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, ATJazz Banat Cultural Foundation, Timisoara, RO
Private collections
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