Ada Solomon was born on June 3, 1968 in Bucharest, Romania. She is a producer and production manager, known for Inimi cicatrizate (2016), Aferim! (2015) and Pozitia copilului (2013).
Adina Moldova Țitrea
, Romania
Historian and art critic Corneliu Stoica states that "in her work, Adina Moldova Ţitrea expressed herself especially in the genre of landscape, but also approached the portrait, still life with flowers and composition. In all that she lays on canvas and paper one can feel the excitement of life, the externalisation of strong feelings, emotions and soul experiences, the pleasure and joy while painting, the artist being aware that through art she finds her own ego and fulfillment of an ideal that she has always longed for. Her landscapes, whether in hilly, mountainous and aquatic Romania, from Balchik, Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria) or from any part of the world where she walked her steps, sensitively capture views and aspects with large space scopes, presenting an atmosphere full of serenity and poetry. The artist is concerned to restore the particularities of those places, to emphasize the features that make them unique. Colours are vivid and harmonious, placed with a brush masterly handled. One can feel the rustling of leaves, the vibration of air and the lapping of waves."
lbert Kaan lives and works in Bucharest. Born in 1993, he graduated from the Sculpture Department at the National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2016. His artistic discourse is strongly related with his urban experiences. He combines industrial materials, such as iron and tar with the more traditional modelling clay, plaster or charcoal to create spatial structures of generous sizes that can be as well exhibited outdoor, in gardens and parks or indoor, in white-cube or industrial spaces. He also mixes sounds and video-projections with industrial structures, creating spectacular effects in live performances. He is interested in ecology, urban culture, music and, as any young artist from the new generation, dreams of a better and healthier world. His artworks have been exhibited mostly in Bucharest and around the country in different academic events. Since 2016, he is represented by 418 Gallery and he participated in two group shows.
In the summer of 2017, he has been part of the 10th Edition of Cetate Arts Danube Artist-in-Residence program, together with Petrica Stefan, Stefan Radu Cretu, Constantin Luser, Ignazio Mortellaro and Stefan Papco.
Art director and graphic designer born in Bucharest, Alexu co-founded the "Hello Menthol" multidisciplinary design studio in 2007.
In 2010, he and 2 other partners rented an industrial space and converted it to a cultural space, untitled "Atelierul de Productie".
He left this business in 2012 and focused on building 2 new startups at the intersection of arts and hospitality.
After 5 years of working for both international and local brands and organising events and exhibitions we launched 2 new start-ups along side his parents and his brother, artist Andrei Argaetic: The "Imbold" Foundation and Acuarela bistro.
Imbold, Art Gallery, Plastilina Pop-Up Garden and Acuarela Bufet followed.
In 2016 he bought and restored an old house and a barn in the remote village of Viscri - Unesco World Heritage Site.
Alexu moved there with his wife, Mara, where they work and live most of the year.
Anca Boeriu este Lector Univ. dr. la sectia Grafica, Universitatea Nationala de Arte, Bucuresti, absolventa a Institutul de Arte Plastice ‘Nicolae Grigorescu ‘promotia 1982, clasa prof. Eugen Popa MEMBRU U.A.P.,
Doctor in arte vizuale si Membru al biroului de sectie Grafica intre anii1996-1998 si din anul 2002
Din 2005 Reprezentantul pentru Romania Trienala pentru gravura mica de la Chamalieres- Franta
A avut numeroase expozitii in tara si strainatate, cariera sa artistica fiind recompesnata cu numeroase premii.
Anca Ciofirla (Van Ka) is a Romanian artist and curator. She graduated The Art Faculty of Timisoara and a Master of Arts in Poland. Now is a Bucharest Art Highschool Teacher and is active like curator and artist in various projects and exhibitions.
Starting August 2002, I work at the Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania. Fields of research are the history of Jewish districts in Bucharest before and during the Holocaust, the methodology of teaching the Holocaust through the picture, the history of photography, imaginary.
PhD thesis on Image and Imaginary in Jewish Bucharest.
