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File:AncaPoterasu.jpg

2026-04-16T12:43:24Z

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== Summary ==
"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Ioana Cîrlig, 2026

== Licensing ==
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Anca Poterașu Gallery

2026-04-16T12:42:55Z

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== Anca Poterașu Gallery ==
[[File:AncaPoterasuGalleryLOGO.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''Anca Poterașu Gallery''', founded in 2011 in Bucharest, Romania, is committed to supporting and promoting contemporary Romanian artists, with a focus, from the very beginning, on representing women artists, (working with 9 women artists from total 16 represented artists, as of 2026). The gallery fosters artistic dialogue and exploration, representing both emerging and established artists, while actively contributing to the development of the local and international art scene.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery fosters relevant critical reflection, curatorial innovation, and cross-cultural collaboration.
 
 
[[File:AncaPoterasuGallerySurroundings.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery - Surroundings" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
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==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Anetta Mona Chişă]]
[[Aurora Király]]
[[Decebal Scriba]]
[[Delia Popa]]
[[Doina Simionescu]]
[[Dragoș Bădiță]]
[[Ioana Cîrlig]]
[[Iosif Király]]
[[Iulian Bisericaru]]
[[kinema ikon]]
[[Matei Bejenaru]]
[[Megan Dominescu]]
[[Oana Coșug]]
Orit Ishay
[[Sebastian Hosu]]
Yasmina Assbane
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2026 - [[Iulian Bisericaru]], solo exhibition, Fragments of Poetic Nature
* 2025 - [[Megan Dominescu]], solo exhibition, if we lived here, we’d be home by now
* 2025 - [[Aurora Király]], solo exhibition, Beyond the photographic frame
* 2025 - [[Delia Popa]], solo exhibition, Loc de acțiune – Crețești
* 2024 - [[Andreja Kulunčić]], solo exhibition, You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
* 2024 - [[Zoya Laktionova]], solo exhibition, Memory Practices
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2026 - Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, Marian Mina Mihai, group exhibition, The Internexus of (Living) Things
* 2026 - [[Delia Popa]], Morgane Denzler, Damien Rouxel, [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Andreea Medar]] and Ilie Mihali, group exhibition, Agir dans son lieu — Săcel
* 2025 - [[Alex Bodea]] and [[Dragoș Bădiță]], group exhibition, Present is a foreign country
* 2025 - Linn Rebekka Åmo, [[Megan Dominescu]], Loredana Ilie, [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], group exhibition, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
* 2024 - Yasmina Assbane, [[Aurora Király]], Yana Bachynska, [[Megan Dominescu]], [[Anetta Mona Chișă]], Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Tanja Boukal, Željko Beljan, [[Bogdan Rață]], Dan Visovan, [[Delia Popa]], [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], Loredana Ilie, Ilie Mihali, Donald Simionoiu, group exhibition, The Line of the Valley – Part II
* 2024 - [[Irina Botea-Bucan]] & Jon Dean, Choi Yun, Lena Constante, Jang Pa, kinema ikon, Elena Haschke Marinescu, Nho Wonhee, Ada Pistiner, group exhibition, Prietena mea genială / 나의 눈부신 친구 / My Brilliant Friend
* 2024 - [[Matei Bejenaru]], [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Aurora Király]], [[Iosif Király]], [[Delia Popa]], group exhibition, Ecology of the After Life
 
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==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Anca Poterașu]]
[[File:AncaPoterasu.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Ioana Cîrlig, 2026]]
 
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==== Selected art fairs ====
* 2026, 2025, 2024 - [[RAD]]
* 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 - [[Paris Photo]]
* 2025 - [[OFFSCREEN Paris]]
* 2025 - [[Liste Art Fair Basel]]
* 2025, 2023 - [[NADA New York]]
* 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. 2018 - [[NADA Miami]]
* 2025 - [[Art Düsseldorf]]
* 2024, 2023 - [[Arco Lisboa]]
* 2019 - [[Arco Madrid]]
* 2024, 2023, 2022 - [[Art Brussels]]
* 2023 - [[Zona Maco]]
* 2022 - [[Frieze Sculpture]]
* 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 - [[Artissima]]
* 2018, 2017 - [[LOOP Barcelona]]
* 2017 - [[Vienna Contemporary Art Fair]]
 
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==== Press ====
* Article in art blog Doi Joi, ”Anca Poterașu Gallery, Interview with Anca Poterașu”<ref>https://doijoi.art/en/gallery/anca-poterasu</ref>
* Article in Frieze<ref>https://www.frieze.com/article/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery-2023-review</ref>
* Article in online news platform Curatorial.ro<ref>https://curatorial.ro/en/art/anca-poterasu-gallery-at-nada-new-york-2025/</ref>
* Presentation in CNAP France Repertoire<ref>https://www.cnap.fr/annuaire/lieu/anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
* Article in news, Telekom Art Collection<ref>https://www.art-collection-telekom.com/en/news/you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it-andreja-kuluncic</ref>
* Article in news, Austrian Cultural Forum<ref>https://www.bmeia.gv.at/kf-bukarest/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/detail/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/ https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/]
 
 
----
[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]

Anca Poterașu Gallery

2026-04-16T10:19:21Z

Npk: /* Selected art fairs */

== Anca Poterașu Gallery ==
[[File:AncaPoterasuGalleryLOGO.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''Anca Poterașu Gallery''', founded in 2011 in Bucharest, Romania, is committed to supporting and promoting contemporary Romanian artists, with a focus, from the very beginning, on representing women artists, (working with 9 women artists from total 16 represented artists, as of 2026). The gallery fosters artistic dialogue and exploration, representing both emerging and established artists, while actively contributing to the development of the local and international art scene.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery fosters relevant critical reflection, curatorial innovation, and cross-cultural collaboration.
 
 
[[File:AncaPoterasuGallerySurroundings.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery - Surroundings" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
----
==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Anetta Mona Chişă]]
[[Aurora Király]]
[[Decebal Scriba]]
[[Delia Popa]]
[[Doina Simionescu]]
[[Dragoș Bădiță]]
[[Ioana Cîrlig]]
[[Iosif Király]]
[[Iulian Bisericaru]]
[[kinema ikon]]
[[Matei Bejenaru]]
[[Megan Dominescu]]
[[Oana Coșug]]
Orit Ishay
[[Sebastian Hosu]]
Yasmina Assbane
 
 
----
==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2026 - [[Iulian Bisericaru]], solo exhibition, Fragments of Poetic Nature
* 2025 - [[Megan Dominescu]], solo exhibition, if we lived here, we’d be home by now
* 2025 - [[Aurora Király]], solo exhibition, Beyond the photographic frame
* 2025 - [[Delia Popa]], solo exhibition, Loc de acțiune – Crețești
* 2024 - [[Andreja Kulunčić]], solo exhibition, You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
* 2024 - [[Zoya Laktionova]], solo exhibition, Memory Practices
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2026 - Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, Marian Mina Mihai, group exhibition, The Internexus of (Living) Things
* 2026 - [[Delia Popa]], Morgane Denzler, Damien Rouxel, [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Andreea Medar]] and Ilie Mihali, group exhibition, Agir dans son lieu — Săcel
* 2025 - [[Alex Bodea]] and [[Dragoș Bădiță]], group exhibition, Present is a foreign country
* 2025 - Linn Rebekka Åmo, [[Megan Dominescu]], Loredana Ilie, [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], group exhibition, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
* 2024 - Yasmina Assbane, [[Aurora Király]], Yana Bachynska, [[Megan Dominescu]], [[Anetta Mona Chișă]], Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Tanja Boukal, Željko Beljan, [[Bogdan Rață]], Dan Visovan, [[Delia Popa]], [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], Loredana Ilie, Ilie Mihali, Donald Simionoiu, group exhibition, The Line of the Valley – Part II
* 2024 - [[Irina Botea-Bucan]] & Jon Dean, Choi Yun, Lena Constante, Jang Pa, kinema ikon, Elena Haschke Marinescu, Nho Wonhee, Ada Pistiner, group exhibition, Prietena mea genială / 나의 눈부신 친구 / My Brilliant Friend
* 2024 - [[Matei Bejenaru]], [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Aurora Király]], [[Iosif Király]], [[Delia Popa]], group exhibition, Ecology of the After Life
 
----
 
==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Anca Poterașu]]
[[File:AncaPoterasu.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026]]
 
----
==== Selected art fairs ====
* 2026, 2025, 2024 - [[RAD]]
* 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 - [[Paris Photo]]
* 2025 - [[OFFSCREEN Paris]]
* 2025 - [[Liste Art Fair Basel]]
* 2025, 2023 - [[NADA New York]]
* 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. 2018 - [[NADA Miami]]
* 2025 - [[Art Düsseldorf]]
* 2024, 2023 - [[Arco Lisboa]]
* 2019 - [[Arco Madrid]]
* 2024, 2023, 2022 - [[Art Brussels]]
* 2023 - [[Zona Maco]]
* 2022 - [[Frieze Sculpture]]
* 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 - [[Artissima]]
* 2018, 2017 - [[LOOP Barcelona]]
* 2017 - [[Vienna Contemporary Art Fair]]
 
----

==== Press ====
* Article in art blog Doi Joi, ”Anca Poterașu Gallery, Interview with Anca Poterașu”<ref>https://doijoi.art/en/gallery/anca-poterasu</ref>
* Article in Frieze<ref>https://www.frieze.com/article/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery-2023-review</ref>
* Article in online news platform Curatorial.ro<ref>https://curatorial.ro/en/art/anca-poterasu-gallery-at-nada-new-york-2025/</ref>
* Presentation in CNAP France Repertoire<ref>https://www.cnap.fr/annuaire/lieu/anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
* Article in news, Telekom Art Collection<ref>https://www.art-collection-telekom.com/en/news/you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it-andreja-kuluncic</ref>
* Article in news, Austrian Cultural Forum<ref>https://www.bmeia.gv.at/kf-bukarest/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/detail/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/ https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/]
 
 
----
[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]

418 Gallery

2026-04-16T10:17:56Z

Npk: /* 3.Selected art fairs */

== 418 Gallery ==
[[File:418_Gallery_-_Antonella_Grevers.jpg|thumb|"418 Gallery - View from Gallery show" / (c) [[Antonella Grevers]], 2023]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''418 Gallery''' was founded in Bucharest in 2008. Dr. Joana Grevers, an art historian of Romanian origin, and Guy K. Williamson, an American businessperson and art collector. Since 2017, the gallery has headquarters in Cetate and became the first rural gallery in Romania. The generous architectural space at Cetate, a former agricultural family estate from the second half of the 19th century, is an unusual environment and an ideal match for young cutting-edge artists working on a large scale. Since 2008, 418 Gallery and the Joana Grevers Foundation have organized the [[Cetate Arts Danube Residency]] every summer, a workshop for Romanian and international artists. Since 2017, the gallery opened a branch office in Munich, where most of the works are stored and can be viewed. At regular intervals, we held private views of the representative works of selected artists.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery considers Abstract Expressionism one of the most interesting and historically relevant artistic developments post-WWII. The Abstract Expressionist movement emerged at the peak of the Cold War and, against all odds, managed to reach and influence artists living in imposed seclusion in communist countries of Eastern Europe. Abstract Expressionism behind the Iron Curtain represents a highly relevant and startling artistic movement..
 
 
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==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Maria Bordeanu]]
[[Adina Mocanu]]
[[Mihail Coșulețu]]
[[Ștefan Radu Crețu]]
[[Lavinia Crețu]]
[[Iulian Cristea]]
[[Andrei Hâncu]]
[[Romul Nutiu]]
[[Petrică Ștefan]]
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
NA
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2026 - Light Horizons, at 418 GALLERY Munich- [[Maria Bordeanu]], [[Ștefan Radu Crețu]], [[Adina Mocanu]], Emma Durovray, [[Albert Kaan]], Johannes Vogl, [[Victoria Zidaru]]<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2025/10/24/expozitie-de-grup-light-horizons-418-gallery-munich/</ref>
* 2025 - Lisez l’histoire et le tableau, at 418 GALLERY Cetate - [[Mihail Coșulețu]], curator [[Ruxandra Demetrescu]]
* 2025 - Expanding Horizons, at 418 GALLERY Munich - In the 60s and 70s, Vincentiu Grigorescu, Andrej Jemec, Edo Murtic, Romul Nutiu, Diet Sayler, Hedda Sterne
* 2022 - Other Worlds on paper, at 418 GALLERY Munich - [[Maria Bordeanu]], [[Mihail Coșulețu]], [[Ștefan Radu Crețu]], [[Lavinia Crețu]], [[Iulian Cristea]], [[Andrei Hâncu]], Andrej Jemec, Constantin Luser, Edo Murtic, [[Romul Nutiu]], Diet Sayler]], [[Petrică Ștefan]], Johannes Vogl<ref>https://propagarta.ro/stiri/other-worlds-on-paper-o-noua-expozitie-cu-artisti-romani-emergenti-dar-si-consacrati-la-418-gallery-din-munchen/</ref>
 
===== 3.Selected art fairs =====
* 2025, 2024, 2022, 2017 - [[Artissima]]
* 2025, 2026 - [[RAD]]
* 2025, 2024 - [[Stage Bregenz]]
* 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 - [[Art Brussels]]
* 2024, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 - [[Vienna Contemporary]]
* 2023 - [[Art Cologne]]
* 2021, 2020 - [[Paper Positions]]
* 2017 - [[International Kinetic Art]]
* 2016 - [[Art 16 London Global Art Fair]]
* 2016 - [[Scope Basel]]
* 2014 - [[Kölner Art Liste]]
* 2014 - [[Art International Istanbul]]
* 2014 - [[Vienna Fair]]
* 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 - [[Art Toronto]]
* 2012 - [[Art Market Budapest]]
* 2010 - [[Art Palm Beach]]
* 2009 - [[Art Santa Fe]]
 
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==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Joana Grevers]]
[[File:Joana Grevers - Antonella Grevers.jpg|thumb|"[[Joana Grevers]] - Gallery Owner at 418 Gallery" / (c) [[Antonella Grevers]], 2024]]
 
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==== Press ====
* https://www.societateamuzicala.ro/locurileculturii/418-gallery/
* https://bucuresti.gallery/galleries/418-2/
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/418gallery/ https://www.instagram.com/418gallery/]
 
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[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Romania]]

418 Gallery

2026-04-16T10:17:21Z

Npk: /* 3.Selected art fairs */

== 418 Gallery ==
[[File:418_Gallery_-_Antonella_Grevers.jpg|thumb|"418 Gallery - View from Gallery show" / (c) [[Antonella Grevers]], 2023]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''418 Gallery''' was founded in Bucharest in 2008. Dr. Joana Grevers, an art historian of Romanian origin, and Guy K. Williamson, an American businessperson and art collector. Since 2017, the gallery has headquarters in Cetate and became the first rural gallery in Romania. The generous architectural space at Cetate, a former agricultural family estate from the second half of the 19th century, is an unusual environment and an ideal match for young cutting-edge artists working on a large scale. Since 2008, 418 Gallery and the Joana Grevers Foundation have organized the [[Cetate Arts Danube Residency]] every summer, a workshop for Romanian and international artists. Since 2017, the gallery opened a branch office in Munich, where most of the works are stored and can be viewed. At regular intervals, we held private views of the representative works of selected artists.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery considers Abstract Expressionism one of the most interesting and historically relevant artistic developments post-WWII. The Abstract Expressionist movement emerged at the peak of the Cold War and, against all odds, managed to reach and influence artists living in imposed seclusion in communist countries of Eastern Europe. Abstract Expressionism behind the Iron Curtain represents a highly relevant and startling artistic movement..
 
 
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==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Maria Bordeanu]]
[[Adina Mocanu]]
[[Mihail Coșulețu]]
[[Ștefan Radu Crețu]]
[[Lavinia Crețu]]
[[Iulian Cristea]]
[[Andrei Hâncu]]
[[Romul Nutiu]]
[[Petrică Ștefan]]
 
 
----
==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
NA
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2026 - Light Horizons, at 418 GALLERY Munich- [[Maria Bordeanu]], [[Ștefan Radu Crețu]], [[Adina Mocanu]], Emma Durovray, [[Albert Kaan]], Johannes Vogl, [[Victoria Zidaru]]<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2025/10/24/expozitie-de-grup-light-horizons-418-gallery-munich/</ref>
* 2025 - Lisez l’histoire et le tableau, at 418 GALLERY Cetate - [[Mihail Coșulețu]], curator [[Ruxandra Demetrescu]]
* 2025 - Expanding Horizons, at 418 GALLERY Munich - In the 60s and 70s, Vincentiu Grigorescu, Andrej Jemec, Edo Murtic, Romul Nutiu, Diet Sayler, Hedda Sterne
* 2022 - Other Worlds on paper, at 418 GALLERY Munich - [[Maria Bordeanu]], [[Mihail Coșulețu]], [[Ștefan Radu Crețu]], [[Lavinia Crețu]], [[Iulian Cristea]], [[Andrei Hâncu]], Andrej Jemec, Constantin Luser, Edo Murtic, [[Romul Nutiu]], Diet Sayler]], [[Petrică Ștefan]], Johannes Vogl<ref>https://propagarta.ro/stiri/other-worlds-on-paper-o-noua-expozitie-cu-artisti-romani-emergenti-dar-si-consacrati-la-418-gallery-din-munchen/</ref>
 
===== 3.Selected art fairs =====
* 2025, 2024, 2022, 2017 - [[Artissima]]
* 2025 - [[RAD]]
* 2025, 2024 - [[Stage Bregenz]]
* 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 - [[Art Brussels]]
* 2024, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 - [[Vienna Contemporary]]
* 2023 - [[Art Cologne]]
* 2021, 2020 - [[Paper Positions]]
* 2017 - [[International Kinetic Art]]
* 2016 - [[Art 16 London Global Art Fair]]
* 2016 - [[Scope Basel]]
* 2014 - [[Kölner Art Liste]]
* 2014 - [[Art International Istanbul]]
* 2014 - [[Vienna Fair]]
* 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 - [[Art Toronto]]
* 2012 - [[Art Market Budapest]]
* 2010 - [[Art Palm Beach]]
* 2009 - [[Art Santa Fe]]
 
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==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Joana Grevers]]
[[File:Joana Grevers - Antonella Grevers.jpg|thumb|"[[Joana Grevers]] - Gallery Owner at 418 Gallery" / (c) [[Antonella Grevers]], 2024]]
 
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==== Press ====
* https://www.societateamuzicala.ro/locurileculturii/418-gallery/
* https://bucuresti.gallery/galleries/418-2/
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/418gallery/ https://www.instagram.com/418gallery/]
 
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[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Romania]]

Galleries

2026-04-16T10:12:28Z

Npk:

==== Galleries working in/with Eastern Europe & Balkan artists ====
 
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScziTRcD7RXqYiIxs9-5v2zneSrPE0K67HsVbHJtQ24PAVV1w/viewform?usp=header Registration Form for art galleries to be included in this index]
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! data-sort-type="date" style="width: 130px;"| Gallery name !! Gallerist !! Country !! City !! Art professional !! Representing NPK registered artists:
|-
| [[418 Gallery]] || [[Joana Grevers]] || [[Germany]] || [[Munich]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Adina Mocanu]], [[Albert Kaan]], [[Andrej Jemec]], [[Cristian Răduță]], [[Diet Sayler]], [[Maria Bordeanu]], [[Mihail Cosulețu]], [[Miki Velciov]], [[Petrică Ștefan]], [[Romul Nutiu]], [[Ștefan Radu Crețu]], [[Vincențiu Grigorescu]]
|-
| [[Biju Gallery]] || [[Roxana Ghiurutan]], [[Daniel Ghiurutan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Cluj-Napoca]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Bandi Sasha Robert]], [[Mircea But]], [[Nicolae Romanițan]], [[Victoria Sadovnic But]], [[Sebastian Big]]
|-
| [[The Film Gallery]] || Pip Chodorov, [[Tatiana Moise]] || [[France]] || [[Paris]] || [[Galleries]] || -
|-
| [[GAEP]] || [[Andrei Breahnă]], [[Raluca Șoaită]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Pavel Brăila]], [[Roberta Curcă]], [[Vlad Nancă]], [[Raluca Popa]]
|-
| [[Galeria Lutnița]] || [[Andrei Sclifos]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Chișinău]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Ana Avram]], [[Alex Bodea]], [[Pavel Brăila]], [[Flaviu Cacoveanu]], [[Diana Cepleanu]], [[Anna Godzina]], [[Maria Guțu]], [[Victor Guțu]], [[Mihail Șarpe]], [[Mark Verlan]]
|-
| [[Galeria Plan B]] || [[Mihaela Lutea]], [[Mihai Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[Cluj-Napoca]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Ioana Bătrânu]], [[Cornel Brudașcu]], [[Diana Cepleanu]], [[Marieta Chirulescu]], [[Alexandra Croitoru]], [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Victor Man]], [[Tincuța Marin]], [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Iulia Nistor]], [[Mihai Olos]], [[Anca Munteanu Râmnic]], [[Cristian Rusu]], [[Șerban Savu]]
|-
| [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]] || [[Anca Poterașu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Anetta Mona Chişă]], [[Aurora Király]], [[Decebal Scriba]], [[Delia Popa]], [[Doina Simionescu]], [[Dragoș Bădiță]], [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Iosif Király]], [[Iulian Bisericaru]], [[kinema ikon]], [[Matei Bejenaru]], [[Megan Dominescu]], [[Oana Coșug]], Orit Ishay, [[Sebastian Hosu]], Yasmina Assbane
|-
| [[Sandwich Gallery]] || [[Alexandru Niculescu]], [[Daniela Pălimariu]], [[Cristian Răduță]], [[Silviu Lixandru]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Dan Perjovschi]], [[Anneta Mona Chișă]]
|-
| [[Sector 1 Gallery]] || [[Andreea Stănculeanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Andrei Nuțu]], [[Arantxa Etcheverria]], [[Lucian Popăilă]], [[Maria Brîneț]], [[Norbert Filep]]
|-
| [[SOLO Project Space]] former [[Cazul 101]] || [[Robert Băjenaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Alex Bodea]], [[Ana Botezatu]]
|-
| [[Suprainfinit]] || [[Suzana Vasilescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Bucharest]] || [[Galleries]] || [[Apparatus 22]]
|}
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Anca Poterașu

2026-04-16T10:03:03Z

Npk: Created page with "== Anca Poterașu == Anca Poterașu, born in Romania, currently living in working in Bucharest, is a gallery owner at the women-owned and managed Anca Poterașu Gallery. "Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) Ioana Cârlig, 2026]] Category: Romania"

== Anca Poterașu ==
Anca Poterașu, born in Romania, currently living in working in Bucharest, is a gallery owner at the women-owned and managed [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]. 
[[File:AncaPoterasu.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Ioana Cârlig, 2026]] 

[[Category: Romania]]

Galeria Lutnița

2026-04-16T10:00:15Z

Npk: /* Selected art fairs */

== Galeria Lutnița ==
[[File:Logo_Lutnita.jpg|thumb|"Galeria Lutnița" / (c) [[Galeria Lutnița]], 2026]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''Galeria Lutnița''', founded in the autumn of 2022, is dedicated to curating and showcasing a diverse range of contemporary practices by both emerging and established figures from the local and international art communities. In 2025, the gallery continues its activity in a new space in Chișinău, [[Moldova]], while also inaugurating a second location in the village of Ustia, [[Moldova]]. This dual structure reinforces the commitment of Galeria Lutnița to developing context-responsive exhibitions and to critically engage artistic practices with their environments.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery advances relevant contemporary practices and contributes to building meaningful and lasting connections across different art scenes, while also caring for the multifaceted artistic heritage and cultural background of the local artistic community.
 
