Only I Can Be HereNow

“The exhibition zones are articulated according to intimate philosophies, to the inner creative impulse of each artist. And while each gesture stems from a personal need to externalize a specific emotion, inquiry, or thought, through the recontextualization of herenow, the works converge, transforming the space into a stratified Ba,” explains Anne-Marie Lolea.

Gloria Berceanu’s curatorial vision emphasizes the viewer’s role as an active part of the exhibition: “The articulation of the rooms serves first and foremost the viewer. The project is an invitation to explore, to step away from precepts, and to approach one’s immediate, intimate sensibilities. Seven artists with distinct personalities and practices become a singular entity, united by the universal experience of being in a specific moment and place.”

The exhibition proposes a trajectory in which the works communicate through visual tensions and complementary concepts — from the enclosures constructed by Ana Ionescu to the gravity of lightning in Alexandru Ranga’s work; from Paul Ilfoveanu’s reflections on identity to Ana Pascu’s installations investigating the relationship between interior and exterior.

Paul Ilfoveanu is a visual artist and photographer, a graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His practice focuses on how the image can be reinterpreted through the collage of objects and situations, as well as through stand-alone photography. He investigates the mechanisms of perception and the layers of meaning within visual reality, often using the lightbox technique to enhance the relationship between image, light, and space.
He has participated in exhibitions such as Eclectic 2.0, Art Museum Craiova (2023); Freies Kino: Transitions/Transformations: Frames From The Attic, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2023); and Articulating Boundaries, Diptych Art Space (2024), presenting works that invite the viewer to mediate between documentary and fiction, between the real object and its reconfigured image.

Ana Pascu (b. 2000, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. She studied Photography and Video Art at the National University of Arts, Bucharest. Her work explores how the human being can be perceived beyond identity frameworks — in a neutral form that reveals universal mechanisms of existence. Her practice unfolds between two registers: the digital, which gives shape to inner processes, and the material, which reflects concrete reality. Between these layers, human presence remains the central element.
Her works have been recently exhibited in national and international shows at MNAC Bucharest, the National Gallery of North Macedonia, Galerie Sehsaal in Vienna, Centrum in Berlin, the Art Museum of Craiova, and Atelier 35, Bucharest.

Ana Ionescu (b. 1999, Bucharest) is a sculptor living and working in London, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2025 with a Master’s degree in Sculpture. She is active mainly in the UK and Romania. Her artistic practice reflects a deep interest in how we navigate the external world and interact with objects — an experience she considers shaped by our fundamental need to find meaning and to position ourselves as central figures in our own universe. This egocentric tendency, rather than being criticized, is reclaimed in her works as a source for multiplying interpretations.
She has recently exhibited in The Thin Thread Line (SAC Berthelot, Bucharest) and RAD Sculpture Park 2025 (Caro Gardens, Bucharest).

Albert Kaan (b. 1993, Sinaia) is an artist working across a wide range of forms — from sculpture, installation, and drawing to photography, video, and performance. Presented both locally and internationally in diverse contexts, his practice focuses on interventions in public space, which often transform later into gallery works in the form of photographs, videos, and objects documenting those actions. 
He has held solo exhibitions in galleries such as 418 Gallery (Cetate), Atelier 35, and Switch Lab (Bucharest). He has participated in group exhibitions in Romania — at Art Encounters Biennial (Timișoara), Mielul Alb (Sibiu), Calciu Space, Leilei Gallery, and CAV (Bucharest) — as well as internationally at Goldegg4 (Vienna), Galerie Mansart (Paris), Råhuset (Copenhagen), among others.
He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Sculpture from the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

Irina Motroc is a visual artist living and working in Bucharest and Viscri. She is interested in themes where self-referentiality becomes a resource for establishing connections with collective memory, space, and social dynamics. She works with various media including graphics, photography, objects, and video. Her visual narratives explore absence and presence, as well as the transitions that form between them, alongside transformation and reconstruction.
Her projects have been presented in exhibitions at einbuch haus (Berlin), Diptych Art Space, Galeria Posibilă, the Museum of Recent Art, Brașov Art Museum, WASP Studios, Sala Omnia, Polish Dance Theatre (Poland), ABC Gallery (Poland), Duza Scena (Poland), The Art Stream Festival, and the Tsarevo History Museum (Bulgaria).

Radu Pandele (b. 1993) lives and works in Bucharest. He began his artistic studies at the Art High School in Arad, continuing at art universities in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Grenoble, France. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Romania and abroad, including the Museum of Recent Art (Bucharest), Ancien Musée de Peinture (France), Neumünster Abbey Cultural Center (Luxembourg), REA Art Fair (Italy), the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Scânteia+, Mobius Gallery, and Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest). He is also active in street art, with his murals visible in most Romanian cities and across Europe — from Berlin (Germany), Montegordo (Portugal), Grenoble and Briançon (France), to Pompeii (Italy) and Białystok (Poland).

Alexandru Ranga (b. 1995) graduated from the “Nicolae Tonitza” High School of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department (2015), and the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Sculpture Department (2018), where he also completed his Master’s studies (2020). He is a member of the Romanian Union of Visual Artists, Sculpture branch, Bucharest. He has exhibited in Bucharest — at Common House and IOMO Gallery; in Paris — at UNESCO Headquarters and Rivoli 59 Gallery; as well as at Constanța Art Museum, D.E.M. Gallery (Venice), Petrov Nikola Gallery (Bulgaria), and the Turkish Bath Hall (Iași).