Artist's Presentation Marius Ovidiu Burhan

MARIUS BURHAN
Date and place of birth 1977/ VA�lcele, Olt county, Romania
Current residence and working place Bucharest, Romania
Studio address 57 B, Justiției Street, 4th District, Bucharest, Romania
Mobile +40 722 823 119
E-mail mariusburhan@yahoo.com

Website www.mariusburhan.ro
www.mariusburhan.com


Education
2012-2013 a��Vasile PA�rvana�� postdoctoral grant, Accademia di Romania a Roma, Italy
Title of project: From Painting to Object, from Painting to Public Space a� research project and intervention on the urban space
2009-2012 Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Western University of Timișoara, Romania
Doctoral degree in Fine and Decorative Arts; coordinator Prof. Alexandra Titu
Title of the dissertation: From Painting to Object a� volumizing the plane shapes
2002-2003 Postgraduate studies (MFA) at the National University of Arts, department of painting, Bucharest, Romania, Prof. Marin Gherasim
1997-2002 Undergraduate studies (BFA) at Luceafărul Academy of Arts, National University of Arts, department of painting, Bucharest, Romania; Assoc. Prof. Petru Lucaci
1992-1996 Marin Sorescu High School of Arts, department of monumental painting, Craiova, Romania; Prof. Grigorian Rusu

On-going grant
2014-September 2015 a��Nicolae Iorgaa�� postdoctoral grant, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy
Title of the project: Insertions in the Urban Space. Painting, Object, Installations, Art in Social Context

Personal Exhibitions

2015 Nocturne, Gallery Melenia Art, Bucharest, Romania;

Defragmentation and urban identity, Piccola Galleria, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy;
2014 Formal Correspondences, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania (jointly with Gabriela Rusu)
2013  Augmented Reality in Transitional Areas (Passages, Corridors, Interior Courtyards) a� the Recovery of Cultural Heritage in Bucharest, Solacolu Inn, Romanian Peasanta��s Museum, Comedy Theatre, Romanian Union of Architects, a��Ion Mincua�� University of Architecture and Urbanism;
 Geometric (Re)constructions, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy (jointly with Gabriela Rusu);
 Umberto Scroccaa��s E.A.C., Camponeschi Wine Bar, Rome, Italy (jointly with Claudia Mandi);
 From Surface to Volume, 3B Gallery, Rome, Italy;
 Appointment with the Romanian Painting in 9th District a� Caryatides, La BrA�che Association, Rome, Italy;
 Connections a� work in progress, New Gallery, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Venice, Italy;
 Utopias and Heterotopias, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy (jointly with Architect Mihaela Lazăr)
2012  Ephemeral Senses, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 From Surface to Volume a� The Construction of Space Through Object (doctoral exhibition), Calpe Gallery, Timișoara, Romania;
 Relocation of Objects, Museum of Visual Arts, Galați, Romania;
 The Reductionist Strategies of Abstraction, House of Arts Galley, BrA�ncoveanu Palaces of Mogoșoaia Cultural Centre, Bucharest, Romania
2011  Figurative Prospects, Veroniki Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Between Static and Dynamic, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Formal Identities, Visual Art Centre Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010  Studio Sequences, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Towards Shape, Irecson Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2009 Sketches, Act Theatre a� Reading Room, Bucharest, Romania
2007  Junctions, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
 Towards the Erotica��, Part B, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
 Towards the Erotica��, Part A, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
 Exhibition in the Act Theatre Foyer, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Fly and the Sun, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania (jointly with Andrei Cezar Georgescu)
2006 Between White and Black, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2005  Fragments, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Woman as Pretext, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Dynamic Universe, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2004  The Form as Pretext, Studio 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The First, Assemblage Gallery, Mariotte Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
1996 Chromatic Gallery, Craiova, Romania
1995 High School of Arts, Craiova, Bucharest

