Initially conceived as an art-manifest project, (by Alina Andrei and George Roșu) RAFT has become an art space in itself, hosted (sometimes even parasitic) in environments and other cultural spaces. RAFT started from the lack of independent art spaces, its intention being to turn this obstacle into an advantage. It operated from 2016 in Fabrica de Pensule (Cluj) until its closure in 2019, and in the Contemporary Art Library of the Multicultural Centre of Transylvania University (Brasov). The space participated in 2017 as an invited artist run space at the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara.
Since 2023 RAFT TM has been operating in the MV Space Timișoara.
From 2024 RAFT DKH opens in the space of the German Cultural Centre Sibiu.
Paula ANKE lives and works in the Cévennes (FR) and in Berlin (DE). She studied art from 1983 to 1990 in Brussels (ERG/Saint Luc), at the Ecole Goetz Daderian in Paris, and in Perpignan with Jeanne Gerardin. In 1991, she was awarded a postgraduate scholarship at the HDK (now UdK) in Berlin. Paula’s main areas of focus are painting, assemblage, printmaking, fresco, installation, and video. Her work engages with the legacy of the Surrealists, Dadaists, Nouveaux Réalistes, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alexander Camaro. The construction of femininity and the staging of memory form the central themes of her work. Paula regularly participates in exhibitions both in Germany and abroad. In 2024, her exhibition La tenue d'Ève, together with Karen LaMonte, was shown at the Musée Henri-Martin in Cahors, France. Other exhibitions include: Amazones de l'Ombre, Paula Anke, ECAM, Théâtre du Kremlin-Bicêtre; Zwischenräume, installation and video, Paula Anke hosted by AJLART, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery Berlin; and Paula Anke Peintures, Assemblages et Installations, Petit Temple, Ganges (France).
.jpeg?locale=en)
.jpeg?locale=en)
.jpeg?locale=en)