The mask of a mask is a mask. But who am I and, above all, who are you; that question is a mask itself.
Beatrice is happy to invite you and your friends to the Space in Progress

this Saturday, 7 February 2026
5-10 pm
Paleologu str. 18, Bucharest
7 pm performance about the mask one’s body asks our heads for, by ELIZA Mureșan

After two years of practicing unlimited potentiality in all kind of forms and materials, at any time two ot more artists meet in performing painting, the BvB Space in Progress changes its frequencies.
Pace and energy transform and level quietly. The surface may apparently be still, but actually the zero state prepares for a significant turn of visions.
The deep black hole is now covered by a thin white membrane.

Friday 12.12.25
5-10pm
Paleologu str. 18, Bucharest

Beatrice once came from Babel and never intends to return to Babel. Beatrice stays in the world among us, being a synonym for inspiration.
The Body of Beatrice is a collaborative body of works appearing from thoughts, experience, discussions and insight on painting.
Each BvB workshop is a celebratory event of togetherness in all stages, a ritual of confronting limits without loud declarations.

For two years now is the HQ in Bucharest a place of meeting and painting and constructing inside the BvB BLACK HOLE, a permanent installation becoming each day even more compact.

Paleologu Str.18,
contact @beatricevonbabel.org

Performing installation as work in progress at the edge of individual inspiration and the collective collapse, BvB invites you at the HQ, Paleologu str.18 from 5 to 10 pm on the weekend 3-5.10.25

BvB offers sound, electronics and dance/movement performances each evening from 7-10 pm.
Happy to be part of NAG (White Nights of the Galleries) in Bucharest and happy to celebrate together with you.

There are moments of stillness worth expressing because of the deep connecting with a place or a person. Since March 2024, Beatrice von Babel explores the silence of Island Certosa, placed in the vicinity of the Venice Biennale.
Introspection became a main principle of knowing oneself as a unity, and recovering an honest perception on nature.
If the island does not need art, maybe the artist needs an island. Artists, musicians and theorist friends of Beatrice spent quiet days in the Venice Lagoon, moving from one island to the other.
IRINA Matthes made drawings on the island Sant Erasmo, and JOSE Nahuelpan worked this July with plants, constructing three objects facing the lagoon.

The body of works by Beatrice continues to expand on canvas and paper, via collaborative painting and drawing in Venice, Düsseldorf and Bucharest. The fruitful exchange of ideas and stylistic positions reveals unexpected images and dynamics.
At the BvB Space in Progress in Bucharest you are welcome to perform painting alongside Lost.Optics, Pisica Pătrată, Anca Muresan, Roberta Curcă, Giles Eldridge and other artist friends.
Thursday 20.03.25
6-9 pm
Paleologu str.18

In one combined and ever evolving installation, there is an island for each and everyone. Maybe each one of us is already an island for all the others.
Suppose there would be an island of one’s own, and happiness would perfectly surround it. The same isolation would occure as if the island would be surrounded by sadness. Who knows; surely there is more than one answer.
Beatrice invites you on Friday, January 31th 2025, to view the ongoing installation and be a part of it.
8 pm “enter the role”, performance by Otilia Panainte based on a script by Anca Muresan
7-10pm
BvB HQ, Paleologu Str. 18, Bucharest

made in Bucharest, the first body of works by BEATRICE grows continuously, mixing different stylistic approaches in acrylic on large canvases. Anca Muresan, Giles Eldridge, Pisica Pătrată, Lost.Optics and guests Roberta Curcă, Beniamin Popescu and many other artist friends and visitors meet and work side by side at the BvB space in progress.

On Saturday 14^th December 2024 we invite you to view the metamorphoses Beatrice’s canvases cross over since the beginning of the year.  *Spontaneous animation of the paintings by Matei Branea.

We welcome you with a Christmas Tree workshop. Our visitors just need to bring enthusiasm and inspiration

from 5-9 pm

Paleologu str.18, Bucharest

We are open to perform painting with friends and guests, celebrating one year of collaborative and ongoing painting in our space in progress in Bucharest. The BvB activity includes workshops, art books, performances, arts & crafts, shows, music, residencies and talks. Autonomous thinkers and creators are invited to develop throughout dialogue ideas and objects that could integrate in the common space. Time and action are individual, the goals form while dealing with each other.
Pisica Pătrată, Giles Eldridge, Anca Muresan, Lost Optics, Roberta Curcă, Beniamin Popescu – ongoing BvB painting.
Sylvie Roulin, Mysterious Isola, photography

7-11pm, Friday 29th November
8:30pm Alana Riu, songs of accessible introspection
9:00 Silviu Caratase, one speech on two islands
9:30pm Otilia Panainte, acting in between potentiality and concrete appearance
Paleologu Str.18, Bucharest

Four artists will paint live this weekend at the HQ in Bucharest.
Gaining in the last two to three years common experience in painting and exhibiting together Lost.Optics, Anca Muresan, Giles Eldridge, Pisica Pătrată practiced in Bucharest, Venice and Craiova site specific approaches to different spaces and mentalities.

