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About Mobius
Short introFounded in 2015, Mobius is an independent contemporary art gallery presenting museum-qualities exhibitions and creating a common ground for exchange and dialogue between the Eastern European art scene and the international community.
In 2020, after five years on Mendeleev Street, the gallery relocated to Dumbrava Rosie street this September, seeking a larger space to suit the expanding program that includes over 18 artists from around the world.
The gallery portfolio includes over 48 exhibitions, I1 special events (book launching. concerts, art talks), 28 free art education meetings, 8 published catalogues and 6 international art fairs attendances. All this positioned Mobius Gallery as one of the most consistent art spaces in Romania.
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Exhibition program 2021 - 2022
National and international-
MOBIUS at UVNT 2022
24 - 27 February 2022UVNT is a New Contemporary Art fair that offers unique points of view through a curated selection of national and international art galleries. With 5 editionsbehind us, we include some of the most avant-garde and out-of-the- ordinary trends, which from the beginning have been part of our DNA. -
Cheerleader for a funeral
Diana Matilda Crișan 17 February - 14 April 2022I felt alienated from everything around me, the language being spoken around me, the culture, life, even my own body. This alter ego is the personification of a woman responding to the oppression and persecution she has been subjected to, a rebellious, sexual woman that is always alone. - Diana Matilda Crișan -
Flowers Growing Out of My Chest
Lea Rasovszky 26 November 2021 - 29 January 2022Presenting a series of new works through which Lea Rasovszky explores the dynamism of music on the relationship between mind and body, trying to define how individuals shift from a solitary condition into an unguided daze that metamorphoses oneself toward beings influenced by rhythm and sound. -
Roman Tolici at Roma Arte in Nuvola
18 - 21 November 2021Tolici is fascinated by the relationship between individual and collective consciousness - by our personal choices and actions and the dynamics that result when we come together as families, communities, or simply strangers with a common interest. -
AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER
28 October - 13 November 2021An exhibition showcasing works from different moments of the artist’s career will be held in conjunction with the book launch, highlighting the main series of paintings created in the last decade. -
LIVING CONTENT: UNDER PRESSURE
15 September - 15 October 2021Living Content is pleased to present ‘Under Pressure’, a project supported by Mobius Gallery, that brings together ten visual and sound artists that consider through their practices narratives of transformation in a time of intensifying mass extinction. -
VENOM
Mathias Bar 22 July - 21 August 2021Venom is the meeting point for a large variety of human typologies, an experiment regarding the aesthetic and the conceptual approach of human corporality, outlining the artist’s vision upon a strange society, that struggles between a blurred present and an uncertain future. -
Paradise of Lost Desires
Codruța Cernea 21 May - 26 June 2021The courage to paint simple and well-known gestures, but which have long been banned from artistic representation, on the basis of taste and ideological positioning, makes them superior to images: they become manifest acts in the recent works of Codruța Cernea. -
Eclipse
Andrei Gamarț 29 January - 20 March 2021The Eclipse series is the result of the artist’s ample exploration of the relationship built between memory – which is an ongoing process of both the individual, as a unit, and humanity, as a collective being – and light, seen as the primary matter which continues to exist in a constant state of oblivion.
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Exhibition Program 2019 - 2020
National and International-
Art in Motion
Andrei Gamarț & Roman Tolici 17 - 21 November 2020”Art in Motion” in partnership with Qreator by IQOS presents a selection of works by Roman Tolici and Andrei Gamart in two forms: - the original one, as created by the artist, and the other, a mirrored and animated version. -
WALKING ON THE SAME EARTH AS YOU
Adi Tudose 9 - 12 November 2020Starting from a second lasting scene, unpredictable to the eye, Adi Tudose creates a cohesive composition, placing the sense of order and harmony in a common situation and comfort the human subconscious seeking unity. -
FANBOY
Saddo 2 September - 7 November 2020In a very POP register, Saddo not only creates pieces on this subject, but a whole ambient. It's something he truly likes, it's a very simple instinct at first glance, to create pieces based on subjects that simply attract you: the contradictory mix of rawness, gangsta culture, but also poetry. -
WTFWJD?
