Irina Gheorghe works primarily with performance, in combination with installation, collage, photography or video, to address the tensions inherent in the attempts to speak about things beyond our possibilities of observation, from extraterrestrial life to hypothetical planets. Irina also works as part of the artist duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, co-founded in 2009 together with Alina Popa (1982-2019), to investigate how passions shape contemporary society.

Her work was shown at Broadside Glasgow, 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, Pratt Manhattan Gallery New York, Times Museum Guangzhou, HOME Manchester, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, 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 in artistic practice at GradCAM/TU Dublin, with the title “Betraying the Senses: Techniques of Estrangement, or How Art Speaks of What Is Not There”.

Performative Artist Talk: Irina Gheorghe