[4] In 2005, he co-founded Galeria Plan B[5] in Cluj, together with Mihai Pop, a production and exhibition space for contemporary art.

[5] His work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, including at Tate Liverpool, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.

[8] In February 2016, the large oil on canvas painting "The Sunflowers of 1937"[9] inspired by Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" was sold in London for £3,177,000 at a Sotheby's auction, marking it the most expensive painting sold by the Romanian artist.

[4][8] Ghenie does not use traditional tools of the painter or brushes, but a palette knife and stencils.

[1] He paints portraits of 20th century figures, particularly those associated with genocide and mass suffering, that appear in his work gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled.