About me

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

2003 Visual Arts Master Degree – National University of Arts Bucharest

collaborator with the Ars Monitor gallery

Since 2002 Member of Professional Artists Union from Romania

Artistic Groups

2019 – 2021 Member of the STUP Group

2006 – 2012 Member of focAR group

2006 – 2009 I LOVE BUCHAREST’ Public and Community Art Program

1999 – 2005 Co-Founder ECCO Group

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 “Sinegrafia”, Ars Monitor Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2023 “chairs_”, Camera gallery, with Claudia Retegan, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2023 “chairs_”, 2/3 Galeria, with Claudia Retegan, Bucharest, Romania

2023 “About Trees and Not Only”, with Dragos Burlacu, Gallery ETAJ Artist Run Space, Bucharest, Romania

2022 “A Mechanical Copy + Razvan Neagoe”, residency and exhibition, 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, Romania

2022 “Standing Point”, with Irina Dumitrașcu-Măgurean, Camera Gallery – Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2022 “Body Scale, Looking at the Camera”, curator Irina Dora Dumitrascu, Gallery Camera – Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2021 “Grain from Bucharest”, ETAJ Artist-Run Space Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2012 “About Houses, Life and Others…” parallel event at Bucharest Biennale 5, curator Petru Lucaci, focAR group, Victoria Art Center Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2011 “Je Passé / J’habite / Je Vis”, focAR group, Roger Tator Gallery, Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, Resonance Section, Lyon, France

2008 “Red Spot“, focAR group, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 “Table et Tableau”, Ars Monitor Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2024  Les Fleurs du mal, curator Nora Cupcencu, Constanta Art Museum, Constanta, Romania,

2024  “HuB Leonida: Live“, curator Alexandru Patatics, National Technical Museum “Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida”, Bucharest, Romania

2023 “Overlays II – Right Hemisphere: Something That Twists in the Air, and Disappears”, curator Horatiu Lipot, 2/3 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2023 “Reconnecting the City”, curators Roxana Lăpădat and Andreea Sandu, part of Neo Art CONNECT (NAC), Park Gallery, Timisoara, Romania

2023 “Threat to The Eye”, curator Ada Muntean, Indecis Artist Run Space Gallery, Timisoara, Romania

2022 “Studies for a Burning Silence”, curator Ada Muntean, Hangar – F Gallery, Alba Iulia, Romania

2021 “Reshaping the Land of the Man”, curator Ana Campean, online event, Romanian Cultural Institute Istanbul

2021 “Smash Cut”, curator Ada Muntean, ETAJ Artist-Run Space, Bucharest, Romania

2019 “Between Us”, curators Călin Petcana and Mălina Ionescu (STUP group), Calpe Gallery, Temporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Parallel Event ArtEncounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania

2010 “Erosion Biennial LA(O)ST IMAGE”, Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, curator Gytis Skudzinskas, Lithuania

2008 “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

2005 “On Difference #1 Local Contexts – Hybrid Spaces”, Curators Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

2003 “Docufiction Video-Projection – ‘Ion Mincu’ Institute of Architecture”, curator Alina Serban, Bucharest, Romania and Belgrade, Serbia

“Beyond Photography…Painting”, curator Aurora Kiraly, New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Residencies / Grants

2019 Contemporary Art Residence, curators Ana Campean and Joseph Cui, Reduta Centre, Brasov, Romania

2011 August – September: City Switch Project Art Residency in Lyon (focAR group)

2011 June: Platform Istikshaf – istic Mobility and Trans-Mediterranean Cooperation Grant, Roberto Cimetta Fund – Workshop, Roubaix, Lille, France (focAR group)

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

2003 March – April: Artist in Resident, Art Conquers the Street, with Fusion group, Marseille, France

Art Fairs

2023 Unseen Amsterdam, Photography Fair, Amsterdam, Netherland

2023 Mobu Bucharest International Art Fair, Romaero Baneasa, Bucharest, Romania

2000 Art Fair Book Fair Gaudeamus, Romexpo, Bucharest, Romania

2000 International Fair of Visual Arts, National Theatre Hall of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania