The White Night of Galleries / NAG, Cluj-Napoca, 2026
OPEN STUDIO: ALEXANDRA CONSTANTINESCU and RADU CONSTANTINESCU
Dates: October 2, 3, and 4, 2026
Visiting hours: 16:00 – 20:00
Venue: Atelier Alexandra Constantinescu, 21 Gării Street, Building A, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phone: +40 727016081
https://2026.noapteagaleriilor.ro/ro/cluj-napoca/proiect/825
PUBLISHED INTERVIEW: EMPOWER ARTISTS | June 10, 2026
A recent conversation with Angela Izvercian regarding my visual projects and methodology, featured in the platform’s Inspiration section.
Read: Interview with Alexandra Constantinescu, EN | RO
AFTER TOUCH
Solo Show by Alexandra Constantinescu
Curator: Kassandra Mihai
Opening: December 19, 6:30 PM
Dates: December 19, 2025 – January 7, 2026
Coordinator: Anca Vintilă Dragu
Venue: Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery, 132 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania
Objects that preserve traces, mimic functions, display fragility as a form of expression. A slowed-down gaze, a type of encounter based not on contact but on resonance: a poetic of vulnerability.
The idea of | after touch | – the moment when touch, although ceased, continues to work in the material. A second time, a reverberation that no longer belongs to the body, but does not detach itself from it completely. Matter seems to retain not only its perceptible form, but also the pulsation of a past presence. This subtle persistence gives the works a strange quality, making them seem impregnated with a mineral memory, forcing a closeness with a kind of delicate piety, a restrained gesture, the shadow they cast. By eliminating excess, the material becomes even more resonant – remaining silent only in appearance – and opens up to a poetic density that cannot be ignored.
Each fold is a movement imprinted in the delicate material, transforming the object into a garment of invisible corporality. A second membrane archiving past movements. Thorny things become fragments of mineralized nature, bearing both delicacy and danger. The touch they refuse is the same one they invite: a tension of closeness that invites the negotiation of distance. Each material presence seems to detach itself from its initial and suggested function, becoming the bearer of a fertile ambiguity.
The objects compose a coherent grammar of visual perception, a syntax of voids and tensions in which each form becomes a statement open to interpretation. They refuse to be what they seem: they are both recognizable and foreign, close and distant from the prototype-idea with which we associate them. This regime of ambivalence creates a zone of suspension, a discreet destabilization that, through “de-functionalization,” restores a contemplative dimension to objects, reconfiguring the way the human eye understands matter and, implicitly, the world.
The exhibition aims to create a space in which the gaze itself becomes an act of “after touch,” a space between gesture and trace, between touch and its prolonged echo in matter, to offer a field of relationships in which meaning is slowly structured, with the help of the viewer’s willingness to give time, receptivity, and attention (in the deepest sense of the word).
Kassandra Mihai
MEET MY EYES
Dates: 06 November – 23 November 2025
Venue: Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca
Curator: Kassandra Mihai
Artists: Darius Hulea, Emilian Mocanu, Alexandra Constantinescu, Mihai Nuțu, Taisia Corbuț, Alexandra Mîță, Petra Kovacs, Miruna Copăcel, Maria Brâneț.
