> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Telegraph Gallery Olomouc: What If the People Inside the Myth Start Painting? - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/transylvanian-painting-today-telegraph-gallery-olomouc/ - Published: 2026-03-24T07:30:44.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-02T09:52:23.000Z - Description: Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc presents fourteen artists from Romania's Cluj School. Curated by Jane Neal. Transylvanian Painting Today - till 11 June 2026. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition Telegraph Gallery Olomouc presents *Transylvanian Painting Today*, curated by Jane Neal, through 11 June 2026. **Transylvanian Painting Today** **Artists:** Adrian Ghenie, Marius Bercea, Šerban Savu, Radu Baies, Robert Fekete, Mirela Moscu, Oana Fărcăş, Ioana Iacob, David Fărcăş, Nicolae Roman iхan, Mircea Suciu, Tincuţa Marin, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Paul Robas **Exhibition:** Transylvanian Painting Today **Venue:** [ Telegraph Gallery ](https://telegraph.cz/en/gallery?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Olomouc, Czech Republic **Dates:** 5 March 2026– 11 June 2026 **Hours:** Tue–Thu 9 am–7 pm, Fri 9 am–9 pm, Sat–Sun 10 am–6 pm **Address:** Jungmannova 3, Olomouc **Curator:** Jane Neal **Photography:** Matěj Doležel **Contact:** [marketa.kalouskova@telegraph.cz](mailto:marketa.kalouskova@telegraph.cz) ## Telegraph Gallery Presents Transylvanian Painting Today in Olomouc Transylvania exists twice. Once in the imagination of everyone who has never been there, all Gothic ruins, dense forest, and a count who refuses to die. And then again in the actual canvases of fourteen painters who grew up there, trained there, and appear to have no interest in painting any of that. > Fourteen painters from the most mythologized region in Europe. None of them painting the myth. That may be the most quietly subversive thing happening in figurative art right now. Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc has installed the exhibition across 350 square meters of deep forest-green walled space, and the color choice carries weight. Green this dark is not decorative; it absorbs the room's atmosphere rather than reflecting it. --- A central box partition divides the space without closing it you move around it, catching paintings at different depths and scales, small intimate canvases and large ambitious ones occupying the same sightlines. The setting suits an exhibition that is not trying to tell one story but to hold fourteen different ones in the same room without forcing them to agree. The press release frames the exhibition through three artists, Adrian Ghenie, Marius Bercea and Șerban Savu. Together, they map its tonal range. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Adrian-Ghenie-Transylvanian-Painting-Today-exhibition.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Adrian Ghenie, all 4 art pieces - ****Image courtesy of the gallery -** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Adrian Ghenie- figurative painting -Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Adrian-Ghenie-artist-exhibition-view-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Adrian Ghenie, all 4 art pieces - ****Image courtesy of the gallery -** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Robert Fekete, Radu Baies, Serban Savu painting space exhibition view, telegraph gallery Olomouc ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Artist-Robert-Fekete--Radu-Baies--Serban-Savu-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Robert Fekete, Radu Baies, Serban Savu from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Marius Bercea, Serban Savu from left to right - new Rumanian painting - group show - contemporary painting - telegraph gallery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/DM_26_2946.jpg) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Marius Bercea, Serban Savu from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Marius Bercea, large format painting , figurative at telegraph gallery Olomouc , new Rumanian painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Marius-Bercea-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Marius Bercea, Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Adrian Ghenie, Oana Farcas - exhibition view - new Transylvanian painting group show](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/DM_26_2912.jpg) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Adrian Ghenie, Oana Farcas from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![telegraph gallery Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View - curated by Jane Neal -Artist Marius Bercea, Radu Baies, Serban Savu from left to right](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/telegraph-gallery-exhibition.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Marius Bercea, Radu Baies, Serban Savu from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel **Ghenie**’s canvases carry a compressed pressure: figures at the edge of dissolution, paint applied with controlled intensity that holds the image at the brink of coherence. The surface holds and nearly doesn't, which is exactly how historical trauma tends to function. His work at the Telegraph extends the logic that has made his auctions record-breaking and his institutional presence near-total: the capacity to hold something unresolved without resolving it. **Bercea** accumulates rather than dissolves. His paintings layer memory, imagined space and post-communist interior life into compositions dense enough to require time. The vivid color and elaborate spatial construction feel less like expressionism than like an act of recovery, everything the system attempted to make invisible, pulled carefully back into view. ![Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View - Artist Serban Savu, Adrian Ghenie from left to right](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Transylvanian-Painting-Today---Exhibition-View----Artist-Serban-Savu--Adrian-Ghenie-from-left-to-right.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Serban Savu, Adrian Ghenie from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View - Artist Mirela Moscu, Marius Bercea from left to right curated by Jane Neal](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Transylvanian-Painting-Today---Exhibition-View----Artist-Mirela-Moscu--Marius-Bercea-from-left-to-right-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Mirela Moscu, Marius Bercea from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel **Șerban Savu** seems to work in a different register entirely. Muted palette, patient attention, figures going about labor in ordinary Romanian landscapes, small bodies against large sections of earth or sky. He paints what persists regardless of what the century makes of it. The quiet in these canvases is not peace, it is a kind of suspension, the world holding its breath between one disruption and the next. Alongside them, the exhibition presents **Radu Baies, Robert Fekete, Mirela Moscu, Oana Fărcaș, Ioana Iacob, David Fărcaș, Nicolae Romanițan, Mircea Suciu, Tincuța Marin, Hortensia Mi Kafchin and Paul Robas.