International projects:
2013, Participant in the Archival Guide to Relevant Sources Related to Jewish History (1900-1940), funded by the Rothschild Foundation Europe and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania
2013 Participant in the project Documenting and Making Educational Use of the Sephardic Trail from the Ottoman Empire to the Danubian Principalities, funded by Rothschild Foundation Europe 2011, Participant in the Saving, Conservation and Educational Use Project of the Romanian Jewish Urban Architectural Heritage Rothschild Foundation Europe
2008, Participant in the project Working together for the preservation of the Romanian Jewish heritage, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Europe
2006, Participant in the project Saving the Jewish Cemeteries of Moldova (research project focused on the digitization and mapping of the Jewish cemeteries in Târgu Frumos and Podu Iloaiei) financed by the Hanadiv Foundation
2006, Participant in the Romanian Holocaust Academic Learning Resource project
(www.romanianjewish.org), co-funded by B'nai B'rith International and The Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
2003 - 2006, Interviewer for The Central Europe Center (Centropa)
2003, Participant in the Romanian Jewish Heritage Project (www.romanianjewish.org), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Project Coordination
2006 - 2011, Coordinator for Educational Programs -Romania, The Central Europe Center (Centropa)
External Specializations:
- 2010 (o7.), Prague, Vienna, Budapest - Centropa summer academy / Teacher learning session
- 2008 (29.06 - 4.07), Berlin - Centropa summer institute / Teacher learning session
- 2007 (29.08 - 4.09), Oswiecim - International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust / Seminar with history teachers and educators
- 2007 (23-28.07), Vienna - Centropa / Teaching about Jewish life using technology (films and scanned old photos)
Andra Mirea
, Romania
Andra Simina Mocanu
Bucuresti, Romania
Andra-Simina Mocanu (24 years old) is a Romanian artist who has just finished Master in the National Art University of Bucharest. Her sculptures follow the idea of reaching spiritual "perfection" by appealing to forms that stir up your interest through their dynamics and their boldness.
Andrei Dăscălescu is a director, monteur and sound editor. He was born in Piatra Neamț and studied “Multimedia: film editing-sound editing” at National University of Theatre and Film “I.L.Caragiale”. He worked as a film and sound editor for many movies, including “Youth Without Youth”, by Francis Ford Coppola; he produced and directed “Fly”, a 2-minute short movie that was selected for 12 international festivals and won two awards. He created and organized “Filmul de Piatra” film festival which celebrated its 10th edition this year. Most recently, he wrote and directed “Planet Petrila”, the documentary about Petrila mining town. A former miner who became an artist and activist – Ion Barbu – makes use of art and absurdity to stop the local authorities from demolishing the historical buildings of the oldest mine in our country. The movie won the Audience Award at Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2017.
The thirty-something French artist, engineer and Bucharest resident Anouk Ragot dreams on
canvas. Passion for her art was first fostered at a local gallery in the North of France where, in
her youth, she learned to draw and paint with oil, watercolor and pastel.
The pastels in her body of work are reflections of these youthful memories.
Through the years, she has continued to refine her technique through coursework at the
Royal College of Art in London and the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her interest in nude drawings
concentrated her focus on the power and vulnerability of the female form.
The intimacy of subject and vibrancy of color of her recent work exposes Anouk’s most
cherished moments of daily life, which she expresses with an abundance of joy through the
mediums of charcoal and paint.
"We can talk in Anouk Ragot's painting about that "color field painting" that involves
inserting chromatic action into a form through an unifying aesthetic idea of the image of the
space, supporting the artist's direct communication feeling with the color universe and
implicitly with the world she lives in..." Ana Amelia Dinca, critic of art, April17
Explorers of digital frontiers, Augmented Space Agency are overcoming the barriers between the physical and digital spaces with the help of AR medium. Focused on mobile platforms, as the future driver of digital media, they are creating new types of experiences and products with a wide range of applicability.
Their main focus is on the augmented medium and related technologies. They are developing innovative production pipelines in order to create a better-dedicated content and AR, MR, XR & VR experiences, maintaining an efficient and adaptive workflow.
Bogdan Calciu is an international artist who presents a variety of quality artworks executed in ink, pencil and charcoal. His ink drawings made on paper or special cardboard approach portraits, which are executed with true mastery, and urban landscapes, which render the elements chosen as inspiration in the finest details. Testimony of places that no longer exist or that unfortunately will disappear over time, the works of Bogdan Calciu become more important as time passes, projecting us to a better, more orderly and purer world.
Cătălin Crețu is one of the illustrative contemporary composers of Romania. He was born in 1971, followed the courses of University of Petroșani (Bachelor of Electromechanical Engineering), and of the National University of Music, Bucharest, where he also earned a PhD. in Multimedia composition. Furthermore, he graduated the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg.
His work focus includes chamber music, orchestra, classical and electronic music, and his works are strongly related to the multimedia area. He is one of the few romanian composers specialized in electroacoustic music.
