Roberta Curcă (born in 1991, Craiova) is a Bucharest-based artist working with drawing, photography, objects, and artist books. She holds a BA and an MA in Drawing from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and is currently working on a Ph.D. in cultural studies at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies. In her work, she employs a systematic investigation into various types of structures or images that describe or subvert the human’s relationship to the built or natural world and the psychological, social, political, or ecological implications of this relationship. She often explores the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional states, order and chance, intent and impact, the human and the non-human.
Selected solo shows: Border Marks (2022, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca), Tiles and Tiles (2019, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest) Selected group shows: Re-Visiting Recent History (2024, Țol Art Space in collaboration with Matca Art Space, Chișinău), Back to Where It All Began (2023, Gaep Gallery, Bucharest), Another Breach in The Wall, (2022, Timișoara Architecture Biennial, Timișoara), Beatrice von Babel (2022, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice), To be more site specific (2021, Matca Artspace, Cluj-Napoca), SpaziAperti (2019, Accademia di Romania, Rome), Lay me down across the lines (2019, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara).
Drawing on grey paper
10.5 x 21 cm
Drawing, gouache, collage on Canson Sand Grain paper, 160g
29.7 x 40.5 cm
Drawing on grey paper
56.8 x 77 cm
Plexiglass, temporary tattoos, inkjet print
124 x 38 x 40
Drawing on Canson Sand Grain paper, 160 g
29.7 x 40.5 cm
Details
objects, books, drawings
variable dimensions
Plexiglass 4 pieces
16.7 x 14.3 x 0.2 cm
Plexiglass, drawing on paper
Variable dimensions
Series of digital photographs
67.5 x 102.5 cm
Various dimensions
After The fall of the House of Usher, 2021
Acrylic on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Digital photograph
77 x 52 cm
Digital photograph
77 x 52 cm
Digital photograph
46.5 x 32 cm
Digital photograph
46.5 x 32 cm
Digital photograph
46.5 x 32 cm
Digital photograph
77 x 52 cm
3D print
51 x 15 cm
Digital drawing
35 x 47.5 cm
Cement, plexiglass
15 x 15 x 15.5 cm
- Education
- 2019
- La Sapieanza University, Department of Communication and Social Research, Rome
- 2016-2023
- PhD, Center of Excellence in Image Study, Doctoral School “Space, Image, Text, Territory, Bucharest
- 2013-2015
- MA, The National University of Arts Bucharest, Drawing Department
- 2010-2013
- BA, The National University of Arts Bucharest, Drawing Department
- 2012
- Academy of Arts, Drawing Department, Prague
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2020
- Border Marks, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
- 2019
- Tiles and Tiles, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
- A young engineer has killed herself for an artist, Spațiul 2/2, Timișoara
- 2018
- An engineer has killed herself for an artist, Alert Studio, Bucharest
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
- My Treasure, Your Treasure, Their Treasure, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca
- Re-Visiting Recent History, Țol Art Space in collaboration with Matca Art Space, Chișinău
- Edges of the Graph Paper, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca
- 2023
- I Despise All The Movement That Displaces Line, Off Space Electroglobal, Cluj-Napoca
- Ecologiile Grijii și Îngrijirii. Capitolul 2: Plante Otrăvitoare, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest
- Back to Where It All Began, Gaep Gallery, Bucharest
- Ghosts Whisper Loud and Clear, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
- 2022
- Nucleu 0010, Întâlniri Inoportune, Atelier 35, Bucharest
- Another Breach in The Wall, Timișoara Architecture Biennial (BETA)
- Beatrice von Babel “EFFI/PYM”, Muzeul Național al Hărților și Cărții Vechi, Bucharest
- Beatrice von Babel, Bevilleacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice
- Looking to Introduce Something Unconfortable, Indecis Artist-Run Space, Timișoara
- 2021
- The Current Affair of Some Young Romanian Artists, Cazul 101, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
- To be more site specific, Matca Artspace, Cluj-Napoca
- Peisa în deteriorare, Nucleu 0009, Delta Văcărești, Bucharest
- 2020
- My solo group show 4- Contemporary Drawing, Center for Visual Arts, Multimedia Center, Bucharest
- 2019
- GPS- Geometrii in Post-Sistem in Arta Românească de acum, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
- Lay me down across the lines, KunsthalleBega, Timișoara
- SpaziAperti, Accademia di Romania, Rome
- 2016
- DON’T SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE, L’ateralartspace, Cluj
- Memory Leaks, ARCUB, Bucharest
- Electroputere Air, Electroputere Gallery, Craiova
- Anything goes, Nucleu 0005, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest
- Nature V2.0, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest
- Moving heads, Tranzit, Bucharest
- 2015
- PPM copy-art pop-up exhibition, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca
- Closure Nucleu 0003, Center for Visual Arts, Multimedia Center, Bucharest
- Anti-bloc, HaleleCamexip, Prahova
- Start point, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest
- Discriminări Urbane, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest