Oana Cosug

Oana Coşug (born in 1979 in Galați, Romania) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest and in 2009 obtained a Master's degree in art theory and practice at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

She has held numerous group exhibitions in Brussels (Galerie B, Galerie Actionfields, Art'Contest, Croxhapox in Ghent, Galerie d'Ys and Artitude) and in Bucharest (MNAC, Anca Poterasu, Gallery, Apollo, Căminul Artei, etc.)

Solo exhibitions (selection): Paintings / Drawings (2022, Galerie Albert Dumont), Here I sit still in silence (2021, Galerie UJ Kriterion), 25th International Salon of Contemporary Art (2019, Zurich, Switzerland with supported by Olivier von Schulthness Collection), 34 6 Galerie (organized by Pierre Martens in Linkebeek, Belgium), Hidden - exhibition and book presentation (2018, Artitude Gallery at Rivoli Building, Brussels), The Simultaneous Spaces of Absence (2018, curator: Cristina Stoenescu, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania), Drawings at BeCulture (2018, Artitude Galerie in Brussels), Installation Le Casier (2017, ERG in Brussels), Landscape (Artitude Gallery, Brussels, 2015), Drawings (ICR Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014), Paintings / Drawings (Visual Art Museum, Galaţi, 2012), Blue face (Artsenzafine Gallery, Milano, 2010) , My shadow (Artsenzafine Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2008), ExPosition (Atelier 35, Bucharest).

In 2012, Oana Coșug took part in the exhibition organized by CanvasCollectie / La Collection RTBF at Bozar. She has been present in various artistic residencies: Les Alisiers (Sion, Switzerland, at the invitation of Olivier von Schulthness Collection), Destelheide in Belgium, Colonia 21 (Tescani, Romania), Mie Lefever in Ghent, Belgium.

In 2012, she was awarded first prize at the International Contemporary Drawing Biennial in Namur, Belgium (tied: Oana Coşug and Anya Belyat-Giunta). In 2021, she was selected to take part in the drawing prize exhibition in Ronse. In 2022, she received the Gustav Camus Prize from the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Langues : Dutch, English, French, German