418 Contemporary Art Gallery

418 Contemporary Art Gallery 418GALLERY was founded in Bucharest in 2008. The gallery was established by Dr Joana Grevers, an art

The gallery was created by Dr. Joana Grevers, a Romanian-German art historian and Guy Williamson, an American entrepreneur and businessman. Our first five years were dedicated to the promotion of emerging artists through solo-shows in the gallery, external collaborations with art institutions, art fairs, publications and their annual presence in the workshops from Cetate. We also focused on the pr

omotion of established artists, such as Romul Nutiu (d.2012), the representative of Abstract Expressionism in Romania. We also represent the Romanian-born Canadian artist Sorel Etrog, the Romanian-born German artist Diet Sayler and Vincentiu Grigorescu (d.2012), Romanian-born, Italian painter. Our inclination towards Abstraction and works in an expanded field is intertwined with the more classical, but intriguing approaches of the Figurative. Nonetheless, our activities intent to create a solid and reliable profile of a Bucharest-based contemporary art gallery, in the emerging Eastern European art market.

rom Pythagorean ideas of cosmic order to Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of harmony and Malevich’s radical abstraction, geom...
03/06/2026

rom Pythagorean ideas of cosmic order to Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of harmony and Malevich’s radical abstraction, geometry has long shaped the language of art.

This exhibition brings together artists from different generations who explore the square as a space of balance, rhythm, tension, and transformation.

Stefan Cretu, Petrică Ștefan, and Maria Bordeanu approach the square through visual rhythm, spatial structures, architectural fragments, and atmospheric compositions. Romul Nuțiu, Diet Sayler, and Vincențiu Grigorescu connect gestural abstraction, geometric reduction, and classical proportion rooted in Pythagorean thought.

Together, their works reveal the square not as a fixed form, but as a living structure where mathematics, harmony, abstraction, and contemporary experimentation intersect.

📍418 Gallery, Munich
🗓️ 7 May - 30 September 2026

This post highlights two major art magazines featuring Mihai Cosulețu and Albert Kaan .kaan. Matca Magazine covers Cosu...
16/02/2026

This post highlights two major art magazines featuring Mihai Cosulețu and Albert Kaan .kaan. Matca Magazine covers Cosulețu’s solo exhibition “Lisez l’histoire et le tableau” (July - October 2025) at Cetate Arts Danube last summer, where large-scale paintings, enigmatic objects, and intricate drawings formed a world shaped by war, fantasy, and history. Alongside his exhibition work, he is the creative director of the publishing house Humanitas in Bucharest, creating illustrated covers for children’s books — a practice that reflects his strong sense of storytelling and visual imagination.

Revista Arta presents Albert Kaan’s solo exhibition “Horizon Flux” at Switch Lab (February–March 2025). The exhibition explores liminal space — where architecture, memory, and identity intersect. Through minimalist metal structures and light-based works, Kaan builds fragments of imagined cities suspended between construction and decay. His materials evoke history and transformation, turning the show into a quiet reflection on fragility, transition, and constant becoming.

A pioneering figure in Romanian multisensory installation art, brings a sacred, ritualistic dimension to our exhibition...
16/01/2026

A pioneering figure in Romanian multisensory installation art, brings a sacred, ritualistic dimension to our exhibition „Light Horizons“. Her works combine textiles, plants, scents, weaving techniques, and symbolic gestures, creating environments that engage all senses.
For decades, Zidaru has explored the deep relationship between community, spirituality, and the natural world. Her installations are living spaces — places where memory, matter, and metaphysics intertwine. Rooted in tradition yet strikingly contemporary, her work expands the exhibition into a realm of embodied experience.

Zidaru does not simply create objects; she creates atmospheres — spaces of contemplation where art becomes presence.

VICTORIA ZIDARU – Heruvim, 2025
H**p embroidery on homespun fabric, wood and twigs
99 x 69 cm

Photography becomes alchemy in .mocanu‘s practice. During the residency , she turned part of the estate into a darkroom,...
13/01/2026

Photography becomes alchemy in .mocanu‘s practice. During the residency , she turned part of the estate into a darkroom, inviting children to experience analogue photography with wonder and curiosity. Light, time, and chemistry merged – each image a discovery.
In Munich, her works highlight this delicate interplay between process and perception. Mocanu’s photographs reveal more than what the eye sees; they unfold slowly, like memories finding their shape.

Her art reminds us that images are not taken, they are grown.

ADINA MOCANU – The Valea Cireșului [Cherry Tree Valley] Archive (Cetate’s Version)

Working with light as both medium and metaphor, creates delicate cyanotypes that capture the shapes of plants, shadows,...
07/01/2026

Working with light as both medium and metaphor, creates delicate cyanotypes that capture the shapes of plants, shadows, and fleeting constellations formed in nature. At Cetate, she guided participants in exploring how sunlight can become an artistic tool, leaving traces of the environment directly on paper.

