Diana Serghiuta, born in Brașov in 1985, lives and works in Arad, Romania.

Serghiuta is a Romanian visual artist whose academic path includes a Master’s degree (2010) and a Doctorate (2016) from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Painting Department, in Timișoara. Her work explores the fragile terrain of the human psyche, often inhabiting the threshold between the real and the unreal. Through layered imagery and symbolic compositions, she constructs evocative interior worlds—spaces of personal narrative, intuitive memory, and emotional transformation.

Drawing on elements of personal history, Serghiuta’s paintings create intimate, often mysterious settings shaped by a distinctly feminine and contemporary lens. Animals, domestic objects, and dreamlike spaces become recurring motifs, functioning as symbolic thresholds into questions of memory, empathy, and identity.

In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Meet My Snakes – Echoes of a Distant Heritage, Alfa Gallery, Arad. This followed earlier projects such as Missing Thoughts, Atelier 030202, Bucharest, 2018; Organic Memories, MAG Gallery, Como, 2016; Melancholy, Museum of Art, Arad, 2015; Unconscious Live, Machina Gallery, Rieti, 2013; and Visions of Revery, Calina Art Gallery, Timișoara, 2011. These exhibitions mark her sustained engagement with emotionally resonant and psychologically charged visual narratives.

« In my paintings I strive to create an eerie world, born of the delicate equilibrium between the individual and the natural. Elements of the trajectory of my personal history are placed in a new context in an originally feminine, contemporary manner. The works become new evoking realities, spaces endowed with strongly personal notes, mysterious narrations about to unravel. I believe that animals and the objects we use in our day-to-day life may become gates, openings helping us to gain access to our own humanity. I try my best to be analytical, but at the same time empathetic in the search of the origins of what make us human.

My work is a sort of collection, an ensemble of tendencies, memories, some conscious and others unconscious, formed as far back as childhood on the basis of social and family experiences, which determined my own personal forming. I make reference to different fields, according to what I have experienced. »

Diana Serghiuta, courtesy of the artist’s website