Exhibition Category: Past Exhibitions

“This work represents a garden designed and built for the present exhibition. It represents a childhood memory of the gardens surrounding the cement factory in Turda. Because of the excessive pollution, all the fruits, vegetables and plants around the area of the factory were covered in cement, and when it rained, they all became cemented. The entire town was covered in a thin layer of cement; even on spring mornings when my mom was taking me to kindergarten I had the feeling that it had snowed, because of the covering layer of white powder
This garden also represents a metaphor of how we, as a society, surround ourselves with concrete, thus nature becoming a luxury, a place that we visit in our free time. We are estranged from nature, and our ‘natural’ habitat has become concrete walls, roads, and sidewalks which we roam on a daily basis in cities which, especially in Romania, have slowly destroyed and got rid of most of their parks and gardens.” (Liviu Bulea)

“Liviu Bulea creates question marks that urge to research and action. Although he exhibits and travels far beyond his country, he remains faithful to the community where he comes from, and causes the spectator (in the sense of Giovanni Sartori) to imagine the life of urban residents in the areas he is researching. He exploits colours, grays, rough textures where simple juxtaposition of materials suggests profound interests in putting people together and the problems they face in everyday reality.
It somehow disturbs me (in a positive sense) that Bulea can use materials that at rst use appear to be trivial, and somehow takes us back to the formalism of the 1960s, but which, gradually, reminds us of the oppressive reality. An interesting move that reminds of Jacques Rancière’s “The Politics of Aesthetics.” (Răzvan Ion)

Liviu Bulea is a 29-year-old artist who lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca between 2008 and 2013. He exhibited at the Iaga Gallery, Cluj-Napoca; Shelter Club, Amsterdam; Mora Gallery, Bucharest; Parallel Vienna, Austria; Make A Point, Bucharest; Visual KontaKt Gallery, Cluj-Napoca and Oradea; Art Museum Jurmala, Latvia; ASP Katowice, Poland; the 4th edition of the International Student Biennial in Novi Sad, Serbia, Bucharest Biennale 8, etc. He participated in the following residences: Styria AiR, Graz, Austria; Reactor de Creatie si Experiment, Cluj Napoca, Romania; Kulture Kontact Vienna, Austria; Visual KontaKt in Oradea, Romania.

Răzvan Ion is a theoretician, curator and cultural manager. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He is the co-founder of Bucharest Biennale, Pavilion Journal and Reforma Photo Days (toghether with Eugen Rădescu). He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.

“In “Rooms”, real space and virtual space form a continuum. The virtual is associated with fiction, with the unreal, but it simultaneously points towards possibilities or alternatives that cannot be imagined without using our knowledge of the world, without using patterns – viewed as functional or stereotypical, and that can be formally described as templates or stencils that are built on repetition. Representation is circular: digital objects and material objects are, by turn, representations and represented objects. The extension of the traditional concept of painting in the digital environment and the relationship between painting and time are brought forward. ” (Claudia Brăileanu)
“Claudia Brăileanu’s works speak of a mechanic aesthetic, based on elements triggered by a mathematical structure, that seems inflexible, very technical and full of ‘rigid’ meanings. The line, first element in any technique, becomes subject and object for image construction; it unifies two dots or two states. One of the most visible expression of Claudia’s work is the conceptualisation of pattern, as formal expression witch shows a repetition, and representation of authenticity.” (Eugen Rădescu, curator)

Claudia Brăileanu (b.1981) completed her artistic education at the National University of Arts Bucharest obtaining a Master’s degree in painting in 2017. In 2016 she received a scholarship offered by the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Her recent work shape-shifts between painting and computer generated images. Evolving around an extended concept of painting, the elements that shape the contour of her visual languange are lines and patterns (repetition). In her work, these visual elements become content. She had her first solo show (‘Deviations. Line, Pink…Black Square’) in 2017, hosted by Mobius Gallery in Bucharest and she participated in group exibitions as Out of the Blue at Mobius Gallery (Bucharest, 2017), StartPoint Prize at Victoria Art Center (Bucharest, 2017), Zum Zoom Zoum at Gapgap (Leipzig, 2017), Rundgang at HGB Leipzig (2017), Dada, adică nu!, at Jecza Gallery (Timișoara, 2016), Bucharest Contemporary/ Reshaping Landscapes at Five Plus Art Gallery (Vienna, 2016) Tendencies in Contemporary Romanian Painting at the Romanian Embassy in Berlin (2015), The Second International Student Drawing Biennial (Sofia, 2014). She lives and works in Bucharest.

