Apparatus 22 (RO)

Apparatus 22 is a multidisciplinary collective initiated in 2011 by Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea and Ioana Nemes (1979 -2011, R.I.P) in Bucharest, Romania. The collective has its origin in the 2006 founded fashion label Rozalb de Mura. Apparatus 22 works in the art context with ideas and actions that will ignite the critical potential of clothing and fashion and in design/fashion contexts. In their quest for projects with greater consequences on fashion topics they are mixing fiction with reality, storytelling and critical approach, blurring the lines between genders and using knowledge and experiences from art, design, sociology, literature and economics.
Current and upcoming exhibitions and projects: "Ersatz Economics" insert in the KILOBASE BUCHAREST A-H book  (Mousse Publishing) for the exhibition “Image to be projected until it vanishes”, MUSEION - Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano, Italy; “Desire is War” - Contemporary Art Gallery, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania; "Situated Knowledge: I follow Rivers of Thoughts” - ICR Venice, Italy; MAK NITE performance commissioned by MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; upcoming research residencies at Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi, South Korea and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.