1978  born in Bacau, RO
works and lives in Bacau, RO

Studies

2006 - 2008       M.A., National University of Art, Bucharest, RO 
1997 - 2002       B.A., Luceafarul Art Academy, Bucharest, RO

 

Exhibitions
Selected Solo Shows

2023   Under the same sky, Gallery Fantom, Berlin, DE
2023   Panoramic, Galeria Dana, Iasi, RO
2023   Despre arbori si nu numai, duo cu Razvan Neagoe, Etaj Artist Run Space, Bucharest, RO
2021   Breathe In ,Breathe Out curator Lina Tarmure, Diptych Art Space, Bucharest, RO
2020   Shaping duality35 - 37 Church St. Marylebone, London, UK
2019   Un punct, doua cercuri, curator Constantin Tinteanu, Galeria Karo Bacau, RO 
2018   Catch and release, curator Adriana Oprea, The Art Museum Arad, RO
2016   Back to the Roots, New Gallery, Bacau, RO
2016   I’m fine only missing, curator Simona Nastac, Water Plant, Suceva, RO
2016   I’m fine only  missing,Museum of Contemporary Art, George Apostu, Bacau, RO
Tranzit, curator Cosmin Nasui, Aiurart, Bucharest, RO
2009  Understanding History, curator Cosmin Nasui, Carturesti, Bucharest, RO
2008  Gloria pictura, curator Cristi Nae, Frunzetti Gallery, Bacau, RO
2006  Insomnia 2, Museum of Contemporary Art George Apostu, Bacau, RO
2003  Insomnia, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2002  Trafic, Alfa Gallery, Bacau, RO

 

Selected Group Shows

2023   Contemporary Drawing in Romania, Scemtovici&Benowitz Gallery, Bucharest.RO
2023   Salonul National de Arta Contemporana, C.A.V., Bucharest. RO
2023   Traversand h'ARTA, galeria Alfa, Bacau, RO
2020   Forest, Galeria Karo Bacau, RO
2020   Scurt circuit, Diptych Art Space, Bucharest, RO
2019   AnimaL, Diptych Art Space, Bucharest, RO
2018   Galbenul intens si alte pete de culoare rezistente la sens, curator Mirela Ivanciu, Complexul Muzeal Bistrita Nasaud, Bistrita, RO
2017   From Infinite to indefinite, Space 43, Rivoli Building, Bruxelles, BE
2017   Ledge, Velea Gallery, Bacau, RO
2017   Interruption, LIBRARY, St Martin’s Lane, London, UK 
2017   Simpatie si semnificatie. Inaintea labirintului vertical si in spatele liniei rosii, curator Anca Mihulet, Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei, Bucharest, RO
2016   Portraits, Espace Valles, Grenoble, FR
2016  Colonia21 , Galeria T.Pallady, Iasi, RO
2014   Imago Mundi- L'Arte dell'Umanità,Treviso, IT
2013   End of Empires, February 2013, Corke Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2012   Colouring the Grey-State of Body, curator Cosmin Nasui, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2012, UK
2012   The importance of beeing original, curator Niccolò Bonechi, Perlini Arte, Padova, IT
2012   Origin'Art, curator Cosmin Nasui, DoROthy's Gallery, Paris, FR
2012   Eclectic 1000, Fundatia LÖWENDAL, Bucharest, RO
2011   Colouring the Grey - State of Mind, curator Cosmin Nasui, The Artists’House, Tel Aviv, IL
2011   Colouring the Grey, Special Project of Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curator Cosmin Nasui, Art Play Design Centre, RU
2011   I am Romanian, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheeva, IL
2011   Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE
2010   Why the black is not white, Actionfields Gallery, Bruxelles, BE
2009   Young Romanian Art # 7, ROmanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research, Venice, IT
2008   Colonia, Frunzetti Gallery, Bacau/ Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2008   Five daily views, Veroniky Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2007   New Identities in painting and sculpture in Romania after 1990 Dana Gallery, Iasi, RO
2006   36 young artists, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
2005   Colonia Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2004   Identities and Visual Codes: Images of Violence/Violence of Images Biennale of Young Artists, Bucharest, RO
2004   Young Colors, M.N.A.C., Bucharest, RO
2003   Docufiction, video-installation, I. Mincu University, curator Alina Serban, Bucharest, RO
2003   Beyond photography, painting, Galeria Noua, curator Aurora Kiraly, Bucharest, RO

