MARIETA CHIRULESCU

Marieta Chirulescu is known for her abstract works that explore the processes of reproduction, erasure, and the instability of the image through various media, including painting, digital manipulation, and printmaking. While other artists of her generation create their works digitally, exposing them to digital production processes to give room to the poetics of chance, Marieta Chirulescu’s works incorporate digital images as extrinsic references. The artist is using the content and illusionism of each technique – inkjet, laser print, photo copy, and oil on canvas, sometimes combined, sometimes used exclusively – to create highly abstract but not metaphysical works, still carrying information: They are not void of the world they are aiming to represent, not exegesis of their own modes of becoming.

While keeping each techniques references Chirulescu is opposing painting’s core problem, its flatness, through layering. She is driving the process of flattening the perspective and realistic imitation of the medium to its final stage of an autonomous form, leaving a high grade of abstraction without denying their ability to represent. It is the space between these layers where the intrinsic capacity of Chirulescu’s works becomes visible in multiple dimensions.

Solo exhibitions include: Private Life (with Ana Botezatu), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw(2025); They Said So, Galeria Fonti, Napoli (2023); Gregor Podnar, Berlin (2021); Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2020); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Pale Fire, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2016); CYTWOMBLY CYFONTI, Galeria Fonti, Napoli (2016); Kunsthalle Lingen (2014); Ileana, Micky Schubert, Berlin (2013); White Cube Bermondsey, London (2011); Kunstverein Nürnberg (2011); Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg (2011);Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2010); Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (2009); Projektraum der Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin, (2009).

Group exhibitions include: Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales, 6th Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara (2025); Pictorial Resonance, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2024); Sediments. The Matter-Image, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2023); Volume through Layers, curated by Ciprian Muresan, ‘U’ Baracks, Timisoara (2023); todos juntos (all together), Kurimanzutto, New York (2022); Parthenope, Lighea ed altre storie..., Villa Doria d’Angri, Naples (2021); Intermezzo Strumentale, Galeria Fonti, Naples (2020); Local Talent, curated by Thomas Demand, Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2020); Marieta Chirulescu & Thu van Tran, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris (2017); THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2017); #12 / Folies d’hiver, Villa Medici, Rome (2017); Präsentation 2015 Villa Massimo, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016); Image Support, Bergen Kunsthall Bergen (2016); Mapping Bucharest. Art, Memory, and Revolution (1916 - 2016), Vienna Biennale, MAK Vienna (2015); Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien (2014); Space, Space, curated by Dora Maurer, Museum Vasarely, Budapest (2014); Painting Forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); Nur was möglich ist, ist möglich, Museum Folkwang, Essen (2014); Les ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d’art Contemporain, Rennes (2012); Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2012); Made In Germany Zwei, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2012); La preuve concrète, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg (2009); Against Interpretation, Studio Voltaire, London (2009); Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2009); kettö/zwei, Goethe Institut, Budapest (2002).

Text courtesy Galeria Plan B.