He is the founder and former Executive Director of InnerSound International New Arts Festival, member of Society of Romanian Composers and Musicologists (UCMR), and founding president of OPUS Association. In 2015 he published the book ”From Sinus Sound to the Anatomy of the Shadow. Technological views in new music”.
Choreographer and performer, born and based in Bucharest, Romania.
She works with various concepts and media, performance, performing, body expressivity and endeavours, written and improvised text, sound, interviews, photography, film, site specific, documenting, participatory art, reused hand made objects, making special, drawings, installation.
Catinca Colesniuc
Bucuresti, Romania
Catinca Colesniuc is a young photographer from Bucharest who discovered her passion for photography when she was a child - “I was fascinated by what photographs were able to do: Immortalize clips of those traveling through life, to transmit emotions even years later; I felt like I wanted to be a part of this.” Consequently, at eleven, she received her first professional camera, a Canon 1000D, which she still uses to this day. “I think what ties all my photographs together is the wish to capture the tiny moments of daily life, giving them a change to exist in eternity.”
On February 14, 1975 Ciprian Dominoschi, a romanian artist, was born in Buzau.
Education: He graduated University of Fine Arts, Decorative and Design „George Enescu”, Iasi, Department of Sculpture – class professor Ilie Bostan (1998).
Activity: Professor of visual arts at the School of Art „Margareta Sterian” in Buzau, Department of Sculpture (2002).
Ciprian Făcăeru
, Romania
Lead digital space explorer and co-founder of Augmented Space Agency
The tiles factory in Mediaş was founded in 1906 and had 25 workers. After 110 years, the factory has about the same number of employees and manufactures painted tiles using the same techniques and materials as in 1906. Each cahla is poured, finished, glazed and painted by hand. Until 2017, for each burnt burst, the entrance of the brick oven used to burn the tiles were built and demolished just like 100 years ago.
Since its inauguration to the present day, Teracota Medias has manufactured painted tiles for stoves and fireplaces for houses, schools, mansions, castles and museums.
NEW Experimentalist and Archeologist of Imagination, having as exploration instruments the palette knife and the brush, the chalk and the pastels, and NOW recently passionate by the acrobatic jumps and the walking on the thin line of contemporary art, Daniela puts her fingerprints in a juicy modality on the artworks signed with Rosa Damascena aroma.
Completely FREE, now ONLY for You and the friends You are with, a SAMPLING/TASTING OF ART .. accompanied by a sound like the one of mechanisms related to figurine-watches and musical boxes.
STATEMENT
I am an artist living and working in Cluj, Romania.
Particularly preoccupied with the expressive potential of drawing in the context of contemporary culture, I consider this medium, broadly understood, to be particularly adequate for transcribing personal, intimate stories, feelings and thoughts, as well as for constructing arresting, yet subtle visual metaphors of one’s inner challenges and spiritual quests. However, I define drawing in a less classical manner, as I use various materials and technique in my works, from charcoal to pastel to oil paint, and from academic drawing to collage. My work process consists of focusing upon one topic for long periods of time, as in the meantime the topic itself becomes more clearly formulated in my mind. Therefore, a good way to conceive of my artistic production is in consistent series of works, the creation of which usually unfolds for more than a year.
I like to deal with simple and apparently banal objects, actions and fragments of reality, which obsessively pervade my thoughts, with fragmentary and seemingly commonplace scenes, which I represent in attempts to confer them a metaphysical dimension and symbolic meaning. However, my more recent works are attempts to reach a more sophisticated metaphorical, symbolic quality and to more compellingly affirm the importance of spirituality in our egocentrism burdened lives, as well as the art’s ability to offer, via fantasy and imagination, an insight into one’s spiritual quests and identity revealing challenges.
Dragos Hanciu was born in 1993 in Romania. He spent almost half his life skateboarding and that's how he got in contact with photo and video cameras.
In 2014, he made his first student short documentary, The Floating Bridge, which was featured in several festivals in Romania and Europe. After graduating Film Directing in Bucharest, he attended Aristoteles Workshop where he made his second short documentary, Ionas Dreams of Rain. Dragos is also spending a serious amount of time and energy on photography, both documentary and essay. Hometown, his first solo exhibition opened in May 2016 in Munich at Die Faerberei Gallery, and also featured the video installation called Happy Holidays.
Currently, he is in production with both his first feature documentary and his first photo book called Hometown.
