Project Description
Liviu Bulea
Education
- 2011 – 2013 MA, University of Arts and Design Cluj Napoca
- 2011 – 2013 BA, University of Arts and Design Cluj Napoca – graphic arts department
- 2012 – Erasmus internship at Freies Museum Berlin
- 2010 – Erasmus scholarship ASP Katowice, Poland, October 2009
Originally from Turda, Romania, Liviu Bulea finished his studies in Graphics at the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca. The artist has established himself through a series of displays, the latest of them in 2016 – during his stayat Kultur Kontakt Vienna & a final exposition „Simulacrum” ( Paralell Vienna).
His artistic activity is characterized by personal and collective ventures and his interest taken in undertakings of production design and curatorial projects, with local and national impact. His conceptual artistic understanding pursues two distinct concerns, both indissolubly linked to his personal life and experiences: a dimension of the intimate, of masculine sexuality and the immediate experiences and memories, which all bring about feelings to the likes of love, isolation, drama, tragedy – discrepancies from the view of the ethics and social standards, the politics and economic context so current in East European average perception (Crypto, About White); and a dimension with a tendency towards generalization, a dimension of increasing industrial environments, of the upheaving role of an object cumulated in the different stages of designing a material world (Sold Out, Unnatural circumstances), these staged are part of a certain culture and are very current in their socio-economic character.
Thus, in this sense, the motif of ruins, prefabs and recyclables enter into a dialog with architecture (abstract this time around) which exceeds spatial coordinates and follows the morphology of personal depictive fusions.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Homoreotic Revolution
Pride Athens, curated by Alexis Fidez, Athens, Greece
2020
Despre Gri, CAVE
French Cultural Institut, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019
Berlin Street Stories
AIR URBAN NATION Berlin, Germany
2018
Under The Grey Dust
curated by Razvan Ion, Creart Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2018
#808080
Pfeiffer Vacuum Romania, Apahida (Cluj), Romania
2018
Installation/scenography for the theatre play “Body of Defiance”
Reactor de Creatie si Experiment, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2017-2018
curated by Olimpia Georgeta Bera, IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016
Simulacrum
Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2015
Crypto 2
curated by Catalin Valean, Make a Point Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015
Crypto
Cluj Napoca, Romania, Reactor de creatie si experiment, Curated by Catalin Valean
2013
Sold Out
curated by Olimpia Bera, Visual Kontakt, Oradea, Romania
2013
Cancerilizare
Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2011
Joy of Life
National Theatre, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
We`re here
curated by Daniel Kozak, Faber, Timisoara, Romania
2021
Partial Decomandat
coordonted by Olimpia Bera, Aurel Codoban and Ioan Sbarciu, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2021
Memoria Tăinuită a Locului
National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2021
Neo-Manifest Romantic
Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020
Of Wondering Concrete And A Displaced Camera
curator Marth Von Loeben, Chrysalid Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020
Neo-Manifest Romantic
curated by Ioan Sbarciu, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2020
Conversations
IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2020
Pahllus Impudicus
curated by Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Etaj – Artist Run Space, Bucharest, Romania
2020
We`re here
curated by Daniel Kozak, NAG, Bucharest, Romania
2020
What If You Were In My Shoes?
