Costin-George Benescu

Costin George Benescu is a Denmark-based Phygital Artist / Designer originally from Romania. His education shows a BA in Fashion Design and his work experience is in Gaming, UX/UI, Toy Design, Comics, Animation, Marketing Art and Illustration. He also loves getting involved in the cultural innovation space with Spinderihallerne in Vejle, Denmark. He co-curated several art exhibitions and organized various workshops. He also participated in various impact jams, workshops, art and design fairs.
Since July 2021 he founded his own Design and Art business, "Alien Ape Star", and started working with various clients and collaborators on UI/UX, Branding, Animation, NFT , Web3 and Fine Art projects. His sustainable focus, sensibilities and playful nature define his broad style and passions. Some of his interests and artistic playgrounds are Sci-Fi, kit-bashing, visual storytelling, virtual reality sculpting, animation and drawing.
He documents his artistic process on his YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter / X

Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design, Bucharest National University of Arts, Decorative Arts and Design, 2006

- September 2025, Vejle, Denmark, participation in Plastik For Evigt (Dk) / Plastic For Ever (En)

- August 2023, Vejle, Denmark, solo show and open atelier "Climate Dudes" at the Vejle Public Library, in the "Cube"

- October 2022, Vejle, Denmark, solo show "Alien Ape Inks", experimental real time ink drawing challenge

- June 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, participation in "Art Nordic Copenhagen", the Scandinavian Art Fair

- August 2020, Billund, Denmark, participation in "LEGO Originals" custom designs exhibit at The LEGO House

- November 2019, Vejle, Denmark, curating and participating in "Drawn In", a drawing and illustration exhibition featuring LEGO designers and Victor Drujiniu, a Romanian comic book artist

- March 2018, Denmark, Vejle, curating and participating in "MechXhibition" - a sculpture and kitbashing exhibition with the japanese "Mech" theme

- June 2017, Denmark, Billund, participating with illustration and sculpture to the "LEGO Art" exhibition in the "LEGO Innovation House" lobby / reception

- August 2014, Zabbar, Malta, participating with watercolour illustration to the "Washes" group exhibition

- May 2009, Bucharest, Romania, participating with sculptures and painting to the group Skateboard Art show "Ne P...