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 Linseed Projects (Shanghai, 2025), 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
SABOT gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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
- Nocturnal Animals (duo with Antone Liu), Linseed Projects, Shanghai, CN, 2025.
- 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.
