Răzvan Botiș
Răzvan Botiș
Biography
Răzvan Botiș (b. 1984 in Brașov, Romania), (he/him), visual artist, of Romanian ethnical background, grew up in Romania, lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. Working with the materiality of scraps of paper, cardboard, scraps of covers, copper or brass sheets, he used to manipulate clay in a sculptural manner until he learnt what ceramics meant. Graduated from the Hans Mattis-Teutsch High School of Fine Arts, followed by Ion Andreescu University Cluj-Napoca in 2007 under Prof. Univ. Dr. Titu Toncian, with the work "Seriality". Master's degree in 2009 in "Public art", with doctoral thesis (2016-2019) under Professor Univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu, on International Neo-Expressionism and The Eighties Generation in Romania.
Artistic disciplines:
Process
Răzvan Botiș's focus is on drawing. Adding color to his practice, like working on canvas, painting, made possible a deeper understanding of the environment and its evergrowing complexity, among which the geography plays a functional role within the need for orientation and surviving in nature.
Notable themes
Recurring theme in Răzvan Botiș's works is the simplicity of everyday life, extending real events or stories to self-imagined ancient cultures.
Works in collections and public recognition
- exhibited nationally and internationally, at art biennales, museums and art galleries.
- works in private and institutional collections.
Works included in private collections in Romania, Belgium, (Galila Barzilai Hollander Collection), Bulgaria, and United States.
Selected exhibitions
1.Selected solo exhibitions
- 2024 - solo exhibition, Văsuț, Galeria SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, Romania[1]
- 2019 - solo exhibition, The Ceramist, Galeria SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, Romania[2]
- 2019 - solo exhibition, Blue Air, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2016 - solo exhibition, Cashmere Thoughts, Galeria SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, Romania[3]
- 2014 - solo exhibition, Going Twomblysh, Woolish, Foolish, Galeria SABOT, Cluj-Napoca, Romania[4]
- 2011 - solo exhibition, Diamonds for Everybody, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2011 - solo exhibition, Trying to Purchase What I once Wanted to Forget, Galerie Krinzinger, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria[5]
- 2010 - solo exhibition, The Idiot, Center for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania
- 2009 - solo exhibition, The Hill was a Mountain, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2.Selected group exhibitions
- 2025 - group exhibition, Inventar/ Inventory, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
- 2024 - group exhibition, Tower of Birds, Connector, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, The Ars of Nothing/ L’Art de Rien, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium[6]
- 2023 - group exhibition, Ost Anders Festival, Nuremberg, Germany
- 2022 - group exhibition, Overdose, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel[7]
- 2022 - group exhibition, (re)Constructing visions, Cluj Contemporary Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania[8]
- 2022 - group exhibition, Virus Diaries/ Jurnal de Virus, Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna, Austria
- 2022 - group exhibition, Incantatio Mundi, Romanian Creative Week, Iași, Romania[9]
- 2022 - group exhibition, Virus Diaries/ Jurnal de Virus, Muzeul Banatului Montan, Reşiţa, Romania
- 2022 - group exhibition, Nuit blanche Heraklion, Kotsanas Museum, Heraklion, Greece
- 2022 - group exhibition, Virus Diaries/ Jurnal de Virus, Casa Artelor, Timișoara, Romania
- 2022 - group exhibition, Virus Diaries/ Jurnal de Virus, B5 Studio, Târgu Mureș, Romania
- 2021 - group exhibition, The Living Room, Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germania
- 2021 - group exhibition, Virus Diaries/ Jurnal de Virus, ABM Confecciones, Madrid, Spania
- 2021 - group exhibition, Spotlighting Cluj, Mitreo Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italia
- 2021 - group exhibition, Avem nevoie de ceea ce este, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2021 - group exhibition, May amnesia scratch our membrane, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, Romania[10]
- 2021 - group exhibition, Oameni și șobolani/ Of man and mice, Alert Studio, Bucharest, Romania
3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs
- 2023 - group exhibition, Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages, SAC Malmaison Bucharest, Romania
- 2020 - group exhibition, 12 Years after - A survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- 2017 - art biennale, Life a User’s Manual, Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara, Romania
