ELENA HARIGA
Born on the 14th of November 1938 in Bucharest, Romania
Graduated, in 1968, The ,,Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts – Bucharest, Romania, Sculpture (Prof. Ion Lucian Murnu)
Member, since 1970, of the Fine Artists’ Union of Romania, Sculpture Section.
Solo Exhibitions in Romania
1970 – ”Youth Athenaeum”, Bucharest (sculpture)
1983, 1993 – ”Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest (sculpture)
2000, 2006 – ”Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest (drawing)
2003 – ”Art Jazz Club”, Bucharest (drawing, object)
2004 – ”Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest (drawing, object)
2008 – ”Brancovan Palace”, Mogosoaia, Ilfov County
2008 – The Italian Cultural Center, Bucharest (drawing)
2010 – ”Căminul artei” Gallery, Bucharest (drawing “On Time”)
2010 – ”Dana” Gallery, lași – “Sacred Art” (drawing, sculpture)
2012 – ”Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest (drawing, sculpture)
International Exhibitions:
1983 – Biennial of small sculpture “Dantesca” (Ravena – Italia)
1984 – Biennial of small sculpture (Budapesta – Ungaria)
1985 – Biennial of sculpture (Podsdan – Germania)
1988 – Biennial of sculpture (Ankara – Turcia)
Group Exhibitions in Romania
Participated in most all-country and metropolitan art exhibitions (biennials, annual salons, etc.)
2010 – “Sacred Art”, Iași (sculpture)
Group Exhibitions Abroad
1976 – Berlin (German D.R.), Prague (S.R. of Czechoslovakia)
1977 – Portugal, PR. of Poland, German D.R., S.F.R. of Yugoslavia (itinerant exhibition)
1979 – Moscow (U.S.S.R.), Sofia (S.R. of Bulgaria)
1980, 1988 – Berlin (German D.R.)
1982 – Lausanne (Switzerland)
1983 – Belgrade (S.F.R. of Yugoslavia)
1984 -Jerusalem (Israel), Vienna (Austria), Athens (Greece), Budapest (Hungarian S.R.)
1985 – Stuttgart (F.R. of Germany)
1993 – “Byzantium after Byzantium,” Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Studies, Venice (Italy)
1994 – Athens (Greece)
2008 – “Umbria Terra D’Incontri Dialogo con la Romania,” Centro Espositivo Rocca Paolina della Provincia di Perugia (Italy)
Sculpture Camps in Romania
1970 – Arad (stone)
1972, 1977 – Măgura Buzăului (stone)
1974 – Arcus, Covasna County (wood)
1976 – Lăzarea, Hunedoara County (wood)
1980, 1981 – Căsoaia, Arad County (stone)
1986 – Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County (wood)
1997 – Constanța (ceramics)
2000 – Râmnicu Vâlcea (Symposium “Tradition and Modernity”)
Sculpture Camps Abroad
1978, 1991 – Lindabrunn (Austria) /stone/
1983 – Dzintari (S.S.R. of Latvia) /ceramics/
1987 – lasnaia Poliana (S.R. of Bulgaria) /wood/
Monumental Art Works
1973 – Mihail Kogalniceanu (bust, bronze, ordered by the Romanian Ministry of Culture)
1975 – Apaczai Csere Janos (bust, bronze ordered by Apata Commune, Brashov County)
1977 – Lieut. Pavel Bordeanu (bust, bronze ordered by Giurgiu Municipality)
Prizes
1983 – 2nd Prize, International Symposium of Sculpture, Dzintari (S.S.R. of Latvia)
1993 – Prize for Sculpture, Fine Artists’ Union of Romania
TV Broadcasts
1994 – “Visual Arts: Studio Portrait”
(editor: Maria Magdalena Crișan / TVR II) 2004 – “Arts: Studio Portrait”
(editor: Ștefania Bratu / TVR International)
Works in private collections and museums in Romania, Italy, Greece, Portugal, France, Japan.