Gaep has luanched a new exhibition program, “Gaep Presents,” focused on emerging artists and established gallery collaborators other than the artists they represent. The program is based on the mentoring project for emerging artists ACCELERATOR, in which Gaep has been a partner since 2022, and on various collaborations with artists developed by the gallery during its ten years of activity.
Adrian Cojocaru: Acts of In-Between (19 July – 16 August 2024) is the first exhibition in the new series. A story of food and art—and the rituals accompanying them—the exhibition features six large-scale works combining charcoal drawing on canvas with richly textured painting.
The entire exhibition reveals a preoccupation with ritualized behaviour patterns—of those who prepare the food and those who consume it. Cojocaru is not fascinated by chefs who become superstars, but by the perfectly orchestrated sequence of actions and processes, by the work ethic that makes a fine dining experience memorable. The presentation of the works in the gallery will follow the script of such an experience — from the anticipation of it and the appreciation of the expertise of those involved to the observation of a changed state of mind at the end.
“Gaep Presents” will continue over the coming years with solo and group presentations, lasting three or four weeks, interspersed between exhibitions in the gallery’s main program.
Adrian Cojocaru (b. 1993) aims to celebrate through the medium of painting the multiple facets of the experiences lived by people today. Integrating walking into his artistic practice and spontaneously photographing along the way, he has accumulated many images that serve as his source material alongside pop culture and art history. A sense of rootlessness and longing due to having grown up in different countries in Eastern and Western Europe permeates his paintings, which often highlight activities, occupations or experiences that tend to be overlooked. Cojocaru studied with an Erasmus+ scholarship at the PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium, and recently graduated with a master’s degree in Painting at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iasi. In 2023, he was one of the ten participating artists in ACCELERATOR Brașov, a mentoring project by the Eastwards Prospectus Cultural Association in partnership with Gaep and the Brașov Art Museum.











