Claudia Brăileanu (b.1981) is a transmedia artist based in Bucharest. With her work she explores digital technologies as tools for modeling novel social configurations and virtual worlds as grounds for building social and cultural alternatives able to shift the focus on what could be different. With a background in painting, her work primarily researches the medium through the lens of emerging technologies. She builds a visual language that interweaves abstraction and figuration while exploring the interplay between physical and digital environments and its impact on how we understand and relate to painting.Her practice encompasses 3D animation, virtual reality, installations, painting and prints.She studied in Bucharest and Leipzig and holds an M.A. in painting. Her work was exhibited at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara; Gapgap, Leipzig; HGB Leipzig; Triade Foundation, Timișoara; Mobius Gallery, Bucharest; Victoria Art Center, Bucharest; Creart Gallery, Bucharest; ARCUB, Bucharest; MCC Art Gallery, Mesa, Arizona etc., and can be found in the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest collection and several private collections. Her work was published in Le Monde, Artribune, etc.She lives and works in Bucharest.