ADRIANA FLOREA BĂLOIU
Visual Artist & Curator · b. 1979 · Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
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PROFILE
Visual artist working primarily in painting and installation, with a parallel curatorial practice. Founder and curator of Go Art Projects, a contemporary art platform and of the Go Contemporary gallery, Bucharest. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, and she has curated over 30 exhibitions, including international group shows in Bucharest, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo.
Member of the Romanian Artists' Union (UAP), Painting Branch, Bucharest — since 2015
Founder and painting/drawing teacher, Go Art Kids, Corbeanca — since 2020
Coordinator, Art Safari Kinder, Bucharest — 2023–2024
Member of the International Selection Committee, Florence Biennale — 2017
EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Painting Creation Strategies — National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2014 BFA, Painting — National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2002 BA, Philology — Hyperion University, Bucharest, Romania
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027 Solo show, Musée Artistes Femmes (MAF), Lausanne, Switzerland (upcoming)
2026 My work is finally unfinished, Easel and Camera Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (upcoming)
2026 The painting that sees you, Cuhnia Gallery, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia, Romania (upcoming)
2025 Lifeworld Circumstance, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia, Romania
2023 Escape Room, ETAJ artist-run space, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Skinless, Go Contemporary, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Somewhere Near the Fake Future, Go Contemporary, The Landmark, Bucharest, Romania
2018 Recipes Incubator, Romanian Cultural Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Rhinoceritis, Galerie Fantom & Go Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2017 Jam in Shoes, Seabam Gallery & Go Contemporary, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania
2016 Another Time, Art in the Window, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2016 Adinuța and the Stuffed Bear – Part II, Go Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (BB7 event)
2015 Adinuța and the Stuffed Bear, Nicăpetre Cultural Center, “Carol I” Brăila Museum, Brăila, Romania
2014 In the Subconscious Lab, Go Art Projects, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Dream Travel, “I.L. Caragiale” Public Library, Dâmbovița, Romania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Gentle Cohesion III, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria (upcoming)
Brașov, orașul (in)vizibil / Brasov, the (in)visible city, Brașov Museum of Art, Brașov, Romania (upcoming)
Albastru / Blue, Arad Museum of Art, Arad, Romania
Albastru / Blue, Indigo Gallery, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest, Romania
I Wonder Where the Grass Grows Greener, The Institute, Bucharest, Romania
I Wonder Where the Grass Grows Greener, Neon Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Story, Balm and Candy, Go Art Projects, Bucharest, Romania
Memory / Matter – Remaking the Archive, Go Art Projects, Bucharest, Romania
2025 Re:Imagine Brașov, Brașov Museum of Art, Brașov, Romania
Gentle Cohesion II, Go Art Projects, Fantom Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Gentle Cohesion I, Ice House Cellar Gallery, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia, Romania
Art Circle 40x40, Art Circle International Arts Festival, Peace Memorial at Cerje, Miren-Kras, Slovenia
National Contemporary Art Salon 2025, The Senate Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Small Planet, Mielul Alb (White Lamb) Gallery, Sibiu, Romania
International Art Exhibition and Competition, Berryboy Art Gallery, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Poland
Creative Sustainability Week, Galateca Gallery / Neo Art, National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest
Nature / Everyday Life, Gallery Studio 76, Bucharest, Romania
2024 National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), Bucharest, Romania
Empower Her Art Forum 2024, Artoday, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo, Egypt
All Around the Gate, ETAJ artist-run space, QiPO Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
UnderStanding Art, Go Art Projects artist-run space, Corbeanca, Romania
All About Love, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2023 National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), Bucharest, Romania
2022 Romanian Art Now, Embassy of Romania to Belgium, EuroFest Cultura, Brussels, Belgium
2021 National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), The Institute, Bucharest, Romania
Watercolor Biennial, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020 National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), Bucharest, Romania
Art Safari 2020, Bucharest, Romania
International Contemporary Art Biennial “Nicolae Tonitza”, 3rd edition, “Vasile Pârvan” Museum, Bârlad, Romania
Biennial Fine Arts Competition “Gheorghe Petrașcu”, 15th edition, National Museum “Curtea Domnească”, Târgoviște, RO
ART100, Consular Section of the Romanian Embassy, EuRoFestCultura 2020, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Inner Lab, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Young Graphic Art – The Art Supermarket, Neo Studio, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Ibn Battuta – A Border Crossing Dream – Living Units, Museum of Amazigh Culture, Agadir, Morocco
Here–There, Dialogue, Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest, Romania
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, Romania
2018 Azulejo, Envisaged by Romanian Artists, ICR Lisbon & Quinta da Cruz Museum, Viseu, Portugal
Azulejo: O Desafio Romeno, Quinta da Cruz Museum, Viseu, Portugal
National Contemporary Art Salon (SNAC), National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
Moldovan Salons 2018, Alfa Gallery / “Iulian Antonescu” Museum, Bacău, Romania & “Constantin Brâncuși” Exhibition Center,
Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Art100 – Together in Europe, Galateca, Bucharest, Romania & Atelierhaus Aachen, Germany
59.99 Barriers Were Swinging on a Cobweb, Go Art Projects Pop-Up, Bucharest, Romania
Young Graphic Art, Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Centenart, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia & Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania
Art at the Entrance, Ariel Theater, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
Leipziger Buchmesse 2018, Leipzig, Germany — presentation of the exhibition catalogue Rhinoceritis (C&N Verlag, Berlin; text by
Ruxandra Demetrescu)
2017 Young Artists Annual Exhibition 2017, Mogoșoaia Palace, Romania
Painting Salon 2017, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
We Contemporary 2017, Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome, Italy & Spivakovska ART:EGO Culture Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Artists' Union Painting Exhibition, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Art at the Entrance, Ioanid International Kindergarten, Bucharest Street Art Festival, Romania
Woman's Essence, Musa International Art Space, Espace Commines, Paris, France
Arta printre blocuri, “Alexandru Marghiloman” Cultural Center, Buzău, Romania
2016 Gheorghe Petrașcu Biennale, 13th edition, Museum of Art, Târgoviște, Romania
Diploma 2016, Știrbei Palace, Bucharest, Romania
WALLS, Go Art Projects & Fantom Berlin, Go Contemporary Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Arts in Bucharest, Centrul Artelor Vizuale, Bucharest, Romania
BFA and MFA Painting Graduates, National University of Arts Bucharest, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
In Pursuit of the Present, Centrul Artelor Vizuale, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Dark Matter, Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
X Florence Biennale – Art and the Polis, Florence, Italy
Tendencies in Contemporary Romanian Painting, Embassy of Romania, Berlin, Germany
International Biennial of Painting Chișinău 2015, Brâncuși Hall, Palace of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania & Chișinău, Moldova
Saloanele Moldovei, 25th edition, Bacău, Romania – Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
comma (painting), Go Art Projects, Carpați Shopping Center, Sinaia, Romania
point (painting and object), Go Art Projects, Trivale Shopping Center, Pitești, Romania
UNARTE Painting 2015, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Diploma 2014 – The Most Interesting Graduate Artists of 2014 in Romania, The Institute, Știrbei Palace, Bucharest, Romania
Metha-lan, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Tranzitiv.08, BA and MA graduates, Class of Petru Lucaci, National University of Arts, Make a Point Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Painting Department Graduates, Class of 2014, National University of Arts, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
UNArte 150 Years – Painting, Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
His Body – Our Inspiration, UNA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
In (Finity) We Trust, UNA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
RESIDENCIES & INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES
2026 International Visual Arts and Photography Workshop 2026, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand
2026 RSS 16th International Creative Arts Workshop and Exhibition, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Rajamangala University of
Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT), Pathum Thani, Thailand
2026 Chitrashaala 2026 – international art residency, conference/artist talk and exhibition, jüSTa Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand, India
2025 Chitrashaala 2025 – artistic residency, conference/artist talk and exhibition, Justa Rasa, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
2024 Art Circle International Visual Arts Festival – artistic residency, Vitovlje, Slovenia — supported by ICR
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Over 30 curated solo and group exhibitions under Go Art Projects and Go Contemporary, as well as exhibitions for young artists within the Go Art Kids programme. Selected projects:
2026 Architecture of the Unseen (upcoming) – international contemporary art group exhibition, Go Art Projects, hosted by the
Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia. Main curator & participating artist; approx. 60 established artists from 12 countries.
2026 Gentle Cohesion (upcoming) – Go Art Projects & Easel & Camera Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Main curator and participating artist; 20+
artists from 15+ countries.
2026 I Wonder Where the Grass Grows Greener (Romania – Poland) – co-curator and artist; 10 Romanian and 10 Polish artists, The
Institute, Bucharest & Neon Gallery, Wrocław. Partners: Go Art Projects, UNArte Bucharest, UAP, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of
Art and Design, Wrocław.
2026 Gentle Cohesion III – Go Art Projects, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria
2025 Gentle Cohesion II – Go Art Projects, Fantom Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2025 Gentle Cohesion I – international exhibition (19 artists ,15 countries), Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia, Romania
2024 UnderStanding Art – Go Art Projects, Corbeanca, Romania
2024 State of Play – Go Art Projects, Corbeanca, Romania
2018 59.99 Barriers Swinging on a Cobweb – Go Art Projects Pop-Up, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Professor–Student series – Go Art Projects, Bucharest, Romania
2015 Several curated solo exhibitions at Go Contemporary, Bucharest, Romania
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2018 Mihail Grecu Prize, Union of Artists of the Republic of Moldova, “Moldovan Salons”
2017 Woman ART Award, Woman's Essence Show, Musa International Art Space, Paris, France
2017 Member of the International Selection Committee, Florence Biennale, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Rhinoceritis – exhibition catalogue, C&N Verlag, Berlin. Text by Ruxandra Demetrescu. Presented at Leipziger Buchmesse 2018.