4 | 14 | 26 degrees east Dragoș Bădiță | Oana Coşug | Megan Dominescu | Aurora Király | Larisa Crunțeanu Presented by Anca Poterasu Gallery part of NADA Miami Avenue Van Volxem 316, 1190 Forest 1 - 5 December, 2020

1. 4 | 14 | 26 degrees east
Dragoș Bădiță | Oana Coşug | Megan
Dominescu |
Aurora Király | Larisa Crunțeanu |
Botond Keresztesi |
Marie Lukáčová | Pavla Malinová | Rafał
Zajko
Presented by Anca Poterasu
Gallery,Bucharest
and lítost, Prague
Avenue Van Volxem 316, 1190 Forest
Exhibition space next door to WIELS,
le centre d'art contemporain, Brussels
1 - 5 December, 2020
www.ancapoterasu.com
www.litost.gallery/en/

2. Dragoș Bădiță
Diana, 2020
oil on wood, 50 x 70 cm

3. Dragoș Bădiță
Cristina, 2017
oil on wood, 50 x 70 cm

4. Dragoș Bădiță
Morning, 2016
oil on wood, 50 x 70 cm

5. Dragos Bădiță’s observant portraiture emanates from the mental state of the person he paints. For years he has been inviting
his friends and family to show in his works, revealing through their portraits, elements of the human psyche and emotions.
Dragoș Bădiță (b. 1987) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design in
Cluj-Napoca, specialising in painting. In 2009 he finished his MA studies at the same university. In 2015 he exhibits at the
National Portrait Gallery as part as the BP Portrait Award event, and also at Scottish National Portrait Gallery/ Edinburgh,UK
(2015) and Ulster Museum/ Belfast, UK (2016). Dragoș Bădiță chooses the subjects of his extensive portrait series from deeply
personal surroundings. Selected shows include: [upcoming] Light breeze touching the earth, Richter Gallery, Rome, Italy (2020
- 2021); In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times,litost Gallery, Prague (2020); The Museum Affairs, The Zoological and
Botanical Museums in Cluj-Napoca (2019); White Cuib. Cluj-Napoca (2018), Solo and groups shows at Anca Poterasu Gallery,
Bucharest (2019 and 2018); Solo Show at Spinnerei Leipzig Project Space with Anca Poterasu Gallery (2019); Bistrița-Năsăud
County Museum, Romania (2018); Richter Fine Art Gallery, Rome (2018); Alexandru-ȘtefulescuCounty Museum, Târgu-Jiu, Romania
(2018); Polit Space, Cluj, Romania (2017); Art Encounters Collateral Events for the Contemporary Art Biennial Timișoara
(2017); The National Library of Romania, Bucharest (2017); Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK (2016);National Portrait Gallery London,
UK (2015); Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh,UK (2015); Alpineum Produzentengalerie/ Lucerne, Switzerland (2014),
Salonul de Proiecte/Bucharest, Romania (2014), Larm Gallery/ Copenhagen, Denmark (2013), KunstvereinTiergarten/ Galerie Nord,
Berlin, Germany (2013), The Romanian Cultural Institute/ London,UK (2011), CCA Andratx/ Mallorca, Spain (2010), Gallery Mie
Lefever/ Gent, Belgium(2009), Artower Hall/ Athens, Greece (2008).
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6. Aurora Király
Soft Drawings: Subconscious Narratives,
Self Portrait as Pierrot, 2020
felt, cotton, mesh, 49 x 60 cm
Aurora Király
Soft Drawings: Subconscious Narratives,
Days Passing By, 2020
felt, cotton, mesh, 49 x 60 cm

7. Aurora Király
Soft Drawings: Subconscious
Narratives,Contours, 2020
felt, cotton, mesh, 49 x 60 cm
Aurora Király
Soft Drawings: Subconscious
Narratives, Warrior Pose, 2020
felt, cotton, mesh, 49 x 60 cm