He studied sculpture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest 1988-1995 ,
complementary then studied a year at Vienna 1994 and at the Professional College for Design in Aachen 1993
From 1996- Member of the Association of the Professional fine Artists of Romania
From 1997- Lecturer at the National University of Arts Bucharest
2009 – PhD in Visual arts at Art University in Bucharest,Romania
Art Grants
1999- Artist-in-Residence, Program Grant guest studio of the Association Kulturkontakt ,Vienna, Austria
2015- Artist-in-Residence Cite International des Arts Paris, Program ICR Grant Constantin Brancusi 2015
Eugen Rădescu is cultural manager, curator and theoretician, with background in political science (specialised on moral relativism and political ethics). He wrote for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How Innocent Is That?” , “presently i have nothing to show and i’m showing it!” and "Common Nostalgia" at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How Innocent Is That?” at Revolver Book Berlin. He is co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and co-director of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion) and the chairman of the organisational board of PAVILION and BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He is member of the selection board at apexart for the programs "Franchise" and "Unsolicited Proposal Program". He held different lectures at several institutions such as apex, New York, Badisher Kunstverein, Karlshrue, Casa Encedida, Madrid, University of Arts, Cluj. Currently he is working on a new book, “Moral relativism – two perspectives”. He is Phd in political science at Babeș-Bolyai University. Also he is professor at Bucharest University and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. Lives and works in Bucharest.
Felix Aftene
Iasi, Romania
Filomela Elena Bucur, Jana Gertler
Bucuresti, Romania
TES Gallery makes its debut at NAG 2017 with " Filooo's World and Mrs. Gertler's Stained Glass" by launching to the public the invitation of the Jewish State Theater to know and admire the chromatic universe of the works of these two female artists. Stories with objects and characters that are abundant in color and vibration, emphasized by games of lights, shadows and digital projections.
Florea Alexandru Daniel
, Romania
Ceainaria BERNSCHUTZ 1 / Florea Alexandru Daniel/ Mood Indigo
George Popa.
Born in Romania, Bucharest. Illustrator, painter and art director. My works combine conceptual compositions and figurative narrative images with an experimental touch for all my new works. Every work is a complete story.
Graduated UNITEH - Technological University of Design 1991-1996
Graduate in Fine Arts and Decorative Arts at George Enescu University, Iasi, 2000.
Founder and curator of the ARTHOL project, Leonida 19.
Personal exhibition "ONE" organized at IAA Romania.
Aiurart Gallery Group Exhibition - Art Agency.
Group Exhibition Aiurart Gallery - Caragiale Year Exhibition.
Exhibition "Second Nature" in ARTHOL space.
Ion Barbu was born in Petrila. He worked in the mine as a topographer engineer for 15 years. He is one of the most appreciated Romanian cartoonists, but not only: he founds magazines and publishing houses, organizes festivals, discovers young talents and inspires other artists. He is a member of the Union of Plastic Artists in Romania, president of the Cultural Foundation “Romanian Condition” in Petroșani, organizer of Autumn Salon of Humour (Petroșani), of “Bad Man” Festival and of Underground Theater Festival (Petrila). Currently, he is an editorial cartoonist at “Cațavencii”, “Dilema Veche”, “Observator Cultural” and “Suplimentul de Cultură”. Ion Barbu was an illustrator before and after the communism and is one of the toughest critics of this political regime; he took part in over 400 national and international exhibitions, won over 50 awards, wrote and co-wrote over 30 books.
Ion Bitzan was a Romanian artist known especially for his conceptual artworks based on the world of books (ranging from painted libraries to book objects ).He has been associated with Romanian postmodernism. Bitzan was the representative of Romania at the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1997, as well as at the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1967,1969 and 1981. His works can be found in private collections wordwide as well as museums from Romania, USA, UK, Germany,Switzerland,Poland and Czech Republic.
IRLO (b. 1985) is a well-known graffiti artist, with local and international recognition. His characters cover dozens of walls in Bucharest, Timişoara, Cluj, Arad, Deva, Sibiu, Brașov, Ploiești, Bistrița, Constanța, New York and Berlin. The graffer performed live at Street Delivery, on the ramps from Skate Park Herăstrău, in Ciclop Parking - Episodul 3 / Episode 3 (2013), Summer Well, Ironiak BBQ, StudentFESST Timișoara, Train Delivery – Bucharest 2013, Rahova Delivery – Bucharest. He exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu (2008, 2009), the Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, at the VATRA collective Art Gallery in Bucharest (2012) and at Atelier 030202 in Bucharest (2013).
Membru al Uniunii Artiştilor Plastici din România, a studiat la Universitatea Naţională de Arte, Secţia Ceramică-Sticlă, Bucureşti, a avut numeroase expoziţii în ţară şi străinătate, atât solo, cât şi de grup, remarcându-se prin originalitatea şi puterea mesajului său.
