MIHAELA MOȚĂIANU
Born in 1973, Bucharest, Romania
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
October 2018 - present
PhD Candidate in Visual Arts, Doctoral Studies
National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
1991 - 1997
Bachelor of Arts in Design & Decorative Arts
Graphic Design | Product Design | Environmental Design
Academy of Arts Bucharest, Romania
1986 - 1991
Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
Fine Arts I Product Design | Environmental Design
High School of Fine Arts Nicolae Tonitza, Bucharest, Romania
OTHER TRAINING PROGRAMS
2024
Professional certification in Arts Education, 2nd Level
National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
2021
Professional certification in Arts Education, 1st Level
National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
March 2019 - May 2019
Erasmus+ Program
Research Assistant at Instituto Terra e Memόria, Mação, Portugal
Prehistoric Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
May 2019 - July 2019
Erasmus+ Program
Research Assistant at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar; CEFT – Casa dos Cubos, Portugal
Photographic Studies
2014
Certification for training and development vocational skills, COR 242401
THR Consulting Group, Bucharest, Romania.
2014
Professional certification in Photography, COR 343101
New Age Photography – Studies in Photographic Art and Techniques, Bucharest, Romania.
WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2015 - present
Lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania
Desktop Publishing (DTP) Seminars, Journalism Department
December 2020 - present
Visual Artist, Photographer and Senior Art Director - Freelancer
Brand & Corporate Identity, Packaging Design, POS materials, Creative Concepts ATL/BTL, Photography
February 2022 - present | Freelance collaborator
Senior Art Director at Cohn & Jansen Creative Network
October 2020 - October 2023
Assistant Professor at National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
MA Programme for Interior and Public Space Design, Design Department
August 2016 - November 2020 | Freelance collaborator
Senior Art Director at Cohn & Jansen JWT
March 2018 - December 2019
Senior Art Director I Graphic Designer - Freelancer
March 2007 - March 2018
Senior Art Director I Photographer at Sferik Studio
September 2005 - March 2007
Senior Art Director at DDB Bucharest
July 2001 - August 2005
Senior Art Director at ActivAd Communications
March 2001 - June 2001
Graphic Designer - Freelancer
Brand & Corporate Identity, Creative Concepts ATL/BTL
October 1997 - March 2001
Art Director at FOCUS / PUBLICIS Romania
July 1997 - September 1997
Art Director at DIXOGRAPH Communication
August 1996 - July 1997
Art Director at J. Walter Thompson / SCALA Advertising Romania
November 1995 - July 1996
Art Director at NOTORIOUS Advertising / OLYMPIC DDB Romania
MEMBERSHIP AND COLLABORATION
February 2020 - Present | Collaborator
Centro de Estudos Em Fotografia de Tomar, CEFT - Casa dos Cubos
February 2019 - present | Collaborator
The Maps of Time Project - Virtual Worlds - Experimented Pasts, www.timemaps.net
May 2006 - Present | Member of the Design Branch Board since 2022
UAP (Romanian Association of Visual Artists) - Design Branch, Bucharest
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2022 | 25th-26th November
ICVL 2022 - International Conference on Virtual Learning
Romania | Online Sessions
Active participation with oral presentation.
Presentation Title: Experiment My Shape. E-learning in 3D Virtual Environments for Design and Architecture
2022 | 7th-9th November
ICERI 2022 - 15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Seville, Spain | Online Sessions
Active participation with oral presentation.
Presentation Title: Virtual Learning Environment for Visual Arts Education - A Post-Pandemic Resilient Education Solution
2022 | 12th - 13th May
eLSE - The 18th International Scientific Conference eLearning and Software for Education
Romania | Online Sessions
Active participation with oral presentation.
Presentation Title: Virtual Learning Environment for Visual Arts Education - A Post-Pandemic Resilient Education Solution
2021 | 26th - 30th May
World LUMEN Congress 2021, 20th LUMEN - Anniversary Edition | Iași, Romania
Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty
Section: Arts & Architecture
Active participation with oral presentation.
