MARINA ARISTOTEL

Trained in painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where she also completed her Master’s degree, Marina explores the boundaries between mediums, developing a practice centered on materiality, layering, and abstraction.

Her works originate from painting but deliberately reject its conventional limitations — especially the frame and the flat surface. The choice of resin as a primary material gives her compositions volume, transparency, and compositional freedom, enabling sculptural and spatial interventions. In parallel, the artist experiments with installations and mixed media, aiming to create her own visual language at the intersection of image and object.

Marina’s artistic approach focuses on affective memory — an inner, sensory, and often fragmented memory that manifests through gesture, texture, layering, and color. Her works highlight a tension between tangible materiality and emotional fragility, between accumulation and disappearance, between what is fixed and what remains in suspension.

1985 Born in Medgidia (Constanta), Romania

2015 Graduates Bachelor at National University of Arts Bucharest – Painting

2017 Graduates from Master’s program at National University of Arts Bucharest – Painting

Lives and works in Bucharest

Selected exhibitions
  • Present perfect, Arta Prezentului Art Gallery, Bucharest, October 2023 (group exhibition)
  • Let’s run back to a zero point. LOOK INSIDE, Celula de Arta, Bucharest, October 2022
  • Homo homini flos est, Contemporary Hair Space, Bucharest, May-June 2022 (group exhibition)
  • When the globe is home, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy, 2020/2021, Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection (group exhibition)
  • Abstract mood, Estopia Art Gallery Bucharest, May 2021(group exhibition)
  • Colour Splinters, Estopia Art Gallery Lugano, Switzerland, February 2020 (personal exhibition)
  • AASAMBLAJ – Estopia Art Gallery, Bucharest, February 2019 (personal exhibition)
  • Death installation – LaBorna, NAG#11, Bucharest, October 2017 (group exhibition)
  • Diploma – Stirbey Palace, Bucharest, October 2017 (group exhibition)
  • Atelier 19&34 – Center for Visual Arts, Bucharest, April 2017 (group exhibition)
  • Straight/forward – project for Spatial Activity Studio 9 workshop, held by prof Slawomir Brzoska together with Rafal Gorczynski – from the University of Fine Arts of Poznań, Poland – UNA Galeria, Bucharest, March 2017 (participative installation)
  • An abstract feeling – 418Gallery, Bucharest, November 2016 (group exhibition)
  • ”Insecure” – The Room, NAG#10, Bucharest, September 2016(immersive installation)
  • Still working III – LaBorna, WEG#3, Bucharest, April 2016 (group exhibition)
  • Atelier 34 – Center for Visual Arts, Bucharest, January 2016 (group exhibition)
  • National painting salon – CNAV Bucharest, November 2015 (group exhibition)
  • BORNA20 – LaBorna – Scara contest, Bucharest, November 2015
  • Diploma – Palace of the Commerce Chamber, Bucharest, October 2015 (group exhibition)
  • In lucru 2 – LaBorna, Bucharest, October 2015 (group exhibition)
  • Ete.ro.gen – Go Contemporary, Bucharest, September 2015 (group exhibition)
  • Painting 2015 – Sala Dalles Bucharest- MNAC, July 2015 (group exhibition)
  • UNArte pictura 2015 – Center for Visual Arts, Bucharest, March 2015 (group exhibition)
  • .punct – Pitesti, March 2015 (group exhibition)
  • Est-etica conflict – Lipscani 59, May 2014 (group exhibition)
  • His body, our inspiration – UNA Galeria, April 2014 (group exhibition)
Publications
  • Interview @empowerartist.org (Go to link)
  • Let’s run back to a zero point. LOOK INSIDE art installation on Curatorial.ro (Go to link) 
  • “Colour Splinters” di Marina Aristotel all’Estopia Art Gallery di Lugano (Go to link)
  • The Earth Paradox work by Marina Aristotel part of the Imago Mundi Collection, Luciano Benetton Collection (Go to link)
  • AASAMBLAJ exhibition solo show @Estopia Art Gallery, modernism.ro
  • Marina Aristotel Art & Couture – Forbes Life, Cover story, February 2017 (Go to link)
  • Beauty of  “An abstract feel” presented by six young romanian visual artist – Adevarul.ro, November 2016 (Go to link)
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