ADRIANA ELIAN
Girl with bike in the morning, 2011, oil on canvas, 80×100 cm
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BIOGRAPHY
Adriana Elian lives and works in Cluj, Romania. She graduated from the Academy of Arts – Painting Department in Cluj in 1991, continuing with a 4 year PhD program in Visual Arts – “Erotic Representations in the European Art” – at the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest.
Her late work deals with deconstructing ideas on canvas and recomposing stories in a subtle way, by means of a delicate dialog between images and mysterious characters who enter the stage. Her works are based on a formula established on nature, and as she likes to say, nature, femininity, grace all together create an atmosphere of mystery, where viewers can experience their own version and get carried on by their dreams.
In 2011 Adriana Elian has been awarded the 1st prize for painting at the IV Biennial of Arad.
Her works are part of the collection of MNAC (Contemporary Art Museum from Bucharest), the Art Museum of Cluj, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and private collections in Germany, Holland, France, USA and South Africa. The artist belongs to the programme Art in Embassies Collection, U.S. Department of State.
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Sentimental Stuff / Chestii sentimentale
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Curator Robert Fleck
2010
Paradise Lost
St Josef Cathedral, Cluj
2009
Playground II Little girl with matches
Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
2007
Playground I
Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
Innocent Forest
Romanian Cultural Institut, Paris
Gods, Heroes and Aliens”
Museum of Art, Cluj
2006
Gradina Carnivora
Carturesti Gallery, Bucharest
2005
L’autre monde paintings and sculptures
Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
2002
Soap Opera painting
HAG Gallery, Bucharest
Erotica painting
Tranzit Space, Cluj
2001
E of Elian painting
Old Gallery, Cluj
1998
The Magic Flute painting
Museum of Art, Cluj
curator: Robert Fleck
1996
The Inner Beauty objects and installation
Pochet Gallery, Cluj
1995
The Sacrifice
installation featuring Sylvie Moreau
Casa Matei, Cluj
1994
The Family-Nucleus of the Society
installation and painting
RFAA Gallery, Cluj
1993
Without title paintings
Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Good Girls Memory Desire Power
MNAC, Bucuresti, curator Bojana Pejic (Berlin)
(En)counterpoint, The Art of Living
Pop-up Art Gallery, Bucharest
The Retrospective Exhibition Cetate – Workshops at the Danube 2008-2013
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2012
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube IV
418 Gallery, Buchares
2011
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube III
418 Gallery, Buchares
2009
Musicality in Art
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube II
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2008
Tajan auction house, Paris
Triple Jump
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2007
Ready Media 2
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad
2005
Visual Eurobarometer
organized by CIAC and the European Union, Bucharest
2004
Transilvania Express Lyon
several places around the city
Just art curated by Robert Fleck
2002
Group exhibition
Romanian Cultural Center, Paris
Pink
video-installation
Tranzit Space, Cluj
2001
National Art Salon
Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest
2000
BIG Torino
Youth Biennale curator Robert Fleck
1999
Artists from Cluj
Art Museum, Cluj curator Robert Fleck
Video installations
Sylvie Moreau Gallery, Paris
1998
Experiment Retrospective Exhibition of the
Experimental Art in Romania
curator Alexandra Titu
National Theater, Bucharest
Young Romanian Artists
Romanian cultural days, Munich
curator Adrian Guta
1997
Some artists from Cluj
Hungarian Cultural Center, Bucharest
work in progress during Documenta X
Werkgalleri, Kassel
1996
Graphic art from Cluj
Romanian Cultural Center, Paris
WORKSHOPS
2011
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube IV
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
2010
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube III
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
2009
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube II
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
2001
University Days
Workshop with Robert Fleck, Cluj
2000
Artist today
Workshop in Torino
AWARDS
2006
Art and Culture Award
2005
Visual Eurobarometer
european international jury
2004
Cultural Eurobarometer
european international jury
2001
The Best Price for Visual Arts
Romanian Fine Arts Association
1997
Annual Award for the Best Ambiental Art Exibition Romanian Fine Arts Association
PUBLICATIONS
2006
Carnivorous Garden
Carturesti, Bucharest
WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS
Centre Pompidou
Paris
MNAC (Contemporary Art Museum from Bucharest)
Bucharest
Art in Embassies United States Collection
Private collections in Germany, Holland, France, USA and South Africa.