Iulian Bisericaru (b. 1987) lives and works in Sibiu, Romania. He graduated from the Painting Department of the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca (RO) and developed his PhD thesis around the relationship between architecture and painting, with a critical overview of the ecological ideology. Iulian Bisericaru’s artworks offer a somehow neglected or hidden perspective on aspects of contemporary society, that the human eye willingly avoids.
His artist book with texts by Liviana Dan, Marie Maertens and Cristina Stoenescu was launched in May 2022, with a solo show curated by
Marie Maertens at Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest. The artist was awarded a grant for an virtual artistic residency organized by the European Alliance of Art Academies through Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 2022. During February – May 2019 Iulian Bisericaru attended the residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and two years earlier he took part in the International Summer Residency in Aschersleben. In 2012 he was nominated for Start Point Prize and he also received the Expomaraton Award. In 2017 his work “Diebenkorn Background” (2016) was featured in the Italian journal La Lettura – Corriere dela Sera (July, 2017).
Solo Exhibitions
2023 May we reconstruct what has been lost, second edition, recontextualization of The Gate of Sibiu International Marathon, HEI – House of Europe Institutes, Bastion 3, Galeria 3, curator Iris Ordean, Timisoara, Romania
2023 May we reconstruct what has been lost, recontextualization of The Gate of Sibiu International Marathon, PAV Sibiu, curator Iris Ordean, Sibiu, Romania
2023 Public intervention, The Gate of Sibiu International Marathon, Central Square, curator Iris Ordean and Cristina Kiru, Sibiu, Romania
2023 The Cactus at the End of the World in collaboration with Dragos Dogioiu, Open Doors at Malmaison Studios, curator Raluca Oancea Nestor, Bucuresti, Romania
2022 Akademie der Kunste artistic residency, European Alliance of Art Academies, Berlin, Germany
2022 Serendipity and artist-book launch Sibiu, curator Liviana Dan, Spatiul NonStop, Sibiu, Romania
2022 Zoom in, Zoom out and artist-book launch Bucuresti, curator Marie Maertens (texts by Liviana Dan, Marie Maertens, Cristina Stoenescu), Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucuresti, Romania
2019 Green Mirror, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2019 The City in the Distance, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2018 The Place for Standing Still, Ierimonti Gallery, New York, United States of America
2017 The Distance Between Two Solitary Objects, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator Cristina Stoenescu
2016 Wide Open Spaces, Calina Gallery, curator Liviana Dan, Timisoara, Romania
2015 Influences, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator Ioana Mendeal
2015 Usonia Into The Wild, Atelier Patru, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curator Laura – Angela Ogruţan –Praţa
2014 The Backyard, Bucharest Biennale 6 paralel event and special event for the White Night of Galleries, Anca Poterasu Gallery, curator Irina Toma, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Meet the artist, The Ark, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Asphyxia, ExpoMaraton Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Group exhibitions
2024 RAD Art Fair 2024, Bucharest, Romania
2024 NADA New York 2024, New York, United States of America
2024 Art Brussels 2024, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Blue Sun. Conversations on art, science and ecology, National Museum Timisoara, curator Anja Luckenkemper, Timisoara, Romania
2023 La Rosu, Mielul Alb Sibiu, Romania
2023 Buget Zero si Cativa Metri Patrati – Interventia 2, curator Liviana Dan, Sibiu, Romania
2023 Utopia in the Real – a dialogue with Anetta Mona Chisa at Art Brussels, Belgium
2023 Buget Zero si Cativa Metri Patrati, curator Liviana Dan, Sibiu, Romania
2023 Lights for Winter, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2022 Uncanny Landscapes a dialogue with Aurora Kiraly at NADA Projects, Miami, United States of America
2022 Mielu’ Alb pe Intuneric, event under the aegis of N.A.G., Mielu’ Alb, Sibiu, Romania
2022 Dialogue with Iulian Bisericaru and Alessandro Brighetti, Mexic, Zsona MACO, curator Luiza Texeira de Freitas, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexic
2020 United We Rise, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2020 In Midst of the Worst, The Best of Times, Litost Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 A Room of One’s Own, NADA Gallery Week, Harlem, CTG Collective; Danny Baez, New York, United States of America
2019 In The Eye of The Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery, curator Cristina Stoenescu, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Winter Celebration, Anca Poterasu Gallery, curator Cristina Stoenescu, Bucharest, Romania
2019 RE:START, The Art Museum in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curator Horia Avram
2017 The Map is Not the Territory, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Aschersleben Artistic Residency, Aschersleben, Germany
2016 Uncanny Landscapes, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy
2016 Spinnerei Galleries – Winter opening, Leipzig, Germany
2016 Expo Maraton RECALL, Presentation of winning artists from 2011-2015, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016 Re: Fresh, Paul Sima Gallery, event under the aegis of University of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2016 Extension.RO – Romanian painters, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 System error, The National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curators Magda Grzybowska, Łukasz Huculakşi Karolina Szymanowska
2015 Double Agency, Cazarma Space – collateral event of Art Encounters Biennial, curator Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacherm, Timisoara, Romania
2015 The Superheroes Beyond the Carpathians, Vienna Contemporary Fair, Austria
2012 Startpoint Prize, Romania VictoriaArt Center, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Expotransilvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, event under the aegis of University of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2012 Girl Talk, Casa Matei Gallery, curator Vlad Comsa, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2009 Mirionima Gallery, Macerata, Marche, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata, Italia
2009 Del Fuorni Gallery, Macerata, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di BelleArti Macerata, Italia
2007 Omul, X Future Gallery, Sibiu, Romania
Bibliography
2021 Artist catalogue, “FANTASTIC CONTRUCTION OR PRODUCTIVE FANTASY” texte de Marie Maertens, Liviana Dan, Cristina Stoenescu ISBN: 979-973-0-32310-B
2017 La Lettura – Corriere dela Sera, Newspaper cover
2016 Extension.ro, exhibition catalogue (group exhibition), Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2016 Blad Systemu/ System Error, exhibition catalogue (group exhibition), The Eugeniusz GeppertAcademy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, 2016