About

Daniel Moldoveanu

Daniel Moldoveanu (1999*, Constanța, Romania) is an Austrian artist and essayist. His interdisciplinary approach circles around ideas of superficiality, analyzed in creative writing through the lens of philosophy, critical theory and cultural analysis; and in visual arts through painting, video, mixed media, and photography. He holds a diploma from the Fashion Institute of Vienna, Austria, a BA in Cultural Studies and Art History from the Humboldt University and has attended the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he presently lives and works.

His work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Kunsthalle Zürich (Zürich, 2024), GROTTO (Berlin, 2024), Invitro (Bucharest, 2024), SABOT (Cluj-Napoca, 2023). His essays, reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in Artforum, Spike Art Magazine, 032c, Arts of the Working Class, Sleek Magazine, POP-Kultur & Kritik, Nuda Paper among others.

Contact

hello@danielmoldoveanu.com

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SABOT gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

News

Nocturnal Animals, a duo exhibition with artist Antone Liu, will open at Linseed Projects in Shanghai on the 18th of March, 2025. The exhibition is on view through May 10, 2025.

Daniel Moldoveanu is the recipient of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency, kindly supported by Swatch Group in Shanghai, CN.

Selected Writing

Essay, Memoirs of a Himbo (feat. logo design and film stills by Julian-Jakob Kneer, in: Nuda Paper, 2024. )

Essay, To Preserve Your Truth While Escaping It, in: Artforum, 2024

Exhibition Text, Finally, a flat rectangular surface is too handy to give up, at: Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels, 2024

Movie Review, Emil Cioran Meets Happy Clown. Notes on 'Rotting in the Sun' (2023, in: Nuda Paper, 2023)

Essay, Bluemark Verification? Marisa Olson says: 'Not Chic.', in: Sleek Magazine, Issue 78, 2023

Essay, 72 Whole Hours of Fun, in: BylineByline, 2023

Exhibition Review, Neurodivergent Martha Stewart, in: Spike Art Magazine, Issue 76 (Summer 2023)

Short, Ski 5 Shades, Dior by John Galliano, in: Spike Art Magazine, Issue 76 (Summer 2023)

Essay, Spring of the Undead, in: Spike Art Magazine, 2023

Essay, Tragedy and the Superflat, in: Spike Art Magazine, 2022

Press Release, The Whatever Moment, SABOT, feat. an essay by Ulysse Carrière-Bouchard

Essay, Into the Void, Again, in: Spike Art Magazine, 2022

Essay, The Ethical Scammer, in: 032c, 2022

Essay, Essay on Being Short in Clubs, in: POP-Kultur und Kritik (online, 2022)

Essay, ALEXEY, 2022

Essay, On the Ferocity of Confined Freedom, in: This Is Badland, Issue Nr. 5, 2022

Essay, People Who Are Made For Clothes, in: Arts of the Working Class, Issue Nr. 20, 2022

Essay, The Incredible Lightness of SHEIN, in: Arts of The Working Class, Issue Nr. 20, 2022

Essay, Patternmaking, 2021

Essay, Risking Lives For Spring Break, in: Hugo Zorn, 2020.

Selected Press

Exhibition Review, Travis Jeppesen, in: Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, 2025

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Exhibition Views, Rude Awakening, in: Artviewer, Invitro, Bucharest, 2024)

Exhibition Review, Philipp Hindahl, in: Zeitung Magazine, print, 27.04.2024

Exhibition Review, Xavier Robles de Medina, in: PASSE-AVANT, 23.04.2024

Exhibition Review, Yujia Bian for Critics' Picks, in: Artforum, 08.04.2024

Exhibition Views, Eloquence! Eloquence ! Eloquence !, in: Contemporary Art Library, 2024

Interview, > I like the idea of being true to myself and a caricature to others. < , in: Collectors Agenda, 2024

Exhibition Views, The Whatever Moment, in: ArtViewer, SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, 2023

Interview, We're Not Pretending Hard Enough, in: This Is Badland Magazine, 2023

Interview Feature, in: PDF-Mag, 2023

Exhibition Review, Arash Shahali, "Sex and Patternmaking", in: Arts of the Working Class, Issue Nr. 20, 2022

Exhibition Views, Patternmaking, Suzie Shride, Vienna, in: KubaParis, 2021

Interview, On the Commodification of Sexuality and Aesthetic Flatness, in: PW-Magazine, 2019

Exhibition Views, Hindrance to Modern Speed, in: Parnass Magazin, 2018

Interview, Boy Meets Art World, in: Vangardist, 2017

Selected Exhibitions

  • Rude Awakening; Invitro, Bucharest, RO, 2024.
  • Eloquence! Eloquence ! Eloquence !; GROTTO, Berlin, DE, 2024.
  • The Whatever Moment; SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, RO, 2022.
  • Patternmaking; Suzie Shride, Vienna, AT, 2021.
  • Stimulus; Art Institute Vienna, Vienna, AT, 2019.
  • Appearances; 21er Pavilion, 21er Belvedere, Vienna, AT, 2016.

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Metal and the Flesh; Horse & Pony, Berlin, DE, 2024.
  • A Tower of Birds; Electroglobal HQ, Cluj-Napoca, RO, 2024.
  • Zürich Biennale; Kunstalle, Zürich, CH, 2023.
  • UdK Berlin Rundgang; Berlin, DE, 2023.
  • Queer Body Against; Kunstsalon im Fluc; Vienna, AT, 2020.
  • OPEC Red Cross Auction; Sotheby’s, Vienna, AT, 2019.
  • Hindrance to Modern Speed; Sehsaal, Vienna, AT, 2018.

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