Alexandru Chira

Born 1947, in Tauseni, Romania. Died in 2011.

Education

1972Fine Art Institute, Painting Department, Bucharest, Romania
1968Fine Art Institute, Painting Department, Cluj, Romania

Teaching

1994-2009Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Bucharest National University of Arts, Bucharest
1976 - 1980Fine Art High School, Bucharest

Awards and grants

2004Commander in the Order of Cultural Merit awarded, Romanian Presidency
1999The Romanian Union of Fine Art (U.A.P.R.) Award for Painting
1996The Romanian Academy Award
1994 International Center for Contemporary Art Award for the first development stage of Tăuşeni Monumental Ensemble in Cluj County
1993The Romanian Union of Fine Art (U.A.P.R.) Award for Painting
1974The Romanian Union of Fine Art (U.A.P.R.) Scholarship for Painting

Selected solo exhibitions
2024 ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (forthcoming)
Gestural Temples, The Intermission, Athens

2023 Stereopoems, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

2018Alexandru Chira, Delmes & Zander at Independent NY, New York

2015Retrospektive, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest

1998Earth and Art, Romanian Museum of Agriculture, Slobozia
1993Inner De-sign, House of Culture, Bratislava, State Museum, Nitra
Inner De-sign, Cluj-Napoca Museum of Art

1984Romanian Cultural Center in New York

1983Bastion, Timisoara

1982Studies for an Exhibition, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

1980The Visual Arts Museum, Galaţi

1979Tauseni 124, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

1973Drawings-Design, Pictorial Poems, Parcel Poems, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest

1972Painting and Drawing, Kalinderu Gallery, Bucharest

Selected group exhibitions
2024 Coming Soon, Lafayette Anticipation, Paris
When The Star Roses Pour, curated by Venus Lau, HERmit Space, Beijing

2023 Curated by, Vienna, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna

2019Visionary Architecture, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Palácio Sinel de Cordes, Lisbon

2018Seeing History – 1947-2007. The Mnac Collection, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
LOST IN SPACE, Delmes & Zander at FIAC, Paris

2003Cultural Exchanges Romania-Japan, Metropolitan Art Gallery Pace, Tokyo

2000Bucharest Art Salon – ‘The Omen of Year 2000, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest

1999The Sacred in Art, The Palace of Parliament, Bucharest
Contemporary Romanian Painters, Romanian Cultural Center in Vienna

1998Macrotrans – representation, Mücsarnok Gallery, Budapest

1996Experiment, ArtExpo, Bucharest

1994010101, Romanian Peasant Musem in Bucharest

1993European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck

1990Philocalia, ArtExpo Gallery, Bucharest

1988Rumänische Malerei der Gegenwart, Berlin

1986The Mirror Space, The Institute of Architecture, Bucharest

1985Cagnes-sur-Mer International Festival

1985Mail art, Atelier 35, Bucharest

1984The Fireplace, The Village Museum, Bucharest

1983The Place – Act and Metaphor, The Village Museum, Bucharest

1982Geometry and Sensitivity, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu

1981The Sao Paolo Biennial Art Exhibition, Sao Paolo

1981Study II, Bastion Galleries, Timisoara

1980The Writing, Institute of Architecture, Bucharest

1979Photography and Experimental Movie, Caminul Artei, Bucharest

1978Study I, Bastion Galleries, Timisoara

1976The Art and the Nature, Galeria Noua, Bucharest

1975The Thing, the Image and the Sign, Galeria Noua, Bucharest

1974Juan Miro, Drawing Contest in Barcelona

1973Iconic Stances, Atelier 35, Bucharest

Land Art

1994 – 2004 The Monumental Ensemble ‘De-semne spre cer, pentru ploaie si curcubeu’ (‘De-signs towards the sky for the rain and the rainbow’), Tauseni – Cluj

2024 Alexandru Chira and the inhabitable artistic edifice, Contemporary Fine Arts