Marius Bejera, b. 1986 in Baia Mare (RO), lives and works in Lyon (FR).

Marius Bejera’s visual practice spans a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, installation, sculpture, and film. He grounds his work in cultural, social, and historical context, exploring the individual’s relationship to objects, symbols, and the environments they inhabit. His works are inspired by the complexities of growing up during the post-totalitarian transition in Romania, further shaped by his relocations to Denmark and France, respectively, where he currently resides. These experiences led him to explore themes of memory, vulnerability, and movement.

The search for constant movement inevitably leads him to interfere between different media, segmenting parts and inserting them into other pieces: from paintings with sewn parts that have been extracted from his abandoned canvases, drawings infiltrated over other drawings, to sculptures and installations containing stripes made from fragmented pieces and altered found objects. Throughout his work, we find fragility, reactions in gestures, intentional flaws that meet stark, and precise representations. The figures he portrays are molded by immersion in an altered space, a new space or environment, with partial objects and non-specific connections. In addition, certain objects and figures may never be complete, yet particular elements carry traces of the familiar, an echo of the past that resonates in the present.

Marius Bejera has presented his work in museums, galleries, and cultural centers. He held solo exhibitions at White Cuib (Cluj-Napoca) and Nano Gallery / Centrul de Interes (Cluj-Napoca), and his works have been included in group exhibitions at Friche Space / Centrul de Interes (Cluj-Napoca), VÆG Contemporary Art Gallery (Aalborg), and Museum of Art and Visual Culture (Odense).

Bejera also participated in a documented performance as part of an art project by Emily Ghazal (Enschede). He was selected for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists’ RBSA 2023 Drawing Prize and participated in the Luxembourg Art Prize, receiving a certificate of artistic achievement. His practice has been featured in Draxing Pox, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine, ISSUE 17, the Contemporary Drawing Publication by Catalina Nistor and Dan Beudean, and Suboart Magazine Nr. 50.

Education

2007-2010 University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Graphic Arts (BFA)

2007-2010 University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Department for Teacher Training

Solo Exhibitions

“Default Image” at White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2023.

“DemoGraphics – Rhythm and Flow” at Nano Gallery (Centrul de Interes), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2019.

Selected Group Exhibitions

“Why is there something and not nothing? at Friche Space (Centrul de Interes), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2021.

”Winter Selections” at VÆG-contemporary art gallery, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2015.

“Tattoo – From Maritime Heroes to World Art” at Brandts – Museum of Art and Visual Culture, Odense, Denmark, in 2014.