Artists
Marieta Chirulescu Born in 1974 in Sibiu, Romania | Lives and works in Berlin
Marieta Chirulescu’s artistic tools range from paint, brush, canvas, and paper to scanners and copy machines. Most of her abstract murals do not present a representation of the real world but rather delineate the creative process that led to that particular work of art
The artist often works with repeating loops, which is why her work has a provisional character about it. For example, she finds a subject matter, cuts out a bit of it, scans it, enlarges it, paints it, and scans it again. Thus there is a series of abstractions behind every work that takes place not only on the canvas but on the computer as well.
Chirulescu’s work stands in the line of a self-reflective tradition that updates the medium of painting while questioning the seamless influence of digital space in our lives. And yet Chirulescu’s biography is just as visible in her work, which in some measure simulates bureaucratic and archiving processes—terms that stand vicariously for the fallen administrative machinery of the East Bloc and thus also for her homeland, Rumania. In contrast to the numerous artists currently working, Chirulescu is less interested in artistically playing with folklore and ornamentation, but rather in symbols of inner organization and the structure of a disappearing worldwide analog culture.
Education
2004 | MeisterschĂĽlerin |
1998-2004 | Kunsthochschule Nuremberg |
2001-2002 | Kunsthochschule Budapest |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2011 |
Marieta Chirulescu, White Cube Bermondsey, London, Great Britain Marieta Chirulescu, Kunstverein NĂĽrnberg, Nuremberg Marieta Chirulescu, Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, NĂĽrnberg |
2010 |
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Marieta Chirulescu, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin |
2009 |
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz Marieta Chirulescu, Projektraum der Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin |
Group exhibitions (selection)
2011 | Ein psycho-geographischer Plan, Galerie Max Mayer, DĂĽsseldorf |
2010 |
Back to the old House, Clifton Benevento, New York, USA Fade into You, Herald St, London, Great Britain Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin Sampler 1, Galleria Allesandro de March, Mailand, Italien The hoax is a hoax or may or may not be, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, France |
2009 |
La preuve concrète, Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France Gesang von Abschied und Neubeginn, Mayerei, Karlsruhe Max Hans Daniel present, Autocenter, Berlin Against Interpretation, Studio Voltaire, London, Great Britain Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg Marieta Chirulescu / Claudia Kugler, Galerie Sima, Nuremberg |
2008 |
Out of Line, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin Marieta Chirulescu / Manuela Leinhoß, DickSmith Gallery, London, Great Britain Ulla Rossek / Marieta Chirulescu, samsa project room, Berlin Im Lichte milder Verklärung, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin Spolecne, Galerie umeni, Karlovy Váry, Czech Republic |
2007 |
Fade to Grey, bell street project space, Wien, Austria Die Dinge, die wir nicht wissen – wir wissen sie nicht, Galerie Sima, Nuremberg |
2006 | Verlorene Paradiese IV, Nuremberg |
2005 | Malerei, Kohlenhof, Kunstverein NĂĽrnberg, Nuremberg |