Ana Miljački, Critical Broadcasting Lab, MIT
Bogdan Demetrescu, Alexandrina Ciortuz, Tamás Bodó , Octavian Horvath
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar & Lee Roach
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Zowie Broach, Brian Kirkby
ECOU studio & Conservation Carpathia Foundation
Maria Masha Lisogorskaya, Roxanne Tataei, Carey Mortimer
Sonia Sobrino Ralston & Oana Frentiu (Doda Natural)
Stefana Parascho & Eric Duong (CRCL EPFL), Zara Pfeifer
Vlad Nancă & Vlad Gaivoronschi
More artistsAround the table #3 - A conversation with Vlad Nancă & Vlad Gaivoronschi
Around the table #5 - artisanal cheese tasting
Around the table #6 - A conversation on copyright and the legal framework
Around the table #7 - give and take
Covering a lot of Ground: Working with Weeds
Cover me softly - a lecture by Oana Stănescu
Covers as Climatic Systems - a dialogue between Florencia Collo and Alexandra Trofin
Exhibition guided tour by Beta team #1
Exhibition guided tour by Beta team #2
Exhibition guided tour by Beta team #3
Exhibition guided tour by Beta team #4
Exhibition guided tour by Beta team #5
Exhibition guided tour by Oana Stănescu #6
Identity Education takeover: Drag Queens
Igloo x Beta 2024 - Special issue launch
MESSENGERS by Rebecca Salvadori - screening and conversation with the artist
Movies @ Beta #1: La Piscine & A Bigger Splash
Movies @ Beta #2: Orlando & My Political Biography
Movies @ Beta #3: Angela merge mai departe & Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii
On Covering - Lecture New Affiliates
Party Beta x Aethernativ x Cristian Corvin
Philosophy Night with Cynthia Fleury and Oana Stănescu
Under Covers - pillow talk with Karamuk Kuo's Anna Fritz
Under Nature's Cover - Conversation with Diego Morera, Marius Moga
[un]safe - a discussion on the installation's concept
Workshop for children with De-a Arhitectura Association
Workshop for children with De-a Arhitectura Association #2
Workshop for children with De-a Arhitectura Association #3
Workshop for children with De-a Arhitectura Association #4
Workshop on covers & fashion with Nate Jobe & Tutia Schaad
Workshop on digital realities with Space Popular
Workshop Truer False Self with Nuar Alsadir
Wrap up Beta 2024 + cover me softly Book Launch
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The theme of each biennial is most strongly reflected in the curatorial exhibition, which represents the result of in-depth research and exposes a theme relevant to the relationship between architecture, city and society.
The curatorial effort of each edition aims to set a discourse connected to relevant international themes, interpreting them through and for the uniqueness of the local and hyperlocal context.
Curatorial Statement
To cover is to work with what’s already there. Cover also means shelter. To protect or hide. To conceal or disguise, to extend over time or space. To run for cover, to cover one’s back.
cover me softly, the main exhibition of the 2024 Beta Biennial, is an exploration of covers across disciplines, mediums, and geographies. Counter to notions of copying, stealing, imitating, and bootlegging that may each come with their own ethical slant, the cover provides an alternate set of relational vocabularies for understanding how transferences of knowledge and structures of authorship are circulated through art and design. By centering our vast interconnectedness, cover me softly opens new realms of possibility for doing, making, and being.
The 2024 Beta Biennial brings together a wide selection of architects, designers, musicians, artists, activists, photographers, writers, directors, and those that refuse categorization in a choreography of public exhibitions and programs from September 13th through October 27th.