Presentation Title: Signs and Emotions as the Experience of the Urban Explorer
2019 | 22nd - 23rd November
13th LUMEN International Scientific Conference | Târgoviște, Romania
Communicative Action & Transdisciplinarity in the Ethical Society
Section: Humanities | Arts & Architecture.
Active participation in an oral presentation
Speech Title: Maps of Urban Archaeology, Augmented Reality as a Psychogeographical Method of Exploring the City in the Past
2018 | 22nd - 23rd November
11th LUMEN International Scientific Conference | Târgoviște, Romania
Communicative Action & Transdisciplinarity in the Ethical Society
Section: Social Sciences | Communication
Speech Title: Visual Design as a Communication Tool with Children and Teenagers with Autism
Active participation in an oral presentation
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUMS AND CONGRESSES
2022 | 4th September
4th World Congress of Psychogeography - Online International Congress
The Virtual Exhibition presented in the Final Celebration Event | Project: Objet trouvé in the City. The Chairs
2020 | 4th - 6th September
4th World Congress of Psychogeography - Online International Congress
The Virtual Exhibition presented in the Gallery | Project: A Journey Around My Room
2019 | 31th May - 2nd June
International Archaeoacoustics Symposium
Archaeology, Archaeoacoustics and Neuroscience symposium at Convento - Inn and Artist Residence, Chamusca, Portugal
Active participation | Photographic documentation
2019 | 8th - 15th March
5th Apheleia International Seminar, Mação, Portugal
Tangibility: Designing Future Landscapes
Active participation | Photographic documentation
PUBLICATIONS
2024
ARKEOS Vol. 57 / Article
Discovering Fractal Words through Psychogeographic experience in the community of Mação
In: Oosterbeek, L. (eds) Heritage: Transforming landscapes through the arts and technology, pp. 192-204,
ARKEOS Series, Instituto Terra e Memória, Mação, March 2024, Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of CIPSH,
ISSN: 0873-593X, ISBN: 978-989-35056-3-2
2023
Artistcloseup Magazine #12 - Contemporary Art Magazine, page 80 - (November - 2023)
2023 Tracing Rhythm - Matter, Gesture and Soul Project / University of Bergen (UiB) / Photography in Article
Published by the Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen (UiB)
2023
Springer series / Book chapter (Co-author)
The History of Furniture Objects: An Intelligent Augmented Reality Application
In: Geroimenko, V. (eds) Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Springer Series on Cultural Computing.
Springer, Cham, 2023, pp. 171-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27166-3_10
2022
Springer series / Book chapter (Co-author)
Rhythms in Stone: Revealing and Augmenting the Human Presence in Mesolithic Rock Art.
In: Geroimenko, V. (eds) Augmented Reality Art. Springer Series on Cultural Computing.
Springer, Cham, 2022, pp. 349-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96863-2_19
2022
World Lumen Congress 2021 / Article în Proceedings Volume
World Lumen Congress 2021, pp. 482-491, https://doi.org/10.18662/wlc2021/48
2021
DESIGN | ARTS | CULTURE / Vol.2, December 2021 / Article
A Study of Experiential Archeology of a Poem by Fernando Pessoa
2021
The Palimpsest - Matter, Gesture and Soul Project /University of Bergen (UiB) / Photography in Article
A Shamanic Performance to Approach the Origins of Art
Published by the Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen (UiB)
ISBN 978-82-93801-03-0
2021
O Ideário Patrimonial / Nº 15 / Article
A Psychogeography of Tomar Cityscape, pp. 304-314, ISSN 2183-1394, http://www.cta.ipt.pt
2021
Journals of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 39Photography in Article
Trial by Fire: Conclusions by D. Gheorghiu, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103183
2020
Springer series / Book chapter (Co-author)
Augmented Reality in Environmental Humanities Education.
In: Geroimenko, V. (eds) Augmented Reality in Education. Springer Series on Cultural Computing.
Springer, Cham, 2020, pp. 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42156-4_18
CULTURAL EVENTS
2020 | 17th December
Online event with a video presentation about The Poetry of the Cityscape project.
Organiser: Centro de Estudos Em Fotografia de Tomar (CEFT - Casa dos Cubos) and Templar School Group, Portugal.
Active participation | Presentation: Artistic research about Psychogeographic exploration in Tomar, Portugal.
