GAEP

31/01/2025

“Any idiom is a 'concept' hard to tame. The difficulty lies in the enigmatic framework between a sophisticated sensory transposition and its visual interpretation. Visually, each line has an emotional response. The circuit of each sensitive touch vibrates somewhere between real and abstract.” — Mircea Stănescu

Included in our current group exhibition and shown for the first time in the gallery, Noble Idioms 4 is part of a group of works from the late 1980s by Mircea Stănescu.

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Featured artwork: Mircea Stănescu, Noble Idioms 4, 1988, mixed media and pencil on paper, 39 x 30 cm

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📷 Alexandru Paul

30/01/2025

A feminine n**e character leaves a dark place, albeit natural, and heads towards light, with all its positive connotations. Marilena Preda Sânc renders this journey with energetic brushstrokes and dense layers – the color paste lies on the surface as a volumetric structure, a flesh of the canvas.

Make sure to take a close look. 👀 The painting is on view through February 8, in the group exhibition Mnemonics [back to the future].

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Featured artwork: Marilena Preda Sânc, Ploaia de lumină, 2024, oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm

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📷 Alexandru Paul

25/01/2025

Raluca Popa’s ‘After Tuttle’ is a durational project which started as an act of contemplation of Richard Tuttle’s work in the pauses that Popa took from her activities in the studio.

In time, as she developed a more consistent interest and became more familiarized with his thinking, the artist felt a need ”to take notes as to remember”, as to preserve her observations. Consequently, she began to reproduce Tuttle’s works as small drawings on notebook pages.

Learn more about Tuttle’s Beethoven stop on the way to Egypt (1986) and Popa’s work after it by planning a visit to our current exhibition.

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Featured artwork: Raluca Popa, After Tuttle (Beethoven stop on the way to Egypt, 1986), 2022, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 51.5 x 71 cm

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📷 Portrait: Andrei Becheru. Artwork image: Alexandru Paul

24/01/2025

Please note that the gallery is closed today for public holiday. See you tomorrow, January 25. Opening hours: 11:00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m.

16/01/2025

Cătălin Pîslaru merges a sophisticated color palette and conceptual construction to develop forms that walk the line between figuration and abstraction.

While he refrains from fully disclosing his references, the forms may originate in various vintage or contemporary magazines, books, technical diagrams, and user manuals. Each series develops organically as the artist builds a discourse centred on space, harmony, tension, contrast, and equilibrium.

Three paintings from a recent series, titled The Lotus Sacrifice Ritual, are on view in our anniversary group exhibition.

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Featured artworks (from left): Cătălin Pîslaru, The Lotus Sacrifice Ritual #10, The Lotus Sacrifice Ritual #5 and The Lotus Sacrifice Ritual #8, 2024, oil paint and wax on paper mounted on alu-dibond, 32 x 24 cm each

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📷 Portrait: Lars Monshausen; installation view: Alexandru Paul

15/01/2025

Damir Očko’s recent collages function simultaneously as “dragforms”, anagram collages and a scrutiny of human fears. Our current group exhibition features this striking pair.

◀︎ On the left: Damir Očko, Abhor Monotone Chirp, 2024

Note: Chronomentrophobia / Fear of clocks

Anagram: Chronomentrophobia = Abhor Monotone Chirp

▶︎ On the right: Damir Očko, Ego Bean Hypnosis, 2021

Note: Syngenesophobia / Fear of relatives

Anagram: Syngenesophobia = Ego Bean Hypnosis

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Featured artworks (from left): Damir Očko, Abhor Monotone Chirp, 2024, gouache on paper, fabric, gold leaf, acrylic, mounted on archival cardboard, 150 x 100 cm, and Ego Bean Hypnosis, 2021, gouache and acrylic on paper, glitter, fabric, 76 x 58 cm

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📷 Portrait: Damir Žižić. Installation view: Alexandru Paul

10/01/2025

One might see initially only black and white stripes of equal width. By stretching letters to the limit of legibility, Tania Mouraud encourages us, in fact, to take time to decipher the writing.

What we distinguish as a result is I HAVE A DREAM TODAY. The artist borrows Martin Luther King’s famous phrase and updates it to underline its continuing relevance and political vitality.

