Meet the artist

Date and place of birth: 11th of May 1956, Bucharest, Romania

Education: 2009 National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, PhD in fine and decorative arts

1981 „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Dept. of Ceramics, Bucharest

1975 „N. Tonitza” Fine Arts High School, Bucharest
Membership: starting 1990 – Member of the Fine Arts Artists’ Union of Romania (UAP)
Experience:

2000 – present | University Professor with The National University of Fine Arts, Bucharest

2012 – present | curator for contemporary and decorative arts – Orizont and Galateea art galleries from Bucharest and The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre from Mogoșoaia

2009 – present | attendee of the scientific sessions organized by the National Unviersity of Fine Arts, Bucharest

2012 | coordinator of the scientific session Tradition and innovation in decorative arts – organized by the National Unviersity of Fine Arts, Bucharest, ISBN 978-606-8296-80-7

2014 | coordinator of the trilingual album Cristina Bolborea – Locuri unde voi fi / Lugares onde estarei / Places to be there (2006-2014), UNArte Publishing House, Bucharest, ISBN 978-606-720-012-6

Solo exhibitions:

2016 Places to be there, Museo de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Spania

2016 Places to be there, Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias “González Martí“, Valencia, Spania

2015 Places to be there/ Lugares onde estarei, guest artist at International Biennial Artistic Ceramics, Aveiro, Portugal

2015 Places to be there/ Lugares onde estarei, Museu Nacional Grao Vasco and Quinta da Cruz, Viseu, Portugal

2015 Places to be there/ Lugares onde estarei, Museu Nacional Machado de Castro, Coimbra, Portugal

2014 Places to be there/ Lugares onde estarei, Museu Nacional do Azulejo,
Lisbon, Portugal

Black Box Jewelry, The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogoșoaia

2012 Effigies, Simeza art gallery, Bucharest

2009 The Time, The Act Theatre, Bucharest

Carpet, UNA-gallery, Bucharest

2008 Static Life, The Act Theatre, Bucharest

2007 The Genuine Brilliant One, Galateea art gallery, Bucharest

2006 The Architect’s Technique, Galateea art gallery, Bucharest

1995 My Maps, Art House gallery, Bucharest

PhD thesis: The Ceramics Carpet in the Persian Tradition, Bucharest, UNARTE Printing House, 2010, ISBN 978-973-1922-78-2

Awards:

2015 The Romanian Artists Union – award for ceramics activity – for the year 2014

2013 The Honour Mention at the International Ceramics Biennale, Cluj, Romania

2012 The best object prize – Reappearance through design, National Peasant Museum, Bucharest, Romania

2011 The Salon Prize of The National Ceramics Salon „Costel Badea”, Constanța, Romania

Participation in group exhibitions (selection):

2015 Blouse Roumaine, Femme roumaine– Lisabon, Portugal; Arts in Bucharest – Orizont gallery, Bucharest; Romanian artists – International Ceramics Biennale, II edition – Cluj, Romania

2014 Drawing Pessoa. The Poet’s Masks – Fernando Pessoa Memorial House, Lisbon, and Femart-Nihil sine UNA dea , Visual Arts Centre, Ceramics rendez-vous II, Galateea, Bucharest; Art Safari, Bucharest

2013 International Ceramics Biennale, Ist edition – Cluj, Romania; Galateea Today, The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre; Ceramics – international exhibition, White’s Shadows, (In)formal Identities, Persona, The Drawing, an Opinion, a Bird – Galateea art gallery; Bases Salon of Arts, IVth edition – The Parliament Palace; The Glass Salon – Romanian Order of Architects, Bucharest

2012 Decorative Arts Biennale – Parliament Palace, Bucharest; Arts in Bucharest, IIIrd Edition, Visual Arts Centre; The National Decorative Arts Salon – Cotroceni National Museum, XIIth Edition; Reappearance through design National Peasant Museum; SmallCeraMics and Letter – Galateea art gallery, Bucharest; National Salon of Textile Miniature, Winter Salon – Orizont gallery; Rewritten historys – The Romanian National History Museum, Bucharest; The National Salon of Ceramics „Costel Badea”, IInd edition, Constanța, Romania 2011; West Meets East – Books for mind and soul – Constanța; West Meets East – A Cultural Book Exchange – Focșani

2011 Masters of Decorative arts – Privacy and mystery – The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogoșoaia; Ceramic Rendez-vous – Galateea art gallery – Glass Salon, Arts in Bucharest – IInd edition, Winter Salon – Orizont; West Meets East – A Cultural Book Exchange – UNAgallery, Small Salon – Art House gallery – Bucharest; The National Ceramics Salon „Costel Badea”, I edition Constanța; West Meets East – A Cultural Book Exchange, Iași, Romania

2010 The National Decorative Arts Salon – XIth edition, Cotroceni National Museum; West Meets East – A Cultural Book Exchange – UNAgallery –Bucharest

2009 Romanian Ceramics Today – The Brancovan Palaces Cultural Centre, Mogoșoaia

Works in:

Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisabon, Portugal; Memorial House Fernando Pessoa, Lisabon, Portugal; Museu Nacional Machado de Castro, Coimbra, Portugal; Museu Nacional Grao Vasco and Quinta da Cruz, Viseu, Portugal

Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania

Mobile: +40 733 77 13 55 / e-mail: cristinabolborea@yahoo.com; cristinabolborea@gmail.com