Biography

Mihai Sovaiala is an artist currently living and working in Zurich. Since 2013, his photographic work focuses around urban development structures and their peripheries, questioning the impact of architecture on the city’s context and history. He presents his works either in exhibition contexts, mainly through installations or in book formats, which are at times, self published. He completed his Meisterschüler studies in 2020 at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, under the guidance of Joachim Brohm, after getting his bachelor degree in photography from the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

Exhibitions (Selected)

– 2023, Holding Pattern at 2/3 Galeria, Bucharest, RO
– 2023, Styro City part of Beyond Photography at National Art Museum, Kishinev, MD
– 2023, Sculpted Spaces part of See What. Photography in Romania after 2000 at MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, RO
– 2019, The neighbours thought it was a science lab part of Moderne. Ikonografie. Fotografie - Das Bauhaus und die Folgen 1919 - 2019 at Kunstmuseum Kloster, Magdeburg, DE
– 2019, Reacknowledged Structures: Models part of Circulation(s) at 104 Centquatre, Paris, FR

Contributions

– 2021, Holding Pattern book review published online on americansuburbx.com
– 2021, Styro City published in Camera Austria Magazine, Issue 153
– 2020, Interview published in Revista Foi, 3rd Issue, Magazine
– 2020, Holding Pattern published in British Journal of Photography, March issue, Magazine
– 2019, Gone Shopping published in KAJET Issue 3, Magazine

Awards and Grants

– 2021, Selected at FotoHof Calling, Salzburg, AT
– 2020, 1st prize, Young Artists Connections, Switch Lab, Bucharest, RO
– 2019, Salzburg Summer Academy, Erste Stiftung Grants, Salzburg, AT
– 2018, Center of Documentary Photography Grants, Bucharest, RO
– 2017, Shortlisted at Unseen Dummy Award, Amsterdam, NL