Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu

The personal exhibition “SEMPER FIDELIS”: Cristina Georgescu and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu at the Romană Art Gallery from Bucharest

The National Salon of Contemporary Art (SNAC) - 2023: "Beyond us" exhibition

Muzeul Satului Dimitrie Gusti, Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest, Romania

I had the pleasure of being a selected artist, for the fifth time, more precisely in all editions so far, after SNAC 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 editions. My selected artwork at the National Salon of Contemporary Art - SNAC 2023: CREED, acrylics on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2023, author: Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu©, full member of the  Visual Artists’ Union from Romania - AFAPRR branch.

The National Salon of Contemporary Art is the biggest artistic event in Romania, organized by the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania.

In the "Beyond us" exhibition, within SNAC 2023, at the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti"  from Bucharest, the "Gheorghe Focșa" hall, my art work was exhibited together with the works of 16 other colleagues from various branches. The opening of the exhibition was on Thursday, November 2, 2023. Curator of the exhibition: Luiza Barcan, SNAC general curator: Ruxandra Dreptu. 

The National Salon of Contemporary Art - 2023 took place between October 15 and November 15, 2023. The theme of the Salon was "Survivals", being proposed by the team of curators, led by art critic Ruxandra Dreptu. 

Poster of the National Salon of Contemporary Art (SNAC) - 2023: "Beyond us" exhibition

Guild Festival 2023 at the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" from Bucharest

Muzeul Satului Dimitrie Gusti, Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest, Romania

Note: I participate at the exhibition with an art work: "And GOD made Light", 50x60 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023. 

Association Branch of Religious Plastic Arts and Restoration : AFAPRR of UAP from Romania: Romanian Fine Arts Union, in partnership with the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" was pleased to announce that, on the cymas of the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" is hosted the Guild Festival 2022, with the occasion of the celebration of their patron and protector , Saint Apostle and Evangelist LUKE, between October 18 and November 18, 2023. 

The personal exhibition of painting and drawing "SEMPER FIDELIS" at the “Ion Andreescu” Galleries from Buzău

Buzău, Romania

Collage: curator, prof. PhD. Valeriu Șușnea, the President of the Buzău territorial branch of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, together with the artists Cristina Georgescu and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, titular members of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, at the  "Ion Andreescu" Art Galleries from Buzău, October 7, 2023 

The personal painting and drawing exhibition "SEMPER FIDELIS" was on tour at  Buzău. The art works are signed by Cristina Georgescu&Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, titular members of  the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania. From October 7 until October 30, 2023,  the  exhibition was visited at the “Ion Andreescu” Galleries from Buzău. Curator: prof. PhD.  Valeriu Șușnea, the President of the Buzău territorial branch of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, who presented on October 7, 2023, also the artistic approach. The personal painting and drawing exhibition "SEMPER FIDELIS" is a project started on August 1, 2023, at the Romana Gallery, the most important private art gallery from Bucharest. 

Poster of the "SEMPER FIDELIS" painting and drawing exhibition at the “Ion Andreescu” Galleries from Buzău.  

Collage: the atmosphere at the opening of the personal exhibition of painting and drawing "SEMPER FIDELIS", at the "Ion Andreescu" galleries (floor) from Buzău, October 7, 2023

,,Mysteriously Light” collective exhibition(the third edition) at the National Museum of Romanian Literature

Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Calea Griviței, Bucharest, Romania

It is a project under the auspices of the HXA Art Gallery, where you saw art works made by a number of 19 artists, at the National Museum of Romanian Literature from Bucharest, Calea Griviței 64-66. Project manager and Curator of the exhibition: Ami Vasilescu. 

The exhibition was open at August 22 until September 8, 2023.

Note: I participated at the exhibition with a new art work from 2023. "Symbol", acrylics on cardboard, 42x30 cm. Author: Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu© 

I participated at the exhibition as well as with 2 old Parchments, from 2001, tempera, ink and golden foil on paper, 100x32 cm each: Iconographer Prayer to the Our Lady MOTHER of GOD and The sticherons from the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the celebration of the victory of the icons against the Iconoclasm. Author: Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu ©

The personal exhibition of painting and drawing “SEMPER FIDELIS”: Cristina Georgescu and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu at the Romană Art Gallery from Bucharest

Galeria Romana, E60, București, Romania

The Romana Art Gallery and the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania  had the pleasure of inviting you to the personal painting and drawing exhibition "SEMPER FIDELIS". The opening took place on August 1, 2023. 

The artworks are signed by Cristina Georgescu and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu.

The artistic approach was presented by Mariana Dragu, Art Historian. 

