Galeria INSPIRATIO presents, starting February 28, 2025, the first personal exhibition of the artist Ana-Maria Gălețeanu. Entitled "[un]fold", the exhibition addresses how identity is constructed through everyday gestures, analyzing the development of personality through the artist's actions and reflections. 

"Anchor for the future"

The works in the exhibition were created in 2024, being inspired by the observation, introspection and experiences lived by the artist during the period referred to. "The works capture a continuous dialogue between spontaneity and reflection, visible in the visual rhythms and contrasts between fluidity and precision. The personal symbols integrated in the creations offer clues about the concerns and passions that define the artist Ana-Maria Gălețeanu. 

Through sequences of lines, points and vibrant touches, the artist creates visual rhythms that convey movement and energy. She predominantly uses watercolor, a technique that allows colors to merge and evolve organically, and interventions with colored pencils add accents of precision and control. Although at first glance the compositions may seem playful, beyond their surface you can see strong emotions and deep reflections" - explains Alexandra Ilnițchi-Ardelean, curator of the exhibition.

"The strength of fragility"

Ana-Maria describes her creative process as follows: "I painted the simple joys that, for a moment, suspended time, those moments that made me notice them, admire them and transform them into defining experiences."

About the artist

Ana-Maria (b. 1990) is a visual artist and illustrator, a graduate of the Mural Art section of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Her artistic activity combines original creations, book illustration and coordination of creative workshops. With a deep dedication to education and community, Ana-Maria leverages her talent to inspire and promote art as a means of expression and personal development. 

"Exuberance"

Since 2018, Ana-Maria has settled in Brașov, a city that has become the center of her artistic activity. Her works were exhibited at the Blue Biennale, as well as in group exhibitions organized at the INSPIRATION Gallery, the Art Museum in Brașov and the Cotroceni National Museum.

The exhibition can be visited daily between February 28 and March 27, 2025, at the INSPIRATION Gallery, Brașov (Romania), Johannes Honterus Court no. 8, between 10:00-19:00, with free entry.

Info and photos provided by Alexandra Ilnițchi-Ardelean

Recently, Galeria Artep presented a unic perspective on the between - the distance between us, the space between us and things, the relationship between material and immaterial, through an authentic interpretation of glass through the intervention of natural materials in the burning process, proposed by emerging artist Andreea-Delia Voren.

when stones hold the light of their absence / stone installation, Japanese paper, 2024

"The exhibition thus becomes an intermediate space where the works speak for themselves, outside of utilitarian or symbolic contexts. Andreea-Delia Voren captures that between between visible and invisible, material and immaterial, transforming glass surfaces into a portal to what Latour and Harman call the deep reality of objects: the artist's works propose a return to an aesthetic of pure observation, freed from forced interpretations; an exhibition about objects captured in glass, about the spaces between them, about the silence of materiality and the story that things tell when people stop categorizing them. 

Through this exhibition, the artist challenges the limits of perception and invites us to rethink our place in the vast web of things. We are witnessing a dialogue between nature and culture and a moment of redefining the relationship between people, objects and space", states the curator Cristiana Ursache.

a cabinet of presences / fused glass installation, 2024

You can take a virtual tour of the exhibition, here.

echoes on the fringe / fused glass installation, 2024

About the artist

Andreea-Delia Voren graduated from the bachelor's and master's program at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design in Iași, at the departments of Painting and Art Pedagogy. She completed her studies with an internship scholarship at the PXL MAD faculty in Belgium, where she investigated the possibilities of transmediality in painting and glass and supported the teaching activities of the Painting department. 

She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design of the Western University of Timișoara, where she conducts a research focusing on innovations and intersections between painting and the materiality of other artistic mediums. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, national and international, including at the Royal Academy of Art and Mall Galleries in London, as well as in Italy and Bulgaria.

invisible nexus / cast glass, silk paper, black sand, 2024

The curator

Cristiana Ursache is a researcher and curator in Iasi, Romania. She completed her bachelor's and master's studies in theories and practices in visual arts at the "George Enescu" University of Arts, Iași, and from 2023 she is conducting a doctoral research on curatorial practices in Romania from the 2000s to the present, within the same university. In the past she also studied in Spain and Switzerland, at the Escuela de Arte de Sevilla and the Zurich University of the Arts. 

In the summer of 2022 she had the role of cultural mediator at the Romanian Pavilion in the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale and in 2024 she collaborated with the Listval Gallery in Iceland. She curated exhibitions in Romania and abroad by artists such as Ștefan Câltia, Claudiu Ciobanu, Sorin Ilfoveanu, Miruna Radovici, Radu-Mihai Tănasă.

Info - Galeria Artep; Photos by Andrei Gavrilița

a cabinet of presences / fused glass installation, 2024