Artist
Born and based in Bucharest Romania I work with different concepts and media. I use performance, performing, body, sound, text, interviews, photography, video, drawing, painting, installation, objects, participatory art, site specific, theory and critique, philosophy, space. My work is related to the body, spectatorship and space. I inquire the body presence and absence, the performative act, the relation between the human body/bodies and perception in relations to things, objects, actions and surroundings. portfolio cv press contact: [email protected] Detailed Biography EDUCATION: 2000 -2004 U.N.A.T.C. - National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, Romania, Choreography Section, degree Bachelor in Performing Arts 1994 - 2000 Ballet High School, Bucharest, Romania 1991 - 1994 Ballet International School, Kiev, Ukraine, scholarship granted by the Romanian Ministry of Education PERSONAL WORK: 2023 - In the language that you are / Picnic with animals, participatory performance proposal within Ficitons, my body, at National Dance Center Bucharest 2023 - Picnic with animals, ongoing, started in August at Landschafts und Kunstverein Rietzer Berg Germany 2023 - Art Opening (7), Resting / Collective action 2022- The book of trees, Landschafts und Kunstverein RietzerBerg, site-specific installation 2022 - In the Language that you are, performance, National Dance Center Bucharest, in the frame of Fictions, My Body 2022 - Have breakfast, painting/installation, within Art Opening (5) 2022-Between you and me there is electricity, performance/installation/video/painting/fika, within AndraEnergier/ Alternatives Energies project, Östra Ämtervik, Värmland, Sweden, a Rural Movements residency - collaboration between Alma Löv Museum, Riksteatern, Region Värmland and Riksteatern Värmland 2022 Art Opening 3 , Bucharest Airport Departures, Mourning, performance 2022 Art Installation within When ContempArt helps social at Creart Gallery Bucharest Romania ( 4-7 February) , project by association Semper Musica, partner Zebel Design Fishbain Norway 2021 Journey on land, installation in the group exhibition Between the lines at Atelier 35 Gallery Bucharest, within the project Train Travels initiated by Club ElectroPutere 2021 Art Opening 2, Mega Image shop 2021 I AM AN ARTIST / I AM A BAD WEED, installation in my own studio, Malmaison Building, Bucharest 2021 Art Opening 1 Izvor Park Bucharest, 5’ of Sadness 2021 I’ve been here all this time, intervention/installation in the own studio space, ongoing, Malmaison, Bucharest 2021 Non Human Animal Party, Sandwich Gallery Offspace, Atelierele Malmaison, event for the opening of Sandwich Gallery Offspace, performance/ installation/party 2020 Double Decker Fund / Instructions, Sandwich Gallery, Online 2020 Process Terminus Extended Session 1, Sandwich Gallery Bucharest- works and statements to be destroyed by the audience, workshop on disappearance topic 2020- ongoing, Making Clothes 2019 - ongoing, Painting 2019 - Cianciana Project/ Marama Dances, Others, Italy, Sicily 2018 Mysterious Tiger at Noon, performance, presented at PaintBrush Factory Cluj and CNDB, Romania 2018 Heal Yourmyself, sound installation, realized within Clinica frame, presented at Tranzit Bucuresti 2017 Black Magic Hyper Boxing (and the Hyper Magic Punch), sound performance, presented @ RKI Berlin and Future Museum Bucharest 2017 Mysterious Object on Hard, site specific, performance, @NAHR Italy and Marmosim Ruschita Romania, project exhibited within White Nights of Galleries Bucharest as installation in private space. performance and video art work presented within NAHR at the end of the residency 2016 Dream Come Tree, research and public presentations @ Handshake302, Shenzhen China @ New Phenomenom Urban Studio and Photo exhibition in A5 Studio Space Bucharest, 2017 2016 Tescani. No limits, video art work, realized with the support of Artistne(s)t residency program, presented in Official Selection of TIFF Albania 2016, video art section 2015 research and presentations in the frame of the Hyper BlackBox collaborative project, CNDB 2014 Trying to change a small element, collaborative performance together with Cristian Nanculescu and Marin Voica, presented in Homefest Festival and Magic Mystery Domestic Tour 2013 What makes all of us go further, performance project presented at The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj and CND Bucharest 2011 You look as something I might know, dance performance presented in Uzes Danse Festival 2011, Explore Dance Festival Bucharest 2010 LAMUR ( the most beautiful I can), performance installation presented in Festival Dansem 2010 Marseille 2010 participation in Intensification - 11 