Eugen Rădescu is a cultural manager, curator and theoretician, with background in political science (specialised on moral relativism and political ethics). He wrote for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How Innocent Is That?” , “presently i have nothing to show and i’m showing it!” and “Common Nostalgia” at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How Innocent Is That?” at Revolver Book Berlin. He is co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and co-director of Bucharest Biennale and the chairman of the organisational board of PAVILION and BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He is member of the selection board at apexart for the programs “Franchise” and “Unsolicited Proposal Program”. He held different lectures at several institutions such as apex, New York, Badisher Kunstverein, Karlshrue, Casa Encedida, Madrid, University of Arts, Cluj. Currently he is working on a new book, “Moral relativism – two perspectives”. He is Phd in political science at Babeș-Bolyai University. Also he is professor at Bucharest University and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. Lives and works in Bucharest.

“The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world (Baudrillard). Josef Polleross depict moments and places involving indirectly himself in the social environment bringing to the spectator his perspective on the society being in Afghanistan, India, Romania, Egypt, Georgia, Iran or elsewhere. Polleross’s world is non-objective but real. His work shows us something we will never see if his camera wasn’t in his hands.” (Răzvan Ion)

Josef Polleross is an Austrian photojournalist and artist. His work was published in New York Times, Bild, Washington Post, Cairo Times, Life, Newsweek, Time, Geo, Stern, Spiegel and more. He was exhibited in MAK, Vienna; Teheran City Photo Museum; Month of Photography in Vienna; Gallery Lumina, Vienna; Museum of Modern Art, Ankara; Leica Gallery, New York; etc. He published several books, latest one being “OldCinemas in Iran”. After New York, Cairo and Bangkok, Josef Polleross lives and works in Vienna. www.polleross.com

Răzvan Ion is a theoretician, curator and cultural manager. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He is the co-founder of Bucharest Biennale, Pavilion Journal and Reforma Photo Days (toghether with Eugen Rădescu). He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.

“A very fashionable item throughout Romanian homes 30 years ago, the rug representing “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, an opera by Mozart, turned nowadays into an old school symbol of contemporary kitsch. It was erased from the popular collective memory after ’89, making new space for the new consumerist products.
The interactive installation ‘Fight with Mozart’ consists of a boxing bag tapestried with this kind of rug representing “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, two boxing gloves tapestried as well, and a sound system playing fragments from the opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (The Abduction from the Seraglio) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Thus, the viewer/participant can literary interact with the installation boxing to the music of Mozart.” Mihai Zgondoiu
“The duplicating mechanism of some objects relevant for the past seems a response to anxiety. An anxiety of the present projected on a past, suggested by objects which now appear to be irrelevant. Mihai Zgondoiu is an artist who chooses to analyse apparently ordinary aspects in order to lead us towards a sociological understanding of an era.” Răzvan Ion

Mihai Zgondoiu (b.1982) is an artist, curator and gallerist, who holds a master’s and a doctorate degree in the field of visual arts. Starting with 2014 he teaches at the National University of Arts in Bucharest at the Design Department. His artistic practice consists of a variety of genres and techniques, ranging from drawing, collage, experimental print to video installation, performances, and urban interventions. His projects recall critical thinking (as well as self-critical thinking) towards clichés in our current society, mocking its socio-cultural values and icons, which were created by the new media through different kind of fake news propaganda.
Among his most recent exhibitions and projects: EXTRAfaces, Galeria Uj Kriterion – Miercurea Ciuc 2017, Fight with Mozart, RKI – Vienna Contemporary (AT) 2017, New Wall – Calina Gallery Timisoara 2017, Dada Brancusi, MB-XL Gallery Bruxelles (BE) 2016 & Galateca Gallery – București 2016, The Artist’s Golden Hand, FivePlus Gallery – Viena (AT) 2014 & Aiurart Gallery – Bucuresti 2013, Lenin’s Sleep, Free Press Square – Bucuresti 2011, The Red Line, the National Dance Center of Bucureşti 2011, The Red Carpet, the Schlooss Museum courtyard – Linz, (AT) 2011, Freedom as Visual Pattern, Hampden Gallery – Incubator Art Space, Amherst, Massachusetts (USA) 2010, Me Matrix, Calina Gallery – Timisoara 2009, Me, Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum – Sibiu, 2008.
He also participated in RERE. Overriding Design with Art and Vice-Versa – Vienna Design Week 2016, DADADA – Media Art Festival – Museum of Art-Arad 2016, Transformation – Beelden Aan Zee Museum, Haga 2014, BB6 (Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2014, IEEB4 & IEEB7 (International Experimental Engraving Biennial, 2010, 2016), Now Art Now Future (The International Biennial of print – Vilnius, 2008), his artworks being part of private and state collections: Art collection Luciano Benetton (IT), Alain Servais Collection (BE), Avium Art Collection (RO), Daniel Stefanica Art Collection (RO), Nasui Art Collection (RO), Herczeg Art Collection (RO), Calina Art Collection (RO), DFEWA Art Collection (DE), The Visual Art Museum, Galați (RO), the Florean Contemporary Art Museum, Baia-Mare (RO), the National Museum of Art, Satu Mare (RO).

