Radu Cioca

Works

Radu Cioca

The aim of Radu Cioca’s idea-based practice is to create a state of self-awareness in which the mystification of our reality is unveiled, thus raising questions and revealing relative ‘truths’. He is interested in creating moments where things ‘click’, by interrogating the given reality through a series of connections. His recent works investigate topics such as the perception of time, the evolution of social trends and the aggregation of matter in relation with the idea of presence and universal vibration. 

The artist is experimenting with various approaches, using drawing, painting, photography, video, computer animation or digitally generated images, with a focus on sculpture and installations that challenge materials.

There is a subtle poetic criticism in his work that deals with society’s new values, which are turned into relevant images of our times, nuanced in a derogatory fashion.

CV

Born in 1982, lives and works in Cluj (RO)

STUDIES

2001 – 2005

BA, University of Art and Design, Cluj (RO) 

2005 – 2007

MA, University of Art and Design, Cluj (RO) 

WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES

2004 

Mobility – ‘Socrates –Erasmus’ – École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc de Liège (BE)

COMMISSIONED PROJECTS

2021

‘All the Suns’, The Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021

‘The Domino Effect 2’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)

2020

‘The Domino Effect’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)

2019

‘The Museum Affair. Grafting Exercises in the Museums of Cluj’, National Museum of Transylvanian History, Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania, Zoological Museum and Botanical Museum of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj (RO)

‘Vibrating Now. unofficial’ (solo show), HangarF, Alba-Iulia (RO)

2018

‘Cu excepția riveranilor #3’, Pilot Space – The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj (RO) 

‘Varia’, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris (FR)

‘Double Heads Matches’, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)

2017

‘Cu excepția riveranilor #2’, Pilot Space – The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj (RO) 

‘Seeing Ourselves Sensing’, Gaep (formerly EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS), Bucharest (RO) 

2016

‘Speculum. Abstract Mirroring’, Diehl Cube Gallery, Berlin (DE)

2015

‘Limit:less’: Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (RO)

‘Cluj Connection 3D’, Galerie Judin, Berlin (DE)

2014

‘//// 5 Chambers’ (solo show), Gaep (formerly EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS), Bucharest (RO)

‘Transformation. Romanian Sculpture 25 Years after the Revolution’, Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague (NL) 

‘A few grams of red, yellow, blue. New Romanian Art’, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL)

‘Hotspot Cluj – New Romanian Art’, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK) 

2013

’23:59’ (solo show), Jecza Gallery, Timișoara (RO)

‘Impossibility vs. Self-Censorship’, part of the Curators’ Network, Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero, Madrid (ES) 

‘Exercises on Democracy’, White House Biennial at Open Case 303, Athens (GR) 

2010

’Superbia’, The Romanian National Pavilion in The New Gallery of the I.R.C.C.U., Venice Biennale – 12th International Architecture Exhibition (IT) 

Exhibitions