Dan Vezentan
Dan Vezentan
Biography
Dan Vezentan (b. in 1978, in Seini, Romania), (he/him), visual artist, of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in Romania, lives and works in Bucharest. As an agricultura storyteller, he explores the zootechnic and agricultural universe, presenting it subjectively as he recalls it from childhood. His works stem from the design of households, the animal feeding and watering systems or from the food stocking systems, investigating the production of food, surplus, biological waste and ecology. He grew up in the context of an agriculture based environment in Maramureș, northern Romania, surrounded by feeding machineries, technical husbandry manuals and animal anatomy books.
Artistic disciplines:
Process
Dan Vezentan's working process unfolds in situ, influenced by the local agricultural history, ecology and technologies used indigenously by agricultural workers.
Notable themes
Recurring theme in Dan Vezentan's works is food production, the agriculture work caught in the circular economy sphere and forgotten technologies, with a focus on surviving and basic needs, as well as aspects of commonning. He is inspired by the quiet ingenuity of rural agricultural technologies, reconfiguring them into visionary mechanisms and architectures of a utopian world.
Works in collections and public recognition
- exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries,
- exhibited in international biennales,
- works in private and institutional collections.
Works in private collections in Romania. Works in National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Romania.
Selected exhibitions
1.Selected solo exhibitions
- 2025 - solo exhibition, Structures de récolte, Galerie Boquet, Un weekend a l'est festival, Paris, France[1]
- 2025 - solo exhibition, My Timeline on Paper. Solo show, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania
- 2025 - solo exhibition, Structuri de recoltare, The N-V Architecture Annual, Baia Mare, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, All We Can Eat. Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, Romania[2]
- 2021 - solo exhibition, L’Anatomia del Cavallo, Kunsthalle Bega Box, Timișoara, Romania
- 2020 - solo exhibition, Why Does The Earth Bear Us ?, Antipa Natural History Museum, Bucharest, Romania
- 2018 - solo exhibition, Water, Food, Shelter, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania[3]
2.Selected group exhibitions
- 2025 - group exhibition, Polisticks. Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 2025 - group exhibition, HEMP - Back To The Future, Romanian Pavilion, World Expo 25, Osaka, Japan
- 2025 - group exhibition, Shelter for Collective Dreaming. Tranzit, Siliștea Snagovului, Romania
- 2025 - group exhibition, The Cats are Taking Over, Vila Catena, Bucharest, Romania
- 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature. Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria
- 2025 - group exhibition, Fragile Images. Ethnographic Museum, Krakow, Poland
- 2024 - group exhibition, The Harmless Show. C5CNM, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
- 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces. (Răsucirea. Triumful provinciei, amurgul imperiilor) MNAC, Bucharest, Romania.
- 2024 - group exhibition, Sein Name ist Pferd, Museumsgalerie im Dorfmuseum Rosshaupten, Germany
- 2023 - group exhibition, Ivan Patzaikin Memorial. Public project, Tulcea, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, From place to community, from community to place. Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania
- 2023 - group exhibition, Haptic Challenges. Visuality and Experiment in Contemporary Art.16 Portraits, Cetate Arts Danube, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, The Heritage of Ivan Patzaikin. The Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, Responsive Matter, Cazarma U, Timișoara, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 22. MNAC acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- 2022 - group exhibition, Contemporary Snapshot / Traditional Timeline, M2M/ Muzeul 2 META - Slon, Romania
- 2022 - group exhibition, Circular Tradition. Connected to The Nature. The Romanian Peasant, Museum, București
- 2022 - group exhibition, Culturi Agricole. The Agriculture in Modern and Contemporary Art in Romania. MARe -Museum of Recent Art, București
- 2022 - group exhibition, Haptic Challenges. Visuality and Experiment in Contemporary Art.16 Portraits, Cetate Arts Danube, Romania
- 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20, New entries in the MNAC Collection, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara
- 2020 - group exhibition, Why Does The Earth Bear Us ? (solo show), Antipa Natural History Museum, București
3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs
- 2025 - Art Fair: RAD Sculpture Park, Caro, Bucharest, Romania
- 2024 - Art Fair: RAD Sculpture Park 2024. Caro, Bucharest, Romania
- 2024 - MNAC Collections. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- 2023 - Biennale: Long-Distance Friendships, Kaunas Biennale, co-curators Alicia Knock and Inga Lāce, Kaunas, Lithuania
- 2023 - Biennale: Embodied Knowledges, Shifting Grounds” Biennale Jogja 17, 2023. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2023 - Art Fair: RAD Sculpture Park. Caro, Bucharest, Romania
Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects
- 2023 - Art Residency: Magic Carpets Residency, Kaunas, Lithuania
- 2023 - Art Residency: Equator Residency, Biennale Jogja 17, Jogyakarta, Indonesia[4]
Selected works
The Plant Collector (Harvesting Structure No.6) 2024,Corten steel, anodised aluminium, stainless steel, 350 x 350 x 280cm, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2024
The Rice Collector (Harvesting Structure No.5) Jogja Biennale, 2023, Bamboo baskets, bamboo sticks, wire, rope, nails, 500 x 500 x 480cm, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2023
Unpacking my Dearest Invaders, 2016, Wood, plywood, chicken wire, door hinges, wheels, corrugated bitumen roof, 120 x 700 x 220cm, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2016
The Water Collector (Harvesting Structure No.4) Tulcea, 2022-2023, Steel, metallic enamel buckets, aluminium, steel, inox, water filtering system, hydraulic engine, floating devices, 520 x 900 x 500cm, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2023
L'Anatomia del Cavallo-Tauola II del Lib.IV, VI, 2019, ink on paper, 270 x 320cm, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2019
Exhibition views
View from show L'Anatomia del Cavallo, Kunsthalle Bega Timișoara, 2019, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2019
View from show Water, Food, Shelter, MNAC Bucharest, 2018-2019, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2018
View from show Why do The Earth Bear Us ? Antipa Natural History Museum Bucharest, 2020, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2020
View from show All We Can Eat, Sandwich Gallery, 2023-2024, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2023
View from show Feed Me/ No Gravity, Sandwich Gallery, 2016, work by Dan Vezentan (c) Dan Vezentan 2016
Publications
1.Published books
- 2019 - Apă, Hrană, Adăpost (Water, Food, Shelter), published by MNAC, Paperback, 24 pages, ISBN:9786069044094, l: 15cm | H: 21cm[5]
2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews
- Dan Vezentan: Arta poate fi militantă și fără să aibă un mesaj direct (Art cannot enclose activism without having also a direct mesaj), Interview with Curatorial.ro by Patricia Marinescu[6]
- Dan Vezentan, de la publicitate la arta contemporana (From Publicity to Contemporary Art), Interview with Code Noir Style by Ioana Nicolesco[7]
- Dan Vezentan, Interview with Cosmin Nasui, 2025[8]
- Dan Vezentan, Interview, How I spent my revolution[9]
Curating activity (Artist as curator)
NA
Catalogues
NA
Press
- Dan Vezentan: Cronologia desenului pe hârtie, essay by Patricia Marinescu[10]
- Anatomy of Inspiration: Dan Vezentan’s Zootechnical Library as Muse, essay by Dan Stănescu[11]
- Hotnews.ro news aggregator[12]
- Dan Vezentan presentation in Nasui Collection[13]
- Dan Vezentan works presented in TV Senso show[14]
- Article on online news journal BeauxArt.com, 4 Romanian Artists to Watch, by Françoise-Aline Blain[15]
- Article on LeMonde, by Laurent Carpentier[16]
- Article on Plural Art Mag, by Vanessa Yeo[17]
Gallery Representation
None.
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK
Social Media Links
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dan_vezentan
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.vezentan.9
- Website: www.danvezentan.com
Hashtags
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)
animal rights, assemblage
calligraphy, collecting
drawing
ecological collapse, environment
found objects
ink
kinetic art
land art
public art
sculpture, section drawing, site-specific installation
vernacular
Compatible and inspirational artists:
(artist-mentioned reference list)
- Agnes Denes work - Wheatfield — A Confrontation
- ↑ https://weekendalest.com/ET-LES-FRONTIERES-DEVIENNENT-DES-PONTS?lang=fr
- ↑ https://www.sandwichgallery.ro/dan-vezentan-all-we-can-eat
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHX4AtqvZQ
- ↑ https://artreview.com/biennale-jogja-17-titen-embodied-knowledges-shifting-grounds-yogyakarta-review/
- ↑ https://carturesti.ro/carte/apa-hrana-adapost-1435218646?p=1
- ↑ https://curatorial.ro/arta/interviu-dan-vezentan-arta//
- ↑ https://www.codenoir-style.com/2019/03/dan-vezentan-de-la-publicitate-la-arta-contemporana/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmf4xhFbs-0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwExy0yej4
- ↑ https://curatorial.ro/arta/dan-vezentan-cronologia-desenului-pe-hartie/
- ↑ https://www.glitchlibrary.com/dan-vezentan-library-as-muse/
- ↑ https://hotnews.ro/interviu-dan-vezentan-arta-poate-fi-militanta-si-fara-sa-aiba-un-mesaj-direct-1807118
- ↑ https://www.cosminnasui.com/2019/05/dan-vezentan/
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/948716980
- ↑ https://www.beauxarts.com/expos/festival-un-week-end-a-lest-a-paris-4-artistes-roumains-qui-vont-vous-surprendre/
- ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/11/19/a-bucarest-dans-la-bouillonnante-scene-culturelle-s-adapter-est-un-art-de-vivre_6654068_3246.html
- ↑ https://pluralartmag.com/biennale-jogja-17-relocating-to-the-village/
