Răzvan Neagoe

Răzvan Neagoe

"Răzvan Neagoe - Artist Portrait", photography by Dimitrie Grigorescu / (c) Dimitrie Grigorescu 2025

Biography

Răzvan Neagoe, (he/his) art photography artist, (b. 1974, Bucharest) of Romanian ethnical background, lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, a city that has profoundly shaped both his life and artistic practice. Graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, majoring in Painting, expanded the boundaries of his visual language to art photography. The city he grew up in is both an emotional and critical territory for his work. Its historical, aesthetic, and personal layers appear throughout his work, where photography becomes a tool for questioning rather than merely representing reality. The spaces in which he have lived in, the neighborhoods of his childhood, the rhythm of the city, and its constant transformations are ongoing sources of reflection, seeking to maintain an authentic relationship with memory, with the city, and with own lived experience. I LOVE BUCHAREST was one of the many projects involving this special relation with his birth city.

"Eighties - the artist in first grade, walking home after school", a photography that shows part of the artist identity and thene of interest, exploring the memory of place and the experience of a space in continuous transformation, unknown photographer / (c) Teodora Neagoe - scan after photo, 1981 or 1982

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Artistic disciplines:

• Art Photography

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Process

A visual artist working with analog photography, painting, collage, and mixed-media interventions, exploring how memory, urban space, and the image influence one another. He uses analog materials, often old or expired, analog techniques and experimental processes to embrace errors and chemical reactions as integral parts of the work. Photography thus becomes a tool for reflecting on presence, time tracing, and visibility. In his work, the image becomes a site of experimentation, where errors, overlaps, scratches, and manual interventions are integral to the process of understanding rather than to be seen as mere imperfections. The city, Bucharest, with its historical, aesthetic, and emotional layers, becomes the laboratory in which he investigates the tension between the monumental and the intimate, between public space and domestic interiority.

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Notable themes

Recurring themes in Răzvan Neagoe's practice include memory, time, and the urban environment. Adjacent themes related to the body, presence, and the relationship between image and materiality form part of his work, for example in *Body Scale, looking at the camera*, where the body functions as a unit of measurement of visibility. In projects like *Sinegrafia*, the analog image retains traces of degradation and process, while in *Grain from Bucharest*, urban and marginal spaces, using photography as a critical tool rather than a descriptive document.

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Works in collections and public recognition

• exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
• works in public institutions collections.

Works in private collections in Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, United States of America, France.

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Selected exhibitions

1.Selected solo exhibitions

• 2025 - solo exhibition, Layers of Bucharest. Visual radiographs of Urban Memory, Non Artspace Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
• 2025 - solo exhibition, #GRAIN from Bucharest, Point art hub, curator Horațiu Lipot, Bucharest, Romania
• 2025 - solo exhibition, Reversing Gaze, Espace Intermédiaire Gallery, together with Matthieu Marre, Brussels, Belgium
• 2024 - solo exhibition, Sinegrafia, Ars Monitor gallery, curator Silviu Pădurariu, Bucharest, Romania
• 2022 - solo exhibition, A Mechanical Copy + Răzvan Neagoe, residency and exhibition, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, Romania
• 2022 - solo exhibition, Body Scale, looking at the camera, Camera Gallery – Center of Interest, curator Irina Dora Dumitrașcu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2021 - solo exhibition, Grain from Bucharest, ETAJ Artist-Run Space gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2.Selected group exhibitions