2019 | 6th - 10th May
Frame Week - Photographic seminars & workshops at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal.
Active participation | Presentation of doctoral research activity.
CURATORIAL ACTIVITY
National exhibitions
2024 | 29th April - 31st May
Vila Storck din Balcic / Villa Storck from Balchik | Re-imagining the interior of the Storck Villa in Balcick
Curator of the exhibition and project coordinator
Location: Octavian Moșescu Municipal Museum, Râmnicu Sărat, Romania.
2023 | 5th - 30th December
Vila Storck din Balcic / Villa Storck from Balchik | An exhibition dedicated to Architect Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory
Curator of the exhibition and project coordinator
Location: The National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania.
2023 | 21st April - 1st May
Image and Memory | Exhibition and Launch event for the International eJournal Design | Arts | Culture, Vol.3 | No. 1 & No. 2
Curator of the exhibition, Journal Managing Editor and Graphic Designer
Event organised by Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest
Location: Exhibition Hall of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning "Ion Mincu", Bucharest, Romania.
International exhibitions
2023 | 13th - 16th November
Chalcolithic Red-Coloured Ceramics | Fixing ochre powder with garlic - An Experiment
Curator of the exhibition and photographer
The exhibition was part of the Resisting Nature Symposium - Ochre seminar and Workshop.
Location: The Art Academy in Bergen (KMD / UiB), Norway.
2023 | 14th September - 14th October
Villa Storck from Balchik | An exhibition dedicated to Architect Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory
Curator of the exhibition and project coordinator
The exhibition was part of the festival Via Pontica 2023 - International Youth Arts Festival
Location: Art Gallery Balchik, Balchik, Bulgaria.
2023 | 22th May - 13th June
Image and Memory | Exhibition with the artistic concept of the International eJournal Design | Arts | Culture, Vol. 3 | No. 1 & No. 2
Curator of the exhibition and Graphic Designer
Event organised by Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest and the “Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation” laboratory of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica Greece
Location: Library of the West Attica University, Athens, Greece.
NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Personal exhibitions
2023 | 23rd June - 14th July
FOTO>GRAFISME
The exhibition was organised with the help of the Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest.
Location: Galeria 15 Design - Hanul cu Tei, Bucharest, Romania
Project exhibited: discovering the signs of the time on matter or human action in the urban space.
2023 | 6th - 21st June
PANTA RHEI
The exhibition was organised with the help of the Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest.
Location: Galeria 15 Design - Hanul cu Tei, Bucharest, Romania
Project exhibited: "Everything flows" is the exhibition's main theme and was part of the visual concept created by Mihaela Moțăianu
for International eJournal Design | Arts | Culture, Vol.3. Image and Memory, No. 1 & No. 2.
Group exhibitions
2024 | 10th - 21st January
Doctoral Research Exhibition 2023
Event organised by the Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest
Location: UNAgaleria, Buchrest, Romania
Project: DeMers > Subiectiv - An archaeology of the urban landscape.
2022 | 7th December - 8th January
UNA Today | Teachers' exhibition of the National University of Arts Bucharest
Event organised by the National University of Arts Bucharest
Location: Art Museum, Constanța, Romania
Project: DomiNation - An imaginative digital collage
2022 | 2nd - 8th November
The National Salon of Contemporary Art / (SNAC)
Event organised by UAP (Romanian Association of Visual Artists)
Location: Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Project exhibited: DomiNation - An imaginative digital collage
2021 | 20th - 31st August
The exhibition presents the experiments from the artistic research process, organised by Mihaela Moțăianu in collaboration
with two other artists and with the support of the Romanian Association of Visual Artists (UAP) – Design Branch, Bucharest
Location: Galeria 15 Design - Hanul cu Tei, Bucharest
Project: The Poetry of the Cityscape - A poetic vision of Portuguese Cityscape presented in a series of digital photomontages.
