MIHAI COSULETU
Faithtankers & Battleships, 2018, charcoal and pastel on paper, 104 x 360 cm
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BIOGRAPHY
Mihai Coșulețu (b. 1982, Brasov) is a Romanian painter, designer and installation artist. He started a massive project which engulfed all of his creative production over a decade ago. He meant to imagine, project, design and simulate a new world, a parallel and better one, starting with an ideal city and slowly growing it to an ideal world. Like any utopia it had sound and understandable reasons to begin with but as it amplified and grew it began to shift towards a nightmare. Carefully planned, every inch of the city was meticulously assigned, nothing random placed or designed. It ended up as a perfect illustration of a world without freedom.
As the creative director of the Humanitas Publishing House in Bucharest he has been involved in several book illustration projects, such as: 2021, Divina Comedie pentru copii, illustration and cover, 2020, Arcașul fără arc, illustration and cover/Prevestirea, illustration and cover, 2017 Micul prinț, illustration and cover, 2017 Aristofan. Trei comedii, illustration and cover, 2016 Trei sute de ceauşeşti liliputani, illustration and cover, 2015 Platon. Dialoguri socratice, illustration and cover, 2015 Pisicoteca practică a lu’ Moș Pârșu, illustration and cover, 2014 Civilizaţii şi tipare istorice, illustration, 2013 Cele mai frumoase povestiri din Biblie, illustration and cover, 2012 Iliada, illustration and cover, 2012 Intelectuali la cratiţă, illustration and cover.
Education:
2007 – Master in Fine Arts, Painting Dept. National University of Arts, Bucharest
2005 – Bachelor in Fine Arts, Painting Dept. National University of Arts, Bucharest
WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Loc de Joaca
Galeria Cuhnie, Mogosoaia
2021
The Great Indoors
La Cave, Institut Francais de Cluj, Cluj-Napoca
2016
Situri | Sites
Aiurart Contemporary Art Space, Bucharest
2014
Unrevealed Monuments
Galeria 26, Bucharest
2012
The Greater Good
Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
2010
Mad Pets & Englishmen
Atelier 030202, Bucharest
2007
Magazia căpitanului
UNAgaleria, Bucharest
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Other Worlds on Paper
418GALLERY, Munich
Mielu Alb strikes with Peace
Former pastry shop Mielul Alb, Sibiu, Romania
2021
Cetate Arts Danube. Blue Coated Summer
ARCUB, Bucharest
Cetate Arts Danube. Young Artists, Young Friends. Accrochage III
Barbu Druga Estate, Cetate
Young Artists, Young Friends. Accrochage II
418GALLERY, Munich
2020
Young Artists, Young Friends. Accrochage I
418GALLERY, Munich
Quick Fix, #NAG14, alături de Ștefan Radu Crețu, Lavinia Crețu, Albert Kaan, Kristina Rațiu, Petrică Ștefan, Miki Velciov, Simona Vilău
Sibiu, Romania
“Site“, 2018-2020, Cetate Arts Danube Sculpture Park
Barbu Druga Estate, Cetate
Exhibition design for Eroi fără glorie
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and CNSAS, coordinator Germina Nagâț, Senate Foyer, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
2019
Șampanie în spațiu la Mielu Alb, #NAG13, together with Dan Perjovschi, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Lavinia Crețu, Albert Kaan, Kristina Rațiu, Petrică Ștefan, Sibiu, Romania
2018
Ego Notes, #NAG12, together with Ștefan Radu Crețu, Lavinia Crețu, Kristina Rațiu, Simona Vilău, Mihai Zgondoiu
Sibiu, Romania
Declined Realities
Fundația Culturală Ilfoveanu, Pitești, Romania
Metropolis Sancta
1001arte, Bucharest
2016
Bucharest. Our History About the Others
Rezidența Scena9, Bucharest
Peisaj cosmic
Atelier 030202, Bucharest
NAG Retrospect. Memory Leaks
ARCUB, Bucharest
2015
Art Encounters, Cazarma U, Inner Objects in Outer Spaces
Timișoara, Romania
RED
Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
2014
“11 exhibitions at Art Yourself Gallery”
Bucharest
MOOON
Aiurart Contemporary Art Space, Bucharest
2013
Escapes. Colony, Endocosmos, Ulysses, Unsent Postcards
Casa Museu Guerra Junquiero, Porto, Portugal
2011
Fur & Skin
Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
silenceKILLS
Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest
Figure In. Figure Out
LC Foundation, Bucharest
How was it possible?
Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest
2009
Atelier în tranziție II
Edgar Quinet Space, Bucharest
2008
La Funk La Freak
Galleria Comunale di Torre Civica di Mestre, Italia
Biennale d’Arti dell’Unita d’Italia
Caserta, Italy
Miniature Biennial of Gornji Milanovac, 9th Edition, Drawing Section
Serbia
Mitologie temporanee
Galleria Aripa, Turin
2007
Tour(s) de France
NIT Gallery, Bucharest