SAT - Smallest Art Fair in Town 2nd edition
SAT – SMALLEST ART FAIR IN TOWN | 2nd Edition
Romania’s first contemporary art fair dedicated exclusively to works on paper returns with a new edition, bringing together galleries from Bucharest, Timișoara, Chișinău, and Berlin under the curatorial theme “FRACTURED REALITIES.”
July 3–6, 2025 | Open daily from 12:00 to 20:00 | Free entry
Salon de Papier, 12 Constantin Cristescu Street, 1st floor, Bucharest
Participating galleries:
GAEP | H’ART | JECZA | LUTNIȚA | MOBIUS | PLAN B | SECTOR 1 | SUPRAINFINIT
The 2025 summer edition of SAT brings together contemporary Romanian artists engaged in an exploration of the boundaries between the visible and invisible, between the concrete and the illusory — at a time when reality itself seems to be fragmenting in increasingly hard-to-map ways.
We live under the regime of infocracy, as philosopher Byung-Chul Han calls it — a system marked not by a lack of information, but by its overabundance. In this era, reality is no longer shaped by direct experience or coherent narratives, but by accelerated flows of data, images, and contradictory signals. Instead of a stable truth or a well-crafted illusion, we move through a mental landscape defined by hypertransparency, informational noise, and a constant erosion of depth. Within this context, the artistic act becomes a gesture of reconnection—with perception, with reflection, with the fragment as a form of resistance. The works presented in this edition of SAT do not aim to “clarify” reality, but rather to reflect its discontinuous complexity. They propose visual interrogations that slip between layers of visibility, fracture appearances, and create space for critical thought.
SAT 2025 – Interrupted Realities thus becomes an in-between space, where visual fragments function as micro-resistances to the dominant logic of infocracy. Here, meaning is not instantly transmitted but rather suggested, uncovered, constructed in collaboration with the viewer.
SAT – THE SMALLEST ART FAIR IN TOWN builds its identity on essential principles that reflect the current transformations and needs of the contemporary art market: collaboration, accessibility, and support for its development. In contrast to the traditional fair format, SAT proposes a shared exhibition framework, encouraging direct interaction between galleries, artists, and the public. With free access for both galleries and visitors, SAT welcomes the general audience, seasoned collectors, and newcomers alike, fostering a new generation of contemporary art supporters.