THINGS in the REAR-VIEW MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR MAY 10Th – JULY 2Nd, 2021

THINGS IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR MAY 10th – JULY 2nd, 2021

Featuring works of Gili Mocanu - Anca Muresan - Ecaterina Vrana Dumitru Gorzo - Nicolae Comanescu - Virginia Toma

videoart by -Mitos Micleusanu - Regele Ionescu

audioart by Regina Ionescu

ART 9TEEN Vienna Private Art Club 1190 Wien, Billrothstraße 29, 1st floor Hosted by

in cooperation with

MARe Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania www.mare.ro

H’Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania www.hartgallery.ro

Kunsthaus 7B, Cisnădioara, Romania www.kunsthaus7b.eu

with the friendly assistance of

www.liliac.com www.amb-holding.at www.rtimmo.at

2 Things in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear Recent Romanian Art from MARe/Museum of Recent Art

Things in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear is an insight in recent Romanian art from the Southern part of the country. It is a compact, transversal section through various, current artistic idioms: an intensely colored display of disturbance, frailty, rigor and fervor. The selected works and artists mix craftsmanship and naivety, belief and blasphemy, hermeticism and humor, feminism and eroticism, consumerism and depression. It is about the fusion of submissiveness and protest that gripped the entire Romanian society after the fall of communism, in 1989.

The preponderance of painting in Romanian art is a result of the decades-long severe artistic education in realist, fine-crafted works of art expected to achieve propaganda tasks until 1989. After 1989, that practice dramatically lost official commissions. But painting was still there, ready. It became the platform at hand, a game console fitting a plurality of plots in Romanian art. From the dark, obscure metaphysics and syncretic mysticism to the glossy, neo-pop icons and violent, pseudo- Dada political scribbling, painting, a supposedly dull tool, turns into a springy widget for dizzying experiences.

Things in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear introduces a kind of endemic art dominated by a dystopian drive, drafting fictitious spaces of massive decompensation. The exhibition traces the common ground of apparently divergent, diverse phenomena such as the anxious and ecstatic, gloomy apprehensions of painters like Gili Mocanu and Anca Mureșan, and the frantic proliferation of Ecaterina Vrana, Dumitru Gorzo and Nicolae Comănescu.

The carefully crafted and richly textured canvases of Gili Mocanu, Anca Muresan and Virginia Toma act as a sumptuous, speculative refuge of liberty. Faced with the merciless dictates of commonsensical practices and discourses, they negotiate with the socially-controlled semiotics. They meticulously spoil and disrupt perception and meaning, aiming to produce unyielding, impenetrable works, as less understandable as possible, and as aesthetically dense as they can. Contrariwise, Ecaterina Vrana indulged in self-protective, chromatic roaming, proffering the desirable objects of internal longings with the suffocating means of flashy, glamorous colors of teeny stories, critically borrowed from the soft, invading industry of mass advertising. Dumitru Gorzo and Nicolae Comănescu enact painterly and ironically the performative domination of a masculine, authoritarian, and violent society, unhinged between excess and decay, and mesmerized by power, sex, and conspicuous (more media, virtual, than real-) consumption. The thrilling audio piece by Regina Ionescu is a dirge-like, murmured concrete poetry filled with dark nostalgia and excruciating anxiety, yet shaped in a smooth and caring voice, as if a soft sound matter enveloping the beholder turned into listening subject.

Things in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear is accompanied by a pseudo-documentary section made up of three video works, as a social backdrop to the canvases on display. A Sort of Fiction by Cristina David is a fake draft of a soap opera, having exclusively Rroma, amateur actors, who humorously follow the pseudo-script for one minute, and then joyfully get rid of the imposed scenery, narrative, acting and filming, hijacking the story to explosive, indiscriminate self-posturing, amidst an enthralling, rural landscape of flowering poppies. In its turn, Video-portrait by Regele Ionescu is a staggering vista of Bucharest, combined with a warm approach to the social, behavioral and even ethnic changes. The film begins as a minute, undercover documentary of a day in the life

3 of an unknown, typical Bucharest inhabitant, picked up at random from a subway station, and then sneakily tracked during his tribulations in the hectic capital city. When, in the twilight, the filmmaker is finally approaching his character in the street, telling of his endeavor, the ”typical Bucharest character” proves to be a young Frenchman cruising through the city to meet his Romanian girlfriend. He is distraught by the filmmaker and jumps into a taxi to escape his proposal of becoming a movie hero. In Generation loss, Michele Bressan investigates the routine of watching. He recorded the House of People, the palace of the former political regime, on old-fashioned VHS tapes. The actual footage of the House of People lasts only a couple of seconds. The rest of the video is filled with its repeated, 20 times copying and re-copying, progressively altering the quality of the recording, which finally becomes illegible. The technical process reflects the political transition through the transition of the image from figurative to abstract, from the specific political representation towards its dissolution, in time, into a white noise of the collective subconscious.

Things in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear is an exhibition conceived by MARe/Museum of Recent Art with works selected from its collection and from the artists themselves.

Erwin Kessler Director, MARe/Museum of Recent Art Bucharest

4 H’ART GALLERY — BUCHAREST, ROMANIA One of Bucharest’s Oldest Private-Run Galleries

Whilst Romania might still rank among the first in the European Union in terms of relative poverty, its capital Bucharest has been rapidly developing into an influential hub for at we're seeing now is a vibrant, cultural capital that is finally ready for the international attention contemporary art. It's been over thirty years since the country came out of its Communist era and the capital city, along with its artists, have morphed through a host of subsequent phases. What we're seeing now is a vibrant, cultural capital that is finally ready for the international attention its now getting.