 
[[File:Surroundings_Lutnita_Chisinau.jpg|thumb|"Galeria Lutnița - Ustia site" / (c) Lucian Spătaru, 2025]]
 
 
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==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Ana Avram]]
[[Alex Bodea]]
[[Pavel Brăila]]
[[Flaviu Cacoveanu]]
[[Diana Cepleanu]]
[[Anna Godzina]]
[[Maria Guțu]]
[[Victor Guțu]]
[[Mihail Șarpe]]
[[Mark Verlan]]
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2026 - [[Mark Verlan]], solo exhibition
* 2026 - [[Ana Avram]], solo exhibition
* 2025 - [[Pavel Brăila]], vol. II, solo exhibition
* 2025 - [[Pavel Brăila]], vol. I, solo exhibition
* 2025 - Anna Godzina, solo exhibition
* 2025 - Maria Guțu, solo exhibition
* 2024 - [[Alex Bodea]], solo exhibition
* 2024 - [[Mihail Șarpe]], solo exhibition
* 2024 - Doina Mardari, solo exhibition
* 2024 - Good life, group exhibition
* 2024 - Salt Salome, Max Svitlo, duo exhibition
* 2023 - Salt Salome, solo exhibition
* 2023 - [[Flaviu Cacoveanu]], solo exhibition
* 2023 - [[Mark Verlan]], solo exhibition
* 2022 - Camelia Filipov, solo exhibitions
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2024 - Winter, group exhibition, featuring NPK registered artists [[Alex Bodea]], [[Șerban Savu]], [[Mark Verlan]], [[Mircea But]], [[Diana Cepleanu]], [[Victoria Sadovnic]]
* 2024 - [[Doina Cepleanu]], Vasile Gorduz, duo exhibition
* 2023 - dclsmbvr, group exhibition, featuring NPK registered artist [[Doina Cepleanu]]
* 2023 - vbmmrdngmr, group exhibition, featuring NPK registered artist [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Mark Verlan]], [[Pavel Brăila]], [[Anca Munteanu Rîmnic]]
 
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==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Andrei Sclifos]]
[[File:AndreiSclifos_Lutnita.jpg|thumb|"Andrei Sclifos - Gallery Owner at [[Galeria Lutnița]]" / (c) Lucian Spătaru, 2026]]
 
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==== Selected art fairs ====
* 2026 - [[Liste Art Fair Basel]]
* 2026, 2025, 2024 - [[RAD]]
* 2025 - [[Art Brussels]]
 
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==== Press ====
* Article in art blog, ”Moldavian gallery Lutnița at Art Brussels - 2025”<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/galerie-inaugurata-la-chisinau-cu-sprijinul-plan-b-din-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* Article in Curatorial online news platform<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/galerie-inaugurata-la-chisinau-cu-sprijinul-plan-b-din-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* Article in Diez online news platform<ref>https://diez.md/2025/08/09/galeria-de-arta-lutnita-se-redeschide-in-doua-spatii-noi/</ref>
* Article in Timpul Magazine<ref>https://portal.revistatimpul.ro/timpul-chisinau/lutnita-solenoidul-chisinauian-al-artei-contemporane/</ref>
* Article in news portal Locals.md<ref>https://locals.md/2023/lutnita-2/</ref>
* Interview with Alisa Bakalova, Galeria Lutnița<ref>https://soundcloud.com/radioromaniainternational/interviu-cu-alisa-bakalova-de-la-galeria-lutnita-chisinau</ref>
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/galerialutnita/ https://www.instagram.com/galerialutnita/]
 
 
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[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Moldova]]

Anca Poterașu Gallery

2026-04-16T09:59:12Z

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== Anca Poterașu Gallery ==
[[File:AncaPoterasuGalleryLOGO.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
==== Gallery description ====
'''Anca Poterașu Gallery''', founded in 2011 in Bucharest, Romania, is committed to supporting and promoting contemporary Romanian artists, with a focus, from the very beginning, on representing women artists, (working with 9 women artists from total 16 represented artists, as of 2026). The gallery fosters artistic dialogue and exploration, representing both emerging and established artists, while actively contributing to the development of the local and international art scene.
 
 
==== Focus ====
The gallery fosters relevant critical reflection, curatorial innovation, and cross-cultural collaboration.
 
 
[[File:AncaPoterasuGallerySurroundings.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu Gallery - Surroundings" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
 
 
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==== Represented NPK Artists ====
[[Anetta Mona Chişă]]
[[Aurora Király]]
[[Decebal Scriba]]
[[Delia Popa]]
[[Doina Simionescu]]
[[Dragoș Bădiță]]
[[Ioana Cîrlig]]
[[Iosif Király]]
[[Iulian Bisericaru]]
[[kinema ikon]]
[[Matei Bejenaru]]
[[Megan Dominescu]]
[[Oana Coșug]]
Orit Ishay
[[Sebastian Hosu]]
Yasmina Assbane
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2026 - [[Iulian Bisericaru]], solo exhibition, Fragments of Poetic Nature
* 2025 - [[Megan Dominescu]], solo exhibition, if we lived here, we’d be home by now
* 2025 - [[Aurora Király]], solo exhibition, Beyond the photographic frame
* 2025 - [[Delia Popa]], solo exhibition, Loc de acțiune – Crețești
* 2024 - [[Andreja Kulunčić]], solo exhibition, You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
* 2024 - [[Zoya Laktionova]], solo exhibition, Memory Practices
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2026 - Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, Marian Mina Mihai, group exhibition, The Internexus of (Living) Things
* 2026 - [[Delia Popa]], Morgane Denzler, Damien Rouxel, [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Andreea Medar]] and Ilie Mihali, group exhibition, Agir dans son lieu — Săcel
* 2025 - [[Alex Bodea]] and [[Dragoș Bădiță]], group exhibition, Present is a foreign country
* 2025 - Linn Rebekka Åmo, [[Megan Dominescu]], Loredana Ilie, [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], group exhibition, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
* 2024 - Yasmina Assbane, [[Aurora Király]], Yana Bachynska, [[Megan Dominescu]], [[Anetta Mona Chișă]], Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Tanja Boukal, Željko Beljan, [[Bogdan Rață]], Dan Visovan, [[Delia Popa]], [[Mihaela Vezentan|Mihaela Vezentan (Moldovan)]], Loredana Ilie, Ilie Mihali, Donald Simionoiu, group exhibition, The Line of the Valley – Part II
* 2024 - [[Irina Botea-Bucan]] & Jon Dean, Choi Yun, Lena Constante, Jang Pa, kinema ikon, Elena Haschke Marinescu, Nho Wonhee, Ada Pistiner, group exhibition, Prietena mea genială / 나의 눈부신 친구 / My Brilliant Friend
* 2024 - [[Matei Bejenaru]], [[Ioana Cîrlig]], [[Aurora Király]], [[Iosif Király]], [[Delia Popa]], group exhibition, Ecology of the After Life
 
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==== Gallery Owner(s) ====
[[Anca Poterașu]]
[[File:AncaPoterasu.jpg|thumb|"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026]]
 
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==== Selected art fairs ====
* 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 - [[Paris Photo]]
* 2025 - [[OFFSCREEN Paris]]
* 2025 - [[Liste Art Fair Basel]]
* 2025, 2023 - [[NADA New York]]
* 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. 2018 - [[NADA Miami]]
* 2025 - [[Art Düsseldorf]]
* 2025, 2024 - [[RAD]]
* 2024, 2023 - [[Arco Lisboa]]
* 2019 - [[Arco Madrid]]
* 2024, 2023, 2022 - [[Art Brussels]]
* 2023 - [[Zona Maco]]
* 2022 - [[Frieze Sculpture]]
* 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 - [[Artissima]]
* 2018, 2017 - [[LOOP Barcelona]]
* 2017 - [[Vienna Contemporary Art Fair]]
 
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==== Press ====
* Article in art blog Doi Joi, ”Anca Poterașu Gallery, Interview with Anca Poterașu”<ref>https://doijoi.art/en/gallery/anca-poterasu</ref>
* Article in Frieze<ref>https://www.frieze.com/article/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery-2023-review</ref>
* Article in online news platform Curatorial.ro<ref>https://curatorial.ro/en/art/anca-poterasu-gallery-at-nada-new-york-2025/</ref>
* Presentation in CNAP France Repertoire<ref>https://www.cnap.fr/annuaire/lieu/anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
* Article in news, Telekom Art Collection<ref>https://www.art-collection-telekom.com/en/news/you-betrayed-the-party-just-when-you-should-have-helped-it-andreja-kuluncic</ref>
* Article in news, Austrian Cultural Forum<ref>https://www.bmeia.gv.at/kf-bukarest/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/detail/back-stages-anca-poterasu-gallery</ref>
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/ https://www.instagram.com/ancapoterasu.gallery/]
 
 
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[[Category:Art Gallery]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]

File:AncaPoterasu.jpg

2026-04-16T09:58:17Z

Npk: "Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026

== Summary ==
"Anca Poterașu - Gallery Owner at [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]]" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:AncaPoterasuGallerySurroundings.jpg

2026-04-16T09:57:31Z

Npk: "Anca Poterașu Gallery - Surroundings" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026

== Summary ==
"Anca Poterașu Gallery - Surroundings" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:AncaPoterasuGalleryLOGO.jpg

2026-04-16T09:54:24Z

Npk: "Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026]]

== Summary ==
"Anca Poterașu Gallery" / (c) [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], 2026]]
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh4-RalucaPopa.jpg

2026-04-16T06:37:01Z

Npk: View from show Images of the Good Life in the East, 2024, with Raluca Popa at Galeria Lutnița, Chișinău, installation view - (c) Galeria Lutnița 2025

== Summary ==
View from show Images of the Good Life in the East, 2024, with [[Raluca Popa]] at Galeria Lutnița, Chișinău, installation view - (c) [[Galeria Lutnița]] 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

Raluca Popa

2026-04-16T06:36:16Z

Npk: /* Exhibition views */

== Raluca Popa ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-PopaRaluca-Copyright-AndreiBecheru.jpg|thumb|"Raluca Popa - Artist Portrait", photography by Andrei Becheru / (c) Andrei Becheru]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Raluca Popa''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in Cluj and Bucharest, [[Romania]], for several years, having Berlin, [[Germany]] as place of choice, since 2018. She holds an MFA from the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design in Cluj. She is a member of the Collection Collective, an international prototypical art collection established, owned and managed collectively by its members, and of The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului, Romania.
 
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
 
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==== Process ====
The artist is interested, both semantically and physically, in aspects related to the veracity and inscrutability of documents and the way in which they can sometimes appear as informative, and other times as something to be contemplated. She works with different mediums, with drawing, static and moving images, and sometimes with text and voice recordings, as well as with methods of copying, repetition, learning, with chromatic scales and manipulations of the scale and proportions of artifacts. 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
The work is referential, dedicated to reflecting on the [[different stages of life]], spaces of [[proximity]] and forms of [[learning]], through an ever-evolving engagement with existing materials and personal collections — a [[travel journal]] from the year 1990 which tells the story of her first border crossing, a collection of exam papers from all school subjects, gathered between 1991 and 1998, a collection of random pictures that her mother cut out from copies of a crossword magazine during the years of her retirement, her father's drawing notebooks from the 1960s, the totality of Richard Tuttle’s work, reproduced in books or seen in exhibitions and online, a group of photographs documenting the studio of an artist from the first half of the 20th century, a set of musical scores for Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.
 

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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* works in private collections.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2023 - solo exhibition Source, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania,
* 2022 - solo exhibition Time Lines, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, En/Counters – Material Records and Sites of Belonging, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany<ref>https://halle-fuer-kunst.de/public/de/archiv/en-counters</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Makam #1 Opening, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://makam-berlin.org/an_intimate_opening/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Mnemonics [back to the future], [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/mnemonics-back-to-the-future/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, here we have it / here we have not, Schleuse, duo exhibition with Seda Mimaroğlu, Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.schleuse.biz/pdf/2024-10_Schleuse_Info_Stations.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Images of the Good Life in the East, Lutnița, Chișinău, Moldavia<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/pdf/goodlife.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Danube Dialogues festival, Novi Sad, Serbia<ref>http://danubeartfest.org/web/wp-content/uploads/DD2024-katalog.pdf</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Signs for Somewhere and Elsewhere and Here and Now, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/the-signs-for-somewhere-and-elsewhere-and-here-and-now/</ref>
* 2022 - group exhibition, 22 Women Artists, [[Stations Zone]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://stations.zone/23-women-atists/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Domino Effect #2, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/ro/exhibition/the-domino-effect-2/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Goodbye, Sarotti!, Soft Power Project Space, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://dekoloniale.de/en/program/events/goodbye-saroti</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Viral Self-Portraits, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia<ref>https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/2991/online-exhibition-viral-self-portraits/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Process Terminus, [[Sandwich Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/en/process-terminus/</ref>
* 2014 - And Yet There Was Art!, Leopold Museum / Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/56/and-yet-there-was-art</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Biennale: [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2023 - Biennale: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds, Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2022 - Biennale: Sinopale 8, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2017 - Biennale: Life a userʼs manual, [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2017 - Biennale: Sinopale 6, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2015 - Biennale: Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016, Vienna Biennale, Austria
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 – Artistic Research Residency: [[Șona AIR]], Șona, Brașov County, Romania (October-November)
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MODEM Center, Debrecen, Hungary
* 2023 – Artistic Research Residency: Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2021 – Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain. Paris Viitorului, Bucharest; series of exhibitions organised together with Raluca Voinea / tranzit.ro Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 – Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria, The Paintbrush Factory & The History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/raluca-popa/</ref>
* 2018 – Artistic Research Residency: quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria<ref>https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/kulturmieterinnen/artists-in-residence/2018/raluca-popa</ref>
* 2018 – Polyphonic; series of short animated films for a live poetry show curated by Simona Nastac; Produced by the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest;
* 2017 – Artistic Research Residency: Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland<ref>https://www.eofa.ch/en/resident/raluca-popa-2/</ref>
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Residency.ch, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, Switzerland
* 2015 – The Magic Mountain, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – Crulic, The Path to Beyond, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – The Lowe+Partners Award for Fresh Creative Talent, Lethaby Gallery, London, England
* 2010 – Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation Award, England
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Poem-2023-15x11.7x120cm-Plywood 4Lenses, Plexiglass Aluminium CardboardStrips-PopaRaluca.jpg | Poem, 2023, plywood, 4 lenses, plexiglass, aluminium, cardboard strips with text from Seda Mimaroğlu, Love Songs, Blue Figure Press, 2021, pp. 4-5, 15 x 11, 7 x 120 cm, photographer: Alexandru Paul, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
Works(Scale1on2)-2022-15.5x11x12.8cm-Copies GraphiteOnPaper HandwrittenWithPantographAndBoundIntoASetOf13Books Slipcase-PopaRaluca.jpg | Works (Scale 1/2), 2022, copies, graphite on paper, handwritten with pantograph and bound into a set of 13 books, slipcase; slipcase: 15.5 x 11 x 12.8 cm; books: variable dimensions, made with Buchbinderei Klünder, photographer: Eric Tchernow, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
AfterTuttleWorksOnPaper1969-1973-2021-14.8×9.2cmEach-GraphiteAndColouredPencilOnStationaryPaper-PopaRaluca.jpg | After Tuttle (Works on paper 1969-1973), 2021, 14.8 × 9.2 cm, graphite and coloured pencil on stationary paper, 17.10 x 9.50 cm each, photographer: repro-photo.net, by Raluca Popa (c) repro-photo.net
DisegnoRicercatoVI.I.-2020-29.7x42cm-Cut and Woven PencilDrawing-PopaRaluca.jpg | Disegno Ricercato (VI)I, 2020, 29.7 x 42 cm, cut-and-woven pencil drawings on paper, photographer: Mathias Schormann, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
SwimmingLessons-2017-performance-PopaRaluca.jpg | Learning how to swim in the Black Sea, 2017, swimming lessons; with the contribution of Cansu Kırcan, synchronized swimming trainer, İstanbul Atlantik Spor Kulübü, photographer: Gizem Grünberg, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show here we have it here we have not II, En-Counters 2025, installation view at Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Fred Dott 2025
Exh2-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show here we have it here we have not, installation view at Schleuse Vienna, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Photo-repro-photo.net 2024
Exh3-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales, 2025, with [[Raluca Popa]], poem, installation view, at Art Encounters Timisoara - (c) -David Dumitrescu 2025
Exh4-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show Images of the Good Life in the East, 2024, with Raluca Popa at Galeria Lutnița, Chișinău, installation view - (c) [[Galeria Lutnița]] 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2019, Andrei, Dana / Dumitru, Iuliana / Breazu, Paul / Voinea, Raluca / Popescu, Sorin (ed.) Corner, football+society, vol. 1, published by PUNCH, Bucharest;

===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
* 2024, Notes on Separation and Conviviality, L’Internationale, May 2024;
* 2019, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine #53, Romania
* 2017, Article: Insert, Reclining Sphere, CORNER fotbal + societate, #6
* 2013 Article: Insert, Property, Wage and Strike, published in IDEA magazine IDEA. Art + Society, #44
===== 2.Publications by other authors on Raluca Popa =====
* 2023, Interview, Scena 9, October 2023<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/interviu-raluca-popa</ref>;
* 2023, Interview, Curatorial.ro, June 2023;<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/interviu-raluca-popa-e-foarte-greu-sa-lucrezi-cu-ceva-legat-de-brancusi-mai-ales-in-spatiul-romanesc/</ref>
* 2023, Interview / Simona Nastac & [[Raluca Popa]], Polyphonic, Asymptote, Spring 2020
* 2017, [[Alexandra Croitoru]] (ed.) Open Calls 2011–2016, catalogue, published by [[Salonul de proiecte]] Association, Bucharest;
* 2016, Jurman, Urška (ed.), Extending the dialogue, published by Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Archive Books, ERSTE Foundation, 2016;
* 2016, Lesen Lernen, Der Landbote, Winterthur, April 23, 2016;
* 2016, Auf der Suche nach «R» und «W», interview, Stadtanzeiger Winterthur, Issue 14, April 5;
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
N/A
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Radio Romania Cultural, radio show<ref>https://www.radioromaniacultural.ro/sectiuni-articole/stiinta/dimensiunea-stiintifica-a-artei-raluca-popa-source-sau-portertul-artistei-ca-o-carte-deschisa-id38305.html</ref>
* IQAds article<ref>https://www.iqads.ro/articol/74021/raluca-popa-e-greu-sa-traiesti-in-alta-tara-dar-dificultatea-asta-vine-cu-un</ref>
* Empower Artists online magazine, article<ref>https://empowerartists.org/intalniri-cu-arta/raluca-popa-artista-de-origine-romana-stabilita-la-berlin-expune-din-nou-la-gaep/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
* [https://www.gaepgallery.com/team/ Gaep Gallery], under coordination of Andrei Brahnă and Raluca Șoaită
 
For further commissions and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_raluca_popa
* Website: https://www.ralucapopa.ro
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[appropriation]], [[archive]], [[art education]], [[artifacts]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]]
 
[[border]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[collage]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[commoning]]
 
[[documentary]], [[drawing]]
 
[[East-West relations]]
 
[[landscape]]
 
[[magical realism]]
 
[[optical art]]
 
[[photography]], [[poetry]], [[processuality]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list) N/A
*
 
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[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Drawing artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Raluca Popa

2026-04-16T06:33:38Z

Npk: /* Exhibition views */

== Raluca Popa ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-PopaRaluca-Copyright-AndreiBecheru.jpg|thumb|"Raluca Popa - Artist Portrait", photography by Andrei Becheru / (c) Andrei Becheru]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Raluca Popa''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in Cluj and Bucharest, [[Romania]], for several years, having Berlin, [[Germany]] as place of choice, since 2018. She holds an MFA from the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design in Cluj. She is a member of the Collection Collective, an international prototypical art collection established, owned and managed collectively by its members, and of The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului, Romania.
 
