We are honoured to be invited to collaborate with Kilobase Bucharest for ↗︎ TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture in relation to the exhibition project ‘↗︎ Convulsion Ltd.: Drops on a Hot Plate’ (18 January–23 February 2025) at ↗︎ THE INSTITUTE, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Strada Băiculeşti 29, Bucharest — yet another ‘queering the museum’! Please join the talk Wednesday, 22 January, 7 PM ‘↗︎ What is at Stake? On Queer Museums, Exhibitions and Shaping Platforms for Queer Art Practices’, moderated by Kilobase Bucharest at THE INSTITUTE.
We will further on work closely with ↗︎ Sofia Zadar and ↗︎ Lucian Barbu. Other participating artists: ↗︎ Apparatus 22, ↗︎ Maria Balea, ↗︎ Stefan Botez, ↗︎ Alex Bodea, ↗︎ Alex Horghidan, and ↗︎ Gavril Pop.

Excerpt from the TRIUMF AMIRIA Manifest: “↗︎ The Romanian language wouldn’t be enough to express all that we are. Our hybrid language. We have one mission: to be reincarnated into an infinity of identities. We hide within us the secrets of the world. Queer fluency.” Further reading about TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture: ↗︎ Frieze (Kong, 2023); ↗︎ Kunsthalle Bega (2022); ↗︎ Propagarta (Zgondoiu, 2022); ↗︎ Art Viewer (2022), and ↗︎ Revista ARTA (Ugron, 2021).

And we are in good company. Three fellow curators are invited along to the project: ↗︎ Miki Gebrelul (currently Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo as well as committee work for Arts and Culture Norway and curatorial competence for KORO — Public Art in Norway), ↗︎ Håkon Lillegraven (curator, art mediator, and writer; currently Curator of Education and Public Programmes at the National Museum, Oslo; formerly Curator and Head of Mediation at Fotogalleriet; curator for artist initiatives such as Ergi and Geiten), and ↗︎ Geir Haraldseth (Curator of contemporary art at the National Museum, Oslo; formerly commissioned to curate the ↗︎ Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale [2022]; director for Rogaland Kunstsenter [2012–18]).

The collaboration with Kilobase Bucharest go beyond this exhibition: We got to know Dragos Olea during earlier stages of the research for TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture, in 2020. In 2024 we were invited to collaborate once more, this time through ↗︎ Coast Contemporary — thank you so much. Already we know that this is a continuation of further collaboration, even friendships, that have already started to grow. We cannot wait for the continuation!

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As a nomadic polymuseum fluent in multiple artistic languages, TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture is researching, disseminating and highlights queer culture and queer artistic production (literature, visual arts, theatre and performance, sound) in Romania. The project is run by ↗︎ MozaiQ LGBT Association. Within the framework of Amiria Intensive, Coast Contemporary was invited by TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture.

Amiria Intensive is a bilateral Initiative financed through EEA Grant / Granturile SEE 2014–2021, ↗︎ National Bilateral Relations Funds in the framework of ↗︎ RO-CULTURE Programme. ↗︎ Ministry of Culture is handling the programme in Romania. Further reading about TRIUMF AMIRIA ↗︎ here.