Maria Bordeanu was born in Bucharest in 1982 and she has got a MFA degree in Painting from UNARTE Bucharest since 2007. Her works focus on nature fragments and memories, with reconstructed elements of historical places. Maria has been represented...
Read MoreMaria Bordeanu was born in Bucharest in
1982 and she has got a MFA degree in Painting from UNARTE Bucharest since 2007.
Her works focus on nature fragments and memories, with
reconstructed elements of historical places. Maria has
been represented by 418 Gallery (Cetate / Munich) since 2011, collaborating for
several solo shows, international exhibitions and art fairs. She currently
lives and works in Stockholm, being a member of
SKF/Konstnärshuset and Konstnärernas Riksorganisation.
In 2021 her work was selected for the
London Art Biennale and in 2023 she was part of Arte Laguna Venice finalists
exhibition at Arsenale. The artist has taken part in several exhibitions in
Bucharest, Munich and Cetate, the art residency and contemporary sculpture park
domain of the Joana Grevers Foundation. In 2024 she represented Romania at the Durres
International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Albania with the installation
"Mirrors", which investigated the connection between art and
technology. Her work is part of the Contemporary Art Collection at the
Brukenthal National Art Museum in Sibiu, Romania, being shown in the group
exhibition “INVENTAR 24” in 2025.
Since 2022 Maria Bordeanu has continued her
artistic practice in Stockholm. She exhibited paintings and works on paper at
the "Konversationer" solo show in 2024, at Rumänska Kulturinstitutet.
Her personal exhibition focused on the dialogue between nature and the human
figure. In 2025 she was a fellow at the Villa San Michele art residency in
Capri, Italy. During her time at the residency, the artist worked with the unique
layers of history and art on the island, reinterpreting them and bringing
fragments closer to the contemporary viewer. Recent exhibitions in 2025 include
the group show “Konsten att vara/The Art of Being” at SKF Konstnärshuset in
Stockholm and “Light horizons” at 418 Gallery in Munich.
Maria
Bordeanu's artistic interests revolve around cinematic themes subtly infused
with elements of media culture, alongside dystopian elements and post-human
visual metaphors. Nature and memories are present in various of the artist's
series, investigating the dialogue between landscape and the human figure,
where the viewer is also drawn into the painting. By focusing and unfocusing
the elements on the canvas, Maria Bordeanu uses daily fragments of life that
seem both distant and so close and reshapes these memories in a way meant to
give them substance.
