EFFI & PYM

The Museum of Old Maps, MNHCV headquarters on Londra Str. 39, Bucharest,

20/09 – 23/10/2022

Beatrice von Babel is a flexible organism, composed of autonomous creators and performers, whose actions temporarily overlap, in various architectural and mental spaces, intimate maps and individual paths. Divergences and similarities constantly reconfigure the dating network. This international creative body produced the exhibition and event series “Under the Boat”, realized between April 20 and May 20, 2022 in the Sala del Camino in Giudecca, Venice, in collaboration with the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation ; the exhibition – event inserted a living artistic environment into the local community , with photo, audio, sculpture, installation, painting, performance works that metamorphosed daily and always kept the public’s attention awake.

Arriving from Venice to Bucharest, Beatrice von Babel brings with her a type of multimedia and plural exhibition experience, which accommodates installation, object, painting, movement, sound, poetry, in the Venetian-style villa of the National Museum of Old Maps and Books. The exhibition from the temporary space continues in the perimeter of the museum’s permanent collection, outlining a course of travel based on intimate expectations and desires, confronted with concrete realities and requirements. The most different routes, however, have a common map: that of man traversing the world.

The exhibition – event Effi / Pym at the Museum of Maps is inspired by a graft between the aristocratic-dramatic figure of Effi Briest from Theodore Fontane’s novel and the adventurous-fantasy sailor Gordon Pym from EA Poe’s novel. This fusion evokes imaginary and mental welds that transcend geographical and temporal coordinates, to outline the possible maps of very real and intimate synesthetic territories, impossible to formulate otherwise than artistically.

Sculptures, fabrics, installations, painting, photography, video, acoustic works and instrumental, vocal and electronic music, performances and actions will be exhibited at the Museum of Maps, alternatively and cumulatively.

Drawing : ROBERTA Curcă, RENATA Jaworska, ROBERT Köteles, Lost.Optics, IRINA Matthes, THOMAS Schütte, SEVAN Szekely, MARIAN Zidaru
Photography : LEONARD Alecu, ION Grigorescu, Whatisafullstop (LAURA Stanciu), THOMAS Ruff
Text/object/sound installation : ROBERT Boghiu, DANIELE Capra, MATEI Contoloru, FLORINA Drăguș, REGINA Ionescu, DAISUKE Ishida, BERND Kastner, NOEMI Morocho, PATRICIA Morocho, IOANA Şerban, DORIN Ştefan, OPHELIA Young, VICTORIA Zidaru
Sculpture : HEDE Bühl, RIKE Droescher, CLEMENS Goldbach, MASAO Nakahara, PIO Ziltz
Poetry : ŞTEFAN Manasia, OLGA Ştefan
Painting: KYOKO Murase, ANCA Muresan, ALINA Petre, BENIAMIN Popescu, VIRGINIA Toma
Performance : SOYA Arakawa, BAPTISTE Bersoux, ALVISE Gioli, GRIGORE Leșe, SOFIA Pozdnyakova, ISABELLA Sponchiado, GABRIELE Tai, VITTORIO Tommasi
Guest artists : ION Grigorescu, GRIGORE Leșe, THOMAS Ruff, THOMAS Schütte

The exhibition will feature works by students from the Accademia di Venezia, who participated in the “Under the Boat” exhibition: MICHELE Azzalini, LORENZO Bartoli, GIULIA Facchin, KETTY Gobbo, ELISA Manfrin, MAGDALENA Marczuk, JOSE Nahuelpan.