Roberta Curcă
Works
“My current body of work is concerned with layouts and templates from scientific illustrations, archives, apps or industrial contexts and architectural elements, arrangements that can be used to express emotions and thoughts.
My drawings, objects or artist books make visible a dynamic process, one that builds on pre-existing structures, without aiming to mimic them perfectly. I build on objects that are carefully and slowly researched, that over time, through care, consideration, yet inevitable personalization, become steeped in biographic significance.
Stencils, palettes and pencils are instruments that allow flexibility and mobility. They are simple and unpretentious, easy to carry around. Stencils are for me tools that can blend standardization with personalization. Palettes are promises for a better future, not just tools for immediate use. Lastly, pencils and fountain pens act as instruments that reveal the gestural, they are the lyrical eye lending romance to cold data.
Through repeating yet everchanging shapes, motifs, and optimistic displays of calligraphy I try to express the anxieties and the joys of living in the world today.”
CV
Born in 1991 in Craiova, lives and works in Bucharest (RO)
STUDIES
2016-2023
Center of Excellence in Image Study, Bucharest
2019
La Sapienza University, Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, Rome
2013-2015
The National University of Arts, Bucharest, Drawing Department, MA
2010-2013
The National University of Arts, Bucharest, Drawing Department, BA
2012
Academy of Arts, Prague, Drawing Department, Erasmus Scholarship
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025
‘Gaep Presents’, duo exhibition with Vlad Albu, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
2023
‘This Will Feel Like a Strange and Warm Embrace’, duo exhibition with Codruța Cernea, The H Gallery, Bucharest, (RO)
2022
‘Border Marks’, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2019
‘Tile and Tiles’, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
‘An engineer has killed herself for an artist’, Spațiul 2/2, Timișoara (RO)
2018
‘An engineer has killed herself for an artist’, Alert Studio, Bucharest (RO)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
‘Aici se vede jazz’, /SAC, Bucharest (RO)
‘Memories and Prophecies’, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
‘Violence in My Heart’, Satelit Matka, Bucharest (RO)
‘Cache’, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
‘Melancholia of living in the afternoon of time’, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
2024
‘The Monster, The Square and The Laughter’, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO)
‘My Treasure, Your Treasure, Their Treasure’, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
‘Re-Visiting Recent History’, Țol Art Space in collaboration with Matca Art Space, Chișinău (MD)
‘Edges of the Graph Paper’, curated by Flaviu Rogojan, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2023
‘I Despise All the Movement That Displaces Line’, curated by Horațiu Lipot and Radu Comșa, Off Space, Electroglobal Factory, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
‘Ecologiile grijii și îngrijirii. Capitolul 2: Plante otrăvitoare’, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
‘Back to Where It All Began’, curated by Tevž Logar, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
‘Ghosts Whisper Loud and Clear’, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2022
‘Another Breach in the Wall’, BETA Architecture Biennial, curated by Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Daniel Munteanu, Timișoara (RO)
‘Beatrice von Babel’, Bevilleacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (IT)
2021
‘The Current Affair of Some Young Romanian Artists’, Cazul 101, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
‘To be more site specific’, Matva Artspace, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2019
‘GPS – Geometries in Post-Sistem in Romanian Art Today’, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO)
‘Lay me down across the lines’, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara (RO)
‘Spazi Aperti’, Accademia di Romania, Rome (IT)
2016
‘Memory Leaks’, ARCUB, Bucharest (RO)
‘Anything goes – Nucleu 0005’, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest (RO)
‘Moving Heads’, Tranzit, Bucharest (RO)
2015
‘PPM’, copy-art pop-up exhibition, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
‘Closure – Nucleu 0003’, Center for Visual Arts, Multimedia Center, Bucharest (RO)
‘Urban Discrimination’, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest (RO)