Pandele Pandele 7 February - 21 March 2020Comprising a large variety of works, from paintings to drawings, sound elements, ceramic objects, ready-mades, light boxes & digital art, as well as a site-specific installation, the exhibition reads as a guide for decoding what we currently call common reality. -
FRAGIL
Adi Tudose 12 December 2019 - 18 January 2020Similar to Cartier-Bresson and Brassaï, Tudose affirms the role of the camera as a tool for his keen engagement with the world. The streets are places of unpredictable encounter where he became totally immersed in the environment and documents the lives of his subjects with sensitivity and sympathy. -
Sasha Bandi
8 November - 7 December 2019Bringing together a variety of practices and media - from drawings, paintings, charcoal, to mixed media and sculpture, the exhibition provide an overview of the artist's research on human fragility, triggered by the social inability to see beyond the surface. -
Bianca Before Bianca Mann
Bianca Mann 2 - 25 October 2019The exhibition follows Bianca Mann's artistic path and the main stages she developed and stood out. On display is a selection of projects and works that the artist has created in recent years together with prestigious art galleries. -
See, I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands; Your Walls Are Ever Before Me
Cătălin Bădărău 8 September - 2 October 2019The exhibition questions a whole series of meanings inside the relationship between Sacral and Violence, the 'mythic violence' to use Walter Benjamin's terminology. -
Callosum
Curated by Adriana Blidaru 23 August - 25 September 2019In the exhibition 'Callosum', six artists have devised different poetic strategies for reframing the reality they live in. The common thread running between them is their negotiation of the physical reality of Central and Eastern Europe, and the globalized and connected culture of the art world. -
Un timp al cuvintelor. Un timp al faptelor
Expoziție cu licitație caritabilă: Vintilă Mihăilescu 11 - 14 July 2019Artists and public figures support the campaign initiated by the family of the anthropologist Vintilă Mihăilescu. -
The Other Body
Tina Lechner 4 October - 4 November 2019For Tina Lechner, photography is not just a mean of recording a pre-existing reality, it is even a tool for creating new images and ideas. With roots in the historical avant-garde, the artist's photos are just the visible part of a reflection process that deals with human body. -
A Bounding Situation
Andreea Badea, Robert Antoniac and Nikita Dembinski 26 - 29 June 2019A Bounding Situation is the result of three bachelor degree projects merging with one another, initiated by Andreea Badea, Robert Antoniac and Nikita Dembinski. A Bounding Situation doesn't seek to certify or represent objectively, but to open up new avenues of interpretation concerning issues of performativity, rituals, and patterns. -
Your History Is Wrong
Anna Khodorkovskaya 9 May - 9 June 2019Anna Khodorkovskaya's works are based on words and phrases; they are fragments, debris of their contexts. Perhaps these are remains of thoughts; or snippets of a conversation with a friend; or something that stopped me while reading, or a phrase snatched from media. -
The Big Sleep
Bianca Mann 4 May - 5 June 2019The Big Sleep presents two visual installations - The Maze and The Dreaming Room - both simultaneously running in the Foișor and Ghețărie galleries. The two spaces read symbolically, visually, olfactory and auditory, two fundamental stages of sleep: The Big Sleep and The Dream. -
Karolis Strautniekas
2 - 13 April 2019Silhouettes, textures and subtle gradients. Karolis Strautniekas' illustrations are born in a nostalgic world and we can't help but feel a strong desire to discover more of his visual stories. -
Future Nostalgia
Codruța Cernea 15 February - 29 March 2019Codruța Cernea's paintings are improbable scenes of a more optimistic hypothetical tomorrow, which represent delicate homages to the human capacity to develop sophisticated strategies through which one can behave irrationally in a reasonable way.
