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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: meet @mariagutuc 🎞️🩷

We know way too many cool people making cool stuff to keep them all to ourselves

So we’re kicking off a little series about photographers, their work, and the stories behind the frames

First up: Maria Gutu, a photographer from Moldova exploring people, memory, and the idea of home through her beautiful B&W photographs

Take a little scroll through her world 🩷🎞️

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🌠 Artistele Nicoleta Moise și Maria Guțu vă așteaptă sâmbătă, 10 octombrie, de la ora 16:00 la Casa Muzeelor din Iași la un atelier deschis, pornind de la propria practică artistică și de la materialele lor publicate în numărul 7 al revistei Scena9 pe hârtie.

Nicoleta Moise a documentat, alături de fotograful Andrei Becheru, istoriile personale ascunse în construcția barajului Pecineagu și a urmărit felul în care peisajul ajunge să înglobeze straturi ale istoriei.

Maria Guțu a publicat o serie de fotografii realizate în timpul unor carnavaluri populare din sate moldovenești, în care cumpăna dintre ani e primită întotdeauna cu măștile pe față. Tineri și bătrâni, femei și bărbați, petrec sub măștile pe care le-au creat împreună și care, preț de o zi, răstoarnă ordinea socială.

Prezentarea celor două artiste va fi urmată de o scurtă plimbare prin Iași, pe un traseu ales de fiecare participant(ă), în căutarea unor elemente ascunse ale orașului. Fiecare participant(ă) va fotografia cu telefonul sau își va lua notițe despre un detaliu cu care are o legătură personală aparte sau care scoate la iveală un lucru mai puțin știut din viața spațiului comun.

La finalul plimbării, ne reîntâlnim la Casa Muzeelor, unde fiecare participant(ă) va împărtăși o singură fotografie sau notiță din explorarea sa, pe care o vor discuta împreună cu artistele gazde. Mutăm astfel realitatea dintr-un colț mai puțin vizibil al orașului și o transformăm într-o poveste, prin imagine sau text.

📋 Participarea este gratuită și necesită înscriere prealabilă la formularul din bio.
👥 Număr maxim de participanți: 15 persoane

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De la un interviu cu Ada Solomon despre cum a ajuns Noul Cinema Românesc pe ecranele din toată lumea și o anchetă despre cum predăm istoria într-o perioadă a radicalizării, la o cină colectivă în grădina Rezidența9 și o plimbare exploratorie prin Iași în cadrul expoziției „Ce ascundem”, am adunat pentru tine 9 de la Fundația9 — nouă lucruri despre cultură, educație și societate pe care nu vrei să la ratezi săptămâna asta. ✨

Citește mai mult despre fiecare recomandare în parte la link-ul din bio. 🔗

#Fundatia9 #Scena9 #Scoala9 #Rezidenta9 #BRD

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📣 Cu o zi înainte de închiderea expoziției „EVROVIZION. CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES”, vă invităm la un tur ghidat și o discuție cu artiștii Maria Guțu, Maxim Poleacov și Adnan Softić, marți, 6 octombrie, ora 16:00.

🗣️ Limbi de comunicare: română și engleză.

Evenimentul este organizat de MNAM în parteneriat cu IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, cu sprijinul Ambasadei Germaniei la Chișinău.

Curatorii proiectului: Sabina Klemm și Sanja Kojić Mladenov.

„EVROVIZION” explorează practicile artistice contemporane și identitatea europeană din perspective locale, reflectând diversitatea Europei de Est și de Sud-Est.
📅 Expoziția poate fi vizitată până la 7 octombrie 2026.

ENG: Join us for a guided tour and an exchange with artists Maria Guțu, Maxim Poleacov and Adnan Softić on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, at 16:00.

EVROVIZION. CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES is an exhibition project by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and is presented in Chișinău 08.09.–07.10.2026 in cooperation with the Muzeul Național de Artă al Moldovei and with the support of the German Embassy Chisinau.

Curators: Sabina Klemm and Sanja Kojić Mladenov.

“EVROVIZION” explores contemporary artistic practices and European identity from local perspectives, reflecting the diversity of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
📅 The exhibition is open until 7 October 2026.

#evrovizioncrossingstoriesandspaces #europe #chisinau #ifa #art newmedia

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Another international cultural event done together with @stol.collective in Serbia at @ugklarairosa with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute and our sponsors. Movie screening with 5 documentary films from Romanian directors + Q&A session, art exhibition with 7 visual artists and a community dinner. Serbia was a blast and had a great time there, looking forward to visit the country again in the near future and do more projects together with friends @aforanio @marco.verhoogt @sebmihaescu @szilqrd @val.fog @letitiapopa @lore.ilie @anabalanaa @mariagutuc

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EVROVIZION. CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES

📅 8 September – 7 October 2026
📍 Muzeul Național de Artă al Moldovei, Chișinău

Opening with performances by vana Ivković
Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 16:00

Guided tour with participating artists and curator
Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 14:00

www.evrovizion.ifa.de/en/stations/chisinau

The co-creative project EVROVIZION by @ifa.visualarts curated by Sabina Klemm and Sanja Kojić Mladenov explores the current social and political climate in Europe and the idea of a European identity, focusing on less visible and marginalised geopolitical and cultural spaces, particularly in southeast and eastern Europe.