Group Exhibitions
2014  Decorative Art Exhibition, Senso Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The National Salon of Contemporary Art, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Contemporary Art Ruhr (CAR), Germany;
 The Salons of Moldavia, 24th edition, Bacău, Romania and Chișinău, Moldavian Republic
 Arts in Bucharest, 5th edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Connections and Signs, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Scholarsa�� Annual Exhibition, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 Art Safari, contemporary art fair, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Small Art Show Bucharest, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2013  The Biennial of Contemporary Art a� meeting point, 6th edition, Arad, Romania;
 In Symbiosis, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 The Painting Salon a� Abstract, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Spazi Aperti a� Borderless, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 Trajana��s Column in the Contemporary Art, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania;
 Arts in Bucharest, 4th edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Scholarsa�� Annual Exhibition, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 Contempora 6, Alchemia Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Venature XXV, Milan/ Lecce/ Bucharest, 1988-2013, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Body Retrieved, Villa de Sanctis Torpignattara, Rome, Italy;
 Painting & Music, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 Silence, UnArte Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2012  Venature XXV, Milan/ Lecce/ Bucharest, 1988-2013;
 Silence, Triade Gallery, Timișoara, Romania; exhibition within The Black Mountain College Phenomenon JOHN CAGE AND HIS ART;
 a��Ion Andreescua�� Biennial, 8th edition, Gallery of Art, Buzău, Romania;
 Arts in Bucharest, 3rd edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Salons of Moldavia, 22nd edition, Bacău, Romania and Chișinău, Moldavian Republic;
 HUMAN evolution/involution, Old Court, Bucharest/ Ion Nicodim Gallery, Constanța, Romania;
 Bazaar, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Body 2012, Gallery of Arts, Focșani/ Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Am I my brothera��s keeper?, Gallery of Arts, Focșani/ Bastion Gallery, Timișoara, Romania;
 Greek a�Romanian Art Dialogue, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011  Contempora 2, Centre from Show Arts, Palace Room, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Winter Salon, Bucharest Municipal Museum a� Șuțu Palace, Romania;
 Contemporary Synthesis, Romanian Art, Palace of the Parliament, Constantin BrA�ncuși Exhibition Room, Bucharest, Romania;
 Arts in Bucharest, 2nd edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Salons of Moldavia, 21st edition, Bacău, Romania and Chișinău, Moldavian Republic;
 The National Salon of Contemporary Art, Sofianu Centre of Exhibitions and Events, RA�mnicu VA�lcea, Romania;
 4 Four Views, 3B Gallery, Rome, Italy;
 Summer Works, Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, Italy;
 Nude, George Apostu International Centre of Culture, Bacău/ Gallery of Art, Focșani, Romania;
 I am, Embassy of Romania in the U.S., Washington D.C. and Cleveland Park Neighbourhood Library, Washington D.C., U.S.A.;
 The Abstraction, Material Voices: Ten Contemporary Approaches, BrA�ncoveanu Palaces of Mogoșoaia Cultural Centre, Romania;
 Abstract, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Phantasms, Small Salon Bucharest, 5th edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Romania
2010  The Winter Salon, Bucharest Municipal Museum a� Șuțu Palace, Romania;
 Young Talents, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 The a��Gheorghe Petrașcua�� Biennial of Art, Museum of History, TA�rgoviște, Romania;
 Dona��t Kill, Timco Gallery, Timișoara, Romania;
 Abstract, Gallery of Art, Focșani, Romania;
 The Salons of Moldavia, 20th edition, Bacău, Romania and Chișinău, Moldavian Republic;
 Contemporary Reevaluations, Old Court, Bucharest, Romania
2009  Medieval Hypostases, Old Court, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Cuboid Family, Small Salon Bucharest, 3rd edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 N. Tonitza High School of Arts exhibition, Palace of the Parliament a� Constantin BrA�ncuși Exhibition Room, Bucharest, Romania
2008  Sections, Small Salon Bucharest, 2nd edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 N. Tonitza High School of Arts exhibition, Metropolitan Centre of Art, Bucharest, Romania
2006  The National Salon of Art, Palace of the Parliament a� Constantin BrA�ncuși Exhibition Room, Bucharest, Romania;
 The Salons of Moldavia, 14th edition, Bacău, Romania and Chișinău, Moldavian Republic;
 The Salon of Summer, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2005  Gaudeamus Art Fair, Romexpo, Bucharest, Romania
2004  The a��Gheorghe Petrașcua�� Biennial of Art, Museum of History, TA�rgoviște, Romania;
 Exhibition of Art Colony Galicnik, Neda Hotel, Galicnik, Macedonia
2003  Painting Exhibition, Hanul cu Tei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (jointly with Ana-Maria Ciulei and Andra Cristea);
 National Theatre Bucharest, Romania
2002 The National Salon of Art, Palace of the Parliament a� Constantin BrA�ncuși Exhibition Room, Bucharest, Romania
2000 International Fair of Visual Arts, National Theatre of Bucharest, Romania
1999  Accents and Imprints, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 National Museum of History, Bucharest, Romania
1998 Accents and Imprints, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1996 Arta Gallery, Craiova, Romania
1995 Cromatic Gallery, Craiova, Romania

