Daniela Fainis
Danuiela Fainis was born 1961 in Dolj, Romania. From 1981 to 1985 she studied at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, department ceramics. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander by the President of Romania. Her remarkable sculptures are exhibited around the world, including Germany, Greece, Japan, USA, Romania or Austria.
She is an established artist who creates poetical, filigree sculptures. In her contemporary ceramic objects she combines sculpture, graphics and painting. She is interested in the physiological process of transformation and growth, from seed germination to efflorescence. All of these stages are made visible, through a single art object, in different variations. Buds emerge from the plant, the inflorescence in all its fragility. The artist makes the fragmentary organic renderings of stylized plants visible. Her herbariums made from China clay, cobalt oxide and colored pigments make you feel the fragility of nature. ⒸA.D.
Daniela Fainis in her studio:
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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2015 Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Romania
2007 Botanical Garden, Bucharest, Romania
2004 Lapidarium, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia, Romania
2003 Academy of Romania, Rome, Italy
2002 Allianz-Tiriac Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2001 Sanshokan Museum – Hida Furukawa, Japan
2001 Titu Maiorescu, Cultural Center, Berlin, Germany
2000 Cultural Center, Paris, France
1999 Brukenthal Museum Sibiu, Romania
1999 Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
1998 Ronda Hall Gallery National Theater, Bucharest, Romania
1996 Gerhart-Hauptman Foundation Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1992 Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1992 La Source Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1989 Mamaia Art Gallery,
1988 Mamaia Art Gallery,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2014 Decorative Art Exhibition, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2013 Keramik in Steinbruch, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Oberpullendorf, Austria
2013 Shades of White’ Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Orizont Gallery Art Hall, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Ceramics in Steinbruch, Austria
2010 Romanian Contemporary Ceramic Art, Paris, France
2008-2009 Palace of Parliament, Constantin Brancusi Hall, Bucharest, Romania
2006 International Action Art, Club UNESCO, Piraeus, Greece
2006 Marathon Museum, Greece
2004 Romanian and Finnish Art, Municipality of Bucharest Museum, Romania
2002 Remember – Creative Women by the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, International Art Exhibition, Bucharest, Romania
2001 Remember – Creative Women by the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, International Art Exhibition, Bucharest, Romania
2000 Remember – Creative Women by the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, International Art Exhibition, Thessaloniki, Greece
2000 World Exhibition, Hannover, Germany
1999 Art Hal, Institute of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania
1999 International Fair of Visual Arts, Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest, Romania
1998 Art Hall – Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
1997 Remember – Creative Women by the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea International Art Exhibition, Thessaloniki, Greece
1996 Constanta Art Museum, Romania
1995 Inter-Balkan Cooperation Society of Romanian Women, 45 Fine Artists from Romania, Bucharest, Romania
1995 Decorative Art Hall, Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest, Romania
1995 Monselice Castle, Italy
1994 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1994 Maui, Hawaii, USA
1994 Aubum, New York, USA
1994 National Theatre Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1993 Romanian Pavillion, Taejon, South Korea
1993 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1994 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1992 Artothecke, Berlin, Germany
1992 Nimagine 92 Espace Roumain, Nimes, France
1991 Art Triennial of the National Theatre Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1990 Bucharest Art Museum, Romania
1988 Decorative Art Exhibition, Eisenstadt, Austria
1988 National Theater Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1988 Decorative Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
1987 Museum of Glass and Ceramics, Dorohoi, Romania
1987 Studio 35, Botosani, Romania
1986 Galeria Luchian, Botosani, Romania
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS (SELECTED)
2003 6th International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, Manises, Spain
2002 6th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan
2001 Fire Arts” International Biennial, Bucharest, Romania
1998 5th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan
1997 5th International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, Aveiro, Portugal
1996 4th International Biennial of Miniatures, Yugoslavia
1992 3rd International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan
1992 XXXII Concorso Internazionale Della Ceramica D’arte Gualdo Tadino-Perugia-Italy
1991 5th International Triennial of Ceramics, Sopot, Poland
1990 XXX Concorso Internazionale Della Ceramica D’arte Gualdo Tadino Perugia, Italy
1989 XXIX Concorso Internazionale Della Ceramica D’arte Gualdo Tadino Perugia, Italy
AWARDS
2010 Flame Award for Fine Arts edition
2004 Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander, awarded by the President of Romania
2002 Honorable Mention, Mino, Japan
1998 Honorable Mention, Mino, Japan
1998 Alexandru Tipoia, Foundation Award for the best exhibition of the year, Bucharest, Romania
1998 Grand Prize of the International Biennial Arts of Fire, Bucharest, Romania
1997 First Prize -International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, Aveiro, Portugal
1997 Cotroceni National Museum Award, Bucharest, Romania
1992 Prize of the Union of Visual Artists for Decorative Art, Romania
1990 Youth Award -Decorative Art, Romania
1990 Targa d’Oro (gold medall) XXXI Concorso Internazionale Della
1990 Art Ceramics Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, Italy
1989 Targa d’Oro (gold medall) XXX Concorso Internazionale Della
1989 Ceramica D’arte Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, Italy
1989 Targa d’Oro“ (Gold Medal) XXX Concorso Internazionale Della
1988 Scholarship for Decorative Art, Bucharest, Romania
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS AND MUSEEUMS
European Parliament Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
The Clay Studio Collection, Philadelphia, USA
Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest, Romania
Art Museum Medgidia, Romania
B.C.I.C. Bank, Craiova, Romania
Societe Generale Securites, Bucharest, Romania
ING. Bank N.V., Bucharest, Romania
Support Organization for Overseas Ceramist Foundation, Tajimi, Japan
Ogiso School, Tajimi, Japan
Kano High School, Gifu-shi -Japan
SYMPOSIUMS
2011 International Painting Symposium, Patra, Greece
2007-2008 1st International Convention of Modern Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
2004 National Camp of Contemporary Plastic Art, Todireni, Romania 3rd Edition
2004 Symposium on Ceramics – Sangiorz Bai Museum of Comparative Art, Romania
2003 Burning the Sky, Ceramics Symposium, Sangiorz Bai, Romania
2000 Tajimi, Support Organization for Overseas Ceramist, Japan
1999 International Ceramics Symposium Hamangia, Constanta, Romania
1992 Contemporary East European Ceramics, Philadelphia, USA
1988 Ceramics Symposium, Dorohoi, Romania
1987 Ceramics Symposium, Dorohoi, Romania
