Andreea Ciobîcă
b. 1986, Romania
Lives and works in Berlin
The young artist Andreea Ciobîcă has developed a distinctive artistic approach focused on drawing as a starting point for a research on time, space and perception that expands through objects and large-scale installations. Her practice combines simple, traditional materials with more experimental, new media ones, drawing inspiration form various fields, such as physics, mathematics or philosophy.
A graduate of the Graphics Department from the University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, Romania, her works have been shown in the Vienna Biennale 2015, Mains D’Oeuvre, Saint-Ouen, Paris (2014), at Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (2013), at Catherine Putman Gallery, Paris (2013) as a winner of the Grand Prix, Foire international de dessin and as a Guest of Honour at Twilight-Zone Gallery, Tournai, Belgium (2012). In 2014 Ivan Gallery showed her first solo show, “Steep / Negative Space ½” and in 2017 her third solo show "Behind void there is a voice the color of glass ceilings".
Education
2010-2012 – The University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca (Cluj, Romania), Graphics Department (MFA)
2007-2010 – The University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca (Cluj, Romania), Graphics Department (BFA)
2009 – CEEPUS Scholarship at Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu (Poznan, Poland)
2007 – Participation in the workshop Sound Spaces Christina Kubisch (Avrig, Sibiu, Romania)
Solo exhibitions
2017 – Behind void there is a voice the color of glass ceilings (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest)
2016 – No Actual Continuum to This Referent (Superliquidato / Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2014 – Abrupt / Negative Space ½ (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest)
2012 – White Walls (Lateral Art Space / Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Selected group exhibitions
2016 – Sunt omul invizibil / I’m the Invisible Man (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest)
2015 – Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016 (MAK Vienna, Vienna Biennale 2015)
2014 – Between the Lines (Plan B Gallery, Cluj, Romania); Documenting residency during the exhibition Get Up (Mains D’Oeuvre, Saint Ouen, Paris, France)
2013 – Dear Money (Salonul de Proiecte at VIENNAFAIR); Horizontal (temporary installation, project exhibited during EBiennale, Bucharest); FID 2012 Winners (Catherine Putman Gallery, Paris); It’s Compulsory That We Have a Title (Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest)
2012 – FID East-West (Twilight-Zone Gallery, Tournai); Online FID 2012 (Paris, France)
2011 – Start Off (Cluj-Napoca & Timișoara, Romania)
2007 – Sound Transport (Turnul Sfatului, Sibiu, Romania)
Awards & Residencies
2012 – Grand Prix at Foire International du Dessin (Paris, France)
Bibliography
Alexandra Croitoru, Magda Radu, Dana Andrei (eds.), Dear Money, Salonul de Proiecte & Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest, 2014, pp. 92-93, 179
Julie Portier, Cédric Pierre (eds.), Cédric Pierre, Julie Portier, Ann Stouvenel – ouvrage collectif, Landroit Ed., Rennes