Photographer Simona Rota offers her particular critical visions of architecture and the connection with the surroundings, managing to reflect impenetrable atmospheres with finely ironic perspectives. This sort of irreverent look of the urbanized scenery has also been applied on inhabited interiors, creating almost dream-like realities. Providing each image with her own vision of the elements, putting them into context, an aspect which may not have been considered during its construction.

The poetry of abandonment, the irrelevance between landscape and architecture or between construction and social reality is one of the guiding axis of her exterior work. Also, this oppressive trait of abandonment is treated in the same romantic and poetic way in interiors, creating an everyday feeling completely illusionary.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Degree in Political Sciences. Public University Bucharest, 1997-2001

Master of International Relations.  Universidad Autonoma Barcelona, 2001-2003

School of Photography and Image Madrid, EFTI, 2009-2010

AWARDS

Finalist PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos, Madrid, 2012

Selected for the Independent Art Festival Incubarte, Valencia, 2012

Finalist Arte40, Madrid, 2012

Shortlisted, Photography Award Purificación García 2012

Award Emergent of the Gallery Valid Foto Barcelona, Pati de la Llotja, Lérida 2011

Award Emergent of the Gallery The Private Space, Pati de la Llotja , Lérida 2011

Award of the platform Stuffinablank, Pati de la Llotja, Lérida 2011

Award  of the platform El Ciclope Mécanico  Pati de la Llotja, Lérida 2011

Finalist International Photography Biennale Fotonoviembre Tenerife, 2011,

Selected portfolio for the International Festival Emergent, Pati de la Llotj, Lérida, 2011

Selected by the International Arts Foundation (FIART) to exhibit at the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Medellin, Colombia, 2010-2011

2nd Prize portfolios EftiNetwork for "Ostalgia", Madrid, 2011

Finalist International Award Emergent Sorigué, Lérida, 2010

Finalist IV International Award for Fine Arts María José Jove, A Coruña, 2010

Prize of Photography  of the Museum of Architecture of Vienna, Austria, 2009

OTHER AWARDS AND SCOLARSHIPS

Erasmus Scholarship. Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2001

Grant of residence at the Foundation Bathory, Poland. 1999

Grant of residence of the Academic Association for Studies in French (AUPELF) at the Summer School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 1999
Scholarship for academic excellence from the Ministry of Education, Romania, 1998-2001

Tuition scholarship, Public University of Bucharest, Romania, 1997

EXHIBITIONS

“Soviet Modernism. Unknown Masterpieces 1955-1991”, Museum of Architecture of Vienna, opening Nov 2012, itinerant exhibition, (exhibition of architecture that include my work)

“Big Exit”, Gallery Escalera de Incendios, September - November, Barcelona, Spain (solo)

“Talent Latent”, International Festival SCAN, October - November, Tarragona, Spain (group)

“Eyes on the City”, Stadtmuseum Graz, October - December 2012, Graz, Austria (group)

“Emergent”, The Private Space, Barcelona, July-August 2012 (group)

“Arte40”, Centro de Arte Complutense, Museo del Traje, april-may 2012, Madrid (group)

”Emergent. 3 authors”. Valid Foto, Barcelona, January-February 2012 (group)

“No one”, Stuffiinablank gallery online, November 2011 - April 2012 (group)

"Atlantica Colectivas", Photography Biennial Fotonoviembre11, Tenerife November 2011-Decemeber 2011 (group)

"Puntos de Fuga" at the Ibero American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, October 2010, Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia (group)

Show of the finalist entries for the "IV International Prize María José Jove", Maria José Jove Foundation, La Coruna, in June 2010, Spain (group)

"Balkanology", Museum of Architecture in Vienna, 2009 Austria (group)

PUBLICATIONS

Magazines  Germany (Bauwelt 19/2011); Austria (Camera Austria, Hintergrund, 91 º - More than Architecture Magazine AZW), Argentina (muyricotodo.com); Brazil (Contemporaneu), China (WAIzine), Croatia (Oris), France (Spéciale Z Journal, Le Courrier de l’Architecte), Poland (Architektura & Biznes), Portugal (Sharemag.net) Spain ( Living Architecture, Architecture News, Fanzine 10x15, CyanMag, Diseño Interior), Russia (Speech), Italy (Travel Guide Moroso 2011, Europaconcorsi, Archiportale), South Africa (AZA Report Summer 2011), Korea (C3), UK (Icon) etc;  Catalogues  Spain (Catalog IV International Fine Art Award María José Jove, Catalogue Emergent 2011; Catalogue Biennale Fotonoviembre 2012), Catalogue “TPS loves Emergent Artists”  - booklet “Ostalgia. Simona Rota”. Books / "Menis" published  by Archilife, Korea, 2011; Architectourism Hizpania published by Zocco, Poland, 2012; Architettura in calcestruzzo, published by UETE Scienze Tecniche, Italia, 2012