ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

All that remains...the Teenagers of Socialism

Artist Stefan Constantinescu takes part in the group exhibition All that remains... the Teenagers of Socialism, with support from the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

The exhibition presents a young generation of artists from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK exploring 'all that remained' once the political system of their childhood had disintegrated.

It seeks to address the complexities of the effects of the decline of Socialism in Eastern Europe, which has been disruptive for a generation of artists who were in their mid and late teens when the first bits of crumbling concrete sparked an avalanche of revolutions in Eastern Europe. This young generation of 'Socialists' had to transform into 'Capitalists' in the midst of their adulthood. For some of them socialism became a ghostly figure linked to childhood memories, social relations and oral history - living images glued into memory like photographs in a family album.

All that remains... the Teenagers of Socialism showcases works by Anna Baumgart (Poland), Florian Wüst (Germany), Gerda Leopold (Germany), ?ukasz Ronduda (Poland), Stefan Constantinescu (Romania and Sweden), Tereza Bušková (Czech Republic and UK) and Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (UK).
The exhibition is curated by Maxa Zoller.

Artists' Talk
Wednesday, 10th March, 5-7pm,
Goldsmiths College, The Small Cinema

In this talk Stefan Constantinescu will expand on the issues addressed in his practice, that is the way in which any political regime, Communist as well as Capitalist, affects our body, inflicts social alienation and controls our sense of the real.

Stefan Constantinescu was born in Bucharest in 1968 and moved to Stockholm in 1994. He exhibited in the Romanian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale this year, within the group show The Seductiveness of the Interval. In 2007, he had a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, located in the building meant to be Nicolae Ceausescu's presidential palace. Selected group exhibitions include: The social critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum Sweden, 2009; Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaizm, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2008; indirect speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2006.
Forthcoming projects: My Beautiful Dacia, documentary film co-directed with Julio Soto - to be released on Channel 4 in 2010.
More information on Stefan Constantinescu's work here.

When: 12 March - 11 April 2010; Thu-Sat: 12-6pm, Sundays: 12-4pm;
Where: Waterside Project Space, Unit 8, Waterside 44-48 Wharf Rd, London N1 7UX
Free entry.