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
 
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==== Process ====
The artist is interested, both semantically and physically, in aspects related to the veracity and inscrutability of documents and the way in which they can sometimes appear as informative, and other times as something to be contemplated. She works with different mediums, with drawing, static and moving images, and sometimes with text and voice recordings, as well as with methods of copying, repetition, learning, with chromatic scales and manipulations of the scale and proportions of artifacts. 
 
----

==== Notable themes ====
The work is referential, dedicated to reflecting on the [[different stages of life]], spaces of [[proximity]] and forms of [[learning]], through an ever-evolving engagement with existing materials and personal collections — a [[travel journal]] from the year 1990 which tells the story of her first border crossing, a collection of exam papers from all school subjects, gathered between 1991 and 1998, a collection of random pictures that her mother cut out from copies of a crossword magazine during the years of her retirement, her father's drawing notebooks from the 1960s, the totality of Richard Tuttle’s work, reproduced in books or seen in exhibitions and online, a group of photographs documenting the studio of an artist from the first half of the 20th century, a set of musical scores for Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.
 

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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* works in private collections.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2023 - solo exhibition Source, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania,
* 2022 - solo exhibition Time Lines, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, En/Counters – Material Records and Sites of Belonging, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany<ref>https://halle-fuer-kunst.de/public/de/archiv/en-counters</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Makam #1 Opening, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://makam-berlin.org/an_intimate_opening/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Mnemonics [back to the future], [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/mnemonics-back-to-the-future/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, here we have it / here we have not, Schleuse, duo exhibition with Seda Mimaroğlu, Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.schleuse.biz/pdf/2024-10_Schleuse_Info_Stations.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Images of the Good Life in the East, Lutnița, Chișinău, Moldavia<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/pdf/goodlife.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Danube Dialogues festival, Novi Sad, Serbia<ref>http://danubeartfest.org/web/wp-content/uploads/DD2024-katalog.pdf</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Signs for Somewhere and Elsewhere and Here and Now, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/the-signs-for-somewhere-and-elsewhere-and-here-and-now/</ref>
* 2022 - group exhibition, 22 Women Artists, [[Stations Zone]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://stations.zone/23-women-atists/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Domino Effect #2, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/ro/exhibition/the-domino-effect-2/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Goodbye, Sarotti!, Soft Power Project Space, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://dekoloniale.de/en/program/events/goodbye-saroti</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Viral Self-Portraits, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia<ref>https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/2991/online-exhibition-viral-self-portraits/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Process Terminus, [[Sandwich Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/en/process-terminus/</ref>
* 2014 - And Yet There Was Art!, Leopold Museum / Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/56/and-yet-there-was-art</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Biennale: [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2023 - Biennale: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds, Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2022 - Biennale: Sinopale 8, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2017 - Biennale: Life a userʼs manual, [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2017 - Biennale: Sinopale 6, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2015 - Biennale: Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016, Vienna Biennale, Austria
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 – Artistic Research Residency: [[Șona AIR]], Șona, Brașov County, Romania (October-November)
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MODEM Center, Debrecen, Hungary
* 2023 – Artistic Research Residency: Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2021 – Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain. Paris Viitorului, Bucharest; series of exhibitions organised together with Raluca Voinea / tranzit.ro Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 – Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria, The Paintbrush Factory & The History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/raluca-popa/</ref>
* 2018 – Artistic Research Residency: quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria<ref>https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/kulturmieterinnen/artists-in-residence/2018/raluca-popa</ref>
* 2018 – Polyphonic; series of short animated films for a live poetry show curated by Simona Nastac; Produced by the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest;
* 2017 – Artistic Research Residency: Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland<ref>https://www.eofa.ch/en/resident/raluca-popa-2/</ref>
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Residency.ch, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, Switzerland
* 2015 – The Magic Mountain, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – Crulic, The Path to Beyond, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – The Lowe+Partners Award for Fresh Creative Talent, Lethaby Gallery, London, England
* 2010 – Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation Award, England
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Poem-2023-15x11.7x120cm-Plywood 4Lenses, Plexiglass Aluminium CardboardStrips-PopaRaluca.jpg | Poem, 2023, plywood, 4 lenses, plexiglass, aluminium, cardboard strips with text from Seda Mimaroğlu, Love Songs, Blue Figure Press, 2021, pp. 4-5, 15 x 11, 7 x 120 cm, photographer: Alexandru Paul, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
Works(Scale1on2)-2022-15.5x11x12.8cm-Copies GraphiteOnPaper HandwrittenWithPantographAndBoundIntoASetOf13Books Slipcase-PopaRaluca.jpg | Works (Scale 1/2), 2022, copies, graphite on paper, handwritten with pantograph and bound into a set of 13 books, slipcase; slipcase: 15.5 x 11 x 12.8 cm; books: variable dimensions, made with Buchbinderei Klünder, photographer: Eric Tchernow, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
AfterTuttleWorksOnPaper1969-1973-2021-14.8×9.2cmEach-GraphiteAndColouredPencilOnStationaryPaper-PopaRaluca.jpg | After Tuttle (Works on paper 1969-1973), 2021, 14.8 × 9.2 cm, graphite and coloured pencil on stationary paper, 17.10 x 9.50 cm each, photographer: repro-photo.net, by Raluca Popa (c) repro-photo.net
DisegnoRicercatoVI.I.-2020-29.7x42cm-Cut and Woven PencilDrawing-PopaRaluca.jpg | Disegno Ricercato (VI)I, 2020, 29.7 x 42 cm, cut-and-woven pencil drawings on paper, photographer: Mathias Schormann, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
SwimmingLessons-2017-performance-PopaRaluca.jpg | Learning how to swim in the Black Sea, 2017, swimming lessons; with the contribution of Cansu Kırcan, synchronized swimming trainer, İstanbul Atlantik Spor Kulübü, photographer: Gizem Grünberg, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show here we have it here we have not II, En-Counters 2025, installation view at Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Fred Dott 2025
Exh2-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show here we have it here we have not, installation view at Schleuse Vienna, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Photo-repro-photo.net 2024
Exh3-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales, 2025, with [[Raluca Popa]], poem, installation view, at Art Encounters Timisoara - (c) -David Dumitrescu 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2019, Andrei, Dana / Dumitru, Iuliana / Breazu, Paul / Voinea, Raluca / Popescu, Sorin (ed.) Corner, football+society, vol. 1, published by PUNCH, Bucharest;

===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
* 2024, Notes on Separation and Conviviality, L’Internationale, May 2024;
* 2019, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine #53, Romania
* 2017, Article: Insert, Reclining Sphere, CORNER fotbal + societate, #6
* 2013 Article: Insert, Property, Wage and Strike, published in IDEA magazine IDEA. Art + Society, #44
===== 2.Publications by other authors on Raluca Popa =====
* 2023, Interview, Scena 9, October 2023<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/interviu-raluca-popa</ref>;
* 2023, Interview, Curatorial.ro, June 2023;<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/interviu-raluca-popa-e-foarte-greu-sa-lucrezi-cu-ceva-legat-de-brancusi-mai-ales-in-spatiul-romanesc/</ref>
* 2023, Interview / Simona Nastac & [[Raluca Popa]], Polyphonic, Asymptote, Spring 2020
* 2017, [[Alexandra Croitoru]] (ed.) Open Calls 2011–2016, catalogue, published by [[Salonul de proiecte]] Association, Bucharest;
* 2016, Jurman, Urška (ed.), Extending the dialogue, published by Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Archive Books, ERSTE Foundation, 2016;
* 2016, Lesen Lernen, Der Landbote, Winterthur, April 23, 2016;
* 2016, Auf der Suche nach «R» und «W», interview, Stadtanzeiger Winterthur, Issue 14, April 5;
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
N/A
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Radio Romania Cultural, radio show<ref>https://www.radioromaniacultural.ro/sectiuni-articole/stiinta/dimensiunea-stiintifica-a-artei-raluca-popa-source-sau-portertul-artistei-ca-o-carte-deschisa-id38305.html</ref>
* IQAds article<ref>https://www.iqads.ro/articol/74021/raluca-popa-e-greu-sa-traiesti-in-alta-tara-dar-dificultatea-asta-vine-cu-un</ref>
* Empower Artists online magazine, article<ref>https://empowerartists.org/intalniri-cu-arta/raluca-popa-artista-de-origine-romana-stabilita-la-berlin-expune-din-nou-la-gaep/</ref>
 
----
 

==== Gallery Representation ====
* [https://www.gaepgallery.com/team/ Gaep Gallery], under coordination of Andrei Brahnă and Raluca Șoaită
 
For further commissions and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_raluca_popa
* Website: https://www.ralucapopa.ro
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[appropriation]], [[archive]], [[art education]], [[artifacts]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]]
 
[[border]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[collage]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[commoning]]
 
[[documentary]], [[drawing]]
 
[[East-West relations]]
 
[[landscape]]
 
[[magical realism]]
 
[[optical art]]
 
[[photography]], [[poetry]], [[processuality]]
 
 
----

==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list) N/A
*
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Drawing artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

File:Exh3-RalucaPopa.jpg

2026-04-16T06:33:30Z

Npk: View from show Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales, 2025, with Raluca Popa, poem, installation view, at Art Encounters Timisoara - (c) -David Dumitrescu 2025

== Summary ==
View from show Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales, 2025, with [[Raluca Popa]], poem, installation view, at Art Encounters Timisoara - (c) -David Dumitrescu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh2-RalucaPopa.jpg

2026-04-16T06:30:26Z

Npk: View from show here we have it here we have not, installation view at Schleuse Vienna, with Raluca Popa and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Photo-repro-photo.net 2024

== Summary ==
View from show here we have it here we have not, installation view at Schleuse Vienna, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Photo-repro-photo.net 2024
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh1-RalucaPopa.jpg

2026-04-16T06:27:46Z

Npk: View from show En-Counters 2025, here we have it here we have not II, installation view Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, with Raluca Popa and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Fred Dott 2025

== Summary ==
View from show En-Counters 2025, here we have it here we have not II, installation view Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Fred Dott 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

Raluca Popa

2026-04-16T06:27:09Z

Npk: /* Exhibition views */

== Raluca Popa ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-PopaRaluca-Copyright-AndreiBecheru.jpg|thumb|"Raluca Popa - Artist Portrait", photography by Andrei Becheru / (c) Andrei Becheru]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Raluca Popa''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in Cluj and Bucharest, [[Romania]], for several years, having Berlin, [[Germany]] as place of choice, since 2018. She holds an MFA from the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design in Cluj. She is a member of the Collection Collective, an international prototypical art collection established, owned and managed collectively by its members, and of The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului, Romania.
 
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
 
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==== Process ====
The artist is interested, both semantically and physically, in aspects related to the veracity and inscrutability of documents and the way in which they can sometimes appear as informative, and other times as something to be contemplated. She works with different mediums, with drawing, static and moving images, and sometimes with text and voice recordings, as well as with methods of copying, repetition, learning, with chromatic scales and manipulations of the scale and proportions of artifacts. 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
The work is referential, dedicated to reflecting on the [[different stages of life]], spaces of [[proximity]] and forms of [[learning]], through an ever-evolving engagement with existing materials and personal collections — a [[travel journal]] from the year 1990 which tells the story of her first border crossing, a collection of exam papers from all school subjects, gathered between 1991 and 1998, a collection of random pictures that her mother cut out from copies of a crossword magazine during the years of her retirement, her father's drawing notebooks from the 1960s, the totality of Richard Tuttle’s work, reproduced in books or seen in exhibitions and online, a group of photographs documenting the studio of an artist from the first half of the 20th century, a set of musical scores for Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.
 

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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* works in private collections.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2023 - solo exhibition Source, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania,
* 2022 - solo exhibition Time Lines, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, En/Counters – Material Records and Sites of Belonging, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany<ref>https://halle-fuer-kunst.de/public/de/archiv/en-counters</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Makam #1 Opening, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://makam-berlin.org/an_intimate_opening/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Mnemonics [back to the future], [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/mnemonics-back-to-the-future/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, here we have it / here we have not, Schleuse, duo exhibition with Seda Mimaroğlu, Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.schleuse.biz/pdf/2024-10_Schleuse_Info_Stations.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Images of the Good Life in the East, Lutnița, Chișinău, Moldavia<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/pdf/goodlife.pdf</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Danube Dialogues festival, Novi Sad, Serbia<ref>http://danubeartfest.org/web/wp-content/uploads/DD2024-katalog.pdf</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Signs for Somewhere and Elsewhere and Here and Now, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/exhibition/the-signs-for-somewhere-and-elsewhere-and-here-and-now/</ref>
* 2022 - group exhibition, 22 Women Artists, [[Stations Zone]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://stations.zone/23-women-atists/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Domino Effect #2, [[Gaep Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.gaepgallery.com/ro/exhibition/the-domino-effect-2/</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Goodbye, Sarotti!, Soft Power Project Space, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://dekoloniale.de/en/program/events/goodbye-saroti</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Viral Self-Portraits, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia<ref>https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/2991/online-exhibition-viral-self-portraits/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition, Process Terminus, [[Sandwich Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/en/process-terminus/</ref>
* 2014 - And Yet There Was Art!, Leopold Museum / Vienna, Austria<ref>https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/56/and-yet-there-was-art</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Biennale: [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2023 - Biennale: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds, Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2022 - Biennale: Sinopale 8, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2017 - Biennale: Life a userʼs manual, [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania
* 2017 - Biennale: Sinopale 6, International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
* 2015 - Biennale: Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016, Vienna Biennale, Austria
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 – Artistic Research Residency: [[Șona AIR]], Șona, Brașov County, Romania (October-November)
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MODEM Center, Debrecen, Hungary
* 2023 – Artistic Research Residency: Biennale Jogja 17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
* 2021 – Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain. Paris Viitorului, Bucharest; series of exhibitions organised together with Raluca Voinea / tranzit.ro Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 – Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria, The Paintbrush Factory & The History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/raluca-popa/</ref>
* 2018 – Artistic Research Residency: quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria<ref>https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/kulturmieterinnen/artists-in-residence/2018/raluca-popa</ref>
* 2018 – Polyphonic; series of short animated films for a live poetry show curated by Simona Nastac; Produced by the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest;
* 2017 – Artistic Research Residency: Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland<ref>https://www.eofa.ch/en/resident/raluca-popa-2/</ref>
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Residency.ch, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
* 2016 – Artistic Research Residency: Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, Switzerland
* 2015 – The Magic Mountain, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – Crulic, The Path to Beyond, dir. Anca Damian; animated documentary feature-length
* 2011 – The Lowe+Partners Award for Fresh Creative Talent, Lethaby Gallery, London, England
* 2010 – Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation Award, England
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Poem-2023-15x11.7x120cm-Plywood 4Lenses, Plexiglass Aluminium CardboardStrips-PopaRaluca.jpg | Poem, 2023, plywood, 4 lenses, plexiglass, aluminium, cardboard strips with text from Seda Mimaroğlu, Love Songs, Blue Figure Press, 2021, pp. 4-5, 15 x 11, 7 x 120 cm, photographer: Alexandru Paul, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
Works(Scale1on2)-2022-15.5x11x12.8cm-Copies GraphiteOnPaper HandwrittenWithPantographAndBoundIntoASetOf13Books Slipcase-PopaRaluca.jpg | Works (Scale 1/2), 2022, copies, graphite on paper, handwritten with pantograph and bound into a set of 13 books, slipcase; slipcase: 15.5 x 11 x 12.8 cm; books: variable dimensions, made with Buchbinderei Klünder, photographer: Eric Tchernow, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
AfterTuttleWorksOnPaper1969-1973-2021-14.8×9.2cmEach-GraphiteAndColouredPencilOnStationaryPaper-PopaRaluca.jpg | After Tuttle (Works on paper 1969-1973), 2021, 14.8 × 9.2 cm, graphite and coloured pencil on stationary paper, 17.10 x 9.50 cm each, photographer: repro-photo.net, by Raluca Popa (c) repro-photo.net
DisegnoRicercatoVI.I.-2020-29.7x42cm-Cut and Woven PencilDrawing-PopaRaluca.jpg | Disegno Ricercato (VI)I, 2020, 29.7 x 42 cm, cut-and-woven pencil drawings on paper, photographer: Mathias Schormann, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa & Gaep Bucharest
SwimmingLessons-2017-performance-PopaRaluca.jpg | Learning how to swim in the Black Sea, 2017, swimming lessons; with the contribution of Cansu Kırcan, synchronized swimming trainer, İstanbul Atlantik Spor Kulübü, photographer: Gizem Grünberg, by Raluca Popa (c) Raluca Popa
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-RalucaPopa.jpg|View from show En-Counters 2025, here we have it here we have not II, installation view Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, with [[Raluca Popa]] and Seda Mimaroglu - (c) Fred Dott 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
.jpg| - (c) Raluca Popa 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2019, Andrei, Dana / Dumitru, Iuliana / Breazu, Paul / Voinea, Raluca / Popescu, Sorin (ed.) Corner, football+society, vol. 1, published by PUNCH, Bucharest;

===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
* 2024, Notes on Separation and Conviviality, L’Internationale, May 2024;
* 2019, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine #53, Romania
* 2017, Article: Insert, Reclining Sphere, CORNER fotbal + societate, #6
* 2013 Article: Insert, Property, Wage and Strike, published in IDEA magazine IDEA. Art + Society, #44
===== 2.Publications by other authors on Raluca Popa =====
* 2023, Interview, Scena 9, October 2023<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/interviu-raluca-popa</ref>;
* 2023, Interview, Curatorial.ro, June 2023;<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/interviu-raluca-popa-e-foarte-greu-sa-lucrezi-cu-ceva-legat-de-brancusi-mai-ales-in-spatiul-romanesc/</ref>
* 2023, Interview / Simona Nastac & [[Raluca Popa]], Polyphonic, Asymptote, Spring 2020
* 2017, [[Alexandra Croitoru]] (ed.) Open Calls 2011–2016, catalogue, published by [[Salonul de proiecte]] Association, Bucharest;
* 2016, Jurman, Urška (ed.), Extending the dialogue, published by Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Archive Books, ERSTE Foundation, 2016;
* 2016, Lesen Lernen, Der Landbote, Winterthur, April 23, 2016;
* 2016, Auf der Suche nach «R» und «W», interview, Stadtanzeiger Winterthur, Issue 14, April 5;
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
N/A
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Radio Romania Cultural, radio show<ref>https://www.radioromaniacultural.ro/sectiuni-articole/stiinta/dimensiunea-stiintifica-a-artei-raluca-popa-source-sau-portertul-artistei-ca-o-carte-deschisa-id38305.html</ref>
* IQAds article<ref>https://www.iqads.ro/articol/74021/raluca-popa-e-greu-sa-traiesti-in-alta-tara-dar-dificultatea-asta-vine-cu-un</ref>
* Empower Artists online magazine, article<ref>https://empowerartists.org/intalniri-cu-arta/raluca-popa-artista-de-origine-romana-stabilita-la-berlin-expune-din-nou-la-gaep/</ref>
 
----
 

==== Gallery Representation ====
* [https://www.gaepgallery.com/team/ Gaep Gallery], under coordination of Andrei Brahnă and Raluca Șoaită
 
For further commissions and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_raluca_popa
* Website: https://www.ralucapopa.ro
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[appropriation]], [[archive]], [[art education]], [[artifacts]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]]
 
[[border]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[collage]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[commoning]]
 
[[documentary]], [[drawing]]
 
[[East-West relations]]
 
[[landscape]]
 
[[magical realism]]
 
[[optical art]]
 
[[photography]], [[poetry]], [[processuality]]
 
 
----

==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list) N/A
*
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Drawing artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Artists

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Npk:

== Artists working in/with Eastern Europe & Balkan region (focus [[:Category:Romania|Romania]] & [[:Category:Moldova|Moldova]]) ==
===== this index registers artists born as earliest as 1960 till present =====
 
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf-SdCuGKMa48CBI7_rHSN7evEdLk-ls8dnadhMkiKG7MjcA/viewform?usp=header Registration Form for artists who would like to be included in this index.]
 
