For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, the Berlin-based photographer Diana Pfammatter expands her series Artist Studio / Install, turning her focus to selected artists from this year’s program.

In her abstract compositions, Marieta Chirulescu (b. 1974 in Sibiu, Romania; lives and works in Berlin) moves beyond the traditional boundaries of painting, bringing together a range of techniques and processes. Drawing on photography, scans, copies, and printmaking methods, she integrates and transforms these elements within her painterly practice. The resulting works feel at once familiar and elusive, oscillating between clarity and dissolution.

For Chirulescu, the canvas serves as a point of departure—a surface upon which her visual language unfolds and the possibilities of painting are expanded. On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, she presents new works with Galeria Plan B. Starting from digital image sources that function as the basis for painterly transformation, she develops layered compositions that hover between abstraction and representation.

Fragments emerge, overlap, dissolve, and reconfigure, while fine traces traverse the surface, as if images briefly appear only to vanish again. Planes drift across one another, creating fragile spatial relationships. Subtle fields of color generate a fine sense of “static noise.” Through processes of layering and superimposition, Chirulescu engages deliberately with the flatness of the painted surface, from which she constructs visual spaces that abandon fixed perspective and assume an autonomous, self-contained form.