• 2023 - two persons exhibition, Chairs_, 2/3 Galeria, together with Claudia Retegan, Bucharest, Romania
• 2023 - two persons exhibition, About Trees and not only, gallery ETAJ Artist-Run Space, together with Dragos Burlacu, Bucharest, Romania
• 2024 - group exhibition, Les Fleurs du mal, Constanta Art Museum, curator Nora Cupcencu, Constanta, Romania
• 2024 - group exhibition, Table et Tableau, Ars Monitor gallery, curator Silviu Pădurariu, Bucharest, Romania
• 2024 - group exhibition, live event HuB Leonida: Live, National Technical Museum "Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida", curator Alexandru Patatics, Bucharest, Romania
• 2023 - group exhibition, Overlays II - left hemisphere: the fear of radiation that Egyptologists drag with them in each newly discovered grave, gallery ETAJ Artist-Run Space, curator Horatiu Lipot, Bucharest, Romania
• 2023 - group exhibition, Overlays II - right hemisphere: something that twists in the air, and disappears, gallery 2/3, curator Horatiu Lipot, Bucharest, Romania
• 2023 - group exhibition, Threat to The Eye, Undecided Artist Run Space, curator Ada Muntean, Timisoara, Romania
• 2022 - group exhibition, OVERLAYS, ETAJ Artist-Run Space, Carol 53, Atelier 030202, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, Romania
• 2021 - group exhibition, Reshaping the Land of the Man, online event, Romanian Cultural Institute Istanbul, curator Ana Câmpean, Instanbul, Turkey
• 2020 - group exhibition, Breaking (Im)possibilities, The Multicultural Center of the Transylvania University in Brașov, curator Ada Muntean (STUP group), Brașov, Romania
• 2020 - group exhibition, Koinonía #7, galeria Siilk, curator Daniel Peace, Atena, Greece

3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs

• 2025 - Art Biennale, International Photo Biennial Ostend, Lloyd Gallery, Oostende, Belgium
• 2019 - Collateral art biennale event, Between us, Calpe Gallery, Temporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Parallel event ArtEncounters Biennial, curators Călin Petcana and Mălina Ionescu (STUP group), Timișoara, Romania
• 2012 - Collateral art biennale event, focAR Exhibition (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), About Houses, life and others..., Bucharest Biennale 5, Victoria Art Center gallery, curator Petru Lucaci, Bucharest, Romania
• 2011 - Art biennale, focAR Exhibition (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), Je Passé J’habite Je Vis, Roger Tator Gallery, Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Resonance Section, Lyon, France
• 2010 - Art biennale, focAR (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), Erosion Biennial LA(O)ST IMAGE, Klaipėda Exhibition Hall curator Gytis Skudzinskas, Klaipėda, Lithuania (Catalog issued)
• 2008 - Art biennale, focAR (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), Urban-Jealousy – the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Hafriyat Karaköy space, curators Amirali Ghasemi and Serhat Koksal, Istanbul, Turkey

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Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects

• 2023 - Artistic research residency: Unseen Amsterdam. Photography Fair, Amsterdam, Olanda
• 2019 - Collaborations: founding member of the STUP group (Delia Calinescu, Ada Muntean, Dragos Neagoe)
• 2019 - Artistic research residency: Contemporary Art Residence, Reduta Centre, Brasov, curators Ana Campean and Joseph Cui
• 2011 - Artistic research residency: City Switch project art residency in Lyon (focAR group)
• 2011 - Artistic research residency: Artistic Mobility and trans-Mediterranean cooperation Grant, Roberto Cimetta Fund
• 2011 - Artistic research residency: Platform Istikshaf – Artistic Mobility and trans-Mediterranean cooperation, Roubaix, France
• 2006-2009 - Art project: Involved in “I love Bucharest” Public and Community Art Program
• 2008 - Artistic research residency: Alterity, creativity, diversity: Urban transformations and new cultural practices of neighborhoods in Europe - Encounters of European Suburbs, Urban Traces presentation with Architect Emil Burbea, Lyon, France;
• 2006 - Collaborations: founding member of the focAR group (with Alina Tudor)
• 2003 - Artistic research residency: Art conquers the street together with Fusion group (Karl Knapp, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Doze Green, etc) Project Marseille, France
• 2002 - Collaborations: Member of Professional Artists Union from Romania
• 1999 - Collaborations: involved and fonder ECCO group - Co-Founder ECCO Group