Cristina Georgescu and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu participated at numerous National and International exhibitions over the years, and in September 2019 they had their first personal exhibition together, called “Interferences”, at The Sabion Galleries from Bucharest.

The two exhibiting artists participated with selected art works at  The National Salon of Contemporary Art-SNAC, the most important annual event organized by the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, as follows: Cristina Mariana Georgescu at SNAC 2020, 2021, 2022, Religious Art Section, respectively Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu at SNAC Centenary 2018 at The Decorative Arts Section, SNAC 2020, 2021, 2022, Religious Art Section. 

 The "SEMPER FIDELIS" painting and drawing exhibition  could be visited between August 1 and August 21, 2023, at the most important private art gallery in Bucharest: Romana Art Gallery, Bd. Lascăr Catargiu no. 1.

"Contemporary Landscape": the collective exhibition at the Center for Visual Arts (C.A.V.)& Caminul Artei gallery from Bucharest

Caminul Artei, Strada Biserica Enei, Bucharest, Romania

Between September 18-28, 2023, the collective exhibition "Contemporary Landscape" took place at the Center for Visual Arts: the Home of Art gallery (ground floor and first floor), an event under the auspices of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania. Gallery address: 16 Biserica Enei str. , Bucharest.

Curators: Marius Frațilă, Ilie Chioibaș. The artistic approach was presented by Amelia Dincă, art critic.

I participated at the exhibition with two selected artwork: GAME I and II, acrylic on canvas, 30X40 cm, 2023

Afaprr ANNUAL Religious Art And Restoration 2023

"Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum, Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest, Romania

Afaprr ANNUAL Religious Art And Restoration 2023 

AFAPRR Annual Religious Art and Restoration 2023 was hosted at the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" in Bucharest, during the period April 9 – May 5, 2023. I participated at the exhibition AFAPRR Annual Religious Art and Restoration 2023 with one selected artwork: "Support", mixed media on canvas, 31x28 cm, 2023. 

The art exhibition “Fusion Arts – Art is love” at the Noblesse Palace from Bucharest

Noblesse Palace, Strada Sfinților, Bucharest, Romania

With a powerful central theme, the art exhibition “Fusion Arts – Art is love” aims to bring together 15 young talented Romanian artists, in the impressive setting of the Noblesse Palace. The event will take place on 2nd March, from 6:30 PM.

The theme chosen for this event is a challenging one, love, highlighting the power of this feeling through our lives. Each artist has prepared a representative selection of artworks that will illustrate how the feeling of love can be conveyed through art.
The 15 young Romanian artists exhibiting in this exhibition have chosen to approach the subject in a unique and personal way. These 15 young artists are: Marius Burhan, Dorina Cioplea-Văduva, Lavinia Falcan, Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, Bianca Paraschiv, Teodora Vasilescu, Diana Savopol, Oana Bîrsan, Ingrid G., Dana Simion, Florin Zhu, Florentina Maria Popescu, Ersin Bactisa, Dragoș Neagoe and Cristina Georgescu, chose to approach the subject in a unique and personal way.
 Each artist will present their own expressive images in vibrant colors and unexpected shapes that will evoke a wide range of emotions in the audience’s soul. Each work will be a unique expression of how the artist perceived love, thus giving the public the opportunity to enjoy an incredible diversity of art.

The Noblesse Palace is the perfect venue for this exhibition as it perfectly matches these unique works of art through its grandeur. Located in the center of Bucharest, with remarkable architecture and a story that has been told since 1881, Noblesse Palace is often the host of high-class events and art exhibitions.

Note: I participated at the exhibition with 6 selected art works.

Cultural Routes: “Contemporary Art from Romania” (the 4th edition) at the Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex

Complexul Muzeal Bistriţa-Năsăud, Bulevardul General Grigore Bălan, Bistrița, Romania

At the Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex was open at January 31, 2023, the international visual arts exhibition APCOR - Contemporary Plastic Art from Romania, entitled "CULTURAL ROUTES".

At the opening they presented: Alexandru Gavrilaș, manager and Vasile Duda, art historian.

Curators of the event: Ana-Maria Ami Vasilescu and Alina Ilia Sabo.

The cultural project "Contemporary Visual Art from Romania", initiated by Ami Vasilescu through the HXA Art Gallery, promotes contemporary art and Romanian artists, reaching its 4th edition. In the first three editions, itinerant exhibitions were organized, hosted on the premises of some famous museums and art galleries.

Works by Valeriu Șușnea (at the right) and Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, members of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania. Source: Bistrita-Nasaud Museum Complex, opening, February 1, 2023. My Yin and Yang works are from 2022, acrylic on cardboard. Yin is often symbolized by water and earth, while Yang is symbolized by fire and wind.

