Răzvan Neagoe is a Romanian artist, member of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania. The artistic genres in which he expresses himself are: photography, painting, object, collage, performance, installation, landart and new media, developing projects with a social, architectural and recovery of classical works. In the early 2000s, he was part of the ECCO group as a founding member. Since 2006, he has been present with Alina Tudor – the focAR group – in several large-scale projects, and between 2019 and 2022 he was part of the STUP artistic community. During 2006-2009 he was involved in the public and community art projects I LOVE BUCHAREST. During the same period, together with Alina Tudor made several highlighting actions as Urban RED SPOT project or stART Dambovita. Since 2024 it has been in collaboration with the Ars Monitor gallery.
From 2020, every summer he creates an “art residency by himself” as a natural consequence of the feeling of limitation of freedom felt that year due to the pandemic. The changes produced in society, but especially by the pandemic, made this “return to the country” produce a real “revolution” towards escape. The project is not a return to time, but rather a recovery and fruition of what is left. From 2022 is the initiator of the photographic collaborative project “OVERLAYS“. “Overlays” starts from the premise of an experiment that has at its core the double exposure technique: a photographer is invited to “consume” a pre-set film, to send it on to another photographer, who will compositionally build over the exposed film with the latent images of the first. “Starting from the idea that photography is the meeting place of some concepts with reality, I thought of a series of dialogues / conversations between artists, guided by the photographic technique itself. This type of experiment offers a different perspective on one’s own themes and searches by juxtaposing with those of the other artists involved in the project, formulating in this way new visions on old themes or déjà explored by each until this moment. This can be the point where other concepts and other representations are born.”- Razvan Neagoe
1974 Bucharest (Romania)
lives and works Bucharest RO
Collaborator with the Ars Monitor gallery
EDUCATION
2002-2003 Visual Arts Master Degree – National University of Arts Bucharest
Since 2006 until present founding member of the focAR group (with Alina Tudor)
Between 2019-2021 member of the STUP group (Delia Calinescu, Ada Muntean, Dragos Neagoe)
Between 2006-2009 Involved in “I love Bucharest” Public and Community Art Program
Since 2002 Member of Professional Artists Union from Romania
Between 1999-2005 involved and fonder ECCO group
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Sinegrafia”, Ars Monitor gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator Silviu Padurariu
2023 “chairs_”, Camera galley, together with Claudia Retegan, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2023 “chairs_”, 2/3 Galeria, together with Claudia Retegan, Bucharest, Romania
2023 “About Trees and not only”, gallery ETAJ artist run space, together with Dragos Burlacu, Bucharest Romania
2022 “Standing Point”, Camera gallery – Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, with Irina Dumitrașcu-Măgurean
2022 Body Scale, looking at the camera, Gallery Camera – Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, curator Irina Dora Dumitrascu
2021 Grain from Bucharest, E T A J artist-run space gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020 I decided – video – within the project LOG OUT 2.0, E T A J artist-run space, Bucharest
2012 About Houses, life and others… parallel event at Bucharest Biennale 5, Victoria Art Center gallery Bucharest, curator Petru Lucaci (focAR group)
2011 Je passé / J’habite /Je vis. Résonance at the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (focAR group)
2011” Atention…” part of “Wind Protest” curator Vladimir US, Oberliht, Moldavia Republic (focAR group)
2010 White night galleries#4 UNA gallery with MOnuMENTS project Bucharest Romania curators Suzana Dan & Silvia Rogozea (focAR group)
2010 MOnuMENTS project at UNAgaleria gallery, Bucharest, Romania (focAR group)
2010 The Travellers Box Project in conjunction with MOnuMENTS project, Curators Lars Vilhelmsen and Karen Ay, London (focAR group)
2008 Red Spot, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant , Bucharest (focAR group)
2008 mObile gallery/TELEPHONE The bank of images – Public telephone – a side event to the INTERVENTIONS3* project, Oberliht association Moldavia Republic (focAR group)
2008 U.T. Global Warming at MORA gallery Bucharest Romania (focAR group)
2007 U.T.44, 26. Noise pollution at Galateea gallery Bucharest, Romania (focAR group)
2007 Red Spot )warming project), Dambovita River Bucharest, Romania (focAR group)
2007 Urban Traces. Urban Pollution, OLD Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (focAR group)
2007 Urban Traces Cupola gallery, Iasi, Romania (focAR group)
2007 There is a HOUSE upstairs in the block unconventional space apartment 23 Bucharest Romania (focAR group)
2007 Urban Traces, MORA Gallery, curator Cristiana Radu, Bucharest, Romania (focAR group)
