n. 1977, Baia Mare
Adrian Ghenie
The most-searched name in contemporary art with Cluj roots — and co-founder of the gallery that carried the city's scene to Berlin.
In 2005, two people opened a gallery in a city with no art market. One was a curator, Mihai Pop. The other was a 28-year-old painter: Adrian Ghenie. They called it Plan B, and the name said exactly what it needed to — this was nobody's first plan.
Three years later Plan B had a permanent space in Berlin. In 2009 it was among the initiators of Fabrica de Pensule, the independent centre in a former factory in Mărăști, with twenty-nine spaces: studios, galleries, exhibition rooms and performance halls. In 2015 Ghenie represented Romania at the Venice Biennale, with Mihai Pop curating.
What matters for this city is not the auction record. It is that the road from a studio in Cluj to a gallery in Berlin was walked once, by people with names, and that the route stayed open for whoever came next.
The storyPart of the story of Cluj as an art city (2005, 2015): Plan B and the Cluj School →
Connections
- FoundedGaleria Plan B
Co-founded Galeria Plan B in Cluj in 2005, with Mihai Pop
source · 2026-09-10 - Represented byGaleria Plan B
Represented by Galeria Plan B
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Who follows
These are the people and places that connect directly to the name above. This is where the exposure actually happens.
- Shown alongsideTincuța Marin
On the same gallery roster as Adrian Ghenie
source · 2026-09-10 Co-founder of Galeria Plan B, from which the foundation comes
source · 2026-09-10- FoundedGaleria Plan B
Co-founded by Adrian Ghenie and Mihai Pop in 2005
source · 2026-09-10 - Exhibited atPavilionul României la Bienala de la Veneția
Adrian Ghenie represented Romania in 2015
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