OANA MARIA POP
CV & CONTACT
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
19.03.2018 – Present: Collaboration with IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
EDUCATION:
2020 – Present: PhD student, University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
2011 – 2013 – MA University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
2008 – 2011 – BA University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
October 2012 – January 2013 – Erasmus internship at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, DE;
February 2010 – June 2010 – Erasmus scholarship at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venetia, IT.
RESIDENCIES:
16.01.2023 – 15.12.2023 – FRESH AIR at Urban Nation Museum and Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE.
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS:
27.06.2025 – 03.07.2025 – 48 Stunden Neukölln - Architectures of Healing, Galerie AC. Art & Dialogue, Berlin, DE.
Duo Show with artist Diana Pǎun,
Curator: Ioana Mandeal
07.12.2023 – 15.03.2024 – Architectures of Healing, [Ceci n'est pas une] Gallery, Art space of Rumänisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin, DE. The project was developed during the Artist-in-Residence program at Urban Nation Museum and Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE.
Duo Show with artist Diana Pǎun,
Curator: Ioana Mandeal
24.10.2023 – 18.11.2023 – Small Details, Not Important, IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO. (Solo)
Curator: Camilla Remondina.
11.04.2019 – 11.05.2019 – Dismayland, IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO. (Solo)
23.04.2015 – 28.04.2015 – Mater Familias, Casa Tiff, Cluj-Napoca, RO. (Solo)
Curator: Liviu Bulea.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
27.03.2026 – 29.03.2026 – On Paper, Ethnographic Museum of Transilvania (Cellarium Gallery), Cluj-Napoca, RO.
14.12.2025 – 24.01.2026 – Arhiva de Sunet: AICI SE VEDE JAZZ, /SAC Berthelot, Bucharest, RO. Curators: Alex Radu, Paul Breeze, Mihai Lukács.
03.10.2025 – 12.10.2025 – Arhiva de Sunet: Jazz in Brașov 70/80, Brașov Art Museum, Brașov, RO. Organiser: Dialectic Centre.
15.05.2025 – 22.06.2025 – Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction, La Cave - Institute Français de Roumanie, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Curator: Liviu Bulea
25.10.2024 – Arhiva de Sunet: Jazz x Sibiu x Viață 70-80, Klub Kazališta Komedja – Kontesa, Zagreb, HR. Organiser: Dialectic Centre.
13.10.2024 – 22.10.2024 - Arhiva de Sunet: Jazz x Sibiu x Viață 70-80, Casa Artelor, Timișoara, RO. Organiser: Dialectic Centre.
17.09.2024 – 28.09.2024 – Arhiva de Sunet: Jazz x Sibiu x Viață 70-80, Cer Deschis Gallery, Sibiu, RO. Organiser: Dialectic Centre.
07.09.2024 – 06.10.2024 – Fortune Cookies for the Future, Sibiu Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, RO. Coordinators: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu and Lect. univ. dr. Georgeta Olimpia Bera. Curator: Karina Ganea.
14.03.2024 – 30.04.2024 – Good Girls Imaginarium, Centre for Philosophy and Art - 1001 Arte, Bucharest, RO. Curator: Cristian Cojanu.
17.12.2023 – 15.02.2024 – On Egoism, Flux I bell.place, Berlin, DE. Curator: Harm Lux.
15.11.2023 – 23.12.2023 – Queermas, The Gay Creation, Berlin, DE. Curator: Liviu Bulea.
28.10.2023 – 29.10.2023 – Linguistic Xpedition, Urban Nation, Berlin, DE. (Open House)
27.10.2023 – 31.03.2024 – Linguistic Xpedition, FRESH A.I.R. Scholarship Exhibition #8, Urban Nation Project Space Bülowstraße 97, Berlin, DE. Curator: Janine Arndt.
26.08.2023 – Linguistic Xpedition, Urban Nation, Berlin, DE. (Open House)
16.03.2023 – Heartbeat 22, MNAC 2022 Art Acquisitions, Bucharest, RO. Contributor to The Book of Change project, developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad.
26.01.2023 – 06.02.2023 – Put it in Other Words, Center for Urban Culture, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Coordinators: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu, Lect. univ. dr. Georgeta Olimpia Bera.
25.11.2022 – 10.12.2022 – Karambol, Cosmic House, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Curator: Gilda Ghinoiu.
09.09.2022 – 16.10.2022 – Book of Change, Autumn Exhibition 2022, Association of Norwegian Visual Artists, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO. Contributor to The Book of Change project, developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad.
29.04.2022 – 15.05.2022 – Mapping Frames, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Curator: Lect. univ. dr. Georgeta Olimpia Bera. Coordinator: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu.