Răzvan Ion is an artist, curator, and theoretician. He exhibited at Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art – Cluj, ICA – Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES – Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero – Huesca, International Photo Ljubljana, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art – Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton – San Francisco, Constanța Art Museum etc. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He published in different books, published an artist book and worked as editor of several other books, including the most recent “Architectural Economy of a Biennial”. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was appointed the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.

“Red door/blue door” is a work-in-progress project, part of an exhibition construction, names “Apocalypse/Beatus”, a photomontage series, inspired by spanish beatus from XI century. “Beatus” are iberian manuscripts from mediaevalism where they were commented interpretations from Saint Ioan’s Apocalypse. The apocalypse is a termn that announce the end of this worlds but, in the same time, a new beginning, the ultimate happiness (after the tragic). “Red door” talks about the interpretation of those terms in a performative manner of a guardian who stands in front of a door, searching for meditation, by simply his position. “Red door” is a performance/installation which has as inspiration the exterior of the building where Arantxa Etcheverria has her artist studio, a house build by Marcel Iancu in 1934. “Blue door” and “Yellow door”, will be part of this series of searching for meditation: an architectural area from Arantxa’s studio which will be rebuilt and used in a performance on the subject of apocalypse and happiness.”

Arantxa Etcheverria (born in 1975) is a french artist who studied visual arts at Villa Arson in Nice and scenography at National Theatre in Strasbourg. From 2013 she developed an artistic practice based on modern arhitecture inspired by her studio in Bucharest. Even if it is about painting, installation, or video and photomontage, her works are the result of a very precise analyze of the space geometry. She exhibited in Art Safari (2018), ArtEncounters (2017), Architectures, BARIL, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca (2016, solo); DADADA, Media Art Festival, Art Museum of Arad (2016); O tăcere dialogică, Club Electroputere, Craiova (2016); Comedia, Art On Display Project, Musette Kube, București (2015, solo); Video Zoom Romania, Museo di Roma / Sala Uno, Roma (2015); Corner, Galeria Calina, Timișoara (2014, solo); Objects of Desire, Galeria Sabot, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca (2014); Studio/Structures, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană – Anexa, București (2013, solo); BB6 – Bienala Internațională de Artă Contemporană București (2013). She is represented by Baril Gallery, Cluj. She lives and work in Bucharest.

Eugen Rădescu is cultural manager, curator and theoretician, with background in political science (specialised on moral relativism and political ethics). He wrote for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How Innocent Is That?” , “presently i have nothing to show and i’m showing it!” and “Common Nostalgia” at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How Innocent Is That?” at Revolver Book Berlin. He is co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and co-director of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion) and the chairman of the organisational board of PAVILION and BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He is member of the selection board at apexart for the programs “Franchise” and “Unsolicited Proposal Program”. He held different lectures at several institutions such as apex, New York, Badisher Kunstverein, Karlshrue, Casa Encedida, Madrid, University of Arts, Cluj. Currently he is working on a new book, “Moral relativism – two perspectives”. He is Phd in political science at Babeș-Bolyai University.
Also he is professor at Bucharest University and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. Lives and works in Bucharest.

