All our Todays: Contemporary Art from the Museum of Recent Art
Overview
“All our Todays: Contemporary Art from the Museum of Recent Art” is a group exhibition held at MARe/ Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest, Romania, from 12 February 2025 to 25 May 2025. Bringing together over 40 leading international contemporary artists, the exhibition is curated by Flavia Frigeri and loana luna Serban, and "organized around a series of thematic constellations that take into account the constant oscillation between abstraction and figuration that characterizes so much of contemporary art.“
Featured artists:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tomma Abts, Etel Adnan, Harold Ancart, Karel Appel, Imre Bak, Max Bill, Daniel Buren, André Butzer, Huguette Caland, Giorgio de Chirico, Edith Dekyndt, Olafur Eliasson, Valie Export, Helmut Federle, Lucio Fontana, Gunther Förg, Bernard Frize, Antony Gormley, Katharina Grosse, Andreas Gursky, Marcia Hafif, Peter Halley, Hans Hartung, Christian Jankowski, Hans Josephson, Martha Jungwirth, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Markus Lüpertz, Marco Maggi, Georges Mathieu, Roberto Matta, François Morellet, Hermann Nitsch, Kenneth Noland, A.R. Penck, Marina Perez Simão, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Fiona Rae, Arnulf Reiner, Daniel Richter, Bridget Riley, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Richard Serra, Sean Scully, Chiharu Shiota, Henryk Stazewski, Franciszka Themerson, Mark Tobey, Rasa Todosijevic, Erwin Wurm, Cătälin Cretu.
Design: Ciprian Ciuclea
About the Authors
Flavia Frigeri
Dr Flavia Frigeri is an art historian, lecturer, and ‘Chanel Curator for the Collection’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London where she is leading a project set to redress the gender imbalance in the collection through acquisitions and site-specific commissions. She recently guest curated the group exhibition Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK and is now working on All Our Todays a survey of international contemporary art at MARe, Bucharest, Romania and a retrospective of avant-garde French-Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy. From 2016 to 2020 she was a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art Department UCL and a member of faculty at Sotheby’s Institute, London. Previously she was ‘Curator, International Art’ at Tate Modern, where she co-curated The World Goes Pop (2015), and was responsible for Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014), Paul Klee: Making Visible (2013) and Ruins in Reverse (2013). She is the author of Pop Art and Women Artists both in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series and the co-editor of a volume of collected essays, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021). She is a trustee for the AAH - Association for Art History.
Ioana Iuna Șerban
Ioana Iuna Șerban is curator at MARe/Museum of Recent Art, researcher, poet and has a PhD in Philology with a thesis regarding the new in the image-text relation in contemporary culture and art. She has an ostensive experience in curating exhibitions, doing research in postwar and contemporary art. She authored texts for over 10 catalogues on Romanian contemporary art, catalogues for which she sometimes also worked as a translator. She published 3 poetry books, for the latest – Girl Meets Institution (Vellant, 2024) – she received the prize The Young Poet of the Year 2024.
Technical Details
- Publication Date:
- Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Format:
- Digital book