Doina Domenica Cojocaru-Thanasiadis

Doina Domenica Cojocaru-Thanasiadis is a visual artist and researcher whose practice explores themes of migration, displacement, memory, identity, and belonging. She holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

Drawing on media archives, family histories, documentary photography, and personal narratives, her work investigates how images shape our understanding of borders, conflict, and human mobility. Through photography, installation, video, sculpture, and archival materials, she examines the relationship between personal experience and broader social and political realities.

Her artistic practice emerged alongside her doctoral research on the representation of refugees and displaced communities, focusing on the ethical challenges of depicting the suffering of others. By recontextualising fragments of documentary imagery, historical records, and lived experiences, she creates works that navigate the space between memory and history, fiction and reality, the personal and the collective.

Working across multiple media, including photography, installation, video, concrete, metal, sound, and text, Doina Domenica Cojocaru-Thanasiadis seeks to create spaces for reflection on vulnerability, resilience, ...

2018-2022 PhD Candidate-Bucharest National University of Arts

2019-2021 MA in Intercultural Management at UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development

2016-2018 Master Degree: 2016-2018, University of Arts Bucharest, Faculty of Fine Arts, Specialization: Dynamic Image and Photography.

2016 BA in Visual Arts, National University of Bucharest, Romania
2013 High School Diploma, 39th General High School, Athens, Greece

2017 BA in History and Theory of Arts

SOLO
2018 ‘’Remnants’’, Galeria Posibila
2018 The Foreigner”, UNAGALERIA, National University of Arts Gallery

GROUP EXIBITIONS
2018 ‘’Remnants’’, Galateca
2018 ‘’Remnants’’, Diploma
2018 ‘’Remnants”, National Museum of the Romania Literature, Perspective
2018 ‘’Remnants’’, Book Exhibition, Teleki-Bolyai Museum and Library, Târgu Mureș, Romania
2017 “Remnants”, WARSAW PHOTO DAYS, Warsaw
2016 “The Foreigner”, The Institute, Bucharest, Romania
2015 “EMBRIO”, Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2012 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Collective Photo Exposition, Athens, Greece