💬 On view in the group exhibition Mnemonics [back to the future]

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Featured artwork: Tania Mouraud, I HAVE A DREAM TODAY, 2024, lithography on Fine Art paper, 103 x 70 cm

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📷 Alexandru Paul

09/01/2025

Open again and looking forward to welcoming you to Mnemonics [back to the future] – a must-see exhibition on Elle Romania’s list.

Artists: Răzvan Anton, Pavel Brăila, Felipe Cohen, Vlatka Horvat, Théo Massoulier, Sebastian Moldovan, Tania Mouraud, Damir Očko, Cătălin Pîslaru, Mihai Plătică, Raluca Popa, Marilena Preda Sânc, Mircea Stănescu, Ignacio Uriarte

🗓 Plan a visit till February 8.

Chiar dacă e iarnă în toată regula (sau tocmai din acest motiv), îți recomandăm să te pui la curent cu propunerile scenei culturale și să te bucuri de divertisment de calitate.

08/01/2025

OUT NOW: the book documenting Vlatka Horvat’s project in the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024.

“By the Means at Hand” breaks the frame of the traditional exhibition catalogue and mirrors the evolving nature of the work through a combination of documentation, dialogue, and reflections on the process.

For her project at the biennale, Vlatka invited some 200 international artists – friends and friends of friends, all living “as foreigners” in different countries around the world – to exchange small-scale artworks with her. For every work she received, Vlatka sent to each artist a collage from the series she was making while in residence in Venice. All the artworks travelled to Venice and back via informal transport networks: in bags and suitcases of friends, acquaintances, and sometimes strangers enlisted as couriers for the project.

📚 “By the Means at Hand” can be ordered from Archive Books (link in comments).

The publication has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, with support from ERSTE Foundation. We’re proud to have offered additional support.

26/12/2024

Please note the gallery is closed for the winter break till January 8. Happy Holidays and see you next year!

20/12/2024

Sebastian Moldovan’s detailed drawings of suspended shelters that blend built structures with vegetation conjure up existing dwellings, historical/mythological accounts such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and imagined future ways of living in post-human cities.

🌱 Three drawings from this new series, titled High-Rise of Uncertain Futures, are featured in our current group exhibition.

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Featured artworks (from left): Sebastian Moldovan, High-Rise of Uncertain Futures 5, High-Rise of Uncertain Futures 3 and High-Rise of Uncertain Futures 9, 2024, Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth black lead on 300gsm paper, 57 x 39 cm each

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📷 Alexandru Paul

19/12/2024

How has the appetite for art evolved in the last ten years? Who is collecting art in Romania? And how does Art Set by gaep bring art into offices? Watch Gaep’s cofounder Andrei Breahna answer these and other questions at ZF 15 minute cu un antreprenor.

Piaţa de arta a crescut considerabil în ultimii zece ani pe plan local, atât ca artişti, dar şi ca pasionaţi ai artelor, în special colecţionari. Andrei Breahna, fondatorul Galeriei Gaep, unul dintre cei mai vechi şi cunoscuţi actori locali din domeniul artei contemporane, spune că piaţa...

19/12/2024

A micro-landscape of controlled heterogeneity – Théo Massoulier collates the elements so harmoniously that the work brings to mind the aesthetics of ikebana. It's part of his ongoing series ‘5G’, consisting of small assemblages made of minerals, tiny stems, playful plastic elements sourced from universe-themed games, metal parts removed from video projectors or computers, and, often, a dichroic glass plate.

🔹🔸 Come by the gallery to see how this plate changes its colors depending on lighting conditions and the viewing angle.

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Featured artwork: Théo Massoulier, 5G.2024.XII, 2024, mixed media, 15 x 10 x 20 cm

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📷 Portrait: Blandine Soulage. Artwork image: Sebastiano Luciano

18/12/2024

The year in review (part II): from the new Accelerator mentoring projects for emerging artists and a partnership with Spitalul Marie Curie and Dăruiește Viață, to a 44-meter-long textile installation commissioned by a company for its employees and several events organised together with CEO Clubs, this was a year of bridging realms and bringing art into spaces as diverse as a hospital and a logistic hub.