PERFORMING (UN)EXPECTATION
Opening: 6 November 2025, 06:00 PM
Dates: November 6 – November 28, 2025, from Monday to Friday 10:00-17:00
Venue: La Cave, Institutul Francez, I.I.C. Brătianu 22, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Curator: Alexandra Mocan
Artists: Emma Cossée Cruz · Alexandra Constantinescu · Nelmarie du Preez · Gabriela Löffel · Nicoleta Mureș · Gülşah Mursaloğlu · Albert Kaan · Matei Toșa · Berkay Tuncay
BROUGHT FROM BELOW
Dates | September 9 – October 3, 2025
Venue | Matca artspace, 21 Calea Turzii , Cluj-Napoca
Artists | Alexandra Brînzac, Luis Alexandru Drăjan, Sasha Bandi, Oana Pop, Andreea Grigoraș, Alexandra Constantinescu, Matei Țigăreanu, Imminent Detour, Adrian Rață, Emanuel Pop, Xianne Han & Cristian Roncea & Stol Collective, Louis Kareem Jamal, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Alexandra Pop-Arad, Júlia Kusztos & Levente Borenich, Alexandru Muraru, Ernest Budeș, Alexandru Mihai Budeș, Alexandra Mocan
YOUNG BLOOD 5.0. HELLO, MATH! ART SAFARI
Curator | Călina Coman
Opening | September 4, 2025, 7:00 PM
Dates | September 5 – December 5
Adress | Palatul Dacia, Lipscani 18-20, București
Artists | Dumitraș Flocea, Carina-Elena Frunză, Erika-Elena Ioan, Florentina Neghină, Raluca Niculaie, Andreea-Georgiana Pușcașu, Georgiana-Elena Șușnea, Anamaria Volintiru, Roberta Giuglea, Petru Cruceru, Cătălin Angelescu, Bianca Papuc, Adriana Ropotan, Larissa Natalia Danilov, Alexandra Constantinescu, Dan Cebotari, Rebeca Ionescu, Andrei Popovici, Mihnea Dămăceanu, Boca Biborka, Dana Guzu, Edith Torony, Alexandra Baranyi, Lorena Buta, David Petre, Georgiana Tirla, Adriana Tentiș, Necula Răzvan Tiberiu, Andreea Pădureț, Alexandra Mîță, Laurențiu Zbîrcea, Dan Dumănoiu, Miruna Bălașa
NOAPTEA ALBA A GALERIILOR 2024
OPEN STUDIO
Dates | October 3 – October 5
Venue | Atelier Alexandra Constantinescu, 21 Gării , Cluj-Napoca
Artists | Radu Constantinescu, Alexandra Constantinescu
PANIS ANGELICUS
Opening: 27 September 2024, 04:00 PM
Venue: Museikon, 3 Unirii Street, 510009 Alba Iulia, Romania
Curator: Dana Burnete
Artists: Alexandra Antonescu, Crinela Antonescu, Teona Antonescu, Mihai Ariciu, Vladlen Babcinetchi, Bianca Bogdan, Ioan Bogdan, Daniela Burnete, Dan Crecan, Alex Cuibus, Alexandra Constantinescu, Maxim Dumitraş, Mariana Gheorghiu, Roxana Ionescu, Ana Jilinschi, Ştefan Lipot, Anadora Lupo, Florin Magda, Floare Muntean, Nicolae Muntean, Ioana Olahuţ, Angela Petruţa, Anca Statică, Prototip Studio, Şezi, Diana Ţuculescu, Gheorghe Urdea, Florin Viorel
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THE TWIST. FAILING EMPIRES, TRIUMPHANT PROVINCES Dates | 13 June 2024 – 10 November 2024 |
No title, 2022, collage of raw video footage and 3D animation, 1920 x 1080 px, 2m49s continuous loop, audio
Ana Maria Micu – concept, raw video footage
Alexandra Constantinescu, Radu Constantinescu – concept, 3D animation, and editing
CADENŢĂ / ONE AT A TIME
Opening | Thursday, 6 June, 18:00
Venue | Parter Gallery, 3 Iuliu Maniu Street, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Artists | Alexandra Constantinescu, Camilia Filipov, Maria Sicoe, Anca Stătică, Heidi Tradnik, Andreea Grigoraş, Maria Brîneţ
Curator | Septimiu Jugrestan
CULTURE UNDER PRESSURE within The Castling of Arts Festival
Date | Wednesday, 29 May, 2024, 18:00
Venue | The National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
Artists | Alexandra Constantinescu, Ovidiu Panighianţ
Curator | Dan Breaz
ALEXANDRA CONSTANTINESCU
Open Studio
Date | Thursday, 28 March, 2024 | 13:00-18:00
Faculty of Orthodox Theology – Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Balyai University, 4th floor,
Episcop Ivan Street, Cluj-Napoca
IN WRITING – IT IS WRITTEN
DUO SHOW
Dates | 28 September – 5 October 2023
Artists | Alexandra Constantinescu / Stefan Jammer