8. Aurora Király (b. 1971) has played from early on in her career a crucial role in the acknowledgement of Romanian women artists
and has established herself as one of the most important artists in Romania. Working with photography, textile art and
installation, her most recent works question the sources or artistic inspiration and the spaces of creation seen through a
feminist lens.
In her latest series on which she worked during the spring lockdown, Soft Drawings, the artist collates images of
depression,isolation and anxiety into patterns of house dresses and soft, felt materials in the search for balance.
Selected exhibitions: In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times, litost Gallery, Prague 2020; A Room of One's Own, NADA New
York Gallery Open 2020; In the Eye of the Storm, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, 2019; ;Ex-East Des histoires passées et
récentes des avant-gardes roumaines [The past and present stories of the Romanian avant-garde], PFC Headquarters,
Paris(2019); At Different Angles, The National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (2018 –2019); The 3rd Edition of Baroque
Urban Festival, Museum of Art, Timișoara (2018); The travelling exhibition Orient -Trauma & Revival: Contemporary Encounters,
Kim? Laikmetīgās mākslas centrs, Riga / BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels / Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier
Sztuki, Kraków (2018) ; Artissima -Dialogues -Anca Poterașu Gallery (2017); Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest (2017); Art
Encounters Contemporary Art Biennial (2017); Arcub Gabroveni, Bucharest (2016); Our History about the Others. Bucharest
White Night of the Galleries #10 at Scena9 (2016); Lateral ArtSpace, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj (2016); Romanian Cultural
Institute, Lisbon (2016); Calina Gallery, Timișoara (2016); Alert Studio, Bucharest (2015); The National Museum of
Contemporary Art Bucharest (2014); Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen (2014); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
(2013); l’espace En Cours, Paris, France(2002 ; Paromlin Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2001); National Art Gallery, Sofia,
Bulgaria (2011); Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania (2000); International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2000);
Sindan Cultural Center, Cluj; Melancholia, GAD Photogallery, Bucharest (2000); International Center for Contemporary
Art, Bucharest (1999); Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary (1997); Galeria San Filippo Neri, Torino, Italy
(1996); Project 2000 Contest, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy (1996); Experiment in Romanian Art between 1960-1990,
Artexpo Gallery, Bucharest (1996) ; Mediawave Festival, Györ, Hungary (1995); cARTe, Museum of Art Collection, Bucharest
(1991). Aurora Király’s works are part of important public and private collections.
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9. Megan Dominescu
Botox, 2020
acrylic rughooking, 43 x 62 cm

10. Megan Dominescu
Anxiety has many faces, 2020
wool and acrylic rug hooking, 43 x
62 cm

11. Megan Dominescu
Sexy lady portrait, 2019
Rug Hooking (wool, burlap, cotton)
and embroidery, 45 x 37 cm

12. Megan Dominescu,
thank you thank you thank you, 2020
rug hooking on burlap
135 x 200cm

13. Megan Dominescu employs traditional rug-hooking and knitting techniques in daring and sharp social commentaries on
contemporary lifestyles as shown in the ubiquitous advertisements online and on the streets.
The 90s Xanax advert is reinterpreted in Megan Dominescu’s rugs as a truism of our contemporary lives. Even in her latest
tapestry of the Mediterranean endangered wildlife, ”thank you thank you thank you”, she highlights the ever-present
predicaments of a society engulfed in the need to consume and forget.
Megan Dominescu (b. 1997) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Department of Painting at the National
University of the Arts, Bucharest in 2018. Born in the Netherlands to Romanian and American parents, Megan grew up in
Washington, D.C. and later moved to Bucharest, Romania. Megan’s clashing background is a strong inspiration in her practice.
Using humour as a weapon, Megan’s work is focused on observing and documenting the absurd, shedding light on cultural
contrasts and celebrating the bizarre. Her recent shows include Tapestry in Augmented Reality, One Night Gallery at Carusel,
Bucharest (2020), Use Me, White Cuib Cluj-Napoca (2020), In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times, litost Gallery, Prague
(2020); Use Me, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca (2020), A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, Harlem, with Anca Poterasu Gallery
(2020), your sweetness is my weakness, Anca Poterasu Gallery (2020), Eternal Regrets, Cazul 101, Bucharest (2019), All Dogs go
to Heaven, Kube Musette, Bucharest (2019). Megan is a member of the multi-disciplinary art space MOXA20 in Bucharest and is
one half of the DJ duo Miss Clitoral.
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14. Oana Coșug
Each with his own bubble, 2020
Watercolours on hot pressed paper
640 gr
75 x 56 cm

