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Sebastian Hosu

"Sebastian Hosu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Maximilian Teucher

Biography

Sebastian Hosu (*1988 in Satu Mare, RO), (he/his), visual artist of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in Romania and lived in several countries of choice, currently based in Leipzig, Germany. He studied Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, at the University of Fine Arts and Design, and at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy (2008-2010). A master‘s degree in painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, Belgium (2011-2012) was followed by a master student program at the HGB in Leipzig, Germany (2013-2016). Hosu‘s work has already attracted much attention at home and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig in 2018, the Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst in Zwickau in 2019 and two group presentations at the G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig (in 2023 and a recent one in 2025), furthermore in the No Hero Museum in Delden, Netherland (2024), and the National Museum oft Art Romania in Bucharest, Romania (2024). His paintings and drawings are already represented in important private and public collections. His works are presented and collected internationally. Most recently, Sebastian Hosu‘s works were presented in solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, Bucharest, Leipzig and Berlin. Sebastian Hosu lives and works in his studio in the 10-hectare Leipzig‘s Baumwollspinnerei, one of the most interesting artistic centers and exhibition venues for contemporary art and painting in Europe.

"Sebastian Hosu - Writing down free-thinking notes directly on the wall, while painting." / (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023

Artistic disciplines:

Painting
Drawing
Installation (murals)

Process

Sebastian Hosu works with the wet-on-wet technique. To do this, technical expertise, decisiveness and intuition must come together at the right moment. Several layers of paint are quickly pushed over or next to each other before they dry. His aim is to condense the canvas—intensifying its presence—while at the same time allowing it the freedom to breathe. The painted space and the relationships between form and color are at the center of his artistic practice. But there is nothing cerebral, nothing artificially theoretical. On the contrary: inklings of human bodies become more concrete or more abstract. They materialize or dissolve. It‘s about different degrees of presence. He seeks to evoke this presence through the act of painting itself, capturing the movement and singular energy of the lived moment and rendering it palpable to the viewer, thus giving rise to new realities.

Notable themes

Recurring theme in Sebastian Hosu's is the relation between society and it's environment, the human in connection or disconnection with nature. The artist interrogates reality and the human figure within the vast cosmology of nature. For him, nature is not merely a motif but a presence — archetypal, at times illustrative, yet always alive—captured in paint as movement and lived energy. Through this presence, he opens a space in which the viewer may encounter the moment anew, as a renewed reality. His work revolve around fundamental questions: What is nature? Does it precede us, or are we inseparable from it, one to which we belong? Is it a long-time lost experiential surrounding, replaced by today’s virtual simulacra? The paintings attempt to respond not through rational discourse but through the medium’s own visceral logic. Echoing memories of an elemental nature surface in his images, where human bodies, like landscapes, seem suffused with a primordial force—as though the rupture between nature and culture had never occurred. Though incomplete, at times fragmented, the bodies are never deformed; they are seized by a sweeping current, absorbed into the landscape just as the landscape folds back into them. Each nourishes the other. Consequently, the distinctions between figure and space dissolve, yielding a continuum where body and terrain exist as one. ”I am questioning how human and nature are still coming together in a landscape we can perceive with all the sense of digital experience we have today. I am searching for a language in painting that reflects on this question on an emotional scale.” (-artist note, 2025)

Works in collections and public recognition

exhibited nationally and internationally, at museums, public institutions and art galleries.
works in public institutions collections and private collections.

Works in private collections in Germany, Romania, France, Belgium, England, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, USA.

Selected exhibitions

1.Selected solo exhibitions

2.Selected group exhibitions

2025 - group exhibition, Sphinx, 10 Jahre G2 Kunsthalle – Sammlung Hildebrand «, Leipzig, Germany
2024 - group exhibition, Dissonance, Plattform Germany, curated by Christoph Tannert/ Mark Gisbourne), National Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2024 - group exhibition, Dissonance, Plattform Germany, curated by Christoph Tannert/ Mark Gisbourne), Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
2023 - group exhibition, Leap Beneft Auction, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
2022 - group exhibition, Mixed Feelings, Hildebrand Collection, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
2019 - group exhibition, In the light of a lake [Fluid Projekt], Kunstverein Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau, Germany
2019 - group exhibition, WIN WIN, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Leipzig Germany
2018 - group exhibition, Green Meat, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK), Leipzig, Germany
2018 - group exhibition, 25. Leipziger – Jahresausstellung – SILBER, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei Werkschauhalle/ Halle 12 Leipzig, Germany
2016 - group exhibition, Menschen-Träume, (Artist talk with Misheck Masamvu), KAAD, Bonn, Germany
2016 - group exhibition, Klasse Ottersbach, Bayer-Kultur, Leverkusen, Germany
2014 - group exhibition, Die Pferde sind tot!, Forum Kunst Rottweil, Germany
2014 - group exhibition, Ausstellung, Galerie de Wégimont, Liége, Belgien
2013 - group exhibition, Drawing protest, GFZK « Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst «, Leipzig, Germany
2011 - group exhibition, Plurality, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Liege, Belgia
2009 - group exhibition, Obscurus, Animation project, 2nd Annual Toronto Romanian Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2008 - group exhibition, Animest, Festival of Animated Film, Bucharest, Romania
2008 - group exhibition, Cluj Film Festival, [Festivalul Filmului Clujean], Cluj-Napoca, Romania

3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions

NA

Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects

20..

Selected works

Aquarius, 2023, oil on canvas, 280 x 180 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
Picnic by the Wayside, installation (mural painting), oil on canvas, 380 x 490 cm - (c) Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest 2023
In the golden center, 2023, charcoal and oil on paper, 52 x 32 cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2023
On green floor III, 2019, charcoal and oil on paper, 69.5 x 61.5cm - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2019
Moon Walker, 2024, oil on canvas, 2024 - (c) Sebastian Hosu 2024

Exhibition views

View from Green Meat first institutional solo show at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) 05. – 07.2018 (c) Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) 2018
View from the Picnic by the Wayside solo show, installation (mural painting), oil on canvas, 380 x 490 cm, second solo show at the Anca Poterașu Gallery, 07. - 08.2023 - (c) Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest 2023
View from the STARCATCHER solo show at DUVE Berlin Gallery, 03 – 04.2024 - (c) DUVE Berlin Gallery 2024
View from TRANSMISSION solo show at Volery Gallery, Dubai, 09. - 10.2025 (c) Volery Gallery, Dubai 2025
View from This Space Between Us solo show at Philipp Anders Gallery, Leipzig 05. - 06.2025 (c) Philipp Anders Gallery, Leipzig 2025

Publications

1.Published books

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2.Published articles in journals & magazines

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Curating activity (Artist as curator)

NA

Catalogues

NA

Press

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Gallery Representation

Galeria Lutnița, under coordination of Andrei Sclifos
SOLO Project Space, under coordination of Robert Băjenaru

For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK

Social Media Links

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_hosu
Website: http://www.sebastian-hosu.com/ http://www.sebastian-hosu.com/]

Hashtags

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List of tags in alphabetical order

(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes)

#A #B #C #D #E #F #G #H #I J #K #L #M #N #O #P #Q #R #S #T #U #V #W X Y #Z

Compatible and inspirational artists:

(artist-mentioned reference list)

Chaim Soutine ("for the way he sees the people and bodies in general; his paintings convey a strong sense of necessity, that I personally feel and is very attractive to me." -artist note)

Amadeo Modigliani,

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+'''Sebastian Hosu''' (*1988 in Satu Mare, RO), (he/his), visual [[Artists|artist]] of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]] and lived in several countries of choice, currently based in Leipzig, Germany. He studied Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, at the University of Fine Arts and Design, and at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy (2008-2010). A master‘s degree in painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, Belgium (2011-2012) was followed by a master student program at the HGB in Leipzig, Germany (2013-2016). Hosu‘s work has already attracted much attention at home and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig in 2018, the Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst in Zwickau in 2019 and two group presentations at the G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig (in 2023 and a recent one in 2025), furthermore in the No Hero Museum in Delden, Netherland (2024), and the National Museum oft Art Romania in Bucharest, Romania (2024). His paintings and drawings are already represented in important private and public collections. His works are presented and collected internationally. Most recently, Sebastian Hosu‘s works were presented in solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, Bucharest, Leipzig and Berlin. Sebastian Hosu lives and works in his studio in the 10-hectare Leipzig‘s Baumwollspinnerei, one of the most interesting artistic centers and exhibition venues for contemporary art and painting in Europe.
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-* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/alex%20bodea%20the%20fact%20finder https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder]
+* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_hosu https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_hosu]
-* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems]
+* Website: http://www.sebastian-hosu.com/ http://www.sebastian-hosu.com/]
-* Website: [http://alexbodea.work/# http://alexbodea.work]
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 * '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%C3%AFm_Soutine/ Chaim Soutine]''' ("for the way he sees the people and bodies in general; his paintings convey a strong sense of necessity, that I personally feel and is very attractive to me." ''-artist note'')
+Amadeo Modigliani,
+* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doig/ Peter Doig]'''
+* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann/ Max Beckman]'''
+* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez/ Velasquez]'''
+* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Auerbach/ Frank Auerback]'''
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