In May 2023, in Bucharest, MoBU is dedicating a long-awaited retrospective to master Daniel Spoerri.

The artist was born on 27 March 1930, in Galați. In 1942, he took refuge in his mother’s native Switzerland with his family, after his father had been arrested and assassinated by the Nazi regime a year before. Later on, he becomes a principal dancer at the Bern Opera House, a visual artist, sculptor, university professor in Germany, book author. He conceptualized the snare picture, which he defined as follows: "objects, which are found in randomly orderly or disorderly situations, are mounted on whatever they are found on (table, box, drawer, etc.) in the exact constellation they are found in(...)". The invention of the snare picture marks the beginning of his career as a visual artist. He exhibited his snare pictures for the first time at the «Festival d'art d'avantgarde'' in Paris in 1960 and continued to conceive and present them for more than thirty years.

Spoerri is one of the founders of Nouveau Réalisme (the New Realism movement), also started in 1960, with a joint manifesto he signed alongside the likes of Yves Klein, Arman, Francois Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Pierre Restany, Jean Tinguely and Jacques de la Villeglé; later others joined.

The Nouveau Réalisme movement is related to Pop-Art: similar, but different from Pop-Art, with which it coexisted. There are clear parallels, but New Realism is distinctive in that it is much more European, and specifically much more French, reflecting the "dark side of capitalism", unlike Pop-Art which focused on the brilliancy. As a group of artists, those of Nouveau Réalisme manage to stand out through an enormous diversity of expression, but they have in common the direct appropriation of reality in their works or, as the new realist Pierre Restany put it, "a poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality". The movement proposed the use of parts of reality that artists incorporated into their works, seeking to unite life and art in an explicit way.

Daniel Spoerri established himself as an artist through a series of very diverse artistic events and projects. Since 1978, as a university professor and educator, he has organized a variety of exhibitions and banquets. When he opened "Restaurant Spoerri" and "Eat Art Galerie" in Düsseldorf in 1968, he established himself as the founder of the Eat Art movement. For Spoerri in Eat Art, the act of eating and drinking becomes an integral part of the cycle of life. His art deals with found objects and process art, because for him the fixed moment in time is only one aspect of the whole cycle that encompasses life and death, decay and reincarnation. A central theme in Spoerri's work is the questioning of (food) habits. By alienating food, he questions long-established sensory perceptions and traditions, or at least throws them into disarray. This is also an important element of Spoerri's Eat Art banquets.

From 1983 to 1989 he worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. In 1989 he gave up that chair and devoted himself to his own sculpture garden. Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Tuscany, Italy still exists today and can be visited, containing over 100 works by the artist and his sculptor friends.