CATINCA TABACARU GALLERY

CATINCA TABACARU GALLERY Art Gallery founded in New York City - Currently exhibiting primarily in Bucharest and Harare. The building was designed by artist Rachel Monosov.

Catinca Tabacaru founded her gallery in 2014 in New York City, from where she built an international reputation for discovering unique talent, taking risks, and mounting transformative site-enveloping exhibitions. In 2017, she built and opened a second location in Harare, Zimbabwe, in partnership with Dzimbanhete Arts and Culture Interactions. Located 20-minutes outside the city center, it is surr

ounded by bushland and small villages. Projects in Harare set international artists in conversation with local creators. In 2020, Catinca Tabacaru moved the Gallery’s primary exhibition space from NYC to Bucharest, Romania. It feels important at this moment to function in a city whose art community is burgeoning; where the work the Gallery supports and exhibits directly contributes to a cultural explosion that will define the coming generations of artists, collectors, and curators. This itinerant experience is reflected in the Gallery’s international program, which includes the representation of artists from 5 continents, and a traveling residency program. The Gallery also functions as a platform for multi-disciplinary engagements with a focus on performative practices. Major projects include: TRANS-Ville (2017-2018), a performance art series transpired in the New York gallery’s public window in which artists approach states of transition from gender to politics to poetry, curated by Coco Dolle; and pennyroyal (2019), a sound-based series highlighting New York-based Black women artists, curated by Raphael Guilbert. Works by Gallery artists have been exhibited and acquired by museums and institutions around the world including the Venice Biennale; Dakar, Cairo, and Bamako biennials; Whitney Museum (New York), Art Institute of Chicago, Albright Knox (Buffalo), NOMA (New Orleans), National Gallery of Zimbabwe (Harare), National Museum of Art (Bucharest), BOZAR (Brussels), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), and most recently the PAMM in Miami.

04/14/2026

Xavier Robles de Medina presents “All The Rage,” a newly completed series that continues his incisive exploration of history, power, and representation.

Join us this Wednesday at 19:00 at for the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

We look forward to welcoming you.

We’re pleased to announce our participation in Art Rotterdam 2026 Booth PJ11 · March 27–29A joint presentation by Catin...
03/18/2026

We’re pleased to announce our participation in Art Rotterdam 2026
Booth PJ11 · March 27–29

A joint presentation by Catinca Tabacaru and Noah Klink Gallery featuring Xavier Robles de Medina

Marking Suriname’s 50th anniversary of independence, the presentation explores postcolonial memory and identity through layered works drawn from personal and historical archives.

Robles de Medina traces the tension between personal inheritance and collective history, revealing identity as fluid and independence as ongoing and unresolved.

Work:
Xavier Robles de Medina, “Removal of the statue of Queen Wilhelmina from Independence Square, Paramaribo, Suriname. 1975. right: visual artist Stuart Robles de Medina. Stichting Surinaams, Museum. Archive nr. 20–162, 2024,” acrylic on canvas, 320 x 232 cm

We congratulate Nona Inescu on being selected out of hundreds of applicants for the 2nd edition of the Anargyros Art Re...
03/14/2026

We congratulate Nona Inescu on being selected out of hundreds of applicants for the 2nd edition of the Anargyros Art Residency.
INSULAR ANIMISMS

Taking place 27 April – 7 June 2026, this year’s residency turns toward the insular realities of the Mediterranean, exploring new myths, animisms, and forms of storytelling, and asking how artistic practices can rethink separation, connectivity, and shared histories across islands, cultures, and ecosystems.

INSULAR ANIMISMS is part of the international project Atlantropa Will Not Take Place within the Mediterranean Season 2026.

Congratulations to all selected artists:
Nabil Aniss
Nona Inescu
Myrto Vratsanou
Mariangela Ciccarello
Konstantinos Papanikolaou
Matilde Meireles

Artistic direction: Eva Vaslamatzi
Coordination & on-site production: Simone Niarou .niarou

Graphic design:

Nona Inescu (b. 1991)Introvert (Small), 2023, concretion stone, chrome-plated steel, 17 × 12 cmInescu approaches matter ...
01/30/2026

Nona Inescu (b. 1991)
Introvert (Small), 2023, concretion stone, chrome-plated steel, 17 × 12 cm

Inescu approaches matter as an extension of the body and its capacity to mediate between self and environment. The meeting of geological concretion and industrial steel evokes a quiet tension between organic time and constructed form, registering intimacy, withdrawal, and interrelation. Rather than staging a direct narrative, the work allows meaning to surface through material proximity and scale, proposing the body as an interface shaped by affect, geology, and post-human entanglements.

Nona Inescu is a Romanian artist working across sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Musée de l’Homme, Moderna Museet, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne, Frac des Pays de la Loire, and is held in the permanent collections of Moderna Museet, n.b.k., Zentral - und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Frac des Pays de la Loire, and IAC Villeurbanne.

On view as part of “Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People” through February 28.

We’re proud to congratulate Ovidiu Toader, winner of the 2025 Emerging Artists Prize (Premiul pentru Tineret) awarded by...
01/27/2026

We’re proud to congratulate Ovidiu Toader, winner of the 2025 Emerging Artists Prize (Premiul pentru Tineret) awarded by the Union of Visual Artists of Romania (UAP) .a.p.r.official .

This distinction, granted by Romania’s most historically significant institution for visual art, recognizes not only artistic excellence but also the strength and relevance of a new generation shaping the contemporary scene.

Ovidiu Toader’s practice stands out for its rigor, sensitivity, and clarity of vision, articulating a language that resonates both locally and beyond. Receiving this award marks an important milestone in his trajectory and affirms the significance of his contribution to Romanian contemporary art today.

Congratulations, Ovidiu, we’re honored to follow and support your work. ✨

Decebal Scriba (b. 1944)“Mask #2,” 1976, gelatin silver prints, 30 × 30 cm eachIn “Mask #2,” Scriba turns to the body...
01/24/2026

Decebal Scriba (b. 1944)
“Mask #2,” 1976, gelatin silver prints, 30 × 30 cm each

In “Mask #2,” Scriba turns to the body as a site of inscription. The traces left on the skin after removing a tightly tied string become a final image, registering pressure, restraint, and their lingering effects. Without assuming the form of explicit dissidence, the work evokes the symbolic muzzling of artists and intellectuals during the dictatorship, allowing political meaning to emerge through minimal means and close attention to the afterimage.

Decebal Scriba is a Romanian conceptual artist, working across performance, photography, drawing, and installation. His work has been shown internationally, including at MNAC Bucharest, Art Encounters Foundation, Centrul de Interes, La BF15 Lyon, and The Wende Museum, and is held in the collections of MNAC and Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris.

On view as part of “Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People” through February 28.

Simon Njami on silence, power, contradiction, and the spaces where meaning resists translation. Excerpts from his interv...
01/22/2026

Simon Njami on silence, power, contradiction, and the spaces where meaning resists translation. Excerpts from his intervention at the “Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People” symposium at .

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