Raluca Bararu
Artist, București
Raluca Băraru (b. 1981) is a visual artist with a background in art direction and illustration. Her professional path, with various influences, is telling for the way she currently creates her works. She graduated from the Queen Maria College of Arts in Constanța and then the National University of Arts Bucharest, graphic department. In 2004, she opted for a career in advertising as art director, a path that opened up her perspectives beyond the previous traditionalist education. Starting in 2014 she became a freelancer as art director but also illustrator. The latter gradually became the main concern and paved the way for a return to art. Raluca Băraru is one of the Romanian artists engaging with a very serious type of non-serious art. Her sometimes dark surrealism, outlandish and piercing imagery reveal a strong presence. Realism is blending with local poetry in her works, which contain allusions to religion, women's rights, animal rights and communist stories. A deeply personal canvas that stretches from Raluca's subconscious and her tiny brushes to our imagination, explores an array of emotions -from fear, to pleasure, vanity, disgust or attraction, empathy, irony, the bizzare and the uncanny. Studies: 1995 - 1999: Queen Mary National College for Arts Constanta 1999 – 2003: National Arts University of Bucharest, Graphics Section 2003 – 2004: Master’s degree in Visual Arts at The National Arts University of Bucharest (unfinished) Exhibits 2026 - Poem Gallery ICR Paris, Franța,Romanian Jewelry Week, București, Romania; SCAF, Muzeul Brukenthal Sibiu, Romania; Book.Art.Est, Institutul Francez, București, România, Gallery studio 76 -solo show 2025 - Archenemy Arts - group exhibition 2024 - Mirare Gallery - group exhibition 2023 - Surreal Salon 15, Baton Rouge, USA - group exhibition - Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania - group exhibition 2021 - Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania - group exhibition 2020 - Amural Festival, Brasov, Romania - group exhibition - Komiti, Cluj, Romania - group exhibition 2019 - Fantastic Illustrations, Beijing, China - group exhibition 2018 - One Night Gallery Bucharest , Romania - personal exhibit - Amural Festival, Brasov, Romania - group exhibition - Inktober @Modul Carturesti, Bucuresti, Romania - group exhibition - Romanian Design Week, Bucharest, Romania - group exhibition 2017 - Mascarici Cluj, Romania - group exhibition - FITS Sibiu, Romania - collective exhibit - Drawing Here and Now, Cluj, Romania - group exhibition 2016 - European Illustration Market, Lisbona, Portugalia - group exhibition - Amural Festival, Brasov, Romania - group exhibition - Romanian Design Week, Bucharest, Romania - group exhibition
Lucrări
- Mom?, Ulei pe panza, 2026
Expoziții recente
- Soft spoken carnage, Raluca Bararu, Studio 76, București, mai 2026
Pe agenda ARTGRID
- SNAC 2026 Locație Galeriile de Artă ale Academiei Române, Galeriile de Artă ale Academiei Române, București, 28 octombrie – 24 noiembrie 2026