Cosmin Paulescu
13.09 – 12.10.2025

Cosmin Paulescu’s video works from the 1990s document a moment of radical transition in Romania, with the artist’s body becoming an instrument of direct and political expression. The performances captured on film at the time, such as The Pitești Phenomenon or The Sacrifice of the Innocents, alongside sound and visual experiments like Tauromahia or The Sound of Childhood, reveal the tension between the traumatic memory of dictatorship and the liberating energies of newfound freedom. The raw, unpolished video footage preserves the urgency and intensity of those years, when art spilled into the streets and the performative gesture became an act of recovery, revolt, and identity reconstruction.

Cosmin Paulescu is a visual artist and professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His practice focuses on temporary and ephemeral forms of art, having explored installation and performance as unconventional means of expression since the 1990s. His artistic work also extends into the public sphere through decorative art projects, as well as through an active engagement in exhibitions, publications, and cultural initiatives.

Tauromahia is part of the Kunsthalle Bega Focus platform.

Kunsthalle Bega is neither a museum nor a gallery, but a project that aims to introduce two new working platforms: Out of the Box and Focus. The first is dedicated to a contemporary discourse around young artists and curators as well as art critics film music dance and fashion all explored through a new visual framework. Focus Kunsthalle Bega brings into discussion, through a theoretical lens, exhibitions and moments that are conceptually close to the aesthetic approach and style of the space.

Through these platforms, Kunsthalle Bega provides visibility to distinct ideas and encourages artistic diversity, becoming a place for punctual short-lived yet necessary appearances.

Supported by BEGA