Biju Gallery

We started our season with the opening of a beautiful photography exhibition "Old trees" by the artist Florin Ghenade in collaboration with .

Florin Ghenade has been photographing old trees in Romania for over six years during his travels, as symbols of memory and temporality, creating a series of photographic frames in which the aestethic and the significance of the subject are equally important.

We are grateful for everyone who joined us 🤍

Thank you .dox for capturing these moments 📷

The opening night of "Old Trees" exhibition by Florin Ghenade .gallery.

Our friend captured the emotion of the evening. A big thank you to everyone who joined us! 💫

Expoziția Arbori Bătrâni a fotografului Florin Ghenade la Biju Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (link in comentarii)

We are thrilled to start a new exhibition season in collaboration with Galeria Posibilă . Join us on the 29th August at the opening of "Old Trees" exhibition by the photographer Florin Ghenade , curated by .muntean_

But that's not all! The opening night will be accompanied by a live musical performance by the talented Ada Morar .music. Her soulful melodies will perfectly complement the visual experience, making this an evening you won't want to miss. 🎹

Location : Biju Gallery, Memorandumului 17, Cluj-Napoca
Date: August 29th
Time: 6PM

The Anatomy of Ambiguity .gallery
Ada Muntean / Mathias Bar

The Anatomy of Ambiguity is a duo show type of exhibition that describes through its artistic approaches, a carefully constructed ambient, marked by intimacy, and following a red thread which leads to a configuration of states where ambiguity becomes an expressive instrument.
The figurative elements that appear in the art pieces: organic, vegetal, or anatomical symbolically suggest the cyclicity of life by presenting small, precious fragments of the ephemeral. The repetitive process symbolizing birth, growth, maturity, and death illustrate the natural existential circuit. The corporality of the vegetal structures or of the human body per se is explored through experimental compositions made through various techniques: oil on canvas, watercolour on wood panel, charcoal on canvas, drawing on wood panel.

Photo credits: .studio .dox

1. Ada Muntean, Soft Hollow, pencil drawing on wood panel, 11 x 14 cm, 2015
2. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, detail, installation: pencil drawing on wood panel, 11 x 14 cm each, 2024
3.Ada Muntean, The Garden of Ambiguities, charcoal on canvas, 40 x 45 cm, 2024
4. Ada Muntean, Accidents în Paradise, charcoal on canvas, 60 cm diameter, 2024
5. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, detail, installation: pencil drawing on wood panel, 11 x 14 cm each, 2024
6. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, detail, installation: pencil drawing on wood panel, 20 x 30 cm, 2024
7.Ada Muntean, Coordinates for you to dream, charcoal on paper, 55 x 55 cm, 2012
8.Ada Muntean, Untitled, lightbox (after an original drawing), 35 x 45 cm, 2024
9.Ada Muntean, exhibition view
10. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, detail, installation, pencil drawing on wood panel, 20 x 30 cm, 2024

                                                     

The Anatomy of Ambiguity .gallery
Ada Muntean / Mathias Bar

The Anatomy of Ambiguity is a duo show type of exhibition that describes through its artistic approaches, a carefully constructed ambient, marked by intimacy, and following a red thread which leads to a configuration of states where ambiguity becomes an expressive instrument.
The figurative elements that appear in the art pieces: organic, vegetal, or anatomical symbolically suggest the cyclicity of life by presenting small, precious fragments of the ephemeral. The repetitive process symbolizing birth, growth, maturity, and death illustrate the natural existential circuit. The corporality of the vegetal structures or of the human body per se is explored through experimental compositions made through various techniques: oil on canvas, watercolour on wood panel, charcoal on canvas, drawing on wood panel.

1.Mathias Bar, Dreams, tempera on wood panel, coffee on wood panel, variable dimensions, 2024
2. Mathias Bar, Dreams, tempera on wood panel, coffee on wood panel, variable dimensions, 2024
3.Mathias Bar, Dreams (detail), tempera on wood panel, 2024
4.Mathias Bar, Self/Double portrait, mixed media on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, 2024
5.Mathias Bar, (up) Landscape with Silhouette, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2024 - (down) Isabella and the Pot of Basil, tempera on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2024
6. Mathias Bar, Still Waiting, mixed media on wood panel, 25 x 19 cm, 2024
7. Mathias Bar, Mirroring Gesture, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, 2024
8. Mathias Bar, Dreams (detail), tempera on wood panel, 2024
9.Mathias Bar, Landscape with Silhouette & Isabella and The Pot of Basil
10. Mathias Bar, Untitled, tempera on wood panel, 25 x 19 cm, 2022

The Anatomy of Ambiguity .gallery
Ada Muntean / Mathias Bar

The Anatomy of Ambiguity is a duo show type of exhibition that describes through its artistic approaches, a carefully constructed ambient, marked by intimacy, and following a red thread which leads to a configuration of states where ambiguity becomes an expressive instrument.
The figurative elements that appear in the art pieces: organic, vegetal, or anatomical symbolically suggest the cyclicity of life by presenting small, precious fragments of the ephemeral. The repetitive process symbolizing birth, growth, maturity, and death illustrate the natural existential circuit. The corporality of the vegetal structures or of the human body per se is explored through experimental compositions made through various techniques: oil on canvas, watercolour on wood panel, charcoal on canvas, drawing on wood panel.

