Dan ACOSTIOAIEI
Ana ADAM
Ana Adam lives and works in Timișoara, Romania. Solo exhibitions (selection): Haptic Ecstasy, Atelier 35, Bucharest, 2019; Fibres, Pigments, French Cultural Centre, Timișoara, 2010; Art on Knees, Galleria 28, Timișoara, 2007; More Drawings?, The Museum of Banat, Arts Section, Timișoara, 2002; 3 Drawing Exhibitions, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, 2002; Drawing Exhibition, Sindan Cultural Centre, Cluj-Napoca, 2000.
Group exhibitions (selection): Mother Tongue, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, 2019; The Unpleasant Show, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara, 2019; Blood, Stop, Space, Gold, Jose de la Fuente Gallery, Santander, 2018; Life – A User’s Manual, Timișoara Art Encounters, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara & Arad. She has participated in several international print biennials and triennials in Timișoara (2003), Miskolc (1997), Rio de Janeiro (1998), Krakow (1997, 1994) and Nürnberg (1994).
“I draw with pencils, India ink, pigments, textile fibres, on or in paper or soap; sometimes I take photographs of states, relationships, the almost-invisible or the energy, the wake of actions. I am a character and a creator – it is a concentrated expression of how I find myself in art, shamanism, the new unifying theories of physics, transpersonal psychology and mysticism. I practice art as daily alchemy similar to the anonymous creations by children and women. When I believe in the sacred nature of matter, it can undergo transformations. It is free to change its structure and form. It can become art.”
Dragos ALEXANDRESCU
Dragos Alexandrescu (b. 1974) is a Romanian visual artist. He has a Masters Degree in Visual Arts from George Enescu University of Arts in Iași. Since 2007 he lives in Finland and has received several working grants from different Finnish cultural foundations. Most of his video art practice is a form of interrogation of the present, in which fictional narratives, based on socio-economic structures, try to (re)produce an emotional rather than rational response from the audience. Each work is approaching and thus presenting elements of life, for the most part concerned with the period of structural fragility, economic or identity crises, which Europe is confronting with.
Leonard ALECU
Liliana BASARAB
Liliana Basarab (b. 1979) is a visual artist currently based in Bucharest, who began her career in Iasi (Romania) in early 2000. Her socially engaged practice is often seen as a commentary on the notion of representation. Basarab employs a variety of media including performance, sculpture, drawing, workshops and video. After completing an M.A. in Fine Arts (2005) in Iasi, she was selected for the Pavillon residency programme at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (November 2005 – June 2006).
Other residencies include: Platform, Vaasa, Finland (2014); MPRA, Poznan, Poland (2012); CEC Artslinks residency hosted by Dayton Visual Art Center, Ohio, USA (Independent grant) (2010 and 2011); CIAC (in partnership with The Ark and AFCN), Bucharest, Romania (2009); Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany (2008); Artistsne(s)t ProHelvetia, Sinaia, Romania (2007); W 139, Amsterdam, Holland (2004) NIFCA, Soumenlinna, Helsinki, Finland (2003).
Vusi BEAUCHAMP
Vusi Beauchamp (b. Limpopo, South Africa, 1979) studied printmaking and painting at the Tshwane University of Technology and Graphic Design at Damelin. He currently lives and works in Johannesburg and Pretoria. He describes his work as encompassing being an artist, multimedia design and art director. Beauchamp’s paintings are created by using various methods, including spray painting and stenciling as well as materials such as crayons, charcoal, oil sticks and acrylic paints. His work comments on social issues, politics and events that make up the current South African social/political landscape, and are considered the artistic version of satirical journalism and social critique, often somewhat controversial. Humour is an important ingredient, and is heightened through the typical ‘stereotyping’ by the media of our country’s politics and politicians.
Lucian BRAN
Lucian Bran (b. 1981) graduated The National University of Arts – photography class, Bucharest. His work was shown at Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest (2015, 2013), Museum of Municipal Engineering – Krakow Photomonth – Show OFF (2014), Fotogalerie Wien (2018), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2018), Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest (2016). He was selected at Plat(t)form – Fotomuseum Winterthur (2019) and nominated for The Unseen ING Talent Award (2016).
Lucian Brumă
Lucian Brumă (b.1976) has a Masters degree in Visual Arts (Painting) at the National University of Arts „George Enescu” in Iași. His artistic practice is based on conceptual investigations focused on memory, the condition of the artist in nowadays society, as well as social relationships, challenging the observer to develop a deeper analysis and a subjective reception of the message. His most recent personal exhibitions: “Think about the box” – apArte Gallery, Iași (2016), “Samādhi” – „Nicolae N.Tonitza” Gallery, Bârlad (2016), “Reguli în afara jocului” – World Bank Bucharest, București (2014).
