Dan Arcus

« My artistic exploration develops on two intertwined directions. The psychological impact of the image and the technical means to achieve an emotional response where different mediums are manipulated with a variety of tools and the random results of spontaneous gestures are then either enhanced or erased, scratched or diffused until they start to make sense in a story that evolves alongside with the composition itself. »


Born on 5 June 1983, Dan Arcus graduated from the University of Art an Design of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, where he followed the decorative arts program specializing in fashion design.

After a few years of activity in the Romanian fashion scene in Bucharest he decided to enrich his life experience and moved to Brussels in Belgium.

While preoccupied by the means of survival in a new society and culture he realized that painting and drawing were omnipresent in his life since childhood so he decided to focus on exploring these mediums and in time he managed to book his first exhibition in an art gallery.

His works are now part of more than 150 private collections around the world, and evolved from statement portraits to elaborate figurative compositions, where the viewers are invited to question the g...

University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

January-March 2021 - Group exhibition @ Ubique Gallery in Dinant, Belgium

December 2019 - Solo exhibition at the European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg

June 2019 - Group exhibition at the National Museum of Art of Cluj Napoca, Romania

March-May 2019 - Solo show @GalerieLaval in Liege, Belgium

2018 - ArtOpenKunst(Carte de visite)-Espace Vanderborght(The Independent), Brussels
2017 - Emergences-Centre Dansaert Brussels, solo show
2008 - Fashion concept exhibition Prêt a porter Paris Porte de Versailles
2007 - Group exhibition in Belgrade Fashion Fair
2006 - 2008-Group exhibition in Romanian National Fashion Festival, Iasi
2003-2009 - group exhibition in Romanian Fashion Fair, Cluj-Napoca