n. 1979, Cluj
Marius Bercea
Born and raised in Cluj, he teaches at UAD, co-founded the Laika collective at the Paintbrush Factory — and has work in the ARKEN and Taubman collections.
Marius Bercea was born in 1979 and grew up in Cluj. He took his BA at the University of Art and Design in 2003 and his MA in 2005, and later began teaching there. He is a founding member of the Laika collective, which had studio and exhibition space in the Paintbrush Factory.
His paintings are in the collections of the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Taubman Museum of Art in Virginia and Space K in Seoul, and in the Zabludowicz Collection in London. The François Ghebaly gallery has given him solo shows in Los Angeles (2012, 2016, 2020) and New York (2022); he has also had solo shows at the Cluj Museum of Art and at Art Encounters in Timișoara.
He does not yet have a Venice pavilion or a solo show in a museum abroad. What he does have is what many lack: he stayed, and he teaches the generation coming next.
The storyPart of the story of Cluj as an art city (2009): The Paintbrush Factory →
Connections
BA (2003) and MA (2005) at the University of Art and Design, Cluj
source · 2026-10-19Teaches at the University of Art and Design, Cluj
source · 2026-10-19- FoundedFabrica de Pensule
Founding member of the Laika collective, with a studio at the Paintbrush Factory
source · 2026-10-19 - Exhibited atMuzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca
Solo exhibition at the Cluj Museum of Art
source · 2026-10-19