“Postponed Tomorrow speaks first of all about Impasse. About the incapability to make the right decision in a critical moment.
I refer to the occurrence of a standstill, that results, paradoxically, not due to a certain physical or intellectual handicap, but out of a “overfull” of possibles. To comunicate is vital, but within a social context “full of communication” the noise generated by it cancels any effect of the communication. Therefore, to choose a simple message, clear, strong and efficient, becomes a more and more complicated task. To not know what to chose to say, first and fastest, because all “important” things are equally important, to be obliged to choose one single thing to say just so the message can produce effects, creates a sort of “paralysis” equal to non-action. This incapacity of correctly deciding in a matter of emergency is the resulting sum of typical human factors: postponements, doubts, vulnerabilities, various fears, but especially the fear of not being wrong…” (Cătălin Burcea)

“Catalin Burcea is conceptually analyzing the non-action caused by the impossibility of certainty. The impossibility of prediction implies the principle impossibility to distinguish. On the other hand, safety creates its own problems. Burcea raises questions and even debates the accepted societal mechanisms that often make mistakes. Cătălin Burcea’s conceptual approach is permanently “time-specific”. Always connected socio-politically, always attentive to the social reactivity.” (Răzvan Ion)

Cătălin Burcea is an artist. He has exhibited among others at JCE Biennale (6), Beffroi de Montrouge, Paris; AltroQuale, Jesi, Ancona; National Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest; Victoria Art Center, Bucharest; Calina Gallery, Timisoara; ARCUB Gabroveni, Bucharest; ALERT Studio, Bucharest; VIENNAFAIR, Vienna; Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Spatiu Intact Gallery; Cluj-Napoca; Knoll Gallery Vienna. He is Co-founder and Project Coordinator at ALERT studio (White Code), Bucharest. Recently he was selected to represent Romania in the exhibition “How We See Things” organized by the Presidency of Austria to the European Union. He lives and works in Bucharest.

Răzvan Ion is an artist, curator, and theoretician. He exhibited at Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art – Cluj, ICA – Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES – Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero – Huesca, International Photo Ljubljana, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art – Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton – San Francisco, Constanța Art Museum etc. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He published in different books, published an artist book and worked as editor of several other books, including the most recent “Architectural Economy of a Biennial”. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was appointed the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.

A parallel event of Bucharest Biennale 8.

“Petra Martin brings in discussion wainting as a machanism of tranzition, reflection on a anavoidale moment, wanted or not. For Martin the object is reissued conceptualy different and rediscuss waiting as inability to control the pace as well as the course of events. The world is a waiting room. Micro-waits embedded in its very substance. ” (Theodor Moise)

“Waiting Time is a project regarding the suspension of certain moments and the analysis of mundane actions, such as standing in a chair or laying in a bed. The chair in question is the one in which my grandfather sat while chain smoking – dilating time, postponing, waiting; the bed is the place where he laid during the final days of his life. Hence, both objects become permanently attached to their universal significance – despite already being linked to a specific time and person, they become key objects and implements towards meditation.” (Petra Martin)

Petra Martin (b. 1997) is an artist and graphic designer. She was exhibited at Fundația Culturală Ilfoveanu,
National University of Arts Bucharest a.m. She organized educational work-shops and created graphic design
for different projects. Recently she was selected in “Junge Rumänische Plakatkunst” la Fantom, Berlin.
Lives and works in Bucharest.

Theodor Moise (b. 1996) is an artist, graphic designer and curator. He exhibited in diffrent contexts,
edited books and ilustrated magazines. Recently was selcted in”Junge Rumänische Plakatkunst”
at Fantom, Berlin. He was exhibited at creart Gallery Bucharest, Ianca Museum, National University of
Arts Bucharest and Art Museum Cluj. He is the graphic designer of creart Gallery Bucharest and
Bucharest Biennale. From 2017 is the assistant curator of Bucharest Biennale 8. Lives and works
in Bucharest.

“Feeding Idle is a systematic process of assembling a single object, obsessively repeated in order to achieve a ritualistic inward rhythm. Feeding Idle meticulously investigates the identity hybridisation of an object, by replicating it in a quasi-iconographic cadence. The silicone nipple, a device used to feed new-born babies, loses its own functional purpose and becomes an integral part of a semiotic mechanism.” (Martin Balint)

“Seriality is being turned into a concept. Balint reminds us that the course of reproducing the industrially manufactured objects is an act of criticism on surviving through capitalism. The apparently prosaic objects develop into works of art and remind us of the change in the analysis by raising multiple questions. Questions that become the basis of critical thinking. Balint is an artist acting as an intermediator.” (Răzvan Ion)

Martin Balint is an artist with interest in new media installations. He received his bachelor’s degree and MA (2nd degree specialization) in New Technologies for the Arts within Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. He has won the National Art Prize of MIUR in 2003 (Italy), the grant of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in 2004. He has participated in collateral events of the Biennale di Venezia in 2005 and 2007, OPEN – International exhibition of sculptures and installations (10th, 11th and 14th edition) and Manifesta 7 (2008). He is also a finalist of the Arte Laguna Prize (2008) and Francesco Fabbri Art Prize (2014), winning the Jury Mention. He won the grant of the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest for the SenzArt exhibition in 2014. The same year he also won two Internetics awards for Best Interactive Brand Experience and Best Use of Technology. Martin Balint is one of the founders of the international art group CREAM (Creativity And Research in Arts and Media).

