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UPCOMING SOLO SHOW - ZILLELE NORDULUI 2026
Darabani, Botoșani County, Romania Waiting Without Hunting by Ana Maria Micu The exhibition "Waiting Without Hunting" represents a natural progression of the visual research initiated in the previous project, "Woman Scaffolding". While that stage focused on support structures—both physical (studio scaffolding) and psychological (the reconstruction of the self)—the new body of work, comprising both existing and recent paintings, proposes a paradigm shift: relinquishing the effort of building in favor of pure presence. The genesis of this project is profoundly influenced by philosopher Simone Weil’s concept of "decreation," synthesized in the ideal: "To see a landscape as it is when I am not there" ("Voir un paysage tel qu’il est quand je n’y suis pas"). This desire to withdraw one's own "self" from the act of looking, allowing the world to manifest in its absolute autonomy, becomes the ethical foundation of Ana Maria Micu's new works. The concept of "waiting without hunting" thus defines a working method grounded in the silent observation of inhabited space, where plants and everyday objects are not "captured" as subjects of study, but allowed to exist at their own pace. The title underscores an ethics of the non-invasive gaze. In contemporary art, where the image is often the result of a "hunt" for visual impact, the artist opts for slowness and organic growth, practicing a form of attention that aspires to the observer's invisibility. The exhibition in Darabani will establish a dialogue between the built environment of the host town and the micro-universe of the artist's studio, offering the audience an immersive experience of resilience, patience, and the fragile beauty of intermediate states. https://www.zilelenordului.ro/ |
Drawings Caught in Mice Traps
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CEALALTĂ FAȚĂ A LUMII
Opening | Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 6 Tribunei Street, and from 7:00 p.m. at Brukenthal Palace, 4 Piața Mare Dates | May 5 – 31, 2026 Venue | Museum of Contemporary Art of the Brukenthal National Museum, 6 Tribunei Street, and Brukenthal Palace, 4 Piața Mare, Sibiu, Romania Curator | Liviana Dan Co-curator | Alexandra Runcan Artists | Ana Maria Micu, Ioana Olăhuț, Anca Bodea, Mirela Moscu, Ioana Iacob, Anca Brânzaș, Oana Năstăsache, Andrea Tivadar, Roxana Ajder, Ioana Tocoaie go to project ⮕ |
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ÎN CĂUTAREA NATURII ( The Pursuit of Nature)
Opening | April 17, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. Dates | April 17 – June 7, 2026 Venue | The Art Museum of Brașov, 21 Eroilor Boulevard, Brașov, Romania Curator | Valentina Iancu Artists | Ion Andreescu, Emilia Apostolescu, Mihaela Cîmpeanu, Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck, Hans Eder, Micaela Eleutheriade, Nicolae Grigorescu, Uliana Gujuman, Hans Hermann, Karl Hübner, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Gustav Kollár, Katja Lee Eliad, Irina Lukász, Rodica Maniu, Gabriela Mateescu, Hans Mattis-Teutsch, Andreea Medar, Friederich Miess, Ana Maria Micu, Ciprian Mureșan, Vlad Nancă, Irina Neacșu, Adrian Oncu, Sorin Oncu, Radu Oreian, Dan Perjovschi, Elena Popea, Mișu Popp, Alexandra Sand, Iulia Toma, Henri Trenk, Oana Paula Vainer, Miki Velciov The exhibition brings together botanical-themed works from the collection of The Art Museum of Brașov and contemporary artworks, building a dialogue that highlights how nature has been represented and understood in art. Structured into two sections, "wild nature" and "domestic nature", the exhibition traces transformations in the perception and representation of nature, moving from an object of admiration and contemplation to a space of human intervention marked by ecological crisis and environmental activism. Within this context, nature no longer appears only as an artistic subject, but becomes a space for critical reflection on our relationship with the environment. go to project ⮕ |
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THE AUTONOMOUS MASTER ARCHIVE: A LOW-DEPENDENCY ECOSYSTEM
Concept, intuitive prompt engineering, and testing: Ana Maria Micu Code: Gemini 3, under a Google AI Pro subscription License: GNU GPL v3 Date: April 2026 This package is designed for the long-term administration of extensive artwork databases, such as a catalogue raisonné comprising hundreds of records. It is highly applicable if you are solely responsible for managing diverse communication formats regarding these works, including editable text-and-image documents, static web deployments, and automatically generated PDFs. Conceived as an autonomous architectural framework, the kit is distributed independently of its software dependencies, requiring active integration by the user. Optimized for a Windows environment, the system relies on a precise constellation of free, open-source, and proprietary freeware tools: Chromium (or Google Chrome) to execute the local JavaScript compiler, LibreOffice to manage the data matrices and render native OpenDocument formats, and the Java Runtime Environment to process the underlying XML architecture. To achieve the artwork’s conceptual goal of absolute portability and hardware resilience, the entire ecosystem is designed to be housed on an external drive alongside localized, portable iterations of these applications, ensuring the archive remains permanently self-contained and ready for execution across distinct machines. go to project ⮕ |
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BOOK LAUNCH “Touch Nature at /SAC Bucharest”
Book Launch | April 16, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. Venue | Cărturești Modul, Academiei 18-20 Street, Bucharest, Romania Event Language | English Guest Speakers | Victor Bartiș (book design), Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement (exhibition design), Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu (exhibition co-curators) and Judith Wagner (artist in the exhibition) Book Specifications | Paperback, 244 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm, English language Texts | Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement, the artists from the 2024 exhibition "Touch Nature" at /SAC Bucharest Coordinating editor | Alex Radu Book design & image curator | Victor Bartiș Translation & editing | Cristina Ginara, Anne Marie Lolea, Lidia Dobrea, Andreea Chircă Exhibition and editorial project managers | Anne Marie Lolea, Andreea Chircă, Lidia Dobrea Photographs by | Adi Bulboacă, Ana Maria Micu, Elena Maxemciuc, Horia Manolache, Lavinia Cioacă, New Folder Studio ISBN | 978-606-980-276-2 Publishers | /SAC & Editura Vellant, 2026 Supported by | Romanian Order of Architects (OAR) through its architecture grant, Vellant Publishing, Austrian Cultural Forum (for the exhibition, book, and launch) Pre-order link | https://www.vellant.ro/carte/touch-nature-sac-bucharest-4819691020 "Touch Nature @ /SAC Bucharest" Exhibition details (2024, /SAC Berthelot and Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania) Curators | Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu Artists | Uli Aigner, Matei Bejenaru, Floriama Candea, Codruța Cernea, Adriana Chiruta, Ciprian Ciuclea, Larisa Crunțeanu, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Michael Endlicher, Thomas Feuerstein, Peter Hauenschild, Barbara Anna Husar, Nona Inescu, Kitty Kino, Aurora Kiraly, Alexandra Kontriner, Ana Maria Micu, Nicoleta Mureș, Klaus Pichler, Monika Pichler, PRINZpod, Oliver Ressler, Gregor Sailer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Hans Schabus, Ramona Schnekenburger, Marielis Seyler, Paul Spendier, Oana Stanciu, Mircea Suciu, Dan Vezentan, Judith Wagner, Nives Widauer, Laurent Ziegler. Exhibition design | Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement Exhibition graphic design | Irina Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement Set-design production | Atelier SET /SAC team | Andreea Chircă, Iulian Cristea, Lidia Dobrea, Anne Marie Lolea, Elena Maxemciuc Exhibition Supported by | Austrian Cultural Forum, Ministry of European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria go to project ⮕ |
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