2021 | 10th June -30th July
Post-Internet Design Culture
The exhibition is part of the ‘Continuum research’ project developed by UAP (Romanian Association of Visual Artists)
organised by UAP - Design Department, Bucharest
Location: Galeria 15 Design - Hanul cu Tei, Bucharest
Artwork Title: Fractal Worlds
2020 | 20th - 31st January
Erasmus Student Exhibition I Erasmus 2019-2020
Group exhibition organised by Erasmus Office of the National University of Arts Bucharest
Location: UNAGaleria, Bucharest
Artwork Title: Estremadura. Wandering through ancient times - Photographic experiment in Mação, Portugal
2019 | 24th October - 29th November
50 Design UNArte I Anniversary exhibition I A visual history of the Bucharest School of Design (1969-2019)
Group exhibition organised by the National University of Arts Bucharest and the National Museum of Art of Romania,
Location: The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
Artwork Title: Chair design (1995). Project developed in the fourth year of study at the National University of Arts Bucharest
2014 | 11th - 30th March
Istanbul
Photography exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: Cărturești Café Verona - Bookstore, Bucharest
2013 | 29th September - 5th October
Worldwide Photowalk
Photography exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: Magazinul F64 - Photo and Video Store, Bucharest
2013 | 21st September - 8th October
La mulți ani București / Happy Birthday Bucharest
Group exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: Fotohobby - Photo and Video Store, Bucharest
2013 | 18th September - 6th October
Trecut-au anii / The years have passed
Photography exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: The Museum of the Municipality of Bucharest
2013 | 24th February - 24th March
Dragobetele sărută fetele /
Photography exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: The National Village Museum “Dimitrie Gusti” Bucharest
2011 | 04th - 31st October
Bucureștiul în alb și negru / Bucharest in Black and White
Photography exhibition organised by Bucureștiul meu drag Association
Location: Cărturești Café Verona - Bookstore, Bucharest
1995 | October
Design Europa
Art exhibition organised by the Academy of Arts Bucharest
Location: Sala Dalles - Art Gallery, Bucharest
Participation in the graphic concept for the Design Europa poster
1993 | April
Group exhibition organised by the Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts Bucharest
Location: Sala Dalles - Art Gallery, Bucharest
Participation in the graphic concept for the Jazz Concert poster
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Personal exhibitions
2020 | 27th February - 17th December
Location: Galeria Maria de Lourdes de Mello e Castro da Escola Jácome Ratton in Tomar, Portugal.
Project: Walking with Fernando Pessoa. Psychogeography experience in Tomar.
Organised by the Center for Photography Studies in Tomar, CEFT - Casa dos Cubos and Templar School Group, Tomar.
2020 | January
Water Memories / Memórias da Água | A Cultural Heritage Project of Mação Territory.
Location: Gallery of the Elvino Pereira Cultural Center, Mação, Portugal.
Unique images of the oldest fountains, water mines and aqueducts in the Mação territory, captured by Mihaela Moțăianu.
Photography exhibition organised by the Museum of Prehistoric and Sacred Art of the Tagus Valley of Mação with the Senior University coordinated by the Municipality of Mação.
Group exhibitions
2022 | 30th November - 11th December
Location: Art Academy in Bergen (UiB) - Bergen University, Norway
2021 | 28th August - 31st October
Location: Bergen University Museum, Norway
The exhibition presents research in the interdisciplinary project Matter, Gesture, and Soul.
Exhibition organised by Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design | University of Bergen.
Exhibited work: photos for the project A Shamanic Performance to Approach the Origins of Art.
2019 | 31st May - 2nd June
Art & Sounds, Sounds in Art
Art & Sounds, Sounds in Art
The exhibition is part of the International Archaeoacoustics Symposium
Location: Convento - Inn and Artist Residence, Chamusca, Portugal.
Participation with two images - Single Frame Narrative Photography concept.
Location: Convento - Inn and Artist Residence, Chamusca, Portugal.
Participation with two images - Single Frame Narrative Photography concept.
Artwork Title: The sound of the waterfall; The sound of rain.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Palimpsest of the Cityscape.
The exhibition was presented on social media channels and also on the official site of the Instituto Cultural Romeno from Lisbon (ICR).
The exhibition is available on Hubs by Mozilla. Explore the virtual exhibition
2021
The Poetry of the Cityscape.
The exhibition is available on artsteps.com. Explore the virtual exhibition