Sandwich II

02/10/2026

VERNISSAGE

Since we’ve been busy navigating through all of our spaces, something took over Sandwich Combinatul Fondului Plastic…
What lurks in our backyard? 🫪

Find out on the 8th of October - starting 6pm
⛳️ Sandwich, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Băiculești 29, Bucharest

Liliana Basarab Anio Ciutac Dumitru Gorzo GWEN Topoleanu Ioan Ana Pascu Cristian Raduta Marco Verhoogt Mara Verhoogt Maria Bîrsan

part of DOI JOI

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Co-funded by through Sandwich Grand Tour program

01/10/2026

MARIA CHELSOI CRISTEA

At the Beach ( La plajă )

watercolor on paper, 33 x 46 cm, 1960

Long before massive open-air festivals, the taste of youth and collective freedom started simply with the road heading toward the coast. This watercolor distills the effervescent pulse of seasonal escape: a crowded shoreline teeming with sun-drenched silhouettes, unhurried seaside conversations, and that distinct, reviving surge of salt air filling the lungs. It translates an enduring zest for living, a timeless pull of the water that outlasts any single era.

It reflects a generation instinctively stepping away from daily routine to reclaim ease, leisure, and bodily presence beneath an open horizon.

Artwork exhibited courtesy of the AVARTE Collection

On view at Vila Catenas for AEROSOLI.

Thu-Fri : 3PM - 7PM
Sat : 12PM - 4 PM

29/09/2026

THEA LAZĂR

Chart for Green Glass (2026)

embroidery and blue thread on textile, sea glass, marbles, blue velvet, glass sheet, 62 x 80 cm

Chart for Other Glass Variations (2026)

embroidery and blue thread on textile, sea glass, marbles, blue velvet, glass sheet, 60 x 67 cm

Isle of Glass (2025)

4K video, stereo sound, 4:54 min

In Chart for Green Glass and Chart for Other Glass Variations, fragments of sea glass and polished marbles rest against embroidered grids and textile color swatches, borrowing the taxonomic conventions of archaeological cataloging. Together with the video work Isle of Glass, the installation constructs a speculative archive of an imagined island civilization that once shaped monumental glass statues, proposing that the worn shards washed ashore today are the shattered relics of those lost forms.

Weaving together filmed sequences of recovery with 3D animated reconstructions, Lazăr operates in the fluid territory between forensic inquiry, myth-making, and geological time. Set within the coastal context of Vila Catena, the works transform industrial shoreline debris into precious, fictional artifacts, questioning how memory, material culture, and the tides determine what survives the erosion of history.

On view at Vila Catena, for AEROSOLI.
Thu-Fri : 3 PM - 7 PM
Sat : 12 PM - 4 PM

26/09/2026

Dreaming. East Berlin 1989

LEO TOTEANU

oil and acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, 2026

Leo Toteanu, a self-taught painter who came to art from a world of numbers, constantly works with icons of visual culture, lifting them out of banality without seeking to shock. 1989 represents a personal turning point (the year Toteanu entered college) superimposed upon a historical one (the fall of the Wall).

Within this eye, elements float together without adhering to any hierarchy of reality: a young man in a T-shirt bearing the words “EST BERLIN,” a vintage red van, the sea crashing against a breakwater in the background. These are images drawn from the reservoir of collective memory and recomposed within the soft logic of a dream, where the East and the sea, the car and the wave come to mean the same thing: the desire to be somewhere else.

Here, the sea becomes a projection screen: the surface upon which an entire generation, in a single year, sketched out the image of another possible life.

On view at Vila Catena, for AEROSOLI

thu-fri : 3 PM - 7 PM
sat : 12 PM - 4 PM

24/09/2026

MELINDA BOLONYI RUS

Untitled

collage on paper, 50 x 70 cm, 2026

Melinda’s work relies on a distinct current of psychic automatism: a spontaneous, unfiltered method akin to a controlled drift that lets thoughts articulate themselves without premeditation. Drawing from Surrealist strategies, she navigates the subconscious, dream imagery, and the uncanny, continually probing the boundaries of perceived reality.

This collage operates strictly within that logic. The female form appears fragmented, sliced, and traversed by dunes, ridges, and ripples of earth that resemble aerial satellite imagery, pointing toward the stark absence of the sea. Where water should lie, the tide has receded, leaving behind only an arid, fossilized terrain.

