I am excited to announce that Artig Gallery has launched a new solo art exhibition of my works on Artsy. Check it out at the link below: https://www.artsy.net/show/artig-gallery-visual-poetry-of-the-body-and-soul
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Art photographer Marius Budu brings his ambitious project, Phantasmagoria – Theatre of Dreams – a surreal exploration of our role in dreams to Rhizom gallery in Copenhagen this June. The image series, exhibited from the 9th until the 22nd of June will be shown alongside a short art film by the same name. Phantasmagoria is…
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Do you love art and want to be an active part of bringing it to the world? This might be the perfect opportunity to do just that! I am currently looking for a marketing and PR intern to help me establish a marketing strategy and begin implementing it. I’m looking for someone who is passionate…
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I am in love with the abstract. My first photographic passion was using a macro lens to photograph the minuscule unseen treasures of the world we casually walk past every day. The two elements of macro photography that truly fascinated me were texture and form. Eventually I discovered the immense possibilities of working with the…
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Following in the momentum built by the Nude Art Photography Festival in France, I was contacted by the organizers of the Bucharest PhotoFest. I was invited to exhibit my ‘Twisted Flesh’ series and do an art talk about my process and working with the human body.
This year is shaping up to be very interesting in terms of exhibitions and opportunities for promoting my art. The best news so far was that my series, ‘Phantasmagoria’ was accepted into the 15th edition of The European Festival of Nude Art Photography held in Arles, France. This is the biggest and longest-running festival dedicated…
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‘The Opera’ is one of the most beautiful and well curated nude art photography magazines on the market and I have been reading it since it was first launched. I am happy and honored to announce that after sending in my series ‘Divergent’ shot with the wonderful ballerina, Stephanie Sahlgren for consideration, the editor, Mr.…
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Recently I have been shooting small video clips during my photo shoots and have decided to make a series of short films. This is a teaser from the upcoming short film: ‘Phantasmagoria – Sequence I’
The wonderful Veronika and I have the great honor of being on the cover of NU ART REVUE Magazine’s massive 366 page Summer issue. They have done a massive showcase of my art featuring 50 images from various projects.
Recently I was traveling with my girlfriend and ended up in Brasov, Romania for a couple of days. We had lived there for 10 months in 2012-2013 and were lucky enough to meet and get to know many wonderful and creative people. While we were walking around, we ran into a couple of them and…
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The second article from the “model Impressions” series comes from one of my very first models who I have a wonderful creative relationship with. From our very first shoot we had that almost psychic connection and all of the projects resulting from our collaborations are at the very top of anything I have ever produced.…
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The ‘Midnight’ series is a project that I have been rolling over in my mind for years. For some reason, it always felt a bit too ambitious production-wise and I always ended up favoring other concepts instead. So one day I actually sat down and worked out the practicalities of what it would take to…
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Photographing people in the nude is an intimate process that asks a lot from anyone that will eventually end up in front of the lens. There is of course the vital element of trust, being able to show that you are a professional person and have the ability to show and explain to others what…
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Last year was my least productive year in terms of shooting. This was mainly due to the fact that I had two major exhibitions to organize and I was also traveling for a big part of the year. When I was in Copenhagen for my second exhibition in October there was one thing I was…
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This has been a busy month as I had two big exhibitions opening one after the other in different countries. As soon as I was done with the opening night for my Twisted Flesh exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum in Timisoara, Romania, I had to fly back to Copenhagen and arrange the final preparations…
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Twisted Flesh is a project that I worked on for a period of 6 years. From the conceptual phase to final production this has been an absolutely fantastic and self-enriching process. As this project deals with the relationships we have with our own bodies, I learned a lot about people, their stories, mannerisms, idiosyncrasies, strengths…
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