ABOUT
I am Diana Serban, a visual artist and certified Climate-Aware photographer based in London.
My work moves between the interior and the exterior, personal memory and collective experience, what is and what could be.
Through photography, moving image and installation, I investigate the landscapes we inhabit, the objects we hold onto, and the realities we shape around ourselves, as ways of understanding who we are and who we are becoming.
I am drawn to places that hold traces of lives lived, and to the friction between stillness and restlessness, control and surrender, belonging and searching.
Alongside my practice, I have extensive experience in branding and communications, having worked with charitable organisations and local communities in the UK, as well as major international brands.
If you'd like to connect, collaborate, or find out more about available works, I'd love to hear from you.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Rethinking Eastern Europe at Photo London , 14-17 May 2026, Olympia, London
Maslenitsa Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 9-15 March 2026
Rethinking Eastern Europe, Festival OFF Arles with @fotofestiwal and @institutpolonaisparis, Arles, France, July 2025
In the space between words, Copeland Gallery, London, UK, 12-16 March 2025
Rethinking Eastern Europe Brighton, part of Photo Fringe, Brighton, UK, 5 October- 17 November 2024
Trial & Error, a WorkShowGrow work-in-progress exhibition, Lambeth County Court, London, UK, 13-14 July 2024
Rethinking Eastern Europe Arles, Arles, France, 5 July 2024
Rethinking Eastern Europe, Photobook Cafe, London, UK, 21 May 2024
Your body belongs to you , Les Alizes (outside), Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France, 18 April 2022 – 28 February 2023
Postcards from Europe, Art at the ARB, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge University, UK, 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2022
#massisolationFORMAT , Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 18 May - 27 June 2021 & online 12 March 2021 - 5 March 2023
Shutter Hub OPEN 20/21, St. Margaret's House London, UK 1 September- 10 October 2021
Art in adversity, Burgh House Hampstead, online, 2020
Yearbook , online, 2020
Postcards from Great Britain, several locations throughout Europe, 5 March 2020- 31 December 2021
Everyday Delight Windows Edition, several locations throughout the UK, 1- 31 August 2020
Everyday Delight, Free Space Project, London, UK, 5 December 2019- 28 February 2020
Time to think, part of Festival Pil’ Ours, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France, 7 July- 30 November 2019 and 24 July- 30 November 2020
HOME, Gallery at Home, Usk, Wales, UK, 05-19 October 2019
STREET/ FORM, part of POW! WOW! Rotterdam, Europe’s leading street art festival, Netherlands, 9 – 15 September 2019
Everything I ever learnt, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 28 March – 3 May 2019
CLIENTS
Include National Portrait Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Curious Families UK, and WISH - the Women's charity, amongst others.
FEATURES/ARTICLES
Battersea Arts Centre: on ritual and a home renewed – equinox, maslenitsa and the in-between, Izba Arts, March 2025
Eastern European photography redefined, British Journal of Photography, September 2024
How to create a still life photograph, Burgh House Online, September 2020
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
100 Drawing Projects Short Course, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art, UK, 2025
Climate Aware Photography, Redeye Network, UK, 2024
London Creative Network, Four Corners London, UK, 2022
Seeing through photography, MoMA New York, online, 2020.
