The Young Artists' Biennial: Absent Without Leave

The Young Artists Biennial Absent Without Leave
The META Cultural Foundation and the Goethe Institute of Bucharest are organizing the 2nd International Biennial of Young Artists / Art is Somewhere Else which will take place in Bucharest Oct 14 – Nov 16 2006.

This is Bucharest's first large periodic event in the domain of contemporary visual arts which aims at exhibiting the art of 50 young national and international artists.

Participants from Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro Republic, Czech Republic, Romania, Denmark, Moldavia, Croatia, Austria, United States of America, Austria will take place in this event.

For the second edition, a team of five specialists have been invited to curate the Biennial - Irina Grabovan, curator, Aorta Gallery (Moldavia), Branko Franceschi, curator, executive director, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (Croatia), Oana Tanase, curator and journalist (Romania), Simona Nastac, art critic and curator (Romania), and Jenny Brownrigg, curator, Dundee University, Exhibition Department (Great Britain).