Andreea Mihalka

Andreea Mihalka was born in 1996, in a village in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. She graduated from the "Corneliu Baba" High School of Arts in Bistrița, Architecture department. After that, she attended the Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphics Department, at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Visual Arts.
Andreea is currently enrolled in doctoral studies in Visual Arts at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.
Andreea also studied history at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca. The subjects of her works are inspired by her interest in personal roots and offering an alternative to the crowded and hurried life of the 21st century.
The artist uses various techniques: traditional drawing, digital drawing, engraving, image transfer, analog photography, digital photography and digitally processed photography. In her works, Andreea pursues what is left now from the last century life. Romania is a country where traditional and modern life coexist, which offers a diverse range of issues, but also opportunities. Living between the two worlds, the artist discovered her interest in illustrating this combination of modern an...

2021-Present: PhD student, Visual Arts; University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019-2021: Master's degree, Visual Arts; University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015-2019: Bachelor's degree, History; Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015-2018: Bachelor's degree, Visual Arts; University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca, Romania

December 2021: Group exhibition: Spotlighting Cluj. Reflections and artistic representations of Mitreo-Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
July 2021: Group exhibition: Ceci est une expo, Center of Interest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
July 2021: Group exhibition: Exhibition of graduates of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
December 2018-January 2019: Annual Winter Salon, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
July 2018: Group exhibition: Exhibition of graduates of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
May 2018: Personal exhibition: "Layers of identity", within the ExpoMarathon competition, "Casa Matei" Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017: Group exhibition "Engraving", Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, Romania
2016: Group exhibition at the International Print Biennall Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaMay