Sebastian Hosu
Sebastian Hosu
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 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.
Artistic disciplines:
- Painting
- Drawing
- Installation (murals)
Process
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.
Notable themes
Recurring themes in Sebastian Hosu's practice include ...
”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, art galleries.
- works in public institutions collections and private collections.
Works in private collections in several countries in Europe and Asia.
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
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Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects
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Selected works
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Publications
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Curating activity (Artist as curator)
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Catalogues
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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/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems
- Website: http://alexbodea.work
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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)
