Dalia Sofronie

Artist · Ceramicist
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Dalia Sofronie (Târgu-Mureș, 1979) – Baix Montseny, Barcelona. 

My work stems from a fascination with natural processes and the way life organizes itself, grows, and finds its path.

I studied Decorative Arts and Advertising Design and spent several years working as an Art Director before dedicating myself fully to ceramics. That experience continues to influence my practice, where structure and intuition move forward together.

Since 2009, I have worked exclusively with stoneware and porcelain. In 2015, I founded 137° Ceramic Art Studio, where I create sculptures and installations for private collections, interior design projects, and hospitality spaces. Alongside my artistic practice, I teach workshops and collaborate with artists and ceramicists from different countries.

My work emerges from observing natural processes of growth, connection, and transformation. I am particularly interested in what happens before something becomes visible: the impulse that precedes movement, the tension that anticipates change, or the invisible bonds that connect one form to another.

Through ceramics, I seek to give shape to those silent forces that shape life and that, although we rarely see them, are always present.

Under the same skin / Sculptural series

You and I make three: you, me, and the space in between.

Under the Same Skin is an ongoing sculptural series about connection.
It began with a simple question: how can two forms remain distinct while sharing the same space?
Through the interaction of autonomous volumes, the work explores the subtle territory between separation and belonging.

Pulsation  / Sculptural series

The path is not a straight line; it is a spiral.

There are ideas I return to again and again. We believe we have understood them, yet they reappear in new forms and reveal something we had not seen before.

Pulsation emerges from this experience. It is a sculptural exploration of the rhythms that sustain life: growth, transformation, repetition and change.

Standalone works

Unique pieces born from the free exploration of form, matter, and the ceramic surface.

Standalone works that develop their own language: individual exercises outside of a specific series.