Artists
Artists working with Small House through residencies, collaborations, research, and shared practice.
Diana Butucariu
Originally from Bucharest and based in Stockholm, I am a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with ceramics and glass. My practice centers on sculptural objects that merge techniques from different craft traditions, combining varied textures, materials, and processes. Alongside this, I am deeply engaged with sustainability as a critical concern of our time—questioning material sourcing, production methods, and longevity. Through a sensory and material-driven approach, my work explores the fragile boundary between a present gesture and a forgotten movement, while reflecting on responsibility and care in contemporary making.
Erik Lindeborg
I have played piano since early childhood and studied it for fifteen years, performing and releasing albums internationally between 2008 and 2015, and founding the label Small House. Since 2011, my practice has shifted toward art and performance, alongside artistic research into sustainable music-making, including a research project at Konstfack’s Research Lab (2023–2024). Alongside this, I work as an enterprise IT developer and cloud specialist.
Lucian Butucariu
Graduated from the Art Institute “Nicolae Grigorescu” in 1982, specializing in glass under Dan Popovici and Ioan Lucia. From 1982, he worked in the creative departments of Avrig and Stirom S.A. Bucharest, developing prototypes for mass production for clients in Romania and abroad. Since 1990, he has taught at the National University of Arts Bucharest and has led the Ceramics, Glass, and Metal Department since 2012. A member of the Romanian Union of Artists since 1990, he has played a key role in organizing major events within the glass and craft field and has participated in nearly all union exhibitions since 1982.
Maria Bordeanu
Maria Bordeanu holds an MFA in Painting from UNARTE Bucharest (2007) and lives and works in Stockholm. Her practice combines photorealistic, figurative, and cinematic imagery, drawing on baroque aesthetics, photography, memory, and media culture. Her recent work explores the dialogue between landscape and the human figure, often through dystopian and post-human metaphors. In 2024 she represents Romania at the Durres International Biennale of Contemporary Art and was selected for acquisition by the Brukenthal National Museum. In summer 2025, she takes part in an artist residency at Villa San Michele in Capri, Italy.
Mihai Coltofean
Mihai Coltofean holds an MA in Painting from the National University of Arts Bucharest and is active as both an artist and art educator. He has exhibited widely in Romania and internationally, with solo exhibitions in Bucharest and group shows in cities including Paris, Copenhagen, Geneva, and Stockholm. His painting practice focuses on the human figure in states of transformation and emotional tension, combining figurative clarity with distortion, movement, and cinematic lighting. Through psychologically charged imagery, his work explores themes of identity, vulnerability, and inner conflict, drawing on personal experience and contemporary visual culture.
George Bordeanu
George Bordeanu is a Stockholm-based game art director and visual creative, known for shaping the visual worlds of major AAA video games. His work bridges traditional artistic sensibilities with advanced digital media, emphasizing narrative depth, atmosphere, and aesthetic coherence in interactive spaces. George’s artistic approach reflects a long-standing commitment to visual storytelling and collaborative creative processes across international studios.