VALERIU MLADIN - CV

Valeriu Mladin (birth date and place: May 12, 1958, Lipova, Arad County) – romanian visual artist, University Lecturer at Photo-Video and Computerized Image Processing Department within the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

Artistic genres in which he expresses are: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation and performance.

Studies and Academic Activity:

Institute of Fine Arts ”Ion Andreescu", Cluj-Napoca,1982;

Member of the Plastic Artists Union from Romania;

PhD in Visual Arts, 2011;

University Lecturer Doctor at National University of Arts in Bucharest,

Department: Photo-Video and Computerized Image Processing;

Personal Exhibitions:

2019 — "POLITICAL BESTIARY 3" - "Új Kriterion Gallery",  Miercurea Ciuc;

2019 — „Oglindiri” , Romanian Cultural Institute, Lisbon;

2019 — „In memoriam Serban Ionescu”, Art gallery from Alba iulia;

2019 — „In memoriam Serban Ionescu”, National Theater “I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest:

2018 — „In memoriam Serban Ionescu”, Odeon Theater, Bucharest:

2018 — „In memoriam Serban Ionescu”, Comedy Theater, Bucharest:

2018 — „Omagiu Serban Ionescu” “Şerban Ionescu” National Theater and Film Festival, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;

2018 — „Omagiu Serban Ionescu”, Cinema ”Victoria”, Petroșani

2017 — „Omagiu Serban Ionescu”, The Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest;

2016 — ”Mirroring”, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria;

2014 — ”Political Bestiary” -  Galateca Gallery, Bucharest;

2014 — ”Nexus” - Five Plus Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria;

2013 — 2014 ”Political Bestiary” - House of Arts Gallery, Brancovenesti Palaces, Mogosoaia, Romania;

2010 — ”44” - Carturesti Gallery, Bucharest;

2006 — ”Pas de Deux” - Allianz-Tiriac Gallery, Bucharest;

2002 — ”Cuib”- S.P.A.C E. Gallery, International Centre for Contemporary                

Art, Bucharest;

2002 — ”mladinvocale 1” - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;

2000 — ”Ispita” - Gold Gallery, Queen Maria Hall, Hilton Hotel, Bucharest;

1999 — ”Zece Ani Dupa” - Romanian National Art Museum, Bucharest;

1993 — 1994, 134 Gallery - Ceski Krumlov, Czech Republic;

1990 — Im Flur, Hoechst - Frankfurt, Germania;

1989 — Pro Arte Gallery, Lugoj.

Group Exhibitions – selection:

2019 —„Identități vizuale”, The Art Museum of Piatra-Neamț;

2019 —,,Aici – Acolo”, Artists from Romania and Diaspora 3, Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest;

2019 —,,Construcție/Comunicare”, European Parliament, Brussels;

2019 —,,FĂRĂ TITLU” group exhibition of the Department of Photography and Dynamic Image of the National University of Arts Bucharest. Gallery of the Ilfoveanu Cultural Foundation, Pitești;

2019 —„Art at EP - Works of Art from Romania”-„CONSTRUCȚIE / COMUNICARE“, Parlamentului European – Bruxelles;

2018 — ,,Salonul National de arta Contemporana-Centenar”, Muzeul National de Arta al Romaniei, Bucuresti:

2018 — ,,Aici – Acolo”, Artisti din Romania si Diaspora 2, Muzeul National Cotroceni, Bucuresti;

2018 — Bienala de Carte Bibliofila si de Carte Obiect, Muzeul Literaturii Romane, Bucuresti;

2018 — Curator expozitie - ,,The art of colour” Ilinca Gruia, Galeria Galateca, Bucuresti;

2017 — Bienala Internationala de Desen – Mogosoaia,  Palatele Brancovenesti Mogosoaia;  

2016 — “Balcan Breeze”, Istanbul, Turkey;

2016 — ”ULTRAMARIN”, National Association for Contemporary Visual Arts, Bucharest;

2016 — “Arts in Bucharest  2016 - Orasul In-Variabil”, International Centre for Contemporary Art, Bucharest;

2014 — 2015 “Bucharest Artistic Education and Romanian Art after 1950”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest;

2015 — “LEPSA 2 - 10 + 1” Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Art Museum of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova and Focsani Art Galleries, Romania;

2014 — “RED”, National Association for Contemporary Visual Arts, Bucharest;

2014 — “What about Y(our) memory?”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest;

2014 — “Opere dei Docenti Artisti dell” Universitad” Arte di Bucarest”, Library of the Academy – Milano, Italy; 

2014 — “Arts in Bucharest - Urban explorations”, Visual Arts Center, Bucharest;

2014 — “Sommerfeeling”, Five Plus Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria;

2014 — “Up Now”, Five Plus Art Gallery, ,,Art Safari”, Bucharest;

2014 — “Snapshot Romania. Contemporary Artists from Romania”, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy;

2014 — “The Poet's Masks”, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal;

2013 — “The city seen from the 80 's generation" - Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest;

2013 — “At The Core Of Art - Hands-on Arts" Annart Gallery, Bucharest;

