Liviu Bulea, born in 1989 in Turda, Romania, is an artist and curator with a special interest in collective memory in relation to communities and specific places – he can be described as an installation artist with a social practice. Bulea’s work encompasses installation, photography, video, text, and objects created with found material from urban and natural environments. Bulea was diagnosed with cancer as a teenager – a key moment that led him to a creative exploration of existential themes. He started examining historical and environmental issues as well as architecture, and he delved into community archives. The driving force behind Buleas’s art is the necessity of social change, especially in regards to the LGBTQ+ community which he is part of.

“Viewers are invited to reflect on how spaces shape our identities and how communities, in turn, infuse spaces with meaning. ”

In this exhibition, Bulea presents a diptych, which was made in response to, and compiled from, found material from the street Bülowstraße. The first work was made in 2019 during Bulea’s artist residency at Fresh A.I.R. The new work, Bülowstraße-Berlin II, was created especially for this exhibition.

On loan courtesy of the artist.