About
Artistic statement
With her work as artist, Ioana chooses to explore a variety of themes, including female empowerment and motherhood, as well as human psychology and the subconscious. Art and painting represent for her transformation, healing, a petrified relationship between the body and the subconscious. In her portraiture and abstract figurative compositions, the body is escaping itself, becoming an outer energy, fighting against gravity. In her paintings the artist prefers exploiting the moment, the intensity of the inertia, of the unprepared, paint itself becoming a powerful material, a texture, for expressing the tectonic movement, the motion of the energy on the canvas.
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Artist
Biography
Ioana Binica is a Romanian born architect and fine artist. She graduated in 2015 with an architecture diploma degree from University of Arhitecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”, Bucharest. In 2010 she was granted a one year Erasmus scholarship at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During 2014-2016 she pursued Master studies in Architecture in the class of Zaha Hadid and Hani Rashid from University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Working as a research assistant at GrAB LAB for the biomimetic art project ‘‘Growing as Building’’ with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Liquifer System, in 2015, Ioana enriched her experience in a multidisciplinary artistic field.
She continued her professional training in Berlin, working for 2 renowned architecture and landscape design offices. Ioana had several collaborative exhibitions and installations in Bucharest, Vienna, Accra and Hong Kong. Furthemore, she developed her artistic skills under the guidance of artist Eoin Llewellyn in Berlin during the year of 2016. In 2017, the artist had an opportunity to do a life painting performance in Zurich. Between 2016-2018, Ioana was creating in her art studio in Accra, Ghana, meanwhile working as an architect with Djakumah+Austin Associates, Accra.
Between 2019-2021, she studied Interior Design at Cascais School of Art and Design, Lisboa. In January 2020, Ioana had two group exhibitions, at MAAT Museum in Lisbon and Palacio Conte de Guimaraes in Cascais, Lisboa.
Since 2021, she is working as a freelance designer in Ghana and Romania. In July 2022, the artist had a solo exhibition in Campulung, Romania. Since September 2022, the artist has been collaborating with one International School in Accra and the “Start from Ghana Foundation” in Ghana, organizing art workshops for children and teenage girls.