Art Colony
2004 Galicnik, Macedonia

Other activities
2014 Member of the Awarding Committee The Small Art Show Bucharest, UNPR
2013 Member of the Admission Evaluation Committee, section of painting, UAPR;
Member of the Awarding Committee Arts in Bucharest, section of painting, UAPR;
Member of the Awarding Committee The Painting Salon, UAPR
2010-present Member of the Bucharest Painting Branch Leading Council, UAPR
2008-2010 Representative of the Assembly of Romaniaa��s Representatives, UAPR;
Censor, UAPR
2006-2008 Union leader, FSLI, Dimitrie Paciurea high School of Arts and Crafts, Bucharest
2006 Member of the Visual Arts Baccalaureat Evaluation Committee, Bucharest
2005-present Full member of the Romanian Union of Fine Arts

Curator/ Organiser of exhibitions/ Projects
2014  The National Painting Salon, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Arts in Bucharest, 5th edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Arts in Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
2013  The Painting Salon a� Abastract, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania;
 Augmented Reality of Cultural Heritage in Bucharest, project organised within the Faculty of Inner Architecture, UAUIM, Bucharest, financed by the National Administration of Cultural Funds (jointly with project leader: Assoc. Prof. Architect Dorina Onescu TA�rbujaru, Assist. Architect doctoral student Mihaela Lazăr, Assist. Architect doctoral student Dan Adrian Ionescu), Bucharest, Romania;
 The Temptation of Vacuum Towards Sacrifice, visual artist Emanuele Serafini (Italy), Cittadella Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2012  Dynamic Constructions, visual artist Gabriela Rusu, Studio 25, 25 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ, USA;
 The Body as Pretext, visual artist Gabriela Rusu, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011  Arts in Bucharest, 2nd edition, Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Painting as Internal Self-Portrait, visual artist Gabriela Rusu, Palor Gallery, NJ, USA;
 The Metaphysics, visual artists Giacomo Lion (Italy) and Andrei Cezar Georgescu (Romania), Centre of Visual Arts, Bucharest, Romania;
 Open Studios, photographic project The Body, Metropolitan Centre of Art, Bucharest, Romania;
 Architectural Structures, Friedrich Schiller House of Culture, Bucharest, Romania;
 Room 3, visual artist Gabriela Rusu, Studio 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010 The City, Friedrich Schiller House of Culture, Bucharest, Romania

National and international competitions (a selection)
2014  International competition: Eco-Archipelago, Temporary Urban Objects for Public Design and Ecodestinations, The Ark a� Mila 23 (jointly with Assist. Architects doctoral students Mihaela Lazăr, Dobra Mihaela, Dan Adrian Ionescu);
 Competition open for Romaniaa��s Stall Design and Organising of the UIA Congress, Durban, orgnaised by OAR, Points of View. What Does It Mean to Be an Architect in Romania (jointly with Assist. Architects doctoral students Mihaela Lazăr and Dan Adrian Ionescu);
 Romaniaa��s Stall on Architecture a� Venice Biennial, Italy; Exploring Modernity: Contextualism. Projected Feelings, Archives of Romaniaa��s National Pavilions (jointly with Assist. Architects doctoral students Mihaela Lazăr, Dan Adrian Ionescu, Codina Dusoiu and Elena Nedelcu);
2013 Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico, Rome, Italy (jointly with Assist. Architect doctoral student Mihaela Lazăr)

Professor of visual arts
2014 Dimitrie Paciurea High School of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2009-2013 Ioan S. Socolescu Technical College of Architecture and Public Works, Bucharest, Romania
2008-2010 Nicolae Tonitza High School of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2006-2008 Dimitrie Paciurea High School of Arts, Bucharest, Romania

Symposiums
2014 Symposium session I, The Art in Public Space, Attic Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Timișoara, project title From the Object to Painting, from Painting to Public Space a� Research Project and Intervention in the Urban Areas
2013  Folded Organic, Research in Architecture and Design Symposium, organised by the ExpoEnegie 2013 Events, Faculty of Inner Architecture, Bucharest;
 The Investigation on Bucharesta��s Heritage a� Transitional Areass Passages, Corridors, Interior Courtyards, workshop within the project entitled Augmented Reality in Transitional Areas (Passages, Corridors, Interior Courtyards). The Recovery of Cultural Heritage in Bucharest, financed by the National Administration for Cultural Funds
2011 The Human Body Between the Paintinga��s Objects and the Painting in Context. The Interrogation of the Present. The Exercises of Contemporary Art Symposium, held in occasion of 12th edition of the Academic Days of Timișoara

Bibliography (a selection)
2014  Insertion: National Salon of Art exhibition catalogue, edited by the Romanian Union of Artists, p. 16, ISBN a� 978-606-720-023-2;
 Insertion: 1999-2012 Vasile PA�rvan art scholars album, Accademia di Romania a Roma, ICR, pp. 15-20;
 Insertion: Senso Art Gallery catalogue, pp. 35-41, ISBN a� 978-606-93338-7-7;
 Insertion: Romaniaa��s Stall at the Venice Biennial on Architecture, Italy, Exploring Modernity: Contextualism. Projected Feelings, Archives of Romaniaa��s National Pavilions (jointly with Assist. Architects doctoral students Mihaela Lazăr, Dan Adrian Ionescu, Codina Dusoiu, Elena Nedelcu), pp. 150-151, ISBN a� 978-606-638-091-1;
 Insertion: Connections and Signs catalogue, pp. 33-38, ISBN a� 978-606-93338-5-3;
 Insertion: The Form art magazine, No. 14, pp. 28-31, ISSN a� 3068-4436
2013  Insertion: In simbiosi exhibition catalogue, online, p. 17, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
 Insertion: A Century of Romanian Sculpture online encyclopaedia, A-M;
 Insertion: Augmented Reality in Transitional Areas (Passaged, Corridors, Interior Courtyards) a� The Recovery of Cultural Heritage in Bucharest, Solacolu Inn, Romanian Peasant Museum, Comedy Theatre, Romanian Union of Artists, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, exhibition catalogue, edited by Editura Universitară a��Ion Mincua��, Bucharest, pp. 54-56, ISBN a� 978-606-638-0081-2;
 Insertion: Spazi Aperti 2013 a� Borderless exhibition catalogue;
 Cariatidi exhibition catalogue;
 Insertion: Contemporary Syntheses a� The Body in the Balkan Art exhibition catalogue, edited by BrumaR, pp.32-33, ISBN a� 978-973-602-851-9:
 Insertion: Venature XXV, Milano/ Lecce/ Bucharest, exhibition catalogue, p. 8, ISBN a� 978-606-8296-83-8
2012  Insertion: Venature XXV, Milano/ Lecce/ Bucharest, 1988-2013, exhibition catalogue, figure 41;
 Insertion: The Black Mountain College Phenomenon JOHN CAGE AND HIS ART exhibition catalogue, p. 12, ISBN a� 978-973-0-13642-5;