H'art Gallery opened in late 2002, being the second portfolio private-run gallery in Romania. The main goal is to promote young contemporary art and to consolidate the art market environment. The focus is on the generation of artists educated after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989. Alexandru Paul, Florin Ciulache, Ion Barladeanu, Stefan Triffa, Anca Muresan, Adrian Preda, Nicolae Comanescu, Tets Ohnari, Gili Mocanu, Suzana Dan, Stefan Ungureanu, Marian Zidaru, Dumitru Gorzo, Marin Gherasim, Vioara Bara, Dan Palade, Codruța Cernea are some of the most active artists that H'art Gallery proudly represents.

The team of H’art Gallery began working with Romania’s young artists, many of who continued on to become incredibly important for the local contemporary art scene. These days, their roster of artists is smaller, but one thing that they all have in common is the deep passion and dedication to Romanian contemporary art.

Founder Dan Popescu started his business because of his friendship with artists, and runs the space together with Ioana Marinescu, who began working for him over ten years ago. Marinescu wanted to study art, but rather than only focus on the theoretical she chose to include the practical study, which is why she first applied for a job at the gallery. She says: “Knowing the artists and the process behind their art is what shaped the curatorial program at H’art. For me, the artistic biography proved to be the most important thing.”

Dan Popescu Founder & Director, H’art Gallery Bucharest 5 GILI MOCANU

- Date and place of birth: 18 ianuarie 1971, Constanța, Romania - Bachelor's degree: National University of Arts Bucharest, 1999. - Master degree National University of Arts Bucharest, 2000.

Personal exhibitions in Romania

2021 CLAR.OBSCUR ⎢G.M., SAC (in preparation) 2018 Dublul, Arcub 2016 Lucrări făcute în America, H’art Gallery 2014 JDS - GM - H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2012 Blindness - H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2011 Gili a murit #3 - H'art gallery, Bucharest 2010 GILI MOCANU. Each of those two moments - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 2009 Lih – Point Contemporary Gallery, Bucharest 2008 GM - Fabrica, Bucharest 2007 CO - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest CUIB - The Fish Gallery, Constanta, Romania 2006 Mit technik – H’art Gallery, Bucharest Operating parameters - Art Museum, Constanta 2005 Formula - Posibila Gallery, Bucharest Ohne Technik – H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2004 Two Friends - Posibila Gallery, Bucharest XL - Carturesti Bookstore, Bucharest 2003 Inventory - French Institute, Bucharest Without Inspiration - Posibila Gallery, Prometheus Club, Bucharest 2002 Without Title - deINTERESE Gallery, Bucharest 2001 Mioritza Shut Down - S.P.A.C.E Gallery – International Centre for Contemporary Art, Bucharest

International exhibitions:

2013 The double - Galeria das Salgadeiras, Lisbon 2007 ...Dont`t complicate the sleeping Baroque... - Kunstraum NOE (Niederösterreich), Vienna Donumenta - Regensburg, Germany

Group Shows

2016 Artistul la 30 de ani, Arcub, Bucharest, Romania. Extension.ro, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2010 ROMANIAN CULTURAL RESOLUTION - Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Drawing and video - Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania REPRESSIVE TOLERANCE 4 EVER? - Backyard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark PLUS ZWEI, Contemporary Art from Bulgaria and Romania - MKM (Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst), Duisburg, Germany 2007 Donumenta, Regensburg 2006 The Young Artists? Biennial - Absent Without Leave (AWOL), The Young Artists Biennial, Bucharest Reflecting spaces - Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia Nightmare moments - Centrum Gallery, Graz, Austria Minimal Diversions - Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania 6 2005 Selection de Printemps - B.R.D. Gallery, exhibition organized by H?art Gallery, Bucharest Works 5 - Art Gallery - Bistrita, Romania 2004 OBJECT - Orizont Gallery, Bucharest Contemporary Generations - exhibition organized by Posibila Gallery for the Art Festival, Sala Palatului, Bucharest Transfigurations. Point and from the beginning. - Art Museum Timisoara, Romania Atterrissage - Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris Drawings at the Horizon, Orizont Gallery - Bucharest 2003 - Our exhibition - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest 2002 - Works II - deINTERESE Gallery, Bucharest

7 GILI MOCANU Untitled 15 2009 Oil on canvas 135x170 cm MARe collection

8 GILI MOCANU Moartea / Death Sep 2013 Acrilic on canvas 200x200 cm 25.000 EUR

9 GILI MOCANU Cap de om / Human head Sep 2016 Acrilic on canvas 140x180 cm 20.000 EUR

10 DUMITRU GORZO

Co-founder of the artist group and movement Rostopasca The Influential Artist Group in Romania of the last Decades

Education

1999 University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in Plastic Arts 1997 University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Bachelor of Arts Diploma specializing in Painting