2007 Focus, Galateea gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2006 ASEZareaTRECereaCERCul, in HUMAn symposium, Cucuteni, Iasi, Romania (focAR group)
2003 Game’s rules 35 Studio gallery, curator Alina Serban Bucharest, Romania
2002 Umbrella man unconventional space apartment 87 Bucharest, Romania
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Overlays III, E T A J artist-run space gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2024 The Future Is Uncertain but The End Is Always Near, Diptych Art Space gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator Ada Muntean
2024 Les Fleurs du mal, Constanta Art Museum, Constanta, Romania, curator Nora Cupcencu
2024 Table et Tableau, Ars Monitor gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator Silviu Padurariu
2024 HuB Leonida: Live, National Technical Museum “Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida”, curator Alexandru Patatics, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Overlays II – left hemisphere: the fear of radiation that egyptologists drag with them in each newly discovered grave, gallery E T A J artist-run space, curator Horatiu Lipot, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Overlays II – right hemisphere: something that twists in the air, and disappears, gallery 2/3, curator Horatiu Lipot, Bucharest, Romania
2023 SCAF – Sibiu Contemporary Art Festival, Blue House Piata Mare 5, project manager Alexandru Constantin Chituţă, Sibiu, Romania
2023 “Reconnecting the City”, Park Gallery in Timisoara, part of Neo Art CONNECT (NAC), curators Roxana Lăpădat and Andreea Sandu
2023 “Synthesis”, Ghica House, part of Neo Art CONNECT (NAC), curators Anca Boeriu and Andreea Sandu
2023 “Threat to The Eye”, Undecided Artist Run Space, curator Ada Muntean, Timisoara
2022 “OVERLAYS”, E.T.A.J. artist run space, Carol 53, Atelier 030202, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest
2022 Studies for a Burning Silence, Hangar – F gallery, Alba Iulia, curator Ada Muntean
2021 Reshaping the Land of the Man, online event, Romanian Cultural Institute Istanbul, curator Ana Campean
2021 Smash Cut, E T A J artist-run space, Bucharest, curator Ada Muntean
2020 Indoor Laboratory 2, CAV gallery Bucuresti, curators Beti Vervega si Ileana Stefanescu
2020 Breaking (Im)possibilities, The Multicultural Center of the Transylvania University in Brasov, Romania, curator Ada Muntean (STUP group)
2020 Koinonía #7, galeria Siilk, Atena, curator Daniel Peace
2019 Between us, Calpe Gallery, Temporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Parallel event ArtEncounters Biennial , Timișoara România, curators Călin Petcana and Mălina Ionescu (STUP group)
2014 URBAN solitary, Old Court Museum, curator Adina Niculae
2012 The beginning of the end, Simultan Festival #8, Citadel Synagogue, Timisoara Romania
2012 You Can’t save yourself by saving the world, that’s a mistake…sleeping beauty, Karlskaserne, östliche Stallungen, Ludwigsburg Germany curator Oana Vainer
2010 2nd Annual Terminal Short Video Festival, Austin Peay University, Clarksville, TN, SUA curator Barry Jones
2010 Venice Biennale 12th International Architecture Exhibition, participation in “SUPERBIA” project Pavilion Romania II – I.R.C.C.U. (New Gallery of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice), curators Aldea Silviu and Sisak Tamás – Superbia team, Italy
2009 Once upon a time Kurye International Video Archive, IMC5533 space, curators Kurye Video Organization and Marcus Graf, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 The 5th International Festival for video art and experimental film ATTITUDE, curator Biljana Petrovska Isijanin Centre for Contemporary Public Art Elementi, Macedonia
2008/2009 Urban-Jealousy – the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, 1st station Istanbul, Turkey; 2nd station Berlin, Germany, 3rd station Belgrade, Serbia curators Amirali Ghasemi and Serhat Koksal
2008 Bucharest metro Art-Art is watching you! Projects for decoration of the Underground station “Victory Square” Carturesti Library gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2008 Projectotheque Urban Artistic Laboratories (Action within the framework of the “Active/creative urban archives” project initiated by Banlieues d’Europ’est) coordinator Silvia Cazacu, Faculty of Arts and Design, Timisoara
2008 ART within: the Artist in the Workspace, screening Geborgen Kamers, Holland
Event-action performance for anonymity out of Dambovita River in partnership with the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” – an unconventional space, the hall, the “Red Spot” – Bucharest, RO Halelor zone, Bucharest, Romania (with Alina Tudor)
2006 Museum of Art Bistrita Nasaud- exhibition of the painting camp, organized by the Association of Concerts Foundation, 4th edition
2005 On Difference # 1 Local Contexts – Hybrid Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart Curators Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ, Germany (ECCO group)
2005 Museum of Art Bistrita Nasaud – exhibition of the painting camp organized by the Association of Concerts Foundation, 3rd edition
2004 Experimental Film festival – Florean Museum – with the films ” God it’s a DJ”, “teleVIZOR”, Baia Mare Romania
2004 Okuparte festival with the film “God it’s a DJ” Huesca, Spain