1. Diana Drāghici, Tender Places of the Child I Once Were, 2024 | Produced within Accelerator Câmpulung, a project by Asociația Culturală Eastwards Prospectus in partnership with Primăria Câmpulung and Gaep

2. Roxana Morar, Braiding Grounds, 2024, Baia Mare | Part of Accelerator. Art in the Public Space

3. Diana Drāghici’s artist residency at Spitalul Marie Curie | Part of the cultural project A Network of Care, carried out by Asociația Culturală Eastwards Prospectus in partnership with the hospital and Daruieste Viata

4. Wanda Hutira’s textile installation commissioned by Art Set by gaep for Kuehne + Nagel Romania | Installed in the company’s logistic hub in Bolintin beginning with September 2024

5. & 6. Art seminar held by Andrei Breahna (Gaep’s cofounder) and Alex Eram (entrepreneur and art collector) as guest speaker | An event for CEO Clubs I Owners Club I Executive Club Romania members

7. Painting by Adrian Cojocaru in Macromex offices | One of Art Set by gaep’s displays in office spaces

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📷 Photos by Lena Ciobanu, Teodor Preluca, Adi Bulboacă, Ioan Topoleanu, Damian Horațiu Sultănoiu, Cătălin Georgescu

17/12/2024

10 things that every art collector should know 🔹 In his second op-ed for Republica, Gaep’s co-founder Andrei Breahna answers one of the most frequent questions he was asked over the years by budding art buyers: ”Where should I start?”.

Scena de artă contemporană are multe de oferit celor care investesc timpul necesar familiarizării cu fenomenul și explorării diverselor medii și practici artistice. Iată câteva lucruri pe care cred că ar trebui să le cunoască cineva interesat să facă primii pași în colecționarea de a...

17/12/2024

The year in review (part I): the exhibitions, the international art fairs and the anniversary that brightened up 2024 for us.

1. Théo Massoulier: Organism, the artist’s first exhibition with Gaep | 23 February–30 March

2. Drawing Now Art Fair | Artists: Răzvan Anton and Raluca Popa | 21–24 March, Paris

3. Art Paris | Artists: Cătălin Pîslaru, Raluca Popa and Ignacio Uriarte | 4–7 April

4. miart | Artist: Théo Massoulier | 12–14 April, Milan

5. Mihai Plătică: Oh, Be a Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me! | 17 May–29 June

6. Gaep Presents: Adrian Cojocaru | Acts of In-Between, the first exhibition in the new ‘Gaep Presents’ series | 19 July–16 August

7. Damir Očko: Tender Days | 20 September–26 October

8. Mnemonics [back to the future], GAEP’s 10th anniversary exhibition | Artists: Răzvan Anton, Pavel Brăila, Felipe Cohen, Vlatka Horvat, Théo Massoulier, Sebastian Moldovan, Tania Mouraud, Damir Očko, Cătălin Pîslaru, Mihai Plătică, Raluca Popa, Marilena Preda Sânc, Mircea Stănescu, Ignacio Uriarte | 22 November 2024–8 February 2025

9. Installation by Sebastian Moldovan, Device for Claiming Room Without Effort or Tension, at GAEP’s 10th anniversary party, 22 November

10. Performance by Kinga Ötvös at GAEP’s 10th anniversary party

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📷 Photos by Alexandru Paul (1, 5, 6, 8), Yosuke Kojima (2), Marc Domage (3), Sebastiano Luciano (4), Cătălin Georgescu (7), Adi Bulboacă (9, 10)

13/12/2024

Vlatka Horvat's ‘Enfolded’ draws attention to the gestures of folding and enwrapping. While the content is obscured – and thus remains mysterious –, the edges of the folds are highlighted by brightly coloured securing ‘tape’. The wall-based textile work may suggest either a cocoon or a bind, as it simultaneously invokes acts of protection and care, as well as those of containment and enclosing.

🟨 Come by the gallery to take a closer look. On view in the group exhibition Mnemonics [back to the future].

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Featured artwork: Vlatka Horvat, Enfolded, 2023, felt, textiles, thread, 62 x 54 x 3 cm

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📷 Portrait: Hugo Glendinnning. Artwork image: Vlatka Horvat

12/12/2024

‘Sem vento’ (Windless) uses transparency and reflectiveness to create the impression of solid matter floating on water. For Felipe Cohen, the subject of light and the juxtaposition of an everyday object (tree branches) with a classic display window are recurring elements in his practice.

✨ See it in the group exhibition Mnemonics [back to the future], which brings together works by all the 14 artists represented by the gallery.

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Featured artwork: Felipe Cohen, Sem vento, 2013-2024, tree branches, 6 x 39 x 9 cm; 9.5 x 0.5 cm (tree branches), 60 x 95 x 90 cm (table)

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📷 Alexandru Paul