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2021
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Staycation
![Barbara Lüdde, Sky is the Limit, 2021, installation, including 12 silk scarves printed then colored by hand (each 45 x 45 cm), steel wire, hooks Picture](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/BarbaraLuedde_Sky-is-the-limit_Can-I-be-me_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_01.jpg?v=1658236295)
![Barbara Lüdde, Can I be me?, 2020 ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm (framed),Barbara Lüdde, Love hurts-never again, 2020, ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm (framed)](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/Captură-de-ecran-din-2022-01-24-la-14.54.06.png?v=1658236416)
![Ioana Stanca, 12 Eyes and a hidden fire, 2021, embroidery on velvet, silicone fiber, 345x95x22 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/Staycation_2021_exhibition-view_CTG_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_06.jpg?v=1658236296)
![Bethan Hughes, Văcărești (Us), Vacaresti (You & I), 2021 steel, mouth-blown coloured glass, custom steel frames 48 x 33 cm each](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/BethanHughes_Vacaresti-Us-Vacaresti_you-and-I_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_02.jpg?v=1658236293)
![Rachel Monosov, Life Between Lives, 2021, archival pigment prints framed individually, each 40 x 41 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/RachelMonosov_Life-between-lives_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_03-scaled.jpg?v=1658236294)
![Catinca Malaimare, Clumsy, blinking, swirling machines, 2021 HD dual-monitor, color, with sound. 10:03 min](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/CatincaMalaimare_Clumsy-blinking-swirling-machines…tesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_1.jpg?v=1658236294)
![Lexia Hachtmann, Holding Room I, II, III, IV, 2021 oil on canvas, 250 x 85 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/GCC1045-2-scaled.jpg?v=1658236294)
![Daniela Palimariu, FAMILY VIII (EARS), 2021 stainless steel - mirror finish](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/DanielaPalimariu-Family_VIII_Ears_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_02.jpg.jpg?v=1658236295)
![Ana Maria Stefan, Axis Mundi, 2021 installation with glazed terracotta: mixture of Medgidia kaolin clay, kaolin, Aghireș quartz sand, Șuncuiuș refractory clay and fired scrap, tile: 22x22x6 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/AnaMariaStefan_AxisMundi_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_02.jpg?v=1658236293)
![Lexia Hachtmann, Rabe, 2021 Tempera on Canvas, 30 x 25 cm ; Lexia Hachtmann, Mann, 2021 Tempera on Canvas, 30 x 25 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/LexiaHachtmann_Mann_Rabe_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery.jpg?v=1658236295)
![Yen Chun Lin, We met through dreamscapes, 2021 silver, soundscape, red thread, dreams, 130x8 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/YenChunLin_We-met-through-dreamscapes_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_01-scaled.jpg?v=1658236295)
![Ana Pascu, Transfixing Shells, 2021 installation, textile and plaster, video projection](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/GCC0258-copy.jpg?v=1658236295)
![Lera Kelemen, Mark the ground with thin, soft thread 2021, installation, metal structure, laser cut on ply, patchwork, print on textile](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/Staycation_2021_exhibition-view_CTG_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_03.jpg?v=1658236297)
![Isabella Fürnkäs, Open Secrets, 2021 video installation, stainless steel structure, silk cloth, projection, video 8:45min color/sound, loop, 150 x 100 x 100 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/IsabellaFurnkas_OpenSecrets_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_01.jpg?v=1658236296)
![Lexia Hachtmann Rücken, 2021, 20x16cm, tempera on canvas Schöne Hände, 2021, 10x10cm, tempera on canvas In bed, 2021, 20x25cm, tempera on canvas Waves, 2021, 45x35cm, oil and tempera on canvas Knives, 2020, 20x25cm, oil on canvas Bootsteps, 2021, 25x30, oil on canvas](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/LexiaHachtmann_various_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery.jpg?v=1658236296)
![Ioana Stanca, Strange Flowers (Ai grijă de tine) 2021, embroidery on linen, 57x42, artist frame, wood, 75x65x3 cm](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/IoanaStanca_StrageFlowers-Ai-grija-de-tine__courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_02-scaled.jpg?v=1658236294)
![Barbara Lüdde, There Is No Such Thing As, 2021 ink on paper, 25 x 25 and 5 x 25 cm (framed)](https://backend.kubaparis.com/assets/archive/2022/01/staycation-exhibition/BarbaraLuedde_There-is-no-such-thing-as_courtesy-of-Sandwich-and-CatincaTabacaruGallery_01-scaled.jpg?v=1658236295)
Location
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Sandwich Offspace, BucharestDate
13.12 –11.02.2022Curator
Catinca Tabacaru, Daniela Palimariu, Rachel MonosovPhotography
Catalin GeorgescuSubheadline
Lexia Hachtmann, Catinca Malaimare, Daniela Pălimariu, Ana Pascu, Lera Kelemen, Yen Chun Lin, Ioana Stanca, Ana-Maria Ștefan, Beth Hughes, Isabella Fürnkäs, Barbara Lüdde, Rachel MonosovText
CTG Collective, Sandwich and Catinca Tabacaru Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of Staycation, an exhibition mounted across two Bucharest spaces – Galeria Catinca Tabacaru and Sandwich Offspace – featuring 6 Berlin-based and 6 Romanian artists. While the exhibition is the most visible part of the project, it is also a direct response to a week-long Symposium that took place in July 2021 in Bucharest, introducing all participants to the City and to each other.
Sourcing a connection between the current global pandemic and feminist thought does not yield immediate satisfaction. How does baking a focaccia, drifting through Delta Văcărești, or collective napping connect to, say, ecology, environmentalism and solidarity? The Staycation dialogues moved as fast as slow-living can, having a gentle rhythm, discussion at its core, and the present moment, as important references in the ethos of its resulting exhibition.
Five months later, the 12 artists come together to share their reflections on that time and space spent together. Addressing concepts including the current state of control on movement and travel, and the inevitably human and ecological consequences of the current pandemic, the exhibition reveals opposing and contradictory forces that mutually shape each other: personal vs. universal, collective vs. individual, private vs. public.
This group exhibition addresses these dualities not simply through verbal correlation, but through an immersion into the physical practices of each artist in dialogue with a place they inhabit(ed) alone and together. This visual dialogue operates as an experiment documenting the uncertainty of our present and near future. It examines concepts spanning motherhood in the art-world context, the social roles taken up or inherited within domestic space, living and working within “the center” or its periphery, and the holy balance between leisure and work.
Staycation is an utopian project in which the dérive is employed throughout its general approach. These women’s lives are immersed in the everyday while they question the psycho-social and ecological layers of their collaborative living. Striving for unity and inquisitiveness in the experience of leisure, they move forward together in this longer-term project, cultivating lasting artist-to-community relationships.
Partnered with Goethe Institut Bucharest
For more information please contact us at
[email protected] + [email protected]
STAYCATION is a project co-created by Rachel Monosov, Catinca Tabacaru, and Daniela Pălimariu.
PART I: Berlin >> Bucharest
July 2021 – January 2022
Ioana Gemanar