Bio

Diana Draghici (b. 1986, Deva, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. She is currently documenting the photographic negative throughout art history and it’s role in contemporary art, developing her artistic research “Negative/Positive. Interventions on the photographic negative”, as PhD student of The National University of Arts. Draghici works in mediums such as analog and experimental photography, traditional printing techniques, drawing and audio/video installations. She is interested in the relationship between perception and perspective, the passing of time, and mental health in terms of relationship with oneself and the other. Solo Exhibitions April 2022 - Intertemporality, Borderline Art Space, Iasi, Romania Group Exhibitions October 2024 – A Game of Colors, Play Institute @MNAC, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania July 2024 – A Game of Colors, Play Institute, @Amzei Creative Corner, Bucharest, Romania June 2024 – Mapping the City from the Outside, Accelerator Câmpulung Muscel, Romania January 2024 - Artistic Research Exhibition - IOSUD UNArte, @UNAgaleria, Bucharest, Romania February 2023 - Omission Possible, Mutual Loop (Holger Lang / Martina Tritthart) s[a]it{life} @ Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Vienna, Austria November 2022 - Omission Possible, Mutual Loop (Holger Lang / Martina Tritthart), Festival FNT, The National Theatre Bucharest, Romania October 2022 - Darlings to kill/Darlings to kiss, SwitchLab, Palatul Universul, Bucharest, Romania August 2022, Human Traces @Omission Possible with Mutual Loop (Holger Lang / Martina Tritthart), project in collaboration with The National Center for Dance Bucharest and The Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest, Sala Omnia, Bucharest, Romania July - September 2022, UNArte Artistic Research Exhibition, UNAgaleria, Bucharest, Romania December 2021 - The National Engraving Biennial "Gabriel Popescu" - National Museum Complex” Curtea Domneasca”, Targoviste, Romania June - July 2021 - Graphic Arts Bachelor’s Projects - ARCUB, Bucharest, Romania June 2021 - Habitation - Romanian Design Week @Stirbei47, Bucharest, October 2020 - NAG Bucharest - Creart/Gradina cu Filme, Bucharest, July 2020 - Inside/Outside - Galateca, Bucharest, July 2020 - UNArte Student Day @ MNAC - online exhibition - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania May 2020 - Contactless ArtWall - online exhibition - Galateca, Bucharest, Romania Grants October 2021 - July 2024, Artistic research Scholarship, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania August 2021 - Decolonial Praxis Critical Perspectives in Curatorial and Artistic Research, Iasi Arts Summer School, Iasi, Romania June 2021 - Graphic Arts Valedictorian, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania February 2020 - Erasmus Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia