[VAULT] project, presented in Italy for the first time at Vault Gallery (16 March – 6 May 2012) is a collaboration between the two Romanian artists Alex Mirutziu (1981, Sibiu, RO) and Razvan Sadean (1987, Sfantu Gheorghe, RO) as the natural end of their shared experience during an artistic residency at the Ze Dos Bois Centre in Lisbon in 2011. Both artists they were oriented to the performance, using their body as a kind of machine for eviscerating dark, obscene and gory aspects of the surrounding reality. 

A spring and summer tour starting in April 2012, featuring Laibach live, presenting and promoting the science fiction dark comedy, film Iron Sky. Laibach has composed the soundtrack for this film and will perform selected songs from it live in concert, along with other material including some preview songs from their two forthcoming albums and a set of classic Laibach songs spanning from the early 80’s to today.

Low budget and highly efficient artistic interventions in public space – that is the idea behind the project, which is presented in the ICA-Sofia Gallery. Five young artists from Bulgaria are showing photographic, video and sound documentation of their interventions in the urban space of the cities of Sofia and Dobrich from the summer of 2011. Amusing, ironic, critical, nostalgic, and poetic – these artistic interventions are concentrating on the dysfunctional aspects of the 'wild' neoliberal space that we inhabit during the last 20 years. They are asking the question: is there space left for the individual human being with his/her everyday life joys and concerns?

In 2007, Christa Frieda Vogel visited Istanbul for the first time. She was immediately fascinated by the city at the Bosphorus. It was her ambition to portray the city from an insider perspective, which led her to let Istanbul’s artists lead her to capture the city through their eyes. From this thought follows the concept to portray both, the individual artists and the spots that best represent their personal perception of Istanbul.

Video work  Repeat till end by the Romanian artist Razvan Sadean will be part of the of International frstival of viedo art Optica in Buenos Aires, which will be celebrated from December 15th until the 17th at the Palais de Glace and Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina.

Marko Stojanović from Belgrade presented his latest multimedia exhibion Edukacija at the Center for Urban Culture Kino Siska in Ljubljana. The work ironically entitled Edukacija / Education is based conceptually on the phenomenon of a new reading of the world of art in the sense of status-defining or a simulation of serious and devoted culture exploration. Displaying the scenes from Serbian TV shows and series that in their set feature artworks of world renown, the author explores the function of art in the context of mass media. 

Gothic. Power of era about God’s Excellency and people’s humility. People who were longing for raising into altitude. Architecture, the art of painting and statuary were strongly marked by the religious motives of Christianity. Architecture was the most expressive among these arts; it combined the era with its powerful objects and showed its strength with details like rosettes, glass partitions and Christian symbols. 

A major retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance artist Marina Abramović is on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture from 8 October to 4 December 2011. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately 50 works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances. 

Razvan Sadean and Alex Mirutziu from Bucharest have presented their newest research project History is nothing but muscles in action at the legendary ZE DOS BOIS. They had been working together for this particular piece in residence for the duration of two weeks, hosted by esteemed art centre, Ze Dos Bois in Lisbon, Portugal.