December, evening of artistic statements marathon invited by the director of National Dance Center Bucharest Mihai Mihalcea 2010 L'amour mon amour, short performance presented in Imaginez Maintenant, Marseille, in the frame of Miniatures Officinae, production L'Officina Marseille 2010 Trust in me ou les mots et les mots, performance, presented in Montpellier, Espace Bernard Glandier in Festival Mouvements sur la ville 2 and at Centquatre Paris 2009 I don't know, I've never been here before, solo performance created in "Looping" European project, presented in 2009 in Dance Festival Uzes, Tanz im August Berlin, O Espaço do Tempo à Montemor-o-novo Portugal, Romanian Dance Platform Bucharest and at La Raffinerie Brussels in 2010 in the frame of Scenes de Meninges 2008-2009 My performance, created with the support of National Dance Center Bucharest, presented in Romanian Dance Platform 2008 and Europe in Motion Festival & Dance Dialogue at National Dance Center Bucharest 2009, International day of Alzheimer @ Hotel Novotel Bucharest 2009 and in Beijing China in 2016 2008-2009 7’ standing performance, interactive performance presented in Lorgean Theatre, apartment theatre project initiated by the artist Jean Lorin Sterian 2007 Pinball, 10 minutes solo presented in "Museums Nights" at Romanian National Art Museum 2007 and at La Scena Theatre 2008, initiated by Artlink with the support of National Dance Center Bucharest 2006 No memories dance video-performance solo, created with the support of National Dance Center Bucharest, presented in 2007 in Explore Dance Festival Bucharest, Balkan Dance Platform Athens, New Europe Festival Prague, Romanian Cultural Institute Prague 2005 ...above the roof - performance created in TerrainsFertiles program, presented in Gallery Denkraum Vienna, Mains d’oeuvre Paris, National Dance Center (CNDB) and National Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest 2004 Punct si de la capat- diploma performance, presented in Explore Dance Festival 2005, at Nottara Theatre 2005-2006 repertory, Bucharest and at Ceptura Ploiesti 2004 Behaviorism – presented in Casandra Theatre, Bucharest 2002 Da, si?... presented in Independans Festival Bucharest, Multi Art Dance Center 2001 Partial inchis, presented at Multi Art Dans Bucharest 2000 Urme de elan sub zapada, presented in Independans Festival Bucharest, Odeon Theatre 1998 Sola, first creation CREATION RESIDENCIES: 2023 Art Hermitage Residency at Landschafts und Kunstverein Rietzer Berg, Germany 2022 AndraEnergier /Alternative Energies - Rural movements, Sweden, Ostra Amtervik, May-June, August 2022 Art Hermitage Residency at Landschafts und Kunstverein Rietzer Berg Germany, April and December 2019 March, artist run based residency in Cianciana, Sicily, Italy, invited by the artist Elizabeth Briel, self-founded project, research 2018 October, developing the project Mysterious Tiger at Noon, performance, within RAP residency program at Paintbrush Factory Cluj, with the support of CNDB, RAP and AFCN 2018 August, The Clinic, collaborative project on the concept of Healing, Richis, Sibiu, Romania, with the support of AFCN and Solitude Project 2017 June, NAHR program, Nature, Art and Habitat Residency on “Rock and Stone. Material Culture and Culture of Making”, working on the project Mysterious Object on Hard 2016 November, residency in Shenzhen, China, @Handshake302, working for the project Dream Come Tree, focused on Baishizhou area, with the support of National Dance Center Bucharest, Romanian Cultural Institut Beijing, Handshake 302 2016 May - June, Artistne(s)t residency at Cultural Center Ge Apostu Bacau and Memorial Museum Ge Enescu Tescani 2013 September, creation residency within RAP residency programme at The Paintbrush Factory Cluj in partnership with CNDB with the support of AFCN 2011 April- June, creation residency for the performance You look as something I might know at Odeon Theatre Nimes and L ‘Officina Marseille, production Uzes Danse CDC 2010 October Artisne(s)t residency at Cultural Center George Apostu Bacau, Romania, working for the project LAMUR ( the most beautiful I can), with the support of CNDB 2010 June, creation residency Marseille, France, at Studio L’ Officina, working for the project L'amour mon amour production Studio L’Officina Marseille 2010 May, creation residency at 104 Paris, France, working for the project Trust in me ou les mots et les mots, with the support of Cultural Romanian Institut Paris 2010 February, creation residency in Montpellier, France, at Espace Bernard Glandier, working for the project Trust in me ou les mots et les mots, with the support of Compagnie Didier Theron 2009 February, Uzes Danse residency, working for the project “I don’t