On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, the Contemporary Art Hall of the Golești Museum will host the ceramics exhibition of artist Lavinia Georgiana Răican, entitled Jazz.

Lavinia Răican was born on February 19, 1982, in the city of Galați.

She took her first steps in art within her family. The artist’s grandmother, who had a great sensitivity for the art of embroidery, seeing her inclination towards drawing, enrolled her in the Galați Art High School from her middle school. She received her first art guidance from Gabriela Georgescu and Liliana Negoescu, painters and teachers at the Dimitrie Cuclin Art High School. She graduated from this high school in 2000. After the baccalaureate and attestation exam, she took the exam at the University of Art and Design in Cluj Napoca, where she was admitted to the Ceramics section of the Faculty of Decorative Arts, in the class of Professor Doctor Titu Toncian.

In 2004, she obtained an Erasmus scholarship at the Saint Luc Faculty of Art in Liege, Belgium.

After completing the Bachelor’s exam in Cluj, in 2004, she left the country to follow her brother and mother in France, in the Paris region. There she continued her studies in the field of visual arts, obtaining her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Paris 8 in 2006, specializing in Contemporary Art.

In 2005, she worked as a visual artist at the Annaik and Michel Barbe Architecture Office. Here she made drawings, three-dimensional models and graphics for presentations and exhibitions.

Between 2015 and 2017, she was an animator at the art workshop of the Talacatak-Paris Association.

Between 2018 and 2024, he was a professor at the Carmen Sylva College of Art in Ploiești.

He is currently an art professor at the Dimitrie Paciurea College in Bucharest.

He has participated in several group exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as in creative camps.

The Jazz Musical Instruments project develops around the association between music and the visual arts, the joining of two different artistic languages, the visual language and the musical language. For Lavinia Răican, the idea of ​​creating these works came from a family and personal contact with the musical field. As a child, she was surrounded by guitar chords and folk music. Her mother was a singer-songwriter and composer of folk music. The second contact she had with music was participating in the school choir and later in amateur choirs. For example, she was part of the Holy Archangels Choir of the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Paris. From these musical experiences, she learned what the harmony of voices in a choral ensemble means and, as she confesses, she made the connection with “the harmony between the elements of a plastic composition, when the artist seeks harmony, when all the parts are arranged in a hierarchy of values ​​around a well-cohesive compositional structure”.

This exhibition, which the artist will bring to the Golești Museum, will include 3 works in sandstone and 4 works in clay, representing jazz musical instruments, presented in a completely new vision, as well as 7 graphic works, representing sketches of ceramic instruments. It can be visited until February 18, 2026.

We look forward to seeing you!

Curator & presentation: Nicoleta Popa Grigore