CV & CONTACT

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

19.032018 – Present: Collaboration with IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO.

RESIDENCIES:

16.01.2023 - 15.12.2023 – FRESH AIR at Urban Nation Museum and Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE.

EDUCATION:

2020 – Present: PhD student at the University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.

Research on the representation of women in arts and society, focusing on women's illnesses such as hysteria, utilizing them as the pretext for repressing and downgrading women;

2011 – 2013 – MA University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.

A study on Romanian consumerism is depicted through a visual metaphor of the act of eating;

2008 – 2011 – BA University of Fine Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO.

An investigation on R.E.M. dreaming as a commentary for the 80s generation in contemporary Romania.

SCHOLARSHIPS:

2012 – 2013 – Erasmus internship at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, DE;

2010 – Erasmus scholarship at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venetia, IT.

EXHIBITIONS:

17.12.2023 - Present – "On Egoism", Group Exhibition, Flux I bell.place, Berlin, DE,

Curator: Harm Lux;

07.12.2023 - Present – "Architectures of Healing", Duo Exhibition, [Ceci n'est pas une] Gallery, Art space of Rumänisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin, DE,

Curator: Ioana Mandeal,

Project developed during the Artist in Residency program at Urban Nation Museum and Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE;

15.11.2023 - 23.12.2023 – "Queermas", Group Exhibition, The Gay Creation, Berlin, DE,

Curator: Liviu Bulea;

28.10.2023 - 29.10.2023 – "Linguistic Xpedition", Open House, Urban Nation, Berlin, DE;

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;

24.10.2023 - 18.11.2023 - "Small details, not important", Solo Exhibition, IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Curator: Camilla Remondina;

26.08.2023 – "Linguistic Xpedition", Open House, Urban Nationa, Berlin, DE;

16.03.2023 – "Heartbeat 22", MNAC 2022 Art Acquisitions, Bucharest, RO.

Contributor to "The Book of Change', an ongoing project and a complex set of instructions developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad encouraging visitors to explore their body and their relationship with other bodies from a queer perspective;

26.01.2023 - 06.02.2023 – "Put it in Other Words", Group Exhibition, Center for Urban Culture, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Coordinators: Prof. univ. Dr. Ioan Sbarciu, Lect. univ. Dr. Georgeta Olimpia Bera;

25.11.2022 - 10.12.2022 – "Karambol", Group Exhibition at Cosmic House, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Curator: Gilda Ghinoiu;

09.09.2022 – 16.10.2022 – “Book of Change 2021”, Group Exhibition, Autumn Exhibition 2022 organized by the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.

This is a text- and drawing-based collective art project initiated by choreographer and dancer Georgiana Dobre and visual artist Kjersti Vetterstad. The project is based on scores, i.e. simple, written or drawn instructions that can be directed at an individual or a group. The instructions may suggest a thought experiment or an action that can be performed in a private or public context. Dobre and Vetterstad have invited four artists who identify as queer – two who live in Norway and two from Romania – to write down a score. Each of the artists involved has in turn invited two new artists to write scores, and so on. The purpose of these instructions is to encourage the reader to twist, bend or break heteronormative thought patterns;

29.04.2022 – 15.05.2022 – "Mapping Frames", Group Exhibition, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Curator: Lect. Univ. Dr. Georgeta-Olimpia Bera, Coordinator: Prof. Univ. Dr. Ioan Sbarciu;

12.03.2022 - 07.05.2022 – DOT ~ TO ~ DOT, intervention produced by TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture in LONG EYE *., Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, RO,

Curator: KILOBASE BUCHAREST;

Contributor to "The Book of Change', an ongoing project and a complex set of instructions developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad encouraging visitors to explore their body and their relationship with other bodies from a queer perspective;

20.01.2022 – 23.01.2022 – "The Cokedown Effect", Booming Contemporary Art Show, lieu.city., IT,

Curator: ACME Art Lab;

The project describes the effects of excessive industrialisation, reflecting on the social, economic and political conditions of contemporary Romania and Eastern Europe in general. As in Dickens' Coketown, the city cancels out individual identity, encouraging increasing generalisation and socio-economic inequalities;

04.12.2021 – 09.01.2022 – YOU FEEL ~ AND DRIFT ~ AND SING, intervention produced by TRIUMF AMIRIA. Museum of Queer Culture, COMBINATUL FONDULUI PLASTIC, BUCHAREST, RO,

Curator: KILOBASE BUCHAREST,

Contributor to "The Book of Change', an ongoing project and a complex set of instructions developed by Georgiana Dobre & Kjersti Vetterstad encouraging visitors to explore their body and their relationship with other bodies from a queer perspective;

07.07.2021 – 18.07.2021 – NO TO ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN, International Group Exhibition of Mail Art, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, RO,

Project initiated by Galateca and the cultural association Neo Art Romania,

Curators: Anca Boeriu, Andreea Sandu;

10.06.2021 – 22.06.2021 – Group Exhibition: "Memoria Tainuita a Locului", The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;

22.10.2020 – 01.11.2020 – Group Exhibition: "Neo-Manifest Romantic", The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;

11.04.2018 – 11.05.2018 – Solo Exhibition: “Dismayland”, IAGA Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;

Oil on canvas and photography, illustrating the results of a decade-long investigation into a generation that matured within a “modernised poverty".

11.05.2018 – 27.05.2018 – Group Exhibition: “The Garden”, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Curator: Liviu Bulea;

23.04.2015 – 28.04.2015 – Solo Exhibition: “Mater Familias”, Casa Tiff, Cluj-Napoca, RO,

Curator: Liviu Bulea,

Charcoal on paper, silicone on paper, and Installation art, this study is an invitation to deepen a family structure of this kind, making it accessible to the most intimate substrates by abstracting stories inherited from mother to daughter;

18.06.2015 – 20.06.2015 – Group Exhibition: “Local municipalities” part of the project “INTRUSION, things found inside the large wooden horse, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, RO.

Curator: Dr Olimpia Bera.The project seeks to facilitate the dialogue among artists located in peripheries, globally. This remarkable exchange enables cross-cultural conversations for artists who are often situated at the margins of their economic and cultural centres. (Carlos Carmonamedina)

ART FAIRS:

14.09.2023 - 17.09.2023 – Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, GR,