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Artist-run space
run by @alexndra_mocan, @matei_tosa & @alexandrumuraru90
Open by appointment
Calea Turzii 21, Cluj-Napoca, Ro

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We invite you this Friday to our next opening, featuring new works by Dan Beudean and Tudor Ciurescu commissioned specifically for this show, as well as works by the artists that have not yet been presented in Cluj 🔥

𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒
25.09 - 23.10.2026
Duo show Dan Beudean & Tudor Ciurescu

Opening: 25.09 @ 19.00

EREMOS* questions human vulnerability and isolation under the pressures of seeking better living conditions. There is a thin edge between compromise and danger, more or less consciously crossed in order for one to go on, to deliver a better life. It is hard to draw a line between personal choice and social condition, while structures of power dictate a laborious commitment in order to survive.

The dialogue between the artists is set around the story that opens our annual project The Dead Man’s Curve / Curba Morții. This is a concrete geographical point on Calea Turzii where, over the years, several serious accidents have taken place. In the past, multiple heavy-duty vehicles crashed into the house located next to MATCA artspace. The memory of the site becomes the starting point for a broader exploration of how we experience the idea of safety and the anxiety surrounding temporal limits and finitude. At this location, named as such by locals and those living in the area, several fatal accidents occurred during the 1980s.

In continuous movement, the attention and intention of the works speculate metaphorically on the condition of being trapped in a work system that demands constant engagement, while offering little real sense of security or control.

*Eremos is an ancient Greek adjective and noun meaning solitary, lonely, desolate, or uninhabited. It frequently translates to desert or wilderness.

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Part of „Aproape de Curba Morții”. Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Event organized with the support of the City Hall and Local Council of Cluj-Napoca by @matcaartspace

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a month ago

You can still visit EREMOS by appointment until 23.10

𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒
25.09 - 23.10.2026
Duo show Dan Beudean & Tudor Ciurescu

EREMOS* questions human vulnerability and isolation under the pressures of seeking better living conditions. There is a thin edge between compromise and danger, more or less consciously crossed in order for one to go on, to deliver a better life. It is hard to draw a line between personal choice and social condition, while structures of power dictate a laborious commitment in order to survive.

The dialogue between the artists is set around the story that opens our annual project The Dead Man’s Curve / Curba Morții. This is a concrete geographical point on Calea Turzii where, over the years, several serious accidents have taken place. In the past, multiple heavy-duty vehicles crashed into the house located next to MATCA artspace. The memory of the site becomes the starting point for a broader exploration of how we experience the idea of safety and the anxiety surrounding temporal limits and finitude. At this location, named as such by locals and those living in the area, several fatal accidents occurred during the 1980s.

In continuous movement, the attention and intention of the works speculate metaphorically on the condition of being trapped in a work system that demands constant engagement, while offering little real sense of security or control.

*Eremos is an ancient Greek adjective and noun meaning solitary, lonely, desolate, or uninhabited. It frequently translates to desert or wilderness.

Photo by @yap.studio / @m.dox by @matcaartspace

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5 days ago

𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒

Good in the Front but Stabbed in the Back
Diptych, monotype on paper
124 × 103 × 3 cm
2026

You can still visit EREMOS by appointment
until 23.10

Duo show Dan Beudean & Tudor Ciurescu

Photography @yap.studio / @m.dox

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Part of „Aproape de Curba Morții”. Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position ot the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient. by @matcaartspace

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You can still visit EREMOS by appointment until 23.10

𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒
25.09 - 23.10.2026
Duo show Dan Beudean & Tudor Ciurescu

EREMOS* questions human vulnerability and isolation under the pressures of seeking better living conditions. There is a thin edge between compromise and danger, more or less consciously crossed in order for one to go on, to deliver a better life. It is hard to draw a line between personal choice and social condition, while structures of power dictate a laborious commitment in order to survive.

The dialogue between the artists is set around the story that opens our annual project The Dead Man’s Curve / Curba Morții. This is a concrete geographical point on Calea Turzii where, over the years, several serious accidents have taken place. In the past, multiple heavy-duty vehicles crashed into the house located next to MATCA artspace. The memory of the site becomes the starting point for a broader exploration of how we experience the idea of safety and the anxiety surrounding temporal limits and finitude. At this location, named as such by locals and those living in the area, several fatal accidents occurred during the 1980s.

In continuous movement, the attention and intention of the works speculate metaphorically on the condition of being trapped in a work system that demands constant engagement, while offering little real sense of security or control.

*Eremos is an ancient Greek adjective and noun meaning solitary, lonely, desolate, or uninhabited. It frequently translates to desert or wilderness.

Photo by @yap.studio / @m.dox by @matcaartspace

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11 days ago

See you tomorrow from 19.00 at the performance of 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥, hosted by Reactor de Creație și Experiment!

