Gallery
Founded in 2014 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Gallery built an international reputation for discovering unique talent and taking risks.
In 2015, the Gallery launched its first residency program in Harare, Zimbabwe, and in 2017, it built its second location outside of Harare, where it is surrounded by bushland and small villages. Coined CTG Harare, the space was designed by artist Rachel Monosov and is organized in collaboration with local partners Dzimbanhete Art Interactions. Its mission is to set international artists in conversation with local creators and communities. The years spent in Zimbabwe have allowed the Gallery the time and knowledge to add a robust voice from the Continet to its roster.
In 2020, the Gallery moved its primary exhibition space from NYC to Bucharest, Romania, where it is currently adding an Easter European position to its program; parallels between post-communism and post-collonialism becoming more pronounced. Current projects include a trans-Continental art-centric look at Nicolae Ceausescu’s involvement in Zimbabwe’s and Mozambique’s liberation movements in the 1970s-1980s. This ambitious undertaking is headed by Raphael Guilbert, the Gallery’s Co-Director who joined the team in January 2015, initially as an intern.
This itinerant experience is reflected in the Gallery’s work collaboratively with its artists as the CTG Collective, which oganizes art residencies internationally with editions thus far in Canada, Finalnd, Germany, Nigeria, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe.
The Gallery also functions as a platform for multi-disciplinary engagements with a focus on performative practices. Major Projects include: TRANS-Ville (2017-2018), a performance art series transpired in its New York City window during which 31 artists approached states of transition from gender to politics to poetry, co-curated with Coco Dolle; and Video+Radio+Live, a performance-based collaborative project by 6 Romanian galleries, which was selected by the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara (2021) as a collateral event.
READ MORE: The First 5 Years: 2014-2019
Founder
Catinca Tabacaru earned her bachelor degree from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and her juris doctorate and masters in international law from Duke University (2007). She spent her graduate school years working for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
After two years working as a litigation attorney in New York City, Tabacaru started Women’s Voices Now, a not-for-profit organization aimed at giving voice to women living in Muslim-majority countries through the medium of film (2010). She curated Women’s Voices from the Muslim World, a collection of 99 short-films from 40 countries, which was made freely available on the web and, at its peak, was watched in 176 countries. She passed on Women’s Voices Now to its new leadership (2012) to focus on her work as an art dealer and curator.
After opening her eponymous Gallery in New York City in 2014, and moving it to Bucharest in 2020, Catinca Tabacaru was the instigator and co-Founder of RAD Art Fair in Bucharest, Romania, and has been acting as its co-Artistic Director since the inaugural edition in 2023. She also co-Founded Doi Joi, a second-Thursdays program started in Bucharest in 2022, which expands nationally in 2024.
Team
Catinca Tabacaru
Founder & Co-Director
Raphael Guilbert
Co-Director
Marta Mattioli
Gallery Manager
Sorina Herghelegiu
Registrar
Petra Pascu
Social Media
Chikonzero Chazunguza
CTG Harare Partner
Galeria Catinca Tabacaru
Calea Giulești 14, Etaj 3
Bucharest, RO 012244
TEL: +40 (0) 722 430 430
CTG Harare
Plot 1, Stonehurts
Harare, Zimbabwe
+263 7 83499954
By appointment