Anna Dumitriu Blog

2nd July 2026

“The Amyloid Necklace” (2026) explores research into amyloidosis and contains beads and 3D printed organs, referencing those that are affected by the disease, which are safely embedded with lab grown amyloid ‘seeds’ — small fragments of amyloid fibrils grown from the same protein originally identified in the blood of a systemic amyloidosis patient, and now […]

3rd March 2020

“The Mutability of Memories and Fates” responds to the scientific concepts of cell memory and cell fates. The exhibition presents a series of artworks resulting from artistic research of epigenetics and stem cells. The artist, Anna Dumitriu, picks up the scientific expressions of “cell memories” and “cell fates, drawing connections between scientific uses and cultural […]

31st March 2020

Chandelier AR (2024) explores how biomaterials and augmented reality art can impact sustainability and the circular economy in the wine industry. Dumitriu has created an intricate hand-made chandelier installation using wine waste, specifically biotextiles made using spolied wine and feccia (final grape pressing) kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic cultures of yeast and bacteria), and bio-plastics and bio-composites […]

13th December 2025

Unravelling the Silk Road “Unravelling the Silk Road” (2025-26) is a pioneering Anglo-Uzbek collaboration between British BioArtist Anna Dumitriu and Uzbek museum director and curator Shirin Tashova supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture Programme. The project explores rich medical history and current healthcare and environmental challenges and innovations in both Uzbekistan and the […]

2nd September 2020

Unruly Objects is a series of closely connected projects exploring the conservation of biological media and BioArt, and its inclusion in museum collections. Unruly Objects and Biological Conservation Unruly Objects and Biological Conservation (2020 onwards) is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at The University of West Attica […]

4th July 2023

About Uninhibited Faba Uninhibited Faba (2023) takes the form of a series of artworks that explore the history and future of the humble faba bean (Vicia faba) and how it can help us mitigate climate change, improve food security, and fix nitrogen. The project looks at aesthetic and ethical issues around innovative biotechnological research to […]

31st March 2020

“Physic-AI Garden” takes the form of stunning and dynamic digital garden, where beautiful virtual plants and fungi grow and interact with each other and with audiences. The plants each represent different drugs and the garden grows according to what drugs work well together and what drugs interact negatively or cause side effects. Audiences can ‘plant’ […]

5th June 2026

Anna Dumitriu is undertaking a new residency at the Institute of Biology in Bucharest in Romania in 2026 focussed on the scientific study of medicinal plants, with a focus on Smoke Tree and Edelweiss. She is working with scientific collaborator is Dr Alexandra-Gabriela Ciocan and the residency is supported and curated by Marginal under the framework of their 2026 Otherwise Residency Programme. The […]

28th March 2020

“Cyberspecies Proximity” (2020) explores what it will mean to share our sidewalks, elevators and transport systems in close proximity with mobile intelligent robots. Anna Dumitriu and Alex May undertook a STARTS Residency to develop their explorations of robotic movement through an in depth collaboration with the Human Robot Co-Mobility project led by the New Technologies […]

3rd March 2020

Bacterial Baptism (2022) is based on a vintage christening gown which has been altered by the artist to tell the story of research into how the microbiomes of babies develop, with a focus on the bacterium Clostridioides difficile, originally discovered by Hall and O’Toole in 1935 and presented in their paper “Intestinal flora in new-born […]