SEBASTIAN HOSU

BIOGRAPHY

Sebastian Hosu (b. 1988, Satu Mare, Romania) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. Trained in painting and free art at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Hosu pursued further studies at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, and completed his Meisterschüler at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.

His large-scale paintings are known for their gestural intensity, luminous palettes, and the fluid interplay between figure and environment. Blurring the line between abstraction and representation, Hosu often depicts fragmented bodies in motion, suspended within hybrid spaces that shift between the natural and the artificial. His work explores the body as a site of energy, memory, and connection, both to the landscape and to the emotional traces it holds. Hosu’s practice reflects a deep engagement with the act of painting itself. Each composition becomes a charged field where color, motion, and intuition collide. Nature in his work is not scenic but symbolic, an elemental force through which he examines the human desire for presence, rootedness, and continuity in an increasingly digitized and fractured world.

He has exhibited internationally at institutions and galleries including the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest, Double Q Gallery in Hong Kong, DUVE Berlin, and Philipp Anders Gallery in Wetzlar. A three-time recipient of the Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, his work is held in prestigious public and private collections such as the Dresden State Art Collections, MdbK Leipzig, and the Zabludowicz Collection.

Sebastian Hosu’s canvases do not depict moments. They channel them. With urgency and openness, they offer a space where color and movement hold emotion and where the viewer is invited into the quiet intensity of being.