The National Salon of Contemporary Art (SNAC) - 2022: Religious Art section

Muzeul Național al Satului "Dimitrie Gusti", Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest, Romania

The National Salon of Contemporary Art is the biggest artistic event in Romania, organized by the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania. The Visual Artists’ Union from Romania organized, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, the National Salon of Contemporary Art-SNAC 2022. The SNAC 2022 sections were: decorative arts, religious art, graphics, textile miniature, multimedia, painting, sculpture. Event poster for all SNAC 2022 sections and for religious art section.

The works of the religious art section from the National Salon of Contemporary Art @ SNAC 2022 were exhibited at the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti", Glass Hall gallery, between November 1 and December 5, 2022.

I had the pleasure to be a selected artist, for the fourth time, after the 2018, 2020, and 2021 SNAC editions. My selected artwork was: "CLARITY", acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm, 2022, author Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu©

The work was constructed with a limited range of warm/cold colors, being a symbolic representation of the conversion to Christianity of the Holy Emperor Constantine the Great, following the wonderful appearance of the sign of the Holy Cross in the sky, before the battle of Pons Milvius, in October 312 AD.

"Ion Andreescu" International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Buzău

Galeriile de Arta Buzau, Bulevardul Nicolae Bălcescu, Buzău, Romania

On October 15, 2022, the "Ion Andreescu" International Biennial of Contemporary Art opened in Buzău, the 13th edition, "with artists selected from 42 countries, being one of the best biennials so far. The jury of had the difficult task of first nominating and then selecting the awardees from among the nominees.", a fragment of the statement of Mr. Valeriu Șușnea, the project coordinator, the President of the Buzău territorial branch of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania.

The works selected from those that were nominated by the jury of the Biennial were awarded. The public can admire the selected, nominated and awarded works of art until November 30, 2022, at the "Ion Andreescu" Art Galleries, Nicolae Bălcescu bld.no. 37, Buzău. The 2022 edition of the "Ion Andreescu" Biennial is attended by an impressive number of contemporary artists from the whole country and abroad, with 228 paintings, 60 graphic works, 19 sculpture works, 35 art works on display decorative and 4 photography works, and in each section there were works nominated for the prizes: 23 at painting, 11 at graphics, 9 at sculpture, 8 at decorative art and 2 at photography. Because the number of works is large, the Buzău County Center for Culture and Art made available, during the Biennial, its own exhibition hall. Award-winning artists from the past editions participated as guests.

Intell News Romania in English(media partner), October 28, 2022, by Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu©, artist participating at the Biennial and representative of media partners, including Intell News

Note: the media partners Intell News/ Editor-in-Chief Laurențiu Nedianu and Ultima Oră newspaper/ General Director Teodora Marin received diplomas of excellence from the organizers and from the jury for the promotion of the Biennial, as well as me as a cultural journalist, representative of the two media bodies, and as artist my work selected at the Biennial was nominated for a prize at the painting section.

My artwork nominated at the painting section: "Quiet", mixed media on canvas, 30/40 cm, 2022, author Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu©

Guild Festival 2022 at the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" from Bucharest

Muzeul Satului Dimitrie Gusti, Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest, Romania

Association Branch of Religious Plastic Arts and Restoration : AFAPRR of UAP from Romania: Romanian Fine Arts Union, in partnership with the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" was pleased to announce that, on the cymas of the National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" is hosted the Guild Festival 2022, with the occasion of the celebration of their patron and protector , Saint Apostle and Evangelist LUKE, between October 18 and November 18, 2022. 

Note: I participate at the exhibition with an art work: "Certitude", acrylics on cardboard, 30×40 cm, 2022.

The Hărman International Art Symposium -25th anniversary edition, July 2022

Hărman, Romania

Collage: Poster of the Hărman International Art Symposium, the 25th anniversary edition and Amfitryon Art Galleries from Hărman. 

The Hărman International Art Symposium -25th anniversary edition, July 2022

The Hărman International Art Symposium is a special cultural event, dedicated to the contemporary plastic art, which took place between July 15-24, 2022, curator of the event: Mr. lawyer Nicolae Ioan Vrâncean. At this 25th anniversary edition, 45 visual artists, most of them members of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, were present with their art works, on the Amfitryon Art Galleries from Hărman, organized in two series, during the mentioned period. During the Symposium, was also the presentation of the visual arts and culture Magazine, named Vector AVV, no. 3/2022, founding director Mr. lawyer Vrâncean, coordinating editor Gheorghe Pogan. 