2004 Iridescent ECCO Marriott Hotel Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
2003 Docufiction video-projection – “Ion Mincu” Institute of Architecture Bucharest Romania and Belgrade Serbia curator Alina Serban
2003 Beyond photography…painting New gallery Bucharest, curator Aurora Kiraly
2003 Street art conquers with the French group “Fusion”, National Museum of Contemporary Art National Theatre floor ¾ Bucharest Romania
2003 Progress Art House – Visual Arts Center floor gallery, Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
2003 14 years in the wrong direction curator Alina Serban, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
2001 Cosmogonflabil Galla gallery, Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
2000 Unpack yourself apartment art, Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
1999 Black Light Galla Gallery, Bucharest Romania (ECCO group)
RESIDENCE/GRANT/FAIRS
2024 Mobu Bucharest International Art Fair, Romexpo, Central Pavilion, ALIAJ – Bucharest’s Artist Run Spaces Alliance, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Unseen Amsterdam. Photography Fair, Amsterdam, Olanda
2023 Mobu Bucharest International Art Fair, Romaero Baneasa, Bucharest
2019 Contemporary Art Residence, Reduta Centre, Brasov, curators Ana Campean and Joseph Cui
August 2011-September 2011 City Switch project art residency in Lyon (focAR group)
2011 Artistic Mobility and trans-Mediterranean cooperation Grant, Roberto Cimetta Fund
June 2011 Platform Istikshaf – Artistic Mobility and trans-Mediterranean cooperation – Workshop – Roubaix, France
2008 Alterity, creativity, diversity: Urban transformations and new cultural practices of neighborhoods in Europe – Encounters of European Suburbs, Urban Traces presentation with Architect Emil Burbea, Lyon, France;
March 2003 – April 2003 Artist-in-Resident Art conquers the street together with Fusion group (Karl Knapp, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Doze Green, etc) Project Marseille, France
BIOGRAPHY (selected):
DIANA Badea “Analog photography must become something more than a simple representation.” igloo.ro, March 15, 2024
MARIA Munteanu “I like the idea of a laboratory, for me it comes as a complement to the artistic direction I have been following for several years”, propagarta.ro, November 14, 2022
ILEANA Andrei “Everything that exists today can become a source of inspiration. And the disappearance of butterflies from big cities can become a subject, an idea, a workshop, a debate.” iqads.ro, November 11, 2022
ANA DANIELA Sultana “OVERLAYS, from the Night of the Galleries”, agentiadecarte.ro, September 30, 2022
SORINA Jecza “Periscope. ARHI-exhibition”, Cultural Observatory No. 1115, July 30, 2022 (observatorcultural.ro)
ANA Tepșanu “How can some artists take our eyes off the phone when we go by subway. The story of the art gallery from Izvor station ”life.hotnews.ro, November 27, 2021
ADA Muntean „Online/Offline” Arta magazine (online) mai 6, 2020
MOCANU Igor focAR group “File artist“, “ARTA” magazine no. 18, 2016
CARMEN Dobre “About Houses, life and others… “ARTA” magazine no. 6-7, 2012
PAVILION Catalogue of Bucharest Biennale 5 “Tactics for the here and now” page 202 2012 PLAMADEALA Mihai “A sasea Noapte a Galeriilor” Observator Cultural newspaper nr. 626 June 2012
DUMITRASCU Catinca “L’art Contemporain a la recontre de l’espace public” Le Petit Journal International de Lyon (special nr) nr.3 February-March 2012 page 41-42
RESONANCE catalog a side event to the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2011 page 138
BOOKLET ICR (Romanian Cultural Institute Paris) – september 2011
NADOLEANU Stela “Flash- Roll UPART” Timeout Bucharest no 58 29/02-6/03 2008
LAVRIC Tudor, “Exhibition threatened buildings in Bucharest”, Cronica Romana newspaper, nr.4769, 10 December 2008
MARINESCU Veronica, the “I love Bucharest” save the architectural heritage Bucharest, “Curierul National” newspaper, Anul 13, nr. 5315. Tuesday, 09 December 2008
SOARE Simona, “The patrimony got on the red Bucharest”, “Adevarul” newspaper, 28 November 2008
ROSCA Carola “Art for urban identity”, Timeout Bucharest magazine, nr.53, 25-31 ianuarie 2008
Catalogue, International Symposium “HUMAn”, Iasi, Romania 2008 page. 5-6
PULPA Oana, “Art in street”, Money Express nr68 (35), 8-09-2008
CRISTIANA Radu, “Art Telephone and Communication”, Timeout Bucharest magazine nr.84, 5-11 September 2008
MONICA Sebestyen “Red Spot”, Dambovita where to? The city and its river catalog, organized at Romanian Cultural Institute, page 75, 82, 88-89, Bucharest Romania 2008
LUCACI Cristina “Stars of HUMAn’s”, Iasi newspaper 22-08-2008
CRISTIANA Radu “U.T.” Financial newspaper Sunday newspaper, 8-02-2008
CRISTIANA Radu “Identities, trance and urban traces”, Altitudini newspaper, nr.17 (July 2007) and financial newspaper Sunday Newspaper, NR.2069 09.02.2007
Catalogue “I Love Bucharest” – Red Spot project Mora gallery, Bucharest, Romania 2007
CRISTIANA Radu “Intervention in public space” Timeout Bucharest, no.38 21 September. – 4 October. 2007
BAZAVAN Cristina “Our Exposition versus family”, “TABU” magazine photo Cosmin Bumbut – nr.58 may 2007
CRISTIANA Radu “Tradition and identity of the consumer society” Timeout Bucharest no 22, 26 January – 8 February 2007