Curator | Roxana Ionescu
Opening | 28 September, 19:00
Location | Hangar F, 12 Atelierului Street, Alba Iulia 510001, Romania
STUDIES FOR A BURNING SILENCE
Dates | 24 September – 24 October 2022
Opening | Saturday, 24 September, 18:00
Location | Hangar F, 12 Atelierului Street, Alba Iulia 510001, Romania
Curator | Ada Muntean
Artists | Răzvan Neagoe / Dragoș Neagoe / Ada Muntean, Mathias Bar / Ana Maria Micu (collaborative project with Alexandra and Radu Constantinescu) / Mircea Modreanu
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One of the most iconic plays of the XX-th century, Waiting for Godot written by Samuel Becket in 1953 (the title paraphrasing the term „waiting for God” from the existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger) develops into several scenes with no narrative connection between them, the red thread binding them being a meaningless existence and absurd situations, with a gloomy character.[1] Waiting for Godot happens every day, taking the forms of an isolated waiting in the last few years, or problematic global crises with no real foreseeable solutions. The group project Studies for a Burning Silence analyses the relations between close/far, inside/outside, individual/collective, silence/noise that generate the coordinates of a universe we thought we knew.
Referencing the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre through the perspective of William Fleming: „[…] existence precedes essence. Firstly, man must exist to project his image, define himself and create his portrait through actions and works of art. Man is doomed to be free and the only border to his existence is existence itself. […] For Sartre death is the final absurdity. He would have agreed with Leonardo da Vinci, who says that precisely at the time when he was learning to live, he was in fact learning to die. Paradoxically, we cannot know life until we have faced death, we cannot seize assertion until we meet denial. All that lives – man or other creature – is under a permanent death sentence.”[2]
Faced with his own fate in an apparently godless world, man develops a specific form of knowledge, based on rationality, science, concrete facts and results. It relies on matter as the only visible, concrete certainty. Phenomenology shows through scientific discoveries that the solar system appeared as a secondary product to cosmic explosions in the Universe. Thus, our world, according to science, seems to have come to life due to chaos: the biochemist Jacques Monod, Nobel prize winner states in his work Chance and Necessity (1970) that cellular reproduction and metabolism appeared out of a random combination of certain proteins and nucleic acids. This means that man lives in an environment which is indifferent to his wishes, his hopes and his needs, alone in a neutral multiverse.[3]
Surrounded by this neutral environment, man tries to give meaning to the new existence spread in front of him, with a new perspective on the world he wishes in fact to dominate. Confronted with the primordial chaos and an infinity of options, he finds pertinent ways of expression through art in order to fight nothingness by transforming it into directed chaos.
In Studies for a Burning Silence, the sources of inspiration come from life, as elements of the ordinary recontextualised in a contemporary, interdisciplinary way where man plays a central role. Contemporary art suggests a conscious positioning of the artist as on a quest to reimagine the world from the inside and offers a critical commentary of both the intimate human consciousness, and the outside world where people live. The body becomes an intermediary between human consciousness and the world, through an extremely personal process that can be likened to breaking a mirror and then impossibly trying to put it back together.
