(b. 1979, Târgu-Mureș) is an artist who graduated from the National University of Art, Bucharest. She uses painting as the ideal medium to exercise possibilities and to reveal hidden aspects of her own existence. Her works have a profound meditative atmosphere and often capture private moments, reflecting the underlying feeling of solitude increasingly present in the contemporary human experience. The observer’s viewpoint, nostalgic scenarios about the future, the individual experience as a subtle mirror of collective transformations, the landscape, human nature with its contradictory emotional needs are some of the themes explored by the artist in her distinct and ever-changing pictorial universe.
Codruta’s practice is motivated by contemporary questions about the cultural development of concepts such as scenic nature, environmental and bio-engineering policy, democracy, carbon capitalism and the meaning of happiness.
watercolor on paper
56 x 41 cm
watercolor on paper
53 x 43 cm
watercolor and colored pencils on paper
49 x 41 cm
watercolor on paper
48 x 39 cm
watercolor and colored pencils on paper
50 x 48 cm
acrylic and colored pencils on paper
60 x 54 cm
watercolor on paper
50 x 70 cm
acrylic on canvas
110 x 120 cm
acrylic on canvas
150 x 130 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
acrylic on canvas
200 x 100 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
acrylic on canvas
120 x 170 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
acrylic on canvas
120 x 220 cm
acrylic on canvas
140 x 140
acrylic on canvas
140 x 140
acrylic on canvas
140 x 140 cm
acrylic on canvas
110 x 110 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 103 cm
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
acrylic on canvas
120 x 158 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm
acrylic on canvas
100 x 120 cm
- Education
- 2005-2008
- BA, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Fine Arts, Study program Painting
- 2008-2010
- MFA, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Fine Arts, Study program Painting
- Selected exhibitions
- 2023
- This Will Feel Like A Strange and Warm Embrace, duo show with Roberta Curcă, The H Gallery, Bucharest
- The Color of Sound, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
- Every News Is A Hand-Painted Story, Laborna Gallery, Bucharest
- 2022
- Why Have There Been No Great Eastern Women Artists?, curated by Eszter Csillag for ANS AZURA
- Les Femmes du Feu, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest
- 2021
- An Invincible Summer, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest
- Paradise of Lost Desires, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest
- 2020
- Out of the Blue, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
- Maybe, for Sure, Laborna Gallery, Bucharest
- 2019
- Future Nostalgia, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest
- Fair Maidens, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
- 2017
- 100 Years of Art in Masterpieces: Going East, Romanian Cultural Institute, London
- Mogodorf 10×10, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
- 2016
- Float, Glide, Fly, H’art Gallery, Bucharest
- No Other Time, No Other Place, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
- Memory Leaks – NAG Retrospect, ARCUB, Bucharest
- 2015
- Laborna & Friends – Work in Progress II, Laborna Gallery, Bucharest
- 2014
- 11172014 Project, ArtYourself Gallery, Bucharest
- 2013
- BOLD, Pop Up Gallery, Bucharest
- Finish It, atelier 030202, Bucharest
- 2012
- Together Alone, atelier 030202, Bucharest
- 2011
- Young Romanian Artists. Hand-stitched Portraits, 26 Gallery, Bucharest
- Molcom tare, factor92 Gallery, Bucharest
- 2010
- Zoomania.ro, MNAC, Bucharest
- 2009
- DE SE NU?, D Gallery, Bucharest
- I Wonder What You’re Thinking, MORA Gallery, Bucharest