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March 03, 2021 at 5:32pm
The Art Encounters Biennial, which casts itself as a cross between an experimental art festival and a contemporary art biennial, has announced that Mihnea Mircan and Kasia Redzisz will cocurate its fourth edition, to be held October 1–November 14 in Timisoara, Romania. Mircan, a curator, writer, and PhD candidate at Melbourne’s Monash University, was previously artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp, Belgium; Redzisz, formerly of Tate Modern, London, is senior curator at Tate Liverpool.
Titled “Our Other Us,” this year’s biennial will present two curatorial projects exploring empathy and responsibility as drivers of human existence, focusing on various modes of collectivity as well as on transformations that affect self-perception. In exhibitions taking places at various locations throughout the city and featuring commissions from the region’s emerging artists, the curators will address global concerns, placi