Mihaela Barbu is a professional visual artist, with a Master degree of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Painting department.

She participated at groups art exhibitions organized by ICR Romania, the Union of Visual Artists in Romania, well-known galleries and museums in the country, as well as at two personal art exhibitions.

All her projects have a common denominator, namely “Alterations”. The perspective is doubled: alteration seen from the outside (corroded or rusty structures, objects, materials) but also from the inside, in the form of feelings or moods (pandemic moods, anti fragile). Most of the works are the result of field research, images resulting from photographs, computer processing and then transfer to canvas using acrylic paints and painting knives.

Through these themes, altered objects and altered feelings come to life, they tell a story that the viewer must reconstruct in a personal way. The effort to recover these images through painting is justified by the fact that it is still a warning about a dark future for humanity if it does not radically transform its lifestyle, but also offers a message of hope that all is not lost: art can transform something ugly and sad in everything they want to see and interpret the viewer’s eyes

    



Exhibitions

"Colored feelings" - individual exhibition, Serendipity, July 2015

"Spring Painting Salon" -  group exhibition, Elite Prof Art Gallery

"Color exercises in abstract", - individual exhibition, curator Mr. Emanuel Ghegu, Mogoșoaia Palace, August 2016

“Crossroads” - group exhibition, curator prof. Univ. Dr. Petru Lucaci, Caminul Artei, July 2018

„KAMA” - group exhibition, curators Mr. Valentin-Norbert Tarus and Alexandra David, Five Plus Gallery, Vienna, Austria, December 2018

"ALTERATIONS" - individual exhibition, the theme being the alteration of various structures and materials, curator Ms. Irina Cornișteanu, ICR Vienna, Austria, March 2019

Florence Biennale - Biennale Selection 2021

Coca Project – selection for Coca Project, Italy, 2021

Moldova Salons - group exhibition, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, September 2021 

Moldova Salons - ALfa Gallery, Bacău, Romania, October 2021

Blue Biennale - Adler Villa, Brașov, Romania, October 2021

National Salon of Contemporary Arts - Senat, Bucharest, Romania, November 2021

N. Tonitza Biennale - Sturza House Collections Museum, Bârlad, Romania, May 2022

Fusion Arts - Palatul Noblesse, Bucharest, România, September, 2022

OSTEN Biennial of Drawing - North Macedonia, September 2023

SNAC 2023 - Galeriile de Artă Ale Academiei Române 2023

Constanța Bienniale - Constanța Art Museum 2023