Friday, April 24, from 6:00 PM, the exhibition “Construction Time Again” will open at Gaep Gallery in Bucharest. This is Vlad Nancă’s first personal exhibition at Gaep and, at the same time, his first solo show in Bucharest after participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, in the Romanian Pavilion
“Construction Time Again“’” borrows its title from Depeche Mode’s 1983 album, released in a Britain marked by industrial decline and political tension. In the exhibition, the phrase shifts from the factory floor to a speculative planetary horizon.
Fragments of a promising future envisioned in the second half of the 20th century re-emerge in a new body of work that revisits the past while proposing its careful recalibration. Amid extractivism, environmental emergency, and the dismantling of social welfare structures, Vlad Nancă imagines the relocation of modernism onto a new planet. Removed from the economic and ideological systems that shaped and distorted it, its forms are reconsidered as ethical propositions.
Construction becomes an act of care rather than expansion. Architecture becomes calibration. The exhibition proposes not nostalgia, but a second chance.” (exhibition text)
VLAD NANCĂ (b. 1979, Bucharest) studied at the National University of Arts, Department of Photography and Moving Image, Bucharest. Over the last two decades, his work was shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in institutions such as FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, MNAC Bucharest, Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, City Museum of Ljubljana, Museion Bolzano, and in art and architecture biennials, including the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include shows as Galleria Il Ponte (Florence), Grotto Gallery (Bucharest), Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia, Kunsverein Ost (Berlin) and Suprainfinit (Bucharest). He is the winner of the 2025 ‘Peter Jecza’ Award for Sculpture of the Year.
The exhibition will be open between April 24 and June 6, 2026.