ARTA LA INTRARE / Ceainaria BERNSCHUTZ 2 / Maria Cioată / Zbor spre Înălțare
Education:
- “George Apostu” High School of Art - Bacau – Romania.
- “IOAN ANDREESCU” Art University - Cluj Napoca – ROMANIA, Graphic Section - 1998-2003.
- Copenhagen Technical Academy, Qualified in : Multimedia Design - 2005-2007.
Current position:
- Teacher at “Romulus Ladea” Art High School – Cluj Napoca – Romania.
- PHD student at the Art University in Cluj Napoca, Romania
Member of the UAP (PLASTIC ARTISTS UNION) – Bacău , Romania, since 2009.
Art Activity
I. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2017 Painters from today at Balcic, Elite ART Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2016 Berline Liste – International Art Fare
- 2016 Fantom Gallery – Berlin
- 2016 AD BACUM – Elite ART Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 201, 2016 Annual Exhibition of U.A.P. Bacău – Bacau, Romania
- 2016 Launch Party, Cazza Villians, Bucharest, Romania
- 2016 Anual Art Fair – Cluj Napoca, Romania
- 2016 Self portrait – Karo Gallery, Bacau, Romania
- 2013, 2014, 2015 “Romanian Graphic”
- 2014 Art Safari, Bucharest, România
- 2013 Exhibition at the American Chamber of Commerce
- 2011, 2012 Studio 35 - Iaşi, România
- 2011 SMB5 mixed media, 5’th edition, 2011 Bucharest, România
- 2010, 2011, 2012 annual exhibition of the UAP Bacău
- 2010, 2012 IOAN ANDREESCU – BUZĂU
- 2007,2008,2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 International Contest Exhibition MOLDAVIAN SALOONS, Bacau-Romania, Chisinau – Moldavian Republic
- 2010 EROTIC ART, Frunzetti gallery, Bacău, România
- 2008, 2009, 2010 Zoomorfe, Frunzetti Art Gallery, Bacău, România
- 2010 STUDIO 35 , Bacau, România
- 2009 Project manager of BBC national group exhibition at Cluj Napoca National Art Museum, România
- 2009 STUDIO 35, Iasi, România
- 2009 Experiment, Alfa Gallery, Bacău, România
- 2008 ART Biennale – Ion Andreescu, Buzău, România
- 2008 Eleusis Gallery, Iasi, România
- 2008 Seven, Frunzetti Gallery, Bacău, România
- 2008 STUDIO 35, Contemporary Art Gallery, “Iulian Antonescu” Art Museum, Bacău, România
- 2007 Zoomorfe, Contemporary Art Gallery, “Iulian Antonescu” Art Museum, Bacău, România
- 2006 - 2015 Annual Exhibition of U.A.P. Bacău, Alfa Gallery Bacău, România
- 2002 Nature in nature -Cluj Napoca- România
- 2002 Et in Venetia Ego - Romanian Cultural Institute –Venice - Italy, National Art Museum- Cluj Napoca, România
II. SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2017 TRANSMOGRIFICATION - Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2016 PRAESENS - Galeria PILOT, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj Napoca (project in collaboration with Cristina Gagiu)
- 2015 INBETWEEN - Galeria NOUA, Bucuresti
- 2014 AMEN - Galeriile Alfa, Bacău, România
- 2014 AMEN - Galeria NOUA, Bucuresti, România
III. AWARDS
1. 2014 Prize of the jury from the U.A.P. (artists union), Bacău, România
2. 2010 Prize of the jury at STUDIO 35 national exhibition – România
Mihai Barbu is a journalist and photographer. In 2009 he left to Mongolia on a motorcycle, with the help of a funding campaign: people could donate him money worth of 500 km. This meant that everything that was happening to Mihai along those kilometers and all the photographs he took were received by the person donating the money. This is how his episodic blog, mongolia.ro was born, and, later on, the book ”Selling Kilometers”.
He was one of the subjects of the Discovery Tv Show ”Discover the hero inside you!”, and he received the title The Best Photography Blog at Roblogfest, 2010.
He worked for the newspapers Evenimentul zilei, România liberă, and Reuters, he colaborated with the press agencies European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and Associated Press (AP). Since 2012 he opened the photography studio Photoliu (with Bogdan Baraghin). In 2015 he left again for a new trip, planning on visiting 41 countries, this time along with his family.
