Alexandru Șalariu / N’dru (she/her)
is an artist based in Weimar. In her practice, sound resonates through body technologies in performance, installation, and sculpture. Her desires, rooted in migratory, queer, poverty-driven, and vibrational dissociation, are at the center of her work.
Born in 1994 in Iași, Romania, she initially studied philosophy and chemistry at the University of Tübingen before transferring to the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (AdBK) to study sculpture, art education, and sound under Michael Stevenson, Michael Munding, and Jan St. Werner, graduating as ‘Meisterschülerin’. She received the Debutant Support Award, the Graduate Award, and the Bavarian Art Promotion Award 2025, and has worked as an assistant to Prof. Syowia Kyambi and, since 2026, as an artistic collaborator for Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
She has been deeply involved in the work of the artist collective DAF and has already exhibited at the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, the Srafjustizzentrum, and the Albrecht Dürer Kunstverein in Nuremberg. She also performed a concert at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, set Jack Smith’s classic queer film “Flaming Creatures” to music—including a live performance at the Transit Film Festival—and created an interactive sound and stage design concept for the play Curious Space, which was presented at the Tafelhalle in Nuremberg.