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Valeriu Mladin
Contemporary visual artist who explores monumental drawing, large-scale painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video. His practice is defined by a powerful visual language in which technical rigor intertwines with the intensity of the subjects he addresses. His works transform the exhibition space into an experience that is both visual and emotional.
The recurring themes of his work are social-political and existential in nature. From the installation Who Shot at Us, dedicated to the 1989 anti-communist Revolution, to the recent cycles Political Bestiary and Dead Dove, Mladin probes collective memory, the fragility of life, and the relationship between death and hope. Hybrid figures, animal symbols, and poetic imagery construct an allegory of the contemporary world.
Present in both national and international exhibitions, Mladin has participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the National Museum of Art of Romania, as well as in important museums and galleries in Romania and abroad. In 2023–2024, he took part in The Picasso Effect at MARe – Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest. Through their monumentality and visual force, his works create a space for reflection on the human condition and lived history.