Anca Poterasu Gallery

31/07/2026

31/07/2026

Summer Notice: August Break 🌿

Anca Poterașu Gallery will be closed for the month of August as we are heading to Săcel.

Throughout the month, our team will be working on Linia Izei—focusing on its ongoing development and community engagements. We look forward to laying the groundwork for the projects and exhibitions to come this autumn!

We wish you a beautiful, restorative rest of the summer! We’ll be back in Bucharest starting from September.

Photo: Ioana Cîrlig, 2025, Săcel

30/07/2026

🚗 Two day of back to back visiting artists, and we are not complaining!

Yesterday, Delia Popa opened the garden gates, and there we talked about heritage, about Eastern culture, she shared some childhood stories and we also ate some reaaaly good, very red and round tomatoes 🍅

Many thanks to Delia for welcoming us, to armin_aek and Pëtru for filming and to Oana Sofronia and for putting it together!

29/07/2026

It's not everyday that one gets to visit an artist in their space, so we were very happy when Aurora Kiraly opened her studio doors for us! She was kind enough to share her work and process while also putting up with us asking virtually every question under the sun!

Thank you Aurora for taking us in and thank you armin_aek and Pëtru for your equipment and time!

Produced by Oana Sofronia

27/07/2026

The is from Ioana Cîrlig , Colonies, from The New Empire (2017–)

An ongoing visual investigation into our bizarre relationship with nature — and the points at which our connection to it breaks, strains, or becomes impossible to ignore.

Colonies sits within the project's most speculative thread: a future in which human life extends beyond Earth. But the question underneath it is the same one that runs through the entire body of work — what does it mean that we are willing to colonize new worlds before learning to live well on this one?

25/07/2026

A little reminiscing as we pack our bags for Săcel.

Same time last year, we were there getting our hands dirty — ceramics, woodwork, and the particular kind of focus that only happens when you're somewhere without much noise.

You can see Ilie Mihali's (Ilie Mihali ) work as well — born in Săcel, currently based in the UK, he returned to his artistic practice through this residency. His ceramics bring ready-made rural objects from his childhood into dialogue with contemporary approaches — a terracotta moulage of the shapes and things that populated the valley he grew up in. Nostalgia as methodology, handled with a lot of care.

Thank you to the artists and the Săcel community for making it what it was. We'll be back in two weeks. Can't wait!

24/07/2026

A railway halt is built so that a train can be heard long before it can be seen: the curve of the track, the signal and the platform form a single device of acoustic anticipation, a machine in which sound precedes its source — what Pierre Schaeffer called the acousmatic condition, listening to a sound whose cause stays outside the field of vision. The halt at Săcel has been out of use for years, yet everuthing is still in its place, and what has withdrawn from the arrangement is only the sound it was built to carry; the listening apparatus goes on working without an object.

This is the place where August awaits for us.

"Linia Izei" is a programme of contemporary art at the former Săcel halt in Maramureș, with invited artists, a building undergoing reconversion, and a river that rises a few steps from the platform.

1–15 August 2026 · Gara Săcel, Valea Izei

23/07/2026

Vienna is waiting to welcome and .kiraly !

Both will be featured in "Love's Practitioner", curated by for — part of Curated by Vienna 2026, the annual gallery festival in which 24 Vienna-based galleries invite international curators to respond to a shared theme. This year's theme is "LOVE", with a curatorial essay by poet

Reines writes that our problem today is one of orientation, that love is no longer at the centre of our social structures, and that perhaps we need to be reminded it is worth celebrating at all. The exhibition takes that reminder seriously.

Love's Practitioner runs September 11 – October 17, 2026.
Galerie Steinek, Vienna.

22/07/2026

Hear it from the curator herself! 🙌🏼dorland takes us through one of her favourite paintings from "Fragments of Poetic Nature", the one that keeps pulling her back, and why.

The exhibition, 's solo show, closes July 31st. If you haven't been yet, this is your sign.

20/07/2026

There's no other time of year when yearning feels quite this close to the surface, summer slows everything down just enough for feelings to catch up.

Today's is Garden of Pleasure (2025), oil on canvas, by Oana Cosug . Here, her practice builds a world that sits at the border of magic and realism — vegetal landscapes where outreached arms and elusive silhouettes appear and disappear, in a continuous loop of wonder.
The kind of image you return to and find something different each time.