Bucharest (2023); Chronic Desire, Garrison Command, Timișoara (2023); On Her Side, Project Center, Timișoara (2023); and Statements of Pure Consciousness, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris (2022). She also participated in Life – A User’s Manual at the Art Encounters Biennale in Timișoara (2017). Her publication, BLOOD STOP SPACE GOLD – ANA ADAM, was published by Contrasens in 2019.
The program of these Artist Walks is every Friday, between 18:00-20:00, as follows: 6 June (Artist Walk with Laurian Popa in the exhibition Private Public, Jecza Gallery); 13 June (Artist Walk with Ana Adam at the Garnizoană); 20 June (Artist walk with Lore Ilie at Faber); 27 June (Artist walk with Mihai Toth at the Art Encounters Foundation); 4 July (Artist walk with Gavril Pop at the Art Encounters Foundation); 11 July (Artist walk with Christine Cizmaș at the Garrison).
