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Alex Bodea

Early life and education

Alex Bodea, born in 1981 in Cluj, Romania, of Romanian nationality, having being lived in several countries of choice, such as Germany (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, having being explored several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic, 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.

Birthplace and Family background

Born in 1981 in Cluj, Romania, daughter of Gligor Bodea, known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field, and a bee-keeper, and Corina Bodea, his life and mountain partner.

Primary artistic disciplines:

Painting
Drawing
Narrative art

Process

Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling.

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.

High-level 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.

Public collections

A selection of works and were purchased by Banca Transilvania in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj . 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. Works in private collections: Mihai Pop (RO), Marian Ivan (RO), Miron Schmückle (RO), Claudio Scorretti (SW), Șandor Collection (RO), Veronica Kirchner Collection (DE), Benetton Collection (IT), Santozeum Collection (GR), Tudor Grecu Collection (RO), Anca Nath (RO), Anca Poterașu (RO), Queer History Museum (RO) and others.

Key exhibitions (since 2020)

1.Major solo exhibitions

2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, SOLO Project Space (Robert Băjenaru), Bucharest, Romania,
2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, Lutnița Gallery, Chișinau, Moldova

2.Important group shows

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
2025 - group exhibition Alter Monster, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2025 - group exhibition, The Poetics and Politics of Food, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, guest artist
2025 - group exhibition, Hocus Focus, Conector OFF-space, Cluj Napoca, Romania, exhibited with Cornel Brudascu, Mircea Cantor, Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Anca Munteanu Ramnic, Navid Nuur, Miklos Onucsan a.o., proposed by Mihai Pop, Plan B Gallery
2025 - duo show with Dragos Badita, Present is a foreign country, Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2025 - group exhibition, Unleashing the sins of sculpture, Scanteia Plus Art Center, Bucharest, Romania
2025 - duo show with Ciprian Mureșan, Ilustrated, printed, copied, learnt, Memorialul Ipotești, Plan B Gallery and Lutnița Gallery,
2024/25 - group exhibition, Untitled, Galery Lutnița, Chișinău Moldavian Republic
2024 - group exhibition Land of Fire, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania
2024 - group exhibition Dating 101, Cazul 101, Bucharest, Romania
2024 - group exhibition La Box A first history, La Box Gallery, Bourges, France
2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, Cazul 101, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania
2020 - group exhibition ComiXconnection, MEK Museum for European Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania
2020 - group exhibition First Friday, Kunstraum - Alte Bürger, Bremerhaven, Germany
2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania

3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions

2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Romania
2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 - group exhibition Puls 22: new museum acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest, Romania
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
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 Biennial Timișoara, Romania.
2014 - art bienniale Drawing Biennale Rimini, (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy

Collaborations

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
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: Paintbrush Foundation in collab. with History Museum Cluj, Romania
2018 - Artistic Research Residency: La Box Residency, ENSA Bourges, France
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

Conceptual concerns

Place within movements (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, New Media, Street Art)

Notable works

1.Descriptions of major pieces or series

2.Works that have substantial secondary sources

Books written by the artist

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

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, Romania
2020, Excerpt from the book The fact finder- published in ARTA magazine, Romania
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
2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in STRIPBURGER, Slovenia
2019, Graphic story: Grandma cracks nuts, published in CUTRA, Romania
2019, Graphic story: Members only, published in DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Germany
2018, Article: Insert, published in IDEA magazine, Romania
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

Catalogues

None at the moment.

Interviews or major essays

None known.

Bibliography / Publications

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 == Alex Bodea ==
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+<br>
 ==== Early life and education ====
 '''Alex Bodea''', born in 1981 in Cluj, [[Romania]], of Romanian nationality, having being lived in several countries of choice, such as Germany (more than 10 years) and France (2 years), with a itinerant research approach, having being explored several European countries, such as Norwegien, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Serbian Republic, 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.
+<br>
 ==== Birthplace and Family background ====
 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 a bee-keeper, and Corina Bodea, his life and mountain partner.
+<br>
 ==== Primary artistic disciplines: ====
 * Painting
 * Drawing
 * Narrative art
+<br>
 ==== Process ====
 Field research & direct experience. Socially engaged art developed at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and storytelling.
+<br>
 ==== 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.
+<br>
 ==== High-level 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.
+<br>
 ==== Public collections ====
 A selection of works and were purchased by Banca Transilvania in its program of acquisitions of artists from Cluj .
 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.
 Works in private collections: Mihai Pop (RO), Marian Ivan (RO), Miron Schmückle (RO), Claudio Scorretti (SW), Șandor Collection (RO), Veronica Kirchner Collection (DE), Benetton Collection (IT), Santozeum Collection (GR), Tudor Grecu Collection (RO), Anca Nath (RO), Anca Poterașu (RO), Queer History Museum (RO) and others.
+<br>
 ==== Key exhibitions (since 2020) ====
-===== Major solo exhibitions =====
+<br>
+===== 1.Major solo exhibitions =====
 * 2025 - solo exhibition That Place Called Abundance, SOLO Project Space (Robert Băjenaru), Bucharest, Romania,
 * 2024 - solo exhibition Alex Bodea, Lutnița Gallery, Chișinau, Moldova
+<br>
-===== Important group shows =====
+===== 2.Important group shows =====
 * 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
 * 2025 - group exhibition Alter Monster, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
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 * 2020 - group exhibition First Friday, Kunstraum - Alte Bürger, Bremerhaven, Germany
 * 2020 - group exhibition Hysteria/History, Paintbrush Factory Cluj and History Museum, Cluj, Romania
+<br>
-===== Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions =====
+===== 3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions =====
 * 2025 - group exhibition, Convulsion Ltd, Romanian queer art retrospective Triumf Amiria, Queer Museum, Kilobase, Romania
 * 2025 - art bienniale (collateral event) Onboard Bienniale 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
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 * 2017 - art bienniale Life: a user’s manual Art Encounters Biennial Timișoara, Romania.
 * 2014 - art bienniale Drawing Biennale Rimini, (Drawing Storage) Rimini, Italy
+<br>
 ==== Collaborations ====
 * 2025 - Artistic Research Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MODEM Center, Debrecen, Hungary
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 * 2012 - Artistic Research Residency: Curators' Network workshop, Sibiu, Romania
 * 2009 - Artistic Research Residency: Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests Residency, Avrig, Romania
+<br>
 ==== Conceptual concerns ====
+<br>
 ==== Place within movements (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, New Media, Street Art) ====
+<br>
 ==== Notable works ====
-===== Descriptions of major pieces or series =====
+<br>
-===== Works that have substantial secondary sources =====
+===== 1.Descriptions of major pieces or series =====
+<br>
+===== 2.Works that have substantial secondary sources =====
+<br>
 ==== Books written by the artist ====
-===== Published books =====
+<br>
+===== 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
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 * 2015-2016, Artist book - Visual notes on Berlin, unique edition
 * 2015-2016, Graphic novel - Six breakfasts, one lunch, limited edition
+<br>
-===== Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines =====
+===== 2.Published drawing reportages/graphic narratives in journals & magazines =====
 * 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, Romania
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 * 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
+<br>
 ==== Catalogues ====
 None at the moment.
+<br>
 ==== Interviews or major essays ====
 None known.
+<br>
 ==== Bibliography / Publications ====
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
   [[Category:Painting artists]]
   [[Category:Drawing artists]]