ADRIANA FLOREA BĀLOIU (b.1979)
visual artist, co-founder and curator - Go Art Projects art platform & artist-run space and Go Contemporary art gallery
member of the Romanian Plastic Artists Union since 2015
managing coordinator of Art Safari Kinder March-December 2023
founder, teacher of drawing and painting Go Art Kids Corbeanca since 2020
lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
Studies
2016 MFA, Creative Strategies in Painting, National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
2014 BFA, Painting, National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
2002 BA, Philology, Hyperion University Bucharest, Romania
Solo shows
2023 "Escape room", E T A J artist-run space, Bucharest
2022 "Skinless", Go Contemporary, Bucharest
2019 ”Somewhere near the fake future”, Go Contemporary, The Landmark, Bucharest
2018 "Recipes Incubator", Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon
2017 "Rhinoceritis", Fantom Gallery & Go Contemporary, Galerie Fantom, Berlin
2017 ”Jam in shoes”, Seabam Gallery & Go Contemporary, Kube Musette, Bucharest
2016 ”Another time”, Art in the window, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2016 “Adinuta and the stuffed bear - part II”, Go Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest – Event of
Bucharest Biennale of Contemporary Art 7
2015 “Adinuta and the stuffed bear”, Cultural Center “Nicăpetre”, Museum of Art Braila “Carol I”, Braila (RO)
2014 “In the subconsciuos lab”, Go Art Projects, Bucharest (RO)
2012 “Dream travel ”, Public library “I.L. Caragiale”, I.L.Caragiale, Dambovita (RO)
Group shows (selection)
2024
(upcoming) "Empower Her Art Forum 2024", Artoday, The Grand Egyptian Museum GEM, Giza/Cairo, Egypt. With support from ICR
(upcoming) "Lights up", Go Art Projects artist-run space, Corbeanca/Bucharest
"All around the gate"", E T A J artist-run space, QiPO Fair, Mexico City, Mexico. With support from The Romanian Cultural Institute
"All about love", Galateca Gallery, Bucharest
2023
National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), Bucharest
2022
“Romanian Art Now”, Embassy of Romania to Belgium, EuroFest Cultura, Brussels, 2022
2021
National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), The Institute, Bucharest
Watercolor Biennial, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2020
National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), Bucharest
Art Safari 2020, Bucharest
International Contemporary Art Biennial “Nicolae Tonitza”, 3rd Edition, "Vasile Pârvan” Museum in Bârlad, Romania
Biennial Fine Arts Competition "Gheorghe Petraşcu", 15th edition, National Museum Complex "Curtea Domnească" Târgoviște, Romania
"ART100", Consular Section of the Romanian Embassy in Brussels, EuRoFestCultura 2020 Festival
2019
„Inner lab”, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest
„Young graphic art – The Art Supermarket”, Neo Studio, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest
„Ibn battuta - a border crossing dream – Living Units", Museum of Amazigh Culture, Agadir, Morocco
„Here-there, Dialogue”, National Museum Cotroceni, Bucharest
„Azulejo: O desafio romeno”, Festival „Saberes e Sabores de Outras Gentes“, Redondo Cultural Center, Portugal
„The Absurd”, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
„Centenart”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2018
“Azulejo, envisaged by Romanian Artists”, ICR Lisbon and Quinta da Cruz Museum, Viseu (PT)
„National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), National Museum of Art, Bucharest
“Moldovan Salons 2018”, Alfa Gallery/Musem „Iulian Antonescu”, Bacău (RO)
“Moldovan Salons 2018”, Exhibition Center „Constantin Brancusi”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
“Art100 - Together in Europe”, Galateca, Bucharest (RO)
„59,99 barriers were swinging on a cobweb”, Go Art Projects Pop-Up, Bucharest
“Art100 - Together in Europe” Atelierhaus Aachen (DE)
"Young Graphic Art", Galateca, Bucharest (RO)
