Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E8/8: KUNSTHALLE BEGA
The final stop of our tour of some of the most influential visual arts hubs is Timișoara, in Western Romania. Join us for a 180-degree look at Kunsthalle Bega, an innovative concept which blends ways old and new in showcasing visual creativity and which tries to make a
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E7/8: GALATECA
We resume the “Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours” series with the 7th episode, introducing one of Romania’s boldest cultural hubs, Galateca Gallery, a reference point of the contemporary Romanian art scene and a platform for promoting original art
Art Fridays: Studio Visit with Visual Artist Ana-Maria Morar
Our Art Fridays series resumes this with an enticing portrait of Ana-Maria Morar, a Romanian visual artist living and working in New York City. A real “observer” of the world, as she calls herself, she believes that materials can carry thoughts and feelings, hence the
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E6/8: MATCA ART SPACE
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
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E5/8: SECTOR 1 GALLERY
Opened in 2017, Sector 1 Gallery, presented in the next episode of our Art Fridays series, is a meeting space of artists, curators and art lovers aiming to expand the boundaries of visual creativity. The gallery is located on the premises of the former factory serving the
Art Fridays: Studio Visit with Sculptor Patriciu Mateescu
Venerable Patriciu Mateescu, one of the greatest post-war Romanian sculptors and the founder of Princeton-based Hamangia Foundation, is the artist in focus at our Art Fridays this week. Succeeding in transforming the ceramics into a major art and influencing a whole generation
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E4/8: IVAN GALLERY
Ivan Gallery, one of Romania’s most internationally active galleries, was opened in 2007, in Bucharest, by curator and cultural promoter Marian Ivan with the aim of invigorating the Romanian commercial gallery scene. The gallery includes in its portfolio highly influential
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E3/8: SENAT GALLERY
SENAT Gallery was born in 2019 on the site of a former foundry, an old industrial installation, heritage of the 1960’s socialist era, where the large-scale communist statues were being built. Preserving the industrial minimalist style, the space aims at creating an “interactional
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E2/8: ANCA POTERASU
Founded in May and housed in late 19th century old heritage building in Bucharest, Anca Poterasu Gallery started from just 215 sq ft of exhibition space in a unique turn-of-the-century-old setting to being now one of the best-known visual arts platforms in the Romanian capital.
Contemporary Romanian Art Scene in 8 Gallery Tours | E1/8: SUPRAINFINIT
Founded in September 2015 by Suzana Vasilescu, SUPRAINFINIT Gallery develops a fluid program that highlights Romanian and international emerging and mid-career artists. It heralds the name of a plural and utopian universe created by artist collective Apparatus 22. By recently
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER - A Photographic Introspection by Horia Manolache
In a series of richly-imagined portraits, visual artistHoria Manolache has explored the way in which stereotypes and prejudices regarding homeless people are formed in and inhabit the social perceptions. A part of our photographic series, the exhibition based on this journey
New York Goes to Sleep - A Photographic Journey Through the City Under the Pandemic by JOHNNY VACAR
We are proud to present Johnny Vacar’ s most recent video-photo project, entitled “New York Goes to Sleep”, which explores the pandemic’s impact on the hardest hit place on earth, with a focus on the aggressive effect of the virus over the city’s life. The Romanian-American