Andrei Mateescu was born in 1988 in Bucharest (Romania) and studied in the frame of the Dynamic Image and Photography Department of the National University of Arts in the same city, where he went on to get his BFA and subsequently MFA in 2012. He grew up in a succession of communist apartment-block estates, first training his eye and imagination through early, random photo experiments with a cheap key-chain digital camera. Moving on to a more formal investigation of the syncretism and delicate relationships which articulate the fabric of present-day urban landscape, his preoccupations first led to the RoArchive  collaborative project (initiated by Iosif Kiraly), contributing with a series on the tourist Romanian seaside – Olympus (2009-2011). It did not take long for an underlying preoccupation towards the photographic medium’s boundaries, and ability to adequately communicate contemporary society’s intricacies, to be felt in his series. A notable first step being the tackling of the complexities of an eclectic and difficult East European urban landscape in his Multilateral, HYPER and Residential trilogy. Following this, he further expanded and approached such concepts and themes resulting in projects as gray (Gy), CC, Index, AM AM or Like Water Under the Bridge.
He currently lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.

2019

Solo show Like Water Under the Bridge at Galeria Posibila, October-November

Solo show AM AM at the Spațiul 2/2,  Timișoara space, May-June

2018

AM AM project present at Cazul 101 Bucharest, in the “Archive 101” show, July

AM AM project present at Borderline Art Space Iași, in the “Archeology and post-archive” show, April-May

2017

Like Water Under the Bridge featured at Borderline Art Space Iași, in the group show “On Water and Things”, December

Like Water Under the Bridge featured at Victoria Art Center Bucharest, in the group show “DPlatform Season 2”, November

2016

HYPER featured at ApARTE Gallery Iaşi, in the “Clinical Architectures for a Compositionist Future” show, part of the first edition of the “Contemporary Photography and Dynamic Image Biennial”, organised by the Contemporary Photography Center, May

Present in the group show “D-Platform Preview”, hosted by Galeria Posibilă, December

2015

Photography series and installation Index created together with Sabin Gârea featured at Anca Poterașu Gallery, in the frame of the “What About Poor Gregor Samsa” event, February

Photography series Residential and Under-Construction photography series featured in the CAV – Multimedia Gallery, in the show “Concrete Paradise”, in collaboration with Sabin Gârea, February

2014

Group show in the frame of the “Celeste Prize” 2014 award with the Residential project, in Italy – Milano, Assab One Gallery, November

Multilateral Installation at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in the group show “WHAT ABOUT Y[OUR] MEMORY” celebrating the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Photo-Video department in UNArte Bucharest, November

Winner of the AnnArt Gallery Award 2014 for young artists

Photographic series Re-Place featured at AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest, in the group show “TAA_2014”, October

2013

gray (Gy) shown at apARTe Gallery, Iași, in “It will happen already”, November

The gray (Gy) series shown at Victoria Art Center Bucharest in “Switched Over, October

Laureate of ESSL Nominees Night Romania 2013, event organized at The Victoria Art Center, in June.

2012

Selected in the frame of the “Start Point Prize 2012”, representing Romania at the The DOX Gallery in Prague with the HYPER series, July

Itinerary of E-Cites Bucharest at The Museum of Modern Art of Saint Etienne, France

Itinerary of E-Cites Bucharest at The Walon Center of Contemporary Art of Flemelle, Belgium

Multilateral showed at The Museum of Modern Art of Thessaloniki, Greece, September

2011

Group show “Generațion TAA 2011”, at AnnArt Gallery Bucharest, September

2010

Participant with the Multilateral project at The European Contemporary Art Fair of Strasbourg, in the show Transitions Urbaines, organized by the Apollonia Cultural Asociation together with The Romanian Cultural Institute, November