Mircea BUT
Mircea But (b. 1991 in Baia Mare, Romania), lives and works in Cluj Napoca, Romania. He has graduated from the Painting department of the University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca, now owning both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree. As a student, he has been part of several exhibition projects, both on national and international level, thus making some of his work available for a wider public.
Mircea But received two Erasmus scholarships. Years 2014 and 2015 have brought the artist the benefits of participating in the Paintbrush Factory artist-in-residence project at Spatiu Intact. His art merges different environments and materials (acryl, spray, collages, photography) in order to obtain an experimental touch. The process is as important as the final product, each of the works representing a new discovery and, when put together, a complete puzzle.
Radu CARNARIU
Ciprian CIUCLEA
Ciprian Ciuclea is a visual artist who lives in Bucharest. He is interested in interdisciplinary projects that focus mainly on the conceptual features of reception. The themes he xplores are closely related to the social aspects of communication, interpretation of messages, contemplation and supervision, placed in relation to the scientific aspects of human existence. He is the Chairman of the Experimental Project and a founding member of the Romanian Society of Ophthalmogenetics. The latest projects: Retro Walk Decades to the Sun presented at the beginning of October 2018 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (collaborative, performative and interdisciplinary project), Comparative Structures presented at the 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018 and the Art Encounters Biennial Timişoara 2017. Ciprian Ciuclea is a PhD student of the National University of Arts, Bucharest, with a thesis on the interpretation of technologically mediated reality.
Ștefan CONSTANTINESCU
Ștefan Constantinescu (1968, Bucharest), is a filmmaker and artist living and working in Stockholm. He works in a multiplicity of mediums including film, photography, artist books and painting. In 2009 he represented Romania at the Venice Biennale with the film Troleibuzul 92. In 2012 his short film Family Dinner was selected for the competition of the 51st Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and in 2013 his film Six Big Fish premiered in the international competition Pardi di domani of the Locarno Film Festival. Currently, Ștefan Constantinescu is working also on a feature-length film, Seven Shades of Love, composed of a series of seven shorts portraying the conflict inherent in amorous relationships.
Diana DRĂGHICI
Juliane EIRICH
Juliane Eirich was born in Munich, Germany. After two internships in Miami and Munich she studied at the Academy of Photographic Design in Munich. After graduating she moved to New York City and Honolulu to work and pursue her own projects. She spent 18 months of 2007-8 in Seoul, South Korea on a DAAD scholarship. In July 2011 she was artist in residence at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan. In 2014 she was artist in residence at the Nordic Artists Centre in Dale, Norway. Since 2009 she is based in Berlin. Her photographs have been exhibited in the USA, Canada, Syria, Tunisia, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany and featured in many publications including: The New York Times Magazine, ZEIT Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, M le Magazine du Monde, Monocle Magazine and European Photography. She has worked for clients such as Studio Olafur Eliasson, PRADA, Adidas, Daimler and BMW. Her first monograph ‘Itoshima’ was published by Peperoni Books, Berlin.
Gregor ELDARB
Gregor Eldarb (b.1971 in Bielsko-Biala, Poland), lives and works in Vienna; 1992-1997 studies Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; since 2005 constant participation in solo- and group shows national and international; various Awards and Residencies i.e. WIELS Residency, BMUKK Studio, Brussels, outstanding artist award – Recognition award – Bildende Kunst, Bundeskanzleramt, I.S.C.P. The International Studio & Curatorial Program New York, USA, State Scholarship for Fine Arts, BMUKK; Commissions-Projects i.e. in Berlin and St. Petersburg.
Tatiana FIODOROVA
Tatiana Fiodorova (1976) was born, and is based, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. She works with installation, live performance, public art, video and artists’ books. The subject matter of her practice tends to reflect the contemporary world in response to current social, political and aesthetic issues. Fiodorova’s work has been shown at Biennial of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image, Iasi, Romania (2016); The Delhi Photo Festival(2015); the parallel programme of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015); Salonul de proiecte at Viennafair (2013); Torino PERFORMANCEART (2013); IDFF CRONOGRAF international documentory film festival, Chisinau(2013); Lago Film Festival International Festival of Short Films, Documentaries and Screenplays in Italy (2012); Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011); “Atlantis 11” at the Venice Biennale 2011; Kunst- und Kulturfestival in Berlin (2011); International Festival EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS Live Art Festival London-Linz-Chisinau-Paris (2011); Periferic 8: The Romanian Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008); and also at museums such as MNAC Bucharest, freiraum Q21 International, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Kalmar Art Museum, MOCAK Krakow, Neues Museum Weimar, Docks on the Seine Paris, Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau.