Participating to the NAG (Night of the Galleries) Bucharest, the BvB space in progress is open for viewing and discussions on the COLLABORATIVE PAINTING and ongoing installation.

The art book COMICS will be released in Bucharest on this occasion

BvB released its first comic art book, a collab initiated by Pisica Patrata, Giles Eldridge, Anca Muresan, Lost.Optics. Irina Matthes, Roberta Curca, Bernd Kastner and James Kirwan were invited to contribute as well with drawings and ideas.
All between artist friends: 2D adventures, struggle and euphoria on a common way from chaotic potentiality to specific and subjective meanings of reality.
The BvB volumes were presented by “Between Books” Art Book Fair, held between 20-22 September 2024 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Beatrice von Babel continues its MONTHLY EVENTS at the Headquarter in Bucharest, Paleologu str.18, inviting you to a performing evening based on the audio and movement contributions of Regina, voice performance, and Petra Ionescu, cello impro.

PARADISE OR ISOLATION is a common subject as well in the first BvB collab with the young artist Alina Pietrareanu. Her performance deals with aging, and is due to the Festival ECOSISTEM.

29^th August, 7-10pm, Paleologu str.18

Since April 2024 BvB offers to its artist and performer friends the possibility to develop their artistic practice in the inspiring atmosphere of the Venice lagoon. Through self-experience and discussions among each other Giles Eldridge, Lost.Optics, James Kirwan, Anca Muresan, Baptiste Bersoux, Narumi Saso, Roberta Curca, Sylvie Roulin and others aspire to express own vision in a collective work of art on PARADISE-ISOLATION.

THE LAST SHORT STORY OF BEATRICE GOING TO BABEL / THE FIRST SHORT STORY OF BEATRICE COMING FROM BABEL inon-formal comic book in progress. The seemingly abstract story underlines the collaboration between opposites and suggests funny moments even in difficult situations when dealing with each other.

The publication is expected to be released in September 2024 by Qualitaner publishers.

ISOLA CERTOSA is a protected island in the Venetian Lagoon. BvB invited several international artists, historians and performers to experience the unique situation of a silent and peaceful Paradise in the middle of the most obvious contemporary art–tourism-holiday triumvirate.

The ongoing OPEN STUDIO on Certosa started on 17^th April 2024, and is based on direct, subjective observation in situ concerning non-spectacular epiphanies that each of us can have, when prepared for introspection.

Beatrice von Babel started in  2022 as a collaborative dynamic organism of independent artists. Since 2023 BvB has had the status of a non-profit foundation, aiming to encourage and sustain connections between different fields of international art. From November 2023, BvB has been organising monthly events in a performative SPACE IN PROGRESS in Bucharest at Paleologu str. 18 (except during the summer vacation).

IN TURN is the ongoing BvB mural at the Goethe Institute in Bucharest, and can be viewed in different stages of its metamorphosis in the Pavilion 32 on Calea Dorobanți str. 32, during the opening hours of the library (except during the summer vacation). This wall painting marks the first mural collaboration between Lost.Optics, Pisica Pătrată and Anca Mureșan. Works on paper by Giles Eldridge, Irina Matthes and Bernd Kastner were integrated into the installation from March 2023. The mural continues to evolve in a flexible way under the institutional circumstances and based on the dialogue between its authors.

The Goethe Institute Bucharest hosts the launch of the first two volumes EFFI & PYM and PYM.EFFI by Beatrice von Babel in the context of the mural created by Pisica Patrata, Anca Muresan, Lost.Optics. The mural in the Pavilion 32 is part of the exhibition Under the House produced by BvB Foundation in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, the French Institute and ARCUB, Bucharest.

The artist talk will be attended by: artist Anca Muresan, author Caius Dobrescu, gallerist Dan Popescu. Introduction dr. Joachim Umlauf.

Monday 27^th November at 7.30pm, Calea Dorobanti 32, Bucharest