1. Ada Muntean, Apparition, charcoal on canvas, 40x45 cm, 2024
2. Ada Muntean, Dark Light, charcoal on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2024
3. Ada Muntean, Corporealities. Uncertain Bodies, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm, 2020
4. Ada Muntean, Selfportrait with Blue Glove, oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm, 2022
5. Ada Muntean, Life Traces, charcoal on canvas, 55 x45 cm, 2024
6. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, installation, pencil drawing on wood panel, mirror, variable dimensions, 2024
7. Ada Muntean, Lines We Cross, detail pencil drawing on wood panel
8. Ada Muntean, Mediating Illusion, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, 2023

"The Anatomy of Ambiguity" by .muntean_ and ._ (exhibition views)

Opening afternoon .gallery, duo show by .muntean_ and ._ 🍉

Thank you all for joining! The current exhibition is open until July 15th and can be visited during our regular schedule.
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Photo credits: .dox .studio

We are happy to announce our upcoming exhibition
"The Anatomy of Ambiguity" by Ada Muntean & Mathias Bar next Friday on 21st of June, 18:00h
muntean_ ._

Don't miss it! 🌿

Sebastian Big "Just me and my buddy", pastel on canvas, 140x140cm, 2024

On view .gallery until 9th of June!



📷 .studio

"Emotional relays of different sizes" - pastel on canvas, 90x90cm, 2024

Sebastian Big is exploring in this work a profound theme about the inheritance between generations, particularly the crucial lesson of freedom that parents can bestow upon their children.

There are countless aspects of what is passed down from father to son, from mother to son. Yet, the most invaluable inheritance, the most significant lesson to be impaired at home, is the gift of freedom.

The gift, however is bittersweet. In a society that overwhelmingly demands submission, the journey to learn and embrace freedom is fraught with challenges. The family, in this context, becomes a beacon of liberty, more so than just a transmitter of conventions.

How do we navigate this tension and find the balance between societal expectations and personal freedom? How do we, as families and individuals nurture and uphold the spirit of freedom in the face of conformity?

On view .gallery until the 9th of June!

Photo credits to .studio .dox

"Menschenpark" by .big- last days to visit 💥



📷 .studio .dox

🍉 Ingrid Farcaș "Late summer watermelon",
Thread on hessian fabric, 60x70cm, 2024

This second edition of .fair was a great one! We would like first to thank our artists, and whom we deeply admire for their incredible work and dedication, to all our visitors for their valuable feedback, to our collectors and to our friends for all the help and support! See you next year! 💙

David Farcaș "The farmer" 2024
Oil on canvas, 120x100cm

On view .fair 2024, 16-19 May 2024

Ingrid Farcaș

"Dog days of winter" 2024, thread on cotton and linen fabric, 40×45 cm

Menschenpark by .big on view .gallery until 9th of June! 🌿

📷.studio .dox

We are so happy to meet you again next week for the second edition of .fair in Bucharest where we will showcase works by and ! Can't wait! 💙

Join us on Friday the 10th for the opening of Sebastian Big's solo show "Menschen Park"! .big 💥

Opening: May 10th, 6PM
📍Memorandumului 17, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

"The WhatsApp group for the parents of class 3B, the Mormons, the backcountry skiers, the group of left-leaning thinkers who used to be monarchist-relativists, the camping buddies, the Slack channel for people_who_get_along, the painters from the Cluj school, the cultural management of Cluj, we are surrounded on all sides by groups and factions where hierarchies are distilled, elders emerge, ways of working are formed, processes, cultures are born. In all this movement, conformity with financial finality gradually eliminates precisely what is most specific to humans, namely humanity, the random nature of existence, and thereby freedom.

Fortunately, there is something stronger in humans than this kind of maneuvering, namely the instinct of adaptation. Everything that is thrown at them, humans grind, process, appropriate, acculturate, subvert, somehow make use of the enemy's weapons for their own survival.

Thus, we end up using precisely this dis-figurement, forced depersonalization, with origins clearly found in slave management (see Caitlin Rosenthal - Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management). They want us to be no face no name just a number, but it's hard, because when there is no face and there is no name, the number dissolves too, the position in the queue is lost, we become harder to track, harder to be put to/in order, the electric brain sweats hard to hunt quiet quitters; the workforce, the primary resource, the essence of capital gradually dissolves into an original magma, without fixed forms, from which what is to come will be born. What is alive will never be content with its own state. Life will always create new worlds." (Sebastian Big)

Bogdan Rusu

"Object found on a journey to space" 30x8cm, painted wood, 2024

On view .gallery until April 15th part of "State of Flux" group exhibition



Photo credits: .studio .dox

Robert Andacs

Still life I, 40x40cm, oil on canvas, 2023
Still life II, 50x70cm, oil on cavas, 2023

On view .gallery until April 15th, part of "State of Flux" group exhibition curated by .muntean_

Photo credits: .studio .dox

Marius Ghita

"A definitely different, different flat plateau", 30x40cm, oil on canvas, 2024

Photo credits: .studio , .dox

Marius Ghita

"Pearl Coat", 41x33cm, oil on canvas, 2024

On view .gallery until April 15th, part of our current exhibition curated by .muntean_