EVA Foundation Brings International Female Artists to Bucharest

Spotlight EVA International Lets a Hundred Flowers Bloom Stephanie Bailey

Bucharest’s newest art space, the EVA Foundation, opens today in a newly restored 1930s townhouse in the Romana neighbourhood, near the city’s academic centre. The foundation describes itself as the first of its kind in Bucharest dedicated to female artists.

The inaugural group exhibition, entitled Sirens, will show a broad spectrum of work from the collection, with Judy Chicago’s Rainbow Man (1984) taking centre stage alongside work by artists from various countries, movements, and generations.

Founder and curatorial director Ecaterina (Cati Vlad) Aguiar-Lucander says the opening has been ‘a long time coming’.

‘EVA represents a vision I’ve held for years—a transnational and intersectional collection of exclusively women artists, where art and critical engagement intersect in ways that feel both personal and globally resonant,’ she tells Ocula.

‘I was thrilled to host an international group of artists, collectors, and dealers here in Romania to celebrate the opening,’ says Aguiar-Lucander. ‘There was such an incredible sense of exchange, of curiosity, and of recognition for Bucharest’s growing cultural presence.’

Other artists on view include Howardena Pindell, Jenny Holzer, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Huma Bhabha, Yayoi Kusama, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Martha Jungwirth, Latifa Echakhch, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

The foundation’s collection also includes works by Romanian artists, such as New York School expat Hedda Sterne and contemporary sculptor Andra Ursuța, as Aguiar-Lucander looks to advance feminist art histories as well as the Romanian art scene.

Bucharest-born Aguiar-Lucander is the daughter of Anca Vlad, founder of a leading Romanian pharmaceutical distributor. —[O]

Main image: Exhibition view: Sirens, EVA Foundation, Bucharest (2025). Courtesy EVA Foundation. Photo: Catalin Georgescu.