Gabriela Vanga (b. 1977, Romania) lives and works in Paris and Târgu-Mureș, Romania.
Gabriela Vanga studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, Romania, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nantes, France, graduating in 2002. She was invited to participate at Le Pavillon / Palais de Tokyo, laboratoire de création, Paris, in 2002-2003.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Cosmic strings, Camera K’ARTE, Targu-Mures (2023); On Blind Faith, Plan B, Berlin (2010); Still from an infinite movie, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2007); Every word I tell you keeps me alive, Plan B, Cluj (2006); m e s b n p e n u l o i s o d, Galerie Public, Paris, FRKeep it unreal, Miss China, Paris (2004).
Selected group exhibitions include: My hand is your spoon. It feeds you, curated by Mircea Cantor, International Center for Contemporary Art – Turkish Bath, Iasi (2025); Playground Control, Plastic, Cluj-Napoca (2024); Looking Anew and Beyond, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke (2023); Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris (2019); DOUBLE HEADS MATCHES. A selection of contemporary artworks from four Romanian private collections, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest (2018); BERLIN SHOW #4: Inventory, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2016); Apperance and Essence, ArtEncounters 1st edition, curated by Rainald Schumacher & Nathalie Hoyos, Timisoara (2015); Cluj Connection 3D, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2015).
Text courtesy Galeria Plan B.

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