Artworks by Kloska Ovidiu

Ovidiu Kloska – Biography & Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Ovidiu Kloska (b. 1977, Romania) is a contemporary visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, welded-steel sculpture, mixed media, and oniric conceptual photography. His work explores the liminal tension between matter and spirit, weaving metaphysical atmospheres with textures shaped by erosion, memory, corrosion, and the slow architectures of time.

Fascinated by the dynamism of shape, Kloska constructs a personal visual language rooted in neurological impulse, dream logic, and the poetic transformation of the ordinary. He describes his creative intuition as “a magic eye” — an inner sensor capable of deciphering the sublime inside the mundane. Hours spent observing mud sediments, bark wrinkles, oxidized walls, mossed stones, or nocturnal light become meditative exercises, warming the spirit and reconnecting the artist with silence, ephemerality, and the esoteric pulse of world-matter.

His visual universe is fundamentally oniric, relating closely to dreams, unconsciousness, delirium, hallucination, metamorphosis, spontaneous gesture, illusion, and the delicate border between the abnormal and the normal. Each artwork functions as a portal in continuous vibration — between presence and absence, entropy and order, lucidity and reverie.

Born in Roman, Neamț County, on July 27, 1977, Kloska first graduated from the Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi,” Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications (2000). He then completed both his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași. He currently lives and works in Focșani, Romania.

Kloska is a member of the Romanian Union of Professional Artists (UAP). His artworks are held in private collections in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Romania, Hong Kong, and the Middle East. In 2024, a welded-steel sculpture was acquired by a Hong Kong collector for €2,700. In 2023, one of his major paintings sold for €12,000 at the prestigious charity auction Balul de la Castel, where he exhibited alongside leading Romanian artists, including Vladinsky.

Over the last two decades, the artist has also sold a significant number of works through international online auctions across multiple global art platforms, contributing to his sustained visibility on the international art market.

Curriculum Vitae Ovidiu Kloska – Selected Exhibitions & Activities Solo Exhibitions

1999 – Pen & ink drawings, Casa Studenților Iași (Student Art Week), Romania
1999 – Pen & ink drawings, Luceafărul Theatre, Iași, Romania
2002 – Paintings & graphics, Art Galleries Focșani, Romania
2007 – Personal exhibition, Hidalgo Art Gallery, Focșani, Romania
2007 – Personal exhibition, Art Galleries Focșani, Romania
2007 – Personal exhibition, Espace Costos Gallery, Saint-Tropez, France (private gallery of renowned Romanian-French painter Georges Costos)
2007 – Personal exhibition, Art Galleries Focșani, Romania
2008 – Incandescent and Wears, Tonitza UAP Gallery, Iași
2008 – Urban Wear – Oniric Interferences, major solo exhibition, International Art Center George Apostu, Bacău
2009 – Memory Mark, painting, graphics, installation, Art Galleries Focșani
2011 – Flowers for Kafka, Calderon Club, Bucharest
2015 – Alone to the Invisible Touch, Nicolae Mantu Gallery, Galați
2017 – Mindscapes, Focșani Art Gallery
2019 – The Memory of Light, Patria Art Gallery, Brașov
2019 – Beyond the Inside, RomanArt Gallery, Roman
2024 – The Beauty of Imperfection, paintings & welded-steel sculptures, Focșani Art Galleries, Romania

Group Exhibitions / International Art Events

1999 – Outopus Literary Association – illustration for Issue No. 5
1999 – Illustration project with playwright Mircea Rotaru – Casa dintre Lumi
2002 – Collaboration with Oglinda Literară Vrancea
2007 – TIAV – International Festival for Visual Arts, Bucharest
2007 – ArtSpace 2000, Arcus Cultural Center, Sf. Gheorghe
2008 – Atelier 35 – World Trade Center, Iași
2008 – Moldavian Salons (Iași – Bucharest – Chișinău)
2008 – The City, World Trade Center, Iași
2008 – 4 Romanian Contemporary Artists, Nably, France
2009 – Moldavian Salons
2023 – MOBU International Art Fair, Bucharest