On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, the exhibition “Everyday Knitting / Împletituri de zi cu zi”, signed by artist Mihaela Moldovan, opened at 15Design Gallery on Lipscani 63.

“The present works continue the series of paper weavings that explore the fragility and sacrifice of women involved in domestic work, caught in a daily rhythm that leaves them no time for themselves. The black-and-white contrast present in the works accentuates the inner tension, symbolizing the opposition between obligation and desire, visibility and anonymity, hope and exhaustion.
In the end, the work does not offer a solution, but opens a space for reflection on the contrast between work and dream, between constraint and freedom and paves the way to reclaiming one’s own life.” (Excerpt from the curatorial text)

Mihaela Moldovan (Vezentan) is one of the visual artists who form the Malmaison Workshops community and a member of the ~28 Group, a collective dedicated to exploring the representations and experiences of women in art. A graduate of UNArte Bucharest, with a bachelor’s degree in Textile Arts and Textile Design and a master’s degree in Visual Arts, Mihaela Moldovan places her artistic practice in the area of experimental textiles, calling on old embroidery/lace techniques using new materials from the industrial area (strings, cables, hoses, etc.) as well as paper-cut techniques inspired by the manual workshops of her childhood.
Her exhibition activity includes personal and group exhibitions at Anca Poterașu Gallery, the National Museum of History of Romania, Scena 9, Art Safari, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, and the WHITECUIB Gallery in Cluj.