Săcel Art Residency exhibiton
Over two weeks, a group of artists (Morgane Denzler, Damien Rouxel, Delia Popa, Ioana Cirlig, Andreea Medar and Ilie Mihali) reactivated the project in Sacel (Maramures, Romania) at the invitation of Anca Poterasu (ARAC). A collective time of thought, encounters, plastic experiments, lo,gues discussions and questioning about the agricultural realities of our place. We are aware of the extreme fragility of these agricultural realities.
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Loc de Acțiune – Crețesti
Since 2020, Delia Popa has been focusing on her place, the village of Crețești located in the commune of Vidra, in southern Ilfov County. In her grandparents’ house, she establishes her studio.In 2022, starting from this precise location, she works in harmony with the house: the furniture, the ceramic tiles adorning the wood burning stove, the architecture, the wood, the everyday objects. She also works with the garden ecosystem: the walnut tree, the greenhouse, the crops, the human and more-than-human inhabitants.
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Journey to the Center of the Earth exhibition is part of the project developed during the artistic residency exploring Sami culture and the ties between Norway and Maramureș, focusing on textile art.
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You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
The exhibition ”You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It” is a part of the project ”In(Visible) Traces. Artistic Memories of the Cold War”, initiated by Documenta in Zagreb and organized together with the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Blockfrei, Vienna and The Bautzner Straße Dresden Memorial, Dresden. The project aims to engage artists, researchers, educators, policymakers, and citizens in reflecting, preserving and discussing European cultural heritage, focusing on neglected Cold War-era historical sites.
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The Line of the Valley – Part II
In the summer of 2024, around twenty artists from different practices and nationalities gathered in Săcel, in the Maramureș region, in a residency hosted by Anca Poterașu. During the residency, the artists had the opportunity to learn traditional techniques in weaving, sewing, and textile dyeing from local craftsmen, applying these skills in contemporary creations
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The New Empire
The solo exhibition “The New Empire” is a lecture on sustainability and the importance of the plants around us and photographic practices, curated by Julie Bonzon and artist Ioana Cîrlig.
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Prietena mea genială/ 나의 눈부신 친구/ My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend is a project born out of the curatorial friendship between Seolhui Lee and Anca Mihuleț. The two curators met in 2019 while working for the Busan Biennale and Singapore Biennale, respectively, trying to solve the mystery around a video work by the Romanian-Cuban artist Sandu Darie.
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Linia Izei – Săcel, Maramureș
The group exhibition curated by Marie Maertens presents works created during the residency by artists Yana Bachynska, Željko Beljan, Tanja Boukal, Anetta Mona Chișa, Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Megan Dominescu, Bogdan Rata, Dan Visovan, Delia Popa, Mihaela Moldovan, Loredana Ilie, Donald Simionoiu,Bernhard Frue, Ilie Mihali, Christina Zurfluh, using textile and recyclable materials. The works reflect both local and cultural influences and contribute to critical research aimed at developing a strategic action plan for the sustainable development of our community.
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Ecology after Life
The exhibition serves as a metaphor for the regeneration of life as a whole, exploring not only human existence but also the intricate connections between organisms that sustain life on Earth. From Aurora Király’s landscapes to Delia Popa’s introspective reflections, Iosif Király’s blurring of reality and fantasy, Ioana Cîrlig’s documentation of coal miners, and Matei Bejenaru’s chronicles of forgotten spaces, Ecology of the Afterlife contemplates the interconnectedness of living beings.
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Memory Practices
Zoya Laktionova is an artist working with photography and video art around the concepts of memory, war and personal stories. During her Artists for Artists Residency (AFAR) in Bucharest she continued her exploration of local history, which transforms the ephemeral into the eternal, capturing fleeting moments that resonate deeply with viewers.
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