Constantin Severin was born on the 8th of February 1952, in Baia de Arama, Romania.

He is a visual artist (paiting, installations, post-literature), member of the International Art Group ”3rd Paradigm(“http://3rdparadigm.net”), together with the artists Adrian Bayreuther , Alberto D’Assumpcao, Olga Dmytrenko , Harriette Lawler, Izabella Pavlushko and of European Artists Association, Germany. He is the follower of the Romanian masters Alexandru Chira and Ion Tuculescu. His art is represented by Opera Gallery, Budapest, Rearte Gallery, Vienna, Elite Gallery, Bucharest and Mariana Cabanov Gallery, Turin.
He is also a writer, member of the Romanian Writers’ Union.

Between 1977-1991 he worked as an engineer in a pulp and paper factory, in Suceava, and the press presented him as ”the writer who knows to manufacture his writing paper”. From 1991 to 2004 he worked as a journalist for different Romanian publications, but also for BBC and Free Europe radio. Currently Constantin Severin works at the Art department of the County’s Library of Bucovina ”I.G. Sbiera”, Suceava and is one of the editors of the international cultural information and education revue, Levure littéraire, founded in France by the well-known French/Romanian writer, Rodica Draghincescu.

He has published over 800 articles, essays and interviews on culture, art theory and criticism, as well as on other issues of Romanian and international interest. He is the theorist and promoter of  archetypal expressionism and of post -literature, in essays published on the site of the well known Saatchi Gallery, London. The first concept concerns contemporary art, the latter the philosophy of culture. As a journalist he was invited to the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, in September 1999, by Leni Fischer, Honorary President. Juror for prestigious international art contests. His concepts and artworks have been published by major international art and literary magazines, like Artdaily, It’s Liquid, Levure litteraire, Empireuma, Vatra, Arkitera, Glare Magazine, Cuadernos del Ateneo, Dance and Media Japan, etc.

Activity as a visual artist

Solo exhibitions:

-”Text and Time”, September 2004, Bucovina Museum, Suceava, Romania, (promoted by the EuroNews cultural Agenda);

-”The Signs of the Time”, November 2004, The NahVision Art Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany (also promoted by the EuroNews Agenda).

-”Time’s Metaphors”, February 2006, The Velea (TransArt) Art Gallery in Bacau, Romania.

-”Matrioshka Identities”, February 2007, Art Gallery of the ”Stephen the Great” University, Suceava, Romania.

-”The Alchemical City”, January 2009, Lascar Vorel Art Gallery of the Romanian Artists Union, Piatra Neamt, Romania (promoted by EuroNews TV channel, Rendez-vous cultural magazine).

-”My Archetypal Suceava City”, April 2009, Dalype Gallery, Oslo, Norway.

-”Archetypal Expressionism”, online show, April 2009,  Design Gallery, University of Massachussets, Boston, USA, curated by the artist Lily Yang.

-”Text and Time. The Archetypal Expressionism”, November-December 2009, Museum of Visual Art, Galati, Romania.

-”Totem. In memoriam Ion Ţuculescu”, June 2010, Museum of Art, Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania; curator: Maria Bălăceanu, director of the museum.

-”Selfportrait with Guardian Angel”, June 2011, Romanian Literature Museum, Iaşi, Romania.

-Retrospective solo show 2002-2012, Bucovina Museum, Suceava, Romania, February 2012.

-”Gauguin’s Children”, May 2012, Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.

Group exhibitions, international art projects:

-International  Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland, April 2005.

-National Museum of History, Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia, June 2006.

-Stanzwerk Bochum, Germany, June-July 2007,  art symposium organized by European Artists Association.

-Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, New York, January-February 2009, together with other 50 international artists, group show organized by Mirca Art Group, curator Carla Goldberg, NY.

-International Art Center ”George Apostu”, Bacau, Romania, group show ”The Wineyard and the Wine”, February 2009,  organized by the museum/art gallery of art brut Galerie de 4 coins, France, curated by the founder of the museum, the French artist Luis Marcel.

-Marseille Project Gallery, Marseille, France, ”Spring Projection” project, March 2009, together with other 34 international artists.

-TransCultural Exchange, Boston, Little Gallery New York, The International Exquisite Corps Project by Mary Corey March, April 2009, together with other 18 international artists from 12 countries.

-Design Gallery, University of Massachussets, Boston Cyberarts Festival, April 2009, DSL Cyber MOCA in Second Life, ”TransForm”international  project, curated by Lily&Honglei.

-Opera Gallery, Budapest, May 2009, group exhibition by artists from the 27 member states of EU.

-Funil Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2010, 3rd Paradigm group show.

-Jose de Lorenzo Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2010, 3rd Paradigm group show.

-Vieira Portuense Gallery, Oporto, Portugal, October 2010, 3rd Paradigm group show.

-Rearte Gallery, Vienna, Austria, October 2011, Privatsphären (Private Spheres), group show together with the other members of 3rd Paradigm art group and the international artists Frank Ettenberg and Gerti Hopf.The show was presented by Elisabeth Ledersberger-Lehoczky, vicepresident of Austrian Art Association and president of the Sculpture department and was featured by the art magazine IT’S LIQUID.

-International Plastic Arts Saloon of Alto Alentejo, Cultural Center of Sousel, Portugal (from 10/08/2011 until 11/20/2011).

- International art fair, ART WIESLOCH, Wiesloch, Germany, September 2012, with the members of 3rd Paradigm Group.

- Kaplanka Museum, Protivin, Czech Republic, September 2012, with the members of 3rd Paradigm Group.

”Constantin Severin & the Archetypal Expressionism”, talk-show, PLUS TV, Suceava, Romania, October 2009.

Art Awards:

-UNESCO Ambassador of eurointegration through art, in 2008.

-Excellence Award offered by the City Hall of Drobeta Turnu Severin City and of County Council of Mededinţi, Romania, December 2009.

-OPERA OMNIA Art Award offered by Suceava County Council, January 2012.

-”Black Sea Danubian Social&Economic Innovator” Trophy for Art, offered by Eurolink-House of Europe Foundation, Bucharest, May 2012, in partnership with the European Commission and the Romanian Academy, for ”creating and promoting a new concept in European arts, Archetypal Expressionism.”

- Honorary citizen of his birthtown, Baia de Aramă, Mehedinţi, Romania, in May 2011.
- Featured artist by ”It’s Liquid” international art, architecture &design magazine, November, 2012.

Artbooks, catalogues:

-Works published by ”Freedom & art”, Art book Project-Mirca Art Group-Skogas, Sweden (An Art Happening), 2008;

-Art book printed by the Museum of Art from Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania and art catalogue made by the Museum of Visual Art, Galati, Romania.

-Included on ”The illustrated dictionnary of beaux arts in Moldova-1800 to 2010”, published by the art critic Valentin Ciucă, Art XXI publishing house, Iaşi, 2011.

-Included through a selection made by 5 international art curators on the art book ”International Contemporary Artists”, ICA Publishing, New York, 2011, by Eve Lemonidou (art critic, art collector and curator) and Olga Antoniadou (art historian and curator).

-Included by the American visual artist and curator, Harriette Lawler, on the artbook Privatsphären (Private Spheres), in 2011.

Artworks in public (The Museum of Art and History Suceava, Romania, The Museum of Art Piatra Neamt, Romania and The Museum of Art Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania) and private collections from Romania, Germany, USA, Finland, Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Ukraine, Italy, Great Britain, etc