Cars with character

I love shopping

it makes me feel good.

From Prague with love

I have recently been to Prague to show some work at the Prague Biennale. Here are a few pictures from those days...
Here is Mr Kiraly and I by the river...

Breakfast at the boatel...

Victor

Victor and Simona

Sebastian

The unforgettable Europe boat

Hummm

Humm again

and again.

At one point things went completely wrong

Red Dacia, Red Dacia

Romania, McDonalds

With love, from Ploiesti, Romania

Skateboardart

This is my work for the Skateboard art exhibition - Ne placa ce faci - which opened last week at Galeria Noua. Pictures from the exhibition by Oana, here.

New Europe in Rome

New Europe is the name of this piece I did for Editing Project organized throughout 2005-2007 in Gorizia and finished in Rome last month... Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia) are two towns which at the end of the Second World War were only one town and got in a Berlin-like situation when the border between the two countries was drawn through the city.
Now things are radically changing as the crossing points at the border are being closed down and people are free to chose where they want to live, work study or just have dinner.

As an answer to this situation I have created a blackboard arrow which allows people to write anything they want on it. This can be wiped off and replaced by different words putting the person writing in a powerful position, with the rights of deciding over directions. The blackboard arrow underlines the relativity of geography and ideas in relation to time and history

I have taken the arrow in different spots in the two towns and photographed it with various words written on it. These photographs were then exhibited in Rome next to the arrow which functioned as a basic interactive installation giving the people the chance to write anything they wanted on it.

Photos of the exhibition by Chiara Scategni

Happy Sunday at MNAC

It is exactly a week ago that I did the performance at MNAC - two hours lying down under a car. The strangest thing was this TV crew that interviewed me during the performance. I didnt really know whether I should talk to them or not... in the end I answer to their questions not before telling them this story... The whole thing reminded me of a news on ProTV (a few years ago) when someone was stuck with his legs under a lorry in a terrible accident. The TV crew was interviewing this person asking them what he was doing there. We more more or less in the same position only no one was hurt this time.

Photos by Carmen Iovitu

Good news is good news

I'm artist of the month in Le Monde Diplomatique, Romanian edition.

Dream of Bucharest catalogue

A little catalogue of my exhibition Dream of Bucharest just came out, with great support from Akademie Solitude and designed by Lucian Marin.

Work of the month at MNAC

Preparing for a...

... "Happy Sunday" at MNAC

installation and performance on Sunday 6 May at 16.00

[photo by Carmen Iovitu]

From Galeria Noua home gallery to home

So all is finished now in the gallery home and we are already at our proper home... We really enjoyed our time in the gallery and it has been a really interesting experience. We've had ups and downs but mostly its been a good time for us. Still we're happy to be back home.

Roma / Romania

Returning from Rome where the exhibition was a success. We're now back at Galeria Noua for the last days of the Gallery Home project. More pictures from Rome and from Romania soon.

2nd week in the gallery

After two weeks in the gallery we are now having a break. (Un)fortunately, two projects overlapsed and we are all now in Rome for a different exhibition of mine. We will be happy to return to our gallery / home soon. Two whole weeks in the gallery have been a really great experience and I could definitely do it again... But first we need to come back and finnish our stay.
We started to get some post and I am happy about that. We will also post something to ourselves from Rome.


17 April, 09.31 Documenting the exhibition and posing as the artist with his new works.

14 April, 16.22 Cosima, Maria, Titi, Ota, Victor, Vlad, Anton, Mircea and Kate taking the picture.

14 April, 16.17 Having a quick chat with Ion Grigorescu whilst the children are running around

13 April, 21.17 Good News, some works are going up...

13 April, 17.23 Playing marbles with Toma

13 April, 17.23 Playing skittles with Robert

1st week in the gallery

It's been a week since we're living in Galeria Noua and our new home feels more and more like it really is ours. Victor loves being here and doesnt really want to go back home. Our favourite thing is seeing friends walking by the gallery and being able to invite them in. People still dont belive that we are actually living here but of course everyone is invited to come and see for themselves. An article came out the other day in EVZ and also a report on Metropotam. Mr Napoleon Tiron visited us yesterday and left a lovely message in the notebook. We still havent got any post on our new address but we're hoping to get some soon:
Galeria Noua, Str Academiei nr 15 Bucuresti

11 April 14.12 with Aurora Kiraly

9 April 21.05 In bed very early

8 April 17.57 playing badminton outside the gallery

8 April 14.41 begin Easter lunch

8 April 11.50 chilling out

8 April 06.38 Easter egg hunt

6 April 11.56 we like sitting in front of the house

5 April 21.44 It's all so quiet

5 April 08.40 Waking up and playing in the new house.