GLORIÆ Art Gallery, the first independent art gallery in Craiova, presents the exhibition Anomaly, dedicated to Franco-Romanian artist Wanda Mihuleac, a key figure in contemporary conceptual art. The opening will take place on June 12, 2026, at 6:00 PM.
The curatorial approach proposes a transversal journey across several decades of artistic production, bringing together graphic works (drawing, engraving)—which recall the artist’s training as a graphic designer—in an engaging dialogue with photography, collage, and, not least, three-dimensional objects and installations. The varied, multifaceted, and ingenious technical experiments express a unique artistic commitment through which Wanda Mihuleac questions the limits of language, the relationship between body and memory, and forms of sensory otherness. Her practice, situated at the intersection of disciplines and cultures, offers a contemporary reinterpretation of fundamental themes of artistic creation: perception, transmission, and the reinvention of the sensible.
The title of the exhibition, Anomaly (identical in Romanian and French), represents more than a recurring theme in Wanda Mihuleac’s artistic practice. The artist states that “in a world saturated with norms, reproducible models, and calibrated images, anomaly appears as a crack—not to destroy, but to reveal. From a Deleuzian perspective, anomaly can be understood as a line of flight, a vector of deterritorialization that traverses established forms and opens them toward unforeseen becomings. Anomaly thus becomes an operator of differentiation: it does not oppose the norm but exceeds it, puts it into crisis, renders it inoperative. Far from being a mere deviation, anomaly constitutes an ontological breach in the order of the real. It is that moment in which the presumed coherence of the world fractures, allowing the emergence of a double, a repetition, an irreducible deviation.”
Seen from this perspective, Wanda Mihuleac’s work can be read as a disruption of the regime of visibility. Her works assume the dimension of the critical image, as formulated by French theorist Georges Didi-Huberman: “an image in crisis, which critiques the image itself, capable of triggering a reaction, a theoretical efficacy; thus an image that critiques our way of seeing, so that when it looks at us, it compels us to truly see it.”
The exhibition Anomaly does not propose a set of works that deviate from a pre-existing norm. Instead, it stages deviation as a constitutive principle. The works do not illustrate deconstruction—they enact it. They shift the boundaries between text and image, between the readable and the visible, between presence and erasure.
The present event is part of a broader curatorial project, conceived in tandem with the exhibition Sensory Democracy, organized by the Craiova Art Museum, which presents works across diverse visual media (fine art, installations, video art, filmed performances, artist books), in an impressive approach that reveals a deep reflection on the role of the senses in artistic experience.
The exhibition can be visited until July 12, 2026, at GLORIÆ Art Gallery, located in the historic center of Craiova, at 49 Alexandru Macedonski Street.
Wanda Mihuleac (b. 1946, Bucharest) is a visual artist, creator of installations, performances, and artist books, based in Paris since 1988. A graduate of the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest and of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she is considered one of the leading figures of Romanian and European conceptual and experimental art. She has received numerous awards at international biennials in Italy, Poland, Croatia, and France, as well as distinctions in Romania and France.
Since 1973, she has held 28 solo exhibitions in galleries in Paris, Marseille, Taverny, Clichy, Levallois-Perret, Strasbourg, Bucharest, Timișoara, Athens, Tokyo, New York, Geneva, Rome, Venice, Milan, Aachen, Saint-Étienne, La Marsa (Tunis), and Liège. Over a career spanning more than five decades, she has exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Grand Palais, and the Venice Biennale. Her works are included in public and museum collections internationally. Founder of the Paris-based publishing house Transignum, Wanda Mihuleac is recognized for her interdisciplinary projects that bring visual art into dialogue with literature, philosophy, and new forms of contemporary expression.