 Insertion: Arts in Bucharest, 3rd edition, exhibition catalogue, edited by UnArte, Bucharest, p. 50, ISBN a� 978-606-8296-68-5;
 Insertion: Who Is Who in Romania, 7th edition, 2012, edited by Who is Who Verlang fA�r PersonenenzyklA�dien AG, ISBN a� 978-3-7290-0116-9;
 Marius Ovidiu Burhan a� The Reduction to the Essential, artevizuale.ro (text by Corneliu Stoica);
 Relocation of Objects exhibition catalogue, produced by the Museum of Visual Arts, Galați;
 Insertion: Arts in Bucharest, 2nd edition, exhibition catalogue, edited by UnArte, p. 98, ISBN a� 978-606-8296-45-6;
 Insertion: Body exhibition catalogue, edited by Euro-Print, ISBN a� 978-606-93077-0-0;
 Marius Burhan, The Reductionist Strategies of the Abstract, Sensotv.ro/arte;
 Insertion: Am I my brothera��s keeper? Exhibition catalogue, edited by BrumaR, p. 15, ISBN a� 978-973-602-729-1;
2011  Insertion: Contempora 2 exhibition catalogue, edited by UnArte, pp. 72-73, ISSN a� 978-606-8296-32-6;
 Talking to Marius Burhan, Art Out nr. 8/2011, annul I, p. 22, ISSN a� 2069-6949 (interview by Laura Lucia Mihalca);
 A Figurative Dialogue in the Abstract Space, Literary Romania, nr. 49/2011, p. 18, ISSN a� 1220-6318 (interview by Petre Tănăsoaica);
 Figurative Prospects exhibition catalogue, edited by Veroniki Art (text by Alexandra Titu);
 Between Static and Dynamic, 4-6 November 2011, p. 24, ISSN a� 1016-7609 (text by Alexandra Titu);
 Formal Identities exhibition catalogue, produced by Atelier Mix and 4ACE a� PR&Publicity;
 Insertion: Contemporary Syntheses, Romanian Art exhibition catalogue, edited by BrumaR, pp. 34-35, ISBN a� 978-973-602-680-5;
 Insertion: Nude exhibition catalogue;
 Insertion: Abstract exhibition catalogue;
 Marius Burhan, Formal Identities, Sensotv.ro/arte;
2006 Insertion: National Salon of Art exhibition catalogue, edited by the Romanian Union of Artists, ISBN (10) 973-86483-8-6, ISBN (13) 978-973-86483-8-6
2005 Fragments exhibition catalogue, produced by Fildas Art Foundation
2004 Insertion: 2002-2004 Art Colony of Galicnik exhibition catalogue, printed by Forum print, ISBN a� 9989-9811-4-0

Articles and interviews
Mihalca Laura Lucia, Talking to Marius Burhan, Art Out, no. 8/2011, p. 22, ISSN 2069-6949
Tănăsoaica Petre, A Figurative Dialogue in the Abstract Space, Literary Romania, no. 49/2011, p. 18, ISSN
1220-6318
Titu Alexandra, Between Static and Dynamic, Counterpoint, 4-6 November 2011, p. 18, ISSN 1016-7609
Titu Alexandra, Form and Matter a� Marius Burhan, Painting and Object, Counterpointm 1-3 May 2011, p. 24,
ISSN 1016-7609

Film and television
2014 www.sensotv.ro/arte/clipa-de-arta-5311/atelierul-artistului-marius-burhan

2012 www.sensotv.ro/arte/clipa-de-arta-3129
Vimeo.com/83851250
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http://youtu.be/kNvLKF6uxV8
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2011 www.sensotv.ro/arte/clipa-de-arta-1763
http://youtu.be/5uPi2v1s07w
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2010 http://youtu.be/KRKG8Y6nvM8
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2009 vicdutu.blogspot.com/2009/07/vlad-perianu-si-marius-burhan html
Work in Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia
Work in Museum of Visual Arts, Galati, Romania
Works in private collections from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, U.S.A

Exposed Artworks

Painting - Graphics - 29 artworks
Sculpture - 3 artworks