Lorena Cocioni

(b. 1995) lives and works in Bucharest. In her practice, she often uses the body senses and the ritual component of everyday actions, such as washing, combing hair, (un)dressing and taking care of the body. From the use of delicate pink hues, feathers, toiletry soaps to glass and metal shapes, she brings together different materials alongside her ceramics. She plays with them creating apparently fragile, yet very consistent works that resemble an almost ancient past, as well as a blurred future.

Laminaria digitata, 2024
Glazed ceramics, stainless steel
160 x 100 x 40 cm
Blood Magma, 2024
Glazed Ceramics
76.5 x 58 cm
Skin Shows, 2024
Glazed ceramic, stainless steel, polyvinyl chloride tubes
168 x 53 cm

Bone Chamber, 2024
Glazed ceramics
30 x 30 x 10 cm
Invisible Adversaries, 2022
Glazed ceramic, steel
54 x 52 x 20 cm
Invisible Adversaries, 2022
Glazed ceramic, steel
54 x 52 x 20 cm
Hair Combs series (9 pieces), 2022
Glazed Ceramics
Variable dimensions
Hair Combs series (9 pieces), 2022
Glazed Ceramics
Variable dimensions
Liquid Tissue I, 2021
Glazed stoneware
32.5 x 25 cm
Liquid Tissue II, 2021
Glazed stoneware
24 x 18 cm
Liquid Tissue III, 2021
Glazed stoneware and aluminum
87 x 19.5 cm
Sattelite Mirror, 2021
Wood, metal, glass, glazed stoneware
167 x 180 cm

Sattelite Mirror, 2021
Wood, metal, glass, glazed stoneware
167 x 180 cm

Sattelite Mirror, 2021
Wood, metal, glass, glazed stoneware
167 x 180 cm
(details)
Vessels Curtain, 2021
Glazed stoneware and stainless steel
215 x 92 cm
Vitreous Chamber, 2021
Glazed stoneware
31.5 x 23.7 cm
Cell Chamber, 2021
Glazed stoneware
25 x 20 cm
Walls of the Heart, 2021
Glazed stoneware
25.5 x 21 cm
Breathing, 2021
Glazed stoneware
34 x 42.5 cm
Intercellular Space, 2021
Glazed stoneware
19.5 x 25.5 cm
Lorena Cocioni Connective Tissue, 2021
Stainless steel
Variable dimensions
Connective Tissue, 2021
Stainless steel
variable dimensions
(details)
Water Embodiments II, 2020
Glazed ceramic
13 x 10 cm
Water Embodiments I, 2020
Glazed ceramics
12 x 9 cm
Ruins of the night, 2021
Glazed stoneware, steel
“There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality”, Rubik Space, Cluj-Napoca
Ruins of the night, 2021
Glazed stoneware, glass, steel
“There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality”, Rubik Space, Cluj-Napoca
Ruins of the night, 2021
Glazed stoneware
“There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality”, Rubik Space, Cluj-Napoca
Ruins of the night, 2021
Glazed stoneware
“There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality”, Rubik Space, Cluj-Napoca
Water embodiment (I), 2020
Glazed stoneware
Variable dimensions
Starfish (II), 2020
Glazed stoneware
Variable dimensions
Sebaceous glands, 2020,
Glazed stoneware, steel
“You Feel, And Drift, And Sing”,
Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest
Apocrine sweat gland, 2020
Glazed stoneware
“On the Road”, Another Mobile Gallery, Bucharest
Apocrine sweat gland, 2020
Glazed stoneware
“On the Road”, Another Mobile Gallery, Bucharest
(details)
Ephyra, 2020
Stoneware
Quadro 21 Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
Eustacia, 2020
Slazed stoneware, iron “Storage Moods”,
Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest
  • Education
  • 2014 – 2017
    • BA, Graphics, University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2017 – 2019
    • MA, Graphics, University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 9/2016 -2/2017
    • Study abroad, Bellas Artes Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2021
    • Caves, Crevices, Cavities, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2020
    • Liquid Ground, Another Mobile Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

  • Group Exhibitions
  • 2024
    • Edges of the graph paper, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Gardening Lessons. 10 tips for an organic garden, Art Encounters, Timișoara, Romania
  • 2023
    • Ghosts Whisper Loud and Clear, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Skin of the Shapeshifter, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2022
    • Young International Artists (Jeune création internationale), 16th Lyon Biennale, France
    • Ritual Reconstruction, Grotto Gallery, Bucharest
  • 2021
    • Off World Colonies, Indecis, Timișoara, Romania
    • The Current Affair of Some Romanian Young Artists, Cazul 101 & Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • Wholy Mother, Strata Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • Light Clarity Avocado Salad in the Morning, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara, Romania
    • SHOW OFF 4, Matca ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our Shadowy Reality, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • There Are Dreams That Walk With Us in Our
    • Shadowy Reality, Rubik, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2020
    • Storage Moods, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • Rooms, Quadro Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • SHOW OFF 3, Matca ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Mutations of Choice, GoodBuy Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2019
    • SHOW OFF 2, Matca ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • SUB, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • Soon this Body will be Still, Matca ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2018
    • Where Do We Go from Here?, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
    • PPM #3, Aici Acolo Pop Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 2017
    • Graduate exhibition at the University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Group exhibition at Espacio de Arte Experimental de la Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
    • Group exhibition at Print Workers Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • PPM #2, Aici Acolo Pop Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • 2015
    • PPM #1, Aici Acolo Pop Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Group exhibition at SolidArt ChangeMakers, Cluj-Napoca, Romania