works
exhibitions and installations
”​Săcel Residency Exhibition”, Repedea School, Săcel, Romania, 15 August -September 2025
Săcel Residency 2025 gathered artists from France and Romania, under the slogan „Agir dans son Lieu”, to act in one's place", an Edouard Glissant concept, developed under varios projects over several years by French curator, Julie Crenn. Participant artists: Damien Rouxel, Morgane Denzler, Ioana Cîrlig, Andreea Medar, Delia Popa, Ilie Mihali, Donald Simionoiu, Iulian Bisericariu.
”​RAD Art Fair 2025”, Anca PoteraÈ™u Booth, Bucharest, Romania, 22-25 May 2025
Anca PoteraÈ™u Booth presented „Magazin universal” ceramic vessel and two pieces of ”Sabar River” 8 pieces sculptural work, both Delia Popa 2025.
”​Loc de acÈ›iune CreÈ›eÈ™ti -Place for Action”, Solo Show, Anca PoteraÈ™u Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 15 May - 26 July 2025
Anca Poterasu Gallery is pleased to present Delia Popa’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled Loc de acÈ›iune – CreÈ›eÈ™ti, curated by Julie Crenn. The show creates a space where local heritage, global influences, and personal history intersect, challenging the marginalization of the rural world in contemporary culture.
More here
”​Ecology of the After Life”, Anca PoteraÈ™u Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 08 May - 01 July 2024
Anca Poterasu Gallery presents Ecology of the After Life, an exhibition that revolves around recurrent and obsessive questions regarding human existence, science, nature’s resilience, and the echoes of our actions.
The exhibition serves as a metaphor for the regeneration of life as a whole, exploring not only human existence but also the intricate connections between organisms that sustain life on Earth. From Aurora Király’s landscapes to Delia Popa’s introspective reflections, Iosif Király’s blurring of reality and fantasy, Ioana Cîrlig’s documentation of coal miners, and Matei Bejenaru’s chronicles of forgotten spaces, Ecology of the Afterlife contemplates the interconnectedness of living beings". More here
Curated by Rafaela Bîrlădeanu
Artists: Matei Bejenaru, Ioana Cîrlig, Aurora Király, Iosif Király, Delia Popa
”​A Spring of Hope, A Winter of Despair”, Faber, TimiÈ™oara, Romania, 9 - 30 May, and Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 7 June - 29 August 2024
”A Spring of Hope, A Winter of Despair creates a context for observations and reflections on a particular segment of the conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s in the former Socialist Republic of Romania and Czechoslovakia as well as în the period following the fall of the Iron Curtain. Starting from a quote from the introduction of Charles Dickens’ book A Tale of Two Cities published in 1859, the project aims to present insights into the tensions generated by political emergencies and deeply human needs in two geographical areas part of the former Eastern Bloc following an apparently contradictory structure based on the relationship between hope and despair. (...)” Curator Olivia NiÈ›iÈ™
Artists: Kamila B. Richter & Michael Bielicky, Irina Botea, Vladimir Havlik, JiÅ™í Kovanda, Gabriela Mateescu, Iulian Mereuță †, Karel Miler, Delia Popa, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Marilena Preda Sânc, Decebal Scriba, Roxana Trestioreanu, JiÅ™í Valoch. More info here
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”​Puls 21. 2020x2022 Mnac Art Acquisitions”,National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania, 02 November 2023 - 6 October 2024
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”In 2020 and 2022 a total of 385 artworks entered the MNAC Bucharest collection. PULS 21 brings together a selection of works from both sessions and obviously benefits from the gains and conclusions of both episodes.” More here
”Now the Impulse is to Live, TimiÈ™oara Edition” July 1- 15, Riverside Pavillion, Minitremu ArtCamp #8, TimiÈ™oara, Romania, 2023
Participants: atelier d’architecture autogérée, r-urban, CASCO, nethood, Remix the commons, tranzit.ro; Gilles Clément, Georgiana Strat;Alex Axinte, Bogdan Iancu, Monica Stroe, Alexandru Vârtej, GreenMogo, Legumim/ Gastronaut, Luca’s Farm, Nettle Garden, Èšopa Farm, Soil and Soul, Seed Bank “Casa Semintelor”; Delia Popa, Vlad Brăteanu, Eduard Constantin, Oto Hudec, Anamaria Pravicencu, Andreea Medar & Mălina Ionescu, Nita Mocanu, Roberta Curcă, Studio Peisaj, TerraPia; Ovidiu Èšichindeleanu; more here
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We are here to stay, MNÈšRplusC, National Peasant Museum Project Space, Bucharest, Romania, November 5-11 2022
Artist Facilitators: Delia Popa, Katia Pascariu, Nicoleta Moise, Diana Miron, Mircea Modreanu, Atelier Adhoc Comunitate (George Marinescu and Daria Oancea)
"Now the Impulse is to Live, Sofia Edition", Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2-17, 2022
Participants: atelier d’architecture autogérée, r-urban, CASCO, nethood, Remix the commons, tranzit.ro;
Gilles Clément, Georgiana Strat; Alex Axinte, Bogdan Iancu, Monica Stroe, Alexandru Vârtej;
-GreenMogo, Legumim/ Gastronaut, Luca’s Farm, Nettle Garden, Èšopa Farm, Soil and Soul, Seed Bank “Casa Semintelor”; Vlad Basalici, Vlad Brăteanu, Adriana Chiruță, Eduard Constantin, Oto Hudec, Delia Popa, Sorin Popescu, Anamaria Pravicencu; Ovidiu Èšichindeleanu; New Rural Agenda, Adelina Luft; More here
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”Heartbeat 20/Puls 20”- New Entries in the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania, 14th of May 2021 - 11th of July 2021
The acquisition session organized by MNAC in 2020, with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, was not only a cultural policy mechanism. Through the synergy between an enthusiastic artistic scene (which waited 12 years for this moment of recognition) and the competence of the specialists in and around the museum, a remarkable act of collective curation was born. The result is this exhibition, opened at the MNAC headquarters under the title ”After twelve years. Artistic production from Romania in 180 works”, and now presented at Kunsthalle Bega under a more appropriate title: PULS 20. More here
”The Apocalypse of the White Elephant”, The Garrison Commend, Timisoara, Romania, 5th of August 2021 - 5th of September 2021
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Dona Arnakis, Anna Bantiuc, Matei Bejenaru, Josepha Blanchet, Alexandra Boaru, Alex Boca, Dorian Bolca, Daniela Brill, Cătălin Bătrînu, Mimi Ciora, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Ștefan Radu CreÈ›u, Markus Guschelbauer, h.arta, Cosmin Haias, Agnes Hamvas, Hubert Hasler, Herne Hiilli, just wondering, Max Jurasch, kinema ikon, Rafael Lippuner, Michael Koch, Ana Kun, Bogdan Matei, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu, Silvia Moldovan, DragoÈ™ Neagoe, Delia Popa, Dan Perjovschi, Marilena Preda Sânc, Robert Reszner, Sergiu Sas, Eva Maria Schartmuller, Denise Schellmann, Digital Self, Patricia Teodorescu, Iulia Toma, u.kustic
”After 12 Years. Artistic Production in Romania in 180 Works”, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, MNAC, Bucharest, 11th of December 2020 - 11th of April 2021
This exhibition showcases 180 works by 100 contemporary Romanian artists that were acquired by the museum after the last acquisition in 2008, spanning the production time frame of 1970-2020. Two of my works were also purchased and are shown in the exhibition. More here
”Back to the Future- A Commemorative Exhibition for Architect Ion Popa”, Romanian Architects' Union, Bucharest, Romania, 22nd of October- 12th of November 2020
Artists: Ion Popa, Vlad Calboreanu, Delia Popa, Claire Murgan, Design & Pedagogy students, organized by ArtCrowd- Artists in Education, exhibition design Vanda Maria Sturdza, co-funded by AFCN
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”Europa Wonderland”, Garrison Commend, Timisoara, Romania, 13th of October- 13th of November 2020
Artists: Matei Bejenaru, Catalin Burcea, Delia Calinescu (Zoita), Cosmin Haias, Delia Popa, Decebal Scriba, Valeriu Schiau, curated by Olivia Nitis, in conjunction with "Bodyspace: Citizenship and Territories", organized by Contrasens Association, co-funded by AFCN
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”Contemporary Art Biennials – Our Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergency”, online Symposium, BB9, 27th - 28th of June 2020
Artistic Interventions by: Delia Popa, minim (Diana Dulgheru), Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv
curated by Dorothee Richter and Ronald Kolb, Conference alongside the 9th Bucharest Biennale, Goethe Institut Bucharest.
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GARAGE SALE/[The Great Romania - China Friendship Cafeteria], Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, 22st of June- 6th of September 2019
Artists: Vlad Basalici, Liliana Basarab, Geta Brătescu, Na Buqi, Alexandra Croitoru, Wu Di, Sun Han, Ma Jianfeng, T.K.L., Peng Lu, Zhang Miao, Alexandru Niculescu, Jin Ningning, Daniela Palimariu, Wang Peng, Dan Perjovschi, Delia Popa, Yao Qingmei, Cristian Raduta, Dan Vezentan, Tan Yingjie, Liu Yue, Xin Yunpeng
The Beach (An Erotic Fantasy), GrawBöckler Garage, Berlin, Germany, 13th of June 2019
Delia Popa, Solo Exhibition at GrawBoeckler, Berlin, Germany
13th of June 2019, curated by GrawBoeckler, part of Berlin Traveling Artists program, generously supported by Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
"Monument to the Unknown Nurse" in Artists React to WAR Exhibition, WASP Studios, Bucharest, Romania, 21st of December- 15th of December 2018
Artists: Delia Popa, Aurora Kiraly, Valeriu Schiau, Vasile Rata, Sorin Oncu
Curated by Olivia Nitis,WASP/Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest and several high schools across Romania, 21st of November-15th of December 2018, part of War in Images project, supported by AFCN
The Girl with Tentacles, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 29th of June - 21st of September 2017
Delia Popa, Solo Exhibition at Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest
Girls with Ideas [Boys and Painting], Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania, 10th of June - 30th of June 2016
Artists: Aurora Kiraly, Liliana Basarab, Ioana Gheorghiu, Delia Popa, Raluca Popa
Curated by Giles Eldridge and Delia Popa, Exhibition at Lateral ArtSpace, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania
Roundtables at Paintbrush Factory, Cluj and at ODD, Bucharest, RomaniaA Project of ArtCrowd- Artists in Education, supported by AFCN
"Almost Said and Half Done" in Art on Display #2, Bucharest Public Space, 15th- 25th of October 2015
ART ON DISPLAY #2, was a series of site-specific projects in unconventional Bucharest spaces, visually animating the city from October 15th to October 25th, 2015.
Artists: Larisa David, Arantxa Etcheverria, Liliana Basarab & Delia Popa, Gonzalo Escobar, Kiki Mihuta & Bogdan Olaru, Jon Dean, Octav Avramescu & Lucian Sandu Milea, Ioana Gheorghiu, Sillyconductor, Carmen Nistor. Curated by Irina Botea Bucan
