Run Artist Run
(Lateral Artspace)

The Run Artist Run exhibition is coordinated by Lateral ArtSpace and intends to give visibility to the invisible work behind an artist-run initiative, the social engagement it entails and the human connections it nurtures. It is an opportunity to honor the multitude of forms of an artist-run initiative and to identify the efforts behind it by displaying archival elements specific to these cultural entities as well as by presenting works by artists Dragoș Bădiță, Cristina Curcan, Lucian Indrei.

Lateral ArtSpace is an independent contemporary art platform initiated in April 2012, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as an experimental platform for young and emerging artists, with a focus on the dialogue between local and international artists. Until December 2019, Lateral ArtSpace was located at Fabrica de Pensule, a former paintbrush factory transformed into the most acclaimed independent art centre in Romania. In the last years, the team implemented different international cultural projects, focusing on contemporary art, within other alternative art spaces.

Dragoș Bădiță (b. 1987) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. His work stems from glimpses of ordinary, lived moments, that are getting charged with existential and sometimes mystical themes and states of mind. The works reflect on the momentary nature of experience and how it connects with a broader understanding of reality.

Cristina Curcan/ musz (b. 19xx) is a visual artist and curator based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with an education in the visual arts field and a background in fashion design and textile design. Combining different mediums, usually under the form of installations, musz’s practice evolves from a very personal perspective, giving public exposure to intimate fragments.

Lucian Indrei (b. 1983) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is interested in analysing and representing personal relationships and events to various topics of interest: in what manner the production and distribution of images condition the perception of images, to what degree our culture is a mixture of fiction and truth, and by what means images helped achieve that; how technology (and science) is conditioning the way we communicate and in which we perceive the world.