Artist

  • Marieta Chirulescu
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Exhibitions

  • Marieta Chirulescu
  • 14.11.20—06.02.21
  • Plan B, Berlin

Biography

Marieta Chirulescu

Born 1974 in Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Marieta Chirulescu studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany, where she graduated in 2004. She is a professor of painting at the Kunstakademie Münster.

Marieta Chirulescu received numerous scholarships and awards, including the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome (2015), the Lingener Art Prize in Lingen (2014), the Villa Aurora Residency in Los Angeles (2012), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Bucharest (2006).

Solo Exhibitions

2023
They said so, Galleria Fonti, Napoli, IT

2021
Marieta Chirulescu, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE

2020
Marieta Chirulescu, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2019
Foksal Galerie, Warschau, PL

2017
Marieta Chirulescu, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE

2016
Pale Fire, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MEX
CYTWOMBLY CYFONTI, Galleria Fonti, Napoli, IT

2015
Marieta Chirulescu, Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Brussels, BE

2014
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Lingen, DE

2013
Ileana, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE
Marieta Chirulescu, Galeria kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MEX
Marieta Chirulescu, Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Brussels, BE

2012
Marieta Chirulescu, Galleria Fonti, Naples, IT

2011
Marieta Chirulescu, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunstverein Nürnberg, DE
Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, DE

2010
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Marieta Chirulescu, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE

2009
Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, DE
Marieta Chirulescu, Projektraum der Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Pictorial Resonance, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE

2023
Sediments. The Matter-Image, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, RO
Volume through Layers, curated by Ciprian Muresan, ‘U’ Baracks, Timisoara, RO

2022
todos juntos (all together), Kurimanzutto, New York, US

2021
Parthenope, Lighea ed altre storie…, Villa Doria d’Angri, Napoli, IT

2020
Intermezzo Strumentale, Galeria Fonti, Napoli, IT
Local talent, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, curated by Thomas Demand, DE
Kunst am Bau, Freiluftschau, curated by Hans Jürgen Hafner, Gunther Reski and Markus Weber, DE

2018
Borderline Relation, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest, RO

2017
Marieta Chirulescu & Thu van Tran, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, FR
Malerei aus der Kunstsammlung der Stadt Lingen, Kunsthalle Lingen, DE
THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Shared Spaces, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, DE

2016
#12 / Folies d’hiver, Villa Medici, Rome, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, IT
PROSCENIO – Stefan Burger, Marieta Chirulescu, Michael Franz, Tobias Kaspar, Judith Kakon, Studioli, Rome, IT
HOW TO BE UNIQUE – Show 15, Sammlung Kienzle, Berlin, DE
Präsentation der Stipendiaten 2015 Villa Massimo, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE
Image Support, curated by Steinar Sekkingstad and Martin Clark, Bergen Kunsthall, NO

2015
Timisoara Art Encounters, Timisoara, RO
Mapping Bucharest. Art, Memory, and Revolution (1916 – 2016), Vienna Biennale 2015, MAK, Wien, AT
Group Show, Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE

2014
Summer & sUMMER, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit und Miami, USA
Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, AT
Artists against AIDS, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
Space, Space, curated by Dora Maurer, Museum Vasarely, Budapest, HU

2013
Painting Forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Revolution from within, Kaufmann Repetto, Mailand, IT
THE STAND IN (OR A GLASS OF MILK), Public Fiction (the museum of), Los Angeles, USA
Nur was möglich ist ist möglich, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE

2012
Alternative Entrance, Kunstbunker Nürnberg, DE
Family Theater I, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, DE
Les ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d‘art Contemporain, Rennes, FR
Everywhere and on Everything, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MEX
Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
Made In Germany Zwei, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Drei Positionen zu Malerei, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, DE
Marieta Chirulescu & David Korty, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

2010
Winter in America, Tanja Pol, Munich, DE
Fade Into you, Herald St, London, UK
Back to the Old House, Clifton Benevento, New York, USA
The hoax is a hoax or may or may not be, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, FR
Woodman, Woodman, Who Spare That Tree, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, DE

2009
La preuve concrète, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, FR
Gesang von Abschied und Neubeginn, Mayerei, Karlsruhe, DE
Max Hans Daniel presents, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
Against Interpretation, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Marieta Chirulescu / Sascha Hahn, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, DE
Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
Marieta Chirulescu / Claudia Kugler, Galerie Sima, Nürnberg, DE

2008
Out of Line, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, DE
Marieta Chirulescu / Manuela Leinhoß, DickSmith Gallery, London, UK
Ulla Rossek / Marieta Chirulescu, samsa project room, Berlin, DE
Im Lichte milder Verklärung, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, DE
Spolecne, Galerie umeni, Karlovy Váry, CZ

2007
Fade to Grey, bell street project space, Wien, AT
Die Dinge, die wir nicht wissen – wir wissen sie nicht, Galerie Sima, Nürnberg, DE
Finish, ehem. Autohaus Tschernitz, Karlsruhe, DE

2006
Verlorene Paradiese IV, Maxtorgraben, Nürnberg, DE

2005
Malerei, Kohlenhof, Kunstverein Nürnberg, DE

2002
kettö/zwei, Goethe Institut, Budapest, HU

Awards / Scholarships

2015
Deutsche Akademie, Villa Massimo, Rome, IT

2014
Lingener Kunstpreis, Lingen, DE

2012
Lenikus-Artist in Residence-Programm, Vienna, AT

2012
Villa Aurora Residency, Los Angeles, USA

2006
DAAD-Stipend Bucharest, RO

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues, Artist's Books

  • 2015
    „Marieta Chirulescu“, Villa Massimo, Roma, IT
    „Marieta Chirulescu“, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, DE

    2011
    „Marieta Chirulescu“, Inside the White Cube, White Cube Gallery, UK

    2010
    „25.Sept – 14.Nov.2010“, Kunsthalle Basel, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, DE

    2009
    „Marieta Chirulescu“, Kunsthalle Mainz, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, DE

    2000
    „Marieta Chirulescu”, Kunsthale Basel, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, DE

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Articles/ Reviews

  • 2023
    Caragliano, Renata and Cervasio, Stella, ‘Neapolitan arches covered with veils: Marieta Chirulescu’s solo exhibition’, la Repubblica, November 2023

    2020
    Parkes, Isabel, ‘Marieta Chirulescu at Galeria Plan B’, Artforum, 2020

    2016
    ‘Marieta Chirulescu at Giangi Fonti’, Flash Art, 2016

    2017
    Asthoff, Jens: „Marieta Chirulescu, Gallery Micky Schubert, Berlin“, in: Kunstforum International Bd.248/249 Aug.-Sept. 2017, S 536-537.

    2015
    Asthoff, Jens: „Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Lingen”, in: Artforum, March 2015, S. 295-296.

    2011
    Prince, Mark: „In der Leere liegt die Kraft“, Die Welt – Online, november 2011.
    Lorch, Catrin: „Zurück an die Leinwand“, Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 2011, S.12

    2010
    Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Basel, Quinn Latimer, Artforum – Online, November 2010.
    Prince, Mark: „Marieta Chirulescu“ Flash Art, May/June 2010, S. 126.
    Sharp, Chris: „Ghosts in the Machine“, Art Review, June 2010, S. 50-51.

    2009
    Hafner, Hans-Jürgen: „Marieta Chirulescu“, artist kunstmagazin, October 2009, issue, 80, S. 46-53. Stöckmann, Jochen: „Stadtraumpioniere“, dradio.de, March 2009.

    2008
    Mania, Astrid: „Mit den Augen denken“, artnet.de, April 2008.

Press