Flaviu Rogojan (b. 1990, Cluj-Napoca) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He studied photography and fine arts at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. His work explores the complex and intertwined nature of our online and offline lives, drawing on influences from science, technology, video games, and internet culture. Between 2020 and 2022, he was the program director and curator of Zina Gallery in Cluj.
Selected solo shows: Lonesome (2023, Rover Wunderkammer Naturalia, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart), Hax! (2019, Galeria Klubovna, Brno). Selected group shows: Revelații dintr-un tărâm apropiat (2025, La Cave, Institutul Francez, Cluj-Napoca) Currently Available (2023, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart), Triumf Amiria, You Feel and Drift and Sing (2021, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest), Our Other Us (2021, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara).
Lonesome Rover (Charging Station), 2023
dye transfer on paper
40 x 30 cm
Deluge Earth, 2021
dye transfer on paper
69 x 42 cm
Assymetriad, 2021
dye transfer on paper
100 x 57 cm
Dark Water (I), 2021
dye transfer on paper & trilobite fossil
21 x 15 cm
Octopucker, 2021
dye transfer on paper
95 x 70 cm
Small Assymetriad,2021
dye transfer on paper
70 x 51 cm
Octopon Symmetriad, 2021
dye transfer on paper
25 x 21 cm
dye transfer on paper (4 pieces)
100 x 70 & 20 x 30; 100 x 70 &. 20 x 40
Paleto Forest, 2017
digital prints on paper and photographic prints
digital prints on paper and photographic prints
print on mousepad editon, Youtube playlist
print on mousepad editon, Youtube playlist
36 C-Prints 8.5 x 15 cm each
Screenshots of recreating John Baldessari’s work in a video game. A modification of the popular Half-Life 2 game was used to build an in-game version of his 1972 conceptual art project.
36 C-Prints 8.5 x 15 cm each
Screenshots of recreating John Baldessari’s work in a video game. A modification of the popular Half-Life 2 game was used to build an in-game version of his 1972 conceptual art project.
fluorescent acrylic paint on concrete, UV light
30 cm x 90 cm
fluorescent acrylic paint on concrete, UV light
30 cm x 90 cm
inkjet print on paper
15 cm x 21 cm
Cheat Codes (Money), 2013
inkjet print on paper
15 cm x 21 cm
- Selected Projects and Exhibitions
- Pop up exhibitions:
- Habitats of Sensing – Mihaela Vasiliu & Lera Kelemen, Aici Acolo Timișoara, Romania
- Multispecies Landscape – Andreea Anghel & Mimi Ciora, Aici Acolo, Timișoara, Romania
- Short residencies in Cluj-Napoca with artists: Andreea Anghel, Mimi Ciora, Mihaela Vasiliu, and Lera Kelemen
- 2021
- Curatorial Project Middle Grounds and Dissonances
- Media Art Festival Arad 8 Kinema Ikon, Arad, Romania
- Off World Colonies, Indecis Artist Run Space, Timișoara
- Future Perfect #4 – curated by Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor B5 Studio, Târgu Mureș, Romania
- Our Other Us – curated by Mihnea Mircan Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania
- Co-Curator There are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality, Rubik & Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Millions of Ruins – Adrian Ganea, Thea Lazăr, Flaviu Rogojan, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Déluge (group show) – Hortensia Mi Kafchin & Flaviu Rogojan Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Curator PHB, Dan Beudean, Arhiva Adrian Pătruț Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2020
- Curator Sidequests – Adrian Ganea, George Crîngașu, Maria Balea – Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Co-Curator Off Season Artist Residency, Picasso, Radhima, Albania
- Curatorial Project Fictions of Tech & Life – Aici Acolo
- Exhibitions
- Pop-up exhibitions:
- At the Center of the World there is a Fiction, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- ppm#5 @ the workplace, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- In Parallel Universes Different Things Happen, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Residencies: Cătălina Bucos, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Megan Dominescu
- 2023
- Lonesome Rover, (solo show), Wunderkammer Naturalia, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2022
- The Bittersweet Chaos of Becoming – curated by Michelle Panthère & Edith Lázár, Galleria Ivan, Atelierele Malmaison Bucharest
- 2021
- Triumf Amiria – You Feel and Drift and Sing curated by Kilobase, Bucharest
- 2019
- The Museum Affair, Paintbrush Factory, Zoologic Museum și Ethnographic Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Media Art Festival Arad 6 Kinema Ikon, Arad, Romania
- Hax! (solo show) – Flaviu Rogojan Galeria Klubovna, Brno, Czech Republic
- Drowning in a Sea of Data – curated by Joao Laia, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
- Nature/Nature – curated by Mirela Baciak Kunstverein Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria
- 2018
- Curatorial Project Maps and Mapping: Cartographic Tools and Practices Aici Acolo Cluj & Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest
- Media Art Festival Arad 5 Arad Museum Complex, Arad, Romania
- 2017
- From Within (solo show) – Flaviu Rogojan Pilot, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Internet of ki, Kinema Ikon, Arad, Romania
- Inter-structures City Gallery, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germania
- Raygun (solo show) – Flaviu Rogojan Camera K’Arte, Tg. Mureș, Romania
- 2016
- Does Looking at a Picture of the Sun Hurt Your Eyes? (solo show) – Flaviu Rogojan Obroncow Stalingradu 17, Szczecin, Polonia
- 2013
- Air Time, Transeuropa Festival, Pariser Platz, BerlinDear Money, Viennafair, Viena, Austria
- Is a Title Neccesary? – curated by Ciprian Mureșan Salonul de Proiecte, Anexa MNAC, Bucharest
- 2012
- Carrotand Stick: the L*** ** and the Upsidedown – curated by Stefano Calligaro Baril, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- R255G0 B255, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2011
- ContemporaryPast: Moving Images as Fluid Memory, Nida Art Colony, Nida, LithuaniaPortal (Solo show)
- Flaviu Rogojan Expo Maraton, Galeria Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Romania