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 show more Soap Opera painting 2001 E of Elian painting 1998 The Magic Flute painting 1996 The Inner Beauty objects and installation 1995 The Sacrifice 1994 The Family-Nucleus of the Society 1993 Without title paintings show less
Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
2002
HAG Gallery, Bucharest
Erotica painting
Tranzit Space, Cluj
Old Gallery, Cluj
Museum of Art, Cluj
curator: Robert Fleck
Pochet Gallery, Cluj
installation featuring Sylvie Moreau
Casa Matei, Cluj
installation and painting
RFAA Gallery, Cluj
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 show more 2009 Musicality in Art 2008 Tajan auction house, Paris 2007 Ready Media 2 2005 Visual Eurobarometer 2004 Transilvania Express Lyon 2002 Group exhibition 2001 National Art Salon 2000 BIG Torino 1999 Artists from Cluj 1998 Experiment Retrospective Exhibition of the 1997 Some artists from Cluj 1996 Graphic art from Cluj WORKSHOPS 2011 Cetate – Workshop at the Danube IV 2010 Cetate – Workshop at the Danube III 2009 Cetate – Workshop at the Danube II 2001 University Days 2000 Artist today AWARDS 2006 Art and Culture Award 2005 Visual Eurobarometer 2004 Cultural Eurobarometer 2001 The Best Price for Visual Arts 1997 Annual Award for the Best Ambiental Art Exibition Romanian Fine Arts Association PUBLICATIONS 2006 Carnivorous Garden WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS Centre Pompidou show less
418 Gallery, Buchares
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Cetate – Workshop at the Danube II
418 Gallery, Bucharest
Triple Jump
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad
organized by CIAC and the European Union, Bucharest
several places around the city
Just art curated by Robert Fleck
Romanian Cultural Center, Paris
Pink
video-installation
Tranzit Space, Cluj
Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest
Youth Biennale curator Robert Fleck
Art Museum, Cluj curator Robert Fleck
Video installations
Sylvie Moreau Gallery, Paris
Experimental Art in Romania
curator Alexandra Titu
National Theater, Bucharest
Young Romanian Artists
Romanian cultural days, Munich
curator Adrian Guta
Hungarian Cultural Center, Bucharest
work in progress during Documenta X
Werkgalleri, Kassel
Romanian Cultural Center, Paris
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
Barbu Druga Castle
Cetate, jud. Dolj
Workshop with Robert Fleck, Cluj
Workshop in Torino
european international jury
european international jury
Romanian Fine Arts Association
Carturesti, Bucharest
Paris
MNAC (Contemporary Art Museum from Bucharest)
Bucharest
Art in Embassies United States Collection
Private collections in Germany, Holland, France, USA and South Africa.