Mara Verhoogt

Born 2001, Bucharest, Romania
Lives and works in Bucharest
Monarch, 2025
Glazed ceramic, mixed fabric
150 × 70 cm
Mara Verhoogt
The Cambrian Explosion, 2025
Glazed ceramic, cotton fabric shredded sponge
Easter chick decorations
160 × 35 cm
Mara Verhoogt
The Thaw of Spring, 2025
Textiled, glaze ceramic, embroidery, metal, variable dimensions
Mara Verhoogt
The Thaw of Spring, 2025
Textiled, glaze ceramic, embroidery, metal, variable dimensions
Mara Verhoogt
Cell Division, 2024
Glazed ceramics, 15 × 30 cm
Mara Verhoogt
I Want to Be the Moment in a Dream, 2024
Installation view
Mara Verhoogt
In an emotional state, 2024
Stoplight, underwear, cotton fabric, 175 × 24 cm
Mara Verhoogt
Love Bug, 2024
Detail
Hay Fever, 2023

Working in video, ceramics and textile, Mara Verhoogt earned her Bachelor in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art in London in 2023. Her practice traces points of convergence between humans and non-human beings, using self-portraiture and body modification as ways of re-inventing and breaking out of pre-determined identity structures. She is a co-founder of the STOL Collective. She mounted her first solo exhibition at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in Bucharest in 2024 and is co-represented by Catinca Tabacaru and eastcontemporary, Milan.

Education

2020-2023 Chelsea College of Art in London

Solo Exhibitions

2025
TBD, eastcontemporary, Milan (forthcoming)
2024
I Want to Be The Moment in A Dream, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest

Group Exhibitions

2026
FOCUS, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław
2025
Why We Should All Be Feminists , curated by Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu, /SAC, Bucharest, RO
Relationships. Space. Shelter, compiled by Natalia Barczyńska, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław
Another Time Has Other Lives to Live , Curated by Diana Marincu, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara, RO
The Third Space, Curated by 2nd World, presented by Galeria Catinca Tabacaru; Collateral Exhibition to the 6th Art Encounters Biennial; French Institute, Timisoara
Whatever is new about this show is not yet visible, Zina Gallery, Cluj
Aquarius Pavilion, Pharmakon Gallery, Bucarest
2024
Corpus Plantisima, Galeria 15 Design, Bucharest
After The Orgy, Pharmakon Gallery, Bucharest
Here Was Once a Field by STOL collective, Suprainfinit (sequence space), Bucharest; curator: Daniela Custrin
2023
Diploma Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
To see soil in my palm, Chelsea College of Art, London
Interim Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
Thought in Action, Chelsea College of Art, London
2022
Prop Room, Safehouse 1, London
Candle burning ritual for Livia Rita concert, Avalon Café, London
Visions of the Unseen, Art Hub studios, London
Time Passing Over the Land, Avalon Café, London
2021
Had a Dream You Won’t Understand, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest
Mystic Materialism Collective, Chelsea College of Art, London
Time Capsule, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest
Thought in Action, Chelsea College of Art London

Public Collections

Krupta Art Foundation
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