BestCluj / Anchors
The names that open the door
Artists, institutions and events with international recognition and a verifiable link to Cluj. They bring the reader in. The rest of the site keeps them.
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Adrian Ghenie
Artist n. 1977, Baia Mare
The most-searched name in contemporary art with Cluj roots — and co-founder of the gallery that carried the city's scene to Berlin.
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Ana Lupaș
Artist n. 1940, Cluj
Born in Cluj in 1940, she has worked here all her life — and Tate and the Stedelijk bought her work within the last decade.
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Ciprian Mureșan
Artist n. 1977, Dej
He represented Romania in Venice in 2009, curated the pavilion in 2024 — and still works in Cluj.
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Cornel Brudașcu
Artist n. 1937, Tusa
A Cluj painter for more than sixty years, shown at Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou — and held in the Pompidou’s collection.
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Marius Bercea
Artist n. 1979, Cluj
Born and raised in Cluj, he teaches at UAD, co-founded the Laika collective at the Paintbrush Factory — and has work in the ARKEN and Taubman collections.
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Mircea Cantor
Artist n. 1977, Oradea
Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2011, work at MoMA and the Centre Pompidou — trained in Cluj, and working, as he puts it, “on earth”, between Paris and Cluj.
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Mircea Suciu
Artist n. 1978, Baia Mare
Trained at UAD, still in Cluj, shown at the Gwangju and Istanbul biennials.
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Pavilionul României la Bienala de la Veneția
Event 2007 · 2015 · 2024
Three times in eighteen years, Romania's national pavilion has effectively been a Cluj pavilion.
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Școala de la Cluj
Movement termen folosit din 2007
A term coined in another country, for a generation that never called itself that.
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Șerban Savu
Artist n. 1978, Sighișoara
He represented Romania at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with a project conceived and curated by artists from Cluj.
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Tompa Gábor
Artist n. 1957, Târgu Mureș
He has run the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj since 1990, founded the Interferences festival and is president of the Union of the Theatres of Europe.
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Victor Man
Artist n. 1974, Cluj
Born and trained in Cluj, he represented Romania in Venice in 2007 and is now in the collections of Tate and the Centre Pompidou.
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