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I am an artist from Republic of Moldova

While my primary focus is  painting  with oil on canvas across various scales, my practice extends into photography, graphic design, and installation. Having explored mediums like tempera, acrylics, and spray paint, I find that oil remains my most intuitive language.

I conceptualize my practice as a laboratory for the study of human behavior. Whether working in oil on canvas or through large-scale installations, I aim to expose the underlying patterns and social contours that typically vanish beneath the glare of everyday life. Now, living in the shadow of a major conflict, in Ukraine my work has evolved into a form of vigilance—a persistent search for a visual language to articulate the pervasive state of alert and uncertainty that defines our collective present.

Education 

2002-2004

Masters,
University of Arts, Chisinau,

Republic of Moldova

1997-2002

University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

1997-2002

High School of Fine Arts “Igor Vieru”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Solo & Group Exhibitions

2025

August 22th - September 19th 2025

4rd Toolip International Art Contest

Toolip Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2024

June 24 - June28 - August28

3rd Toolip International Art Contest

Toolip Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2023

NEW IDOLS

Solo Exhibition, Artcor Center

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2017

 WORK IN PROGRESS

Solo Exhibition, iHUB Chisinau,

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2017

AT DUTY / LA DATORIE

Chisinau Municipal Library B.P. Hașdeu

Solo Exhibition, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2015

MAD in MOLDOVA

Solo Exhibition, MolDeco Gallery,

Chisinau, Moldova

2015

EUROPE DAYS

Tipografia Center, Group Exhibition

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2015

“ART-PLOSHADKA”

Waiting for better times, Zaheta Project Room

Group Exhibition, Warsaw, Poland

2015

Vienna Showcase Art Fair

MOYA Museum Vienna, Austria

2015

Within & Without Contemporary Portraits, Brick Lane Gallery, Group Exhibition

London, UK

© 2025 by Stefan Esanu.                                                                                                                                   stefanesanu@stefanesanu.com      tel: +373 79100376

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