MIHAI COSULETU

MIHAI COSULETU

Mihai Cosuletu

Faithtankers & Battleships, 2018, charcoal and pastel on paper, 104 x 360 cm

Click below to see more works by Mihai Cosuletu

  • Mihai Cosuletu - Andy Warhol Day, 2011, oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu, Burg, 2013, oil on canvas, 150x210 cm, private collection
  • Mihai Cosuletu, Burg III, 2013, oil on canvas, 150x210 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Diaspora, 2011, oil on canvas, 150x170 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Flamingo, 2013, oil on canvas, 150x210 cm, private collection
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas, 85x120 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Ghetto, 2011, oil on ca 100x150 cm, private collection
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Metropolis 2011, oil on canvas, 150x170 cm, private collection
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Nightmare, 2013, oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Who`s who 2013, oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Piece of mind, 2020-2021, oil on canvas, 210x280 cm, private collection
  • Mihai Cosuletu - Temple Mount I, 2014, oil on canvas, 30x30 cm

BIOGRAPHY

Mihai Coșulețu (born 1982, Brașov) is a Romanian painter, designer, and installation artist. He initiated a massive project that absorbed all of his creative production over a decade ago. He intended to imagine, plan, design, and simulate a new world—a parallel and improved one—starting with an ideal city and gradually expanding it into an ideal world. Like any utopia, it began with sound and understandable reasons, but as it grew, it started to shift towards nightmares. Every detail of the city was carefully planned and nothing was randomly placed or designed. Eventually, it became a perfect illustration of the world without freedom.

In his role as the creative director of the Humanitas Publishing House in Bucharest, he has been engaged in several book illustration projects, including 2021: “Divina Comedie pentru copii” – illustrations and cover; 2020: “Arcașul fără arc” – illustrations and cover. “Prevestirea” – illustrations and cover; 2017: “Micul prinț” – illustrations and cover. “Aristofan. Trei comedii” – illustrations and cover; 2016: “Trei sute de ceaușești liliputani” – illustrations and cover; 2015: “Platon. Dialoguri socratice’ – illustrations and covers. “Pisicoteca practică a lu’ Moș Pârșu” – illustrations and cover; 2014: “Civilizații și tipare istorice” – illustrations; 2013: “Cele mai frumoase povestiri din Biblie” – illustrations and cover and 2012: “Iliada” – illustrations and cover. “Intelectuali la cratiță” – illustrations 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

Florean Art Museum, Baia Mare, Romania
Luciano Benetton Art Collection, Italy
Private collections from Romania (Bucharest, Brașov, Sibiu, etc.), Belgium, Italy, France, Germany.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Illustrated books in Romanian:
2022 Cartea orașelor, Humanitas, Bucharest
2021 The Divine Comedy illustrated for children, Humanitas, Bucharest
2020 Arcașul fără arc, Humanitas, Bucharest
2020 Ioana Pârvulescu, Prevestirea, Humanitas, Bucharest
2019 Herodotus, The Histories, Humanitas, Bucharest
2018 Ioana Pârvulescu, Secret Dialogues, Humanitas, Bucharest
2018 Aristophanes, Three Comedies, Humanitas, Bucharest
2018 Plato, Socratic Dialogues, Humanitas, Bucharest
2017 Antoine de Saint-Exupery , The Little Prince, Humanitas, Bucharest
2016 Vladimir Tismăneanu, Ciprian Măceșaru, Trei sute de ceauşeşti liliputani, Humanitas, Bucharest
2014 Pisicoteca practică a lu’ Moș Pârșu răsădită în sol autohton de Florin Bican, Humanitas, Bucharest
2014 Neagu Djuvara, Historical Civilisations and Patterns, Humanitas, Bucharest
2013 The Most Beautiful Tales from the Bible, Humanitas, Bucharest
2012 Homer, Illiad, Humanitas, Bucharest
2012 Intellectuals around the stirring pot, Humanitas, Bucharest
Exhibition catalogues
2015 MOOON, Vellant, Bucharest
2014 Snapshot Romania, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fabrica, Italy
2012 The Greater Good, Art Yourself, Bucharest

SELECTED ARTICLES

Cetate Arts Danube | Impressions by Victoria Dejaco | Vienna Contemporary Mag, August 2018

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