curated by Ioan Sbarciu, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2020
L’Art s’invite dans l’industrie 2.0
curated by Horea Avram, Energom, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019
Re:start
curated by Horea Avram, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019
Seen in Berlin
POINT – Cultural Hub, Bucharest, Romania
2019
OBIECT. Călător prin istorii publice și personale
a project by Valentina Iancu & Vlad Viski, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2019
Walter Koschatzky Kunst-Preis
HOFSTALLUNGEN of the MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2019
Künstler*innenbücher von Stipendiat*innen des Landes Steiermark
curated by Christiane Kada, Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek, Graz, Austria
2018
BB8 after BB8
curators: Nina Slejko Blom and Conny Blom, CAC, LANDSKRONA, Sweden
2018
BUCHAREST BIENNALE 8
curators: Beral Madra and Razvan Ion, Bucharest, Romania
2018
Diversitas
Reactor de Creatie si Experiment, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018
WOW
curated by Eugen Radescu, Visual Kontakt, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017
Dead Gardens
curated by Olimpia Bera, Visual Kontakt, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
2017
Habitus
curated by Sabina Dragomir, IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017
War of Worlds
curated by Eugen Radescu, National Museum of Art, Constanta, Romania
2017
War of Worlds
curated by Eugen Radescu, MORA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2017
Mazipos
curated by Carlos Carmomendina, Laboratory VK, Oradea, Romania
2016
Unnatural Circumstances
in collaboration with Olimpia Bera, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015
Local Municipalities
curated by Olimpia Bera and Carlos Carmomendina, Laboratory Visual Kontakt, Oradea, Romania
2015
Muian
curated by Alina Staicu, Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, Romania
2015
Genesis
curated by Edmunds Lucis, Jurmala City Museum, Jurmala-Riga, Latvia
2010
Poster/Plakat
curated by Roman Kalarus, ASP Katovice, Katowice, Poland
2010
4th edition of the international Student Biennale
Novi Sad, Serbia
ART FAIRS
2021
Booming Contemporary Art Show
curated by ACME Art Lab, Bologna, Italy
2021
The Others Art Fair
curated by ACME Art Lab, Torino, Italy
2021
Digital Art Weeks
online via T.O.E. Art Market
RESIDENCIES
2019
AIR Urban Nation
Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, Germany
2018
Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.)
Graz, Austria
2018
Residency at Reactor de Creatie si Experiment
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016
Residency at Kultur Kontakt Austria
offered by Chancellery of Austria, Vienna, Austria
2013
Residency at Visual Kontakt Gallery
Oradea, Romania
LECTURES/ ARTIST TALKS
2020
Artist talk for Pride Romania
Online via Facebook
2020
Lecture (about my art practice)
at Royal School in Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019
Lecture (about my art practice)
at the University of Arts and Design, Photo-Video department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018
Artist Talk (about my art practice)
at HTBLVA Graz Ortweinschule, Austria
2018
Artist Talk “HOME”
at Atelier Schillerstrasse, Graz Austria, part of Styria Artist in Residence
2018
Bucharest Biennale
artist talk at Creart, Bucharest, Romania
2018
Queer Art
artist talk at Fundatia Ratiu, Turda, Romania
2018
Art Debate – Art Safari, BB8, RDW
at Creart, Bucharest, Romania
2018
Lecture (about my art practice)
at the University of Arts and Design, Photo-Video department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017
Lecture – Dead Gardens exhibition
at University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017
Lecture – WOW exhibition
at University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017
Lecture (about my art practice)
at Art High School “Romulus Ladea”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Exhibition Catalogue: CATALOG NEO-MANIFEST ROMANTIC. IDENTITĂŢI ALE ŞCOLII DE LA CLUJ
Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2021
Pornceptual Magazine, FUCK 2020
Berlin, Germany
2020
Haus Magazine, Political Issue 4
2020
Mein Schwules Auge, Body Issue
by Rainaldo Hopf & Fedya Ili, Konkursbuch, 2020, ISBN 9783887699468, www.mygayeye.com
2019
Walter Koschatzky Prize 2019 Catalogue
2017
Exhibition catalog: #808080 – Liviu Bulea
IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016/2017
KulturKontakt Magazine, winter 2016/2017
2016
Tribuna, Timp, Spatiu si Degradare
by Eugen Cojocaru, May 2016
2016
4th World Biennale of Student Poster Catalog
Novi Sad, Serbia, http:/www.studentbiennial-ns.com/2010/slike/4thWorldBiennialOfStudentPoster2010-Catalog.pdf
CATALOGUES
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