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Current exhibition: Wild Metaphysics | 18 Sept–24 Oct 2026 | Thu–Sat, 11:00 am–7:00 pm

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In focus: Mariana Rocha

"The universe within the body, with the uterus as its first home. A primordial water pouch that bursts and expels celestial bodies. The connection between the universe of waters and the cosmos is perceptible. Thus, it is possible to imagine the birth of a star from an inexhaustible, watery source of energy.” — about Casa flutuante, barriga, nascente estelar, which translates from Portuguese as Floating house, belly, star formation

@anairamachor's painting is on view in the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics (curator: @sylviamonasterios), alongside works by Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, and Michel Zózimo.

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Featured artwork: Mariana Rocha, Casa flutuante, barriga, nascente estelar, 2024, acrylic, oil pastel and oil stick on canvas, 160 x 114 x 3.5 cm; courtesy of the artist and @agentilcarioca

Installation view: @alexandrupaul3in1

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In focus: Guga Szabzon

@gugaszabzon maps bodily sensations, memories, dreams, and figments of the imagination onto felt. Using a sewing machine, she creates lines that seem to dance across the felt surface as well as spaces where the thread has room to breathe. One might imagine landscapes, stars, charts, skies, bodies in motion, streams, bridges, trails, among many other possibilities. Taken as a whole, the works reveal idiosyncratic topographies.

Three recent works are on view in the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics (curator: @sylviamonasterios), alongside works by Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Marina Woisky, and Michel Zózimo.

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Featured artworks: Guga Szabzon, Travessia, 2020, sewing on felt, 22.8 x 20 cm; Sina, 2024, sewing on fabric, 140.5 x 115 cm; Luzeiro, 2023, sewing on felt, 53 x 129 cm; courtesy of the artist and @almeidaedale

📷 Alexandru Paul (1-3, 5) and Julia Thompson (4)

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Art meets literature: because Wild Metaphysics is permeated by literature – drawing from magical realism and fantastic literature and borrowing its title from a reflection on fiction by Olga Tokarczuk –, we’re asking the artists and the curator of the exhibition to reveal one book they always recommend to friends.

SYLVIA MONASTERIOS, curator

Pick: 'The Museum of Eterna's Novel' by Macedonio Fernández

“A book written ahead of its time, it is a labyrinth that refuses a linear path and instead builds a museum of approaches, a cartography of everything that could happen before anything actually does. It opens with more than fifty prologues before the novel even begins, each one circling the impossibility of starting. What Macedonio proposes is a literature that treats reality as provisional and imagination as a constitutive force. And it is done with geniality and a very specific sense of humor. Jorge Luis Borges, strongly influenced by Macedonio, once said about his experimental writing: ‘Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. To not imitate this canon would have represented incredible negligence.’” — @sylviamonasterios

🗓 Wild Metaphysics is on view through October 24.

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Portrait photo: @claye.ro

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In focus: Maria Nepomuceno

Órbita cabeça nua exemplifies @maria.nepomuceno’s techniques of beading, weaving, straw braiding, and incorporating playful ceramic forms. The spiral motif reflects the form’s ubiquity in nature while evoking the perpetual flow of time and energy. Each of the artist’s works can be seen as a small ecosystem whose parts integrate and disintegrate in an infinite cycle.

On view in the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics | Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo | Curator: Sylvia Monasterios (@sylviamonasterios)

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Featured artwork: Maria Nepomuceno, Órbita cabeça nua, 2026, beads, ceramics, pigment and braided straw, 127 x 80 x 36 cm; courtesy of the artist and @agentilcarioca

📷 @alexandrupaul3in1

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@vladnanca’s work I don't know what Union I want to belong to anymore (2003) is currently on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (@immaireland) in Dublin.

The landmark exhibition Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026) draws parallels between Ireland’s political history with those of European counterparts that have had similar trajectories in transitioning from post-conflict into democratic states of peace and stability.

Vlad Nancă’s work, made in the context of Romania’s post-socialist transition, reflects on the way different systems of power, belief, and aspiration overlap within the same social reality.

The exhibition is on view through 9 May 2027.

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📷 Installation view from Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026), Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2026–2027. Photo: Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of IMMA

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In focus: Thiago Barbalho

For the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics, @thbarbalho conceived of an installation that spans across an entire gallery wall. An in-situ drawing consisting of small shapes akin to small poems envelops four works on canvas and is complemented by three-dimensional elements: four fingers, made of paper and resin with pencil shavings, that position the entire installation as an intricately constructed image system.

