RESIDUAL
GHENADIE POPESCU

Opening: 17 October 2025, 6.30 pm
Exhibition duration: 18 October - 29 November 2025
Opening hours: Wed-Sat, 10.30-17.00 hrs
 

In his objects, performances, films, and animations, Moldovan artist Ghenadie Popescu (born 1971) reflects on collective images and notions of cultural as well as political identity. His works are rooted in concrete and often local points of reference, yet they always subliminally address universal questions. Against the backdrop of post-communist history and the present, he often turns observations, questions, and ideas toward the absurd. For over ten years, Popescu has been developing stop-motion animations, covering everything from creating figures and sets to editing and sound. Since 2012, he has been collecting eyewitness accounts of the deportations of Romanians born in Bessarabia under Stalin between 1939 and 1951. These video interviews form the background and basis for a selection of animated films, which can now be seen in immersive form in the artist’s first Austrian solo exhibition at Galerie Stadtpark, among other venues.

Ghenadie Popescu studied painting at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău, Moldova.
Selected group exhibitions include: Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, 2025; Common Landscape/Greeting a Stranger, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, 2025; Multispecies, Galeria WASP, Bucharest, 2024; Purity Is Not an Option, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, 2024; Ostrale Biennale, Dresden, 2021; After Leaving/Before Arriving, 12th Kaunas Biennial, 2019; Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, 2019; Expanded Space, Bucharest, 2017; Attention Borders, Labirint gallery, Lublin, Arsenal gallery Bialystok, 2017; ZKM Karlsruhe, DE; Shaping the New, Kosice, 2011