 

E((O group exhibitions

2005    On Diffenrences # 1, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgardt, DE
2004    Irridescent E((O, performance, Assemblage Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2003    Docufiction video-pROject, curator Alina Serban, Bucharest, RO 
2003    PROgress, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, RO 
2002    Cosmogonflabil, Galla Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2002    Despacheteaza-te, ap-art, Bucharest, RO
1999    Black light, Galla Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Awards

2023    S.N.A.C. Award 2023, U.A.P. Romania
2013    Nominated for International Strabag Art Award
2008    U.A.P. Romania Award for special activity in the section "A35"
2002    Ministry of Culture Award at Moldavian Salons


Residencies

2023                Fantom Gallery, Berlin
2018                Face to face, Cincsor, RO
2016                Destelheide, Dworp, BE
2008 – 2023    Colonia 21, Tescani, RO

 

Art Fairs

2016    Art Safari, Bucharest, RO
2015    Art Safari, Bucharest, RO
2013    Art Copenhagen, DEN
2011    Art VeROna, IT

 


Selected bibliography

Maria Bilasevschi  Panoramic, Galeria Dana, ISBN 978-630-6528-09-7
Mirela Ivanciu   Dragos Burlacu, The imperfect power play, ISBN 978-1-71-506982-7
Mirela Ivanciu  Galbenul intens si alte pete de culoare rezistente la sens, Nosa Nostra, Bistrita, 2018, pp 16 - 23 
Danielle Mauren Portraits, Grenoble, 2016
Anca Mihulet Colonia 21, Charmides, Bistrita, 2016
Silviu Padurariu  O radiografie in triptic - Dragos Burlacu,Bucharest, 2014    unrestbucharest.com
Luciano Benetton, Claudio Scorretti, Cosmin Nasui, Snapshot ROmania, Artists from Romania, Italy, Fabrica Store, 2013, pp 91 - 92
Niccolò Bonechi The Importance of Being Original, Italy Padova, Perlini Arte, 2012, pp 4-14
Cosmin Nasui Colorand griul, Bucharest,Vellant , pp 10- 39
Cosmin Nasui Colorand griul /Starea de spirit, Bucharest,Vellant, pp 28- 41
Adriana Oprea, Cosmin Nasui, Noul figurativ in pictura dupa 2000, Bucharest, Revista Arta, pp 90, 157, 192, 193
Haim Maor, Maayan Rubinvitz , Iris Tresman  I am a Romanian: The Bucharest - Tel Aviv Route, Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2010, pp 37 - 130
Maria Magdalena Crisan, Exercitiul privirii, 2010, Iasi Printco, p 18
Maria Magdalena Crisan, Cinci viziuni asupra cotidianului, Bucharest  Observatorul  Cultural, nr. 150
Adrian Guta, Noi Identitati in Pictura si Sculptura ROmaneasca dupa 1990, Iasi, Editura Performantica, 2007, pp 14, 15
Iris Dressler, On Difference#3/ Politics of Space, Stuttgart, Ed.: Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ, 2006 pp 202,204,636
Alexandru Chira, Adriana Barna, Simpozion National de Pictura Bistrita 2001 - 2006, Bistrita , Editura Chermides, editor Gavril Tarmure, 2006, p 24
Simona Nastac, Dezirabil si contingent idealul, Ideal Decor nr.16, pp 34-36
Dan Popescu 32 ROmanian Painters, Bucharest,  H’art Gallery, 2005, pp 202-205

 

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