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! data-sort-type="text"|First name & Surname !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of origin !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of choice !! data-sort-type="text"|Residence in (city) !! data-sort-type="text"|Art professional !! data-sort-type="text"|Artistic discipline
|-
| [[Alina Andrei]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]]
|-
| [[Apparatus 22]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Stavanger || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Vlad Băsălici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dragos Bădiță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Marius Bercea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Dan Beudean]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Istvan Betuker]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Sebastian Big]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Iulian Bisericaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alex Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Marius Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Emanuel Borcescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Maria Bordeanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Botez]] || [[Romania]] || [[Switzerland]] || Geneve || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ana Botezatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Răzvan Botiș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Alin Bozbiciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Pavel Brăila]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Vlad Brăteanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Maria Brîneț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Anca Brânzaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Michele Bressan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Cornel Brudașcu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Irina Botea Bucan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sound art]], [[Textile art]], [[Video art]]
|-
| [[Irina Bujor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Liviu Bulea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mircea But]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Mosaic]]
|-
| [[Victoria Sadovnic But]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alexandru Mihai Budeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Flaviu Cacoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Cristina Casapu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dana Catona]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Diana Cepleanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Codruța Cernea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Cicorschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Marieta Chirulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anneta Mona Chișă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Chlorys (Mihaela Vasiliu)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Cioca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mimi Ciora]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ciprian Ciuclea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Ciurdărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mircea Ciutu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lorena Cocioni]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Comșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Celina Cordoș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioanida Costache]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mihail Coșulețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Coșug]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Radu Creți]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lavinia Crețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Giulia Crețulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Iulian Cristea]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Roberta Curcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Curelici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Suzana Dan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Georgiana Dobre]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Oslo || [[Artists]] || [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Megan Dominescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Katja Lee Eliad]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Nicoleta Esinencu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ulrike Ettinger]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Belu Simion Făinaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Fărcaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ilinca Fechete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Munich || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Robert Fekete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Norbert Filep]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Ganea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Irina Gheorghe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Ghenie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Adela Giurgiu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Mihai Iepure Gorski]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Daniela Groza]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]], [[United States]] || Cluj, [[New York]] || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Gaby Bila Gunther]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Andrei Hâncu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Germany]] || München || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Printmaking]]
|-
| [[Sebastian Hosu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Leipzig || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ioana Iacob]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Cătălin Ilie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Șerban Ionescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Paris || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adelina Ivan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Alexandra Ivanciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nona Inescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Albert Kaan]] || [[TBD]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Mi Kafkin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Aurora Kiraly]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nicu Duță (Kitră)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Daniel Knorr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Edith Lazăr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Mircea Lăcătuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]]
|-
| [[Maxim Liulcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alina Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Virginia Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Victor Mann]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Tincuța Marin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Dan Măciucă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Catinca Mălaimare]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefania Meșteriuc]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ana Maria Micu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Iași || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Andrei Mircea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alex Mirutziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Installation]], [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Mocan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Adina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Florentina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Daniel Moldoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Claudia Moraru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mirela Moscu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ciprian Mureșan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Vasile Mureșan (Murivale)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Kat Mustăţea]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Vlad Nancă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Rada Nastai]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Răzvan Neagoe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
|-
| [[Ioana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Loredana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin, || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
|-
| [[Iulia Nistor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Nițu]] || [[Romania]] || [[:Category:Netherlands|Netherlands]] || Hague || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Nuțu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Irina Ojovan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Düsseldorf, [[Munich]] || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Vlad Olariu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Olăhuț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dana Olărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Sorin Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Radu Oreian]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Marseille || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Natalia Parfenova]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ileana Pașcalău]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Pastor]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Cătălin Pîslaru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Magdalena Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Manuel Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Oslo || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dan Perjovschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Adrian Florin Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gavril Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Delia Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Raluca Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Lucian Popăilă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj-Napoca || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Sorin Preda]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Jasmina Al Qaisi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Miruna Radovici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lea Rasozvschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Rață]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Cristian Răduță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD|| [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dîrle Răzvan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Bandi Sasha Robert]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Anca Munteanu Rîmnic]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Flaviu Rogojan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Natalia Irina Roman]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[George Roșu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nicolae Romanițan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Șerban Savu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alexandru Sălceanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Emanuela Harris Sîntamarian]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Miron Schmückle]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Decebal Scriba]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Camelia Skikos]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Stanca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Gabriel Stoian]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Frankfurt || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Mihail Șarpe]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Tatar]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gert & Uwe Tobias]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Köln || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]], [[Drawing]], [[Woodcut]]
|-
| [[Ana Maria Tatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gabriela Monica Tîrziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Iulia Gabriela Toma]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Matei Toșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Ionuț Vancea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Sorina Vaselina]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mona Vătămanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mark Verlan]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mihaela Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Dan Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sculpture]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Vlăhuță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mădălina Zaharia]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Filip Zorzor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|}
 
__NOTOC__

Artists

2026-04-15T11:01:09Z

Npk:

== Artists working in/with Eastern Europe & Balkan region (focus [[:Category:Romania|Romania]] & [[:Category:Moldova|Moldova]]) ==
===== this index registers artists born as earliest as 1960 till present =====
 
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf-SdCuGKMa48CBI7_rHSN7evEdLk-ls8dnadhMkiKG7MjcA/viewform?usp=header Registration Form for artists who would like to be included in this index.]
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! data-sort-type="text"|First name & Surname !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of origin !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of choice !! data-sort-type="text"|Residence in (city) !! data-sort-type="text"|Art professional !! data-sort-type="text"|Artistic discipline
|-
| [[Alina Andrei]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]]
|-
| [[Apparatus 22]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Stavanger || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Vlad Băsălici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dragos Bădiță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Marius Bercea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Dan Beudean]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Istvan Betuker]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Sebastian Big]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Iulian Bisericaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alex Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Marius Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Emanuel Borcescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Maria Bordeanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Botez]] || [[Romania]] || [[Switzerland]] || Geneve || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ana Botezatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Răzvan Botiș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Alin Bozbiciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Pavel Brăila]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Vlad Brăteanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Maria Brîneț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Anca Brânzaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Michele Bressan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Cornel Brudașcu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Irina Botea Bucan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sound art]], [[Textile art]], [[Video art]]
|-
| [[Liviu Bulea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mircea But]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Mosaic]]
|-
| [[Victoria Sadovnic But]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alexandru Mihai Budeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Flaviu Cacoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Cristina Casapu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dana Catona]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Diana Cepleanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Codruța Cernea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Cicorschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Marieta Chirulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anneta Mona Chișă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Chlorys (Mihaela Vasiliu)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Cioca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mimi Ciora]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ciprian Ciuclea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Ciurdărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mircea Ciutu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lorena Cocioni]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Comșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Celina Cordoș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioanida Costache]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mihail Coșulețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Coșug]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Radu Creți]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lavinia Crețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Giulia Crețulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Iulian Cristea]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Roberta Curcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Curelici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Suzana Dan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Georgiana Dobre]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Oslo || [[Artists]] || [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Megan Dominescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Katja Lee Eliad]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Nicoleta Esinencu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ulrike Ettinger]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Belu Simion Făinaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Fărcaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ilinca Fechete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Munich || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Robert Fekete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Norbert Filep]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Ganea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Irina Gheorghe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Ghenie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Adela Giurgiu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Mihai Iepure Gorski]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Daniela Groza]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]], [[United States]] || Cluj, [[New York]] || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Gaby Bila Gunther]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Andrei Hâncu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Germany]] || München || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Printmaking]]
|-
| [[Sebastian Hosu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Leipzig || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ioana Iacob]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Cătălin Ilie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Șerban Ionescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Paris || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adelina Ivan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Ivanciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nona Inescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Albert Kaan]] || [[TBD]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mi Kafkin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Aurora Kiraly]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nicu Duță (Kitră)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Daniel Knorr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Edith Lazăr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Mircea Lăcătuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]]
|-
| [[Maxim Liulcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alina Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Virginia Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Victor Mann]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Tincuța Marin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Dan Măciucă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Catinca Mălaimare]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefania Meșteriuc]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ana Maria Micu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Iași || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Andrei Mircea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alex Mirutziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Installation]], [[Performance]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Mocan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Adina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Florentina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Daniel Moldoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Claudia Moraru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mirela Moscu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ciprian Mureșan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Vasile Mureșan (Murivale)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Kat Mustăţea]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Vlad Nancă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Rada Nastai]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Răzvan Neagoe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
|-
| [[Ioana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Loredana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin, || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
|-
| [[Iulia Nistor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Nițu]] || [[Romania]] || [[:Category:Netherlands|Netherlands]] || Hague || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Nuțu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Irina Ojovan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Düsseldorf, [[Munich]] || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Vlad Olariu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Olăhuț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dana Olărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Sorin Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Radu Oreian]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Marseille || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Natalia Parfenova]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ileana Pașcalău]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Pastor]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Cătălin Pîslaru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Magdalena Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Manuel Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Oslo || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dan Perjovschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Adrian Florin Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gavril Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Delia Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Raluca Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Lucian Popăilă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj-Napoca || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Sorin Preda]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Jasmina Al Qaisi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Miruna Radovici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lea Rasozvschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Rață]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Cristian Răduță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD|| [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dîrle Răzvan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Bandi Sasha Robert]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Anca Munteanu Rîmnic]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Flaviu Rogojan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Natalia Irina Roman]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[George Roșu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Nicolae Romanițan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Șerban Savu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alexandru Sălceanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Emanuela Harris Sîntamarian]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Miron Schmückle]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Decebal Scriba]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Camelia Skikos]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Stanca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Gabriel Stoian]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Frankfurt || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Mihail Șarpe]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Tatar]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gert & Uwe Tobias]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Köln || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]], [[Drawing]], [[Woodcut]]
|-
| [[Ana Maria Tatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Gabriela Monica Tîrziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Iulia Gabriela Toma]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Matei Toșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Ionuț Vancea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Sorina Vaselina]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mona Vătămanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mark Verlan]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mihaela Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Dan Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sculpture]]
|-
| [[Bogdan Vlăhuță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mădălina Zaharia]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Filip Zorzor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|}
 
__NOTOC__

Artists

2026-04-14T10:45:43Z

Npk:

== Artists working in/with Eastern Europe & Balkan region (focus [[:Category:Romania|Romania]] & [[:Category:Moldova|Moldova]]) ==
===== this index registers artists born as earliest as 1960 till present =====
 
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf-SdCuGKMa48CBI7_rHSN7evEdLk-ls8dnadhMkiKG7MjcA/viewform?usp=header Registration Form for artists who would like to be included in this index.]
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! data-sort-type="text"|First name & Surname !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of origin !! data-sort-type="text"|Country of choice !! data-sort-type="text"|Residence in (city) !! data-sort-type="text"|Art professional !! data-sort-type="text"|Artistic discipline
|-
| [[Alina Andrei]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]]
|-
| [[Apparatus 22]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Stavanger || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Vlad Băsălici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dragos Bădiță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Marius Bercea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Dan Beudean]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
|-
| [[Istvan Betuker]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Sebastian Big]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Iulian Bisericaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alex Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anca Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Marius Bodea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Emanuel Borcescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Maria Bordeanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Botez]] || [[Romania]] || [[Switzerland]] || Geneve || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ana Botezatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Răzvan Botiș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Alin Bozbiciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Pavel Brăila]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Vlad Brăteanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Maria Brîneț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Anca Brânzaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Michele Bressan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
|-
| [[Cornel Brudașcu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Irina Botea Bucan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sound art]], [[Textile art]], [[Video art]]
|-
| [[Liviu Bulea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mircea But]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Mosaic]]
|-
| [[Victoria Sadovnic But]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Alexandru Mihai Budeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Flaviu Cacoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioana Cristina Casapu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Dana Catona]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Ceramic]]
|-
| [[Diana Cepleanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Codruța Cernea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Alexandra Cicorschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Marieta Chirulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Anneta Mona Chișă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Chlorys (Mihaela Vasiliu)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Cioca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Mimi Ciora]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ciprian Ciuclea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Andrei Ciurdărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mircea Ciutu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lorena Cocioni]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Radu Comșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Celina Cordoș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ioanida Costache]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Mihail Coșulețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Coșug]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Radu Creți]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Lavinia Crețu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Giulia Crețulescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Iulian Cristea]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Roberta Curcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ștefan Curelici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Suzana Dan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Megan Dominescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
|-
| [[Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima]] || [[Romania]] || [[Sweden]] || Stockholm || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Katja Lee Eliad]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Nicoleta Esinencu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Ulrike Ettinger]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Collage]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Belu Simion Făinaru]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Oana Fărcaș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Ilinca Fechete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Munich || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Robert Fekete]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
|-
| [[Norbert Filep]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|-
| [[Adrian Ganea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
|-
| [[Irina Gheorghe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Adrian Ghenie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Adela Giurgiu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Mihai Iepure Gorski]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Performance]]
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| [[Daniela Groza]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]], [[United States]] || Cluj, [[New York]] || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
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| [[Gaby Bila Gunther]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Performance]]
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| [[Andrei Hâncu]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Germany]] || München || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Printmaking]]
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| [[Sebastian Hosu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Leipzig || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Ioana Iacob]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Cătălin Ilie]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Șerban Ionescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Paris || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Adelina Ivan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Alexandra Ivanciu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Nona Inescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Albert Kaan]] || [[TBD]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Mi Kafkin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Aurora Kiraly]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Nicu Duță (Kitră)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Daniel Knorr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Edith Lazăr]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
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| [[Mircea Lăcătuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]]
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| [[Maxim Liulcă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Alina Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Virginia Lupu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Victor Mann]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Tincuța Marin]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Dan Măciucă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Catinca Mălaimare]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Ștefania Meșteriuc]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Ana Maria Micu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Iași || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Andrei Mircea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Alex Mirutziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Conceptual]], [[Installation]], [[Performance]]
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| [[Alexandra Mocan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Adina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
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| [[Florentina Mocanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Daniel Moldoveanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Claudia Moraru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Mirela Moscu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Ciprian Mureșan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Vasile Mureșan (Murivale)]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Kat Mustăţea]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Vlad Nancă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Rada Nastai]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Răzvan Neagoe]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
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| [[Ioana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Loredana Nemeș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin, || [[Artists]] || [[Art Photography]]
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| [[Iulia Nistor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Andrei Nițu]] || [[Romania]] || [[:Category:Netherlands|Netherlands]] || Hague || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Andrei Nuțu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Irina Ojovan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Düsseldorf, [[Munich]] || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Vlad Olariu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Ioana Olăhuț]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Dana Olărescu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Adrian Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Sorin Oncu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara, estate || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
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| [[Radu Oreian]] || [[Romania]] || [[France]] || Marseille || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Natalia Parfenova]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Ileana Pașcalău]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]]
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| [[Bogdan Pastor]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Cătălin Pîslaru]] || [[Moldova]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Magdalena Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Manuel Pelmuș]] || [[Romania]] || [[Norway]] || Oslo || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Dan Perjovschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
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| [[Adrian Florin Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Gavril Pop]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Delia Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Raluca Popa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
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| [[Lucian Popăilă]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj-Napoca || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Sorin Preda]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Jasmina Al Qaisi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Miruna Radovici]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Lea Rasozvschi]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Bogdan Rață]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Cristian Răduță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD|| [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Dîrle Răzvan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Bandi Sasha Robert]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Anca Munteanu Rîmnic]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Painting]]
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| [[Flaviu Rogojan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Natalia Irina Roman]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[George Roșu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Nicolae Romanițan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Șerban Savu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Alexandru Sălceanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Emanuela Harris Sîntamarian]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Miron Schmückle]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Decebal Scriba]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Art photography]]
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| [[Camelia Skikos]] || [[Romania]] || [[United States]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Ioana Stanca]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
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| [[Gabriel Stoian]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Frankfurt || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Mihail Șarpe]] || [[Romania]] || [[TBD]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Alexandra Tatar]] || [[Romania]] || [[Austria]] || Viena || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Gert & Uwe Tobias]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Köln || [[Artists]] || [[Sculpture]], [[Drawing]], [[Woodcut]]
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| [[Ana Maria Tatu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Gabriela Monica Tîrziu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Iulia Gabriela Toma]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Matei Toșa]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Cluj || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
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| [[Ionuț Vancea]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]]
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| [[Sorina Vaselina]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Timișoara || [[Artists]] || [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
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| [[Mona Vătămanu]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Mark Verlan]] || [[Moldova]] || [[Moldova]] || Chișinău || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]], [[Drawing]], [[Installation]]
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| [[Mihaela Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Textile art]]
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| [[Dan Vezentan]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || Bucharest || [[Artists]] || [[Installation]], [[Sculpture]]
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| [[Bogdan Vlăhuță]] || [[Romania]] || [[Romania]] || TBD || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
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| [[Mădălina Zaharia]] || [[Romania]] || [[United Kingdom]] || London || [[Artists]] || [[Painting]]
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| [[Filip Zorzor]] || [[Romania]] || [[Germany]] || Berlin || [[Artists]] || [[TBD]]
|}
 
__NOTOC__

Alex Bodea

2026-04-06T18:32:34Z

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== Alex Bodea ==
[[File:Alex Bodea.jpg|thumb|"Alex Bodea - Artist Portrait", photography by Alex Puricescu / (c) Alex Puricescu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Alex Bodea''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1981, Cluj Napoca) of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in [[Romania]] and several countries of choice, such as [[Germany]] (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, and explored many other several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic. She works at the crossroads of visual art and storytelling, driven by the desire to be an observer to the human experience, documenting and interpreting various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journeys as a nomad-artist and queer person. Master in Arts of University of Arts and Design, Cluj, Romania, and short-term study at School of Architecture and Fine Arts Saint Luc, Liege, Belgium. Daughter of [https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grig%20Bodea Gligor Bodea], known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field and bee-keeper, and of Corina Bodea, mountaineer.
 [[File:ArtistPersonal-AlexBodea.jpg|thumb|"Luscha - Canine family member", photography by Alex Bodea / (c) Alex Bodea 2018]]
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==== Accompanying sentient being ====
* [[Luscha]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
* [[:Category:Installation_artists|Installation]]
* [[:Category:Queer_artists|Queer art]] (e.g. mixed media, queer gaze)
Other interests: Writing
 
