Liviu Bulea lives and works between Turda and Berlin.

For his BA and MA Liviu conducted artistic research on the diseased body, focusing on memories of spaces and objects from hospital oncology wards. He was awarded three Erasmus Scholarships, at the Freies Museum in Berlin, Katowice in Poland where he studied poster design and Hosek Contemporary, Berlin.

His field of research extends from spaces of architectural memory to his involvement with the queer community. He is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts in Cluj-Napoca, where he works on the relationship between art, architecture and the urban environment. Among others, he has exhibited his works at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin, the Chrysalid Gallery in Rotterdam, the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum in Romania, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Mumok Vienn, the IAGA Contemporary Art gallery in Cluj-Napoca, while he has been hosted as a resident artist by several institutions across Europe.

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As the artist himself affirmed: "I can be considered “a social practice installation artist”. I recover seemingly useless material fragments that come from precise contexts. The hospital’s wall where I was treated when I had cancer (“About white”), the city’s sidewalk where I had grown up, and pieces of concrete from a mall that was built over a community.
My staging mechanism is very deep and requires further research. The concrete dust covering my hometown is transformed into a painting or sculpture that recalls the trauma of a community deeply affected by post-revolutionary changes in Romania. In Turda, when it rained, the vegetables turned into concrete because of the cement dust expelled in the atmosphere by the nearby factory. I depict the traumatic process into an emotion-making installation that creates unusual attention to some social processes lost in selective memory."