[1] FLEMING, William. Arte și idei, Editura Meridiane, Vol. II, 1983, p.388
[2] Idem, p.389
[3] FLEMING, William. Arte și idei, Editura Meridiane, Vol. II, 1983, p.389
text by Ada Muntean
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NAG: Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor/ White Night of the Art Galleries
Alexandra Constantinescu / Open Studio
Date: 15, 16, 17 October 2021
Studio adress: No.19, Gării Street, Cluj-Napoca
The studio, located close to the train station, is a 10-minutes walk from the city’s center. The space was conceived for solitary artistic practice and teaching ceramics classes and workshops. It is a place where the artist explores and expands her interest in art and design, a laboratory that supports unpredictable collides between ideas, materials, and techniques. Always in a state of flux, it showcases works at different stages of concept and production, highlighting key moments of contemplation, when the expected results can be reconsidered. Samples of by-products are kept to inform on additional routes that could lead to new thinking patterns and practical means to reach the completion of an idea.
Alexandra Constantinescu welcomes visitors to explore her practice. Continuously researching throughout an area that stems further from her main discipline, that of sculpture, Alexandra approaches art and design by employing additional mediums such as ceramics, installation, and computer-generated animation. Into her technical endeavors, she pours transitory perceptions, experiences, emotions, memories, images, words, objects, and materials collected from everyday life. The studio is an archive of processes, put on display to encourage spontaneous discussions on art-making and, in general, pursuits we all follow in the name of empathy.
Excerpt from “Acqua Alta”
animation | 6m2s | no audio | 2021
Ana Maria Micu – concept, digital drawing, clay animation, and editing
Alexandra Constantinescu, Radu Constantinescu – concept, 3D animation
Excerpt from “Acqua Alta”
animation | 6m2s | no audio | 2021
Ana Maria Micu – concept, digital drawing, clay animation, and editing
Alexandra Constantinescu, Radu Constantinescu – concept, 3D animation
Artistic collaboration
Date | 15 June – 14 July 2021
Venue | Mind Set Art Center: 7F, No.180, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan
Together with Radu Constantinescu, we contributed to Ana Maria Micu’s experimental short animated video “Acqua Alta”. The collaborative work is to be exhibited in Micu’ solo show “Objects Must Be Comfortable”.
Micu’s animation concept is about a method to document progress during drawing sessions but spreads into illustrating acts of care, protective actions, and spontaneous fantastical narratives. Her initial idea was about a hand hovering over a wrinkled fabric, touching it, in an attempt to flatten, maybe caress, or examine it.
Our response was inspired by observing a neighbor’s garden, where indoor furniture was being repurposed for outdoor use. As protection against the elements, a table was covered with a piece of plastic, held in place with rocks, so the wind would not blow it away. We documented this real-life situation and introduced it as 2 fragments of 3D animation, among Micu’s scenes.
TRENDING UP: SUPER CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN ARTISTS
Venue: Athénée Palace Hilton, Bucharest, RO
Auction session: July 8, 2015
Exhibition Schedule: June 25 -July 7, 2015 (Artmark), July 8, 2015 ( Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest)
Curator: Ioana Ciocan
Artists: Aitch, Ana Bănică, Mihai Barabancea, Zoltán Bála, Vlad Berte, István Betuker, Dan Beudean, Lia Bira, Marius Bodea, Traian Boldea, Emanuel Borcescu, Mihaela Buhaev, Adrian Buzdugă, Mircea Cantor, Mimi Ciora, Andrei Ciubotaru, Daniel Comendant, Alina Constantin, Alexandra Constantinescu, Răzvan Cornici, Roberta Curcă, Cătălina Diaconescu, Eduard Felegeanu, Norbert Filep, Lucia Ghegu, Anna Godzina, Kadna, Kitră, Titi Ciocan, Virginia Lupu, Dan Măciucă, Alina Marinescu, Mădălina Matei, Alexandru Mirutziu, Gili Mocanu, Radu Mocanu, Răzvan Năstase, Newclear Fairy, Dan-Raul Pintea, Pisica Pătrată, Mircea Pop, Mircea Popescu, Adrian Preda, Lea Rasovszky, Saddo, Șerban Savu, Serebe, Larisa Sitar, Bianca Solymosi, Super Smooth Studio, Marga Udrescu, Cătălina Vasilescu, Mihai Zgondoiu
