Valentina Brostean

Valentina Brostean (b. 1983, Novi Sad, Serbia) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Barcelona. After more than a decade living and working in Turin, Italy, she established her practice in Spain. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design and an MFA in Illustration from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Novi Sad.

Working across painting, collage, drawing, and digital media, Brostean has developed a distinctive visual language that merges contemporary figuration with surreal narrative structures and layered symbolic imagery. Her practice explores the intersections of memory, identity, the subconscious, and emotional experience, constructing psychologically charged worlds in which reality and imagination coexist. Through a process of fragmentation and reconstruction, familiar forms are transformed into poetic visual narratives that invite multiple readings while resisting fixed interpretation.

Characterized by complex compositions, chromatic intensity, and meticulous formal balance, her work navigates the tension between instinct and control, intimacy and estrangement. Drawing equally from the traditions of illustration, contemporary painting, and collage, Brostean has cultivated a highly individual visual vocabulary tha...

MFA 2009 (Master of Fine Arts degree), Academy of Arts Novi Sad/department for graphic design and illustration, Area of Specialization: ILLUSTRATION | GRAPHIC DESIGN / BOOK DESIGN

BFA 2006 (Bachelor of Fine Arts degree), Academy of Arts Novi Sad/department for graphic design and illustration

SOLO SHOWS:

2019 Krokodil center/ Engaging words, Belgrade, RS | Jednom smo bili mi | Digital collage series
2019 Kulturni centar LAB, Novi Sad, RS | U okeanu postojanja | Digital collage series
2019 Galerija Stepeniste, Sumatovacka | U okeanu postojanja | Digital collage series
2018 Zivi Atelje DK, Zagreb, Croatia | Drawings series “Only us, humans”
2013 “Amantes cultural center”, Torino, Italy - mixed media works “Samsara”
2012 “Dorothy Circus Gallery”, Rome, Italy - paintings “Last drop of innocence”
2012 “Galo Art Gallery”, Torino, Italy - paintings “visiONs OFF an empty mind”
2011 “Pagus Gallery”, Philadelphia, USA - serial of paintings ”Circle of life”
2011 “Fache Arts” Gallery Miami, USA - paintings and drawings, selection
2010 “Belgrade cultural center”, mixed media illustrations “Why ladybirds eat people?”
2009 “Fache Arts” Gallery Miami, USA - paintings and drawings “Stories from a Neverland”

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION):
2016 “June box show” Baker + Hasseldenzgallery, CA, USA
2016 “Svelata- erotic extracts from Italian scene”, Gallery Cell 63, Berlin, Germany
2015 "Coexist or die show”, by “Arte in Barriera foundation”, Turin - Rome, IT
2015 "Storybook show", curated by Warholian journalist Michael Cuffe, Modern E...