Igor GRUBIĆ
Igor Grubić (born in 1969, Zagreb) is one of the best known and appreciated international artists from Croatia. His work includes site-specific interventions in public spaces, photography and movie. Grubić has participated at numerous important international exhibitions, among which: the Biennale from Tirana (2003); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2002); Manifesta 9 (Genk, 2012); the 50th edition of October Salon (Belgrad, 2009); Gender Check, MuMOK (Vienna, 2009); the 11th edition of the Istanbul Biennale (2009); the 2nd edition of the festival of photography Mannheim Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg (2011); East Side Stories, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012); the Biennale from Gwangju (2014); Zero Tolerance, MOMA PS1 (New York 2014); the 5th Biennale from Thessaloniki (2015); Cut / Rez, MSU (Zagreb, 2018); Heavenly Creatures, MG + MSUM (Ljubljana, 2018); The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2018). His work is included in the collections TATE Modern, the museums of contemporary art from Belgrade and Zagreb, Muzeum Sztuki, Kadist Collection, Kontact Collection and Telekom Art Collection, among others. Grubić represented Croatia at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale (2019).
Lera KELEMEN
Lera Kelemen (b. 1994) is a multimedia artist and sound designer from Timisoara, Romania, currently completing her MA in Sound Design at the Royal College of Art in London, UK. Her practice has an interdisciplinary approach working predominantly with installations through which she interrogates spatiality in relationship to the corporeal, challenging the personal and collective narratives that emerge in public spaces. She graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 2018 and was the recipient of the Art Encounters Award for her graduation project. Since then, she has participated in several national and international residencies and coproductions. Her most recent collaborations include the group exhibition I feel something, don’t know what at Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw), Staycation residency with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (Bucharest) and a solo show at Boderline Art Space (Iasi), as well as the Sound Design pathway group show within the Royal College of Art in Iklectik (London).
Iosif KIRÁLY
Iosif Király is architect and visual artist, founding member (since 1995) of the Photo-Video Department of National Arts University of Bucharest. He received artistic residences and grants from 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2012), New Europe College – Senior Getty Fellow 2009-2013, IASPIS Stockholm (2002), Light Work Syracuse, NY (2001), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art Helsinki (2000), Akademie Schloss Solitude 1997-1998, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 1995-1996, etc. His worked were exhibited in various institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Moderna Museet Stockholm / Museo di Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne / Hungarian National Gallery, Buda Palace, Budapest / Württembergische Kunstverein (WKV), Stuttgart / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisabona / Venice Biennial / Berlin Biennial / Bienala de la Sao Paolo / Australian Center for Photography, Sydney / Vox Gallery, Montreal / Fotogalerie Wien / Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart / Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski, Warsaw, etc. In 2012 and 2013, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania), respectivly SALT Beoglu Istanbul (Turkey) presented a grand scale exhibition of his works – Retrospect.
Selected works:
Dawid LIFTINGER
LOLO & SOSAKU
Since 2004 artist duo Lolo (Buenos Aires, 1977) and Sosaku (Tokyo, 1976) has focused on an experimental merging of art and sound. The result is a ceaseless investigation of movement and sound correlations, carried out through alternative, non-traditional means. Lolo & Sosaku’s work has been exhibited and performed, amongst others, at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009), Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (2010), Fundação Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2011), Sónar, Barcelona (2012), Matadero, Madrid (2013), Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona (2016), Festival Bien Urbain, Besançon, France (2016) and the Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2016).
MONOTREMU
Bergthor MORTHENS
Andrei NACU
Andrei Nacu (b. 1984) lives and works in Iași and London. In his artistic practice he uses documentary photography, family album and photographic archive to create projects that analyze the intersection between personal memory and social history. In 2013, he completed a MA in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, UK, and in 2009 he obtained a Bachelor Degree at the University of Arts “George Enescu” Iasi, Photo-Video department. He participated in exhibitions such as the Biennale of contemporary photography and dynamic image CAMERA PLUS – Iasi, Romania (2016), Renaissance – Getty Images Gallery – London (2015), Uncertain States – Four Corners Gallery – London (2014).