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==== Process ====
Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling. Her practice is built around a drive to tell stories that connect with her experience as an Eastern European woman living a rather nomadic life throughout Europe. She extracts her themes directly from her nomad life though Europe, creating work on the way, within the encountered spatial and temporal restrictions, concerned with the poetics of the everyday, employing minimal gestures and observational precision to create spaces of quiet resilience when facing unfamiliar or shifting environments.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring themes in Alex Bodea's practice include the experience of [[exile]] and [[migration]], [[multicultural identities]], [[language]], [[personal and collective history]], [[queer]] culture, the questioning of [[femininity]] and [[masculinity]] as cultural constructs, recurring [[inequalities]] across different geographical contexts, [[mental and physical health]], [[marginal]] characters, [[non-patriarchal]] models, and the concept of [[unconventional beauty]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works were purchased by [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>.
A selection of works are in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], [[Art Encounters Foundation Collection]], Museum for European Cultures Berlin, Museum of Communications Berlin, [[Queer History and Queer Culture Museum]] (RO) and others.
Works in private collections in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, [[SOLO Project Space]] ([[Robert Băjenaru]]), Bucharest, Romania, <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DQOd8JYjKqY/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinau, Moldova<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition (Un)seen people [[The Fact Finder]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/deu/index.php/kuenstlerbedarf-raritaeten/automatic-pen/</ref>
* 2011 - solo exhibition Protection Image Laika Gallery, Cluj, Romania
* 2011 - solo exhibition Draw as if it will have consequences Cluj, Casa Matei Gallery, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition Sphinx, Beast and Girl: Unicorn, Himera and the mixed body, NOCA, Oradea, Romania, with Apparatus 22, Ștefan Bertalan, [[Ana Botezatu]], Michele Bressan, Rudolf Bone, Christian Jankowski, Marta Jakobovits, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Miron Schmückle]], Ion Țuculescu, Ecaterina Vrana<ref>https://easttopics.online/a-glass-pavilion-for-a-new-vision/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Hocus Focus, Conector OFF-space, Cluj Napoca, Romania, exhibited with [[Cornel Brudașcu]], Mircea Cantor, [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Anca Munteanu Râmnic]], Navid Nuur, Miklos Onucșan a.o., proposed by [[Mihai Pop]], [[Plan B Gallery]]<ref>https://www.plan-b.ro/hocus-pocus-cluj/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Unleashing the sins of sculpture, exhibited with Apparatus 22, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, [[Giulia Crețulescu]], [[Lorena Cocioni]], [[Arantxa Etcheverria]], [[Hortensia Mi Kafkin]], [[Ioana Nemeș]] a.o., [[Scânteia Plus Art Center]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* 2025 - duo show with [[Ciprian Mureșan]], Ilustrated, printed, copied, learnt, Memorialul Ipotești, [[Plan B Gallery]] and [[Galeria Lutnița]], Romania<ref>https://eminescuipotesti.ro/posts/alex-bodea-i-ciprian-murean-ilustrat-tiprit-copiat-nvat</ref>
* 2024/25 - group exhibition, Untitled, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinău, Moldovan Republic<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition Land of Fire, [[Kunsthalle Bega]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/the-land-of-fire-exhibition-at-kunsthalle-bega</ref>
* 2023 - group show, Dating 101, [[Cazul 101]], Private viewing, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, [[Cazul 101]], Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOS72uDVlT/?img_index=1</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2020/07/10/expozitie-what-if-you-were-in-my-shoes-muzeul-de-arta-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[Liste Art Basel]]
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2025 - Art Fair: [[Art Brussels]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Apparatus 22, Romania<ref>https://www.springerin.at/2022/1/review/triumf-amiria-museum-of-queer-culture-iyou-feel-and-drift-and-singi/</ref>
* 2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
* 2024 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2023 - group exhibition Puls 22: new museum acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://mnac.ro/event/1121/PULS_22</ref>
* 2021/22 - group exhibition You feel ~ and drift ~ and sing. From one scene to another, 20 years of Romanian queer art retrospective, Combinatul Fondului Plastic in collaboration with National Museum of Contemporary Art, Triumf Amiria, Kilobase, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://kubaparis.com/archive/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing</ref>
* 2021 - art bienniale 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial | Virus diary, Satu Mare, Romania
* 2017 - art bienniale Life: a user’s manual [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/ro/bodea-alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2014 - art bienniale [[Drawing Biennale Rimini]], (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy<ref>https://drawingstorage.tumblr.com/events</ref>
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary [[Art MODEM Center]], Debrecen, Hungary
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: CCA Andratx, art residency, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
* 2024 - Artistic Research Residency: Art Siena Institute, art residency, Siena, Italy<ref>https://sienaart.blog/2024/04/29/alex-bodea-may-2024-resident-artist/</ref>
* 2023 - Artistic Research Residency: Couvant, art residency L'ANCRE – Association “Pôle des métiers d'art du Pays Ségali”, Sauveterre de Rouerge, France
* 2023 - selected in Altes Spital Solothurn residency, Solothurn, Switzerland
* 2023 - selected in Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency, Shanghai
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria/Hystoria, Paintbrush Foundation in collab. with History Museum Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/?lang=ro</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: La Box Residency, ENSA Bourges, France<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2024/03/29/la-box-une-premiere-histoire-1990-2024/</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Fact Finding: investigation in the urban space, Focus Atelier, Cluj, Romania
* 2021 - Research Stipendium: Research grant in literature and comics awarded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Germany
* 2021 - Artistic Educational Residency: CLEA Lens Lievin Residency, Lens Lievin, France
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Chelva art residency, hosted by sound artist duo Bosch & Simons
* 2020 - Preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* 2017 - Artistic Research Residency: The body politic, summer school Drawing Room, London, Great Britain
* 2015 - Artistic Research Residency: De Liceiras 18 Residency, Porto, Portugal
* 2014 - Artistic Development Residency: Botín Foundation workshop led by Tacita Dean, Santander, Spain
* 2012 - Artistic Research Residency: Curators' Network workshop, Sibiu, Romania
* 2009 - Artistic Research Residency: Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests Residency, Avrig, Romania
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal - InstallationView.jpg|Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal (Installation View), 2025, red white chalk and gofun on paper and wall installation, variable size - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Bathers River Diana.jpg|Bathers of River Diana, 2025, red and black chalk and shell white gofun on arches paper, 180 x 140 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Triumph.jpg|Triumph, 2025, ink and tempera on paper, 49.5 x 27 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
The Plague in times of King Caragea.jpg|The Plague in times of King Caragea, 2020, ink and tempera on paper, 19 x 53 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Man and boy with iPhone.jpg|Man and boy with iPhone, 2023, ink and tempera on paper, 16.5 x 24 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-LandofFIre.jpg|ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-TheLandofFire - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage.jpg|ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum.jpg|ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Dating101.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Dating101 - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2021, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (English edition) Publisher „The Fact Finder Verlag”, Berlin, Germany
* 2020, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (Italian edition) Publisher „BeccoGiallo”, Padova, Italy
* 2020, Artist book - The man with a hole in his tie, limited edition, with the support of ENSA Bourges
* 2015-2016, Artist book - Visual notes on Berlin, unique edition
* 2015-2016, Graphic novel - Six breakfasts, one lunch, limited edition
===== 2.Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The Fact Finder, published in MEGAZIN / KITCHN ZIN International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder-published in IDEA magazine, #56, Romania<ref>https://idea.ro/revista/ro/article/X9-YURMAAEYE5faW/alex-bodea-the-fact-finder-roman-grafic</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder- published in ARTA magazine, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-fact-finder-2/</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book: Visual notes on Berlin, published in EXBERLINER, special COVID solidarity edition, Germany
* 2019, Graphic story: I did not see Rome with you, published in THE GUARDIAN, Great Britain<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/25/i-did-not-see-rome-with-you-an-urban-cartoon-by-alex-bodea</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in STRIPBURGER, Slovenia
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in CUTRA, Romania<ref>https://cutra.ro/autoarx/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Members only, published in DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Germany<ref>https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/downloads/mehr-berlin-comicreportagen</ref>
* 2018, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/XOv07xIAACMAjWn1/visual-note-idea-printing-house-cluj-22-march-2018</ref>
* 2018, Graphic story: The visitors, published in SURVIVE comics anthology in the frame of Berlin Art week, Germany
* 2017, Graphic story: Türkiyemspor Berlin e.V, a comics reportage, published in CORNER magazine, Romania
* 2016, Excerpt from the book Visual notes on Schöneberg, published in EXBERLINER magazine, Germany
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
* 2019, Exhibition Polygone de tir, ENSA undergraduates, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Exhibition Graphic Worlds - In the making, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Making of, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Harun Farocki: Bilderschatz. Towards a cinematographic thesaurus, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Adina Pintilie: Touch me not, Adina Pintilie, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Tentacles 4/4.1. Bridgescratching, Kg Augenstern (Wolfgang Meyer, Christine Prehn), at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Have you seen my newest one? George Roșu, Theodor Schmidt, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2017, Exhibition The Fact Finder opening with Anne Metzen, Matthias Beckmann, Karine Bonneval, Alina Andrei, Sibylle Hofter, Alex Bodea, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2016, Exhibition Drawing reportage, now and here Feliks Topolski, Oliver East, Matthias Beckmann, Martin Kohout, Pia Linz, a.o, at Lateral Art Space, Cluj, Romania
 

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==== Catalogues ====
* 2026 - Museum Acquisitions 2022, [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1356/Lansarea%20catalogului%20%E2%80%9EPULS%2022%E2%80%9D</ref>
* 2022 - Contemporary Art Programme 2022, [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] (Centrul Cultural Clujean), Romania<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>
* 2013 - [[Imago Mundi Collection, Benneton Foundation]], Snapshot Romania - Contemporary Artists from Romania catalogue first published by FABRICA, Italy<ref>https://imagomundi-wp.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/catalogues-pdf/catalogue-romania.pdf</ref>
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Arta Magazine, essay on the exhibition Unleashing the sin of sculpture<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on invisibility, artistic bodybuilding<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/conversations-on-invisibility-artistic-bodybuilding/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on exclusion and exoticization, on view at Kunsthalle Bega show<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/beyond-exclusion-and-exoticization-critical-reflections-and-healing-politics-at-kunsthalle-bega/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/love-letter-to-triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Art Viewer<ref>https://artviewer.org/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-at-combinatul-fondului-plastic-suprainfinit-gallery-spatiul-the-institute-switch-lab/?utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral</ref>
* Alex Bodea on residency at Ensa Bourges, online presentation<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2018/10/17/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea performance at Internationale Berlin Literaturfestival<ref>https://literaturfestival.com/alex-bodea-das-festival-in-einer-performance/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Kajet Journal<ref>https://kajetjournal.com/2021/08/06/triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* News, Romania Insider<ref>https://www.romania-insider.com/ro-moldova-galleries-art-brussels-apr-2025</ref>
* Essay on Alex Bodea, Visit my tent<ref>https://visitmytent.com/?p=1683</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Other Network<ref>https://othernetwork.io/entries/alex-bodea</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Lines Fiction<ref>https://linesfiction.de/lf/lines-fiction-online/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea, essay on Hassium<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/alex-bodea-berlin/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, A shaded view on fashion<ref>https://ashadedviewonfashion.com/2022/01/16/two-decades-of-romanian-queer-artistic-practices-you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-dragos-olea/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
* [[Galeria Lutnița]], under coordination of [[Andrei Sclifos]]
* [[SOLO Project Space]], under coordination of [[Robert Băjenaru]]
 
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/alex%20bodea%20the%20fact%20finder https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems]
* Website: [http://alexbodea.work/# http://alexbodea.work]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[absurdity]], [[animal rights]], [[art education]], [[artist-run space]], [[artist as curator]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]], [[automatism]]
 
[[border]], [[built environment]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[cast]], [[choreography]], [[collaboration]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[contested histories]], [[curatorial practices]]
 
[[dada]], [[decolonisation of self]], [[diaspora]], [[diptych]], [[documentary]], [[drawing]], [[drawing reportage]], [[double understanding]]
 
[[East-West relations]], [[ecological collapse]], [[enchantments]], [[environment]], [[external and uncontrollable factors]]
 
[[fascination with the everyday]], [[feminism]], [[figurative]]
 
[[games]], [[gender issues]], [[gestural]]
 
[[historization]], [[humor]]
 
[[identity critique]], [[improvisation]], [[ink]], [[installation]], [[international network]], [[intersectional identity]], [[intersectionality]]
 
[[manosphere]], [[marginalised masculinities]], [[melodrama]], [[migration]], [[monotype]], [[multiplicity]]
 
[[occupied venue]], [[othering (pervasiveness of)]]
 
[[painting]], [[participatory practices]], [[patriarchy]], [[permacrisis]], [[pigment]], [[poetry]], [[political reflection]]
 
[[queer art]], [[queer identity]], [[queering]]
 
[[self-colonisation]], [[situated knowledges]], [[social criticism]], [[structural feminism]]
 
[[tempera]], [[triptych]]
 
[[watercolour]], [[wide shot]], [[women]]
 
[[zine]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
The artist interest is in artists who address contemporary queer issues by queering historical sources, thus inventing a new queer artistic language.
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/salman.toor/ Salman Toor]''' ("for glorifying queer bodies, paying tribute to queer communities, and addressing issues of migration and belonging, while having a rococo aesthetics" ''-artist note'')
* '''Louis Fratino''' ("for the use of modernist language to represent queer bodies" ''-artist note'')
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/nicoleeisenman/ Nicole Eisenman]''' ("for her brilliant queer storytelling and very complex, encyclopedic vocabulary" ''-artist note'')
 
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[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]
[[Category:Queer]]
[[Category:Queer artists]]

Alex Bodea

2026-04-06T18:29:34Z

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== Alex Bodea ==
[[File:Alex Bodea.jpg|thumb|"Alex Bodea - Artist Portrait", photography by Alex Puricescu / (c) Alex Puricescu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Alex Bodea''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1981, Cluj Napoca) of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in [[Romania]] and several countries of choice, such as [[Germany]] (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, and explored many other several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic. She works at the crossroads of visual art and storytelling, driven by the desire to be an observer to the human experience, documenting and interpreting various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journeys as a nomad-artist and queer person. Master in Arts of University of Arts and Design, Cluj, Romania, and short-term study at School of Architecture and Fine Arts Saint Luc, Liege, Belgium. Daughter of [https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grig%20Bodea Gligor Bodea], known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field and bee-keeper, and of Corina Bodea, mountaineer.
 [[File:ArtistPersonal-AlexBodea.jpg|thumb|"Luscha - Canine family member", photography by Alex Bodea / (c) Alex Bodea 2018]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
* [[:Category:Installation_artists|Installation]]
* [[:Category:Queer_artists|Queer art]] (e.g. mixed media, queer gaze)
Other interests: Writing
 
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==== Process ====
Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling. Her practice is built around a drive to tell stories that connect with her experience as an Eastern European woman living a rather nomadic life throughout Europe. She extracts her themes directly from her nomad life though Europe, creating work on the way, within the encountered spatial and temporal restrictions, concerned with the poetics of the everyday, employing minimal gestures and observational precision to create spaces of quiet resilience when facing unfamiliar or shifting environments.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring themes in Alex Bodea's practice include the experience of [[exile]] and [[migration]], [[multicultural identities]], [[language]], [[personal and collective history]], [[queer]] culture, the questioning of [[femininity]] and [[masculinity]] as cultural constructs, recurring [[inequalities]] across different geographical contexts, [[mental and physical health]], [[marginal]] characters, [[non-patriarchal]] models, and the concept of [[unconventional beauty]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works were purchased by [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>.
A selection of works are in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], [[Art Encounters Foundation Collection]], Museum for European Cultures Berlin, Museum of Communications Berlin, [[Queer History and Queer Culture Museum]] (RO) and others.
Works in private collections in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, [[SOLO Project Space]] ([[Robert Băjenaru]]), Bucharest, Romania, <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DQOd8JYjKqY/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinau, Moldova<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition (Un)seen people [[The Fact Finder]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/deu/index.php/kuenstlerbedarf-raritaeten/automatic-pen/</ref>
* 2011 - solo exhibition Protection Image Laika Gallery, Cluj, Romania
* 2011 - solo exhibition Draw as if it will have consequences Cluj, Casa Matei Gallery, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition Sphinx, Beast and Girl: Unicorn, Himera and the mixed body, NOCA, Oradea, Romania, with Apparatus 22, Ștefan Bertalan, [[Ana Botezatu]], Michele Bressan, Rudolf Bone, Christian Jankowski, Marta Jakobovits, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Miron Schmückle]], Ion Țuculescu, Ecaterina Vrana<ref>https://easttopics.online/a-glass-pavilion-for-a-new-vision/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Hocus Focus, Conector OFF-space, Cluj Napoca, Romania, exhibited with [[Cornel Brudașcu]], Mircea Cantor, [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Anca Munteanu Râmnic]], Navid Nuur, Miklos Onucșan a.o., proposed by [[Mihai Pop]], [[Plan B Gallery]]<ref>https://www.plan-b.ro/hocus-pocus-cluj/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Unleashing the sins of sculpture, exhibited with Apparatus 22, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, [[Giulia Crețulescu]], [[Lorena Cocioni]], [[Arantxa Etcheverria]], [[Hortensia Mi Kafkin]], [[Ioana Nemeș]] a.o., [[Scânteia Plus Art Center]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* 2025 - duo show with [[Ciprian Mureșan]], Ilustrated, printed, copied, learnt, Memorialul Ipotești, [[Plan B Gallery]] and [[Galeria Lutnița]], Romania<ref>https://eminescuipotesti.ro/posts/alex-bodea-i-ciprian-murean-ilustrat-tiprit-copiat-nvat</ref>
* 2024/25 - group exhibition, Untitled, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinău, Moldovan Republic<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition Land of Fire, [[Kunsthalle Bega]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/the-land-of-fire-exhibition-at-kunsthalle-bega</ref>
* 2023 - group show, Dating 101, [[Cazul 101]], Private viewing, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, [[Cazul 101]], Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOS72uDVlT/?img_index=1</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2020/07/10/expozitie-what-if-you-were-in-my-shoes-muzeul-de-arta-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[Liste Art Basel]]
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2025 - Art Fair: [[Art Brussels]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Apparatus 22, Romania<ref>https://www.springerin.at/2022/1/review/triumf-amiria-museum-of-queer-culture-iyou-feel-and-drift-and-singi/</ref>
* 2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
* 2024 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2023 - group exhibition Puls 22: new museum acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://mnac.ro/event/1121/PULS_22</ref>
* 2021/22 - group exhibition You feel ~ and drift ~ and sing. From one scene to another, 20 years of Romanian queer art retrospective, Combinatul Fondului Plastic in collaboration with National Museum of Contemporary Art, Triumf Amiria, Kilobase, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://kubaparis.com/archive/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing</ref>
* 2021 - art bienniale 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial | Virus diary, Satu Mare, Romania
* 2017 - art bienniale Life: a user’s manual [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/ro/bodea-alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2014 - art bienniale [[Drawing Biennale Rimini]], (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy<ref>https://drawingstorage.tumblr.com/events</ref>
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary [[Art MODEM Center]], Debrecen, Hungary
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: CCA Andratx, art residency, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
* 2024 - Artistic Research Residency: Art Siena Institute, art residency, Siena, Italy<ref>https://sienaart.blog/2024/04/29/alex-bodea-may-2024-resident-artist/</ref>
* 2023 - Artistic Research Residency: Couvant, art residency L'ANCRE – Association “Pôle des métiers d'art du Pays Ségali”, Sauveterre de Rouerge, France
* 2023 - selected in Altes Spital Solothurn residency, Solothurn, Switzerland
* 2023 - selected in Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency, Shanghai
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria/Hystoria, Paintbrush Foundation in collab. with History Museum Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/?lang=ro</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: La Box Residency, ENSA Bourges, France<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2024/03/29/la-box-une-premiere-histoire-1990-2024/</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Fact Finding: investigation in the urban space, Focus Atelier, Cluj, Romania
* 2021 - Research Stipendium: Research grant in literature and comics awarded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Germany
* 2021 - Artistic Educational Residency: CLEA Lens Lievin Residency, Lens Lievin, France
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Chelva art residency, hosted by sound artist duo Bosch & Simons
* 2020 - Preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* 2017 - Artistic Research Residency: The body politic, summer school Drawing Room, London, Great Britain
* 2015 - Artistic Research Residency: De Liceiras 18 Residency, Porto, Portugal
* 2014 - Artistic Development Residency: Botín Foundation workshop led by Tacita Dean, Santander, Spain
* 2012 - Artistic Research Residency: Curators' Network workshop, Sibiu, Romania
* 2009 - Artistic Research Residency: Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests Residency, Avrig, Romania
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal - InstallationView.jpg|Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal (Installation View), 2025, red white chalk and gofun on paper and wall installation, variable size - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Bathers River Diana.jpg|Bathers of River Diana, 2025, red and black chalk and shell white gofun on arches paper, 180 x 140 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Triumph.jpg|Triumph, 2025, ink and tempera on paper, 49.5 x 27 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
The Plague in times of King Caragea.jpg|The Plague in times of King Caragea, 2020, ink and tempera on paper, 19 x 53 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Man and boy with iPhone.jpg|Man and boy with iPhone, 2023, ink and tempera on paper, 16.5 x 24 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-LandofFIre.jpg|ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-TheLandofFire - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage.jpg|ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum.jpg|ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Dating101.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Dating101 - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2021, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (English edition) Publisher „The Fact Finder Verlag”, Berlin, Germany
* 2020, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (Italian edition) Publisher „BeccoGiallo”, Padova, Italy
* 2020, Artist book - The man with a hole in his tie, limited edition, with the support of ENSA Bourges
* 2015-2016, Artist book - Visual notes on Berlin, unique edition
* 2015-2016, Graphic novel - Six breakfasts, one lunch, limited edition
===== 2.Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The Fact Finder, published in MEGAZIN / KITCHN ZIN International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder-published in IDEA magazine, #56, Romania<ref>https://idea.ro/revista/ro/article/X9-YURMAAEYE5faW/alex-bodea-the-fact-finder-roman-grafic</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder- published in ARTA magazine, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-fact-finder-2/</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book: Visual notes on Berlin, published in EXBERLINER, special COVID solidarity edition, Germany
* 2019, Graphic story: I did not see Rome with you, published in THE GUARDIAN, Great Britain<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/25/i-did-not-see-rome-with-you-an-urban-cartoon-by-alex-bodea</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in STRIPBURGER, Slovenia
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in CUTRA, Romania<ref>https://cutra.ro/autoarx/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Members only, published in DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Germany<ref>https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/downloads/mehr-berlin-comicreportagen</ref>
* 2018, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/XOv07xIAACMAjWn1/visual-note-idea-printing-house-cluj-22-march-2018</ref>
* 2018, Graphic story: The visitors, published in SURVIVE comics anthology in the frame of Berlin Art week, Germany
* 2017, Graphic story: Türkiyemspor Berlin e.V, a comics reportage, published in CORNER magazine, Romania
* 2016, Excerpt from the book Visual notes on Schöneberg, published in EXBERLINER magazine, Germany
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
* 2019, Exhibition Polygone de tir, ENSA undergraduates, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Exhibition Graphic Worlds - In the making, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Making of, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Harun Farocki: Bilderschatz. Towards a cinematographic thesaurus, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Adina Pintilie: Touch me not, Adina Pintilie, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Tentacles 4/4.1. Bridgescratching, Kg Augenstern (Wolfgang Meyer, Christine Prehn), at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Have you seen my newest one? George Roșu, Theodor Schmidt, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2017, Exhibition The Fact Finder opening with Anne Metzen, Matthias Beckmann, Karine Bonneval, Alina Andrei, Sibylle Hofter, Alex Bodea, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2016, Exhibition Drawing reportage, now and here Feliks Topolski, Oliver East, Matthias Beckmann, Martin Kohout, Pia Linz, a.o, at Lateral Art Space, Cluj, Romania
 

