Gaep at miart 2026 with a group presentation
We are pleased to announce our participation in miart 2026 – Milan’s international art fair – with a group presentation of works by Vlad Albu, Felipe Cohen, Cătălin Pîslaru, and Raluca Popa.
On view from April 17 to 19 at Allianz MiCo South Wing, Gaep’s presentation echoes the title of miart 2026, New Directions, by bringing together four artists in different stages of their career, including an emerging artist – Vlad Albu – whose addition to the gallery roster has just been announced. While Albu illustrates the expansion of the programme towards younger voices, Felipe Cohen, Cătălin Pîslaru and Raluca Popa have been at the core of the gallery’s activity in recent years. This is the first presentation of works by Albu and Cohen at miart.
Albu’s sculptures from his ongoing series ‘Holders’ confront the viewer with a tense situation. Round objects balance precariously on the edges of other objects. A fluid glass rests on the lip of a narrow shelf. The possibility of things going over the edge – both literally and metaphorically – hangs in the air. The works raise ethical and political questions: How do we support each other? How much care do we have? What is our responsibility in regard to the tenuous stability that characterizes our systems?
Light – with its ability to dematerialize the horizon through reflection and to emphasize shapes – has been at the heart of Cohen’s inquiry over the past 15 years. With Edges of Sunset series (reliefs), made specifically for this presentation at miart 2026, he explores the dynamics between light, space, and time by abstracting the landscape and employing geometric forms: X-shapes, rhombuses, forms resembling hourglasses, and valley-like structures. The three-dimensionality in these reliefs suggests different topographies.
Another take on landscape is present in Popa’s ‘Binocular Drawings’, a series of charcoal landscapes drawn en plein air. Viewed (appropriated, approximated) through binoculars, the natural landscape is epitomized in five variations of vertical and horizontal shapes resulting from the interplay between eye, mind, and hand. Mediated vision has been a recurring topic in the artist’s work, alongside notions of legibility and visibility.
Pîslaru’s recent body of paintings explores the tension between opposing forces: nature and architecture, unpredictable behaviour and human rationality, unstoppable organic evolution and functionalist, rule-based thinking. The artist conjures up a dreamlike, post-surrealistic atmosphere through incongruous juxtapositions of subject matter, but maintains his adherence to a minimalist aesthetic and to forms that walk the line between figuration and abstraction.
Art fair details
miart 2026
Gaep, Booth A01, Level 0
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute
Address
Allianz MiCo South Wing, Milan
Opening Hours
17–18 April: 11:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
19 April: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
