RAD Art Fair: Booth

Tincuta Marin was born 1995 in Galati and graduated from The University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania, in 2019. Her recent solo exhibitions include Gloaming at Galeria Plan B in Berlin; Where the Sun Sleeps at Oratorio dei Crociferi in Venice; Purring Figure at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Distant Realities at Jecza Gallery in Timisoara. Tincuta Marin’s new body of work shows ancient symbolism and modernist fragmentation to converge into a dark, contemplative space. Inspired by Egyptian mythology, creation narratives, and protective rituals, as well as Romanian folk belief and its archaic gods and household spirits, Marin reactivates “magical thinking” as a contemporary strategy. Her work positions mythic, often female figures as resilient, protective presences in a world marked by change and uncertainty. This dark palette registers contemporary unease and fragility, turning the booth into a threshold between sanctuary and exposure, between the ancient sacred and the fragile present.

Radu Oreian is a Romanian artist who is currently living and workign in France. His practice has at its core the classical mediums of drawing and painting and explores the way history, ancient myths and archives shape our society and our understanding of humanity. His ‘Molecular Painting’ are a miniature-like format of works that pulsate with details and thus intend to draw the viewer's eye deeper and deeper into the fabric of the paint and hopefully deeper and deeper into the nature and meaning of painting. The red thread that runs through Radu Oreian’s works is creating a new, meditative visual imprint of a peculiar density that appears to exist in a pulsing state of tension and relaxation.

Constantin Flondor (b. 1936, Cernăuți) is a central figure of the Timișoara art scene and an internationally recognized artist, known for his activity as co-founder of the experimental groups 1+1+1 (1966–1969), Sigma (1969–1981), and Prolog (since 1985). His practice is deeply connected to a pedagogical and experimental approach, developed in the 1970s together with his colleagues at the Art High School in Timișoara, and later extended through his role as visiting professor at the Beratzhausen summer schools in Germany (since 1993).

 

Flondor’s work unfolds across a wide range of media, including installation, performance, drawing, painting, film, mail art, and collaborative interventions in nature, often realized alongside fellow artists and students. His artistic research is centered on the observation and interpretation of the living world, exploring the relationships between organic structures and geometry, as well as between the mysterious laws of nature and the rigor of mathematical systems.

Andreea Ilie (b. 2001, Romania) is a visual artist whose practice explores the profound intersection between architecture, the human psyche and the ideological frameworks that shape collective experience. Drawing from a research-intensive approach, she investigates social buildings, from the utopian infrastructures of the Soviet era to contemporary common spaces, examining how these structures function as active organisms that model human behavior and political identity.

Her work often adopts an archaeological lens, deconstructing the friendly brutalism of the 20th century to reveal the tensions between aesthetic beauty and ideological intent. By isolating and recontextualizing architectural motifs, she transforms historical ruins into autonomous sculptures and installations. Through this process of extraction, Ilie invites viewers to reflect on the endurance of form and the ways in which contemporary societies continue to build and inhabit new utopias.

Matei Emanuel ’s practice involves creating social ironies using objects made from various materials and techniques. The artist focuses on introducing works with serial product aesthetics, challenging the art world's sophisticated values and expectations that often dismiss the appreciation of a comical attitude. Matei Emanuel was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 2001. He completed his BA in Sculpture (2020–2023) and is currently pursuing his MA in Sculpture (2023–2026) at the National University of Arts in Bucharest . His recent solo exhibitions include Do I Need A Map To Travel To The Center Of The Earth? (Atelier 35, Bucharest, 2025) and A Matter Of Matter (Cazul 101, Bucharest, 2023) , alongside participations in major group exhibitions and art fairs, including RAD Art Fair (2024, 2025) .

Bogdan Rață is a sculptor from the young generation of the artists. His new hybrid realism is finding new genetic forms of human anatomy in search of a new posthumanism.  Based in a “forgotten future”, his work reproduces “replicas of reality” reminiscent of the virtual world in the film Blade Runner. Rata multiplies human parts (fingers, ears, and so on) and combines them into new life forms. The newborn creatures seem to result from strange experiments with the human body in an esthetics lab. Rata’s works forge a contextual change of the anatomic detail through its obsessive multiplication. The materials used, and the resulting industrial look, question the assault on individual personality in a climate of commercial branding uniformity. The concept of “hand-foot” and the “unsuccessful blessing” symbol strengthens the idea behind the work, delicately propelling it into the realm of grotesque. The torso also evokes a twist of reality, the socially provocative themes of sexual identity and the hermaphrodite. He uses new materials as polystyrene, industrial paint, plaster, synthetic resin.

Serban Ionescu  (b.1984, Romania) Serban Ionescu’s work spans across sculpture, painting, design and architecture. With his distinctive lines which emerge from his drawing practice, vibrant use of color and cartoonish gestures, Serban infuses his works with anthropomorphic shapes and a constant intuitive play on shifting scale and form. Serban has presented solo shows in New York at R & Company, Larrie Gallery, and in Antwerp, Belgium, at Everyday Gallery. His work has been published in New York Times,  Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, Dwell Magazine, DAMN Magazine and New York Magazine. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and he has been an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School Of Architecture from 2010-2016. Large scale projects like “Chapel For An Apple” and “Tower For An Hour” are his return to architecture. His book ‘A THING ON A TABLE IN A HOUSE’ was published by Apartamento in 2021. He is currently working on several European exhibitions for this year and a new book of drawings with Apartamento Publishing. Serban lives and works in between Brooklyn, NY and Brussels, BE.