Biography

Cornel Brudascu

Born 1937 in Tusa, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj.

Cornel Brudascu graduated from the Art and Design University in Cluj, Romania, in 1962.

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Cornel Brudascu, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2017
Cornel Brudascu, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2016
Parfum 79, VNH Gallery, Paris, FR

2013
Portrait of a Generation, Spatiu Intact, Cluj, RO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Mirrors of the Portrait, Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection, Vol. III, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, CN
Stefan Bertalan, Cornel Brudascu, Mircea Spataru, Muzeul National de Arta al Moldovei, Chisinau, MD
Desen / Laborator Personal, Galeria PARTER, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Cornel Brudașcu / Ștefan Bertalan, Galeria PARTER, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Looking Anew and Beyond, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, US
Avangarda si Contemporaneitate, Muzeul Județean de Artă, Centrul Artistic Baia Mare, Baia Mare, RO
De leur temps (7), FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, FR

2022
Painterly Affinities: Cornel Brudascu & Alin Bozbiciu, European ArtEast Foundation, Cromwell Place, London, UK

2021
YOU FEEL – AND DRIFT – AND SING, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, RO
Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale 2021, Timisoara, RO

2020
Collection display, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR

2019
HABITER L’INTIME, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, BE
Flesh and Bone, PS120, Berlin, DE
Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR

2018
Une saison roumaine au Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
DOUBLE HEADS MATCHES. A selection of contemporary artworks from four Romanian private collections, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, HU

2017
Life – A User’s Manual, ArtEncounters Biennale 2nd edition, Timisoara, RO
That Obscure Object of Desire, ArtEncounters Biennale 2nd edition, Casa Isho, Timisoara, RO
The Wanderers: Contemporary Painting from Cluj, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, US
Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls, House of Fine Arts Dum Umeni, Ostrava, CZ

2016
Pop-up Autumn Salon Works from the collection of Intact Foundation, Spatiu Intact, Cluj, RO

2015
The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London, UK

2014
Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, SK
The Mirror Stage – Cornel Brudascu and Alin Bozbiciu, Le Plafond, NE

2013
Mircea Cantor: Q.E.D, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, RO (Guest artist)

2012
Salonul de vara, Plan B, Cluj, RO
The Artist and the Power: Aspects of Romanian painting in the years 1950-1990, National Library of Romania, Bucharest, RO

2011
East of Eden – Photorealism: Versions of Reality, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU

2010
Romanian Cultural Resolution, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, DE

2005
The Museum of Painting, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, RO

Selected public collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues, Artist Books, Monographs

• 2017
  ”That Obscure Object of Desire” in Life – a User’s Manual, ArtEncounters Biennale 2nd edition. Timisoara & Arad: Azero, 2017, p. 99. [catalogue]

  2016
  Morgan, Jessica; Frigeri, Flavia. The World Goes Pop. London: Tate Publishing, pp. 17, 25. [catalogue]

  2010
  Niculescu, Alexandru; Bojenoiu, Adrian. Romanian Cultural Revolution. Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 187. [catalogue]

Articles and reviews

• 2017
  Madsen, Vistrup Kristian. ”Cornel Brudascu,” frieze, November, 2017.
  Madsen, Vistrup Kristian. ”Cornel Brudascu,” The Calvert Journal, 2017.
  Beligăr, Cristina. ”Subtilitate și însingurare. Artistul clujean Cornel Brudașcu expune la Berlin”, Sinteza.ro, September, 2017.
  Beligăr, Cristina. ”Mă gândesc la creație, nu la boală, altfel aș înnebuni,” Transilvania Reporter.ro, February, 2017.
  Buluc, Popa Magdalena. ”Maeștri și discipoli: Expoziție cu nouă artiști clujeni la New York,” dcnews.ro, January, 2017.

  2015
  Spence, Rachel. ”Pop art goes political,” Financial Times, September, 2015.
  Hallet, Florence. ”The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern,” The Arts Desk.com, September, 2015.
  Menden, Alexander. ”Die Londoner Tate Modern schreibt die Geschichte der Popkunst um, bleibt aber die Belege schuldig,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, September, 2015.

  2013
  Năsui, Cosmin. ”Cornel Brudașcu, « Portretul unei generații » @ Spațiu Intact, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca,” modernism.ro, October, 2013.
  Chira, Ioana. ”Andrei Șerban și Corneliu Brudașcu în expoziția Mircea Cantor,” harpersbazaar.ro, August, 2013.

Press

• Ion, Liana. "Galeria Parter, redeschisă cu o expoziție Cornel Brudașcu – Ștefan Bertalan", Curatorial, July 2023

• "GALERIA PARTER. Expoziție inaugurală Cornel Brudașcu / Ștefan Bertalan", Clujul Cultural, July 2023

• Laster, Paul. "Painterly Affinities: Cornel Brudaşcu and Alin Bozbiciu", Whitehot Magazine, December 2022

• Clavarino, Elena. "Painterly Affinities: Cornel Brudaşcu and Alin Bozbiciu", The Arts Intel Report, December 2022

• Vistrup Madsen, Kristian."Cornel Brudaşcu: how Romania’s foremost painter forged a queer identity against the odds", New East Digital Archive, February 2018

• Madsen, Vistrup Kristian. ”Cornel Brudascu”, frieze, 2017

• Madsen, Vistrup Kristian. ”Cornel Brudascu,” The Calvert Journal, 2017

• Popa Buluc, Magdalena. "Maeștri și discipoli: Expoziție cu nouă artiști clujeni, la New York", DC News, January 2017

• Zmyślony, Iwo. "Xs On The Lips The World Goes Pop - exhibition", Contemporary Lynx, January 2016

• Menden, Alexander. ”Die Londoner Tate Modern schreibt die Geschichte der Popkunst um, bleibt aber die Belege schuldig”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2015

• ”Artist Interview: Cornel Brudascu”, Tate, 2015

• Hallett, Florence. ”The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern”, theartsdesk.com, 2015

• Spence, Rachel. ”Pop art goes political”, Financial Times, 2015