About me
Biography
Răzvan Neagoe has developed, for more than two decades, an artistic practice centered on photography, visual research, and archival processes, investigating how memory is inscribed into urban space and the materiality of the photographic image. His work operates at the intersection of analogue and experimental photography, installation, object-based practice, and artistic intervention, exploring the relationship between time, memory, and the transformation of the built environment.
His research focuses on the traces that time leaves on places, objects, and images. The city, industrial heritage, modern architecture, and constantly shifting urban landscapes constitute the starting point for a visual investigation in which photography functions both as a document and as a material object with its own physical presence. Film grain, dust, layered images, photographic interventions, and historical photographic processes become tools through which he examines the relationship between presence and absence, memory and oblivion.
Alongside his individual practice, Neagoe has initiated and developed collaborative platforms dedicated to the dialogue between contemporary art, photography, and community engagement. He is a co-founder of the artist collectives ECCO and focAR, and was a member of the STUP collective. These initiatives have contributed to the development of independent platforms for artistic research, collaboration, and public space interventions.
He has participated in international artist residencies and research programs, including City Switch (Lyon, France), Platform Istikshaf (Roubaix, France), Contemporary Art Residence – Reduta Centre (Brașov, Romania), and the Roberto Cimetta Fund programme for artistic mobility.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, photography fairs, and international biennials, including the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Urban Jealousy – The First International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair, and the International Photo Biennial Ostend. He has exhibited at museums, galleries, and art institutions across Romania, Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Spain, including the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Brașov Art Museum, Constanța Art Museum, the National Technical Museum “Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida”, Camera Gallery, 2/3 Gallery, ETAJ artist-run space, Ars Monitor Gallery, Diptych Art Space, Point Art Hub, and Non Artspace.
His recent projects—including Grain of Bucharest, Layers of Bucharest, Overlays, Depot / Magazia, and Sinegrafia—extend his ongoing investigation into photography as a site of memory and the image as a process of material sedimentation. Rather than representing reality, his work explores the ways in which it is transformed, archived, and preserved through time.
