Irina Gheorghe’s work addresses themes such as absence, displacement and disappearance while reflecting on the relationship between ephemeral artistic media and entities or spaces inaccessible to observation. Central to her practice are techniques of deviation as a way of estranging the everyday, abstraction as a language for interstellar communication and the absurd as a possible mood for interacting to a world beyond perception. Irina Gheorghe has also worked as part of the The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, cofounded in 2009 with artist Alina Popa with the aim of investigating how passions shape contemporary society.

Her work was shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, NCAD Gallery Dublin, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Grazer Kunstverein, Ivan Gallery Bucharest, Suprainfinit Gallery Bucharest, Project Arts Centre Dublin, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Swimming Pool Sofia, Changing Room Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry, Glasgow International, TRAFO Budapest, Times Museum Guangzhou, HOME Manchester, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, BAK, Utrecht, DEPO Istanbul and Galeria Posibila Bucharest, among others.

Irina Gheorghe studied painting and photography at the National University of Arts Bucharest and in 2021 she completed a PhD at GradCAM, Technological University Dublin.

Image: Irina Gheorghe, A Guided Tour Through the Distant Future, 2024