Within AROSOLI, the body emerges from and folds back into this desiccated landscape as if caught in a strange coastal dream, one where the sea has vanished entirely, and skin and sand merge into a single, mineral surface.

On view at Vila Catena.

Visiting Hours:
Thursday – Friday: 15:00 – 19:00
Saturday: 12:00 – 16:00

24/09/2026

22/09/2026

OTTO CONSTANTIN

alien (a summer story) (2025)

oil on MDF, 19 x 25 cm

A greenish figure with large, dark eyes casually bites into an ear of roasted corn. The creature from another world performs the most mundane, human, and quintessentially summery gesture imaginable.

The humor emerges directly from this incongruity: the existential terror of invasion deflated to the drowsy scale of an ordinary afternoon on the sand.

Proof of alien life has finally been found, and it’s hanging quietly on our wall. 👽

No government cover-ups, just an actual alien enjoying seaside corn in the middle of our gallery. Drop by Vila Catena, spot him among the artworks, and snap your proof before he decides to beam out. :)

at Vila Catena, str. Radu Calomfirescu 15

thu-fri : 3 PM - 7 PM
sat : 12 PM - 4 PM

18/09/2026

Miss that girls’ summer trip feeling? 🐚

Extend your seaside season at AEROSOLI.

Teodor Graur’s At the Beach with Aunt Mița (and Grandma) (2026) captures that exact bittersweet, melancholic memory of the shore, from 1980’s Costinești directly into the rooms of Vila Catena.

Created through an evocative mix of charcoal and gouache on paper, the work bridges decades of the artist’s practice: from his early performative actions as quiet subversions against the totalitarian regime, to a poignant return to drawing. Placed in dialogue with his historic photographic interventions, the seaside reemerges not just as a getaway, but as a shared space of collective memory, personal freedom, and layered nostalgia.

Grab your people, your headphones (scan the QR codes above the room labels for our curatorial audio guide), and come take in the extended summer breeze.

Vila Catena, str. Radu Calomfirescu 15.

Thu – Fri: 15:00 – 19:00

Sat: 12:00 – 19:00

15/09/2026

Great news: NEW WAVE Art Prize 2026 is extended until September 25! 🍂

If you haven’t had the chance to visit yet, you now have extra time to experience “Human Value at the Dawn of the AI Era” in person.

The exhibition brings together the works of all 8 brilliant finalists: Alexia Besnă, Ana Huțanu, Carla David, Dana Guzu, Daria Sălăjeanu, Radu Gheorghe, Rebeca Ionescu, and Rebeca Ulici.

Through diverse mediums and striking artistic perspectives, their works explore what remains authentic, vulnerable, and deeply human in an age reshaped by AI, algorithms, and digital interfaces.

At Sandwich Neurohope, Str. Pechea 13, 5th Floor.

Wednesday – Friday: 12 PM – 5 PM (until Sept 25)

Organized by fundatiabogart.

Drop by this week and take your time exploring! 🌿

14/09/2026

DAN BEUDEAN

The Freaks Come Out at Night

pencil on paper mounted on wood, 30 x 42 cm, 2025

A porcelain cabinet, a bedside lamp, curtains drawn over nothing. The entire grammar of someone else’s living room, rendered in that ashen graphite gray where every interior feels faintly deceased.

Dan Beudean relies on the oldest rule of the horror genre: the uncanny does not emerge from the wild, but sits right at home, occupying the exact seat meant for the host.

Nowhere does home feel more foreign than by the sea. The coast rents its rooms by the week, mismatched furniture, borrowed china, a mattress that has harbored hundreds of passing bodies, and the quiet salt mist slowly corroding every surface. Stripping away color, Dan turns this seasonal domesticity into a suspended film still, capturing the precise frame before something goes quietly wrong.

Within the domestic rooms of AEROSOLI, the drawing taps into the strange, disquieting reverie of temporary seaside lodging, where sleeping in another’s home unleashes the darkest fictions.

On view at Vila Catena for AEROSOLI.

Artwork exhibited courtesy of BIJU GALLERY

Visiting Hours:

Thursday – Friday: 15:00 – 19:00
Saturday: 12:00 – 19:00