15. Oana Coșug,
Couple in the bubble, 2020
ink and watercolor on paper
32 x 24cm

16. Oana Coșug
Locked in a cube, 2020
Watercolours on hot pressed paper
640 gr
75 x 56 cm

17. Oana Coșug
Cactus, 2017
Watercolours on hot pressed
paper 640 gr
42 x 29,7 cm

18. Responding to current discourse on how our bodies and roles are connected to both physical impulses and social constructs,
Oana Coșug builds a narrative of isolation wherein transformation is inherent and boundaries between the inner life and the
outside environment dissolve.
Oana Coşug (b.1979) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied painting at the National University of Arts in
Bucharest. In 2009, she obtained her master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Art at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels. In 2012, she participated in an exhibition organized by Canvas Collectie / The RTBF Collection at BOZAR in Brussels.
That year, she also won first prize at the International Biennial of Contemporary Drawing Namur, Belgium. Selected
exhibitions: Drawing in lockdown at S.M.A.K. Belgium, 2020; Virus Diary at White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, special guest
2021; A Room of One's Own, NADA New York Gallery Open 2020;In The Eye of the Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest 2019;
Disparitions, Artitude Gallery Brussels, Belgium 2019; Spin Cotton while the Moon is Bright, Spinnerei Leipzig 2018;
Kunstwedstrijd Abstracte schilderkunst, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneeberg, Heist-op-den-Berg Belgium, 2018; From the infinite to
indefinite, Rivoli Building, Brussels, Belgium 2017; Portals at Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest 2017; Disparilitas, 100
Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2017; Colonia 21 curated by Anca Verona Mihulet in Bucharest, 2017; International Biennale of
Contemporary Drawings in Namur, Belgium 2012; Young Colours at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest.
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19. Larisa Crunțeanu
Floating Anchor, 2020
Triptych metal structure composed
of three rectangles of 65x150cm
held between them with magnets,
supporting a special coated PVC
curtain with sewed interventions
made by the artist, 186 x 150 cm

20. Larisa Crunțeanu (b. 1986) is a performer, video artist and sound collector who combines reality and fiction to question power
relations and the notion of female identity. Crunțeanu’s works create contexts in which facts and memories are reactivated,
encouraging a shared effort and the emergence of new practices. Many of her projects reflect on the notion of collaboration
and the ideas that exist behind objects and stories, often with other artists from different fields, creating collective
identities in her work.
Solo shows: Do It By Heart,The National Contemporary Art Museum (2020), A Room of One's Own, NADA New York Gallery Open
(2020), Blueprint at Halle9 Leipzig (2019), Keep Forgetting to Forget Me at Spinnerei Leipzig (2019), Aria Mineralia Anca
Poterașu Gallery Bucharest (2018); Aria Mineralia Zacheta Project RoomWarsaw (2018); A Small Insignificant Love tête Berlin
(2018); Seeds RKI Gallery Berlin (2015); BwO Atelier 35, Bucharest (2013).Selected group shows: Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw
(2019), Ultrasanity SAVVY Contemporary - The Laboratory of Form-Ideas (2019); Souvenir from Nowhere MAB, FAAP, Sao
Paulo(2017), Belief in the Power of Gesture Projektraum LS43, Berlin (2017); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016); District
Berlin, Berlin (2016); Never Alone National Museum of ContemporaryArt, Bucharest & B5 Studio, Târgu Mureș (2014); Salonul de
Proiecte, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna (2013); Good Girls National Museum of Contemporary Art,Bucharest (2013); Dear Money Salonul
de Proiecte, Bucharest (2013); What We Destroy and Celebrate at the Same Time, tranzit.ro Bucharest (2012); More than Perfect
Platforma Space, Bucharest (2012); Pif, A Golden Era Hero Sala Dalles, Bucharest(2011).Selected performances: “A Conversation
Between Two Workers and a Rock”, with Sonja Hornung, FORUM Stadtpark, Graz (2018); “Bite a Tail,Grow a Head”, solo
performance, FAAP Residency, Sao Paulo (2017) & tranzit.ro, Bucharest (2018);”Librarian for The Library by
GalerieInternational”, Blask Brzask Festival, Łodz (2017); “Do as I do as I do as I do”, Black Hyperbox, National Dance
Center, Bucharest (2016);”Thingsthat Don’t Matter” - with Xandra Popescu, MNAC Bucharest, DISKURS FESTIVAL Giessen, Romanian
Cultural Institute Vienna (2016); “Thingsfor Money” - with Xandra Popescu, Museums Quartier, Vienna (2014); “100 Loafs” - with
Alice Gancevici, public space performance,Bucharest (2012); “The Firecracker Concert”, MNAC Bucharest (2011); “I Hope This
Gets to You” - with Maria Pitea and Adrian Cristea, PragueFashion Quadrienalle, Prague (2011); “Storm”, Bucharest National
Opera, Bucharest; “The Future of Romanian Contemporary Art”,National Dance Center, Bucharest (2010).
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