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Alex Bodea

Early life and education

Alex Bodea, visual artist, of Romanian nationality, has lived in 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 Gligor Bodea, known as a mountain rescuer with notable activity in this field, and a bee-keeper, and of Corina Bodea, mountaineer.

Primary artistic disciplines:

Painting
Drawing
Writing

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.

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.

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 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, Queer History Museum (RO) and others. Works in private collections in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom.

Selected exhibitions (since 2020)

1.Selected 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.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
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 - 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
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, Timișoara, Romania
2022 - duo show with Ana Botezatu, 40 days in desert, Cazul 101, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania
2020 - group exhibition What if you were in my shoes, Museum of Arts, Cluj, Romania
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

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
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

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