Maria Pop Timaru
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Maria Pop Timaru lives and works in Bucharest. Her art practice includes sculpture, installation, ceramic objects, and performance, all of which have a strong connection to everyday life, which she translates with irony and humor. She studied sculpture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, from where she also received a Ph.D. in Visual Arts.
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Solo exhibitions:
2022
„Controlling the (inner) Chaos”, Contemporan Hair Space, Bucharest, curator Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu
2020
„Housework Strike”, Alert Studio, Bucharest, curator Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu
2018
„Too much?”, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest
2013
„MU-MA”, Aiurart Gallery, Bucharest, curator Simona Vilau
2007
„Umflatie”, Arcade Gallery, Bistrita, curator Oliv Mircea
2006
„La vie en-gross”, Mogosoaia Palace, curator Aurelia Mocanu
2004
„Zeicoteca”, Sabina & Jean Negulescu Gallery, Bucharest, curator Maria Magdalena Crisan
Group exhibitions (selection):
2022
We Are Not Passive Visitors, Carausu&Singeorzean Gallery and Borderline Art Space, curator Georgia Tidorescu
#perspectiva31, The Institute, Bucharest, curator Reka Csapo Dup
Homo homini flos est, Contemporan Hair Space, Bucharest, curator Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu
2021
Homo homini rattus est, Alert Studio, Galeria Neagra, Bucharest, curator Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu
Chronicles of the future superheroes, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, curator Anca Verona Mihulet
Art Safari, Superheroes/Antiheroes, Dacia Palace, Bucharest, curator Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu
2019
Form follows Feeling, Epretext Gallery, Timisoara, curator Carmen Casiuc
„AnimaL”, Plantelor 58 – artist run space, Bucharest, curator Zoltan Bela
2018
„Galbenul intens si alte pete de culoare rezistente la sens”, Complexul Muzeal Bistrita-Nasaud, curator Mirela Ivanciu
2017
„From infinite to indefinite”, Rivoli Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium, curator Oana Cosug;
„Simpatie si semnificatie. Inaintea labirintului vertical si in spatele liniei rosii”, Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei, Bucharest, curator Anca Verona Mihulet
2015
Cluj Ceramics Biennial
2014
„Urban exploration” Arts in Bucharest, CAV
2014
„Solitary-Urban: Art Week Bucharest, Curtea Veche
2013
„Temporal Perceptions”, Curtea Veche
2012
„Human Evolution-Involution”, Curtea Veche
2011
„Fur & Skin”, Art Yourself Gallery, curator Simona Vilau
2006
„An Experiment Continues” – IN Gallery, Vienna; „Feeling the divine” – Romanian Cultural Centre in Vienna; „Sculptorgrama” Orizont Gallery
2004
„New Beasts”, Mogosoaia Palace;
Performances:
2006
„Ken & Barbie”
2005
„Recycling”
2003
„Walking with Gioconda” happening; „Angel”, „Traces”, „Social Steps”, „Recycling”
2002
„De-Construction”, „Metamofoza” „Replica Eve”
Awards:
2007
Young Creation Prize, National Art Exhibition – UAP, Bucharest
2004
„Artineret” Award for sculpture – UAP Apollo Gallery
Studies:
2005 – 2010: PhD, National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest
2003 – 2005: MBA, National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest
1999 – 2003: BFA, National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Sculpture