Dragoș Bădiță

b. 1987

Dragoș Bădiță lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, specialising in painting. In 2009 he finished his MA studies at the same university.

Dragoș Bădiță chooses the subjects of his extensive portrait series from deeply personal surroundings, transforming the artworks into frames-of-consciousness, glimpses of the human psyche and its mind palace. Friends, lovers and strangers are met with the same care, an extension of senses and origin points of self-discovery. Their inner states of mind caught by Dragoș in soft brush-strokes and playful transparencies become an outside statement to the hidden selves.

“…the artist tries different means through which to better get acquainted with his own body and its relationship to the world. ” Voica Puscasiu

Dragoș Bădiță, Annunciation, 2021
Dragoș Bădiță, Meditation Hall, 2022

His works reflect on painting canons while challenging their understanding in contemporary times. Straightforwardly, his exhibited works pose a question of how a growing relationship is governed by time – The expressive vulnerability of the imagery in Dragos Badiță’s paintings contrasts with the solid presence of the wood surfaces he paints on, thus transforming the pieces into painting objects, with a grounded presence and an in depth exploration of a moving moment.

...his observant portraiture emanates from the mental state of the person he paints​ →
...his observant portraiture emanates from the mental state of the person he paints​ →
Dragoș Bădiță, Last days of M, 2022
Dragoș Bădiță, Last days of M, 2022
Dragoș Bădiță, Last days of M, 2022

Dragoș Bădiță (b. 1987) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, specialising in painting. In 2009 he finished his MA studies at the same university. In 2015 he exhibits at the National Portrait Gallery as part as the BP Portrait Award event, and also at Scottish National Portrait Gallery/ Edinburgh,UK (2015) and Ulster Museum/ Belfast, UK (2016). Dragoș Bădiță chooses the subjects of his oil and ink paintings and drawings from deeply personal surroundings, transforming the artworks into frames-of-consciousness, glimpses of the human psyche and its connection to others. His figurative paintings reflect on Flemish and Danish painterly influences, striking a contemporary contrast with his choice of framing and merge of motifs and fantastic landscapes.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Ironing out the Waves of the Sea, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Some Are Born To Sweet Delight, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2020 Light Breeze Touching the Earth, Richter Gallery, Rome, Italy

2018 Spin the Cotton While The Moon Is Bright, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

2018 A Storm Passed By, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018 Winter Sleep, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018 Tip of the Iris, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 Light Falls, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2017 Meditation on perception, Superliquidato, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2017 12 May at Dusk, RAFT, Brașov, Romania

2013 The Room With An Echo, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2012 My Body Is Always Here, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2011 Cover your ears and you will hear fire, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2009 Breath, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Group exhibitions

2024 Art Brussels 2024, Brussels, Belgium

2024 The Cluj Collective,JD Malat Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023 Hiding in Plain Sight, Biju Gallery, Cluj Napoca, Romania

2023 Hacking the Future, Matca Art Space, Cluj Napoca, Romania

2022 Open Doors, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2021 Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Lateral ArtSpace / Rubik, Cluj Napoca, Romania

2020 After 12 years. Artistic production in Romania in 180 works, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania

2020 In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times, litost Gallery, Prague

2019 In The Eye of The Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2019 The Museum Affairs, Zoological and Botanical Museums, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018 Winter Celebration, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2018 Imaginea Pictură. Despre ieșirea în „realitate”, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018 Imaginea Pictură. Despre ieșirea în „realitate”, County Museum, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania

2018 Cu excepția Riveranilor, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018 A Word for Each of Us, Galeria Richter Fine Art, Rome, Italy

2018 Drawing Post-Brâncuși, Alexandru Ștefulescu County Museum, Târgu-Jiu, Romania

2017 Cu excepția Riveranilor, Pilot Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2017 #digestiblepredictions, part of “Life – A User’s Manual”, Lateral ArtSpace at Art Encounters 2017, Timisoara, Romania

2017 Being Mountains, Being Seas, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2017 Sympathy and Signification. Before the vertical labyrinth and behind the red line, The National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania

2016 BP Portrait Award 2015, Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom

2016 Polished Honesty, Centrul Artelor Vizuale Multimedia, Bucharest, Romania

2016 The Quiet Corner, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2015 BP Portrait Award 2015, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2015 BP Portrait Award 2015, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2015 Some Change, County Museum, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania

2014 Die Alpineum minimale2, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland

2014 Pale Blue Dot, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2014 Disenchantment Day, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, Romania

2013 Defining / Creating, Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013 Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany

2012 Art Foundation Mallorca Collection – Special Edition, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2012 Reality Terror, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Bound to art, Romanian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom

2010 Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2010 In The Eyes of My Brother, Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010 Artbooth, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Oradea, Romania

2009 Young artists from the painting school of Cluj, Mie Lefever Gallery, Belgium

2009 Only cowards die without having fun, ICCA Experimental Space, Bucharest, Romania

2008 Passport, ASFA exhibition space, Athens, Greece

2008 Artower Athina 2008, Artower Hall, Athens, Greece

2007 Maniphesto, Preview Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2007 Europa Artium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Art Fairs

2022 Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, with Anca Poterasu Gallery

2020 NADA, Bruxelles, Belgium, with Anca Poterasu Gallery

2019 NADA, Miami, SUA, with Anca Poterasu Gallery

2018 VOLTA Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, with Anca Poterasu Gallery

2018 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace

2015 Art Safari, Bucharest, Romania, with Lateral ArtSpace

2015 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace

2015 Sluice Art Fair, London, United Kingdom, with Lateral ArtSpace

2014 Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden, with Lateral ArtSpace

2014 Art Athina, Athens, Greece, with Lateral ArtSpace 2012

2014 ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain, with Ivan Gallery

Workshops & Residencies

2015 Fjuk Art Centre, Husavik, Iceland

2015 Colonia 21, Tescani, Romania

2013 The Echo of Music, Roglijevo, Serbia

2012 Curators’ Network, Sibiu, Romania

2009 Samuel Brukenthal’s Guests, Avrig, Romania

2009 Petrosani Art Summer Camp, Petrosani, Romania

Publications & Curatorial Activity

2017 Open Calls, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, Romania

2015 Wild Awake, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania

2014 Pale blue dot, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania

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