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

2023 Holding Pattern at 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO
2020 Nothing was touched, just recorded at Switch Lab, Bucharest, RO
2017 Gărâna at Moebius Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2023 Terrestrial Corals part of Semantics of the Shell at The Balcony, The Hague, NL
2023 Styro City part of Beyond Photography at National Art Museum, Kishinev, MD
2023 Sculpted Spaces part of See What. Photography in Romania after 2000 at MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, RO
2022 Styro City part of Domino Effect #3 at Gaep Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2022 The neighbours thought it was a science lab & Styro City part of Future Perfect #5 at Magma Gallery, Saint George, RO
2021 Styro City part of On past tense and its possibilities at Leilei Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2020 Holding Pattern part of Meisterschüler*innen Exhibition at a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2020 Holding Pattern part of Possible Realities at 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 at Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, DE
2019 Reacknowledged Structures: Models part of Circulation(s) at 104 Centquatre, Paris, FR
2018 4m3 part of Landschaft at Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2018 Nothing was touched, just recorded part of Genau Da! at BTV Gallery, Stadtforum, Innsbruck, AT
2017 Production Areas part of Raumkonzepte at Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2016 Snails Hill part of The Factory of Facts and Other (Unspoken) Stories at Plan-B Gallery, Cluj, RO
2016 Reacknowledged Structures: Models part of Biennale of Contemporary Photography at Cupola Gallery, Jassy, RO
2016 What Remains part of Safe Perimeter at Make a Point, Bucharest, RO
2015 Gone Shopping part of City for Sale at Zpatiu, Kishinev, MD
2014 Production Areas at UNAgaleria, Bucharest, RO

Contributions (Selected)

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 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

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
2014 Erasmus scholarship at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, DE

Miscellaneous

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 Andrei Grosu part of Local Design Circle at Black Rhino Radio, Bucharest, RO
2022 Workshop about photography and book making together with Ludovic Balland at Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, RO
2021 Presentation about self publishing together with Alin Cincă at Fabrik, Bucharest, RO
2019 Presentation about self publishing at Sounds Like a Book, Șona, RO
2018 Gărâna 20 book presentation together 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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