{"id":8408,"date":"2019-03-28T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.covetfoundation.com\/events\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2020-01-19T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:43:40","slug":"art-basel-hong-kong-2019-best-contemporary-art-galeria-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covetfoundation.com\/events\/art-basel-hong-kong-2019-best-contemporary-art-galeria-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: Best of Contemporary Art at Galeria Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Galeria Plan B<\/strong>, one of the fascinating art galleries at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/u>, opened in 2005 in Cluj, Romania, founded by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie. It is a creation and exhibition space for contemporary art, <\/strong>but also a research center which is focused on the Romanian art<\/strong> of the last 50 years, revealing works of remarkable artists without previous international exposure.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cGALAXY\u201d. Project for a monument in Houston, Texas (1972 \u2013 2018) by Horia Damian. Sculpture made of wood, pressed paper balls and oil paint. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cGALAXY\u201d\u00a0by Horia Damian. Photo: \u00a9Art de Vivre Studio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2008, Plan B<\/a> opened a permanent exhibition space in Berlin<\/strong> and is leaded ever since by Mihai Pop and Mihaela Lutea. In 2009, it was one of the authors of the project Fabrica de Pensule \/ The Paintbrush Factory in Cluj, a collective independent cultural center<\/strong>, converted from the old paintbrush factory and hosting now about five art galleries and thirty artist studios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cUntitled\u201d (2018) by Ciprian Muresan. Sculpture made of pencil on plywood. Will be exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Plan B Cluj is trying to redefine itself, transforming into a documentation center which nurtures an archive of the Romanian art<\/strong> from the last decades, a research\u2019s program and conference space focused especially to young scholars and art students.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cUntitled\u201d (2017) by Achraf Touloub. Made of oil, graphite and paper on nylon and canvas and metallic chains. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cUntitled\u201d (1970) by Mihai Olos. Sculpture made of wood. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Outside of the gallery\u2019s program, Mihai Pop co-curated<\/strong> several group exhibitions in the context of the Prague Biennale<\/strong>, a section of the exhibition Romanian Cultural Resolution at the Spinnerei Leipzig and Club Electroputere Craiova, and Mircea Pinte Collection at the Museum of Art Cluj.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2o19: \u201cUntitled\u201d (1980) by Mihai Olos. Ceramic Sculpture. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cSteppe\u201d (2008) by Becky Beasley. Sculpture made of black acrylic glass, steel, hinges. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2007, Plan B was the organizer of the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale<\/strong>, curated by Mihnea Mircan and including the artists Victor Man, Cristi Pogacean, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Christoph B\u00fcchel & Giovanni Carmine. Mihai Pop was the curator of the Romanian Pavilion<\/strong> at the 56nd Venice Biennale in 2015, which featured the artist Adrian Ghenie.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: Nightbowl \u201cThe formation of earth\u201d (2018) by Navid Nuur. Sculpture made of Heat, gas, clay, sand, carbon, various types of rocks and other minerals, grass, leaves, bushes, trees, birds, locusts, meteorites and time. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mihai Pop and Mihaela Lutea edited several art publication<\/strong>s and artist books<\/strong>, such as: Ciprian Muresan, Artists Book (2009), Dead Weights (2013), The Suicide Series (2014). Mihai Pop is the editor of Ciprian Muresan\u2019s monograph \u201cDrawings 2015\u20132004\u201d<\/em>, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in the spring of 2015, and co-editor of Victor Man\u2019s artist book \u201cLuminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough\u201d<\/em>, published by Sternberg Press in 2016. He also co-edited the catalog \u201cAdrian Ghenie \u2013 Darwin\u2019s Room\u201d<\/em>, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in conjunction with Editura Humanitas, Bucharest, on the occasion of the Romanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019: \u201cUntitled\u201d (1970) by Mihai Olos. Ceramic Sculpture. Photo: \u00a9Art Basel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Stay with us to find out more about Art Basel Hong Kong 2019<\/strong>, contemporary art<\/strong> and craftsmanship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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