Solo Exhibitions 2019 "Gheorghe" MNAC, Bucharest, RO "Works with Tail" Carturesti, Bucharest, RO "Field Trip," VOLTA NY 2018 "Gorzo Now," /SAC, Bucharest, RO "Beyond and Within," Slag Gallery, NY 2017 "New York Paintings I", Kunstverein Vierheim, DE "Contagiune," ARTCUB, Bucharest, RO 2016 "RESILIENCE," Miercurea Ciuc, RO "Protected by Weeds,” H’ART Gallery, RO "FEND OFF," Slag Gallery, NY "IZVORUL 2," Aiurart Gallery, RO 2015 “Strata,” Kevin Cavanagh Gallery, Dublin, IR 2014 “NO TITLE,” Slag Gallery, NY 2013-2014 “Out of Love,” H’Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO 2013 “Walking a Porous Border,” Slag Gallery, NY 2012 “Heads,” NJ MoCA, NJ, USA “Mirror,” Volta NY “Reality’s Nostalgia,” Slag Contemporary, NY, USA 2011 “Not Tourists,” BOX 13 Art Space, Houston, USA “The Fiasco of the End of the World,” Jecza Gallery, Romania 2010 “Super C,” Slag Gallery, New York Out Door Project on Greenwich Street, New York “Wunderkabinett,” Laika , Bucharest, Romania 2009 “The Welded Book,” CNDB, Bucharest, Romania “Core,” Slag Gallery, New York City, USA 2008 “In the Corner of My Eye,” Slag Gallery, New York City, USA 2007 “Short Stories of Gorzo,” Atelier Vam Eck, Dusseldorf, Germany "Belle Roumanie,” Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg "Don't Complicate the Sleeping Baroque" with Gili Mocan, Kunst Raum Noe, Vienna "The Fence" – urban intervention / public art, Bucharest, Romania "Punct de colectare a artei" - street debate / public art, Sibiu 2007 CCE, Romania "7 Babes," Mie Leferver Gallery, Gent, Belgium “Indian Lava & Ritz Mood Guru: Present Salve Fiat Romuli Nepos”, Brukental Museum, Sibiu, Romania 2006 "I Like God,” H’art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 11 “Indian Lava & Ritz Mood Guru: Present Salve Fiat Romuli Nepos”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest and Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO 2005 "Mr. President is a Sexual Object," HT003, Bucharest, Romania "Welcome to Paradise", H'art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 2004 “Dilitdotcom - Symptoms of Contemporary Myth”, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO “Rural Art” protestation, HT 003 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 2003 “Rediscovering the Nude Beauty,” H’art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania “Cocoons” street intervention, Bucharest, Romania 1999 “GORZO”- Eforie Gallery, Bucharest, Romania “Ompozitie”- Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Selected Group Exhibitions & Collaborations 2019 "Women," Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, RO "Cosi Via," Centotto, Brooklyn, NY 2018 "Heaven from Hell,", MARe, Bucharest, RO 2017 "Resilience," Independent Brussels, BE ART NOW 2017, Hearst Galleries, NY ART@SAP Foundation, GE 2016 Group exhibition, MNAC, Bucharest, RO 2015 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY, US “Thrice Legendary, or Forever Thens,” Centotto, NY, US “Paintings in Trees,” NY, US “Rites,” Slag Gallery, NY, US 2014 “Defaced,” Boulder MoCA, Colorado “In Between,” Kleindienst Gallery, Cologne, GE 2013 “Temporal Strata,” VOLTA 9, Basel, Switzerland “Marginal Portraits, or Insides, ” Centotto, NY 2012 “A Pile of Clowns,” Centotto, New York 2011 “Painting Today,” Victoria Art Center, Bucharest Romania 2010 “Badly Happy,” Marina Abramovic Institute, San Francisco “Pirates, Bandits and Outlaws,” LCCM, Fort Bragg, California “Art Fanatics,” Kunsthalle (Műcsarnok) Budapest 2009 “That’s All Folks,” Stadthalle, Bruges, BE, curator Jerome Jacobs &Michel Dewilde “εικονες" Conradi Galerie, Hamburg, Germany ”Without Hintersinn” curated by Benjamin Fellman, Official Side Event for 11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey 2008 “Against All Odds,” Slag Gallery, New York City, USA “Under Natural Circumstances”, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Debrecen, Hungary “Tajan: Romanian Art Today-History Frees Its Demons”, Tajan, Paris, France 2007 “Donumenta 2007,” Regensburg, Germany "Plus Zwei,"MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany 2005 "Offset", Plan B Gallery, Romania, Austria, Italy, Germany "Dance Instructor" performance with Electric Brother, F.A.C.E Novi Sad, Serbia 2004 “Romanian Artists (and not only) love Ceausescu’s Palace?”, Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 2001 “Context Network” insert, The 49th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, Italy

12 DUMITRU GORZO Ghita Bird 2004 Acryl on wood 110 x 99.5 cm MARe collection

13 DUMITRU GORZO 2006 Oil on metal sheet and willow wood Variable dimensions 12.000 EUR each

14 NICOLAE COMANESCU

Nicolae Comănescu is one of the founders of the Rostopasca group and one of the most important artists of the 2000 generation. The ironic attitude towards the establishment has turned into a personal brand. His works often contain biting texts and a strong chromatic, reminiscent of Martin Kippenberger, without being tributary to him. Comănescu's creation has undergone major changes over time, including periods in which the image is almost hyper-realistic and reaching a stage of abstraction, in which the image is almost indecipherable under the touches and dripping of color.

Born 1968, Pitesti, Romania, lives in Bucharest, Romania

Education 1998 BA in painting, University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania

Personal Exhibitions 2020 „Marea Schemă Generală a Tuturor Lucrurilor” - Invitro Gallery, Cluj, curator Dan Popescu 2019 „Comă la H’art”, H’art Gallery, Bucharest, curator Dan Popescu 2016 I can see no revolution, Cărturești Carusel, București, Curator Ioana Marinescu Expoziție și lansare de catalog: I can see no revolution, ed. Ioana Marinescu, București, Publisher Pandora M. 2015 "Ordeful, mezanplasul și harneala", H`art Appendix, Bucharest, curator Ioana Marinescu "Hate Me ‘Cuz I Like It!”, Cărturești Carusel, București, Curator: Silviu Pădurariu 2014 „I can see no revolution”, Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eÿcke, Düsseldorf, Germany, opening Dr. Bernhard Serexhe Chief Curator ZKM, Karlsruhe ”SAMBAdy must dye in this CITY”, H`art Gallery, Bucharest, curator Dan Popescu. Special Event - WHITE NIGHT OF THE ART GALLERIES / NAG#8 Bucharest The Thermal Rehabilitation. Intervention on Lenin monument pedestal. Piata Scanteii, Bucharest, Romania. Part of Project 1990. Curator Ioana Ciocan. 2013 „Dâmbovița”, ITARICON-Art Gallery, Dresden, Germany 2012 „ON ROAD”, Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eÿcke, Düsseldorf, Germany „RHEIN”, Curator Michael Voets. Comanescus Gastatelier, Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf - Kulturamt, Düsseldorf, Germany „DNA: Dust Narrative Analysis”, Curator Adina Zorzini. Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 2011 „Nicolae Comănescu _ Berceni” - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucuresti, Curator Ruxandra Balaci 2010 „Praf și pulbere”, H’art gallery, Bucuresti, Curator Dan Popescu 2009 „3 în 1: MUȘTAR, CENUȘĂ & NOROI” Curator Adrian Bojenoiu, 26 Gallery, Bucharest „Trebuie să plec. Poate mă repet”. Curator Adrian Bojenoiu, IF Gallery, Bucharest 2008 „DUST 2.0 Paintings with dust”, 26 Gallery, Bucharest 2007 „Beach culture in Bercsenyi. Paintings by Nicolae Comănescu”, Curator Ștefan Tiron. „An exhibition at KO.KE.M Gallery”, Miercurea Ciuc, Csikszereda, România 2006 „Beach Boy", Side A - 26 Gallery, Bucharest, Curator: Andreiana Mihail „Beach Boy", Side B - IVAN Gallery, Bucharest, Curator: Andreiana Mihail 2005 Siemens_artLab, Wien, Austria. 2004 „Grand Prix Remix, ( Visual Shampoo Consumer Product _ mid city shower version )”, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Etaj 3/4 Gallery, Bucharest (cat.), Curator: Ștefan Tiron 15 2003 „Nofocus-DEMO”, Trieste Contemporanea, Istituto Tommaseo, Trieste (catalog de expoziție), Curator: Ruxandra Balaci 2001 Lex Luthor Found Projects”, Gad Photogallery/Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest 2000 Briemberg algorithm, with Floe, Atelier 35, Bucharest

