ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

History of Art, The - curator Mihnea Mircan

Mihnea Mircan is the third guest curator invited by The David Roberts Art Foundation for their Curators' Series. Mircan's group exhibition History of Art, The presents works that lay out the rules of their future interpretation and inscription in an art history to come.

The exhibition brings together works that explore the symbolic transactions, institutional protocols and historiographic disconnections between contemporary art and the discourse of art history.
The exhibition features works and new commissions by Agency, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Pavel Büchler, Etienne Chambaud, Luc Deleu, Alison Gerber, Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi, Ian Law, Alon Levin, Jill Magid, Benoit Maire, Navid Nuur, Jonas Staal and Mladen Stilinovic.

Romanian curator and writer Mihnea Mircan (b. 1975) lives and works in Bucharest. He presented Low-Budget Monuments, the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial, Sublime Objects at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, and Since we last spoke about monuments at Stroom Den Haag.
History of Art, The is his first curatorial proposal in a London gallery. In 2008, he curated the exhibition New Bucharest Market at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, part of the London festival of Architecture.

The exhibition is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the Mondriaan Foundation Amsterdam and the Ratiu Foundation.

When: 7 May - 10 July 2010, Tue - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 11am - 4pm
Where: The David Roberts Art Foundation, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London.
Admission: free.