Holding a Master's degree in architecture, Angela Ciobanu is a contemporary jewellery artist and architect with a cross-disciplinary approach, encompassing novel design aesthetics, material research, craftsmanship and technology. With a particular interest in biomaterials and challenging the idea that a piece of jewellery should be just an adornment for the body, the objects that she creates push the traditional confines and question the notions of preciousness and value in jewellery and fashion.  

She perceives her studio as a ground for experiments, a fab lab where creativity meets classical manufacturing techniques and innovative technology. Many international exhibitions and fairs, as well as collaborations with numerous galleries, museums and concept stores have reconfirmed the artist's disruptive vision on the art scene. Currently living and working in Vienna, born in 1984 in Bucharest has graduated from the University of Architecture ‘Ion Mincu’ in the same city. She did her first piece of jewelry in March 2010.

The first jewelry created by Angela Ciobanu was a ring which she lost a month later in an airport. This is just the beginning to her story which she continues in David Sandu‘s workshop in 2010. Being an architecture graduate, she applies the geometrical and mathematical principles she learned in college when creating jewelry and in time she discovers an experimental approach. Two years later, she moved to Vienna where she rented a studio so she can make jewelry.

Her interest in contemporary jewelry appeared as a natural change of scale that she initially had the chance to experience in the larger, dimensionally speaking, context of architecture. Therefore, she started making jewelry applying the same creative process used in architecture, but the work has slowly moved from geometrical patterns and mathematical algorithms, deeply imprinted on her mind, to a more experimental approach. The jewelry mirrors her fascination with imperfections. Surprising details placed in apparently conventional shapes and she never cease searching for a certain unexpected strength that lies in fragility and lightness.