Group exhibitions 2019 „Fete de vis: Idealul feminin de la Nicolae Grigorescu la Ion Grigorescu / Fair Maidens: The Feminine Ideal from Nicolae Grigorescu to Ion Grigorescu”, la MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, București, Curatori: Ioana Șerban și Erwin Kessler „ART SHOES - Shoes in Contemporary Art, Kunstraum Neureut”, Karlsruhe, Germany, Curators: Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eÿcke and Jens Andres 2018 „DIVERSITATE STILISTICĂ CU RĂSPUNDERE LIMITATĂ / COLECȚIA PERMANENTĂ", expoziția permanentă de la MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, București, Curator: Erwin Kessler „VĂZÂND ISTORIA – 1947-2007. COLECȚIA MNAC” , etajul I, expoziția permanentă de Echipa curatorială: Cristina Cojocaru, Călin Dan, Sandra Demetrescu, Mălina Ionescu, Adriana Oprea, Magda Predescu, Irina Radula MNAC/Muzeul de Artă Contemporană, București. 2017 „The spring, summer, autumn, winter collection ART SHOES shoes in contemporary art”, Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eÿcke and Odapark, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Art curators: Marijke Cieraad & Pascalle Mansvelders 2016 „EXTENSION.RO”, Triumph Gallery, Moscova, Curators: Dan Popescu și Yana Smurova „NAG RETROSPECT: MEMORY LEAKS”, cu prilejul ediției aniversare a Nopții Albe a Galeriilor, Arcub, Bucureși, Curators: Alex Radu, Aiurart Contemporary Art Space & Silviu Pădurariu „Bestiar”, H’art Appendix, București, Curators: Cristian Cojanu și Alexandru Davidian „Artistul la 30 de ani”, Arcub, București, Curators: Dan Popescu și Alexandru Davidian 2013 „OSTRALE´013 – Wir überschreiten den Rubikon / We cross the Rubicon”. Dresden, Germany 2012 „22 FACHGESCHÄFTE”, Lichthof, Mischpoke e.V., Mönchengladbach, Germany 2011 „Curated by_vienna 2011 Portraits and Self-Portraits in Private Collection”s, Knoll Gallery, Wien, Austria, curated by Liliana Popescu 2010 „Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Recent Romanian Art”, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, curator Erwin Kessler, catalogue „ZOOMANIA.RO”, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, București. Curator Mihai Oroveanu 2006 „Central”; New Art from New Europe, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia 2005 „Depozit/Depot - «This is not an exhibition»”, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest, Curator: Mihai Oroveanu CENTRAL. New Art from New Europe, Siemens AG Österreich, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien / Österreich 2004 „Romanian artists (and not only) love the Ceausescus Palace?!” , Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest (cat.) Curator: Ruxandra Balaci CENTRAL. New Art from New Europe, Siemens artLAB, Max-Gandolf-Bibliothek, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Salzburg / Österreich „VIDEOSPRITZ” Trieste Contemporanea, Istituto Tommaseo, Trieste; ”Romanian Contemporary Painting”, selection of commissioner Gunter Verheugen, European Commission, curator Petra Erler, Bruxelles, Belgium (cat.); Docu Fiction, REX Cultural Centrum, Belgrade, Curator Alina Serban; 2003 „PREVIEWS-KalinderuMediaLab”, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest, Curator: Ruxandra Balaci

16 Docu Fiction UAUIM Hall, Bucharest, Curator Alina Șerban „Emergent Art on the Romanian Art Scene-video-screening in MACRO”, Rome, Curator: Ruxandra Balaci 2002 „Creativity & cognition 2002”, Loughborough University Art Gallery 8th Venice Architecture Biennial, Romanian Pavilion, D.S.B.A. project (cat.) „Weird Screen, Micromuseum, Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki Free Manifesta, Frankfurt Free Biennial, New York/ TWITCH VISUAL & POLITI-VIDEO, Remote Lounge, N.Y. Bound/less Borders, first outdoor touring Balkan project, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Sofia, Kassel (cat.) Festival RDV roumain, Espace en Cours, Paris Mirror at the bottom, A Virtual Memorial Re:combo, Recife, Brazil Reload, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum/ iS.CaM/ Net-Art Open Exhibition. Twice Upon A Time... Balkan Video presentation, Istituto Svizzero, Rome. Curator: Dobrila Denegri World View 2002/ Cinema electronica Coop_01, Atelier 35 / Coop_02, Kalinderu Medialab/MNAC, Bucharest 2001 Videotree, Firenze Trieste Contemporanea Central European Video Art presentation, Trieste Digital Media Festival, Quezon City, Philippines (cat.) Mediaterra Festival, Micromuseum, Fournos Center for Art and Technology, Athens-Lavrion, Sofia-Plovdiv, Maribor, Frankfurt (cat.) Festival Computer Space, Sofia Rostopasca insert in Context Network, 49 Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavilion (cat.), Curator: Alexandru Patatics Periferic Biennial, Iasi/ Lex Luthor Found Projects Virtual Mine, Saarland, Germany (cat.) Video Lounge Festival, Outer Limits, New York Transcafe, New Gallery, Bucharest Rostopasca, Atelier 35, Bucharest

