ABOUT

About

THE CREATIVE VISION

Marina Aristotel (b. 1985) is a contemporary visual artist who explores the boundaries between painting, object, and installation. Her practice originates in painting but deliberately rejects its conventional limits, such as the frame and the flat surface, to create works with volume, transparency, and a strong spatial presence.

Central to her artistic approach is affective memory - an inner, sensory, and often fragmented form of remembrance that manifests through gesture, texture, layering, and color. Her works bring forward a tension between tangible materiality and emotional fragility, between accumulation and disappearance, between what is fixed and what remains in suspension

“For me, art is a living space of encounter, a place where memory and emotion become visible, and where each viewer may discover their own story.”

THE PROcESS & MATERIALITY

  • Her process is intuitive, slow, and laborious. Each work passes through successive stages of construction and transformation, where experiment and error are fertile moments that confer authenticity and uniqueness. By choosing high-grade resin as her core material, she captures transparencies, luminosities, and chromatic vibrations through which the image expands toward space and object. Infused with energy, emotion, and chromatic intensity, her works create bridges of dialogue with the viewer—offering objects that are built to be received as gifts.

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY & CV

Marina lives and works between Bucharest and Brașov. Alongside her structural artistic training, she holds a deep expertise in brand identity and premium customer experiences within the luxury and creative industries. This unique intersection of discipline, market intuition, and fine arts allows her to approach space and scale with a distinctive architectural rigor. 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Visual Arts – National University of Arts, Bucharest
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Visual Arts – National University of Arts, Bucharest
  • MSc in Business Project Management – Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), Bucharest
  • Certified Professional Coach – CoachVille LLC, ICF Accredited (USA)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025 – Book of Delights, Galeria Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2022 – Let’s run back to a zero point. Look inside, Celula de Artă, Bucharest
  • 2020 – Colour Splinters, Estopia Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
  • 2019 – AASAMBLAJ, Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

  • 2026 – Hair Hair Hair!, Anthropological Inquiry, Brașov Art Museum
  • 2026 – Doi, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
  • 2025 – London Design Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Somerset House, London
  • 2025 – PIG, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
  • 2021 – Art Safari Bucharest – “Embroidery as a Weapon” (Collaborative artwork)
  • 2020/2021 – When the Globe is Home, Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso, Italy
  • 2020 – Estopia Art Gallery – Abstract Mood, Bucharest
  • 2019 – La Borna Gallery – Death (Spatial installation with helium and resin objects)
  • 2016 – 418 Gallery – An Abstract Feeling, Bucharest
  • 2016 – NAG#10 (White Night of the Galleries) – Insecure, The Room, Bucharest (Immersive installation with spatial sensors)
  • 2015 – Palace of the Chamber of Commerce – Diploma, Bucharest

Publications