know, I've never been here before” in Nimes, Odeon Theatre, artistic residency in “Looping” European Project, initiated by Uzès Danse CDC, in partnership with TanzWerkstatt Berlin and l’O Espaço do Tempo Portugal, with the support of Cultural Program of the European Union, in collaboration with National Dance Center Bucharest 2005 working for "...above the roof" project with non professional dancers in Vienna, Paris and Bucharest, artistic residency in „TerrainsFertiles” European Program, initiated by Ixkizit France in coproduction with Im_flieger Austria and ArCub Romania with the support of "Culture 2000" program; public presentations in Denkraum Gallery Vienna, Mains d'oeuvre Paris, Contemporary Art Museum and National Dance Center Bucharest 2002 August, Video-Performance workshop, residency in Polli Talu Art Center Estonia, with the support of Concept foundation Bucharest OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Participation in contemporary dance / performance workshops trained by: Mihai Mihalcea, Varvara Stefanescu, Florin Fieroiu, Wayne McGregor & Russel Maliphant, Felix Ruckert, Youkiko Shinozaki & Hein Rozdlal Avdal, Bandlien Brynjar; Tomiyo Sasaki & Ernest Gusella, Kyle de Camp, Carol Brown, Allyson Green, Karine Ponties, Sylvan Groud, Damiano Foa & Oliver Renouf, Pascal Allio, Remy Heritier, Rachid Ouramdane, Rui Catalao, Silke Bake & Peter Stamer 2008 Vienna: Community dance masterclass, trained by Royston Maldoom, Mags Byrne, Tamara McLorg, Chris Bunstead, Janice Parker, Diego Agullo 2009 Belgrade: workshop with people with disabilities 2011 New York: Moving Dialogue - Melt workshop program, trained by: Gwen Welliver, DD Dorvillier, Ori Flomin, Miguel Gutierrez, Yasuko Yokoshi Employment, Teaching, Other Activities: 2023 Workshop within the exhibition of Ștefan Câlția: Impressions of a Lived Time at National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest 2021 Workshop on the topic of embodiment at North Train Station Bucharest, within Train Travels project initiated by Club Electroputere 2021 Workshop on the topic of embodiment, Focșani, organised by Cultural Center Vrancea and UAP Vrancea 2020 You are all welcome to disappear - workshop on the topic of disappearance, Sandwich Gallery, within the Process Terminus workshop series 2013 invited teacher at University of Art Targu Mures Romania, choreography section, leading intensive choreography and performance classes for all grades 2006 - 2013 dance teacher for non-professional dancers at National Dance Center Bucharest 2006-2007 ballet teacher for children in Kindergarten 2005 contemporary dance teacher for students in National Ballet High School Bucharest 2003-2005 professional dancer in „Orion Ballet”, Romanian Dance Company 2014 - present working with children with disabilities - cerebral palsy, autism, etc. 2015 - Certified in Craniosacral Therapy CST1, Dr Upledger International Institute Method COLLABORATIONS: 2022 exterior eye for the performance Wor(l)ds by Eliza Trefas, production CNDB 2018 - The Clinic, collaborative project initiated by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras, includes practices, theories, outcome on the concept of Healing 2017- Concept and choreography for the award ceremony of The Most Beautiful Books, Romania 2017 2015 - 2017 Black HyperBox collaborative project, experimental platform of practice and theory initiated by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras, including performances and public presentations, book launch 2016 - Collaboration for a shared text project that will be published monthly starting in July and ending in September on the Transart Triennale Blog, and will be considered for further publication in the institute’s journal ELSE 2016 - acting in the Gjon Mili Documentary LIGHT, director and screenwriter Yllka Gjollesha & Suela Bako, Albania 2014 - Trying to change a small element, performative discussion/ performance together with Cristian Nanculescu and Marin Voica Choreographer for theatre performances working with Romanian directors Vlad Massaci and Radu Popescu, 2012-2013 2009 - Choreography for Cie.Solo2, concept Daria Gusberti & Marion Allon 2008-2009 -street performance, research and experiment together with the photographer Vlad Petri, collaboration also for Portrete Vii, concept & photography Vlad Petri, exhibition at Make a Point 2010 Collaborations with artists and choreographers: Florin Flueras, Alina Popa, Andu Dumitrescu, Vlad Petri, Mihai Mihalcea, Mateia Stanculescu, Carmen Cotofana, Felix Ruckert, Allyson Green, Valentina de Piante Niculae, Gigi Caciuleanu, Cosmin Manolescu, Andra Rotaru, Cristian Nanculescu, Eliza Trefas FOREIGN LANGUAGES: English, French, Russian |