On Saturday, April 4, 2026, starting at 6:00 PM, Fragments of Poetic Nature, a solo exhibition by Iulian Bisericaru, curated by Seolhui Lee, opens at Anca Poterașu Gallery.
“Fragments of Poetic Nature is Iulian Bisericaru’s solo exhibition, presenting a new series of charcoal drawings centered on Gold Corporation and its operations surrounding Roșia Montană, Romania. Bisericaru’s practice consistently engages with ecology, architecture, and the transformation of landscapes. In this particular show, his recent works introduce a more poetic dimension, where gestures of fragility and erosion coexist with the political tensions embedded in the contested landscape. These works evoke nostalgia and collective memory while opening layered reflections on environmental histories, economic power, and the symbolic charge of nature.”
Seolhui Lee is Senior Curator & Head of Creative Partnerships at MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark. She co-directed the Korean Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale with Jacob Fabricius, served as curator and chief curator of Kunsthal Aarhus (2023-2025), associate curator at Malmö Konsthall (2024), head of the Busan Biennale 2020 exhibition team, and curator for the Seoul Museum of Art (2018-2019), among others. She has also been invited to the Expo Chicago Curatorial Exchange (2025), Tate Modern Intensive Course (2019), and Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2016). Furthermore, Lee serves on the permanent collection acquisition committee of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2024-), a panel for mentoring ‘Danish Visual Artists’ (2024-), and as an advisor for Frieze Seoul’s Focus Section (2025-).
Iulian Bisericaru (b. 1987) lives and works in Sibiu, Romania. He graduated from the Painting Department of the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca (RO) and developed his PhD thesis around the relationship between architecture and painting, with a critical overview of the ecological ideology. Iulian Bisericaru’s artworks offer a somehow neglected or hidden perspective on aspects of contemporary society, that the human eye willingly avoids.
The artist was awarded a grant for a virtual artistic residency organized by the European Alliance of Art Academies through Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 2022. During February – May 2019 Iulian Bisericaru attended the residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and two years earlier he took part in the International Summer Residency in Aschersleben. In 2012, he was nominated for Start Point Prize, and he also received the Expomaraton Award. In 2017, his work Diebenkorn Background (2016) was featured in the Italian journal La Lettura – Corriere dela Sera (July 2017).
The exhibition will be open to the public until June 4, 2026.