Răzvan Ion is an artist, curator, and theoretician. He exhibited at Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art – Cluj, ICA – Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES – Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero – Huesca, International Photo Ljubljana, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art – Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton – San Francisco, Constanța Art Museum etc. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He published in different books, published an artist book and worked as editor of several other books, including the most recent “Architectural Economy of a Biennial”. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was appointed the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.

“Why go outside when everything happens inside my head” is an illustrated monologue on the conflict between the gregarious, reachable, always with your phone fully charged being and the OUT-OF-REACH emotional being. By contrast, vulnerability, fear, conflict is encapsulated into a moving plastic frame, paper and sponge. The space is filled with pieces of paper, covered with thoughts, a kind of dadaist exercise, an automatic dictation, forcing you to look around without revealing the details. A frivolous portrayal – WOW, FUN, LOL – easy to digest, easy to forget of the invisible life, that performs beyond the small or big screen, but never completely disconnected.

Andreea Chirică is an artist and graphic novelist. In 2011 she published her first graphic novel: The Year of the Pioneer, and she participated at ComicCon New York and Barcelona. She collaborates with DOR Magazine, Scena9 and recently she illustrated the Răzvan Exarhu essays collection. She was part of ComiXConnection exhibition, “Shrinking Cities” exhibition at MNAC, Muzeul Bucureștiului, European Salon of Comic Book (2016), Mora Art Centre, Bucharest. The second book, “Home alone”, was selected for the main exhibition at the Romanian Design Week and won the illustration prize at “Cele mai frumoase carti din Romania” contest. The next exhibition will be at Visual Kontakt Gallery in Cluj-Napoca. She keeps an online drawing diary on instagram.com/persoana_fizica.

Eugen Rădescu is a cultural manager, curator and theoretician, with background in political science (specialized on moral relativism and political ethics). He wrote for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How Innocent Is That?” , “presently i have nothing to show and i’m showing it!” and “Common Nostalgia” at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How Innocent Is That?” at Revolver Book Berlin. He is co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and co-director of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion) and the chairman of the organizational board of PAVILION and BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He is member of the selection board at apexart for the programs “Franchise” and “Unsolicited Proposal Program”. He held different lectures at several institutions such as apex, New York, Badisher Kunstverein, Karlshrue, Casa Encedida, Madrid, University of Arts, Cluj. Currently he is working on a new book, “Moral relativism – two perspectives”. He is Phd in political science at Babeș-Bolyai University. Also he is professor at Bucharest University and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. Lives and works in Bucharest.

“White is the absolute color which reflects light equally upon the whole spectrum creating the feeling of a continuous space. The sum of all the colors or their absence generates white. Hence the obsessive painting abusively over everything. Be it photography, drawing, painting or object, in all of them, this idea is reflected. Hegel argues that “the personality expresses itself in the totality of all actions and their products.” “Everything in White” is a continuous exercise, an endless fight with the idealization of things, of purifying the personal memory.” (Theodor Moise)

“Lacan speaks about symbolic order where the Ego and its identification belong to the imaginary. For Moise white color is an imperfect, penetrable purifying imaginary. He exorcises, purifies the ambiance with the representation of its own reality. Being aware that white is only the projection of a new beginning. The impossibility of white becomes absolute. The manner of display reminds one of the “objects turned into space”, where space becomes profoundly present and the object placement creates a state of space.” (Răzvan Ion)

Theodor Moise (b. 1996) is an artist and graphic designer. His works were exhibited in various contexts. He edited and illustrated books and magazines. Recently he was selected for “Rumänische Plakatkunst” exhibition at Fantom, Berlin. Lives and works in Bucharest.

Răzvan Ion is an artist, curator, and theoretician. He exhibited at Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art – Cluj, ICA – Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES – Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero – Huesca, International Photo Ljubljana, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art – Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton – San Francisco etc. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He published in different books, published an artist book and worked as editor of several other books, including the most recent “Architectural Economy of a Biennial”. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was appointed the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.