2000 „Transitionland”, National Museum of Art Bucharest (cat.) Curator: Ruxandra Balaci „Rostopasca Alliance”, Czech Centre Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania „Images”, Argos project, Vevey, Switzerland (cat.) „Transferatu”, ifa Gallery Berlin, Rostemplation, (ifa Gallery Bonn, 2001) (cat.) Bananas, performance -installation, Rostopasca Group, Periferic Festival, Iași (cat.) 1999 „Totally Blinds”, Rostopasca group performance simultaneously developed in Bucharest and Annart Festival, Sf. Ana Lake

Grants/Awards 2020 Premiului „Brătianu” pentru Arte vizuale în 2020 acordat de Ministerul Culturii 2005 Künstlerspecial_ Siemens_artLab, Wien, Austria 2003 Giovane emergente europeo Trieste Contemporanea 2003, Trieste, Italy 1999 Youth Award offered by Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest, Romania for Rostopasca's group activities in 1998.

17 NICOLAE COMANESCU Wrong Hill 2004 Acrylic on canvas 200x180 cm MARe collection

18 NICOLAE COMANESCU Objects in mirror 2004 Acrylic on canvas 100X250 cm 15.000 EUR

NICOLAE COMANESCU Spending your mid-life crisis on the beach 2006 (Wrong beach series) Acrylic on canvas 100X250 cm 15.000 EUR

19 VIRGINIA TOMA

Born: 22 July 1983, Bucharest, Romania

EDUCATION

2003 – 2007 BA in Ceramics, the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, University of Visual Arts ”Nicolae Grigorescu” - Bucharest 2003 – 2004 Pedagogical studies license, 1st & 2nd Modules, University of Visual Arts ”Nicolae Grigorescu” - Bucharest 1999 – 2003 School of Visual Arts “Nicolae Tonitza” - Bucharest

SOLO SHOWS

2019 - "Deplieri" - “Palatele Brancovenesti” Cultural Center, curator: Erwin Kessler Mogoşoaia, Romania 2017 - "Intersectie" - H’art Appendix Gallery, curator: Dan Popescu - Bucharest "Greener than wider"- Tempoart Gallery - Bucharest 2012 - McCann Erickson Romania - Bucharest 2007 - MORA Gallery, ceramic works - Bucharest

EXHIBITIONS

2020 - "Painting as Performance" - Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia Venice, Italy 2019 - “Post-System Geometries in the Romanian art Today” - MARe/Museum of Recent Art Bucharest. Curators: Erwin Kessler, Carola Chișiu, Dan Popescu - Bucharest "Virginia" - Atelier Am Eck (duo show cu Friederike Haug), curator: Katja Schlenker Düsseldorf, Germany 2014 - “Mirroring” - Tempoart Gallery - Bucharest “Alb” - Artyourself Gallery, catalog edited - “Baroque Books and Arts” – Bucharest “Paper on” - Artyourself Gallery, catalog edited - “Baroque Books and Arts”- Bucharest “Cerneala” - Artyourself Gallery, catalog edited - “Baroque Books and Arts” - Bucharest 2013 - Street art in-situ “Episode 3 - Ciclop / Work in Progress”. Curators: Alina Bucur, Iustin Moldovan, Bucharest 2011 - ”Delicii”- Atelier in Tranzitie, pop-up gallery - Bucharest “Bucharest Metro Art“ - Carturesti Gallery “I love Bucharest” project organized by ”Asociatia din Pod”, art projects proposals for underground station, curator: Mihaela Miron - Bucharest 2007 - “Projects B” - Carturesti Gallery - “I love Bucharest” project organized by ”Asociatia din Pod”, art projects proposals for public spaces - Bucharest “Spatiul, focul si apa” - “Palatele Brancovenesti” Cultural Center, ceramic technology lecture and traditional technologies experiments - Mogosoaia, Romania ”An Experiment Continues” - Romanian Cultural Institute - Vienna 2006 - IN Gallery – Vienna ”Roll up Art” - public art project organized – Bucharest 2005 - ”Feeding the Divine”- Galeria Gallery - Bucharest 20

CREATIVE PARTICIPATIONS

2019 - Artist Residency in the City of Düsseldorf with the support of “Palatele Brancovenesti” Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia and Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Germany 2014 - Guest artist at art workshops in Tescani (Bacau, Romania) and Dunavatul de Jos (Tulcea, Romania) 2012 - “PAF! - Print Art Fest”, organized by Atelierul de Print & McCann Erickson - Bucharest 2009 - International camp of archeological experiments - Serri, Italy 2008 - Visual Art Symposium - HUMAn, organized by ”Ars Continua Asociation”, catalog edited Cucuteni, Romania Public art intervention - “I love Bucharest” project organized by "Asociatia din Pod", intervention in underground station - Bucharest 2007 - Internship - “Free Form Art Trust” - developing artistic concepts for public spaces – London 2006 - Ceramic technology project - Fagaras, Romania International camp of archaeological experiments - Vadastra, Romania 2005 - International camp of archaeological experiments - Vadastra, Romania

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest

21 VIRGINIA TOMA Untitled 2019 Acrylic on canvas 80x80 cm MARe collection

22 VIRGINIA TOMA Fără titlu / Untitled 2017 Acrylic on canvas 120x120 cm 8.000 EUR

23 VIRGINIA TOMA Fără titlu / Untitled 2019 Acrylic on canvas 100 x 200 cm 12.000 EUR

24 ANCA MURESAN

Born 1965, Bucharest. Works in Düsseldorf and Bucharest.