Her works in “Light Horizons” bring together fragility and clarity, impressions suspended in deep blue, where time and nature intertwine. Durovray’s practice reveals the poetry of what is barely visible.

Light, for her, is both subject and collaborator.

EMMA DUROVRAY
Shadow No 3, 2025
Fossile No 3, 2025
Shadow No 2, 2025

.kaan transforms simple lines into three-dimensional poetry. His wire sculptures – playful, experimental, and wonderfull...
29/12/2025

.kaan transforms simple lines into three-dimensional poetry. His wire sculptures – playful, experimental, and wonderfully open – begin as quick sketches and end as objects that hover between drawing and spatial gesture.
At , he introduced children to the joy of turning their own drawings into colorful sculptural forms.
In our current exhibition ”Light Horizons”, his works take this playful transformation further, exploring balance, fragility, and the instinctive language of form.

Kaan’s sculptures capture something fleeting: the very moment a line becomes an idea.

ALBERT KAAN
Flux Series 006 & 003, 2025
Chrome-plated steel, plexiglass
48.5 x 30 x 3 cm

In „Light Horizons“, Maria Bordeanu expands the exhibition with her painterly reflections on nature, memory, and the flu...
18/12/2025

In „Light Horizons“, Maria Bordeanu expands the exhibition with her painterly reflections on nature, memory, and the fluid dialogue between water and landscape. Her works, shaped by years of observing Stockholm’s shifting skies and ever-present waterways, approach the canvas as a surface of recollection.

Bordeanu paints in layers: slow, tactile, almost meditative. She captures water not as scenery but as a living mirror: a surface in transformation, holding light, movement, and fleeting impressions. Her compositions preserve fragments of time, inviting viewers into quiet moments where nature and urban life meet.

Her work reminds us that reflection is not only an image, but a way of understanding the world.

MARIA BORDEANU
Foresterian, 2025
Tecken II, 2025
Fragment, 2025

Johannes Vogl builds machines that seem to think for themselves, objects made from everyday materials that fall into loo...
12/12/2025

Johannes Vogl builds machines that seem to think for themselves, objects made from everyday materials that fall into loops, repeat gestures, or perform curious actions without clear purpose. Rough, direct, and unpolished, these sculptures shift the balance between object and observer.
In , Vogl worked with children to create small windmills from recycled plastic bottles, beer cans, and cola cans, turning simple waste into poetic mechanisms animated by the breeze.

In our current exhibition „Light Horizons“, his pieces continue this exploration of autonomy, absurdity, and quiet humour. Vogl’s works whisper: objects have their own stories, if we learn to listen.

JOHANNES VOGL – Father and Son, 2008
B/W photography on baryth paper
50 x 60 cm
Edition of 5 + 1EA

In our current exhibition „Light Horizons“, brings forward a practice rooted in poetic mechanics and the relationship b...
08/12/2025

In our current exhibition „Light Horizons“, brings forward a practice rooted in poetic mechanics and the relationship between human beings and natural environments. His kinetic works, born from observation and engineered precision, echo the movement of wind, water, and flight, elements deeply present in Cetate.
During the residency, Crețu invited young participants to paint and spray murals inspired by the rhythms of the Danube and the feeling of belonging. In Munich, his sculptural works extend this conversation, revealing a world where technology and nature intersect in surprising harmony.

His pieces remind us that motion can be a form of memory and that every horizon begins with a shift.

STEFAN RADU CRETU
Orange kiwi bird racing with the sun, 2025
Butterbat, 2025
The Meteorite, 2015

Our newest exhibition “Light Horizons” opens a new chapter in our Munich gallery spaces, a poetic continuation of this y...
01/12/2025

Our newest exhibition “Light Horizons” opens a new chapter in our Munich gallery spaces, a poetic continuation of this year’s residency. What began along the sweeping curve of the Danube now unfolds in an exhibition that brings five residency artists together with two remarkable voices deeply connected to the region’s artistic and spiritual landscape.
The presentation unites:
, .kaan, .mocanu, .vogl, and , whose works emerged from weeks of collaboration with local communities in southern Romania, and expands to include and , two artists whose practices echo the residency’s core themes of nature, memory, materiality, and transformation.

Across sculpture, painting, installation, photography, light experiments, and participatory works, “Light Horizons” traces how environments shape artistic thought and how art, in turn, shapes new ways of seeing.
From ephemeral reflections and fluid motions to poetic machines and multisensory rituals, the exhibition illuminates the powerful dialogue between artists, landscapes, and the communities they engage with.
We look forward to welcoming you to this journey from the banks of the Danube to Munich – a horizon that continues to expand.

LIGHT HORIZONS
on show until January 26th 2026
Munich
The exhibition is open to visitors by appointment; please contact us to arrange your visit. ❤️

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