Selected works:
Sari PALOSAARI
Stefan PANHANS
Laura PARTIN
Tudor PĂTRAȘCU
Dan PERJOVSCHI
Pusha PETROV
Pusha Petrov was born in 1984, and lives and works between Romania and France. She attended the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in Metz, France, graduating with a degree in fine arts (2009) and communication (2011).
Her artistic path has been enriched by various internships and residencies in France, and she is currently collaborating with numerous international artists. She has participated in numerous exhibitions: Ex-East, Niemeyer Space in Paris, The brick, la Brique, Caramida, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, L’esprit parfaitement clair (The Perfectly Clear Mind), Santo Amor Gallery, Lille (2018, group exhibition); Soba(The Room), ICR Paris (2016, solo); Dedans (In),Château de Luttange, Lorraine, (2015, solo); Indiscrétions (Indiscretions), Château de Courcelles, Montigny-lès-Metz, (2013, solo); Croyance à la maison(Faith at Home) Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz, (2012, solo); Le tout amplifié la somme des partie ( T The Whole Magnifies the Sum of the Parts) Espace d’Art du Centre Culturel Jacques Brel Thionville (2011, solo), Carte de visite (Calling card) and La fin, le début (The End, the Beginning), Galerie de l’Esplanade, Metz (2011-2009, group), Daily Mirrors, Conseil Général de la Moselle, Metz (2010, solo), and Une Cohabitation 2, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz. She was also a part of the Art Encounters Biennale: Life a User’s Manual, Timisoara (2017) and the 18th International Biennale of Image, Ailleurs (Elsewhere), Nancy (2014).
Erminia PIU
Erminia Piu (b. 1993) attended, in 2012-2017, the courses of the George Enescu National University of the Arts, the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Sculpture specialization. Her figurative and installative artworks surprise tensions inscribed in the absurd of the everyday life. In the contrasting and perplexing situations created by Erminia Piu, she reflects on the conditions of impossibility for accentuating the human states of helplessness. She participated, among others, to the Creation Camp “Concept Art” (2014, Muncel, Iași county) and to the collective exhibition “Erotica” (2015, Iaşi).
Patricia RODAS
Patricia Rodas (b. 1972) is a Finnish photographer. In 2002 she got her BA from Novia, University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Since 2012 she has an ongoing photo project related with the theme of domestic violence. The medium used in her artistic practice is big format camera on analog film and poetry. Through her images and poems she recreates different scenarios related with her personal experience and the traumas of persons who have been exposed as victims of domestic violence.
Nicolae ROMANIȚAN
George ROȘU
George Roşu trăieşte în Cluj-Napoca şi lucrează oriunde. Foloseşte cuvântul ca material şi conturul ca suport al acestuia. Consideră că umorul face parte din istoria artei şi îl foloseşte în lucrările sale, fie ele desene sau fragmente video. Este co-fondator al spaţiului de artă RAFT și al spațiului Artă.nonstop Sibiu.
Cătălin RULEA
Cătălin Rulea (b. 1979) is an artist and musician, founding member of the Center for Visual Introspection / PPLUS4 Association (active between 2008-2013). He is active on the alternative music scene and involved in contemporary theater projects. He has co-curated Ars Telefonica in 2008, and exhibited at MNAC in 2016 the project “This is a Set-up”, along with director Ioana Paun. He is the author of stage designs and soundtracks for plays like Produse Domestice, Inamicul Poporului, Voi n-aţi văzut nimic, Capete înfierbântate, Nu ne-am născut în locul potrivit, Declar pe proprie răspundere. He has designed and participated in editorial projects such as “Phantom evacuation”, Ion Grigorescu “Man with one camera”, as well as for Political Theater Platform.
Selected works:
Roxana SAVIN
Roxana Savin, born 1978 in Iași, Romania, lives and works in Moscow, Russia. A graduate from the Fine Art School of Photography Moscow (2018), Savin is currently pursuing a Master’s in Photography at Falmouth University (UK). The artistic practice of Savin raises various themes such as identity, natural and urban environment and their relationship with people often via rethinking of the post-communist period, often manifested through abandoned and forgotten objects.
