Marius Bodea

Marius Bodea’s recurring themes in his paintings are loneliness, existential isolation, anxiety, and nothingness. His paintings reveal the loss of meaning and identity in the contemporary world and the precarious condition of our times. 

Bodea's paintings are sober and intriguing, conveying strong emotions. The artist rarely uses pure colour, prefering a cold palette, which corresponds to the states and moods he is expressing in his paintings.

Born in 1986 in Dumbraveni, Marius Bodea lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. He studied painting at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, where he earned his bachelor and master's degree. Between 2008 and 2009 he received a scholarship at the Academy of Arts in Macerata (Italy). In 2020, he had the solo exhibition Into That Darkness at White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Other solo-exhibitions include The Loneliness of Glass, Galerie Mie Lefever, Belgium (2012) and Without Paper Noise, Chert, Berlin (2012). Marius Bodea's works were exhibited in several group exhibitions, such as Imaginea Pictură. Despre ieșirea în realitate at Quadro Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2018); Encrypted message, EBienale/First edition, București, Romania (2011) and Lavori in corso, Gallery la Grotte ABA MC Macerata, Italy (2009).