„Azulejo: O desafio romeno”, Quinta da Cruz Museum, Viseu, Portugal
„Centenart”, Cultural Center Brancoveanu Palace, Mogosoaia (RO)
„Centenart”, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest
„Art at the entrance”, Ariel Theater, Rm. Valcea, Romania
„International book fair Leipzig - Leipziger Buchmesse 2018”, participation with the Catalogue of Exhibition „Rhinoceritis”, published by C&N Verlag, Berlin. Text by Ms. Ruxandra Demetrescu
2017
„Young artists annual exhibition 2017”, Mogosoaia Palace, Bucharest (RO)
„Painting Salon/Exhibition 2017, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
„We Contemporary 2017”, Palazzo Velli Expo Rome 2017 (IT) and Spivakovska ART:EGO culture center, Kiev
„Artist’s union painting exhibition”, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“Art at the entrance”, Ioanid International Kindergarten, Bucharest (part of Bucharest Street Art Festival)
„Woman’s Essence”, Musa International Art Space, Espace Commines, Paris (FR)
„Arta printre blocuri”, Centrul Cultural „Alexandru Marghiloman”, Buzau (RO)
2016
Gheorghe Petrașcu Biennale, 13th Edition, Museum of Art, Târgovişte, Romania
Diploma 2016, Stirbei Palace, Bucharest
“WALLS”, Go Art Projects and Berlin Fantom, Go Contemporary Gallery, Bucharest
"Arts in Bucharest", Centrul Artelor Vizuale, Bucharest (RO)
BFA and MFA painting graduates, National University of Arts Bucharest, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“In pursuit of the present”, Centrul Artelor Vizuale, Bucharest (RO)
2015
“Dark Matter”, Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin (DE)
X Florence Biennale, Art and the Polis, Florence (IT)
"Tendencies in Contemporary Romanian Painting”, Romanian Embassy in Germany, Berlin (DE)
International Biennial of Painting Chisinau 2015, Palace of Parliament, Brancusi Hall, Bucharest (RO)
“comma”, painting, Go Art Projects, Carpati Shopping Center, Sinaia (RO)
"Saloanele Moldovei”, 25th Edition, Bacau-Chisinau (RO-MD)
International Biennial of Painting 2015, Chisinau (MD)
"UNARTE painting 2015”, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“point”, painting and object, Go Art Projects, Trivale Shopping Center, Pitesti (RO)
2014
“Diploma 2014” – The Institute, The most interesting artists-graduates of 2014 in Romania, Stirbei Palace, Bucharest (RO)
“Metha-lan” – AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“Tranzitiv.08” – B.A. and M.A. graduates, National University of Arts Bucharest, Class Petru Lucaci, Make a Point Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
Exhibition of graduates from Painting Department, National University of Arts Bucharest, Graduation Class 2014, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“UNArte 150 Years.Painting, Graphic Arts, Sculpture” – Dalles Hall, Bucharest (RO)
"His Body – our inspiration” – UNA Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
“In (Finity) we trust” – UNA Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
Curatorial projects
2024 (upcoming) - "Dialogue of nurturing", Empower Her Art Forum 2024, The Grand Egyptian Museum GEM, Giza, Egypt
2024 (upcoming) - "Lights up", Go Art Projects artist-run space, Corbeanca/Bucharest
2018 - „59,99 barriers were swinging on a cobweb”, Go Art Projects Pop-Up, Bucharest
2014-2017 Series of group exhibitions Professor-Students organized by Go Art Projects
2015 “point”, painting and object, Go Art Projects, Trivale Shopping Center, Pitesti (RO)
2015 “comma”, painting, Go Art Projects, Carpati Shopping Center, Sinaia (RO)
Awards
„Mihail Grecu” award granted by the Plastic Artists Union from the Republic of Moldova in Moldovan Salons 2018
Woman ART Award 2017, Woman’S Essence Show, Musa International Art Space, Paris, 2017
Member of the International Selection Committee, Florence Biennale 2017
Books
Catalogue "Rhinoceritis",published by C&N Verlag, Berlin. Text by Ms. Ruxandra Demetrescu
The book was exhibited at Leipziger Buchmesse 2018
Group exhibition and biennales catalogues