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==== Catalogues ====
* 2026 - Museum Acquisitions 2022, [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1356/Lansarea%20catalogului%20%E2%80%9EPULS%2022%E2%80%9D</ref>
* 2022 - Contemporary Art Programme 2022, [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] (Centrul Cultural Clujean), Romania<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>
* 2013 - [[Imago Mundi Collection, Benneton Foundation]], Snapshot Romania - Contemporary Artists from Romania catalogue first published by FABRICA, Italy<ref>https://imagomundi-wp.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/catalogues-pdf/catalogue-romania.pdf</ref>
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Arta Magazine, essay on the exhibition Unleashing the sin of sculpture<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on invisibility, artistic bodybuilding<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/conversations-on-invisibility-artistic-bodybuilding/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on exclusion and exoticization, on view at Kunsthalle Bega show<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/beyond-exclusion-and-exoticization-critical-reflections-and-healing-politics-at-kunsthalle-bega/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/love-letter-to-triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Art Viewer<ref>https://artviewer.org/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-at-combinatul-fondului-plastic-suprainfinit-gallery-spatiul-the-institute-switch-lab/?utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral</ref>
* Alex Bodea on residency at Ensa Bourges, online presentation<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2018/10/17/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea performance at Internationale Berlin Literaturfestival<ref>https://literaturfestival.com/alex-bodea-das-festival-in-einer-performance/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Kajet Journal<ref>https://kajetjournal.com/2021/08/06/triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* News, Romania Insider<ref>https://www.romania-insider.com/ro-moldova-galleries-art-brussels-apr-2025</ref>
* Essay on Alex Bodea, Visit my tent<ref>https://visitmytent.com/?p=1683</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Other Network<ref>https://othernetwork.io/entries/alex-bodea</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Lines Fiction<ref>https://linesfiction.de/lf/lines-fiction-online/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea, essay on Hassium<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/alex-bodea-berlin/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, A shaded view on fashion<ref>https://ashadedviewonfashion.com/2022/01/16/two-decades-of-romanian-queer-artistic-practices-you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-dragos-olea/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
* [[Galeria Lutnița]], under coordination of [[Andrei Sclifos]]
* [[SOLO Project Space]], under coordination of [[Robert Băjenaru]]
 
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/alex%20bodea%20the%20fact%20finder https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems]
* Website: [http://alexbodea.work/# http://alexbodea.work]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[absurdity]], [[animal rights]], [[art education]], [[artist-run space]], [[artist as curator]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]], [[automatism]]
 
[[border]], [[built environment]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[cast]], [[choreography]], [[collaboration]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[contested histories]], [[curatorial practices]]
 
[[dada]], [[decolonisation of self]], [[diaspora]], [[diptych]], [[documentary]], [[drawing]], [[drawing reportage]], [[double understanding]]
 
[[East-West relations]], [[ecological collapse]], [[enchantments]], [[environment]], [[external and uncontrollable factors]]
 
[[fascination with the everyday]], [[feminism]], [[figurative]]
 
[[games]], [[gender issues]], [[gestural]]
 
[[historization]], [[humor]]
 
[[identity critique]], [[improvisation]], [[ink]], [[installation]], [[international network]], [[intersectional identity]], [[intersectionality]]
 
[[manosphere]], [[marginalised masculinities]], [[melodrama]], [[migration]], [[monotype]], [[multiplicity]]
 
[[occupied venue]], [[othering (pervasiveness of)]]
 
[[painting]], [[participatory practices]], [[patriarchy]], [[permacrisis]], [[pigment]], [[poetry]], [[political reflection]]
 
[[queer art]], [[queer identity]], [[queering]]
 
[[self-colonisation]], [[situated knowledges]], [[social criticism]], [[structural feminism]]
 
[[tempera]], [[triptych]]
 
[[watercolour]], [[wide shot]], [[women]]
 
[[zine]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
The artist interest is in artists who address contemporary queer issues by queering historical sources, thus inventing a new queer artistic language.
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/salman.toor/ Salman Toor]''' ("for glorifying queer bodies, paying tribute to queer communities, and addressing issues of migration and belonging, while having a rococo aesthetics" ''-artist note'')
* '''Louis Fratino''' ("for the use of modernist language to represent queer bodies" ''-artist note'')
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/nicoleeisenman/ Nicole Eisenman]''' ("for her brilliant queer storytelling and very complex, encyclopedic vocabulary" ''-artist note'')
 
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[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
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[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]
[[Category:Queer]]
[[Category:Queer artists]]

Alex Bodea

2026-04-04T19:39:57Z

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== Alex Bodea ==
[[File:Alex Bodea.jpg|thumb|"Alex Bodea - Artist Portrait", photography by Alex Puricescu / (c) Alex Puricescu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Alex Bodea''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1981, Cluj Napoca) of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in [[Romania]] and several countries of choice, such as [[Germany]] (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, and explored many other several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic. She works at the crossroads of visual art and storytelling, driven by the desire to be an observer to the human experience, documenting and interpreting various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journeys as a nomad-artist and queer person. Master in Arts of University of Arts and Design, Cluj, Romania, and short-term study at School of Architecture and Fine Arts Saint Luc, Liege, Belgium. Born in 1981 in Cluj, Romania, daughter of [https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grig%20Bodea Gligor Bodea], known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field and bee-keeper, and of Corina Bodea, mountaineer.
 [[File:ArtistPersonal-AlexBodea.jpg|thumb|"Luscha - Canine family member", photography by Alex Bodea / (c) Alex Bodea 2018]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
* [[:Category:Installation_artists|Installation]]
* [[:Category:Queer_artists|Queer art]] (e.g. mixed media, queer gaze)
Other interests: Writing
 
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==== Process ====
Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling. Her practice is built around a drive to tell stories that connect with her experience as an Eastern European woman living a rather nomadic life throughout Europe. She extracts her themes directly from her nomad life though Europe, creating work on the way, within the encountered spatial and temporal restrictions, concerned with the poetics of the everyday, employing minimal gestures and observational precision to create spaces of quiet resilience when facing unfamiliar or shifting environments.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring themes in Alex Bodea's practice include the experience of [[exile]] and [[migration]], [[multicultural identities]], [[language]], [[personal and collective history]], [[queer]] culture, the questioning of [[femininity]] and [[masculinity]] as cultural constructs, recurring [[inequalities]] across different geographical contexts, [[mental and physical health]], [[marginal]] characters, [[non-patriarchal]] models, and the concept of [[unconventional beauty]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works were purchased by [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>.
A selection of works are in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], [[Art Encounters Foundation Collection]], Museum for European Cultures Berlin, Museum of Communications Berlin, [[Queer History and Queer Culture Museum]] (RO) and others.
Works in private collections in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, [[SOLO Project Space]] ([[Robert Băjenaru]]), Bucharest, Romania, <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DQOd8JYjKqY/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinau, Moldova<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition (Un)seen people [[The Fact Finder]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/deu/index.php/kuenstlerbedarf-raritaeten/automatic-pen/</ref>
* 2011 - solo exhibition Protection Image Laika Gallery, Cluj, Romania
* 2011 - solo exhibition Draw as if it will have consequences Cluj, Casa Matei Gallery, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition Sphinx, Beast and Girl: Unicorn, Himera and the mixed body, NOCA, Oradea, Romania, with Apparatus 22, Ștefan Bertalan, [[Ana Botezatu]], Michele Bressan, Rudolf Bone, Christian Jankowski, Marta Jakobovits, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Miron Schmückle]], Ion Țuculescu, Ecaterina Vrana<ref>https://easttopics.online/a-glass-pavilion-for-a-new-vision/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Hocus Focus, Conector OFF-space, Cluj Napoca, Romania, exhibited with [[Cornel Brudașcu]], Mircea Cantor, [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Anca Munteanu Râmnic]], Navid Nuur, Miklos Onucșan a.o., proposed by [[Mihai Pop]], [[Plan B Gallery]]<ref>https://www.plan-b.ro/hocus-pocus-cluj/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Unleashing the sins of sculpture, exhibited with Apparatus 22, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, [[Giulia Crețulescu]], [[Lorena Cocioni]], [[Arantxa Etcheverria]], [[Hortensia Mi Kafkin]], [[Ioana Nemeș]] a.o., [[Scânteia Plus Art Center]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* 2025 - duo show with [[Ciprian Mureșan]], Ilustrated, printed, copied, learnt, Memorialul Ipotești, [[Plan B Gallery]] and [[Galeria Lutnița]], Romania<ref>https://eminescuipotesti.ro/posts/alex-bodea-i-ciprian-murean-ilustrat-tiprit-copiat-nvat</ref>
* 2024/25 - group exhibition, Untitled, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinău, Moldovan Republic<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition Land of Fire, [[Kunsthalle Bega]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/the-land-of-fire-exhibition-at-kunsthalle-bega</ref>
* 2023 - group show, Dating 101, [[Cazul 101]], Private viewing, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, [[Cazul 101]], Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOS72uDVlT/?img_index=1</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2020/07/10/expozitie-what-if-you-were-in-my-shoes-muzeul-de-arta-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[Liste Art Basel]]
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2025 - Art Fair: [[Art Brussels]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Apparatus 22, Romania<ref>https://www.springerin.at/2022/1/review/triumf-amiria-museum-of-queer-culture-iyou-feel-and-drift-and-singi/</ref>
* 2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
* 2024 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2023 - group exhibition Puls 22: new museum acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://mnac.ro/event/1121/PULS_22</ref>
* 2021/22 - group exhibition You feel ~ and drift ~ and sing. From one scene to another, 20 years of Romanian queer art retrospective, Combinatul Fondului Plastic in collaboration with National Museum of Contemporary Art, Triumf Amiria, Kilobase, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://kubaparis.com/archive/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing</ref>
* 2021 - art bienniale 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial | Virus diary, Satu Mare, Romania
* 2017 - art bienniale Life: a user’s manual [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/ro/bodea-alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2014 - art bienniale [[Drawing Biennale Rimini]], (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy<ref>https://drawingstorage.tumblr.com/events</ref>
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary [[Art MODEM Center]], Debrecen, Hungary
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: CCA Andratx, art residency, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
* 2024 - Artistic Research Residency: Art Siena Institute, art residency, Siena, Italy<ref>https://sienaart.blog/2024/04/29/alex-bodea-may-2024-resident-artist/</ref>
* 2023 - Artistic Research Residency: Couvant, art residency L'ANCRE – Association “Pôle des métiers d'art du Pays Ségali”, Sauveterre de Rouerge, France
* 2023 - selected in Altes Spital Solothurn residency, Solothurn, Switzerland
* 2023 - selected in Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency, Shanghai
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria/Hystoria, Paintbrush Foundation in collab. with History Museum Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/?lang=ro</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: La Box Residency, ENSA Bourges, France<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2024/03/29/la-box-une-premiere-histoire-1990-2024/</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Fact Finding: investigation in the urban space, Focus Atelier, Cluj, Romania
* 2021 - Research Stipendium: Research grant in literature and comics awarded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Germany
* 2021 - Artistic Educational Residency: CLEA Lens Lievin Residency, Lens Lievin, France
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Chelva art residency, hosted by sound artist duo Bosch & Simons
* 2020 - Preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* 2017 - Artistic Research Residency: The body politic, summer school Drawing Room, London, Great Britain
* 2015 - Artistic Research Residency: De Liceiras 18 Residency, Porto, Portugal
* 2014 - Artistic Development Residency: Botín Foundation workshop led by Tacita Dean, Santander, Spain
* 2012 - Artistic Research Residency: Curators' Network workshop, Sibiu, Romania
* 2009 - Artistic Research Residency: Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests Residency, Avrig, Romania
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal - InstallationView.jpg|Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal (Installation View), 2025, red white chalk and gofun on paper and wall installation, variable size - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Bathers River Diana.jpg|Bathers of River Diana, 2025, red and black chalk and shell white gofun on arches paper, 180 x 140 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Triumph.jpg|Triumph, 2025, ink and tempera on paper, 49.5 x 27 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
The Plague in times of King Caragea.jpg|The Plague in times of King Caragea, 2020, ink and tempera on paper, 19 x 53 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Man and boy with iPhone.jpg|Man and boy with iPhone, 2023, ink and tempera on paper, 16.5 x 24 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-LandofFIre.jpg|ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-TheLandofFire - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage.jpg|ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum.jpg|ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Dating101.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Dating101 - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2021, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (English edition) Publisher „The Fact Finder Verlag”, Berlin, Germany
* 2020, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (Italian edition) Publisher „BeccoGiallo”, Padova, Italy
* 2020, Artist book - The man with a hole in his tie, limited edition, with the support of ENSA Bourges
* 2015-2016, Artist book - Visual notes on Berlin, unique edition
* 2015-2016, Graphic novel - Six breakfasts, one lunch, limited edition
===== 2.Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The Fact Finder, published in MEGAZIN / KITCHN ZIN International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder-published in IDEA magazine, #56, Romania<ref>https://idea.ro/revista/ro/article/X9-YURMAAEYE5faW/alex-bodea-the-fact-finder-roman-grafic</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder- published in ARTA magazine, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-fact-finder-2/</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book: Visual notes on Berlin, published in EXBERLINER, special COVID solidarity edition, Germany
* 2019, Graphic story: I did not see Rome with you, published in THE GUARDIAN, Great Britain<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/25/i-did-not-see-rome-with-you-an-urban-cartoon-by-alex-bodea</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in STRIPBURGER, Slovenia
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in CUTRA, Romania<ref>https://cutra.ro/autoarx/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Members only, published in DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Germany<ref>https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/downloads/mehr-berlin-comicreportagen</ref>
* 2018, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/XOv07xIAACMAjWn1/visual-note-idea-printing-house-cluj-22-march-2018</ref>
* 2018, Graphic story: The visitors, published in SURVIVE comics anthology in the frame of Berlin Art week, Germany
* 2017, Graphic story: Türkiyemspor Berlin e.V, a comics reportage, published in CORNER magazine, Romania
* 2016, Excerpt from the book Visual notes on Schöneberg, published in EXBERLINER magazine, Germany
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
* 2019, Exhibition Polygone de tir, ENSA undergraduates, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Exhibition Graphic Worlds - In the making, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Making of, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Harun Farocki: Bilderschatz. Towards a cinematographic thesaurus, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Adina Pintilie: Touch me not, Adina Pintilie, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Tentacles 4/4.1. Bridgescratching, Kg Augenstern (Wolfgang Meyer, Christine Prehn), at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Have you seen my newest one? George Roșu, Theodor Schmidt, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2017, Exhibition The Fact Finder opening with Anne Metzen, Matthias Beckmann, Karine Bonneval, Alina Andrei, Sibylle Hofter, Alex Bodea, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2016, Exhibition Drawing reportage, now and here Feliks Topolski, Oliver East, Matthias Beckmann, Martin Kohout, Pia Linz, a.o, at Lateral Art Space, Cluj, Romania
 

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==== Catalogues ====
* 2026 - Museum Acquisitions 2022, [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1356/Lansarea%20catalogului%20%E2%80%9EPULS%2022%E2%80%9D</ref>
* 2022 - Contemporary Art Programme 2022, [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] (Centrul Cultural Clujean), Romania<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>
* 2013 - [[Imago Mundi Collection, Benneton Foundation]], Snapshot Romania - Contemporary Artists from Romania catalogue first published by FABRICA, Italy<ref>https://imagomundi-wp.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/catalogues-pdf/catalogue-romania.pdf</ref>
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Arta Magazine, essay on the exhibition Unleashing the sin of sculpture<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on invisibility, artistic bodybuilding<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/conversations-on-invisibility-artistic-bodybuilding/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on exclusion and exoticization, on view at Kunsthalle Bega show<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/beyond-exclusion-and-exoticization-critical-reflections-and-healing-politics-at-kunsthalle-bega/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/love-letter-to-triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Art Viewer<ref>https://artviewer.org/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-at-combinatul-fondului-plastic-suprainfinit-gallery-spatiul-the-institute-switch-lab/?utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral</ref>
* Alex Bodea on residency at Ensa Bourges, online presentation<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2018/10/17/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea performance at Internationale Berlin Literaturfestival<ref>https://literaturfestival.com/alex-bodea-das-festival-in-einer-performance/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Kajet Journal<ref>https://kajetjournal.com/2021/08/06/triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* News, Romania Insider<ref>https://www.romania-insider.com/ro-moldova-galleries-art-brussels-apr-2025</ref>
* Essay on Alex Bodea, Visit my tent<ref>https://visitmytent.com/?p=1683</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Other Network<ref>https://othernetwork.io/entries/alex-bodea</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Lines Fiction<ref>https://linesfiction.de/lf/lines-fiction-online/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea, essay on Hassium<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/alex-bodea-berlin/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, A shaded view on fashion<ref>https://ashadedviewonfashion.com/2022/01/16/two-decades-of-romanian-queer-artistic-practices-you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-dragos-olea/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
* [[Galeria Lutnița]], under coordination of [[Andrei Sclifos]]
* [[SOLO Project Space]], under coordination of [[Robert Băjenaru]]
 
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/alex%20bodea%20the%20fact%20finder https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems]
* Website: [http://alexbodea.work/# http://alexbodea.work]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[absurdity]], [[animal rights]], [[art education]], [[artist-run space]], [[artist as curator]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]], [[automatism]]
 
[[border]], [[built environment]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[cast]], [[choreography]], [[collaboration]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[contested histories]], [[curatorial practices]]
 
[[dada]], [[decolonisation of self]], [[diaspora]], [[diptych]], [[documentary]], [[drawing]], [[drawing reportage]], [[double understanding]]
 
[[East-West relations]], [[ecological collapse]], [[enchantments]], [[environment]], [[external and uncontrollable factors]]
 
[[fascination with the everyday]], [[feminism]], [[figurative]]
 
[[games]], [[gender issues]], [[gestural]]
 
[[historization]], [[humor]]
 
[[identity critique]], [[improvisation]], [[ink]], [[installation]], [[international network]], [[intersectional identity]], [[intersectionality]]
 
[[manosphere]], [[marginalised masculinities]], [[melodrama]], [[migration]], [[monotype]], [[multiplicity]]
 
[[occupied venue]], [[othering (pervasiveness of)]]
 
[[painting]], [[participatory practices]], [[patriarchy]], [[permacrisis]], [[pigment]], [[poetry]], [[political reflection]]
 
[[queer art]], [[queer identity]], [[queering]]
 
[[self-colonisation]], [[situated knowledges]], [[social criticism]], [[structural feminism]]
 
[[tempera]], [[triptych]]
 
[[watercolour]], [[wide shot]], [[women]]
 
[[zine]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
The artist interest is in artists who address contemporary queer issues by queering historical sources, thus inventing a new queer artistic language.
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/salman.toor/ Salman Toor]''' ("for glorifying queer bodies, paying tribute to queer communities, and addressing issues of migration and belonging, while having a rococo aesthetics" ''-artist note'')
* '''Louis Fratino''' ("for the use of modernist language to represent queer bodies" ''-artist note'')
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/nicoleeisenman/ Nicole Eisenman]''' ("for her brilliant queer storytelling and very complex, encyclopedic vocabulary" ''-artist note'')
 
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== National Museum of Contemporary art ==
[[Category: Art Collections]]

Alex Bodea

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== Alex Bodea ==
[[File:Alex Bodea.jpg|thumb|"Alex Bodea - Artist Portrait", photography by Alex Puricescu / (c) Alex Puricescu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Alex Bodea''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1981, Cluj Napoca) of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in [[Romania]] and several countries of choice, such as [[Germany]] (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, and explored many other several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic. She works at the crossroads of visual art and storytelling, driven by the desire to be an observer to the human experience, documenting and interpreting various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journeys as a nomad-artist and queer person. Master in Arts of University of Arts and Design, Cluj, Romania, and short-term study at School of Architecture and Fine Arts Saint Luc, Liege, Belgium. Born in 1981 in Cluj, Romania, daughter of [https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grig%20Bodea Gligor Bodea], known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field and bee-keeper, and of Corina Bodea, mountaineer.
 [[File:ArtistPersonal-AlexBodea.jpg|thumb|"Luscha - Canine family member", photography by Alex Bodea / (c) Alex Bodea 2018]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
* [[:Category:Drawing_artists|Drawing]]
* [[:Category:Installation_artists|Installation]]
* [[:Category:Queer_artists|Queer art]] (e.g. mixed media, queer gaze)
Other interests: Writing
 
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==== Process ====
Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling. Her practice is built around a drive to tell stories that connect with her experience as an Eastern European woman living a rather nomadic life throughout Europe. She extracts her themes directly from her nomad life though Europe, creating work on the way, within the encountered spatial and temporal restrictions, concerned with the poetics of the everyday, employing minimal gestures and observational precision to create spaces of quiet resilience when facing unfamiliar or shifting environments.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring themes in Alex Bodea's practice include the experience of [[exile]] and [[migration]], [[multicultural identities]], [[language]], [[personal and collective history]], [[queer]] culture, the questioning of [[femininity]] and [[masculinity]] as cultural constructs, recurring [[inequalities]] across different geographical contexts, [[mental and physical health]], [[marginal]] characters, [[non-patriarchal]] models, and the concept of [[unconventional beauty]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works were purchased by [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>.
A selection of works are in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], [[Art Encounters Foundation Collection]], Museum for European Cultures Berlin, Museum of Communications Berlin, [[Queer History and Queer Culture Museum]] (RO) and others.
Works in private collections in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, [[SOLO Project Space]] ([[Robert Băjenaru]]), Bucharest, Romania, <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DQOd8JYjKqY/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinau, Moldova<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition (Un)seen people [[The Fact Finder]], Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/deu/index.php/kuenstlerbedarf-raritaeten/automatic-pen/</ref>
* 2011 - solo exhibition Protection Image Laika Gallery, Cluj, Romania
* 2011 - solo exhibition Draw as if it will have consequences Cluj, Casa Matei Gallery, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition Sphinx, Beast and Girl: Unicorn, Himera and the mixed body, NOCA, Oradea, Romania, with Apparatus 22, Ștefan Bertalan, [[Ana Botezatu]], Michele Bressan, Rudolf Bone, Christian Jankowski, Marta Jakobovits, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Miron Schmückle]], Ion Țuculescu, Ecaterina Vrana<ref>https://easttopics.online/a-glass-pavilion-for-a-new-vision/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Hocus Focus, Conector OFF-space, Cluj Napoca, Romania, exhibited with [[Cornel Brudașcu]], Mircea Cantor, [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Ciprian Mureșan]], [[Anca Munteanu Râmnic]], Navid Nuur, Miklos Onucșan a.o., proposed by [[Mihai Pop]], [[Plan B Gallery]]<ref>https://www.plan-b.ro/hocus-pocus-cluj/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Unleashing the sins of sculpture, exhibited with Apparatus 22, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, [[Giulia Crețulescu]], [[Lorena Cocioni]], [[Arantxa Etcheverria]], [[Hortensia Mi Kafkin]], [[Ioana Nemeș]] a.o., [[Scânteia Plus Art Center]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* 2025 - duo show with [[Ciprian Mureșan]], Ilustrated, printed, copied, learnt, Memorialul Ipotești, [[Plan B Gallery]] and [[Galeria Lutnița]], Romania<ref>https://eminescuipotesti.ro/posts/alex-bodea-i-ciprian-murean-ilustrat-tiprit-copiat-nvat</ref>
* 2024/25 - group exhibition, Untitled, [[Galeria Lutnița]], Chișinău, Moldovan Republic<ref>https://www.lutnita.md/exhibitions/alexbodea/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition Land of Fire, [[Kunsthalle Bega]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/the-land-of-fire-exhibition-at-kunsthalle-bega</ref>
* 2023 - group show, Dating 101, [[Cazul 101]], Private viewing, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, [[Cazul 101]], Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOS72uDVlT/?img_index=1</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://www.modernism.ro/2020/07/10/expozitie-what-if-you-were-in-my-shoes-muzeul-de-arta-cluj-napoca/</ref>
* 2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/</ref>

