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Through painting and sculpture, Emma Pavaloaia reflects on the distance between what we desire and what remains unattain...
18/06/2026

Through painting and sculpture, Emma Pavaloaia reflects on the distance between what we desire and what remains unattainable. Between material wealth and spiritual nourishment, certainty and doubt, reality and imagination.

Join us tonight for the opening of Emma Păvăloaia’s solo exhibition.

📍 IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
🗓 Opening reception: Today, 18 June, from 18:00

Featured images:
Emma Păvăloaia, Tree Fight, 2025, bronze, 146 x 46 x 36 cm

Opening this Thursday: Emma Păvăloaia’s solo exhibition “Just Out of Reach”“Pavaloaia uses the ordinary. Be it a living ...
16/06/2026

Opening this Thursday: Emma Păvăloaia’s solo exhibition “Just Out of Reach”

“Pavaloaia uses the ordinary. Be it a living room, a flower vase, a diamond (or is it a meal?) as a threshold between the mundane and the metaphysical. She reflects fondly of her old neighbourhood, “Blocuri,” through a funerary statue. Nature arrives to move it somewhere safer. A guardian angel has been locked away in a box for safekeeping. Just present enough but equally inaccessible. A diamond sits on a plate. The Last Meal, as she puts it. The final course of a civilisation that chose material wealth over spiritual sustenance.” –

Join us for the opening reception this Thursday, June 18, starting at 6PM.

“I paint the people I love, primarily within living rooms, gay clubs, bars, and third spaces while using warm, saturated...
13/06/2026

“I paint the people I love, primarily within living rooms, gay clubs, bars, and third spaces while using warm, saturated colors to reflect South Florida’s heat. I want the paintings to feel humid and enveloping, as if you can sense the sweat on your skin, smell the ci******es drifting from the person beside you, and feel the late-night warmth pressing in.”
— zoe schweiger

Zoë Schweiger (b. 2000, Miami, FL) is a painter whose figurative work captures the people and spaces she loves, distorted, blurred, and saturated with the heat, humidity, and q***r vitality of her native Miami. A MICA graduate, her work has been shown at The Armory Show, Expo Chicago, Art021 Shanghai, and NSU Art Museum, where it now lives in the permanent collection. We are thrilled to present her work at CAN Ibiza Contemporary Art Now this June.

Featured images:

1/4: Zoë Schweiger, Let’s Dance, 2026

3/5: Installation views, In The Body Lies The Truth, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

In her works, Emma Pavaloaia explores spatial and temporal liminal territories, geographies made up of hypnotic landscap...
11/06/2026

In her works, Emma Pavaloaia explores spatial and temporal liminal territories, geographies made up of hypnotic landscapes, shrouded in twilight atmospheres, but especially the way in which the human psyche relates to supernatural realities.

Emma holds a BA, MA, and PhD in Painting from the University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca. Just Out of Reach is her second solo with IOMO Gallery.

Emma Păvăloaia: Just Out of Reach
Exhibition text by Thom Oosterhof

Opening June 18,2026, 6PM
IOMO Gallery
Băiculești 29, Bucharest

On view: June 18 - July 31, 2026

There is a word in Romanian that does not translate. ‘Dor’. Something between longing and ache, a reaching toward someth...
10/06/2026

There is a word in Romanian that does not translate. ‘Dor’. Something between longing and ache, a reaching toward something that cannot quite be named. Not grief. Not nostalgia. Closer to the feeling of standing at a window at dusk and not being sure what you’re looking for.

Emma Pavaloaia’s exhibition ‘Just Out of Reach’ at IOMO Gallery in Bucharest begins at the dinner table. In an ordinary evening, reality starts to be invaded by her imagination. What pours in is everything. Poverty, war, greed, angels, devils, the post-communist apartment blocks of her childhood neighbourhood and the particular anxiety of living just twenty minutes’ walk from a NATO air base. The paintings that follow are not in any way political. They are simply the contents of one woman’s mind on a quiet evening, allowed to take form. The fact that they may seem political, tells you everything you need to know.

