”Adina Pintilie: You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body”, in the opening of Timisoara 2023

     After successfully representing Romania at 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022, the exhibition ‘You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body’ by artist and filmmaker Adina Pintilie, will be presented for the first time in Romania, at Kunsthalle Bega, in the official opening of ‘Timisoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture’ (February 17-19, 2023). The opening event will take place on February 17 at 1 p.m. It will be attended by artist Adina Pintilie, curators Cosmin Costinaș, Viktor Neumann, protagonists Hermann Müller and Dirk Lange and creative producer Bianca Oana.
     Nominated to represent Romania at the 2022 Venice Art Biennial, the exhibition ‘You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body’ presented a series of new art works by Adina Pintilie: several film installations, a cinematic sculpture and a VR installation. Reimagining the historically loaded Romanian pavilion into a contemporary ‘cathedral’, the exhibition celebrates the body and human connections beyond preconceptions, encouraging openness to different experiences of the body and diverse views of the world. It proposes possibilities to see, to think, and to relate, that destabilize ingrained visual rhetoric and politics of the gaze, making way for new forms of knowing and for transformative experiences.
     “Enrapturing… a visceral and unsettling experience”, according to the Art Newspaper, called ‘a masterpiece of the moment’ by Artpress, and “moving, prejudice busting” by art critic Louisa Buck, the project has been received with great acclaim by the international press, being ranked in esteemed publications among the most appreciated national participations to the last edition of the Biennale.
Read more about the echoes of the project in international media in the Press Coverage section  www.cathedralofthebody.com.
     The exhibition presented in Venice from April 23 to November 27, 2022 was adapted to Kunsthalle Bega art space în Timișoara with the support of the City of Timișoara - Center for Projects and BRD Groupe Société Générale, leading partner, by artist Bogdan Rața together with exhibition designer Martin Backhaus, sound mixers Marius Leftărache and Vlad Feneșan, H3 media art studio and VR designer collective Augmented Space Agency.
     Realized in partnership with HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the project’s Cultural Mediation Programme, - coordinated by Larisa Oancea (art historian and researcher) and Daniel Neugebauer (Head of Communication and Cultural Education at HKW Berlin) - was launched for young researchers and students to assist the visiting audience during the exhibition ‘You Are Another Me–A Cathedral of the Body’. The participants will have the important role of ensuring, on the one hand, the mediation process of the exhibition content with the visiting public of the exhibition, and on the other hand, to extend and deepen the artistic research on topics inherent to Adina Pintilie’s project, such as the poetics of intimacy and the politics of the body.
     The exhibition ‘You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body’ is open to the public at Kunsthalle Bega, from February 17 to April 30, 2023. Then it will continue its international exhibition route, in Germany, at the Württembergischer Kunstverein,  Stuttgart (October 2023 - February 2024).
You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body is part of the Opening of Timișoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture and financed by the Municipality of Timișoara through the Center for Projects and produced by Manekino Film, Manekino Cultural Association, Kunsthalle Bega and Calina Foundation, supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute and BRD Groupe Société Générale.
     A project produced by: Manekino Film, Manekino Cultural Association, Kunsthalle Bega and Calina Foundation, Timișoara Center for Projects Co-producers:  Avanpost, Snaporazverein
In collaboration with: Eidotech, H3, Augmented Space Agency Main partner:  BRD Groupe Société Générale Supported by: Romanian Cultural Institute Institutional partner: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin Academic partners: UNATC National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest, CINETic International Centre for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies,  UVT University of Arts and Design in Timișoara Private partners: Bega Group, Tudor Havriliuc & David Corbell, Andrei Dunca Public programme partners: Kilobase, Dispozitiv Books, Motivation Romania Foundation, MozaiQ Association Liked by Radio Guerrilla Media and monitoring partners: TVR, Radio Guerrilla, Radio România Cultural, Europa Liberă România, Radio România Internațional, Deutsche Welle, Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung, Revista Arta, Scena9, Kajet Journal, Observator Cultural, Propagarta, Libertatea, Elle, Avantaje, Unica.ro, The Institute, LiterNet, Modernism.ro, mediaTRUST