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[Liste Art Basel]]
* 2026 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2025 - Art Fair: [[Art Brussels]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Apparatus 22, Romania<ref>https://www.springerin.at/2022/1/review/triumf-amiria-museum-of-queer-culture-iyou-feel-and-drift-and-singi/</ref>
* 2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
* 2024 - Art Fair: [[RAD]]
* 2023 - group exhibition Puls 22: new museum acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://mnac.ro/event/1121/PULS_22</ref>
* 2021/22 - group exhibition You feel ~ and drift ~ and sing. From one scene to another, 20 years of Romanian queer art retrospective, Combinatul Fondului Plastic in collaboration with National Museum of Contemporary Art, Triumf Amiria, Kilobase, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://kubaparis.com/archive/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing</ref>
* 2021 - art bienniale 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial | Virus diary, Satu Mare, Romania
* 2017 - art bienniale Life: a user’s manual [[Art Encounters Biennale]], Timișoara, Romania<ref>https://2017.artencounters.ro/ro/bodea-alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2014 - art bienniale [[Drawing Biennale Rimini]], (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy<ref>https://drawingstorage.tumblr.com/events</ref>
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary [[Art MODEM Center]], Debrecen, Hungary
* 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: CCA Andratx, art residency, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
* 2024 - Artistic Research Residency: Art Siena Institute, art residency, Siena, Italy<ref>https://sienaart.blog/2024/04/29/alex-bodea-may-2024-resident-artist/</ref>
* 2023 - Artistic Research Residency: Couvant, art residency L'ANCRE – Association “Pôle des métiers d'art du Pays Ségali”, Sauveterre de Rouerge, France
* 2023 - selected in Altes Spital Solothurn residency, Solothurn, Switzerland
* 2023 - selected in Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency, Shanghai
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Hysteria/Hystoria, Paintbrush Foundation in collab. with History Museum Cluj, Romania<ref>https://historia-hysteria.ro/alex-bodea/?lang=ro</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: La Box Residency, ENSA Bourges, France<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2024/03/29/la-box-une-premiere-histoire-1990-2024/</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Fact Finding: investigation in the urban space, Focus Atelier, Cluj, Romania
* 2021 - Research Stipendium: Research grant in literature and comics awarded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Germany
* 2021 - Artistic Educational Residency: CLEA Lens Lievin Residency, Lens Lievin, France
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Chelva art residency, hosted by sound artist duo Bosch & Simons
* 2020 - Preselected for Evans Foundation Prize, (Arts / The Fact Finder interventions).
* 2017 - Artistic Research Residency: The body politic, summer school Drawing Room, London, Great Britain
* 2015 - Artistic Research Residency: De Liceiras 18 Residency, Porto, Portugal
* 2014 - Artistic Development Residency: Botín Foundation workshop led by Tacita Dean, Santander, Spain
* 2012 - Artistic Research Residency: Curators' Network workshop, Sibiu, Romania
* 2009 - Artistic Research Residency: Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests Residency, Avrig, Romania
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal - InstallationView.jpg|Coreography in ceasesless rehearsal (Installation View), 2025, red white chalk and gofun on paper and wall installation, variable size - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Bathers River Diana.jpg|Bathers of River Diana, 2025, red and black chalk and shell white gofun on arches paper, 180 x 140 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Triumph.jpg|Triumph, 2025, ink and tempera on paper, 49.5 x 27 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
The Plague in times of King Caragea.jpg|The Plague in times of King Caragea, 2020, ink and tempera on paper, 19 x 53 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
Man and boy with iPhone.jpg|Man and boy with iPhone, 2023, ink and tempera on paper, 16.5 x 24 cm - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-LandofFIre.jpg|ExhibitionKunsthalleBega-TheLandofFire - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage.jpg|ExhibitionLaika-ProtectionImage - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Cazul101-40DaysinDesert - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum.jpg|ExhibitionTheInstitute-QueerMuseum - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
ExhibitionSolo-Dating101.jpg|ExhibitionSolo-Dating101 - (c) Alex Bodea 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
* 2021, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (English edition) Publisher „The Fact Finder Verlag”, Berlin, Germany
* 2020, Graphic novel - The fact finder, (Italian edition) Publisher „BeccoGiallo”, Padova, Italy
* 2020, Artist book - The man with a hole in his tie, limited edition, with the support of ENSA Bourges
* 2015-2016, Artist book - Visual notes on Berlin, unique edition
* 2015-2016, Graphic novel - Six breakfasts, one lunch, limited edition
===== 2.Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The Fact Finder, published in MEGAZIN / KITCHN ZIN International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder-published in IDEA magazine, #56, Romania<ref>https://idea.ro/revista/ro/article/X9-YURMAAEYE5faW/alex-bodea-the-fact-finder-roman-grafic</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder- published in ARTA magazine, Romania<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-fact-finder-2/</ref>
* 2020, Excerpt from the book: Visual notes on Berlin, published in EXBERLINER, special COVID solidarity edition, Germany
* 2019, Graphic story: I did not see Rome with you, published in THE GUARDIAN, Great Britain<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/25/i-did-not-see-rome-with-you-an-urban-cartoon-by-alex-bodea</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in STRIPBURGER, Slovenia
* 2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in CUTRA, Romania<ref>https://cutra.ro/autoarx/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Graphic story: Members only, published in DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Germany<ref>https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/downloads/mehr-berlin-comicreportagen</ref>
* 2018, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine, Romania<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/XOv07xIAACMAjWn1/visual-note-idea-printing-house-cluj-22-march-2018</ref>
* 2018, Graphic story: The visitors, published in SURVIVE comics anthology in the frame of Berlin Art week, Germany
* 2017, Graphic story: Türkiyemspor Berlin e.V, a comics reportage, published in CORNER magazine, Romania
* 2016, Excerpt from the book Visual notes on Schöneberg, published in EXBERLINER magazine, Germany
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
* 2019, Exhibition Polygone de tir, ENSA undergraduates, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2019, Exhibition Graphic Worlds - In the making, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Making of, [[Ciprian Mureșan]], at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Harun Farocki: Bilderschatz. Towards a cinematographic thesaurus, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Adina Pintilie: Touch me not, Adina Pintilie, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Tentacles 4/4.1. Bridgescratching, Kg Augenstern (Wolfgang Meyer, Christine Prehn), at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2018, Exhibition Have you seen my newest one? George Roșu, Theodor Schmidt, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2017, Exhibition The Fact Finder opening with Anne Metzen, Matthias Beckmann, Karine Bonneval, Alina Andrei, Sibylle Hofter, Alex Bodea, at The Fact Finder, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.thefactfinder.de/eng/index.php/alex-bodea/</ref>
* 2016, Exhibition Drawing reportage, now and here Feliks Topolski, Oliver East, Matthias Beckmann, Martin Kohout, Pia Linz, a.o, at Lateral Art Space, Cluj, Romania
 

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==== Catalogues ====
* 2026 - Museum Acquisitions 2022, [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1356/Lansarea%20catalogului%20%E2%80%9EPULS%2022%E2%80%9D</ref>
* 2022 - Contemporary Art Programme 2022, [[Banca Transilvania Art Collection]] (Centrul Cultural Clujean), Romania<ref>https://comunitate.bancatransilvania.ro/storage/app/media/2023/Cultura/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83/Programul-BT-de-Art%C4%83-Contemporan%C4%83-Catalog.pdf</ref>
* 2013 - [[Imago Mundi Collection, Benneton Foundation]], Snapshot Romania - Contemporary Artists from Romania catalogue first published by FABRICA, Italy<ref>https://imagomundi-wp.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/catalogues-pdf/catalogue-romania.pdf</ref>
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Arta Magazine, essay on the exhibition Unleashing the sin of sculpture<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-anomic-principle-unleashing-the-sins-from-unleashing-the-sins-of-sculpture/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on invisibility, artistic bodybuilding<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/conversations-on-invisibility-artistic-bodybuilding/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on exclusion and exoticization, on view at Kunsthalle Bega show<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/beyond-exclusion-and-exoticization-critical-reflections-and-healing-politics-at-kunsthalle-bega/</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/love-letter-to-triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Art Viewer<ref>https://artviewer.org/you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-at-combinatul-fondului-plastic-suprainfinit-gallery-spatiul-the-institute-switch-lab/?utm_source=mutualart&utm_medium=referral</ref>
* Alex Bodea on residency at Ensa Bourges, online presentation<ref>https://ensa-bourges.fr/2018/10/17/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea performance at Internationale Berlin Literaturfestival<ref>https://literaturfestival.com/alex-bodea-das-festival-in-einer-performance/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, Kajet Journal<ref>https://kajetjournal.com/2021/08/06/triumf-amiria-museum-workings/</ref>
* News, Romania Insider<ref>https://www.romania-insider.com/ro-moldova-galleries-art-brussels-apr-2025</ref>
* Essay on Alex Bodea, Visit my tent<ref>https://visitmytent.com/?p=1683</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Other Network<ref>https://othernetwork.io/entries/alex-bodea</ref>
* Alex Bodea, presentation on Lines Fiction<ref>https://linesfiction.de/lf/lines-fiction-online/alex-bodea/</ref>
* Alex Bodea, essay on Hassium<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/alex-bodea-berlin/</ref>
* Essay on Triumf Amiria exhibition, A shaded view on fashion<ref>https://ashadedviewonfashion.com/2022/01/16/two-decades-of-romanian-queer-artistic-practices-you-feel-and-drift-and-sing-dragos-olea/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
* [[Galeria Lutnița]], under coordination of [[Andrei Sclifos]]
* [[SOLO Project Space]], under coordination of [[Robert Băjenaru]]
 
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/alex%20bodea%20the%20fact%20finder https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems]
* Website: [http://alexbodea.work/# http://alexbodea.work]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[absurdity]], [[animal rights]], [[art education]], [[artist-run space]], [[artist as curator]], [[artist publication]], [[artist studio]], [[assemblage]], [[automatism]]
 
[[border]], [[built environment]]
 
[[calligraphy]], [[cast]], [[choreography]], [[collaboration]], [[collecting]], [[collective memory]], [[collective practices]], [[contested histories]], [[curatorial practices]]
 
[[dada]], [[decolonisation of self]], [[diaspora]], [[diptych]], [[documentary]], [[drawing]], [[drawing reportage]], [[double understanding]]
 
[[East-West relations]], [[ecological collapse]], [[enchantments]], [[environment]], [[external and uncontrollable factors]]
 
[[fascination with the everyday]], [[feminism]], [[figurative]]
 
[[games]], [[gender issues]], [[gestural]]
 
[[historization]], [[humor]]
 
[[identity critique]], [[improvisation]], [[ink]], [[installation]], [[international network]], [[intersectional identity]], [[intersectionality]]
 
[[manosphere]], [[marginalised masculinities]], [[melodrama]], [[migration]], [[monotype]], [[multiplicity]]
 
[[occupied venue]], [[othering (pervasiveness of)]]
 
[[painting]], [[participatory practices]], [[patriarchy]], [[permacrisis]], [[pigment]], [[poetry]], [[political reflection]]
 
[[queer art]], [[queer identity]], [[queering]]
 
[[self-colonisation]], [[situated knowledges]], [[social criticism]], [[structural feminism]]
 
[[tempera]], [[triptych]]
 
[[watercolour]], [[wide shot]], [[women]]
 
[[zine]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
The artist interest is in artists who address contemporary queer issues by queering historical sources, thus inventing a new queer artistic language.
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/salman.toor/ Salman Toor]''' ("for glorifying queer bodies, paying tribute to queer communities, and addressing issues of migration and belonging, while having a rococo aesthetics" ''-artist note'')
* '''Louis Fratino''' ("for the use of modernist language to represent queer bodies" ''-artist note'')
* '''[https://www.instagram.com/nicoleeisenman/ Nicole Eisenman]''' ("for her brilliant queer storytelling and very complex, encyclopedic vocabulary" ''-artist note'')
 
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== National Museum of Contemporary art ==
[[Category: Art Collections]]

Adelina Ivan

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== Adelina Ivan==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Adelina Ivan - Artist Portrait", photography by Răzvan Jelea / (c) Adelina Ivan 2018]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Adelina Ivan''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1971, Bucharest) of Romanian ethnical background, lives in [[Romania]]. She works at the crossroads of textile art and painting, using an abstract visual language with open and fluid geometries, where textile forms merge with the painted background, treating textile structures as both visual and metaphorical representations of contemporary complexity, where textile form is no longer a vehicle of representation but a tool of construction – one that privileges interconnection, repetition, and transformation over depiction. BA and MA in Art & Design within the National University of Arts Bucharest and a PhD in Visual Arts at the same University, with the thesis: Fluid Structures and Spaces of Resistance in Soft Sculpture.
 [[File:ArtistPersonal_IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Being Nadia - becoming an Olympic athlete, or the childhood of a girl in the 1980s", photography by Răzvan Jelea / (c) Adelina Ivan 2016]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Mixed-Media_artists|Mixed-Media]]
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
* [[:Category:Textile_art_artists|Textile art]]
* [[:Category:Video_art_artists|Video art]]
 
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==== Process ====
Based on experimenting and intuition, she follows a process of research and a series of observations including abstract incomplete or unfinished forms, associated with the capacity of textile to adapt and transform the object and space, as well as to absorb the painted surface as an adherent medium. Through reduction and layering, folding and repetition, the textile fragments – ubiquitous objects in intimate proximity to bodies and domestic spaces – function as carriers of both personal and collective narrative. She works with a wide variety of fabrics and textiles, investigating their ability to change: depending on its structure, textile material behaves differently and can be shaped in very different ways; light and shadow also become visible on the surface, determined by the permeability and fragility of the material. She incorporates pieces of textile into painting, using the painted surface as an adherent medium for textile. The superimposed layers give rise to new, unique shapes and textures, expanding the classical concept of painting or the materiality of sculpture.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring themes in Adelina Ivan's practice include [[gender]], [[identity]], contemporary [[complexity]] and [[conventionalism]], investigating the tension between the inherent qualities of geometry and the fluid nature of textiles, and how this tension can be used to challenge [[hierarchies]], [[normativity]] and [[stability]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works are included in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]].
Works in private collections in Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, UK.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, Pale Geometries – Schugar Rotariu Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9eCnpIjbx/?__d=1%3F%2F</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Different items – [[Cabinet44]], Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Exercises of arranging and rearranging– ICR Venice, Italy
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Stretched / Relaxed – [[Cabinet44]], Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 - solo exhibition, A line that waves and winds – Grundarfjörður, Iceland
* 2019 - solo exhibition, The Infinite Convergence, Project Space -‐ Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
* 2018 - solo exhibition, To Restore, [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.facebook.com/events/anca-poterasu-gallery/adelina-ivan-solo-show/126833414729622/</ref>
* 2017 - solo exhibition, The color of geometry, Jean-‐Claude Maier, Frankfurt, Germany
* 2017 - solo exhibition, Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis / [[Tranzit.ro]], Bucharest, Romania
* 2016 - solo exhibition, Time Delusion, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania
* 2016 - solo exhibition, Atena adjusting her sandal, ODD/[[Atelier35]], Bucharest, Romania

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland<ref>https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2025-05-10/listening-to-the-earth-beyond-silence</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, Skin Territories, Scânteia Project, [[Atelierele Scânteia]], Bucharest<ref>https://skinterritories.com/about/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Soils – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
* 2024 - group exhibition, In our immediate environment, Plastic Contemporary, Cluj, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 22 – Textile Layers, Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]] Collection, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, The Real Line, E-‐WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.kunststrom.com/the-real-line-en.html</ref>
* 2022 - group exhibition, L'année dernière à Malmaison, SAC/Bucharest, Romania
* 2021 - group exhibition, Salon Video, [[Sandwich Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania
* 2021 - group exhibition, Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-10-18/exhibition-adelina-ivan</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Arts Sports Club, MARE Museum, Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, Seeing History – 1947-‐2007, Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]] Collection, Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, In the midst of the worst, the best of times, SUMO 2020, Litost Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
* 2020 - group exhibition, Wounded Identity, [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, CTG Harlem, NY
* 2019 - group exhibition, not everything means something, honey (vol.2), [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]] / Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
NA
 
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2022 - Contextile Residency, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Artak350 Grundarfjörður Residency / SEE Grant, Grundarfjörður, Iceland<ref>https://www.aracartandresidency.com/ro/adelina-ivan-artak350-residency/</ref>
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Salzburg Residency, ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Aegis 3, 2025, acrylic, textile on canvas, 42x52 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025
Art2-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Aegis 5, 2026, acrylic, textile on canvas, 42x52 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2026
Art3-AdelinaIvan.JPG|Adelina Ivan, Untitled_25, 2021-2025, acrylic, interfacing fabric, polyester and plaster wrap on canvas, 70 x 50 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025
Art4-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Black light, 2025, dimensions variable, acrylic, plastic film, cotton wire - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025
Art5-AdelinaIvan.JPG|Adelina Ivan, Aegis, 2025, ribbons, cotton, polyester, metal bar, PVC, 70 x 140 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exb1-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show, The Real Line, 2022, E-WERK Luckenwalde, Adelina Ivan - (c) Stefan Korte, 2022
Exb2-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show L'annee derniere a Malmaison, 2022, SAC, Atelierele Malmaison Bucharest, Adelina Ivan, photo by New Folder Studio - (c) SAC Bucharest 2022
Exb3-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Different items, 2024, Cabinet44 Bucharest, Adelina Ivan - (c) Adelina Ivan, 2024
Exb4-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Salt Pile, 2021, Grundarfjordur, Iceland, Adelina Ivan - (c) Adelina Ivan, 2021
Exb5-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Pale Geometries, 2025, Schugar Rotariu Gallery Frankfurt, Adelina Ivan - (c) Günzel Rademacher, 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
NA
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Idea Magazine, essay<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/YcdJqhEAACEA5H0p/under-ordinate</ref>
* Arta Magazine, essay<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/ro/virusarea-identitatii-in-era-corpului-docil-carantinat-fara-organe/</ref>
* Curatorial Online Magazine, essay<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/lucrarile-realizate-de-adelina-ivan-in-rezidenta-din-islanda-vor-fi-prezentate-publicului-din-bucuresti-saptamana-viitoare/</ref>
* Scena 9 Magazine, essay<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/the-real-line-un-proiect-cu-mai-multe-vieti</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
None.
 
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan/ https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[abstract art]], [[artist studio]]
 
[[conceptual art]]
 
[[dematerialization]]
 
[[geometric abstraction]]
 
[[identity critique]], [[installation]]
 
[[neo-concrete art]]
 
[[painting]], [[patriarchy]], [[performative practices]], [[poetry]], [[processuality]
 
[[sculpture]], [[site-specific installation]], [[social criticism]], [[structural feminism]]
 
[[textile art]]
 
[[video art]]
 
[[women]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Clark Lygia Clark]'''
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Erhard_Walther Franz Erhard Walther]'''
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel Rosemarie Trockel]'''
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tuttle Richard Tuttle]'''
 
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[[Category:Mixed-Media artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Textile art artists]]
[[Category:Video art artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Mădălina Zaharia

2026-04-04T18:16:00Z

Npk: /* Works in collections and public recognition */

== Mădălina Zaharia ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|thumb|"Mădălina Zaharia - Artist Portrait" / (c) Mădălina Zaharia]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Mădălina Zaharia''' (*1985 in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], with country of choice [[United Kingdom]] (currently lives and works in London). She was a 2023 fellow in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, holding a master of Royal College or Arts in 2012, London, graduated of Byam Shaw School of Art, CSM, UAL, London and University of Arts and Design, Bucharest. Her films have been included in the official selection of the BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival (York), Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, GRRL HAUS CINEMA (Boston and Berlin), Tourne-Films Festival Lausanne and many more.

