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Alex Bodea (b. 1981 in Cluj, Romania, currently based in Berlin, constantly travelling through Europe) merges visual art and storytelling.

Driven by the desire to be an observer of the human experience, she documents and interprets various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journey as a nomad-artist.

Her mediums are drawing, installation, painting, and writing filtered through a particular approach she has been developing since 20212, called fact finding. This approach implies that she builds her work upon field research, direct experiences and direct encounter with the subject matter (research expeditions inside places and communities.) From these direct research encounters, she drives serial or stand-alone works containing multiple scenes that summarize her findings, building complex narratives.

Recurrent themes in her work are the exile experience, multicultural identities, language, personal and collective history and the queer culture.   This richness of themes is being reflected b y having several different aesthetical approaches over the years, from a cerebral minimalism to more sensitive figuration (the style serves the story).  Most of her works are executed on paper and other paper-based surfaces as she tries to push the boundaries of what can be accomplished on such support.  She also manufactures most of her paints, from well-researched, high-quality pigments, something that has become a ritual and part of the artistic process. 

In her fact finding expeditions, she has worked with and created visual studies on institutions such Fundacion de Serralves (Porto), the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin), Matin-Gropius-Bau, HAU, Berliner Festspiele, Deutsche Oper, Deutsches Theatre, the International Literature Festival (Berlin), Art Encounters Foundation (Timisoara), Asociata Reciproca (Cluj), Ecole Nationale Superieure d'arte de Bourges, and several institutions in the Lens-Lievin area (France). 

She has published her graphic stories, extracts, and inserts in various publications, such as The Guardian, Arta, IDEA arts+society, Cutra, Modernism, CORNER footbal+society, Megazin (International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana) Stripburger, Tagesspiegel, ExBerliner. 
She is the author of the graphic novel Six Breakfast, One Lunch (artist book, 2016), the visual notes album The Man with a hole in his tie (published with the support of ENSA-Galerie La Box, 2020), and the graphic novel The Fact Finder (BeccoGiallo Edizioni, 2020). 
She is co-founder of The Fact Finder (2017-2019) project space based in Berlin, currently an online platform) dedicated to the artists who build their work upon field research, archiving, investigation and storytelling. 
In 2021 she has been awarded the Research Stipend in the Field of Literature / Graphic Arts by the Berlin Senate for Culture. 
In 2022, a selection of seven Visual notes have been entered in the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art's graphic art collection. 

Relevant Links:

https://www.instagram.com/alex_bodea_the_fact_finder

https://www.lutnita.md/artists/alexbodea

https://www.facebook.com/fastpoems