12.03.2022 – 07.05.2022 – DOT ~ TO ~ DOT, Intervention by TRIUMF AMIRIA, Museum of Queer Culture in LONG EYE*, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, RO. Curator: KILOBASE BUCHAREST. Contributor to The Book of Change project, developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad.
20.01.2022 – 23.01.2022 – The Cokedown Effect, Booming Contemporary Art Show, Lieu.City, IT. Curator: ACME Art Lab.
04.12.2021. – 09.01.2022 – YOU FEEL ~ AND DRIFT ~ AND SING, Intervention by TRIUMF AMIRIA, Museum of Queer Culture, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest, RO. Curator: KILOBASE BUCHAREST. Contributor to The Book of Change project, developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad.
07.07.2021 – 18.07.2021 – NO TO ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN, International Group Exhibition of Mail Art, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, RO.
Curators: Anca Boeriu, Andreea Sandu.
10.06.2021 – 22.06.2021 – Memoria Tainuită a Locului, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Coordinators: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu, Prof. univ. dr. Aurel Codoban, Lect. univ. dr. Georgeta Olimpia Bera.
22.10.2020 – 01.11.2020 – Neo-Manifest Romantic, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Curator: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbârciu.
11.05.2018 – 27.05.2018 – The Garden, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO. Curator: Liviu Bulea.
18.06.2015 – 20.06.2015 – Local Municipalities, part of the INTRUSION: Things Found Inside the Large Wooden Horse project, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, RO. Curator: dr. Olimpia Bera.
ART FAIRS:
27.03.2026 - 29.03.2016 - On Paper, An Affordable Art Fair, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
Represented by IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery:
14.09.2023 - 17.09.2023 – Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, GR.
19.05.2023 - 28.05.2023 – Mobu Art Bucharest, RO.
24.03.2023 - 26.03.2023 – Cremona Art Fair, Cremona, IT.
06.10.2022 - 09.10.2022 – Art Market Budapest, HU.
04.11.2021 – 07.11.2021 – The Cokedown Effect, The Others Art Fair, Torino, IT.
Curator: ACME Art Lab;
15.10.2021 – 17.10.2021 – Art Fair Vilnius, Vilnius, LT.
28.05.2021 – 06.06.2021 – Lucca Art Fair, Digital Art Fair, IT.
22.10.2020 – 25.10.2020 – Budapest Art Market, Art Fair, Budapest, HU.
03.10.2019 – 06.10.2019 – Budapest Art Market, Art Fair, Budapest, HU.
22.11.2018 – 25.11.2018 – Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, Thessaloniki, GR.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
06.05.2026 - 24.05.2026 – Dincolo de ceea ce se vede, The Museum of Art of Cluj-Napoca, in partnership with IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Co-curator: Liviu Bulea, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
SCENOGRAPHY:
12.10.2025 – RENT-A-FAMILY.SRL by Andreea Tănase, directed by Diana Dragoș, North Theatre, Satu-Mare, RO.
(Set Design and Costume Design)
11.09.2024 – SLOTS by Ioana Sileanu, directed by Mihai Lukács, Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
(Set Design and Costume Design)
20.04.2024 – YOU MAY DREAM by Izumi Suzuki, adapted by Alexa Băcanu, directed by Diana Dragoș, North Theatre, Satu-Mare, RO.
(Set Design and Costume Design)
WORKSHOPS:
27.10.2023 – 28.10.2023 – Mural painting on community wall, Sandstraße 64, Berlin, DE.
Organiser: Stiftung Berliner Leben.
Coordinator: Xenia Müller.
Partners: Kita Wonderblume.
17.07.2023 – 18.07.2023 – Mural painting on community wall with the youth club B18 and neighbourhood children from Blasewitzer Ring 4, Heerstraße Nord, Berlin, DE.
Organiser: Stiftung Berliner Leben.
Coordinator: Xenia Müller.
14.05.2021, 28.05.2021, 24.11.2022 – Drawing and Painting Workshops at The Centre for Prevention and Combating Domestic Violence in Cluj-Napoca, RO.
Coordinator: Fărcaș Raluca.
CONFERENCES AND TALKS:
12.12.2025 – How Do Images and Objects Act? Potentialities and Virtualities of Research Through and About Art. “From Object to Objectification” Presentation at the Doctoral School Conference of Visual Arts, George Enescu National University of Arts, Iaşi, RO.
26.01.2024 – On Domestic Violence in Germany and Iran. A think piece by Judith Albrecht Public talk in dialogue with the installation Active/Passive, Architectures of Healing, Rumänische Kulturinstitut, Berlin, DE.
VOLUNTEER WORK:
25.03.2021 – Present: Volunteer at The Centre for Prevention and Combating Domestic Violence in Cluj-Napoca, RO.