Artists: Dona Arnakis, Dinu Bodiciu, Oláh Gyárfás, Andreea Medar, Dragoș Motica, Miki Velciov, Dan Vișovan

June 5 – August 14, 2026

Chasing Light returns to Timișoara as a reflection on continuity, transformation, and the connections that are built over time around an art school. Initiated around the publication of the same name, released in 2025, this exhibition project is dedicated to the Faculty of Arts and Design at the West University of Timișoara and to the artists shaped within this context—artists whose practices have long transcended the local scene while still retaining traces of a shared space of education, dialogue, and experimentation.

Previously presented in London and Alba Iulia, the exhibition does not travel as a fixed formula or as a transferable curatorial model with a reproducible exhibition structure. With each new iteration, it develops its own structure, constructed in direct relation to the architecture, dynamics, and memory of the exhibition space that hosts it and its own spatial context. In this sense, Chasing Light operates as a profoundly site-specific endeavor, in which the selection of artists, the relationships between works, and the ways in which the space is occupied are continuously transformed. Each context becomes a terrain for intervention and reinterpretation, while the exhibition configuration emerges organically through a dialogue with the space that activates it.

At Kunsthalle Bega, the curatorial concept unfolds as an extended route that activates almost the entirety of the venue’s architecture: from the exterior staircase—over time a visual landmark and a site for artistic intervention and experimentation—to the lobby, lounge, and the box-like structure dedicated to research. Each of these areas functions both as an extension of the curatorial discourse and as a distinct framework for perception.

The works of Dona Arnakis, Dinu Bodiciu, Oláh Gyárfás, Andreea Medar, Dragoș Motica, Miki Velciov, and Dan Vișovan collectively construct a journey through themes of the body, memory, nature, materiality, and transformation. Spanning experimental fashion, installation, sculpture, drawing, environmental intervention, design, and video art, the selection offers an image of the diversity of artistic practices developed around the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara, as well as of the impact this institution has had on the contemporary art scene over recent decades. At the same time, it highlights the capacity of this community to generate contemporary forms of visual research and critical sensibility.

More than a gathering of alumni artists, Chasing Light proposes a reflection on the ways in which an educational institution can shape the imagination of a city and sustain, over time, the emergence of artistic practices that remain relevant on local, national, and international stages. Ultimately, Chasing Light speaks about what remains alive within an art school: its capacity to generate new forms of thought, sensitivity, and ways of relating to the world.

Andreea Drăghicescu

Exhibition realized in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara, and supported by BEGA.