On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Borderline Art Space is organizing the retrospective exhibition “Salon 10.0 – an affective archive”, presenting works by 35 artists who have exhibited in the gallery over the years. The opening will take place on December 3, 2025, at 18:00, and the exhibition will remain open until the end of January 2026. Visitors attending the opening will receive a complimentary copy of the 2025 bilingual Borderline Art Space catalog.
Artists: Dan Acostioaei, Ana Adam, Monica Ioana Aghion, Vusimusi Beauchamp (ZA), Lucian Bran, Lucian Brumă, Mircea But, Dan Cebotari (MD), Ciprian Ciuclea, Diana Drăghici, Juliane Eirich (DE), Gregor Eldarb (AT/PL), Tatiana Fiodorova (MD), Cristian Gafițescu, Dumitru Gorzo, Igor Grubić (HR), Pixy Liao (CN/US), Lolo & Sosaku (AG/JP), Bergthor Morthens (IS), Florin Niga, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler (DE), Dan Perjovschi, Pusha Petrov, Patricia Rodas (FI), Nicolae Romanițan, George Roșu, Cătălin Rulea, Leonardo Silaghi, Cristina Simion, Katrin Streicher (DE), Ciprian Tokar (UA), Rebecca Topakian (FR), Mihail Trifan, Jeannette Unite (ZA), Andrei Venghiac, Dan Voinea.
In an era in which visual art is consumed rapidly—events unfolding weekly, images disappearing into the flow of algorithms—this exhibition proposes an act of slowing down. “Salon 10.0” is not a retrospective in the classic sense of the term. Its aim is not to establish a hierarchy of the most significant moments from a decade of activity, but rather to open an affective archive—living, subjective, imperfect—reconstructing a shared trajectory through juxtaposition.
“Salon 10.0” is an affective map between worlds, a selection of works that, when shown together, do not follow a chronology but instead chart the visual thinking that has passed through the Borderline space over these years: from objects created on various continents to site-specific interventions conceived especially for Iași, from politics or intimacy to documentary fictions and personal archives. Last but not least, this exhibition is a commentary on the process of archiving: on how we preserve, forget, and reassess. Instead of a sealed box, the archive is alive, visible, and reactivatable.
Borderline Art Space has chosen to remain faithful to a simple idea: that contemporary art is not a luxury but a necessity. That a public does not arrive “already formed,” but is formed over time, through dialogue and the search for shared answers.
For this reason, the exhibition is also a gesture of gratitude: toward the artists who believed in the idea, the curators and partners who brought vision and coherence, the public who climbed the slope toward Belvedere Street without knowing what they would find beyond the gate, and later sought the entrance to the new space in the Habitat Proiect courtyard. But above all, gratitude toward the idea that a living, transnational artistic community can be built—not only through geography, but also through shared affinities and ethics.
Thus, “Salon 10.0” is less a recapitulation and more an exercise in reactivation. An affective montage of a shared time, with all its obsessions and recurring questions, with all its pauses and unexpected accelerations. (press release)
Curator: George Pleșu / Assistant Curator: Dumitrița Moroșanu / Exhibition Design: Claudia Retegan.