2012 — “Contemporary Histories, in artistic workshop and scientific perspectives", Center of Visual Arts, Bucharest;

2012 — “Motion - Emotion” – Annart Gallery, Bucharest;

2012 — “Human Evolution - Involution – Inner mutations”, Curtea Veche Museum, Bucharest;

2012 — “Body - World. Traveling the Distance between Subject and Object”,  Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest;

2011 — “New figurative“, Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest;

2011 — “The Art Collection Exhibition of the European Parliament”,  Bruxelles, Belgium;

2011 — “Trans-Realities - Body - Art - Society”, Oudin Contemporary Art Gallery, Paris, France;

2011 — “Art Embodied – Romanian Artists from the ’80 ”, Romanian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom;

2011 — “Funeral Home”,  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest;

2011 — “The other body”, Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest;

2011 — “Identities”, French Institute, Bucharest;

2011 — “Supervised Body”, Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest;

2011 — “Perceptio - Perception”,  “030202 Atelier” Gallery, Bucharest;

2010 — “International Biennial of Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics Grottaglie” - Monastery of St. Francis of Paola - Italy;

2009 — “Body”, “Theoretical Challenges, Artistic Replicas - Exhibition Project”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest;

2009 — “From Bucharest to Paris, a Romanian Art Panorama”, Drouot – Montagne, Paris, France;

2009 — “Workshop Sequences I”, Visual Arts Center, Bucharest;

2008 — “Works from M.N.A.C. Colection”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest;

2003 — “Visiting Velasquez”, Art – Expo Gallery, 3^rd floor, Bucharest;

2001 — "Memory Retrieval", Tradition and Modernity Museum – Potlogi Brancovenesti Palaces (Bucharest);

2001 — “ Romanian Neurotic Neorealism”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;           

2000 — “Un Grito y Una Oracion”, “Romanian House”, Caracas, Venezuela;

1998 — “ Portrait - Interior Landscape”, “G. A. M. B. Gallery”, Bucharest;

1997 — “Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy;

1996 — “Experiment” – “3 - 4” Gallery, Bucharest National Theatre, Bucharest;

1996 — “Cruelty Memory”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;

1996 — “La Filature Mulhouse”, Mulhouse, France;

1995 — “Media Culpa”, Architecture Institute, Bucharest;

1995 — “Art For Life”,  Art – Expo Gallery, Bucharest;

1994 — “Trench Art Festival”, Saint George Art Gallery, Sfantu-Gheorghe, Romania;

1994 — Majdanek - 4th International Art Triennial, Majdanek, Poland;

1994 — “Salzburg - Summer International Academy”, Salzburg, Austria;

1994 — “Picasso Looks At Picasso”, Hungarian Cultural Center, Bucharest;

1994 — “Romanian Contemporary Art”, Romanian National Art Museum and Art Expo Gallery, Bucharest;

1993, 1991 — “Mini Print Internacional de Cadaques”, Cadaques, Spain;

1992 — “The Earth”, Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania;

1992 — “ The Object Book”, Art Collections Museum, Bucharest;

1992 — “3 +”, Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania;

1992 — “Light, Water, Colour”, Oradea Art Museum and Art Collections Museum, Bucharest;

1991 — “Art Actual sobre Paper”, Catalonia's Department of Culture, Barcelona, Spain;

1991 — “3 Artists”, Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania;

1991 — “Untitled State”, Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania;

1991 — “ Mozart's sex”, Art-Expo Gallery, Bucharest;

1990 — “Atelier 35”, “Art-Expo” Gallery, Bucharest;

1990 — “Young Romanian Artists Exhibition”, Art Gallery of Szombathely, Hungary;

1988 — “Atelier 35”, Art-Expo Gallery – Art Museum of Baia-Mare, Romania;

1988 — “Mail Art”, Bruxelles, Belgium;

1987 — “Petit Format de Papier”, Bruxelles, Belgium;

1984 — “Self-portrait”, Pro Arts Gallery, Lugoj, Romania;

1984 — “Zero Step”, Pro Arts Gallery, Lugoj, Romania.

Performance & workshop

2011 and 2009, ”Phantom experiment” (1 and 2) — Video experiments conducted with Phantom camera - Bucharest National University of Arts, Department: Photo-Video and Computerized Image Processing;

1992 — “ The police are with us” – 45 minutes, Helios Gallery, Timisoara;

1992 — “ Who shot in us?” – 15 minutes, Art Museum Timisoara;

Prizes

2004 — The Order and the Medal "Cultural Merit in Knight Grade", awarded by the President of

Romania;

1994 — "Ministry of Culture and Art Prize" at the IVth International Art Triennial - Majdanek,

Poland;

1994 — "Culture – Contact  Award” - Salzburg, Austria;

1991 — Soros Foundation Prize at the "Untitled State" Exhibition - Art Museum, Timisoara;

Museums Works and Collections – selection

Romanian National Art Museum;

National Museum of Contemporary Art;

Galati Visual Art Museum;

Mogosoaia Brancovenesti Palaces;

European Palace Art Collection, Brussels.