Education

17/20 Meisterschüler at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Prof. Joachim Brohm
13/16 Bachleor in Photography and Video at National University of Arts, Bucharest

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Sculpted Spaces, Curator Laura Bivolaru, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO (up-coming)
2024 Sculpted Spaces, Camera Gallery, Cluj, RO
2023 Holding Pattern, Curator Claudia Retegan. 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO
2020 Nothing was touched just recorded, Switch Lab, Bucharest, RO
2017 Gărâna, Curator Roxana Gamart, Moebius Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2025 Holding Pattern, part of Revisited topographies, Curator Alina Șerban, Art Museum, Brasov, RO (up-coming)
2025 Isolated Nature, part of With/Against the flow, Curator Christin Müller & Florian Ebner, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO
2024 Reacknowledged Structures: Models, part of Archeologies of The Not-Yet, Curator Abril Cisneros, The Balcony, The Hague, NL
2024 Nothing was touched just recorded, part of The Other Side of This Side, Curator Laura Bivolaru, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2023 Styro City, part of Beyond Photography, Curator Tatiana Fiodorova, National Art Museum, Kishinev, MD
2023 Sculpted Spaces, part of See What. Photography in Romania after 2000, Curators Michele Bressan & Ioana Șerban, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, RO
2022 Styro City, part of Domino Effect #3, Curator Andrei Breahnă, Gaep Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2022 The neighbours thought it was a science lab & Styro City, part of Future Perfect #5, Curator Ágnes-Evelin Kispál, Magma Gallery, Saint George, RO
2021 Styro City, part of On past tense and its possibilities, Curator Andrei Mateescu, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2020 Holding Pattern, part of Meisterschüler*innen Exhibition, Curator Ilse Lafer, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2020 Holding Pattern, part of Possible Realities, Curator Ioana Cîrlig, Scena9 BRD, Bucharest, RO
2019 The neighbours thought it was a science lab, part of Moderne. Ikonografie. Fotografie - Das Bauhaus und die Folgen 1919 - 2019, Curators Annegret Laabs & Uwe Gellner, Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg, DE
2019 Reacknowledged Structures: Models, part of Circulation(s), Curator Audrey Hoareau, 104 Centquatre, Paris, FR
2018 4m3, part of Landschaft, Curator Alexandra Manole, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2018 Nothing was touched just recorded, part of Genau Da!, Curator Joachim Gögl, BTV Gallery, Innsbruck, AT
2017 Production Areas, part of Raumkonzepte, Curators Brigitte Konyen & Susanne Gamauf, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2016 Snails Hill, part of The Factory of Facts and Other (Unspoken) Stories, Curator Alina Șerban, Plan-B Gallery, Cluj, RO
2016 Reacknowledged Structures: Models, part of Biennale of Contemporary Photography, Curator Lavinia German, Cupola Gallery, Jassy, RO
2015 Gone Shopping, part of City for Sale, Curator Vladimir Us, Zpatiu Gallery, Kishinev, MD
2014 Production Areas, Curator Bogdan Bordeianu, UNAgaleria, Bucharest, RO

Contributions (Selected)

2024 Sculpted Spaces, published by Kianpour & Partners, CAHIER d'images, Issue 2
2023 Sculpted Spaces, published in See What. Photography in Romania after 2000 by MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
2021 Holding Pattern, book review by Brad Feuerhelm published online on americansuburbx.com
2021 Styro City, published in Camera Austria Magazine, Issue 153
2020 Interview with Matei Câlția published in Revista Foi Magazine, Issue 3
2020 Holding Pattern, published in British Journal of Photography Magazine, Issue 7893
2019 The neighbours thought it was a science lab, published in Moderne. Ikonografie. Fotografie – Kunstmuseum Magdeburg by E.A. Seemann
2019 Gone Shopping, published in Kajet Magazine, Issue 3
2018 Nothing was touched just recorded, published in Inn Situ – Genau Da! by Fotohof Edition
2018 What Remains, published in Kajet Magazine, Issue 2
2017 Reacknowledged Structures: Models, published in Membrana Magazine, Issue 3
2017 Broken Vertebra, published in GR-02092017 by SKREID Publishing
2016 What Remains, published in Safe Perimeter by P+4 Publications

Awards and Grants

2024 Selected for "PHOTO / ARTIST / BOOK | The most exciting photobooks of the Central and Eastern Europe region" held at The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, HU
2021 Selected at Fotohof Calling, Fotohof, Salzburg, AT
2020 1st prize, Young Artists Connections, Switch Lab, Buchaerst, RO
2019 Salzburg Summer Academy, Erste Stiftung Grants, Salzburg, AT
2018 Center of Documentary Photography Grants, Bucharest, RO
2018 Shortlisted at It's a Book, Leipzig, DE
2017 Shortlisted at Unseen Dummy Award, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Best photography book, prize offered by The most beautiful books from Romania, Bucharest, RO
2016 Young designer, prize offered by The most beautiful books from Romania, Bucharest, RO

Miscellaneous

2024 Lecture at the University of Art and Design, Cluj, RO
2024 Project coordinator of Expanded Spatialities, exhibition & workshop at 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO
2024 Conversation with Vlad Mat and Local Design Circle at Black Rhino Radio, Bucharest, RO
2024 Styro City part of Rad Art Fair, Bucharest, RO
2023 Lecture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bielefeld, DE
2023 Lecture at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies, Bucharest, RO
2023 Guest editor of the 2nd issue of GRUPAJ magazine, RO
2022 Conversation with Michele Bressan part of Frame10 at Scena9 BRD, Bucharest, RO
2022 Conversation with Ludovic Balland and Local Design Circle at Black Rhino Radio, Bucharest, RO
2022 Workshop on photography and book making with Ludovic Balland at Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, RO
2021 Presentation on self publishing with Alin Cincă at Fabrik, Bucharest, RO
2019 Presentation on self publishing at Sounds Like a Book, Șona, RO
2018 Gărâna book presentation with Horațiu Șovăială at MZIN bookstore, Leipzig, DE

Collections

BTV Bank, Stadtforum, Innsbruck, AT
Jazz Banat Cultural Foundation, Timisoara, RO
Private collections

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