** The range is deliberately wide. Some work with darker expressionistic registers, others approach a cooler structural clarity, a few seem to occupy positions that don't resolve neatly into either. The coherence across the show is not stylistic. It is atmospheric. It comes from shared formation, shared history, and perhaps from the particular pressure of a place that has been too many things to too many people for too long. ![David Farcas Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/David-Farcas-Telegraph-Gallery--Olomouc.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist David Farcas - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![ Hortensia Mi Kafchin - yellow paintings - Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/-Hortensia-Mi-Kafchin.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Tincuta Marin - Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - catapult art platform review](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Tincuta-Marin-exhibition-view-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Tincuta Marin- Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Marius Bercea - exhibition view - group show - Transylvanian Painting Today - telegraph gallery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Marius-Bercea-telegraph-gallery-olomouc.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Marius Bercea - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Artist Paul Robas, Marius Bercea new painting now - Olomouc - telegraph gallery - group show ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Artist-Paul-Robas--Marius-Bercea-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Paul Robas, Marius Bercea from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![ Serban Savu figurative painting , telegraph gallery - current exhibition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/-Serban-Savu-telegraph-gallery-olomouc.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Serban Savu - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![curated by Jane NealTelegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View - Artist Robert Fekete, Radu Beies from left to right ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Robert-Fekete--Radu-Beies-telegraph-gallery-exhibition.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Robert Fekete, Radu Beies from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Artist-Ioana-Iacob-painting-.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/-Robert-Fekete--painting-now.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Ioana Iacob, Robert Fekete from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel ![Mirela Moscu abstract large scale painting - exhibition view - Telegraph gallery ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Mirela-Moscu-artist-.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Mirela Moscu - Image courtesy of the gallery **\-** Photography Matěj Doležel **Curator Jane Neal**, who has worked in Central and Eastern European art for decades and is credited with introducing the Cluj School to international visibility, closes a trilogy here, German painting, British painting, now Transylvanian painting. The sequence suggests something about where the energy in European figurative art has been traveling: steadily away from the historically dominant centers, toward the edges of the continent where the twentieth century left a different kind of residue. That the Cluj School requires no manifesto, no institutional anchor, and no official name may not be a weakness. It may be the condition that kept it honest. The myth was always the easier story. [**Instagram of Telegraph Gallery**](https://www.instagram.com/telegraph.cz/?hl=cs&ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Jane Neal Curator on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/janemneal/?hl=cs&ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Notable Works and Exhibition Views ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Oana-Farcas-Transylvanian-Painting-Today-.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Oana Farcas - Image courtesy of the gallery ![Mircea Suciu Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Mircea-Suciu-telegraph-gallery-exhibition-view.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Mircea Suciu - Image courtesy of the gallery ![Nicolae Romanitan, Tincuta Marin, David Farcas Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - catapult platform review](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Nicolae-Romanitan--Tincuta-Marin--David-Farcas-artist-group-show-new-painting-now.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Nicolae Romanitan, Tincuta Marin, David Farcas from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery ![Nicolae Romanitan behind the glass painting Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today green walls](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Nicolae-Romanitan-.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Nicolae Romanitan - Image courtesy of the gallery ![Nicolae Romanitan small painting figurative Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc - Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Nicolae-Romanitan.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Nicolae Romanitan - Image courtesy of the gallery ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/--Artist-Oana-Farcas--Ioana-Iacob-exhibition-view-telegraph-gallery.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Oana Farcas, Ioana Iacob from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery ![Tincuta Marin, David Farcas, Oana Farcas installation view large and small abstracted painting and figurative paintings across the wall green](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Tincuta-Marin--David-Farcas--Oana-Farcas.webp) ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc -** **Transylvanian Painting Today - Exhibition View -* Artist Tincuta Marin, David Farcas, Oana Farcas from left to right - Image courtesy of the gallery **About Catapult** This is an exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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