Marieta Chirulescu (b.1974, Sibiu) lives in Berlin, Germany.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Private Life,Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2025), They said so, Galeria Fonti, Napoli (2023); Gregor Podnar, Berlin (2021); Plan B, Berlin (2020); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Pale Fire, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2016); Kunsthalle Lingen (2014); White Cube Bermondsey, London (2011); Kunstverein Nürnberg (2011); Kunsthalle Basel (2010); Kunsthalle Mainz (2009); Projektraum der Temporären Kunsthalle, Berlin (2009).

Recent group exhibitions include: Pictorial Resonance, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2024); Sediments. The Matter-Image, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2023); todos juntos (all together), Kurimanzutto, New York (2022); Parthenope, Lighea ed altre storie, Villa Doria d’Angri, Napoli (2021); Local talent, Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2020); THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2017); #12 / Folies d’hiver, Villa Medici, Rome (2017); Präsentation 2015 Villa Massimo, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016); Image Support, Kunsthall, Bergen (2016); Painting Forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013).

In her works, Marieta Chirulescu reflects on the aesthetic and conceptual preconditions of contemporary painting as well as on the conditions of the image in the present. Chirulescu’s approach of non-figurative painting recalls the 20th-century history of abstraction, while on the other hand, it also incorporates digital printing processes and possibilities of image creation such as scan, screenshot and photography into her work. Moreover, through a process of technological reproduction and manipulation, Chirulescu disassembles and erases found images, of which often only sediments and traces remain; in this way, she simultaneously refers to the status of the original and to constructions of seeing in the painting of today.