Collage: the covers of the visual arts and culture Magazine Vector AVV, no. 3/2022; in the middle, management of the magazine: founding director Mr. lawyer Vrâncean, coordinating editor Gheorghe Pogan, also Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, artist participating in the symposium, collaborator of the magazine and representative of media partners.

Nicolae Ioan Vrâncean's collection gathers around 1500 works, signed by representative contemporary artists from Romania. The lawyer Nicolae Ioan Vrâncean has been organizing creative symposiums in Hărman commune, Brașov county, since the beginning of the 2000s, and since then his collection has been exhibited in the big cities of Romania. Important contemporary painters, from the country and abroad, became permanent presences at the annual symposium, known as the "Hărman Phenomenon", and in 2020, the Amfitryon Art Galleries from Hărman were opened, with great financial efforts, in the first year of the pandemic. This event from this year precedes the National Gala of the Awards of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, which will also take place in Hărman, on September 3, 2022.

Collage: "Introspection I, II, III", technique: acrylics on cardboard, 50x40 cm, 2022, author: Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu. The 3 works are part of the Vrâncean collection. On the grounds of the Amfitryon Galleries in Hărman, where the works of the artists from the first series were presented, from the 45 artists selected for the International Art Symposium, 25th anniversary edition, July 15-24, 2022, curator: Mr. Lawyer Nicolae Ioan Vrâncean. Note: The small sculpture on the plinths is signed by fellow sculptor Nemes Andras Csaba.

Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu at the Hărman International Art Symposium, July 2022, curator: Mr. Lawyer Nicolae Ioan Vrâncean. Producer: Dan Străuți, source: La pas prin Brasov. https://youtu.be/lwuhvPfVqbg

The Catalogue of the „Contemporary art from Romania”(the 3rd edition)

Muzeul Județean Ialomița, Bulevardul Matei Basarab, Slobozia, Romania

The Catalogue of the „Contemporary art from Romania”(the 3rd edition) was launched at the History Museum in Slobozia(Muzeul Județean Ialomița), July 7, 2022. My artwork ,,Fantasy", acrylics on cardboard, 50×40 cm, 2020, is on page 17 of the catalog. 

The first edition of Marathon Art- "Open Horizons" exhibition

Cernica, Romania

The first edition of Marathon Art in Cernica. 33 professional artists participated, members of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, from Bucharest and territorial branches. Period: April 29 - May 6, 2022. Vernissage April 30, "Open Horizons" exhibition. I participated at the exhibition with an art work: "Abyss", mixed media on cardboard, 40x30 cm, 2020.

„Contemporary art from Romania”(the 3rd edition) at the History Museum in Slobozia

Muzeul Județean Ialomița, Bulevardul Matei Basarab, Slobozia, Romania

At the History Museum in Slobozia(Muzeul Județean Ialomița), No.30, Matei Basarab Avenue,  was open at March 10, 2022, the traveling exhibition “Contemporary art from Romania”, the third edition, named ,,Genesis”  .  You can see art works made by 60 professional artists, most of them members of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, from the territorial branches, as well as from the branches from Bucharest. The exhibition can be visited from March 10 to April 10, 2022. Curator: Ami Vasilescu.

Note: I participate at the exhibition with an art work: ,,Fantasy", acrylics on cardboard, 50×40 cm, 2020.

The 23st edition of the National Small Plastic Art Salon

Uniunea Artiştilor Plastici Din România-Filiala Brăila, Piața Traian, Brăila, Romania

The 23st edition of the National Small Plastic Art Salon. The exhibition will be held at the Braila Art Galleries and 432 artists were selected. Project coordinator: scenographer Gheorghe  Mosorescu, the president of the Braila branch of the Romanian Visual Artists ’Union. The event will take place between February 26 to April 12, 2022. 

Note: I participate at the exhibition with an selected art work: "Time travel", collage / mixed media on cardboard, 40x30 cm, 2020. 

The Catalogue of the National Small Plastic Art Salon „Contemporary art from Romania”(the 23st edition). My artwork  "Time travel" is on page 60 of the catalog.

„Contemporary art from Romania”(the 3rd edition) at the Brăila Art gallery

Galeriile De Artă Brăila, Piața Traian, Brăila, Romania

At the Brăila Art gallery was open at February 1, 2022, the traveling exhibition “Contemporary art from Romania”, the third edition.  You can see art works made by professional artists, most of them members of the Visual Artists’ Union from Romania, from the territorial branches, as well as from the branches from Bucharest. The exhibition can be visited from January 26 to February 20, 2022. Curator: Ami Vasilescu.

Note: I participate at the exhibition with an art work: ,,Fantasy", acrylics on cardboard, 50×40 cm, 2020.