Education

2000 Akademiebrief, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1998 Meisterschülerin, Prof. Konrad Klapheck, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1991 MFA in Painting, Prof. Florin Mitroi, Art Academy Bucharest 1991-1993 Assistant professor, Art Academy Bucharest

Solo shows

2020 Galleria come opera d’arte – Painting as Performance, ICR Venice Decameron, Künstlersiedlung Golzheim 2018-2019 Up until here (wall painting), H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2017 Eventless Day, H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2015 Untitled Cabinet, H’art Gallery, Bucharest (catalogue) 2014 nothing op.2, Anca Mureşan and Ion Grigorescu, Aiurart Gallery, Bucharest all.Painting, Business Center, Timişoara 2013 exhibiting nothing, alongside Ion Grigorescu at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest painting in the corner..., H’art Gallery, NAG Bucharest nothing hidden, Fabrica Industrial Skating,Fabrica, Bucharest 2012 Painting, H’art Gallery, Bucharest The Way Things Are, The Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca (catalogue) 2010 Painting, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu Pas impas, Mogoşoaia Palace 2009 Until the end of the day, H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2006 Even, Mogoşoaia Palace, with sculptor Mircea Roman (catalogue) 2005 Fell ein!, Alte Post, Düsseldorf 2001 Manfred Zischke Gallery, Düsseldorf 1997 Drawings, ArTei Gallery, Bucharest 1993 Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest 1991 Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest

Group shows (selection)

2018-2020 Seeing History, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2019 Fair Maidens, MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (catalogue) 2018 Mirrored Mirrors, Oradea Art Museum and Craiova Art Museum (catalogue) Hell’s Heaven, MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (catalogue) 2017 8 Düsseldorf artists at Curtea Veche Gallery, Bucharest 2016 Extension.ro, Triumph Gallery, Moscow (catalogue) 2014 Anca Mureşan, Suzana Dan, Ion Grigorescu, Kunstpunkte Düsseldorf nimic (nothing) next to Marian Zidaru, Mogoşoaia Palace 25 nimic (nothing) next to Bernd Kastner, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2013 Zeitwechsel, Konrad Klapheck und Freunde, Galerie Splettstoesser, Kaarst (catalogue) 2010 Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Romanian Art Today, The Performance Institute, San Francisco 2008 40 Jahre Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen (catalogue) 2005 Depozit, MNAC Bucharest 2002 Zeitsprung, Gelsenkirchen Kunstmuseum (catalogue) 2002 Octopus, Ulrike Rathert Gallery, Minden (catalogue) 2000 Ilse Frankenthal Prize, Brunssum (catalogue) 1999 Bruno Goller Museum, Gummersbach (catalogue) 1997 Begegnungen, Irene Sagan Gallery, Essen (catalogue) 1997 Ad hoc, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (catalogue) 1997 Romanian Contemporary Art at Leipzig Book Fair (catalogue) 1997 Junge Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (catalogue) 1996 Fracture fermée, French Institute, Bucharest 1996 Vertrauen ins Bild, Goethe Institut, Bucharest

Awards/Grants

2005 PSD Bank, Nordrhein-Westfalen 1999 Reisestipendium, Kunstverein Nordrhein-Westfalen 1996 Karl-Schwesig-Preis, Gelsenkirchen Kunstmuseum 1996-1998 DAAD Stipendium, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1994 Catalogue grant from the Open Society Foundation, Bucharest 1993 Study grant in Venice from the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry 1992 Painting Prize, The Union of Fine Artists, Romania

Works in public collections MNAC/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf PSD Bank, Düsseldorf BRD/SocGen Bank, Bucharest MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest Hugo Voeten Art Center, Herentals, Belgium.

Works in public spaces Kult Building, Düsseldorf The Art Farm, Suceava The Pharmacy Faculty Bucharest

26 ANCA MURESAN The Flood (diptychon) 2000-2013 Acrylic on canvas 70x240cm MARe collection

27 ANCA MURESAN Das Paar 1997 Oil on canvas 130x150 cm 20.000 EUR

28 ANCA MURESAN Fără titlu / Untitled 2010 Oil on canvas 160 x 140 cm 20.000 EUR

29 ECATERINA VRANA

Lived 18 06 1969, Constanta to 03 03 2019, Bucharest

Education

1997 Graduated the Painting department of the Bucharest Academy of Art

Awards 2014 Painting Prize of the Bucharest branch of the Fine Artists Association, Romania.

Solo shows

2018 Ecaterina Vrana - Between Two Worlds, Gnyp Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2017 Ecaterina Vrana - A Woman Without Secrets, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest Ecaterina Vrana - solo show, Nicodim Gallery, The Armory Show, New York, USA 2016 Ecaterina Vrana - Chicken Army, Gnyp Gallery, Berlin, Germany Ecaterina Vrana - solo show, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2015 The scythe was a chick, Museum of Art, Constanta, Romania I despair, therefore I am, Aiurart Gallery and Carturești Carusel, Bucharest 2014 La Borna Gallery, Bucharest 2011 Am I a make-up addict??, H’art Gallery, Bucharest 2007 People nearby, Mogoşoaia Palace 1997 French Institute, Bucharest 1995 French Institute, Bucharest 1994 The Gallery of the Art Academy, Bucharest 1993 Freiburg University

