Dear Money

The Dear Money project was inspired by a work of artist Marina Albu and consists of forty contributions submitted by artists with whom the curatorial programme Salonul de proiecte had worked until 2013. The works tackle the relationship between art and money from various angles, through the perspective of some of the most relevant Romanian artists working today. The project also provides the opportunity to look back on Salonul de proiecte’s activity, a program that functions within The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. The theoretical texts by Bogdan Ghiu, Michael Baers and Suzana Milevska re-dimension these contributions to a certain extent, projecting them onto the backdrop of complex, current, urgent debates concerning the global crisis of the capitalist system. The project presentation texts are written by Diana Ursan.

Artistic projects by:

Marina Albu, Apparatus 22, Matei Bejenaru, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Alex Bodea, Mihuț Boșcu Kafchin, Răzvan Botiș, Tudor Bratu, Geta Brătescu, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Anetta Mona Chișa & Lucia Tkáčová, Andreea Ciobîcă, Coate-Goale, Irina Costache & Simina Guga, Cristina David, Paul Dunca, Tatiana Fiodorova, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ion Grigorescu, Mihai Iepure-Górski, Cătălin Ilie, Daniel Knorr, Mihaela Michailov, Aurelia Mihai, Olivia Mihălțianu, Mixer, Monotremu, Ciprian Mureșan, Daniela Pălimariu, Delia Popa, Raluca Popa, Ghenadie Popescu, Veda Popovici, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Flaviu Rogojan, Cristian Rusu, Ștefan Sava, Soyons Impossibles, Ștefan Tiron, Iulia Toma

Text contributors:

Michael Baers is an American artist and writer based in Berlin. His work has appeared in the context of the 10th Sharjah Biennial, the 6th Momentum Biennial, and Manifesta 08, and he has appeared in group shows at the Van Abbemuseum and Künstlerhaus Graz, among others. He has contributed comics and essays to many publications such as Chto Delat, Modern Painters, A Prior, and the e-flux journal, as well as to enumerable print initiatives. In May 2014 he published his first graphic novel, An Oral History of Picasso in Palestine, based on oral history research on Khaled Hourani's Picasso-in-Palestine project as part of the third Berlin Documentary Forum at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is available as a download at http://berlindocumentaryforum.baers.hkw.de/