Mihai Zgondoiu was born in 1982 in Romania. He is a visual artist and the coordinator of the Atelier 030202 Gallery – contemporary art space in Bucharest and co-curator of geamMAT Gallery from the Art Museum in Timișoara. In 2004 he graduated from the graphics department of the faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara, and he is currently Assistant Professor PhD at the National University of Arts in Bucharest.
Creative by nature, Mihai Zgondoiu easily oscillates between experimental and traditional, approaching a wide range of styles and techniques with his artwork from drawing, collage, engraving, all the way to new media, video-installations, performance and urban art. The most recent exhibitions/solo projects are: DADA Brancusi / Galateca Gallery – Bucharest (2016The Artist’s Golden Hand / FivePlus Gallery – Viena, 2014 & Aiurart Gallery – Bucharest, 2013, BreakBody / the Art Museum in Timișoara, 2012, Lenin’s Sleep / Free Press Square - Bucharest, 2011, The Red Line / the National Dance Center of Dance in Bucharest, 2001, The Red Carpet / the Schlooss Museum courtyard – Linz, Austria, 2011, Freedom as Visual Pattern / Hampden Gallery - Incubator Art Space, Amherst, Massachusetts USA, 2010, Me Matrix / Calina Gallery – Timișoara, 2009, Me / Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum – Sibiu, 2008.
He also participated in BB6 (Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art #6) 2014, IEEB4 (International Experimental Engraving Biennial – Mogosoaia, 2010), Now Art Now Future (The International Biennial of print – Vilnius, 2008), his artworks being part of private and state collections: Art collection „Luciano Benetton” (IT), „DFEWA” foundation in Stuttgart (DE), Herczeg Art Collection (RO), Alain Servais Collection (BE), Nasui Art Collection (RO), The Visual Art Museum, Galați (RO), the Florean Contemporary Art Museum, Baia-Mare (RO), the National Museum of Art, Satu Mare (RO).
Michael "Mike" Nelson RA (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize: first in 2001 (that year the prize was won by Martin Creed), and again in 2007 (when the winner was Mark Wallinger).
NERV is one of the few pure Romanian streetwear brands. When we say ”pure”, we’re referring to the fact that everything we do is born right here, specifically in the heart of Transylvania.
Ever since 2014, since we started this project we wanted to get involved as much as possible into everything that the Romanian street art and urban culture is, and into promoting it. We didn’t create NERV just as a clothing brand, but as a channel to promote urban culture. This is exactly why we always tried to support young artists from all areas. This is exactly how the project StickerAttack was born. Because we believe that stickers are a new form of art, one that has to get out of the underground zone!
And like every form of art, we believe it has to be exposed for the entire world to see. So we asked artists to send us their designs and we created an alternate gallery, with paintings that contain only stickers.
So join us on the road to promote urban culture!
Arhitect din 1966, absolvent al Institutului de Arhitectură "ION MINCU" Bucureşti. Profesor Invitat la Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism " ION MINCU" Bucureşti. Scenograf şi Consultant de Arhitectură la TEATRUL "LUCIA STURDZA BULANDRA "Bucureşti. A lucrat alături de Liviu Ciulei, Dan Jitianu, Andrei Şerban, Alexandru Darie, Mihai Mănuţiu sau Alexandru Dabija. Deputy General Manager la Opera Naţională din Bucureşti. A proiectat renovarea sălii şi scenei Teatrului Bulandra - sala Liviu Ciulei (fosta Izvor) şi modernizarea sălii Icoanei a Teatrului Bulandra; a proiectat şi realizat modernizarea sălilor Teatrului de Comedie, fosta sală a Teatrului Ion Creangă ( înainte de consolidare), sala şi foayerul Teatrului Ţăndărică (sala Lahovary) - cu experimentul de a avea un singur spaţiu foyer - sala de spectacol, cu rezolvări speciale de acustică
Absolvent cu diplomă de merit al Institutului de Arte Plastice “N. Grigorescu” Bucureşti, secţia Pictură, 1982. Doctorat in Arte Vizuale 2006. Conf. univ.dr.la Universitatea Naţională de Arte Bucureşti, Departamentul Pictură; Preşedinte Filiala Pictură Bucureşti a Uniunii Artiştilor Plastici din România 2004-2007; Vicepreşedinte al Uniunii Artiştilor Plastici din România în perioada 2007-2009; Preşedinte interimar al Uniunii Artiştilor Plastici din România în perioada 2010-2012; Din anul 2012 este Preşedinte al Uniunii Artiştilor Plastici din România.
