Victoria ZIDARU (b. 1956, Liteni, Suceava) sculptor and tapestry artist. In 1983 she graduated from the ”Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest, prof. Paul Vasilescu class. In 1984 she received the Scholarship for Creation offered by the Romanian Visual Artists' Union. She has attended at numerous individual and group exhibitions, symposiums and exhibitions of national and international art.
Education:
1978-1983 „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest
Awards and grants:
2011 - Residency (2 months, January – March), Dusseldorf, Germany
1984 - Scholarship for Creation granted by the Romanian Visual Artists' Union
Personal Exhibitions:
2016 - ”Said and sewed”, H'art Appendix Gallery, Bucharest, curator Alexandru Davidian
2014 - ”Angels, Thrones, Lords”, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia, curator Erwin Kessler
2011 - ”Living and working in Dusseldorf”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2010 - ”The dictatorship of flowers”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2008 - ”Seasons of Angels”, Pralong Gallery, Bucharest
2006 - ”Annunciation”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2005 - ”CO50D”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2004 - ”Seasons”, Anaid Gallery, Bucharest, curator Diana Dochia
2004 - ”My dream garden”, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
2000 - ”Romanian Interior Restoration”, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2000 - ”The ladder of angels”, 49 Gallery, New York
2000 - ”The ladder of angels”, Romanian Cultural Institute, New York
1999 - ”The Revival”, ”Dimitrie Gusti” National Museum, Bucharest, curator Magda Carneci
1998 - ”The Fire”, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Contemporary art room, (with Victoria Zidaru), curator Ruxandra Balaci
1998 - ”The Sign”, Constantin Brancusi Hall, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
1997 - ”The Dowry”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
1997 - ”The House”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
1996 - 1997 - ”The Story of Christmas”, Peles Castle, Sinaia
1996 - ”The Building”, J. L. Calderon Gallery, Bucharest
1995 - ”Resurrection”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
1991 - 1992 - ”The body-Temple of the Holy Spirit”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
Group Exhibitions:
2016 - ”Beyond the lines” with Ben Greber, Codruta Cernea Ion Barladeanu Hubert Hasler, Franziska Jyrch Kristin Wenzel, Gili Mocanu, Tanja Kodlin Peter Hoiß, ARCUB - Cultural Center of Bucharest, curator Kristin Wenzel and Dan Popescu
2014 - "Art and sacredness" National Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti", Bucharest, curator Alexandra Titu
2012 - "Horizon - Transplant - land-art installation" with Marian Zidaru, Senta Connert Ulrike Kessl Julia van Koolvijk, Palaces Cultural Center Brancovan
2011 - "Glory" Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
2011 - Bukarest - Dusseldorf, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Deutsch-Osteuropaisches Forum
2011 - „Bekannte Flugobjekte”, Meinersen, Germany
2011 - Studioausstellung, Franz-Jurgens-Str.12, Haus 3, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011 - Marian Zidaru & Gaste: Gucken Wir Mal/ Trans Plant, Atelier am Eck Dusseldorf curator Oliver Gather
2010 - ”L’echalier- Pârleazu”, Cloître des Biettes, Paris, curator Catalin Guguianu
2010 - ”Let’s take a look” - „gucken wir mal” (textile conversation) with Marian Zidaru, Senta Connert, Ulrike Kessl and Julia van Koolwijk, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
2010 - ”Gucken wir mal”, with Senta Connert, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia
2010 - ”Sacred inductions into Romanian contemporary sculpture”, Iasi, curator Corneliu Antim
2009 - „The Christian breaths”, Veroniki Art Gallery, Bucharest, curator Veronica Marinescu
2009 - ”Art and Sacredness”, Art Gallery, Focsani, curator Alexandra Titu
2009 - „The worker”, Strametz- Partner/Art, Bucharest, with Marian Zidaru and Anca Mureșan, curator Erwin Kessler
2009 - ”Terra d’incontri-Mitologie Soggettive” - ”Rocca Paolina”, Perugia, (with Mircea Roman, Sorin Ilfoveanu, Marian Zidaru, Gheorghe I. Anghel, Adrian Ilfoveanu, Ioan Iacob), curator Doina Mândru
2009 - ”Romanian Contemporary Artists “, 2R Art Gallery, London, curator Gavril Țărmure
2007 - ”Seasons of Angels”, H O Gallery, Korea
2007 - ”Etno Art”, I.C.R. Paris Gallery, France
1998 - ”Object-Subject”, Special Guests: Ion Bițan, Ion Nicodim, Doru Covrig, Romanian Museum of Literature, Bucharest
1997 - ”Bucharest nach ‘89 Ludwig Forum”, Germany
1996 - ”Experiment in Romanian Art after 1960 ”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Artexpo, ¾ floor, curator Alexandra Titu
1993 – Group Exhibition, Villa Waldberta Feldafing, Germany
1987 - ”The International Youth Art”, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
