EIBAB 2026

 

The Space of Freedom – International Biennale of Contemporary Book Art

Opening: 31 July 2026 at 14.oo Exhibition: 31 July – 09 August 2026 Venue: Muzeul de Artă Satu Mare, Romania In collaboration with Muzeul Județean Satu Mare Organized by DFEWA e. V., Dresden, Germany

A Space for Voices, Memory, and Resistance

The Space of Freedom is an international Biennale dedicated to the book as a living organism — a keeper of memory, a vessel of resistance, a quiet yet unbreakable force.

Presented at the Muzeul de Artă Satu Mare in collaboration with the Muzeul Județean Satu Mare, the Biennale explores the book as a political, poetic, and cultural medium. The participating artists investigate how books preserve endangered voices, challenge silence, and bear witness to shifting narratives across Europe and beyond.

The exhibition welcomes all forms of contemporary book art: artist books, book objects, sculptural and conceptual works, installations, text‑based pieces, paper art, printmaking, and hybrid or experimental formats.

Curatorial Focus

The Biennale brings together works that explore:

• The book as a guardian of endangered voices
• Silence as a political, cultural, or personal condition
• The fragility of paper versus the strength of ideas
• The book as witness, protest, refuge, or rebellion
• Europe’s shifting narratives and their echoes
• The poetic tension between what is spoken and what is suppressed

Participating Artists

We are delighted to share the official list of participating artists:

• Mohamed Abdoulnaga – Egypt

• Amal Alioua – Tunisia

• Zuzanna Bąk – Poland

• Kamila Bednarska – Poland

• Lola Beleciu, Romania

• Patryk Brzezicki – Poland

• Agnieszka Dobosz Bruchnalska – Poland

• Benjike – Norway

• Andreia Cismasiu – Romania

• Marisa Cortese – Italy

• Roxana Donaldson – Romania

• Maxim Dumitras – Romania

• Mircea Dumitrescu – Romania

• EKart – Italy

• Dorothea Fleiss – Germany

• Susanna Fleiss – Germany

• Daniela Frumuseanu – Romania

• Ana Maria Garzón – Morocco

• Maria Gliga – Romania

• Georgina Gómez – Mexico

• Ágnes HAász – Hungary

• Ovidiu Hațieganu – Romania

• Yevheniia Hryhoryan – Ukraine

• Barbara Hubert – Poland

• Ofelia Hutul – Romania

• Daria Jarosz – Poland

• Şefkat İşlegen – Turkey

• Károly‑Zöld Gyöngyi – Romania

• Renuka Kesamaradu – India

• Gabriela Király – Romania

• Weronika Kiwior – Poland

• Miklós Klotz – Hungary

• Jacek J. Kolasiński – Poland

• Irmina Kowalska – Poland

• Anna Kryvych – Ukraine

• Ievgeniia Kupchan – Ukraine

• Eszter Láng (†) – Hungary

• Kateryna Lavska – Ukraine

• Csaba Lázin (†) – Romania

• Klaudia Łoboda – Poland

• Crenguta Macarie – Romania

• Oleksandra Martson – Ukraine

• Kanae Minamino – Japan

• JoAnn Morning – Tunisia / USA

• Mersiha Resulbegovic Mavric – Montenegro

• Christoph Nicolaus – Germany

• Vahida Nimanbegu – Montenegro

• Marek A. Olszyński – Poland

• Cristina Gloria Oprisa – Romania

• Dagmara Oryszczak – Poland

• Csaba Pál – Hungary

• Viviana Palestini – Argentina

• Virginia Piscorean – Romania

• Vesna Poznič – Slovenia

• Vasile Pop Negreșteanu – Romania

• Roshan Pradhan – Nepal

• Paula Puscas – Romania

• Rasha Ragab – Egypt

• Andreea Rus – Romania

• Cristina Sabau Trifu– Romania

• Alison Safford – USA

• Shinji Komiya, Japan

• Adrian Solcan – Romania

• Laura Semenov – Romania

• Alfred Schupler – Romania

• Mala Shrestha – Nepal

• Ilona Simon – Hungary

• Urszula Skalska – Poland

• Giuseppe Strano Spitu – Spain

• Maks Stopa – Poland

• Jože Šubic – Slovenia

• Zsuzsa Szemak – Romania

• Katarzyna Tereszkiewicz – Poland

• Greta Tahiraga – Albania

• Montana Torrey – USA

• Mirela Traistaru – Romania

• Rachida Touirji – Morocco

• Namun Tamang – Nepal

• Gabriella Városi – Hungary

• Elisabeta Veress Pietrar – Romania

• Kati Verebics – Hungary

• Toshiro Yamaguchi – Japan

• Olga Zavalniuk – Switzerland

Curatorial Direction

Dorothea Fleiss, PhD Curatorial concept

Organized by

DFEWA e. V., Dresden, Germany in collaboration with Muzeul de Artă Satu Mare & Muzeul Județean Satu Mare, Romania

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