“In the Rhythm of the World”, a major retrospective of the work of Romanian artist Ștefan Bertalan (1930-2014), brings together more than 250 works. Paintings, works on paper, photographs, and films, as well as a significant volume of documentary works and an installation entitled Inflatable Structures (1974), created as part of a project by Sigma Group, complete the most important exhibition to date. The exhibition is conceived and curated by Bernard Blistène, honorary director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou-Paris.

Born in the village of Răcăștia (Hunedoara County, Transylvania) in 1930 and died in Timișoara in 2014, Ștefan Bertalan studied at Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca between 1956 and 1962, graduating before being appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts in Timișoara in 1962.
From 1970 to 1981, he taught at the Polytechnic University of the same city (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism), which he left to emigrate to Öhringen, near Stuttgart, Germany, until 2012.

In 1965, Bertalan co-founded with Roman Cotoșman and Constantin Flondor Group 111, probably the first experimental art collective in communist Romania, followed shortly by the renowned experimental and interdisciplinary group Sigma (1969-1980), which he created with Constantin Flondor and Doru Tulcan and which was joined by artists, thinkers and researchers from various disciplines.

The exhibition, presented in the ISHO building, Offices 1, can be visited until June 28, 2025.