- 2016 - art biennale, Art Capital Biennale: Almost Objects, Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary
Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects
- 2012 - Art Residency, Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
- 2011 - Art Residency, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria
- 2010 - Art Residency, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Selected works
Untitled 2025, oil wax, charchoal, crayon , work by Răzvan Botiș (c) Răzvan Botiș 2026
Untitled 2025, oil wax, charchoal, crayon , work by Răzvan Botiș (c) Răzvan Botiș 2026
Untitled 2025, oil wax, charchoal, crayon , work by Răzvan Botiș (c) Răzvan Botiș 2026
Untitled 2025, oil wax, charchoal, crayon , work by Răzvan Botiș (c) Răzvan Botiș 2026
Untitled 2025, oil wax, charchoal, crayon , work by Răzvan Botiș (c) Răzvan Botiș 2026
Exhibition views
View from show Cashmere thoughts 2016, work by Răzvan Botiș (c) YAP studio Pavel Curagǎu 2016
View from show Cashmere thoughts 2016, work by Răzvan Botiș (c) YAP studio Pavel Curagǎu 2016
View from show Cashmere thoughts 2016, work by Răzvan Botiș (c) YAP studio Pavel Curagǎu 2016
View from show Cashmere thoughts 2016, work by Răzvan Botiș (c) YAP studio Pavel Curagǎu 2016
View from show Cashmere thoughts 2016, work by Răzvan Botiș (c) YAP studio Pavel Curagǎu 2016
Publications
1.Published books
NA
2.Published articles in journals & magazines, interviews
- 2020 - Interview by Daria Ghiu, Belles artes [Arte frumoase] (Radio România Cultural radio show), 3 October, artist profile and interview[11]
Curating activity (Artist as curator)
NA
Catalogues
- 2017 - Art Encounters, Art Encounters Foundation (Ed.), 2017 (catalogue)
- 2011 - Raluca Voinea, When Absence is Breathing, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, (exhibition catalogue)
Press
- 2024 - Art Viewer, show presentation[12]
- 2021 - Sylvia Walker, Răzvan Botiș: Artist spotlight, Contemporary Art Issue, 21 April[13]
- 2021 - Julien Delagrange, The Cluj School: The Art Scene You Need To Know, Contemporary Art Issue, 21 January[14]
- 2020 - Diana Marincu and Ruxandra Demetrescu, Curating today [Curatoriatul astăzi], Arta Magazine, issue 44-45[15]
- 2020 - Diana Marincu, Romanian artists in the diaspora [Artiști români din diaspora] (about the Persona exhibition at Mucem Museum, Marseilles, France), Arta Magazine, issue 46-47[16]
- 2019 - Art Viewer, show presentation[17]
- 2016 - Art Viewer, show presentation[18]
- 2015 - Ingeborg Ruthe - Die Klausenburg-Connection, Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, Germany
- 2015 - Raluca Buțincu Betea - Cluj Connection 3D, Arta Magazine, nr. 13[19]
- 2013 - Antawan I. Byrd, Reid Shier, Art Cities of the Future: 21st-Century Avant-Gardes, Phaidon Press
- 2011 - Ciprian Mureșan, One Way, insert IDEA Arts + Society magazine #39
Gallery Representation
- Galeria Sabot, under coordination of Daria D. Pervain, Marcel Janco.
For further commissioning and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK
Social Media Links
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/razvan.botis/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/razvan.botis.7/
Hashtags
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)
Compatible and inspirational artists:
(artist-mentioned reference list)
- ↑ http://www.galeria-sabot.ro/index.php/exhibitions/razvan-botis--vasut/
- ↑ http://www.galeria-sabot.ro/index.php/exhibitions/razvan-botis--the-ceramist/
- ↑ http://www.galeria-sabot.ro/index.php/exhibitions/cashmere-thoughts/
- ↑ http://www.galeria-sabot.ro/index.php/exhibitions/razvan-botis--going-twomblysh-woolish-foolish/
- ↑ https://galerie-krinzinger.at/artists/razvan-botis/
- ↑ facebook.com/reel/1458620328014535/
- ↑ https://www.dmh.org.il/en/exhibitions/overdose/
- ↑ https://www.modernism.ro/2022/07/21/reconstructing-visions-lucrari-din-patrimoniul-muzeului-de-arta-cluj-napoca-si-din-colectii-ale-artistilor-muzeul-de-arta-cluj-napoca/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reels/CraXeDpIZbk/
- ↑ https://iomogallery.com/may-amnesia-scratch-our-membrane/
- ↑ https://www.mixcloud.com/daria-ghiu/arte-frumoase-la-radio-rom%C3%A2nia-cultural-3-octombrie-2020/
- ↑ https://artviewer.org/razvan-botis-at-sabot-3/
- ↑ http://www.contemporaryartissue.com/razvan-botis/
- ↑ http://www.contemporaryartissue.com/contemporary-art-in-cluj/
- ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/revista-arta-44-45-preview-1.pdf
- ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/arta-diaspora-preview-pdf-1.pdf
- ↑ https://artviewer.org/razvan-botis-at-sabot-2/
- ↑ https://artviewer.org/razvan-botis-at-sabot/
- ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/pdfresizer.com-2016-04-05-17-28.pdf