Following stops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Greece, Cyprus, Georgia and Bulgaria, Chișinău is the seventh stop on EVROVIZION’s international tour.

For the presentation in Chișinău, the exhibition has been expanded to include works by Moldovan photographer Maria Guțu, alongside newly developed works by Johanna Diehl and Adnan Softić, created in close collaboration with local partners.

Artists Gery Georgieva, Maria Guțu, Ivana Ivković and Adnan Softić, and the curator Sanja Kojić Mladenov will be present at the opening .

EVROVISION is presented in Chișinău in cooperation with the Muzeul Național de Artă al Moldovei and with the support of the German Embassy Chisinau.

Artists in the Chișinău exhibition: Nevin Aladağ, Igor Bošnjak, Johanna Diehl, Gery Georgieva, Maria Guțu, Petrit Halilaj, Ivana Ivković, Janine Jembere, Nika Kutateladze, Henrike Naumann, Vladimir Miladinović, Selma Selman, Adnan Softić and Kyriakos Theocharous.

Curators: Sabina Klemm and Sanja Kojić Mladenov
Local Project Managerment: Clara Abdullah
Local Pickle Bar Fellow: Maxim Poleacov

Photos and videos by Clara Abdullah

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Happy World Photography Day! 📸

Photography has a history spanning nearly 200 years — from the earliest experiments with light-sensitive images to the countless ways the medium is used today.

To celebrate, we’re looking back at some of the key milestones that have shaped photography’s history.

Discover the timeline on our website. Link in bio.

#WorldPhotographyDay #WPD2026 #photographyhistory

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We share talents we truly believe in, who explore the diversity of the many forms of documentary photography. If you like their work, don’t hesitate to follow and support them. Stay curious and passionate.

#documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #mariagutu #portraitphotography #documentaryportrait

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Lutnița is taking a summer break.
See you on September 11 for our next group exhibition!

Maria Guțu
BY THE WATER
analog photograph
Vadul lui Vodă, 2025

#mariagutu #lutnita #galerialutnita

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From June 15th to July 6th, Maria Gutu, an award-winning photographer based in Chișinău, was our artist in residence in Zagreb. She spent three weeks exploring the city, getting to know the art communities, spaces, and resisting the heat wave. Before we welcome our new resident, we wish Maria a pleasant summer and look forward to her remarkable work (see our previous post) being exhibited in Zagreb in November. More details~ in due time.

This Artist in Residence program is part of the Motel Trogir project, which this year is supported by the Kultura nova Foundation, the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia. The program is realized in partnership with Oberliht association from Chisinau.

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From June 15th to July 6th we are hosting Chișinău based photographer Maria Guțu, in our Zagreb residence. She is selected through an Open call for artists from Moldova launched earlier this year in collaboration with OBERLIHT.

On this occasion, we are presenting several images of her captivating photography series entitled ‘Homeland’ (2019- ongoing).

This (somewhat burdensome) title that the artist chose for her photographic wanderings in rural parts of Moldova is a framework for recording people, landscapes, children, teenagers, animals, customs, not without ambivalence. Starting from the intimate position of growing up in Moldova in the absence of parents who went to work abroad, Maria explores everyday situations where life takes its course, but with traces of absence or the unspoken that are imprinted in the space between the camera and the documented. "Around one quarter of the population has left the country in the last twenty years for economic reasons. Those left behind are mostly people who are too old to go abroad to work – and the children of those who have made their way abroad," says one of her texts.

Whether you think of Rineke Dijkstra's teenage portraits when looking at her images or Andrei Tarkovsky's landscapes, or the treatment of the characters reminds you of some of the liminal practices of post-Soviet photographers, Maria Gutu's artistic practice is a kind of transition between the inner and outer gaze, a gaze that belongs to the scene, one that reciprocates, but also gets caught in a kind of gap between the real and the suspension of reality that the author herself produces and draws us into.

“I chose black and white, because my main cultural influences are mainly black and white. I always loved black and white movies and old photographs, so in my work I don’t think about colour, but about light and human emotions.”

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Maria Guțu graduated in Cinematography from the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chișinău, and in 2022 she completed studies at the Docdocdoc School of Modern Photography. She is the winner of the 2024 Leica Oskar Barnack Award in the Newcomer category, among other recognitions.

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