We conclude the 2020 leg of our gallery tours with MATCA, an artist-run space managed by three local artists, set up in Cluj-Napoca at the beginning of 2017. A former garage and leather crafts workshop, the place projects a non-disguised atmosphere and a rough vibe, which invite artists and thinkers to engage in fertile, frank exchanges.
Focused mainly on group exhibitions, MATCA ("matrix" in translation) aims to promote contemporary works, to research the local artistic environment, and to facilitate the dialogue on the sources of visual creativity. In order to step more off the walls, the gallery advocates alternative forms of expression, which mix mediums related to traditional approaches as well as new, original practices. Its projects attempt a fusion between "the established" and "the emergent" as part of a non-hierarchical, ongoing conversation by which the artist’s status and role in the society can be debated.
#Episode 6: MATCA art space
