Manifesta European Art Foundation


Manifesta  is a new European contemporary art event, taking place every two years at a different European location. The FIRST edition was realised in ROTTERDAM from JUNE 9 untill AUGUST 19, 1996.


Rotterdam 1996

More than 70 artists
from over 25 European countries
presented their work
in more than 12 museums
and cultural institutions
around the Museumpark
in the centre of Rotterdam


Manifesta 1 you will be amused and bewildered
you will not find paintings or monumental sculptures
you will not see a traditional presentation
it will not be a form of art involved only with itself, with art


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Get acquainted with
the many interesting museums in Rotterdam
and the work of numerous challenging,
still relatively unknown artists
from all over Europe.


THE CONTEXT IS LIFE

about life and emotions, depressing and funny ones
about all the big troubles and great pleasures involved in communication
about migration
about having a place and having no place at all
about integration
about the necessity of imaginary worlds
about the necessity of inventing new relations in this world


Everyone interested in other kinds of lives,
in contemporary art, culture, architecture and nature :

TAKE A WALK ON THE ART SIDE



Mail to: secretariat@manifesta.org

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