Emma Păvăloaia: Just Out of Reachpavaloaia

Exhibition text by Thom Oosterhof

Opening June 18,2026, 6PM
IOMO Gallery
Băiculești 29, Bucharest

On view: June 18 - July 31, 2026

Justin Liam O’Brien (b. 1991, New York) is a narrative painter whose distinctive figurative works explore identity, iso...
09/06/2026

Justin Liam O’Brien (b. 1991, New York) is a narrative painter whose distinctive figurative works explore identity, isolation, sadness, and humor through scenes drawn from everyday life and historical painting.

In Confounded Youth (2025) and Snare (2023), O’Brien depicts social interactions and moments of physical proximity that evoke loneliness and emotional ambivalence. Characterized by rounded forms inherited from the artist’s background in 3D animation, his compositions create psychologically charged spaces where intimate emotions often appear at a tipping point.

Presented in In The Body Lies The Truth at IOMO Gallery, curated by .

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1/4: Justin Liam O’Brien, Confounded Youth, 2025, Snare, 2023
Courtesy of the artist, Semiose (Paris), and Newchild (Antwerp)

2-3/5-6: Installation views, In The Body Lies The Truth, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

This June, we are happy to announce our participation in CAN Art Fair: Contemporary Art Now , taking place June 25–28 in...
07/06/2026

This June, we are happy to announce our participation in CAN Art Fair: Contemporary Art Now , taking place June 25–28 in Ibiza. Our booth presentation is curated in collaboration with Thom Oosterhof , bringing together works by Billy Gibney , Mircea Roman, Nathan Ritterpusch , Zoë Schweiger , and Graham Silveria Martin .

We are proud to take part as the first Romanian gallery ever to participate at . We look forward to welcoming you!

Working at the intersection of photographic source and painterly surface, Nathan Ritterpusch strips portraiture to its ...
30/05/2026

Working at the intersection of photographic source and painterly surface, Nathan Ritterpusch strips portraiture to its essential terms. ‘Try Asking Someone Who Cares’ #15 & #17 present the face not as identity, but as evidence: cropped, magnified, and released from narrative.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1976 and trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Ritterpusch has exhibited extensively across the United States and Europe, with his work held in private collections internationally. His practice draws on found and personal photography, with representational painting and abstract patterning intuitively collaged together.

Currently on view in ‘In the Body Lies the Truth’ at IOMO Gallery, București, through 13 June 2026. Curated by Thom Oosterhof

Featured images:

4-6, 8-10: Installation view, In The Body Lies The Truth, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

1, 3: Nathan Ritterpusch, Try Asking Someone Who Cares #15, 2026, Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 in | 91.4 × 121.9 cm

7: Nathan Ritterpusch, Try Asking Someone Who Cares #17, 2026, Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 in | 91.4 × 121.9 cm

“I wanted to bring together moments that seemed outside of the ‘social performance’, moments of quiet, of ‘resting faces...
29/05/2026

“I wanted to bring together moments that seemed outside of the ‘social performance’, moments of quiet, of ‘resting faces’, where figures are almost caught unaware that they are being observed.”

in conversation with on the vision behind In the Body Lies the Truth at IOMO Gallery. Link in bio.

IN THE BODY LIES THE TRUTH
14 May – 13 June 2026

Billy Gibney
Arthur Lemonier
Sam Lipp
Graham Silveria Martin
Alejandra Moros
Justin O’Brien
Nathan Ritterpusch
Zoe Schweiger
Liu Xin

Featured images:
3: Arthur Lemonier, The Lake Can Hold Us, 2026 (detail)
4: Installation view, In The Body Lies The Truth, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

“Showing in Romania feels particularly meaningful given the exhibition’s dialogue with Brâncuși and his ideas in relatio...
26/05/2026

“Showing in Romania feels particularly meaningful given the exhibition’s dialogue with Brâncuși and his ideas in relation to reduction, and of getting to the essence of something. Brâncuși’s thinking around stripping away excess to arrive at something psychologically and spiritually concentrated resonates with my interest in withholding, ambiguity, and the tension between visibility and what is concealed.” - Graham Silveria Martin for .ro

Read the full interview at the link in bio.

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