In 2024, a new residency programme was launched in the village of Săcel, Maramureș, in Northern Romania. This rural context offers an opportunity to engage with themes of ecology, memory, local traditions, and sustainable practices. At the heart of the programme is the reconversion of the disused Săcel train station into a working space for artists and a future venue for temporary exhibitions. The initiative reflects ARAC’s ongoing interest in landscape and community, bridging contemporary art with rural heritage.
Artiști
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Ioana Cîrlig
Ioana Cîrlig (b. 1987) studied Cinematography and began working as a photojournalist while still in school. Since 2012, she has been a freelance photographer, developing personal long-term projects that focus on the industrial landscape and the relationship between humans and nature in rural Romanian communities.
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Delia Popa
Delia Popa (b. 1980, Bucharest, Romania) holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2007), a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005), as well as an MFA in Visual Arts and a Bachelor Diploma in Painting from the National University of…
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Julie Crenn, curator
Julie Crenn (b. 1982) is an art historian, art critic (AICA) and independent curator. Since 2018, she is associated curator of Transpalette – Contemporary art center of Bourges. In 2005, she obtained a Master’s degree in art history and criticism at Rennes 2 University, with a dissertation on the art of Frida Kahlo.
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Andreea Medar
Andreea Medar (b. 1990) is a Romanian artist exclusively represented by Mind Set Art Center, Taipei. Her practice includes objects and mixed media, sculptures, media installations, and video works. Since 2017, she has also engaged in collaborative projects with Mălina Ionescu, a Romanian artist, curator, and art critic. Her imagery rewrites her own personal imaginary…
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Morgane Denzler
Born in 1986 in Maisons Laffitte, France, Morgane Denzler graduated in 2011 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Master’s degree), specializing in fine art photography and anthropology under the guidance of Patrick Tosani and Maurice Godelier. Working between Brussels and Paris, she is a photographer and visual artist who reinterprets the photographic…
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Damien Rouxel
Damien Rouxel completed his higher education in art at the EESAB in Quimper, as well as in the History of Art and Archaeology department of the University of Quimper.
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Ilie Mihali
Ilie Mihali was born in Romania in 1976. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 2003. He graduated in 1999 from the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, and a year later completed his postgraduate studies at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. More recently, in 2020, he graduated from…
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Marie Maertens, curator
An art historian by training, Marie Maertens (b. 1975) is an independent exhibition curator, art critic, and journalist. Recently, she served as the artistic director of Bordeaux Art & Design and oversaw the resident artists at the Fiminco Foundation, which resulted in the exhibition Urban Odysseys
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Zeljko Beljan
Željko Beljan (born in Zagreb, Croatia) graduated from the Department of Animated Film and New Media at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 2021. Delving into the phenomenon of handicraft and its role in contemporary art practices, he explores textile and craftwork techniques as artistic media. Beljan also researches the connections between manual labor…
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Bogdan Rață
Bogdan Rața was born in 1984 in Baia Mare, Romania, and is a sculptor, associate professor (Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara), co-founder of Kunsthalle Bega, and initiator of the Pavilion Library. In 2017 he started the ARTISTHETEACHER educational project together with Alina Cristescu. He had personal exhibitions at Slag Gallery, New…
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Tanja Boukal
Human beings are in the focus of my work – their interaction with the surrounding and the society, the way they deal with difficult situations. I am not interested in the details of their faces or their bodies. I am rather interested in what they are capable of when they happen to be in special…
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Yana Bachynska
Yana Bachynska, also known as Jan Bačynsjkyj (b. 1991), is a Ukrainian visual artist, curator, and director whose practice focuses on reinterpreting dominant narratives from a queer perspective. She employs the method of induction, starting from individual experience to reach the collective, aiming to achieve a form of wholeness within contradictions. Graduated in philosophy from…
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Shadhin Kamruzzaman
Based in Dhaka and Thakurgaon, Bangladesh, Kamruzzaman Shadhin’s participatory practice includes installations, performance, video, and public art interventions, exploring themes such as migration, the environment, and history. His work is shaped by his interactions with the people and communities he collaborates with, as well as by research into the materials used in his artistic process.…
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Anetta Mona Chișa
Anetta Mona Chişa (b. 1975) is a visual artist working with sculpture, video, and performance, exploring the transformation of matter, media, technologies, and their associated politics and materialities. She is interested in non-hylomorphic models of sculpture and the potential of materials to transform over time. She frequently works in collaboration with other artists, as well…
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Mihaela Moldovan
Born in Baia Mare, Mihaela Moldovan (Vezentan) lives and works in Bucharest. Since 2002 she has been a member of the ~28 group, dedicated to the exploaration of the representation and experiences of women in art through actions presented in Bucharest. She has been a memeber of UAP since 2005.
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Loredana Ilie
Loredana Ilie (b. 1999) has been living and working in Timișoara for over seven years. Focusing on sustainable practices and an organic aesthetic, she explores the fluid and transformative nature of the human body and the surrounding environment.
