Born (1981) in Brașov; lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
e-mail: info@lucianbran.ro
instagram: Lucian Bran
Lucian’s interdisciplinary approach to landscape photography uses cynicism and sentimentality to subvert the ideological constructions shaping how we see our place within the societal world. His trademarks are self-reflexive photographic series which focus on the medium’s contribution to the material culture of global and local geographical imagination. His photographic installations are sometimes accompanied by objects that supplement the aura of the work.
Education
| 2015 | MA in photography and dynamic imaging, Academy of Fine Arts Bucharest |
| 2009 | BA in photography and dynamic imaging, Academy of Fine Arts Bucharest |
Solo Shows
| 2024 | Promethean Fire, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, RO |
| 2021 | From Centuries Ago to Eons to Come, ElectroPutere Gallery, Craiova, RO, curator Adrian Bojenoiu |
| 2019 | Săgeată, floare, foc, Borderline Artspace, Iași, RO, curator Corina Ilea |
| 2015 | Borrowed Territories, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, RO, curator Matei Câlția |
| 2014 | Back to Wellhead, Museum of Municipal Engineering, Krakow Photomonth – Show OFF, Krakow, PL, curator Nicholas Grospierre |
| 2013 | Back to Wellhead, Lateral Art Space, Cluj, RO |
| 2013 | Back to Wellhead, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, RO, curator Matei Caltia |
Selected Group Shows
| 2024 | Your Water, Our Water, Delphi e.V – Freiburg, DE; aqb – Budapest, HU; U10 – Belgrade, RS |
| 2024 | Archeologies of the Not-Yet, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curator Laura Bivolaru; The Balcony, The Hague, NL, curator Abril Cisneros |
| 2024 | Edges of the Graph Paper, Zina Gallery, Cluj, RO, curator Flaviu Rogojan |
| 2023 | Promethean Fire, presentation at Artissima fair with Sandwich Gallery, Turin, IT |
| 2023 | The Multiple Nature of Time, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, SK, curator Cristina Moraru |
| 2023 | PULS 22, MNAC 2022 Art Aquisitions, MNAC, Bucharest, RO |
| 2023 | SEE WHAT, Photography in Romania after 2000, MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, RO, curator Michele Bressan, Ioana Iuna Serban |
| 2022 | Eyelid Noon, Iomo Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curator Horatiu Lipot |
| 2022 | Entwined Enviroments II, CAV Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curators Raluca Oancea, Andrei Mateescu |
| 2022 | Unlimited Visuality, Galeria Aparte, Iasi, RO, curator Adrian Bojenoiu |
| 2021 | On past tense and its possibilities, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curators Andrei Mateescu, Delia A. Prodan |
| 2021 | Re-Altering Reality, ElectroPutere Gallery, Craiova, RO, curator Cătălin Gheorghe |
| 2018 | Sanguinaccio Dolce: Kitchen for a despicable ruse, Atelier 35, Bucharest, RO, curator Carmen Casiuc |
| 2018 | Landschaft, die sich erinnert, MNAC, Bucharest, RO, curator Sandra Demetrescu, Eva Schmidt, Kai Vöckler |
| 2018 | Landschaft, Fotogalerie Wien, Wien, AT, curator Alexanda Manole |
| 2017 | On Words, Water and Things, Borderline Art Space, Iasi, RO, curator Raluca Nestor |
| 2017 | Being Mountains, Being Seas, Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, RO, Romania |
| 2016 | Space Is Not The Final Frontier, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO |
| 2016 | Events With No Cause, CAMERA PLUS Biennale, Iași, RO, curator Lavinia German |
| 2015 | Mulhouse 015 Biennale, Mulhouse, FR |
| 2013 | Liquid Moments, Donau-Universitat Krems, AT, curator Gerhard Gensch |
| 2012 | Resturi / Restul, Atelier 35, Bucharest, RO |
| 2011 | Archisle #1 Open Photography Exhibition, Societe Jersaise, Jersey, UK |
| 2010 | Mostra, UNA Gallery, Bucharest, RO, curator Cosmina Chituc |
Publications
| 2021 | Romanian Contemporary Art 2010 – 2020, Rethinking the Image of the World: Projects and Sketches, Ed. Adrian Bojenoiu, Cristian Nae, Published by Hatje Cantz |
| 2018 | Remembering Landscape, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Sint-Lukas Gallery Brussel & Snoeck, 2018 |
| 2016 | OPEN CALLS 2011 – 2016, Salonul de Proiecte |
| 2013 | ArchivoZine, Autumn Issue, no 6, Peripheries |
Awards & Residencies
| 2020 | ElectroPutere Gallery AIR programme |
| 2019 | Plat(t)form 2019, Fotomuseum Wintherthur |
| 2017 | Centrul pentru Fotografie Documentara Grants |
| 2016 | shortlisted for The New East Photo Prize, Calvert Foundation |
| 2016 | nominee for The Unseen ING Talent Award |
| 2012 | residency at Institutul Cultural Român, Paris |
| 2011 | 1st prize Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme |