Mentoring & Conferences
Public program of Unboxing Brâncuși: mentorship sessions with renowned artists and conferences on the legacy of the avant-garde. Participation in the mentorship is NOT mandatory to apply to the Open Call.
Pre-call mentoring
Mentoring sessions UNBOXING BRÂNCUȘI
Three mentorship sessions — one for each artistic direction — open to all interested artists, prior to the opening of the Open Call.
Sculpture / Installation Mentoring — Dan Vezentan
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă
Pre-call mentoring session dedicated to dialogue with Brâncuși's work: essential forms, the relationship between object and space, outdoor sculpture. What participants will learn: contemporary sculpture and installation techniques, conceiving works for outdoor spaces, conceptual dialogue with Brâncuși's oeuvre.
Photo-Video Mentoring — Carmen Lidia Vidu
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă
Pre-call mentoring session dedicated to dialogue with Man Ray's vision: experimental photography, the relationship with the object and surrealism. What participants will learn: visual storytelling and multimedia techniques, photographic experimentation, visual dialogue with sculpture.
Poetry Mentoring — Ștefania Mihalache
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă
Pre-call mentoring session dedicated to dialogue with Mina Loy's writings: avant-garde poetry, feminism and modernity, linguistic experimentation. What participants will learn: experimental writing techniques, connections between word and form, dialogue with the literary avant-garde.
Autumn 2026
Conferences UNBOXING BRÂNCUȘI
Three public conferences on the contemporary relevance of Brâncuși, Man Ray, and Mina Loy.
The Contemporary Relevance of Brâncuși
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă — Speaker: Doina Lemny
A conference on the legacy of Constantin Brâncuși and the relevance of his work for contemporary art, delivered by Doina Lemny, researcher at Centre Pompidou and specialist in Brâncuși's oeuvre.
The Relevance of Man Ray
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă — Speaker: Kim Knowles
An exploration of Man Ray's influence on contemporary photography and video art, with a focus on his experiments with light, the object, and visual surrealism.
The Relevance of Mina Loy
MARe — Muzeul de Artă Recentă — Speaker: Andrei Codrescu
A conference on Mina Loy, avant-garde poet and artist, and her place in the artistic networks of interwar Paris. Delivered by Andrei Codrescu, writer and professor emeritus.