About me
Cosmin Brendea is a contemporary artist dedicated to visual art. He has already participated in the XII Florence Biennale 2019, the XIII Florence Biennale 2021 and the XIV Florence Biennale 2023.
His artistic path began in Romania, self-taught painter, he devoted himself to painting from an early age. Cosmin Brendea graduated the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, PhD in Economics.
He received various awards and held several exhibitions, such as Galleria d’Arte Mentana, Florence (Italy, 2016), II Biennale Città di Cesenatico, Leonardo da Vinci Award (Italy, 2017), XII Biennale di Roma (Sala del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2018), OSTEN BIENNIAL FOR DRAWING 2020, LIBER esposizione d’arte contemporanea Galleria Angelica-Bibliotheca Angelica di Roma, STILL SWEET personal exhibition, GALERIILE NOI, Bucuresti, HOMO HOMINI DULCIS EST/OAMENI SI DULCIURI- CONTEMPORAN SPACE exhibition Bucuresti.
Some of his works were accepted to be part of the collection of “Museo degli Artisti Contemporanei del Terzo Millennio” in Santa Marina, Policastro Bussentino (Italy) and collection of OSTEN MUSEUM, Skope N.Macedonia.
Italian historian art critic and curator Antonella Nigro talked about his art: "His paintings are vibrant, with great interest in light and the beauty of nature. Brendea Cosmin proposes a subjective painting, in the sense that this research is never detached and impassive, but translates the sensations and emotions that the real vision or memory arouse in the artist. “ Italian historian art critic and curator Ivan Caccavale talked about his art:” In his oil, the protagonists of the myth are not the demi divinities to which the reader is accustomed, forged according to the principle kalòs kai agathòs: they are instead shown to the bystander in their most human aspect, including the elements of fragility, anguish, disturbance, thus appearing extremely modern. “ The artist develops his own project STILL SWEET in which he integrates sweets into landscapes or abstract compositions following his own metaphysics. Romanian historian art critic and curator RALUCA ILARIA DEMETRESCU talked about his STILL SWEET art project: “Cosmin Brendea paintings are deceptively festive, the sugar colors, the sweetened pastels, glazed with caramel tell the story in a swirl, about the mythologies (re)invented, (re)updated and about the author’s own emotions. Mythological characters and everyday beings, buildings, and landscapes, almost all the themes of universal painting coexist in the compositions created by the artist, they are juxtaposed with static natures with oversized cakes and candies, like fragments of urban architecture.”
The artwork ISZVAN Ab Jove Principium that the artist exhibits at XV Florence Biennale 2025 is part of his project STILL SWEET.
The Beginning
2015
October 2015 Bucuresti, collective exhibition called WORKSHOP- Galeria Club La Scena
2016
August 2016 “EXODUS” was accepted to be part of the collection of Museo degli Artisti Contemporanei del Terzo Millennio from Santa Marina Policastro Bussentino and donated to the Museum.
October 22-31, 2016 Florence, Galleria d’Arte Mentana collective exhibition named Art Projects
2017
January 06-07 February, 2017 Citta di Cesenatico collective exhibition at Hotel Miramar. Seconda Biennale Citta di Cesenatico.
January 06, 2017 award Premio Leonardo da Vinci Seconda Biennale Citta di Cesenatico with my work Il vecchio fiorentino….pastel, 29,7 x 35,3 cm, 2016
March 15, 2017 Bucuresti Metropolis Center, collective exhibition named Intalniri Subiective.
2018
January 20-29, 2018 Roma, Sala del Bramante BIENNALE D’ARTE INTERNAZIONALE DI ROMA XII EDIZIONE
May 16, 2018 Sala Protomoteca del Campidoglio award DIPLOMA d’AUTORE –Premio della Cultura della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Italia. The work awarded at Biennale Internazionale D’arte Roma XII Edizione 2018 was “Roma”, pastel dimension 100 X 70 cm, 2017
April 2018 two of my works “ Roma” and “La Luce dell Italia” were entered in Collezione Sgarbi, important contemporary art collection founded by famous Italian art critic, politician and former Ministry of Culture in Italy Vittorio Sgarbi.
October 18-27, 2019 The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence
2019
October 2019 – 12 BIENNALE FLORENCE ART&DESIGN FLORENTA – ARS ET INGENIUM dedicated to LEONARDO DA VINCI, FLORENCE-Fortezza da Basso
2020
15 March-15 June 2020 collective exhibition on line BIG EXHIBITION 2020 in Tel Aviv Israel, exhibition organized by ISRAELI ART MARKET the prestigious art gallery in Israel.
5 May- 5 June 2020 exhibition MACO MUSEUM with the work MICHELANGELO
June 2020 the work MICHELANGELO entered the art fund of MACO MUSEUM in Veroli (Firenze).
October 2020 OSTEN BIENNIAL OF DRAWING 2020 Skopje, North Macedonia.
2021
April 2021 Finalist at OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020. The artwork Resurrection was accepted to be part of the collection of OSTEN MUSEUM Skopje N.Macedonia.
April 2021 Interferente Balcanice exhibition MUZEUL NATIONAL AL TARANULUI ROMAN Bucharest
May 2021 PASSOVER 2021 exhibition organized by Art Gallery ISRAELI ART MARKET from Tel Aviv- Israel
August 2021 online exhibition IARTSWALL, Miami, Florida, USA
August 2021Gradina Mosescu exhibition, second edition, Ramnicu Sarat-Buzau.
October 2021 – 13 BIENNALE FLORENCE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ART&DESIGN FLORENCE, Fortezza da Basso, 23-31 October 2021
November-December 2021-LIBER esposizione d’arte contemporanea Galleria Angelica-Bibliotheca Angelica di Roma.
2022
2022 OSTEN BIENNIAL OF DRAWING 2022 Skopje, North Macedonia.
2023
October 2023–14 BIENNALE FLORENCE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION ART&DESIGN FLORENCE, Fortezza da Basso, 14-22 October 2023
2025
The artwork selected by the International Selection Committee to participate in the XV Florence Biennale 2025 which will take place in Firenze between October 18-26, 2025