Biography

Adriana Popescu

Born 1954 in Craiova, Romania, died 2007 in Cluj, Romania. Lived and worked in Cluj.

Adriana Popescu graduated from the Art and Design University in Cluj, Romania, in 1979.
She received the second prize at the 3rd Quadriennale des Kunsthandwerks, Erfurt, DE, in 1982 and the The Harvey K. Littleton-Prize Ebeltoft, DK, in 1987.

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Obiecte dintr-un muzeu imaginar, Galeria Quadro, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Disorders – Excerpts from the collection Antoine de Galbert, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR

2023
Graft. Materials and Processes, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
Volume through Layers, ‘U’ Baracks, Timisoara, RO
Desen / Laborator Personal, Galeria PARTER, Cluj-Napoca, RO

2020
Deco-. Penelope in winter, MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Bucharest, RO

2009
Glas des späten 20. Jahrhunderts aus Museumsbesitz, Glasmuseum Hentrich, Düsseldorf, DE

2007
Glasrijk, Tubbergen, NL

2006
Crossing borders – Meditaties in glas VI, IV and III, Galerie Mariska Drikx-Roemond, NL

2005
Weru Glaskunstpreis, Rudesberg, DE

2004
5 Internationale Glasausstellung, Münster, DE

2003
Art Insbruck – 7. Internationale Kunstmesse, AT

2002
Alcatuiri, Bistrita, RO
Crossing borders – Meditaties in glas VI, IV and III, Galerie Mariska Drikx-Roemond, NL

2001
Crossing borders – Meditaties in glas VI, IV and III, Galerie Mariska Drikx-Roemond, NL

2000
En annen verden, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO
Zugriff – Glaskünstlerinnen heute, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, DE

1999
East-West Gallery, New York, US
Faszination Glas, Beratzhausen, DE

1998
Internationale Kleinskulptur Biennale, Hilden, DE
Artele focului, Bucharest, RO
Noël des créateurs, Musee du verre, Charleroi, BE

1997
L’art premier et l’art verrier dans l’art du XX siècle, Galeria Art du verre, LUX

1996
The First 10 years, Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, DK

1991
Der Weg in die 90er Jahre, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, DE

1990
Neues Glas in Europa, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, DE

1988
The International Exhibition of Glass Craft, Kanazawa, JP
Young Artists, Baia Mare, RO

1987
Young Glass ’87, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, DK

1986
IV. Quadriennale des Kunsthandwerks, Erfurt, DE
European Studio Glass, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA

1985
Zweiter Coburger Glaskunstpreis, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, DE

1984
Quadriennial of Decorative Arts, Bucharest, RO

1982
III. Quadriennale des Kunsthandwerks, Erfurt, DE

1981
Decorative Arts group exhibition, Sofia, BGR

1980
Quadriennial of Decorative Arts, Bucharest, RO

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