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Projects
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DEX
Focusing on female voicesDUBLĂ EXPUNERE is a project that brings together art and writing. This initiative, ongoing until 2025, involves a collaboration between 10 female visual artists and 10 female writers. Each writer will develop a short story inspired by a contemporary artwork, which will be published in a hybrid catalogue. Alongside its written and visual content, the project will include a series of podcast episodes, public events featuring the artists and writers, and a concluding exhibition.
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P.E.V.A. - Ecaterina Vrana Awards
Dedicated to emerging female artistsP.E.V.A. is the first long-term project in Romania that aims to encourage the development of emerging female voices by providing them with opportunities and resources to enhance their creative potential and contribute to the growth of the contemporary art scene, while also honouring and preserving the legacy of Ecaterina Vrana, a significant figure in post-communist Romanian art. Each year, the project’s board selects three outstanding female visual artists from the participants of the DIPLOMA festival. All winners receive financial support, an exhibition curated by our team, and a one-year studio space.
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Interviews, articles and collaborations
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Roman Tolici about REALPOLITIK
for PropagartaRead moreI started working on this series three years ago, when the world was fighting against the pandemic. The moment generated in me the impulse to take a closer look at the absconding mechanisms of the political system.
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Andrei Gamarț for Scena 9
By Ionuț DulămițăRead articleI.D.: De ce alegi culorile astea care par angoasante, care te comprimă într-o stare de reverie şi de stranietate?
A.G: Mie îmi place jocul de lumini şi umbre şi atunci pun accentul pe tonurile astea luminoase şi întunecate, pe umbră şi lumină, pe contraste. Cred că cel mai bine pot transmite în tonalităţile astea, pot să creez o tensiune acolo, în pânză. Pentru mine e important ca lucrarea să fie foarte intensă, să nu te lase indiferent. Am avut o perioadă în care pictam cu mai multă culoare. Pe parcurs, am pierdut o anumită inocenţă, dar ţine de perioadă, nu ştii când se întoarce.
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Roman Tolici for Scena9
By ANDRA MATZALRead articleAD: Lucrezi mai mereu așa, pornind de la fotografii?
RT: Da. Când fac poze, mă gândesc că le fac pentru o documentare, că nu pot să inventez eu. Pot să și inventez, dar nu are același efect cu ce se întâmplă, de fapt, pe o plajă. Ce fac oamenii la plajă? Când îi vezi pe sus pe fiecare, cum unul se scarpină, unu-și pune ceva-n cap, unul merge, unii vorbesc, altul doarme, alții citesc sau își fac selfie-uri…
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Our partnership with Kontakt
Creating a educational platformView websiteIn 2015, an exciting chapter unfolded as we forged a long-term partnership with Kontakt which created an educational platform of events, including artist discussions, lectures about the multifaceted landscape of contemporary art market, artists' catalogues, literature, and art books designed for children, as well as a special selection of biographies that are being published for the first time in Romania.
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Gino Rubert for RFI Romania
with Mihaela DedeogluInterviewRubert's works are imbued with an enigmatic quality that is both unsettling and alluring. They offer a glimpse into the artist's profound inner world, where love, sensuality or desire appear to be the artist’s main subjects of exploration
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Saddo for The New Yorker
For an article about Kid Cudi's latest albumSee articleIllustration for The New Yorker, for an article about Kid Cudi's latest album, "Man on the Moon III: The Chosen".
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