Daniel Moldoveanu

Daniel Moldoveanu (b. 1999, Constanța, Romania) is an Austrian artist and essayist. He holds a diploma from the Fashion Institute of Vienna, Austria, a BA in Cultural Studies and Art History from the Humboldt University and has attended the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he presently lives and works. His interdisciplinary approach circles around ideas of superficiality, examined in creative writing through the lenses of philosophy, critical theory and cultural analysis; and in visual arts through painting, video, mixed media, and photography. His work interrogates the ways in which visual and material culture are circulated, commodified, and repurposed.

Moldoveanu's work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Linseed Projects (Shanghai, 2025), Kunsthalle Zürich (Zürich, 2024), GROTTO (Berlin, 2024), Invitro (Bucharest, 2024), SABOT (Cluj-Napoca, 2023). His essays, reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in Artforum, Spike Art Magazine, 032c, Arts of the Working Class, Sleek Magazine, POP-Kultur & Kritik, Nuda Paper among others.

Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (Tom of Finland, games arcades, freaks, magic, ectoplasm, Jacqueline Susann, MAP magazine, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Coney Island, True Confessions, nunchucks, throwing stars, Japanese monster movies, Shiva's wedding, explosions, unconvincing special effects, Sailor Moon, anything that happens underwater, Mad Monkey Kung Fu, Buda Fiersten and The Thundering Mantis, Chuck Norris's chest hair, Mexican wrestlers, cage fighting, cosplay, kickboxing, Hulk Hogan, Georges Bataille, Go Nagai, the Shaw Brothers, Baby Aars at the River Sticks, He-Man, every teen movie ever made in the 60s, 70s, 80s)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (deep-fried Oreos, haunted house attractions, televangelists in sequined suits, suburban witchcraft, VHS horror rentals, Slim Jim commercials, pro wrestling melodrama, John Waters’ dream cast, bootleg anime tapes, smutty pulp novels, cyberpunk leather, toxic waste mutations, Velvet Goldmine, Spaghetti Westerns, vintage neon signage, reality TV meltdowns, mall goth aesthetics, Lizzie Borden’s hatchet, Kiss tribute bands, Pee-wee Herman’s playhouse, bubblegum-scented stickers, acid-washed denim, roller rink romances, abandoned amusement parks, The Exorcist meets Lisa Frank, Warhol’s Factory, goth clubs in the early 2000s, Marilyn Manson vs. Britney Spears, discount magic kits, fog machines and laser beams)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (David Gest, Liza Minelli and Elisabeth Taylor. Oil on velvet paintings, shag pile carpet, plastic furniture, fluorescent colors, black lightning strobes, not giving a good screaming Goddamn about modernism, entertainment comics, the word: wacky, lip gloss, novelty, beer can holders, tanning salons, lube, instant cake mix, Rondo Hatton, amazing stories, Manic Panic, Farrah Fawcett, Sonny Chiba. Conan The Barbarian, superhero movies and TV shows, every comic book ever produced anywhere. Jackie Chan)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Nocturnal Animals (with Antone Liu)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Bench (Nocturnal Animals II) / in collaboration with Antone Liu
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Bench (Nocturnal Animals II) / in collaboration with Antone Liu
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled (Electrowuff, Toshio Saeki)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled (Tom of Finland, Nikolai Tereshchenko)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Rude Awakening
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled (And who by fire, Who by water, Who in the sunshine, Who in the nighttime, Who by high ordeal, Who by common trial, Who in your merry merry month of May, Who by very slow decay, And who by brave assent, Who by accident, Who in solitude, Who in this mirror, Who by his lady's command, Who by his own hand, Who in mortal chains, Who in power, And who shall I say is calling?)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (pink and green)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (white, grey, darker grey)
Daniel Moldoveanu — I'm so cold, I'm dripping icicles
Daniel Moldoveanu — I'm so cold, I'm dripping icicles
Daniel Moldoveanu — Yami Kawaii, Finland of Tom
Daniel Moldoveanu — Eloquence! Eloquence ! Eloquence !
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (Tip-Ex florals)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (orange, green, shades of gray)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Eloquence ! Eloquence ! Eloquence !
Daniel Moldoveanu — Eloquence ! Eloquence ! Eloquence !
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (neon green)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Zürich Biennial / Kunsthalle Zürich
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled (gray shades)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Tom of Finland, Conradus Kyeser (Kunst und Wunderbuch)
Daniel Moldoveanu — The Whatever Moment
Daniel Moldoveanu — Image 4, Scene 3
Daniel Moldoveanu — Flickering
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (mint)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled Wallpaper (yellow and green)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Patternmaking
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled
Daniel Moldoveanu — Untitled (Viewer Instruction Manual)
Daniel Moldoveanu — Tenwi
Daniel Moldoveanu — Moonman
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