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EXHIBITION LOG
Last Synced: 2024.10.12
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LOG_01 / EXHIBITIONS
History of public interactions and mechanical deployments.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE_REF
Title_PROJECT
LOCATION_NODE
LOCATION
2024
Kinetic Porosity
București, RO / Galateca
RO
2024
Submerged Narratives
Galeria de Artă, Timișoara
DE
2023
Automation of the Void
München, DE / Kunsthalle
RO
2023
Industrial Silence
Viena, AT / Semmelweis
AT
2022
F.E.A.R.
Galeria Helios, București
RO
2022
ICE — Snow at Room Temperature
Galeria Avanpost, Timișoara
RO
2021
IN OUT — 27 and counting
Haus der Kunst, Timișoara
RO
2020
Useless Couple
Galeria Pygmalion, Timișoara
RO
2019
The Blindness Mouth
Kunstverein, München
DE
2018
Romantic Ax
Kunstverein, München
DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS – INTERNATIONAL
DATE_REF
Title_PROJECT
LOCATION_NODE
LOCATION
2024
Art Encounters Biennial
Timișoara, Romania
RO
2023
Timișoara — European Capital of Culture
Multiple venues, Timișoara
RO
2023
Signals — Contemporary Romanian Art
Galerie Ravenstein, Paris
FR
2023
KunstBerlin — Objects in Transition
Projektraum, Berlin
DE
2022
Wiener Festwochen — Eastern Frequencies
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
AT
2021
New York Romanian Cultural Institute
ICR Gallery, New York
US
2019
Hidden Agenda
Galeria Avanpost, Timișoara
RO · CURATED
LOG_02 / PRESS_RESOURCES
Curated critical analysis and media coverage.
REVISTA ARTA
2024_04_12
The Engineering of Poetic Systems
A deep dive into the mechanical constraints and the ‘porosity’ of Haiaș’s kinetic sculptures.
MODERNISM.RO
2023_11_05
Cosmin Haiaș: Between Robot and Brush
Interrogating the transition from industrial automation to the fine arts gallery space.
LES NOUVEAUX RICHES
2023_01_20
Mechanical Voids and Digital Echoes
Viennese perspective on the Romanian kinetic art scene and its emerging pioneers.LOG_03 / CRITICAL RESOURCES & ARTICLES
REVISTA ARTA
2023
“Between the Circuit and the Canvas: On Cosmin Haiaș”
Critical essay on the dual practice of engineering and art — examining how technical training shapes aesthetic decisions and conceptual frameworks in kinetic installation.
MODERNISM.RO
2024
“Sediment and Signal: Materiality in Haiaș’s Recent Work”
An analysis of Porous Matter and Fish & (micro)chips — how Danube sediment and salvaged electronics become carriers of environmental and technological memory.
LES NOUVEAUX RICHES
2022
“Ghosts in the Machine: F.E.A.R. and the Voice of History”
Feature on the sound installation that routes Ceaușescu’s speeches through vintage rotary telephones — political memory as electromagnetic signal.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
2021
“IN OUT — 27 and counting: Solar Insects on a Viennese Waltz”
Catalogue essay documenting the kinetic installation — solar-powered mechanical beetles performing a perpetual waltz as critique of Romania’s post-revolutionary transition.MAKING-OF — PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

Water-Jet Cutting
Polycarbonate sheets cut with precision water-jet — translating digital paths into physical form. Each cut follows sensor data from field recordings.
UV Resin & Sediment
Danube sediment and microchips suspended in UV-curing resin — each layer preserving a cross-section of geological and electronic time.