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Exhibition Program 2017 - 2018
National and International-
Roman Tolici
14 October - 31 December 2018Tolici is fascinated by the relationship between individual and collective consciousness - by our personal choices and actions and the dynamics that result when we come together as families, communities, or simply strangers with a common interest. -
The Hole and the Dot
Paul Țanicui 20 September - 7 October 2018'The Hole and the Dot ' is an artistic expression in which the object, installation and video support each other in a smart, surprising and humorous exposure. -
Eye to I - Full Story
10 - 15 September 2018Summarizing the one work exhibition project that ran through the whole summer of 2018, Mobius has the pleasure to present EYE TO I – FULL STORY, a group show featuring eight Eastern European artists. -
Homo Deus
Curated by Anton Svyatsky 3 - 31 August 2018'Homo Deus' amalgamates the individual practices of the artists into a collective vision, thereby creating a comprehensive description of the precarious and precipitous landscape human civilization currently find itself in. -
Eye to I
12 July - 6 September 2018'Eye to I' is an invitation for anyone who peruses the exhibition to leave out all preconceptions, ignore any means of interpretation and simply meet the artwork. There is no other story except the one created between what you envision and yourself. -
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Hidden Sorrows: Roma Stories
Curated by Eugen Rădescu 13 April - 5 May 2018"Hidden Sorrows: Roma Stories" is an exhibition of contemporary art with works by Romanian Roma artists only, an exercise of collective imagination about positioning an ethnic group / identity with a troubled past and present within the majority population; the Roma community in Romania is a telluric, authentic, and peripheral culture.
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The New Nature
Claudia Larcher 2 March - 3 April 2018Claudia Larcher is a visual artist with a focus in video animation, collage and installation. Larcher's artistic interests are places connected to history, familiarity and memory, questioning the meaning of "home" and "identity".
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Please, Master!
Anonymous 13 February - 13 March 2018The exhibition showcases a selection of photographic works exploring the experiences of innocent adoration, celebrating a vision of same-sex tenderness. The images violate taboos in the name of humanism - „Homo sum, nihil humani a me alienum puto' (Terentius). -
The Memories Are Here And It’s Spring Again
Andrei Gamarț 5 - 26 May 2017In this exhibition Andrei Gamarţ proposes to generate a space that is a kind of visual mnemonic, charged to interact with each viewer who makes their way through the gallery. 'The Memories are here and it's Spring again' is actually a utopian journey to an un|real destination. -
I Am At My Most Beautiful When I Am Alone
Lea Rasovszky 7 December 2017 - 7 February 2018The beauty of loneliness is something we don't talk about enough. About the moment when someone's face blossoms in the dark like a rare plant that will never become extinct. Lea Rasovszky's portraits in ceramic do not transpose her drawings into solid matter, but continue them in a relentless effort. -
Calea București
Horațiu Șovăială 17 November - 3 December 2017Calea București Street is a road that always leads to Bucharest. 'It's the experience of the relationship with the immediate, in which the public space alternates with the intimate; the general plan, the panorama, with the detail, and the zoom movement. -
Anders Krisár
Curated by Anton Svyatsky 12 October - 9 November 2017Eyes closed, body suspended, a pale human form of a child, rendered with hyperrealism out of polyester and painted with acrylic to mimic the texture of impossibly spotless skin, split in two. Not by violence, but by the tender, careful hand of its creator. -
Seasons
Andrei Gamarț 6 - 31 October 2017Seasons is about a man seen up close, up extremely close, questions what really means to say that something is/ is alive / has life. It's quite a challenge, because it's almost impossible to depict life in something concrete, fixed, something deprived of its temporal, transcendent characteristics. -
Out of The Blue
Curated by Ioana Ciocan 8 - 30 April 2017-We are out of the blue.
We open our eyes and here it is.
-What?
-E V E R Y T H I N G!
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DEVIATIONS / Line. Pink... Black Square,
Claudia Brăileanu 15 September - 6 October 2017„In my vision, the structure/ the pattern becomes matter. I represent patterns which i distort thru different techniques, suggesting some deviations from `normality', deviations that lead back to individual - to line - by redesigning the general composition of the works'. -
Life in the Lonely Wood
CrocodilePOWER 15 June - 31 July 2017'With 'Life in the Lonely Wood' we wanted to talk about a topic that's of great interest to us - the integration of a person into an artificial, self-created reality. Our contemporary postmodern, information-centric society is defined by its movement towards virtuality. -
The Blind Spot
Bianca Mann 4 - 30 May 2017The Blind Spot is a journey that begins with a mask - a self-cast of the artist's face in resin or in bronze, with eyes placidly shut towards the world and multiplied infinitely, like closed doors separating the external reality from the internal one. -
Gărâna Jazz Festival 20
Horatiu Sovaiala & Mihai Șovăială 2 - 22 February 2017Two photographers - Mihai Șovăială & Horatiu Sovaiala - experience their first edition of the Gãrâna Jazz Festival and greedily capture all its details. From humans to animals, from sky to earth, from masters to disciples, from sound to light, we are witnessing a documentary created under the constructive pressure.
