Active in the fields of photography, film and photobooks, Nicu Ilfoveanu has a special position in contemporary Romanian art.
He is a graduate of the National University of Art in Bucharest, where he currently teaches photography. His work is characterised by the unexpected and unpredictable interplay between the personal and the documentary, the sublime and the trivial, the obvious and the underlying.
Her recent activity includes solo exhibitions at Galeria Mecànic, Barcelona (Electro+, 2018), Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris 2017 (Valerica Bienheureux), Uqbar Project Space, Berlin (Series. Multiples, Realisms, 2014); Arsenal Gallery, Poznan ( Thee Mistaken Present Tense, 2013); and group exhibitions: Looking Back, inking Further, Musee de Beaux Arts Tournai (2019), e Factory of Facts and Other Unspoken Stories, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2016); Vision of a Nation, Fotogalleriet Oslo (2014), Reflection Center for Suspended Histories. An Attempt, the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (2013); 4th Fotofestival, The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, Mannheim /Heidelberg / Ludwigshafen(2011).
