Vila Catena

Paradise photo-wallpapers from the ’80s caught in-between reality and fantasy; the forever in waiting good rooms; domestic interiors in which light wrestles heavy furniture. Temporary shelters and Nap Stations where you can recharge and restart, or the 1:1 bedroom of a gamer — charged with screens and cables snaking in like urban vines. Clear-cut geometries, Balkan nostalgia, and lost astronauts sent back home - as if the living room itself might be a landing pad after impossible missions. All this & much more in HOME, a group exhibition where over 30 artists look at what it means to inhabit a space — radically different, yet deeply familiar angles. Here, Romanian painting masters like Nicolae Grigorescu, Gheorghe Petrașcu, Marius Bunescu stand comfortably alongside contemporary voices like Matthias Weischer (DE), Marius Bercea (RO), and Șerban Savu (RO). Interiors gather into a fluid narrative, each room a hypothesis about how living shapes memory and the body. In a distinctive gesture, Lucian Prună revives the still life tradition, reframing it for the present moment. Meanwhile, insertions by Ioana Mincu, Arantxa Etcheverria, and Yvonne Hasan open up new ways of reimagining the intimacy of the shelter. HOME explores the shifting boundaries between private and public, between comfort and improvisation, between “home” and “anywhere.” It’s an inventory of real and imagined interiors: walls that double as family members, windows that are both escape and barrier, objects travelling from one life to the next. This isn’t just an exhibition about dwellings — it’s about the way in which we carry them with us, like an extra layer of skin. Vila Catena lends its walls and its memory, for a while, to new domestic memories.