Preşedinte în exerciţiu la Alianţa Naţională a Uniunilor de Creatori în perioada 2011-2012;
Director al revistei Arta. Director laVictoria Art Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucureşti.
Genuri artistice practicate: pictură, grafică, fotografie, obiect/instalaţie, happening şi noile media.
Expoziţii: 40 expoziţii personale şi peste 250 expoziţii de grup şi colective în ţară şi străinătate (vezi website).
Facultatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism Ion Mincu București /Petru Lucaci/ Depozit
Alexandru Ciubotariu aka Pisica Pătrată is one of the most appreciated illustrators and muralists in Romania, but also the founder of the Comic Book Museum. He constantly works, draws square cats and accepts all sorts of challenges. His street-art works signal forgotten places and inspire dialogue.
Rares is a young artist, who defines himself as a traveler within space and time - “It all started with an old beat up film camera (a Zorki 4K) that I found in my grandparent’s house 4 years ago. From then on, every day I capture life’s moments. I want to say that instead of writing in a journal, I have a visual journal on Instagram. It’s journal that stores a small piece of the soul and life of those around me, a succession of a parallel present time. In retrospect, the photographs in my series aren’t just a transition from then to now, but also from there to here, from one present time to another.”
Răzvan Ion is an artist, curator, and theoretician. He exhibited at Bucharest Biennale, Poznan Biennial, SKC Gallery- Belgrade, National Museum of Art - Cluj, ICA - Bucharest, NY Experimental Festival, InterFACES - Bangkok, Centro Cultural del Matadero - Huesca, International Photo Ljubljana, CCA Ekaterinburg, National Museum of Art - Timișoara, ICA Budapest, New Langton - San Francisco etc. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kiev; etc. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid etc. He published in different books, published an artist book and worked as editor of several other books, including the most recent “Architectural Economy of a Biennial”. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest where he teached Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. Recently he was appointed the curator of Bucharest Biennale 8, together with Beral Madra.
Since 2008, Save or Cancel is a medium of communication and propagation of arts and culture, facilitating their role in the contemporary society.
Self-initiated multidisciplinary programs by Save or Cancel support the development of the contemporary society by identifying opportunities for sustainable and adaptable (re) valorization of the existing, through cultural, editorial, architecture and design projects.
Summary of activities:
- CAPITOL Summer Theatre 2008 & MMIX (2009) - auto-generated temporary reactivation
- CAPITOL Cinema / Summer Theatre - 2016, a cultural project produced with ArCub, as part of the application București 2021 orașul_in-vizibil, continuing as a multiannual programme in 2017-2018
- Natural Park Văcăreşti / "Visions and research through architecture" prize, Bucharest Architecture Annual 2016
- feeder.ro (2014-present) - "the news agency of the alternative nation" and the editorial projects feeder insider web & print, and feeder sound
- Un-hidden Bucharest - a guided art journey and interventions in public space.
Sergiu Chihaia (b. 1982), graduated National University of Arts, currently is titular lecturer at the Fashion department, within the same institution. Lives and works in Bucharest. Participates with his work at national and international exhibitions (Bucharest, Constanta, London and Venice). Has artworks in private collections in England, Italy and Romania. In 2014 wins UAP prize for Decorative - Textile Arts at the 5th edition of ''Arts in Bucharest''. Sculptor, designer,textile artist and stage designer. As a scenographer his goal is to recreate the history of the mankind as a stage, an exhibition space for humanities dramas, joys and victories.
Silviu Pădurariu, UnrestBucharest.com
Bucuresti, Romania
Simion Buia jr.
Bucuresti - sector 1, Romania
Simona Dimache
Bucuresti, Romania
Simona Vilău
Bucuresti, Romania
Sofia Ovejan
Bucuresti, Romania
Ankara,1997-painting
Luxemburg,1998-National Theater's Lobby
Paris-Salon des Artistes Independants-wood painting.
Chateau D'Auvers, Franta- Who's who Art International -2009-wood painting
Paris- Salon des Artistes Independants-Grand Palais-2013-wood painting
Gourin,France - Fire,Water,Earth-International mail-art on paper exhibition-2014
Sozopol, Bulgaria- represents Romanian Embassy in Soleil festival-Archeological Museum-2015
Sozopol, Bulgaria- International Art Camp Soleil-2016
Szeget, Ungaria- National Art Museum-2017
Csongrad, Ungaria- National Art Gallery-2017
Born in Campina
works and lives in Sibiu, Romania.
