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ZILELE NORDULUI 2026
TO WAIT WITHOUT HUNTING Solo Show by Ana Maria Micu Opening | Saturday, August 8, 2026, 15:00 – 16:00 Venue | Casa Nord, the former chicken processing plant, Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, Darabani, Botoșani County Dates | August 6 – 15, 2026 Visiting schedule during the festival days ( August 6 – 9) | daily, 10:00 – 19:00 Visiting schedule after the festival | 10:00 – 19:00 Artist talk: Ana Maria Micu in conversation with Ioan Mateiciuc, Friday, August 7, 11:00 – 12:30, Casa Nord Cultural mediation workshops led by the artist in collaboration with Prof. Elena Arcire: Saturday, August 8, 11:00 – 12:00, “The Invisible Object / Beauty in the Mind,” for pupils in grades 5 – 6 Sunday, August 9, 11:00 – 12:00, “The Non-Invasive Gaze and Moments of Suspension,” for pupils in grades 7 – 8 https://www.zilelenordului.ro/program download press release in Romanian "To Wait Without Hunting" represents for Ana Maria Micu both a synthesis and an evolution of the sustained visual research she has developed in recent years since relocating to Botoșani. While her previous projects emphasized support structures, both physical (interventions within the studio-apartment) and psychological (reconstructing the self through gardening and art), the current assemblage of existing videos and paintings alongside new works proposes a paradigm shift: abandoning the effort of consolidation in favor of pure presence. This project is grounded in the philosopher Simone Weil’s concept of "decreation," synthesized in the ideal: "To see a landscape as it is when I am not there...". This goal of withdrawing the ego from the act of looking, in order to allow the world to manifest in its absolute autonomy, becomes an ethical benchmark and a highly difficult position—yet, for that very reason, paradoxically necessary—when adopted by an observational draftsperson. What emerges is a method of working and living based on the silent contemplation of the inhabited space, where plants and everyday objects are not captured as subjects of study, but rather allowed to exist in their own rhythm. 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 non-invasive gaze and a form of attention that tends toward the invisibility of the observer. By contrast, in order to question what it means to kill an image and the emotional response this gesture implicitly triggers, even when dealing with an object incapable of feeling physical pain, the antithesis of this idea is exemplified by an installation that integrates drawings caught in mousetraps. The exhibition articulates a dialogue between the built environment of the host city and the micro-universe of the artist's studio, offering the public an immersive experience centered on resilience, patience, and the fragile beauty of suspended time. Cultural mediation will be conducted through guided tours and includes an educational component directed at middle-school students (grades 5 – 8), coordinated by Elena Arcire, a visual arts teacher at the "Leon Dănăilă" School in Darabani. go to project ⮕ |
Drawings Caught in Mousetraps
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COVER ART
Dan Sociu, "Deep Fakes", translated from Romanian by Monica Cure, World Poetry Books, New York City, USA, 2026 Cover art: "of daylight. ... the coercive measures", 2019, by Ana Maria Micu I am pleased to announce that my 2019 painting, "of daylight. ... the coercive measures", has been selected by World Poetry Books as the cover art for Dan Sociu’s forthcoming poetry collection, "Deep Fakes". Following the publisher's initial selection, the author confirmed that the artwork aligns with the vision of the book. I extend my gratitude to both the publisher and the author, and I wish the publication every success. World Poetry Books is a New York City-based nonprofit publishing house specializing in translated poetry. "Deep Fakes", translated into English by Monica Cure, has recently been announced as forthcoming. https://worldpoetrybooks.com/books/deep-fakes |
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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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