 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-MadalinaZaharia.png|thumb|An image from childhood held by my adult hand, photographed by Mădălina Zaharia - (c) Mădălina Zaharia]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Video_art_artists|Video art]]
 
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==== Process ====
.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Mădălina Zaharia's works is [[sadness]], [[timidity]] and [[introspection]] in order to make sense of what it means to [[be human]] and [[vulnerable]] in a world that can only ascribe value through [[assertiveness]] and [[success]].
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at film festivals and art galleries.
* works in institutional and private collections.
Works included in the art collection of the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]], Bucharest, Romania.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Bye-Bye Confidence, [[Ivan Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://ivangallery.com/index.php/bye-bye-confidence/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, TristxtOTL, [[Ivan Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://ivangallery.com/index.php/madalina-zaharia-tristxtotl/</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Flat Volume, APT Gallery, London, curated by Sarah Longworth-West, United Kingdom<ref>https://www.lesleybunch.com/flat-volume-apt-gallery-2/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, TOGETHER, [[Salonul de proiecte]], Bucharest, with Phoebe von Held, Anca Muntean Rimnic and Dana Andrei, Romania<ref>https://www.facebook.com/salonuldeproiecte/posts/were-thrilled-to-invite-you-to-the-opening-of-together-a-group-exhibition-featur/1140348181460845/</ref>
* 2025 - group exhibition, aDigital Perspective, Galleria GOCAT/Piramida e Tiranës, curated by Spazio Taverna in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Belgrade, Bucharest and Tirana;<ref>https://iictirana.esteri.it/sq/gli_eventi/calendario/adigital-perspective-ne-tirane/</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, Variables as Absence of Uniformity, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden<ref>https://www.wetterlinggallery.com/exhibitions/variables-as-absence-of-uniformity</ref>
* 2024 - group exhibition, The house, the paste, the weather (Part 1), BINZ39, Zürich, organised by Cazul101 & BINZ39;<ref>https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/the-house-the-paste-the-weather-part-1-at-binz39-foundation-zurich-46517</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Did you watch the video too?, Cazul 101, Summer screening programme, Bucharest;
* 2023 - group exhibition, PULS 22, The [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]], Bucharest;
* 2023 - group exhibition, INVENTORY OF THE WEEK/Inventarul Saptamanii curated by Anca Rujoiu, The National Centre for Dance Bucharest, Sala Omnia, Romania<ref>https://www.facebook.com/events/257525919999905/257525929999904/</ref>
* 2022 - group exhibition, Visions Programme 2 curated by Webb-Ellis, Nunnery Gallery (Bow Arts), London, United Kingdom<ref>https://bowarts.org/event/visions-in-the-nunnery-2022-programme-2-webb-ellis/</ref>

===== 3.Film festivals, awards, nominations, shortlisted =====
* 2025 - film festival, 31st Cucalorus Film Festival 2025, Official selection (Film: Unfortunately_Wonderful_Difficult);<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DT-tXSpFuTV/</ref>
* 2025 - film festival, Prague Film Awards 2025, Winner of the 'Best Experimental' award (Film: Bye Bye Confidence);<ref>https://www.praguefilmawards.com/home/awards-winners/</ref>
* 2025 - film festival, Budapest Independent Film Festival 2025, nominated for the 'Best Short Film' award (Film: Bye Bye Confidence);<ref>https://www.budapestindiefest.com/?taxonomy=festival-year&term=2025</ref>
* 2024 - film festival, Milan Indie Film Festival 2024, Honourable Mention in the Best Short Experimental Film category (Film: Bye Bye
Confidence);
* 2024 - film festival, Jakarta Independent Film Festival 2024, nominated for the 'Best Short Director' award (Film: Bye Bye Confidence);
* 2024 - film festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2024, York, Official Selection (Film: Bye Bye Confidence);
* 2024 - film festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2024, Shortlisted and programmed as part of the Video Library (Film: Bye Bye
Confidence);
* 2024 - film festival, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF), Official selection for the National Short Film Competition (Film: Bye Bye Confidence);<ref>https://2024.bieff.ro/en/film/bye-bye-confidence/</ref>
* 2024 - film festival, 7th Tourne-Films Festival Lausanne (TFFL) 2024, Official competition for the short film category (Film: Public Figure);
* 2024 - film festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival 2024, Winner of the Best Experimental (Film: TristxtOTL);
* 2024 - film festival, Close:Up Reykjavik Film Festival 2024, Winner of the Best Experimental (Film: TristxtOTL);
* 2023 - film festival, I will not be sad in this world, filmlounge 2023, Sehsaal, Vienna, curated by Maximilian Lehner;
* 2023 - film festival, 67th BFI London Film Festival, ICA London (Film: TristxtOTL);
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2023 - Artist residency: Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Eastern European Network<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxc8o2uoQ4o/</ref>
* 2021 - Artist stipend: Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice Grant
* 2019 - Artist stipend: Chelsea Arts Club Trust – Trustees Award
* 2012 - Augustus Martin Award
* 2010 - Artist residency: AIR residency, AIRstudio, London
2008
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|Title, photography by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Art2-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|Title, photography by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Art3-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|Title, photography by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Art4-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|Title, photography by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Art5-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|Title, photography by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|View from exhibition, works by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Exh2-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|View from exhibition, work by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Exh3-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|View from exhibition, work by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Exh4-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|View from exhibition, work by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
Exh5-MadalinaZaharia.jpg|View from exhibition, work by Mădălina Zaharia (c) Mădălina Zaharia
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines =====
* 2014, Control Magazine| Issue Nineteen (contributor)
* 2014, Neru Phuyt| Issue 1 (contributor)
* 2013, UM:DRUCK| Issue 25 (contributor)
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
*

 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
NA
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/mada_zah/ https://www.instagram.com/mada_zah/]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[poetry]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 
Diego Marcon, 
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 
Moyra Davey, 
Dora García, 
Dana Kavelina, 
Deborah Stratman, 
Hetain Patel, 
Lindsay Seers, 
Ben Rivers, 
Riar Rizaldi, 
Sophia Al Maria, 
Iva Radivojević, 
Nguyễn Trinh Thi, 
John Akomfrah. 
 
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[[Category:Video art artists]]
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[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Romanian diaspora]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]
[[Category:Women]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T18:10:31Z

Npk: /* Catalogues */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Considered a realist painter, the artist works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
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==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Art Basel Hong Kong]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2024 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2022 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Taipei Dangdai]]
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2019 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2018 - Art Fairs: [[Art Düsseldorf]]

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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
* TOUCH NATURE, Catalogue edited by Hemma Schmutz & Sabine Fellner, published in conjunction with the group exhibition "Touch Nature", curator Sabine Fellner, 24 January - 18 May 2025, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, Publication Date: 14 Feb. 2025, Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm., 128 p. with 98 col., ISBN-10 : 3753307734, ISBN-13 : 978-3753307732, Published by: Walther and Franz König, Language: German/English.
* PULS 20 – New Entries in the MNAC Collection, Publishers: National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania & DCV – Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, Publication year: 2024, Editors: Călin Dan, Simona Vilău, Design: Adina Mocanu, Texts: Călin Dan, Ruxandra Demetrescu, Translations, proofreading: Ioana Raluca Flangea, Photography: Serioja Bocsok, Vlad Cîndea, Dan Vezentan (New Folder Studio), Documentation: Gabriela Popp, Simona Vilău, Prepress: Aurelian Ardeleanu, 23,5 x 28 cm, Softcover, Pages: 256 with 479 illustrations, Languages: Romanian, English, MNAC Books, 2024, ISBN: 978-606-9044-60-5, DCV, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-96912-215-0
* THE TWIST. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, Publication year: 2024, Published by: Kunsthalle Bega, MNAC Books ISBN: 978-606-9044-62-4 Western University of Timișoara ISBN: 978-630-327-062-3, Editors: Celia Ghyka, Călin Dan, Associate editor: Sandra Demetrescu, Texts: Călin Dan & Celia Ghyka, Marius Cornea, Livia Magina, Cristian-Robert Velescu, Daciana Vuia, Smaranda Vultur, English translation: Ioana Flangea, the authors, Proof reading: Sandra Demetrescu, Photos: Vlad Cândea, Graphic Design: Lajos Ugron, DTP: Aurelian Ardeleanu, Printing: Master Print Super Offset, Bucharest, Languages: Romanian, English
* "Cealaltă față a lumii / The other face of the world", Authors: Roxana Ajder, Anca Brânzaș, Anca Bodea, Ioana Iacob, Ana Maria Micu, Mirela Moscu, Oana Năstăsache, Ioana Olăhuț, Andrea Tivadar, Introductory dialogue: Anca Bodea with Ioana Olăhuț, Critical essays: Adriana Oprea, Alexandra Chiriac, Liviana Dan, Publisher: Hassium Cultural Association, Printing: Idea Design & Print Cluj-Napoca, Design: Eugen Coșorean, Publication year: 2023, Languages: Romanian, English, Format: 235 x 165 mm, Extent: 184 pages, Illustrations: 128 full colour, ISBN: 978-973-0-39466-5
* Ana Maria Micu. Mână stângă spre priveliște depărtată / Left Hand To Distant View, Publication year: 2023, Languages: Romanian, English
Publisher: Simona Vilău, Contributions by Simona Vilău, Cover image credit: Ana Maria Micu, Serioja Bocsok, ISBN: 978-606-9044-56-8, Number of pages: 36, Number of illustrations: 26, Format: 14,8 x 21 cm, Published by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania.
* Ana Maria Micu ( with essay by Simona Nastac) - catalog published in 2019 by Andre Lee / Mind Set Art Center ISBN 978-986-94868-7-3
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
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[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T18:01:37Z

Npk: /* Works in collections and public recognition */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Considered a realist painter, the artist works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
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==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
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==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
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==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Art Basel Hong Kong]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2024 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2022 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Taipei Dangdai]]
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2019 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2018 - Art Fairs: [[Art Düsseldorf]]

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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
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==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T18:00:09Z

Npk: /* 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Considered a realist painter, the artist works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
----

==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
----

==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2025 - Art Fairs: [[Art Basel Hong Kong]]
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2024 - Art Fairs: [[Frieze Seoul]]
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2022 - Art Fairs: [[Art Taipei]]
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Taipei Dangdai]]
* 2020 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2019 - Art Fairs: [[Art Fair Phillipines]]
* 2018 - Art Fairs: [[Art Düsseldorf]]

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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:51:58Z

Npk: /* Biography */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Considered a realist painter, the artist works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
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==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
----

==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

----

==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
----
==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:51:16Z

Npk: /* Press */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
----

==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
----

==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
----

==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
----

==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

----

==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
----
==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:48:49Z

Npk: /* 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
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==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
----

==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
* Interview with the artist in Hassium.ro online magazine<ref>https://www.hassium.ro/ana-maria-micu-botosani/</ref>
 
----

==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

----

==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
----
==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Brennan, Mike. "Romanian contemporary art Transition: trauma and the Cluj connection", modern edition<ref>http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/romanian-art/cluj-art-school-romania.html</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:48:22Z

Npk: /* Press */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
----

==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
----

==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
----

==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
----
==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Brennan, Mike. "Romanian contemporary art Transition: trauma and the Cluj connection", modern edition<ref>http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/romanian-art/cluj-art-school-romania.html</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:46:44Z

Npk: /* 1.Selected solo exhibitions */

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
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==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
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==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.electro-putere.com/exhibitions/the-persistence-of-looking/</ref>
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.frieze.com/event/ana-maria-micu-woman-scaffolding</ref>
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/en/experiences/this-is-not-an-artspace-intervention-by-ana-maria-micu-at-the-institute-of-the-present/</ref>
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRw14YCoe4Q</ref>
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/9-objects-must-be-comfortable-a-solo-exhibition-of/overview/</ref>
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://www.art-msac.com/en/exhibitions/32-a-picture-on-the-walla-solo-exhibition-by/overview/</ref>
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/self-portrait-with-indoor-plant-2/</ref>
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China<ref>https://www.anamariamicu.com/tender-heart-keep-still.html</ref>

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
----

==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
----

==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
 
----

==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

----

==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
----
==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
----

==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
----

==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
----

==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
----
----
==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
----
 
[[Category:Visual artists]]
[[Category:Painting artists]]
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]]
[[Category:Romania]]
[[Category:Romanian artists]]
[[Category:Women artists]]

Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T17:13:56Z

Npk:

== Ana Maria Micu ==
[[File:ArtistPortrait-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|"Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
 
==== Biography ====
'''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual [[Artists|artist]], of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in [[Romania]], lives and works in Botoșani. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and participation in a Socrates Erasmus program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She works with painting, combining elements of drawing, video, and animation, observer of latent interconnectedness of living indoor systems, examining how sustained attention constructs reality within the closed, self-regulating ecology of her own apartment, validating housing as a space of survival, granting indoor living acts the weight of historical facts, holding the uncomfortable truth that in a limited space, the maintenance of life often requires the active administration of death.
 
[[File:ArtistPersonal-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|thumb|Harvest from artist balcony - (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025]]
 
----

==== Artistic disciplines: ====
* [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]]
 
----

==== Process ====
Ana Maria Micu's working process employ two distinct methods for sourcing reference material: photographing specific fragments of the apartment for subsequent painterly reconstruction, and recording automated video footage of daily tasks to extract unpredictable moments while explicitly avoiding direct observation, followed by meticulously translation of the captured digital instances into realist paintings or drawings.
 
 
----
==== Notable themes ====
Recurring theme in Ana Maria Micu's works is [[the closed ecology of dwelling]], examining the [[domestic interior]] as a finite, self-regulating environment. Within this [[confined architecture]], the ongoing demands of [[indoor gardening]] and [[daily living necessities]], a continuous [[negotiation for available resources]] within limited spatial and energetic friction evolves, implying a critical reevaluation of [[care]] within an isolated system and forming the basis for her exploration into the [[ethics of active maintenance]], specifically the "[[administration of death]]", manifested through necessary actions such as culling or pruning. These severe interventions are not acts of [[destruction]], but calculated measures rigorously required to sustain the overall [[ecological balance]] and viability of the habitat.
 
 
----

==== Works in collections and public recognition ====
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at art galleries.
* works in private collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Taiwan, Netherlands, China. Works in private collections, including Romania's "National Heritage Collection" (managed by [http://National%20Museum%20of%20Contemporary%20Art National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection] and the "Moldova" National Museum Complex Iași), the CMC Art Collection in Taiwan, and the Fontys Art Collection in the Netherlands.
 
 
----

==== Selected exhibitions ====
===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions =====
* 2025 - solo exhibition, The Persistence of Looking, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scanteia +, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Woman, Scaffolding, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2023 - solo exhibition, This Is Not an Artspace. Ana Maria Micu, curators Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău, Institute of the Present, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Left Hand To Distant View, curator Simona Vilău, the 4th floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2021 - solo exhibition, Objects Must Be Comfortable, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2018 - solo exhibition, A Picture on the Wall, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2015 - solo exhibition, Self-portrait with Indoor Plant, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2012 - solo exhibition, Tender Heart, Keep Still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China

===== 2.Selected group exhibitions =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Nature after Nature, curators Ileana Pintilie, Cristian Nae and Raluca Oancea, Garrison Command, Timișoara, Romania
* 2025 - group exhibition, The Tree of Life – MSAC 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2025 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curator Sabine Fellner, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, AU, (catalog)
* 2024 - group exhibition, Observator, curated by Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, The Twist. Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, curators Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Eternity as Attempt, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marlene Herberth/KraftMade, Golia Tower, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, Romania
* 2024 - group exhibition, Touch Nature, curated by Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, /SAC Bucharest, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, curated by Călin Dan and Celia Ghyka, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania, (catalog)
* 2023 - group exhibition, Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 1: Plante utile, curated by Gabriela Mateescu with Mihaela Georgescu (Botany), Valentina Iancu (Visual Arts), Eliza Yokina (Architecture), Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://empowerartists.org/inspiratie/ana-maria-micu-la-strata-arta-printre-caile-non-invazive-de-a-experimenta-miracolul-naturii/</ref>
* 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to the Eye, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis artist-run space, Timişoara, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Unlimited Visuality, curator Adrian Bojenoiu, Aparte Gallery, Iași, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Flowing Light, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2021 - group exhibition, The Poetic Realm, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun, Taiwan, (catalog)
* 2021 - group exhibition, And Life Goes On: The Special Project for MSAC 10th Anniversary II, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs =====
* 2025 - group exhibition, Reconfigurations, 2024 Contemporary Art Acquisition Session, the Art Museum of Iași, Romania
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 21. 2020x2022 MNAC Art Acquisitions, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
* 2022 - group exhibition, Puls 20. New Entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Sandra Demetrescu and Irina Radu, Craiova Art Museum, Romania<ref>https://www.mnac.ro/event/1082/ANA_MARIA_MICU_M%C3%82N%C4%82_ST%C3%82NG%C4%82_SPRE_PRIVELI%C8%98TE_DEP%C4%82RTAT%C4%82</ref>
* 2021 - group exhibition, Heartbeat 20. New entries in the MNAC Collection, curated by Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
* 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
----

==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ====
* 2019 - Art Residency: Speaking About the Unknown, residency project installation opposite Shi Jin-Hua, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
* 2019 - Art Residency: În Context, "Compost" edition (Romania - Iceland), Slănic-Moldova, Romania
* 2007 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalog)
* 2006 - Award: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalog)
* 2016 - Art Residency: Can Serrat, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain<ref>https://canserrat.org/ana-maria-micu</ref>
 
----

==== Selected works ====
<gallery>
Art1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Brick and mortar but... Yellow, Simona, Qargo, 2026, acrylic and acrylic inks on canvas, 150 x 200 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2026
Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Exhibition views ====
<gallery>
Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
</gallery>
 
 
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==== Publications ====
===== 1.Published books =====
NA
===== 2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews =====
* Interview with the artist in Propagarta<ref>https://propagarta.ro/interviuri-acasa-la-in-atelier-la/peopleofgeorge/ana-maria-micu-e-foarte-limpede-pentru-mine-ca-arta-e-ceva-esential-obligatoriu-suficient-absolut/</ref>
 
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==== Curating activity (Artist as curator) ====
NA
 

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==== Catalogues ====
NA
 
 
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==== Press ====
* Wikipedia page<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Maria_Micu</ref>
* Article in România Literară, by Cătălin Davidescu<ref>https://romanialiterara.com/2019/10/ana-maria-micu-album-pe-perete/</ref>
* Article in Cosmin Nasui Collection and Archive<ref>https://www.cosminnasui.com/2011/05/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
* Article in Romanian Creative Week<ref>https://2022.romaniancreativeweek.ro/sections/arts-crafts/the-aftermath-of-a-losing-battle/artists-aftermath/ana-maria-micu/</ref>
 
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==== Gallery Representation ====
Mind Set Art Center, Taipei
 
For further non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact [https://npk-east.de/en/contact/ NPK]
 
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==== Social Media Links ====
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/ https://www.instagram.com/micu.studio/]
* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu https://www.facebook.com/a.m.micu]
* Website: [https://www.anamariamicu.com/ https://www.anamariamicu.com/]
 
 
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==== Hashtags ====
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)

 
[[archive]],
[[built environment]],
[[environment]],
[[figurative]],
[[internal view]],
[[mimesis]],
[[organic]],
[[utopia]]
 
 
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==== Compatible and inspirational artists: ====
(artist-mentioned reference list)
 
* Félix Vallotton (as his rigorous approach to defining shape directly resonates with my current focus on observational drawing and the methodical reconstruction of the domestic interior, ''artist note'')
 
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[[Category:Romania]]
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Ana Maria Micu

2026-04-04T16:47:15Z

Npk: Created page with "== Ana Maria Micu == "Ana Maria Micu - Artist Portrait" / (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025 ==== Biography ==== '''Ana Maria Micu''' (b. 1979 in Botoșani, Romania), (she/her), visual artist, of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in Romania, lives and works in Iași. Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002 followed by a Master's Degree in Visual Arts in 2004, at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca..."

File:Exh5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:46:07Z

Npk: View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012

== Summary ==
View from show Tender Heart, Keep Still!, 2012, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2012
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:45:26Z

Npk: View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024

== Summary ==
View from show Woman, Scaffolding, 2024, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2024
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:44:53Z

Npk: AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show The Persistence of Looking, 2025, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu, produced by ElectroPutere Gallery, hosted by Scânteia +, Bucharest, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:44:14Z

Npk: AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
AnaMariaMicu.jpg|View from show Soul, Air, Animal, 2025, curated by Kassandra Catrinescu, "Horia Bernea" Exhibition Hall, Ipoteşti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Center for Studies, Ipoteşti Village, Botoşani County, Romania, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Exh1-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:43:48Z

Npk: View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022

== Summary ==
View from show Left Hand To Distant View, 2022, curator Simona Vilău, The 4th floor of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2022
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Art5-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:43:12Z

Npk: Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
Silence followed, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Art4-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:42:48Z

Npk: The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
The importance of sun... life's challenges, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 135 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Art3-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:42:27Z

Npk: Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
Next occupant.... Remain calm, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}

File:Art2-AnaMariaMicu.jpg

2026-04-04T16:41:45Z

Npk: Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by Ana Maria Micu (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025

== Summary ==
Enclosure and... dead springs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 110 cm., work by [[Ana Maria Micu]] (c) Ana Maria Micu 2025
== Licensing ==
{{cc-by-nc-nd 4.0}}