Anca Brânzaș
Anca Brânzaș
Biography
Anca Lavinia Brânzaș, (she/her) visual artist, (b. 1986, Oradea) of Romanian ethnical background, has lived in Romania, current country of choice being France, where she lives and works since several years. She uses a visual language inspired by Romanian folklore and folktales, as a vehicle of representation of the simplicity of people's lives. Bachelor's degree in Art and Design from the West University of Timișoara, from 2005 to 2008. Master degree at the Bucharest Academy of Arts, from 2008 to 2010. Doctorate at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, in 2015.
Artistic disciplines:
Process
Based on personal experiences and inspirational motifs from Romanian folklore and folktales, as well as from the simplicity of people's lives, she paints a kind of diary-self-portraits, imaginary characters living metaphorized personal stories, through which she tries to describe momentary experiences, situations, surroundings overlapping the inner self and personal perception. The diary become a carrier of emotions and a cartography of emotions unfolding through time. This whole world of bizarre creatures are painted with lightness, partially in rainbow colors, partially in dark tones, in idyllic improvised gardens.
Notable themes
Recurring themes in Anca Brânzaș's practice include gender, the status of women in Eastern European folktales, rediscovery of the imagery of fantastic creatures from childhood and from Romanian folktales: dragons, serpents, and unicorns.
Works in collections and public recognition
- exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
- works in private collections.
Works in private collections in Romania.
Selected exhibitions
1.Selected solo exhibitions
- 2026 - solo exhibition, As it if were Real, Meron Gallery Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2025 - solo exhibition, Galerie 75, Rouen, France.
- 2023 - solo exhibition, My Dreams Come from Further Away, Galerie 89, Paris, France
2.Selected group exhibitions
- 2025 - group exhibition, Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris, France[1]
- 2024 - group exhibition, State of Flux, Biju Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2020 - group exhibition, From Whom the Bell Tolls, Reperaj Gallery, Oradea, Romania
3.Biennials, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions
- 2025 - Art Encounters Biennale, There were times I wanted to change the world, Paltim Timisoara, Romania
- 2014 - International Graphic Design Biennial, Bucharest, Romania
Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects
- 2025 - Le Grand Baz'Art 2025 International Festival of Outsider Art, Gisors, Galerie 75 Prize, Rouen, France[2]
- 2023 - Launch of the book “The other face of the world”, published with the support of the Hassium Cultural Association, critical texts by Adriana Oprea, Liviana Dan, Alexandra Chiriac, Romania
Selected works
Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
Exhibition views
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
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Anca Brânzaș, - (c) Anca Brânzaș 2025
Publications
1.Published books
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2.Published articles in journals & magazines
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Curating activity (Artist as curator)
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Catalogues
NA
Press
- https://thewoman.ro/anca-branzas-as-if-it-were-real/
- https://www.hassium.ro/anca-branzas-champery/
- https://www.ziarulmetropolis.ro/anca-branzas-prezinta-expozitia-the-earth-is-awry-la-fabrica-de-pensule-lateral-art-space/
Î https://www.veeska.com/2023/03/anca-branzas-mes-reves-viennent-de-plus-loin.html
Gallery Representation
None.
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK
Social Media Links
Hashtags
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)
afterlife
body art
charcoal drawing, choreography
decolonisation of self, dematerialization, diaspora, documentary, double understanding, drawing
ecofeminism, environment, external and uncontrollable factors
feminism, figurative, folk
humor
identity critique, intersectional identity, irony
magical realism
non-conformist art
painting, patriarchy, plein-air,
ritual
structural feminism, symbolism
women, women’s traditional knowledges
Compatible and inspirational artists:
(artist-mentioned reference list)
- Henri Rousseau ("Henri Rousseau's The Snake Charmer because it is a painting that fascinated me in my adolescence when I first saw it on television. I am fascinated by the dreamy atmosphere, the moon, the sea. For the last eight years I have been in the south of France for part of the year, precisely to find that light, that atmosphere of reverie and abandonment that exist also in this painting" -artist note)
- Francisco de Goya ("for his deep world, his direct brushstrokes, his faces so expressive; here the world of grotesque imagination reflects the real one, you can no longer nestle in the shelter of a Tamer of Souls like in Rousseau`s paintings" -artist note)
- Paula Rego ("for the uses of symbols from her own mythologies in her art" -artist note)