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Selected works

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  Building, 2025, silver gelatin print on expired speed photographic paper, Holga camera with expired Azopan medium format film from 1982, 108 x 108 cm - (c) Răzvan Neagoe 2025

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  Laboratory, 2025, silver gelatin prints, various photographic papers, 100 x 300 cm - (c) Dimitrie Grigorescu 2025

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  Landscape, 2024, silver gelatin print, Kodak Super Endura color paper (Olympic edition), 18 x 28cm - (c) Răzvan Neagoe 2024

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  TIME-3, 2022, Agfa-expired-paper, contact print, 7.4 x 10.5cm - (c) Răzvan Neagoe 2022

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  The Sea, 2024, c print Fuji Crystal Archive paper, 180 x 180 cm - (c) Ars Monitor 2024

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Exhibition views

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  View from Grain from Bucharest solo exhibition, ETAJ Artist-Run Space Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2021 - (c) Mircea Modreanu 2025

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  View from focAR Exhibition (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), Je Passé J’habite Je Vis, Roger Tator Gallery, Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Resonance Section, Lyon, France, 2011 - (c) focAR group (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe) 2011

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  View from solo exhibition SINEGRAFIA, Arsmonitor gallery, 2024 - (c) Ars Monitor 2024

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  View from solo exhibition BUCHAREST STRUCTURE. Visual X-rays of Urban Memory, NON art space gallery, 2025 - (c) Dimitrie Grigorescu 2025

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  View from solo exhibition, Body Scale, Looking at the Camera, Gallery Camera, Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2022 - (c) Răzvan Neagoe 2025

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Publications

1.Published books

NA

2.Published articles in journals & magazines

• Clivaj magazine, article
• Liternet online literature platform
• ICR Instanbul, online presentation of Răzvan Neagoe
• ICR Instanbul, online presentation of Răzvan Neagoe

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Curating activity (Artist as curator)

NA

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Catalogues

NA

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Press

• Propagarta platform, article
• Ars Monitor online magazine, article
• IQAds online magazine, article
• Etaj TV online platform, presentation of Răzvan Neagoe
• Contemporary Art Issue magazine, article
• Propagarta platform, article
• Propagarta platform, article
• Propagarta platform, article
• Propagarta platform, article

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Gallery Representation

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For further commissions and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK

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Social Media Links

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/razvanb_neagoe/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/razvan.neagoe.3/
• Website: http://razvanneagoe.com/
• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@razvanb_neagoe

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Hashtags

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

abstract art, archive, art education, art market, artist-run space, artist studio, assemblage
brutalism
collaboration, collecting, collective memory, conceptual art, contested histories, cultural politics, curatorial practices, cyanotype
dada, dematerialization, diaspora, diptych, documentary, drawing
East-West relations, environment
feminism, figurative
geometric abstraction
happening, historization
identity critique, industrial venue, installation, institutional critique
land art, landscape, litography
migration, minimalism, multimedia, multiplicity
non-conformist art
painting, papier-mache, performance for photo camera, performative practices, photography, photojournalism, pictography, political reflection, pop art, propaganda, public art
ready-made
social criticism, social realism, structural feminism, surrealism
triptych
urban art
videoart

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Compatible and inspirational artists:

(artist-mentioned reference list)
The artist interest is in artists who address memory, the city, and the fragility of the image.

• Bernd and Hilla Becher
• Thomas Struth
• Gabriele Basilico
• Gerhard Richter ("for the way they question the status of photography in painting" -artist note)
• Hiroshi Sugimoto ("for the way time and perception become visual matter" -artist note)
• Geta Brătescu ("for works which explore memory, corporeality and the construction of the image in a deeply reflexive way, for the way she transformed intimacy into artistic territory" -artist note)
• Ion Grigorescu ("for his diaristic honesty" -artist note)

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