Iulian Bisericaru (b. 1987) lives and works in Sibiu and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He graduated from the Painting Department of the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca (RO) and developed his PhD thesis on 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. Ironic and playful at the same time, Iulian Bisericaru invites the beholder to take a position on environmental issues, be it by depicting the remains of industrial society or by approaching the controversial topic of city planning and resource exploitation.
The artist was awarded a grant for an ongoing 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). His first artist book is published and launched in May 2022.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Public intervention, The Gate of Sibiu International Marathon, Central Square, curator Iris Ordean and Cristina Kiru, Sibiu, Romania
2023 May we reconstruct what has been lost, recontextualization of The Gate of Sibiu International Marathon, curator Iris Ordean at PAV Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
2023 The Cactus at the End of the World, curator Raluca Oancea, Malmaison Studios, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Akademie der Kunste artistic residency, European Alliance of Art Academies
2022 Serendipity and artist-book launch Sibiu, curator Liviana Dan, Spatiul NonStop, Sibiu, Romania
2022 Zoom in, Zoom out and artist-book launch Bucharest, curator Marie Maertens (texts by Liviana Dan, Marie Maertens, Cristina Stoenescu), Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, 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
2016 ‘Wide Open Spaces’/Painting, Calina Gallery, curator Liviana Dan, Timișoara, Romania
2015 Influences, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Usonia Into The Wild, Atelier Patru, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014 The Backyard, Bucharest Biennale 6 paralel event and special event for the White Night of Galleries, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Meet the artist, The Ark, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Asphyxia, Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Group exhibitions
2023 Blue Sun. Conversations on art, science and ecology, curator Anja Lückenkemper, National Museum of Art, Timisoara, Romania
2023 Buget Zero și câțiva metri pătrați/ Intervenția 2.0, PAV, Sibiu, Romania
2023 Buget Zero și câțiva metri pătrați, curator Liviana Dan, Sibiu, Romania
2023 Utopia in the Real, in dialogue with Anetta Mona Chisa, Art Brussels Fair
2022 Lights for Winter, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2022 Uncanny Landscapes, a dialogue with Aurora Kiraly at NADA Projects
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, SUR, curated by Luiza Texeira de Freitas
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, New York, United States
2019 In The Eye of The Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Winter Celebration, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
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, with Anca Poterasu Gallery, Torino, Italy
2016 Expo Maraton RECALL, Presentation of winning artists from 2011-2015, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with the Museum of Art of Cluj-Napoca, 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 Huculak şi Karolina Szymanowska
2015 Double Agency, Cazarma Space – part of Art Encounters event curated Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacherm
2015 The Superheroes Beyond the Carpathians, Vienna Contemporary Fair, Austria
2012 Startpoint Prize, Romania Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Expotransilvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, event under the aegis of University of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca
2012 Girl Talk, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2009 Mirionima Gallery, Macerata, Marche, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata
2009 Del Fuorn Gallery, Macerata, Italia, event in the Erasmus scholarship under the aegis of Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata
2007 Omul X, Future Gallery, Sibiu, Romania
Bibliography
2022 Artist catalogue
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
