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
2021 The Great Indoors, La Cave, Institut Francais de Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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
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, Joana Grevers Foundation, Cetate, Romania
Young Artists, Young Friends. Accrochage II, 418 Gallery, Munich
2020
Young Artists, Young Friends. Accrochage I, 418 Gallery, 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, Joana Grevers Foundation, Cetate, Romania
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