Leonardo SILAGHI
Avi SOOFUL
As a practicing fine artist, Avi has participated in the following international exhibitions: Dialogue, French Cross Season, Paris, France(2013), Samsara, Tatham/ Durban Art gallerys, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (2011), land, Diversity and Unity, Hyderabad, India (2010), Soul of Africa, Development Bank, Johannesburg (2008), Two-person-show, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2006), Collective Exhibition, Paris, France (2006) and national exhibition: Seven lives, Pretoria Arts Association (2014), KKK (ABSA Group Show), Klein Karoo (2014), Tension-Torsion, Johannesburg (2014), World Art Day, Pretoria Arts Association(2013), Tom Waits (KKK Group Show), Klein Karoo (2013), Solo Show, Heaven and Earth, Pretoria Arts Association(2012), This Place, Bodutu Art Gallery, Vaal University (2012), Group Show (2011), Draw the Line, Bodutu Art Gallery, Vaal University (2010).
Selected works:
Katrin STREICHER
Ciprian TOKAR
Rebecca TOPAKIAN
Rebecca Topakian (b. 1989) is a young French-Armenian photographer, who lives and works in Paris. Co-founder of el-Atlal residency in Jericho. Member of artist run space Doc!, Paris. Resident of La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. After two bachelors in Philosophy (where she was interested in ethics) and Geography (where she was focusing on the geography of representations), Rebecca Topakian pursued her studies at ENSP – National photography school in Arles, where she graduated in 2015.
Through books and exhibitions that always pay great attention to the way it is showed, she tries to produce a photographic work which de-qualifies the subject and is anti-narrative, playing with the aesthetics of documentary and more poetic and intimist forms. Her interests brought her to work on the themes of individual identity in its relation to the crowd, the group, the community or collective history.
Mihail Trifan
Mihail Trifan (b. in 1946 in Caracal, Romania), lives and works in Craiova, Romania. Graduate of the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts Bucharest, 1971, the Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department, he has been a painting professor since 1971 at “Marin Sorescu” Art High School in Craiova, where he guided the career start of some artists who today are big names on the Romanian art scene. His works use a variety of media, from painting to object-installation, performance and sound, in a continuous search and reinvention of his artistic identity. Mihail Trifan represented, during over 50 years of activity, the inexhaustible fervor of the experiment with the pictorial matter. With numerous national and international exhibitions, in 2016 he was offered a retrospective exhibition at the Craiova Art Museum, which gathered more than 80 paintings and objects made between 1973 and 2016. In 2017 he represented Craiova at No Man’s Land focus exhibitions at The White Night of the Galleries (Rezidența Scena 9, Bucharest).
Jeannette UNITE
Jeannette Unite has exhibited in bienials and art museums in Germany, Beijing, Lyon. She travels to mining and industrial sites for samples, to research and photographically record evidence of the residual remains of power, industrialisation and neo-colonialism on the African landscape. She studied towards a BA Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town from 1981 until 1986, and studied further at UNISA. Her works can be found in collections of art of Universities and Museums of North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Her empirical research on African landscape were possible due to some grants and artistic fellowships offered by Kellogg’s Foundation, Art Moves Africa (AMA), Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town, Mzansi Golden Economy Grant, and National Arts Council, South Africa.
Andrei VENGHIAC
Andrei Venghiac (b.1990) is a Romanian artist currently living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden. Andrei has studied in multiple art schools, holding a BFA in Photography (2013) from George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi (Romania) and a MFA in Fine Art (2015) from Valand Academy, Gothenburg (Sweden). Also during his MFA programme, he has spent one term on an exchange scholarship in Dublin, Ireland at National College of Art and Design. Andrei has presented his work and participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout Romania, Moldova, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and USA. In 2015 he has been awarded the Theodor and Hanne Mannheimer Award, and the Eric Ericson Foundation Stipend. Furthermore, Andrei self-published his first book, “Alexithymia”, and Valand Academy has issued a monograph comprising his works from 2014 to 2015.
Selected works:
Mihai VEREȘTIUC
Mihai Vereştiuc (b.1978) lives and works in Iasi. He is a visual artist and professor at the National University of Arts “George Enescu” in Iaşi. His works focuses generally on site specific linked materiality. His artistic projects have been displayed in exhibitions such as “… and with the rest of us” apARTe Gallery, Iaşi (2016); “Dok and spavao” / “While You Were Sleeping” Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia (2009); „Colecţia «Nu e de vinzare»/ Not for sale collection” (CIAC) -The ARK, Bucharest (2009); “The great big sculpture” University (2008); “… spațiul meu” Cupola Gallery, Iaşi (2005 ) “Nou?” Galeria Rotonda, Iaşi (2003), “БоГДАПPοСТИ” Art Museum, Constanța (2002).
Andrea WINKLER
Miron ZOWNIR