artist statement
As a natural reaction, I was drawn towards video and installation as media carrying the least baggage – as opposed to painting or sculpture. Site-specific installations or interventions using fragments found around the given space were instruments that appealed to me because of the sentences that could be formed by adding leftover materials, lights, objects to a very particular space and context. I see video and installation as extensions to drawing and codes to understand and express drawing. The content of the works reveals concepts related to the passage and understanding of time, the sublime of the wild/natural, beauty, freedom, questions related to cohabitation and social immediacy.
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STUDIES
2004
University of Art and Design, Cluj (RO)
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2008
Oberbayerische Bezirk Residency, Freising (DE)
2007
Research scholarship, Kultur Behoerde, Hamburg (DE)
Kultur Fabrik – Casino de Luxembourg Residency, Esch-sur-Alzette (LU)
2004
École Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (FR)
SOLO SHOWS
2021
‘Spacetime’s a Wastin’’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
2017
‘The Uncanny Within’, Gaep (formerly EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS), Bucharest (RO)
2015
‘/and/ You Never Know What’s Off’, Gaep (formerly EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS), Bucharest (RO)
‘Sebi is Back’, Calina/Contemporary Art Space, Timișoara (RO)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
‘My Rhino Is Not a Myth. art science fictions’, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara (RO)
‘Different Degrees of Freedom’, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara (RO)
2022
‘The Domino Effect 3’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
‘Joy ∼ Joy ∼ Joy on the Pepperside of Suprainfinit’, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco, Wien (AT)
‘Dot ∼ To ∼ Dot’, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara (RO)
‘You Feel ∼ Drift ∼ Sing’, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest (RO)
‘De ce ne pasă’, Galateca, Bucharest (RO)
2021
‘The Domino Effect 2’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
‘Arta și Orașul 1974-2021’, MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO)
2020
‘The Domino Effect’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
‘Artist Rooms’, Rezidența BRD Scena9, Bucharest (RO)
2017
‘Life a User’s Manual’, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara (RO)
2016
‘From the Shores of the Black Sea’, Georgian National Museum – Tbilisi National History Museum, Tbilisi (GE)
‘South by South-East. A Further Surface’, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
2015
‘South by South-East’, Osage Gallery Foundation, Hong Kong (HK)
2013
‘Reflection Centre for Suspended Histories. An Attempt’, New Gallery of I.R.C.R.U., 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
2012
‘Global Without Globalization’, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (RO)
2010
‘Household Goods’, Haifa Biennale, Haifa (IL)
2009
‘New History’, Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov (UA)
‘Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism’, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing (FR)
2008
‘O.T.’, Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu (RO)
‘Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism’, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
2007
‘Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire’, Fargfabriken – Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Stockholm (SE); Gallery Smecky, Prague (CZ)
‘Catching Passages’, Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu (RO)
2006
‘Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire’, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (CH)