artwork

sebastian moldovan

WoRKS

Bugs – video intervention, 4’ looping, sound.
Part of the Almost Censored exhibition – one day show in the Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu. 2005
A swarm of computer generated bugs, projected through a chimney, in a traditional museum.

Almost Censored

Bugs – video intervention, 4’ looping, sound.
Part of the Almost Censored exhibition – one day show in the Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu.
An installation questioning the museum, a space sometimes positive, sometimes negative, never opened.

The Paris Project – road sign, documented performance, video, 7’20’’. Bucharest. 2005 – 2006

The Paris Project is a performance which the artist did in Bucharest carrying the signage Paris throughout the old part of the city.
Once known as Little Paris, Bucharest was partly destroyed by the misguided architectural ambitions of Ceausescu. 18 and
19 century buildings were torn down in favor of unattractive and supposedly functional housing. As it stands now, if
you ask a passer-by to direct you to the historic centre of the city, they do not know what you’re talking about. By evoking a missing reality, Moldovan creates a situation for people to engage in and to explore notions of history, nostalgia and transience. If Little Paris is no longer in place, it could be at least a reviving state of mind.

The Paris Project – road sign, documented performance, video, 7’20’’. Bucharest. 2005 – 2006

Road sign in the DADA east? exhibition

Mold. video projection of negative image of moldy wall onto itself.

Time-lapse of lights in the studio going on and off, shown on a TV set inside a box, under drawing paper.

Luxury is…, Jan Dhaese gallery, Ghent, Belgium. 2008

Walking Sticks – installation view. Exploring the Return of the Repressed – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest

Future Gardens – installation view.
Exploring the Return of the Repressed – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest. 2009

Future Gardens – installation views.
Exploring the Return of the Repressed – Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest. 2009

Exhibition view – Naming Things that Do Not Yet Exist – desacralised church of San Miguel, Cuenca, Spain. 2009

Installation view – Naming Things that Do Not Yet Exist – desacralized church of San Miguel Cuenca, Spain / In grafica Festival. 2009

Cancer Sprouts – installation view, shipping container, cardboard boxes, snapshots, personal objects and documents, video.
Household Goods, Haifa Mediteranean Bienale of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel. 2010

Cancer Sprouts – installation view, shipping container, cardboard boxes, snapshots, personal objects and documents, video.
Household Goods, Haifa Mediteranean Bienale of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel. 2010

Cancer Sprouts – installation view

Blueprint and parts for a mist-light rainbow machine. Dreamcatcher, Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum. 2011

Trash bags installation II – air pump, network of air tubing, garbage bags.
Global without Globalisation: From Mathematics to China, Salonul de Proiecte, 2012

Trash bags installation II – air pump, network of air tubing, garbage bags.
Global without Globalization: From Mathematics to China, Salonul de Proiecte, 2012

Reflection Centre for Suspended Histories. An Attempt. New Gallery of I.R.C.C.U. in the frame of the 55th Edition of the Venice Biennial. 2013

Sebi is Back – installation views. Calina Gallery, Timisoara, curator Liviana Dan. 2015

I think Better on Good Paper – South by South-East, Osage Art Foundation – Hong Kong, 2015

In the Silent Moment that Followed the Crash – South by South-East, Times Museum Guangzhou, China. 2016

South by South-East, Times Museum Guangzhou, China. 2016

Videostill – Drip video series.

Dear Christine, I made the rainbow…

…Twice. Uncanny within @ GAEP. Photo: Miluta Flueras

Uncanny Within – GAEP, Bucharest. 2017

Mirror condensation, detail – installation. Various mirrors producing condensation on their surface by means of cooling devices mounted on the backsides. 2017

VIDEo

Cancer Sprouts – 2009, Household Goods, Haifa Mediteranean Bienale of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel. 2010

The Paris Project. 2006

We Built This City. 2006

Breathe. 2007

Doors. 2008

Bulldozer. 2008

I.S. 2007

Happiest Days of our Lives. 2008

SIDEWoRKS

Sideworks – Luxury is…, Jan Dhaese gallery, Ghent, Belgium. 2008

Luxury is…, Jan Dhaese gallery, Ghent, Belgium. 2008

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INFo

Galleries: GAEP Bucharest Jan Dhaese Ghent

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sebastian moldovan

1982, Baia Mare, Romania

solo shows:

2017 Uncanny Within, curator: Edisabel Marrero Tejeda, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest, Ro.

2015 …and You Never Know what’s Off, curator: Livian Dan, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest, Ro.

2015 Sebi is Back…, Calina Galery, Timisoara, Ro.

2014 Meltdown, Galerie Jan Dhaese, Ghent, Be.

2010 Artist’s Survival Kit, Galerie Jan Dhaese, Ghent, Be.

2008 Luxury is…, curator: Liviana Dan, Galerie Jan Dhaese, Ghent, Be.

2005 Almost Censored, curator: Liviana Dan, National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Ro.

exhibitions (selection):

2016 From the Shores of the Black Sea, curator: Charles Mereweather, Georgia National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2016 South by South-East, curator: Patrick Flores, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.

2015 South by South-East, curator: Anca Mihulet, Osage Gallery Foundation, Hong Kong.

2013 Reflection Centre for Suspended Histories. An Attempt. New Gallery of I.R.C.C.U. in the frame of the 55th Edition of the Venice Biennial.

2012 Global Without Globalization, curators: Alexandra Croitoru, Magda Radu, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest.

2010 Household Goods, curator: Belu Fainaru, Haifa Biennale, Israel.

2009 Exploring the Return of Repression, curator Razvan Ion, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest. New History, curators: SOSka group, Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov, Ucraine.

Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, curators: Adrian Notz and Zofia Machnicka, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France.

2008 O.T., curators: Liviana Dan and Anca Mihulet, The Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu. FRECKeffect, a Parallel Event of Bucharest Biennale 3, curators: Liviana Dan and Anca Mihulet, *.artlabs, Sibiu.

Transfer Rumaenien 1, curator: Stefan Graupner, Schafhof Kuenstlerhaus, Freising, Germany.

Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, curators: Adrian Notz and Zofia Machnicka, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.

2007 Summit Meeting / The Slaughter of the Dolphins, curator: Liviana Dan, Donumenta, Leeren Beutel, Regensburg.

Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, curator: Adrian Notz, Fargfabriken – Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Stockholm; Gallery Smecky, Prague.

Catching Passages, curators: Paul di Felice, Liviana Dan and Anca Mihulet, KulturFabrik, Luxembourg & The Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu.

If You Think This World Is Bad You Should See Some of the Others, curator: Simona Nastac, Prague Biennale 3. London Festival of Europe, curator: Simona Nastac, Romanian Cultural Institute, London.

2006 Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, curator: Adrian Notz, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. Urban Contact Zone. Sharing areas – Using Places, curator: projektgruppe, Westwerk, Hamburg. Chaos: The Age of Confusion, curator: Zsolt Petrányi, Bucharest Biennale 2.

2005 The Work of Art is Never Alone, curator: Liviana Dan, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague.

2004 Assez Loin, Espace Cosmopolis, Nantes.