Group shows

2021 “IOVAdis 70va” The National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest 2020 „Fete de vis / Fair Maidens” MARe / The Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, 2019 „Our Lady of the Flowers”, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest 2018 „Seeing History 1947 -2007”, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2016 „Omul Negru / The Boogeyman”, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles „Omul Negru / The Boogeyman”, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest ”30”, ARCUB Bucharest ALAC Los Angeles, Nicodim Gallery MIART Milano, Nicodim Gallery 2015 „Şi ieri a fost azi” / „Gestern war auch heute”, Zilele Culturii Române FIAC – Oficielle, Paris, Nicodim Gallery Prize winners’ exhibition, Simeza Gallery, Fine Artists Association, Romania 2012 „Smooth tough”, factor92 Gallery, Bucharest 2011 Knoll Galerie, Vienna ”Funeraria”, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 30 2010 ”Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Recent Romanian Art”, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco The bears’s dance, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest "Zoomania", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2009 From Bucharest to Paris, a panorama of Romanian art today, Paris, Druot Montaigne 2008 Sweet sour, Curtea Veche Gallery, Bucharest 2007 ”One could see the modernity self”, Stedelijk Museum – Lier, Belgium 2006 Eastwards, Arte Fiera, Bologna 2005 Storage, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2004 Art Museum Durango, Spain 2003 Preview, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 1997 Ad hoc, Ludwig Museum Budapest 1995 Vertrauen ins Bild, Goethe Institute, Bucharest 1994 Art Academy, Budapest

Works in public spaces

2003 Chick, chick, chicken !, Timişoara

Catalogues

2016 As I Lay Living, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles 2015 The scythe was a chick, MARe / The Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest 2008 Sweet sour, Curtea Veche Gallery, Bucharest 2007 It was unveiled to me, The Mogoşoaia Palace, Bucharest

Works in public collections

Ludwig Museum, Budapest The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest MARe/The Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest Mogosoaia Cultural Centre „Palatele Brîncoveneşti”, Mogoşoaia, Romania

Works in private collections in Romania, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, U.S.A

31 ECATERINA VRANA Self Portrait as Mermaid 2014 Oil on canvas 160x120cm MARe collection

32 ECATERINA VRANA Ayse 2017 Oil on canvas 180 x 210 cm 25.000 EUR

33 ECATERINA VRANA Fără titlu / Untitled 2018 Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 17.000 EUR

34 Video Performances

Video piece “Regele Ionescu Portret” (Portrait of Regele Ionescu)

ILIE CRISTIAN IONESCU - “Regele Ionescu”

1968 naturally born, accidentally educated lives and works in Bucharest, Romania

STATEMENT

Anything could be expressed through image. The hard job is to find the right image. Creativity is work but not a magic-mystical game. Value is given by the sense. My aim is to offer people positive emotion, a consolation, a shoulder to cry on against the terrible world we live in.

Exhibitions 2019 MARe group exhibition 2018 MARe group exhibition 2015 MNAC WHAT ABOUT Y[OUR] MEMORY 2015 MNAC Învăţământul artistic bucureştean şi arta românească după 1950 2013 Casa Regală IONESCU@iurart together with Regina IONESCU 2013 Scan Me if You Can – solo exhibition, Dusseldorf, Germany 2012 Startpoint – group exhibition, Bucharest; 2012 e.cites / Bucuresti – group exhibition, Bucharest, Romania 2011 Body Under Surveillance – Bucharest; 2010 e-cities / Meeting Europe Bucharest Apollonia European Art Exchange – Strasbourg, France 2010 The Ark – Urban Fictions group exhibition 2010 Workshop Minute film projection in National Portrait Gallery Washington 2010 Workshop Minute film selected for Phillips Collection 2009 Control! - short movie on human relationships. 2009 Cityminutes three one minutes films on Bucharest, each one representing an hour of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Films were produced inside theOneminutes / City minutes workshop 2008 Winner of International Unarte Film Festival 2008 Azyl Film Festival Finalist 2008 Undesirable Black - a 1'39'' 2008 Documentary Portrait – 3'52'' video movie 2008 Ffest finalist 2008 Zimmer Frei – a project sponsered by Patriot Foundation 2008 Un bufon la Venetia – proiectii video – Teatrul National de Opereta 2007 theOneminutes short movie festival finalist 2007 I don't Wanna Work video minutes – a serie of three one minute movies regarding beggars. 2007 Cinemaiubit 2007 The Shortcut – one minute video on rush time and its consequences. 2006 Group exhibition, Unifest Tulcea 2006 Performance, AVmotional 2, MNAC 2006 Photography Group exhibition, OTA 26

35 Study and Research 2013 Dusseldorf, Germany 2010 Strasbourg, France 2008 Saarbrucken Sommer Academy 2007 Bulgaria 2005 Turkey 2004 Italy 1998 Hungary, Slovakia 1995 - Serbia 1994 - 1990 United Kingdom 1991 France

Work 2005 - present: freelance video artist, doing stock video animations and footage, editing video for various clients 2019: visual arts teacher Greek Catholic School Timotei Cipariu 2018: visual arts teacher Ferdinand School

References http://www.cinemaiubit.ro/filme_animatie_2007.html http://www.ffest.ro/filmesel.html http://www.infoarte.ro/noutati/Un-bufon-la-Venetia-2074-5.html http://www.artline.ro/Un_bufon_la_Venetia___13_iunie_2008-17595-1-n.html http://festival.azyl.sk/2009/en/index.php?id=5min http://101zile.blogspot.com/ http://filmfest.ro/Evenimente/2007/12/art3720872666-Cinemaiubit-2007-editia-11-10-13- decembrie-2007-Cinema-Studio-Cinema-Union/ http://www.cinefan.ro/stiri.php?stire_id=920&nume=CineMAiubit_2007___Ghid_complet http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Regele-IONESCU/45684d37718a0c63dcfe84b15653b377d2beb73ce238 http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1413133 http://metropotam.ro/Evenimente/eve1015248495-Un-bufon-la-Venetia http://www.undo.net/cgi- bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?action=tv&chan=1178192120&video=1235289309 http://www.iffbratislava.sk/2008/vreckovy_program.pdf http://www.iffbratislava.sk/2008/index.php?id=83&fid=123 http://www.sme.sk/azyl/?id=5542 http://www.sprintweb.tv/pressrelease/quotidiano-di-cultura/340-pressreleaselight-2822009.html http://www.sprintweb.tv/index.php?start=88 http://www.lifestyler.sk/ActiveWeb/Article/4365/azyl_pozna_vitazov.html

