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How the first art fair in Romania is bringing the industry together?

RAD Art Fair is an overdue collaborative initiative that strengthens the core of the Romanian art scene, offers visibility to its artists and galleries, and builds a base for the growth of a healthy national art market over the next decade. Easttopics spoke RAD Art Fair co-directors Catinca Tăbăcaru, owner of Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery, and …

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Group show at META Spatiu

Artists: Dona Arnakis, Mathias Bar, Cătălin Bătrânu, Szilard Gaspar, George Roșu, Sergiu SasExhibition title: GAME ONCurator: Mirela VlăduțiVenue: META Spațiu, Timișoara, RomaniaPhotos: ©Cătălin Bătrânu & Josepha Blanchet/ all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and META Spațiu gallery “GAME ON” exhibition, currently on view at META Spațiu contemporary art gallery in Timișoara (Romania), curated …

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Group show at Kunsthalle Bega

Artists: Hyunjin Bek (South Korea), Adriana Chiruta (Romania), Baptiste Debombourg (France), Heecheon Kim (South Korea), Fabio Lattanzi Antinori (UK), Lawrence Lek (UK), Dalibor Martinis (Croatia), Adina Mocanu (Romania), Maria Pop Timaru (Romania), Larisa Sitar (Romania), Dimitar Solakov (Bulgaria), Stardust Architects (Romania) Title: Chronicles of the Future Superheroes Curator: Anca Verona Mihuleț Text: Ioana Chira Venue: Kunsthalle …

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Group show, Bucharest

Artists: Apparatus 22, Alex Bodea, Ștefan Botez, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Katja Lee Eliad, Sebastian Moldovan, Ioana Nemeș, Adrian Oncu, Sorin Oncu, Veda Popovici.Title: YOU FEEL ∼ AND DRIFT ∼ AND SINGVenue 2-3-4: Suprainfinit Gallery, THE INSTITUTE, Switch Lab BucharestCurators: KILOBASE BUCHAREST – Dragoș Olea (also TRIUMF AMIRIA’s visual art curator) and Sandra Demetrescu (also chief …

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Group show at Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest

Artists: : Apparatus 22, Alex Bodea, Ștefan Botez, Patrick Brăila, Cornel Brudașcu, Irina Bujor, Liviu Bulea, Andrei Chintilă, Lorena Cocioni, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad, Paul Dunca / Paula Dunker, Julio Elvisey Pisică, Vergine Santa Frida, Alex Horghidan, Limba semnelor de întrebare / The Language of Question Marks, Luca Istodor, Hortensia Mi …

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George Crîngașu At Zina Gallery

Artist: George Crîngașu Title: Fear of Sunsets Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photo: YAP Studio / Pavel Curagău The dust has settled. And with it, a certain ritualization of a new breeding medium begins, on land and inland as well. Here things can be named and placed. It is from here that one can see how far …

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Corporealle

Artist: Nona Inescu Curated by: Nadja Quante Venue: Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany Photography: Franziska von den Driesch / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist, Künstlerhaus Bremen and SABOT Corporealle, presents works by artist Nona Inescu (b. 1991 in Bucharest) that focus on thehuman interaction with natural and primitive materials – animate and inanimate. Inescu’s interdisciplinary art …

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Public & private (in various degrees of subjectivity)

By Nicoleta Papp Aurora Király’s show at Calina Gallery describes a society that is in a continuous conflict, in which themes like “history, hope, trauma, memory, human relationships, the thoughts of a child, garden, the last snow” are strongly related to the language. The art show “Reality Check” takes from the immediate reality three situations that …

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Modernism 4.0. Forever (in)visible

By Georgiana Cojocaru Via Revista-ARTA Background (from left to right): Esra Oezen, Nachts versteck‘ ich mich im Moskitonetz [At night I hide in the mosquito net], photographs; Michele Bressan, photo archive, object, video (che cosa sono le nuvole, super 8, 1’33’’, 2010). Photo credits MNAC (photo by Larisa Sitar) The second chapter of the exhibition …

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Easttopics

ABOUT THE PROJECT Easttopics is a non-profit initiative launched in 2013, led by young art professionals based in Hungary and Serbia and dedicated to the promotion of the Eastern European contemporary art field. Working as a think tank for the Eastern European art communities, Easttopics is a genuinely interdisciplinary cooperative which goal is to draw …

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