Vlad Albu
Works
“My work brings together sculpture, installation, and photography to investigate the subtle and often uncanny relationships we form with objects, space, and architecture.
My current inquiry into the future of dwelling and objecthood grew instinctively from my background in photography. While my earlier works documented constructed spaces and the boundaries between public and private environments, my focus has gradually moved inward. I have shifted my attention toward the quiet life of things, looking past their utility to understand them as mediators of our relationship with the contemporary world. I have become interested in how these forms can act as symptoms of a complex reality, revealing the hidden structures and powers that shape our present.
I approach these objects not merely as inert forms, but as agents carrying specific physical and emotional weight. I examine how these material presences reflect contemporary conditions of fragility, uncertainty, and the mechanisms of support. Through a language of restrained materiality and imaginative narratives, I build arrangements that hold a state of anticipation, creating the space for a slower, more intimate encounter.”
CV
Born in 1992, in Piatra Neamț. Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
STUDIES
2017 – 2019
The National University of Arts, Bucharest, Photography and Dynamic Image, MA
2014 – 2017
The National University of Arts, Bucharest, Photography Video – Computerized Image Processing, BA
2016
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Erasmus Scholarship
2012 – 2014
University of Bucharest, Art History
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025
‘Gaep Presents’, duo exhibition with Roberta Curcă, Gaep, Bucharest (RO)
2024
‘Records on Imminent Things’, Switch Lab, Bucharest (RO)
2022
‘Threshold’, 2/3 Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
2019
‘Associative Properties’, Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest (RO)
2018
‘I would live in a bird house’, Aici Acolo Gallery, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2017
‘Negotiating Answers’, Make a Point, Bucharest (RO)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
‘Skin Territories’, Scânteia Projects, Bucharest (RO)
‘Various Positions’, Scânteia +, Bucharest (RO)
2024
‘Geographies of departure’, Art East Gallery, Iași (RO)
‘Going On’, HSBI, Bielefeld (DE)
‘Egologia’, Romanian Creative Week, Iași (RO)
‘Garden of Forking Paths’, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
2022
‘On past tense and its possibilities’, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
2021
‘The Current Affair of Some Young Romanian Artists’, Cazul 101, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
‘Between Lines’, Atelier 35, Bucharest (RO)
2020
‘Encountered Trajectories’, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (RO)
2019
‘Dezarhivări’, Galeria Aparte, Iași (RO)