Come by the gallery to take a close look!

On view through October 24 | Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo | Curator: Sylvia Monasterios (@sylviamonasterios)

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Featured artworks, from left: Thiago Barbalho, Solenoid, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Wounded Beast, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Magnetic Cradle, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Floating Intercourse, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, watercolor, crystal resin, colored pencil, graphite and permanent marker on canvas, 40 x 30 cm each; courtesy of the artist and @nararoesler

📷 @alexandrupaul3in1

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Meet 𝗚𝗮𝗲𝗽, part of Romanian Art Week 2026.

Founded in Bucharest in 2014, Gaep is a contemporary art gallery whose programme brings together different generational positions and sociopolitical contexts. Initially established as Eastwards Prospectus, with a focus on artistic practices from Eastern Europe, the gallery became Gaep in 2019 as its programme developed an increasingly international perspective.

This autumn, the gallery presents “Wild Metaphysics”, bringing together six contemporary Brazilian artists in their first presentation in Romania. Moving between the extraordinary, the oneiric and the metaphysical, the exhibition explores a space where figuration and abstraction, reality and fantasy, wakefulness and dream begin to overlap.

As part of Romanian Art Week 2026, Gaep joins museums, galleries and independent spaces across Romania in opening new ways to discover the contemporary art scene.

17–25 October
Explore the programme at artweek.ro

Art Connecting People.
#RomanianArtWeek by @gaep.gallery

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This Friday, October 2, we’ll be open till midnight on the occasion of @noapteaalbaagaleriilor / White Night of the Art Galleries 2026.

🔜 Our schedule for NAG:
Friday, October 2: 6:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 3: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Plan a visit to discover Wild Metaphysics, a group exhibition bringing together six Brazilian artists whose works speak of the transformative potential of imagination.

Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo

Curator: Sylvia Monasterios

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📷 @claye.ro

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Art meets literature: because Wild Metaphysics is permeated by literature, drawing from magical realism and fantastic fiction, we’re asking the artists and the curator of the exhibition to reveal one book they always recommend to friends.

THIAGO BARBALHO, artist

Pick: ‘The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman’ by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert

“This book directs the foundations of philosophy and writing toward a transformative and reparative path. The Indigenous Yanomami cosmology is recounted here in the voice of their people’s own shaman, who also tells of his journey in contact with non-Indigenous society (the ‘people of merchandise’) and its violent stupidities. It is a transcription of Davi Kopenawa’s oral accounts, for whom the very notion of a book holds no interest except as a colossal diplomatic effort to be heard by the West.” — @thbarbalho

🗓 Wild Metaphysics is on view through October 24.

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Portrait photo: @claye.ro

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In the spotlight: Gaep’s cofounder Andrei Breahnă sat down with Filtru Cultural to talk about cultural entrepreneurship, tastemaking, the gallery’s activity over the past 12 years, and its current location, seen in the historical context of Floreasca.

📍This Saturday, October 3, 11:00 am, a guided tour of the Floreasca neighborhood organized by @filtrucultural will start at Gaep, with a walkthrough of the exhibition Wild Metaphysics.

🔗 Read the story written by Raluca Bujor at the link in bio.

Illustration: Maria Mălcică for Filtru Cultural by @gaep.gallery

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Meet us through Sunday at @thearmoryshow in New York to explore our solo presentation of Răzvan Anton.

The works on view reveal glimpses of landscapes, scenes, bodies, and faces – the ‘ordinary business of living’ (Siegfried Kracauer) presented without any explicit link to specific people or places.

📍 Booth P53
Javits Center
Saturday, September 26, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Sunday, September 27, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

#gaepgallery #RazvanAnton #thearmoryshow by @gaep.gallery

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How the exhibition Wild Metaphysics came into being: from Andrei Breahnă’s research trip to São Paulo and @sylviamonasterios’s curatorial process of bringing together six Brazilian artists whose works explore the boundary between reality and imagination, to the site-specific wall drawing that @thbarbalho made after reading Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid and the digital images that inspire @marinawoisky to create tactile objects.

For @rfi_romania, @mihaeladedeoglu walked through the exhibition together with Gaep’s cofounder, the curator and two of the artists to uncover the stories behind it.

🔗 Listen in full at the link in bio.

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