(E)rotica Painting

Artist, curator, organiser of exhibitions, professor of visual arts and author of reseearch in the visual field. Doctor in Visual and Decorative Arts, member of the Romanian Artists Union, since 2005. Between 2012 and 2013, he was a Vasile Pârvan post-doctoral fellow at Accademia di Romania, in Rome; between 2014 and 2015, he was a Nicolae Iorga post-doctoral fellow at Istituto Rumeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica (The Romanian Institute of Humanistic Culture and Research), in Venice. Since 2016, he is an Expert in the field/ field of Goods fo Artistic Patrimony: Romanian Modern Art (no. 935). Beginning with 1996, Marius Burhan began his exhibitional activity, having thus far held 33 personal national and itnernational exhibitions in Bucharest, Craiova, Timișoara, Galați, Brăila, Rome, Venice, and over 80 collective national and international exhibitions in Romania (Bucharest, Timișoara, Craiova, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Târgoviste, Bacău), Republic of Moldova (Kichenev), Macedonia (Galicnik), Italy (Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Rome), United States (Washington DC, Cleveland). He took part in biennials/ fairs in visual art, architecture and national and international competitions, symposia, conferences. He is present in insertions – catalogues, speciality journals, dictionaries, film/ television. His works can be found in the: Museum of the City, Skopje, Macedonia; Art Collection of Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy; Contemporary Art Collection in the Istituto Rumeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica “Nicolae Iorga”, Venice, Italy; Contemporary Art Collection from the Palatele Brâncovenești Cultural Centre, Romania; Museum of Visual Art in Galaţi, Romania. Also, his works are included in private collections in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, U.S.A.