There are limited seats available for this performance, so we recommend getting your tickets in advance.

Tickets:
Free admission – 0 RON
Supporter ticket – 25 / 50 / 100 RON

Tickets are available through the venue’s website and via Eventbook, as well as at Reactor, starting one hour before the performance.

In the meantime, we’re introducing the artists you’ll meet tomorrow on stage.

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Nadja Kracunović, born in 1996 in Serbia, is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, visual media, and theatre, exploring the female* body within systems of care, control, and displacement through spoken word, documentation, humor, and poetry. She lives with multiple sclerosis. Her work has been shown at documenta 15, the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, with residencies in Porto, Luxor, and Berlin. She leads the workshop How to Perform a Scream?, co-founded Crying Classroom, and performs with the ensemble Don't Worry, It's Out of Control.
Nicklas Koppe, born in 1997 in Germany, is a pianist and composer currently living in Düsseldorf.

Nicklas Koppe, born in 1997 in Germany, is a pianist and composer currently living in Düsseldorf. He studied physics in Leipzig, jazz piano in Weimar, and is currently studying data science and artificial intelligence. This is also reflected in his often interdisciplinary and programmatic artistic practice. Nicklas has played numerous concerts and released albums with the bands Saving Eddy and the Max Enyedi Quartet, as a duo with clarinetist Gervasio Tarragona Valli, and as artistic director with the ensemble Don't Worry, It's Out of Control.

Felix Gerbig, born in 1996 in Germany, grew up in Boston (USA) until the age of eight and then in Weimar. He began his musical education at age nine with trumpet lessons. He studied electric bass and double bass under Manfred Bründl at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar. During this time, he met many people who shaped his playing and challenged him in creative ways. Felix currently plays by @matcaartspace

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18 days ago

Don’t worry, it’s out of control
Speculative Scenarios Workshop through Improvisation, Text and Sound

Centrul Cultural German Cluj-Napoca
Echinox, Universității 7-9
Room S1-S2

02 oct @ 15.00
Duration: up to 2.5 hours
Language: English
Free entrance
Limited seats available - to secure your spot, please fill up the event form (link in bio)

Don’t worry, it’s out of control is an interdisciplinary concert-performance combining contemporary music, improvisation, text, performance and live projections. Across five dream phases, scientific scenarios of the climate crisis are interpreted from the imagined perspective of the year 2100. Nađa Kračunović’s texts and performance are closely interwoven with Nicklas Koppe’s compositions and the improvisations of seven musicians, accompanied by live visuals by Fridolin Krön.

The project-related workshop offers a creative and speculative exploration of environmental and political futures. It introduces the concept, research and methods behind Don’t worry, it’s out of control and opens a discussion around ecological, political and social collapse.
Participants work with selected Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and translate one scenario into a collaborative artistic response using text, voice, music, sound, noise, images, movement or objects. The workshop reworks the central idea of the project by asking what happens when systems move beyond control, which forms of collapse are already present, and what new possibilities may emerge from them.
Depending on the group, the focus can be musical, conceptual or practical. No previous artistic or musical experience is required. by @matcaartspace

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22 days ago

Our annual project continues with an interdisciplinary performance by 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥, hosted by Reactor de Creație și Experiment 🔥

There are limited seats available for this performance, so we recommend getting your tickets in advance.

Tickets:
Free admission – 0 RON
Supporter ticket – 25 / 50 / 100 RON

Tickets will be soon available through the venue’s website and via Eventbook, as well as at Reactor, starting one hour before the performance.

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𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥
01.10 @ 19.00, Reactor de creație și experiment, Petőfi Sándor 4

Duration: 1.5h
Language: English

w/ Nadja Kracunovic, Nicklas Koppe, Felix Gerbig, Felix Neumann, Fridolin Krön

Don’t worry, it’s out of control is an interdisciplinary ensemble that combines contemporary music, text, performance and visuals and was founded in 2023 by the musician Nicklas Koppe (DE) in collaboration with the artist Nadja Kracunovic (SRB).
In five dream phases, scientific future scenarios of the climate crisis are interpreted and illustrated from the perspective of the year 2100. In this change of perspective, the search for ecological narratives for our society begins and the present can be criticised with new clarity. Nađa Kračunović's texts and performances are closely linked to Nicklas Koppe's compositions and the improvisations of the musicians accompanied by live projections by Fridolin Krön. Musically, the programme ranges from classical harmonies and Latin grooves to jazz and contemporary music.

Recommended age: 12+

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Part of „Aproape de Curba Morții”, a project curated by MATCA artspace. Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Event made possible with the support of the Cluj-Napoca City Hall and Local Council.

@spejsdjana
@nicklas_music
@kingcrayon14
@fridolin.kroen
#felixneumann by @matcaartspace

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24 days ago

𝙈𝘼𝙏𝘾𝘼 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙓 𝙑𝘼𝙐𝙇𝙏 𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝙂𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩:

𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝟶𝟶𝟷
𝚂𝚒𝚝𝚎-𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝙰𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚊ț𝚊

Opening: 19 Aug @ 19.00
📍 VOG // Str. Eremia Grigorescu 52, Cluj-Napoca (in the courtyard)

Imagining a fictional future, Adrian Rața's site-specific outdoor intervention is transforming familiar workplace objects into archaeological artefacts. The work reflects on office employment and the traces it leaves behind, proposing a speculative timeline in which the infrastructures of desktop work survive as fragments of a forgotten civilization.

As a result of his exploration of labour and productivity, the intervention considers the consequences of systems built around efficiency and performance. The technologies that expand our capacity to process, automate, and optimize also reshape our relationship with everyday life, leaving behind material and social residues that outlive their original purpose.

As artificial intelligence increasingly transforms office environments, the work becomes both an archaeological speculation and a tribute to a transitional moment between the rise of remote work after the pandemic, and the growing automation of knowledge-based labour.

The intervention opens alongside the parallel exhibition 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗮 by Sevan Székely / @sevan.ck - curated by Roxana N. Pop / @roxananpop - in the gallery space.

📅 19 August – 6 September 2026
Opening hours: Thursday–Saturday, 6:00–9:00 PM
Visits outside opening hours are possible by appointment via phone or social media.

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Part of „Aproape de Curba Morții”. Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Event organized with the support of the City Hall and Local Council of Cluj-Napoca. by @matcaartspace

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2 months ago

Images from "The Glass Dome Demands Affective Currency"

Artists: @adrnggg / @ana.petrovici / @catalinburcea / @danbeudean / @flaviur / @luis.drajan / @paulilfo /

Curated by @iarina.sleam and @snze._.snze and assisted by
@boca.v.sebastian

Photo credits: @yap.studio / @m.dox
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Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Event organized with the support of the City Hall and Local Council of Cluj-Napoca. taken in MATCA artspace by @matcaartspace

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a month ago

We are delighted to announce the last exhibition part of the FORWARD Residency 2026: "The Glass Dome Demands Affective Currency", featuring works by Adrian Ganea, Ana Petrovici, Cătălin Burcea, Dan Beudean, Flaviu Rogojan, Luis Drăjan and Paul Ilfoveanu, curated by Iarina Șleam and Sînziana Stănese.

The show will open on Friday, August 14th, 7 PM, at MATCA artspace @matcaartspace - Calea Turzii 21, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

"The Glass Dome Demands Affective Currency" is an exhibition that explores the paradigm shift from the panoptic society to the digital panopticon, analyzing the valences that freedom takes on once we have agreed to the terms and conditions of being watched and surveilled. We integrated the infrastructures of surveillance, feed them gestures and confessions, willingly turning on the lights, drawing the curtains and broadcasting live from our own home, which, in turn, ends up distorting from a space of safety, refuge and resting into a non-space, an aquarium of perpetual production and exposure.
The selected works debate this fragmentation and exhaustion of the self from the moment it has created its digital carbon copy, where voluntary exposure becomes self-exploitation, where the mental boundaries we could draw around intimacy become blurred. Within this glass dome, self-regulatory mechanisms are getting increasingly difficult to implement, and escapism turns into unpaid emotional labor at the data center.

@adrnggg / @ana.petrovici / @catalinburcea / @danbeudean / @flaviur / @luis.drajan / @paulilfo /

@iarina.sleam / @snze._.snze
@boca.v.sebastian

After the opening event, the exhibition can be visited by appointment, or during its finissage on August 22nd, 2026.
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This exhibition is part of the FORWARD residency.

Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Event organized with the support of the City Hall and Local Council of Cluj-Napoca. by @matcaartspace

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2 months ago

Summer in Bucharest has a way of making you think about beaches, sand and other faraway places.

A little throwback to @matcaartspace’s booth at the very first edition of CLOVA :) by @matcaartspace

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2 months ago

"What remains when the market goes silent?"
Artists: Dan Beudean, Lucas Farah, Bianca Papuc, Iulia Pușcașu, Judas Ștefan @danbeudean @_lucas_farah_ @six4nk @iuliadanaa @biblically.accurate_
Curated by: Tudor Costin, Eva Luca @tudor_costin @cerneala.inalta
📍MATCA artspace, Calea Turzii 21, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania @matcaartspace
31.07-10.08.2026

Read the complete text on lowgroundpressure.blog web platform (🔗 in stories)

📸 Nicu Nistor @nistor.nicuu, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

#contemporaryart #artisttoday #lowgroundpressure #arttoday #artist taken in Cluj-Napoca by @matcaartspace

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22 days ago