36 Video piece “Mitos Micleusanu”

MITOS MICLEUSANU

Born 1972 in Bucharest

Education High School of fine arts ”Igor Vieru” / Chișinău Art Academy ”Ioan Andreescu” / Cluj-Napoca

Work Sunet: http://micleusanu.bandcamp.com Fotografie: http://mclsn.blogspot.ro http://micleusanu.tumblr.com/Pictură: http://ermetic.blogspot.ro/ Colaj: http://traumart.blogspot.ro/ Grafică: http://traumatorium.tumblr.com/

Published books ”Organimsecanisme” (Prose) – Editura Ziua, 2002, Bucharest ”Tuba Mirum” (Prose) – Edit. Pontica, 2003, Bucharest ”Kasa Poporului” (Novel) – Edit. Polirom, 2008 ”Nekrotitanium” (Prose) – Edit. Cartier 2010, Chișinău ”Trepanoia” (Prose) – Edit. Art, 2011, Bucharest ”Un milion de morți” (Object book) Edit. Tracus Arte 2013, Bucharest “Munca” (Poetry) Tracus Arte

Short films ”Strigătul”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwTvuopTk_Y ”După voi potopul”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MxHA02-W9k ”Sub ceașcă”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk2uIWfO31k ”Casa poporului gol”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1XCfQaQuk

Chronicles, Interviews http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/dileme-line/articol/trepanoia http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptaminii/articol/venind-romania# http://www.contrafort.md/old/2008/169-170/1599.html http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/dileme-line/articol/trepanoia http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Violenta-din-cartea-mea-este-floare-la-ureche-fata-de-violenta-ce- ne-inconjoara*articleID_20699- articles_details.htmlhttp://www.europalibera.org/content/article/24815111.html http://www.bookblog.ro/recenzie/un-tribut-lui-titus-andronicus/ http://www.tiuk.reea.net/8/mitos.html http://www.filb.ro/mitos-micleusanu/ http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planeta_Moldova

37 Audio Performance

Audio piece “Golul din corpul meu” (Emptiness of my body)

IOANA IONESCU “Regina Ionescu”

Born in 1987. Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania

Education 2006 – 2009 National University of Arts in Bucharest, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Department of Photography and Dynamic Image.

2006 I graduated from the art high school “Nicolae Tonitza” painting department

Work 2nd of October 2020 – 22nd of March 2021- My sound piece “The Emptiness inside the body” was part of the group exhibition “Out of the Blue” by MARe / Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest.

1st of July – 31st of August 2020 – My sound piece “Both of Us” was part of the S-Online project organized by MARe / Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest.

20th of August – 5th of September – My sound work “A Venezia” was part of the exhibition “Galleria Come Opera D'Arte” together with works of Anca Mureșan and Virginia Toma at the Gallery of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice

18th – 23rd of January – I took part in FM Storyscapes SE Exhibition organized by Radio Cona with the sound work “Mara’s Throat” made in collaboration with Anamaria Pravicencu; the sound piece is now owned by MARe / Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest.

27th of March – 15th of September 2019 – I took part in the temporary exhibition “Fair Maidens” at MARe / Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest. For this show I created in collaboration with Anamaria Pravicencu the sound work “Mara’s Throat”

2017 – I took part in the Personal Selection project organized by “Possible Gallery” from Bucharest.

I created a selection of photos from the gallery archive and made one of the project books.

27th of November 2014 – 2nd of February 2015- I took part in the group exhibition “What about your memory” at MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, with my photo project “Myths from my own childhood”

16th of October – 19th November 2013 - I took part in the ”IONESCU Royal House” exhibition curated by Erwin Kessler at Aiurart Gallery from Bucharest. In this show I was present together with video artist Regele IONESCU.

18th – 25th of June 2012 – My dissertation project “Non-digital Virtualities” was exhibited at the Library of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest

38 9th of March – 2nd of April 2011 – I exhibited the film "Webcam Mirror" in the group exhibition “Body Under Surveillance” at Victoria Art Center, Bucharest.

2009 – 2012 – I attended the MA in visual arts at the National University of Arts, Bucharest, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography and Dynamic Image. 29th of September – 4 th of October 2009 – I exhibited at ICCA/The International Center for Contemporary Art - The Ark, Bucharest, in Urban Fictions group exhibition with my photo installation “Imaginary Journeys”

2009 I took part in Graduate Show of Photography and Dynamic Image Department at the The Romanian Peasant Museum with my project "The Book – The Journey" – staged photography

2009 – I participated with two one-minute films: “Bucharest Night” and “Afternoon” at One Minutes / City Minutes workshop at the University of Art Bucharest.

2009 – I participated with a series of staged photography in the group exhibition “Good Bye Atelier 6” which took place in the space of the University of Arts Bucharest.

2008 – 2009 – I took part in the 2nd and 3rd edition of Costinești Summer Academy, - sponsored by the Patriot Foundation.

23rd of November 2008 – I won the third place with the film “Imaginary Travel” at the UNARTE Fest – Experimental Film Festival

2008 – I created the film “Ajkune” within the cultural exchange project Saarbrucken - Sommer Academy, in Saarbruken, Germany

August 2007 – March 2008 – I worked as a volunteer at “Noua Gallery” New Media Art Gallery in Bucharest.

ART 9TEEN PRIVATE ART CLUB MARe Museum of Recent Art H’Art Gallery Kunsthaus 7B and the featured artists