2006 BA at University of Visual Arts and Design, Cluj Napoca, ceramics department
2005 Socrates Erasmus study mobility, Fine Art Academy. Wroclaw, Poland
2008 MA at National University of Art, Bucharest, Sculpture department
2013-2016 PhD, at National University of Art, Bucharest (in progress)
Among his recent exhibitions we mention: 2015/“Stone age of emotional technology”, Calina Gallery,
Timisoara (solo); 2014/“Transformation”, Beelden aan Zee Muzeum, Hague, Netherlands (group);
2014/“Sensus Propero”, 418 Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest (solo); 2012,2013,2014/“Workshop
at the Danube IV, V, VI”, 418 Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest {group); 2013/“The art of living“,
Pop-up Art Gallery, Bucharest (grup); 2013/ “Oestridae Dominant”, Project 1990, Free Press Square,
Bucharest (solo); 2013/“Disambiguation”, Mogosoaia Palace, Cuhnia Gallery, Bucharest (solo);
2012/“Paratarrasius hibridus”, 418 Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest (solo).
“The idea of locomotion and movement is an important source of inspiration therefore I will explore it
in a wide range of aspects. For the beginning I study the natural means of locomotion, which imply
movement of all kind: terrestrial, aquatic or aerial and, at the same time, I perform a comparative
analysis with the artificial means of locomotion. After many attempts to motivate my research through
my personal projects and achievements, I began to utilize movement in various proportions that are
related to the natural-artificial source of inspiration, I have reached a synthesis, which I now express
both in a three-dimensional and a two-dimensional form. In order to emphasize the value of the
objective, the minimization and the abstractionism are also present.
These studies bring to the forefront the relationship between fragmented organic forms and
artificiality, which are both tackled in a contemporary way that is kept in the present by the topic itself,
as well as by the technological aspects involved.
At times, the final image may occur an ironic character which targets the technological limitation that
is in a state of zero-gravity before the gravitational phenomenon. This is where I intervene by miming
certain solutions of exploiting the relationship mass-inertia, by annulling the gravitational force via
solutions related to flying or levitation.
All these aspects represent a metaphor through which I mean to bring to a close look idea of human
fragility in its physical and cognitive evolution.”
Born on 15th of january 1993, he graduated in 2017 from the National Art University of Bucharest in the Department of Graphic Arts.
He likes to work with a wide array of artistic environments, and he enthusiastically experimented with drawing, painting and collage on paper, on canvas, on walls or on other nonconventional supports; he experimented in three-dimensional space with silicone sculptures, wire and plaster coals; In the digital environment, he has made short animations, gifs or books, combining photography, drawing and digital image processing. He prides himself on three personal exhibitions and with the award of the Bucharest University of Arts for the Best License in the Graphics Department of the 2015 generation. He obtained two Erasmus scholarships through which he studied a university semester in Prague (2015) and another semester in Valencia (2016), she received the Young Talent Scholarship of Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation in 2013, 2014 and 2017.
The main theme of Theodor's works in the last two years is cosmogony; through the artistic process, attempts to reconstitute imaginary paths of the Universe's genesis. Whether the compositional pretext is the portrait, the macrocosmic or microcosmic landscape, or that it is an abstract composition without any figurative intent, its works have a personal aesthetics that binds them, and in which one can observe a preoccupation for enigmatic nature of existence.
Maybe you think that its not a comun name for an artist but for Baciu Cristian aka. Butch, "viata" or "life" in english becamed a comfortable name and becomed a veritable identity for he's artist persona from the bucharest streets to the foreign highways,
Still working for he's first exhibition from the end he's BA-studys ," viata" constantly colaborates between diffrent visual projects splitting he's time colaborating on graphic-design projects, instalations, mural paintings and working at he's personal exhibition.
Virginia Toma graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, 2007 at the ceramic section.
Since then, her attention has been focused on painting and graphics.
Her works are marked by an interest in geometry and pure forms
The form basis of my work is a process, a permanent study that grows organically. All created forms are connected to the telluric energy and vibrant movements that are moving through them and turns them into a fluid field. Agate, the mineral body in the center of my paintings, arises in the deep by overlapping concentric layers through a slow process crystallization.
The solid initially undergoes the rhythmic changes and develops over time and space. My paintings combine the figurative with the symbolic, capturing different aspects of the human body and transporting the viewer into a landscape full of color and mystery. The characters come to life and transforms into a continuous motion that invites meditation and contemplation.
These figures represent the evolution of primordiala forms that coagulates into a strong and arise as deepen, take shape and volume)