We're happy to announce the opening of a new exhibition @biju.gallery !
Next Friday, on May 22nd, we invite you to the opening of Mircea But's solo show, curated by Norbert Filep.
This evening is also very special to us because we'll be celebrating 4 years since the gallery first opened its doors. 🩶
“The punctiform structure constitutes a latent logic of the image. The mosaic-like nature operates through the resolution marked by the totality of points on a delimited surface, without permanently fixing the level of clarity of the image. In Mircea But’s recent works, resolution becomes an inverted process, a form of pixelation of immediate nature through brushstrokes, where information is simultaneously articulated and displaced.
A dilation of time becomes the balance of the painterly act.” (excerpt from the curatorial text by Norbert Filep)
We will welcome you with the same energy that has kept us going for the past four years and continues to push this journey forward 💫
May 22 | 6PM
Memorandumului 17, Cluj-Napoca
@butmircea@norbertfilep
#onview “More Real Than Nature” at Jecza Gallery Timișoara.
Curated by Norbert Filep, this group show brings together works by Victor Ciato, Ioan Sbârciu, Radu Comșa, Simion Cernica, Leonardo Silaghi, Maxim Liulca, Mihaela Hudrea, Norbert Ștefan, and Oana Năstăsache.
Each artist approaches the idea of reality from a different angle — sometimes subtle, sometimes unexpected.
More details & images on Empower Artists Magazine. Link in Bio. Enjoy!☀️
📸 Courtesy of the gallery.
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We are pleased to announce the participation of Norbert Filep in the group exhibition „Drawing Possibilities: Using Drawing in Romania Today” curated by @perjovschidan and @liaperjovschi at 1 Mira Madrid Gallery.
Centered around the medium of drawing, the exhibition brings together a diverse range of artistic approaches developed by artists from the Romanian art scene, reflecting on the expanded language and possibilities of drawing today.
Happy to be part of this group exhibition curated by @perjovschidan and @liaperjovschi at 1MiraMadrid Gallery.
Focused on drawing, the exhibition brings together a wide range of approaches developed by artists from the Romanian art scene.
Thank you, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, for the invitation to be part of this wonderful show. Many thanks as well to 1MiraMadrid Gallery for making it happen, and to @ivangallery for their support with the logistics.
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Lucian Popăilă | Hwæt cleaves the air
Accumulation ultimately defines the nature of the imago generated by Popăilă, functioning as a morphological exploitation of figural elements. Water, plants, planets, or even the astronaut become subjects that tend toward, or prepare, a continuous recontextualization of form, in which they coagulate into synthetic clusters of title-signs. The ongoing articulation of form operates through variation and through the condensation of the conceptual content of the title into a morphological reduction, generating ambivalent directions of reading—from title to sign and back again.
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Curated by: Norbert Filep
02 April - 16 May 2026
From tomorrow until April 16, the gallery can be visited by appointment only.
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In this video, curator Norbert Filep reflects on the exhibition More Real Than Nature, as a dialogue across multiple generations of artists — from Victor Ciato and Ioan Sbârciu, to Radu Comșa, Simion Cernica, Maxim Liulca, Leonardo Silaghi, Mihaela Hudrea, Norbert Ștefan and Oana Năstăsache — tracing how abstraction continues to evolve in relation to the digital space we live in.
If you’re planning a visit to see the exhibition, please note that the gallery will be closed this weekend for the Easter holidays. ✨
We look forward to welcoming you back starting next week.
The exhibition remains on view until May 31.
Lucian Popăilă | Hwæt cleaves the air
02 April - 16 May 2026
Curated by: Norbert Filep
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The dialogue between the viewer and the image emerges through a moment of delay or pause, which deepens the engagement with the painted surface.
The fluidity of forms defines the artist’s practice. It is visible both within each series and across different series, where forms transform while retaining traces of earlier structures. A diagrammatic dimension can thus be identified, in which form mutates from one series to another, shaped by the pictorial processes and the specific medium used. The image results from a symbiosis between tetracromy and the particularities of techniques such as fresco, egg tempera, or charcoal drawing.
This synthesis reinforces a reductive character of the images, aligning them with the structure of haiku poetry, where multiplicity is expressed through minimal means. Forms are simplified, a process supported by the speed of the pictorial act, especially in fresco.
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Fish Head, 2019
Pigment with emulsion on panel
80 × 80 cm
Diagram no. 2, 2023
Sepia on paper
255.5 × 150 cm
The Great Wave (after Katsushika Hokusai), 2019
Pigment with emulsion on panel
186 × 210 cm
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open tomorrow, from 2 PM to 7 PM.
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UPCOMING SHOW
Lucian Popăilă | Aerul și Cele Ce-l Taie
Vernisaj: 02.04.2026; 18:00
De cele mai multe ori, spațiul ocupat de activitatea invizibilă a interacțiunilor moleculare scapă percepției optice, coagulându-se într-o transparență domoală, care permite ochiului asimilarea celor mai îndepărtate orizonturi. Însă această transparență operează printr-o morfologie ascunsă, conținută în tridimensionalitatea spațiului delimitată de coordonatele unui sistem de natură carteziană. „Volumul”, delimitat de extinderile atmosferice, este ocupat de traiectorii și constructe naturale și artificiale, marcând virgule și puncte de suspensie în continuitatea golului vizual, alterând constant arhitectura diafană a aerului prin tăieturi de geometrii complexe.
Pozițiile noi generate indică inflexiuni în localizarea obiectelor. Dacă discursul fizicii clasice prezintă poziții exacte ale obiectelor, localizate în puncte specifice ale spațiului, discursul heisenbergian indică un principiu al ubicuității, care plasează această localizare într-o probabilitate continuă.
Pentru Lucian Popăilă, această plasare devine elementul central al imaginii sale, amplificând, prin paradigma reducționismului, noi cartografieri ale aerului ocupat.
- Norbert Filep
Part 3 (final) of the interview with @norbertfilep , accompanying the exhibition “A SENTENCE WITH FOUR WOR(L)DS” @biju.gallery , featuring works by @ghiulvessi , @miriamfarcas , @ingridritafarcas and @sadovnicvictoria .
A brief reflection on the role of the audience: how meaning is completed between image, text, and imagination.
Watch till the end for the final insight ✨
📽 @mateiciuc_victor
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ON VIEW AT ART ROTTERDAM | Solo Duo
NORBERT FILEP
ANDREI NUȚU
AURELIA MIHAI | Projections
MARIA BRÎNEȚ | Sculpture Park
booth C07
Norbert Filep and Andrei Nuțu propose a fresh take on the idea of a classical duo exhibition. Filep’s work—focused on drawing and a precise, structured exploration of themes such as astronomical phenomena—contrasts with Nuțu’s practice, which revives the almost-forgotten fresco technique and reinterprets it in a contemporary way.
Their meeting point lies in a shared interest in rethinking existing visual languages and adapting them to the present.
Special thanks to @icr.ro for their support in this participation
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Part 2 of the interview with curator @norbertfilep , accompanying the exhibition “A SENTENCE WITH FOUR WOR(L)DS”, at Biju Gallery with works by @ghiulvessi , @miriamfarcas , @ingridritafarcas and @sadovnicvictoria .
An inside look at the concept behind the show and the journey of building the exhibition from idea to space.
Follow along for more from the conversation. ✨
📽 @mateiciuc_victor
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