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Exhibition program 2016
Mobius 1st year-
How Deep is Your Art?
Anna Khodorkovskaya 11 March - 29 April 2016HOW DEEP IS YOUR ART? is an exhibition on the discursive perception which combines various media of artistic expression, aesthetic elements that seem different at first sight, fields and studies that seem dichotomous. -
15743
Tara von Neudorf 10 December 2015 - 25 January 2016The works in his Mobius solo show 15743 have the potential to become iconic mirrors of a world devoured by self-interest, lost in the translation of principals and beliefs that become more important than the people who created them. -
Simvlacrvm
Roman Tolici 8 October - 14 November 2015Many artists, after achieving success, stick to the style that has brought them it. Not Tolici. Although his brushwork retains its Ingresque precision, now with an even defter touch, his vision has morphed from photo-realist to surrealist. It is impossible to explain the eleven paintings in SIMVLACRVM in rational fashion.
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Mirror for the Full Moon
Andrei Gamarț 11 May - 30 July 2016A scene manifold, theatrical. Black boxes are illuminated to allow you see the unsuspected mental machinery within, a column that penetrates the floor towards something you can't yet make out, closets that open and absorb you into a world of which you are suspicious, but there are no means of closing them. Andrei Gamarț's exhibition Mirror for The Full Moon places you in front of your own character, a character hitherto unknown.
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Inverso Mundus
AES+F 30 September - 3 November 2016The concept of Inverso Mundus is rooted in the ancient Roman Empire, when during Saturnalia, the most important festival of the Julian calendar, traditional social rules were reversed as masters... -
Chamber of Secrets
Sándor Szász 9 December - 31 January 2016The imagery of Sándor Szász's works has most of the time been interpreted as a post-apocalyptic one, thematically connected to the Eastern European space, infested with the Communist system tares. However, an honest look beyond the frame provided by the recent history can bring to the light another perspective.
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Art Projects & Special Events
educational events, art classes, artists & art talks-
Mobius Art Talks
seven editionsMobius invites people from different professional areas (other than the art zone) to give an interpretation to the current exhibition hosted at the gallery. The goal is to encourage the public to come closer to contemporary art works and build up their own vocabulary regarding art.
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Book Launches
in collaboration with Vellant and ArtMy Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic (2017)
Calea București – artist book – Horațiu Șovăială (2017)
Dig the Inbetween – artist book –Lea Rasovszky & Diana Marincu (2017)
Horațiu Șovăială & Mihai Șovăială - 20 – documentary book – 20 years of Gărâna Jazz Festival (2016)Roman Tolici – monography – essays by Pascal Brucker, Oana Tănase & Roman Tolici (2016)
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ArtSavvy with Irina Moreno
with a MA in Contemporary ArtA series of lectures that zoom in on the mechanisms at play in the art market with the aim of increasing awareness and understanding of art beyond the like/dislike dichotomy.
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How Deep Is Your Art?
Roman Tolici, Lea Rasovszky and Codruța CerneaA series of artist lectures, each of them including a self-presentation of the artist and his/her works, as well as a subjective overview on different representatives from art history. The artist has the freedom to chose his/her favorite period from the art history and is encouraged to build up the discourse in a personal, subjective key.
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The Beauty & The Sound of Inverso Mundus
Part of AES+F solo showMixed media event featuring SoNoRo with a special re-interpretation of AES+F video installation Inverso Mundus and MURMUR, with a fashion performance to mirror the artwork.
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LINES OF THOUGHT
2017Duo show Lea Rasovszky & Anna Khdorkovskaya – collateral event to Art Encounters, Timișoara.
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Publications
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Dublă Expunere
Presenting 10 contemporary artists and 10 writers 2014 -
How Deep is Your Art?
Anna Khodorkovskaya 2016 -
Mirror for the Full Moon
Andrei Gamarț 2016 -
Chambers of Secrets
SÁNDOR SZÁSZ 2017 -
Dig the Inbetween
Lea Rasovszky 2016 -
Roman Tolici
Pandora M, in partnership with Mobius Gallery 2016What I like about Tolici is the indifference towards dominant aesthetic doctrines: he mocks the rancid avant-gardes who were calling the shots not long ago, who were forcing the artist...
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