CURRENT PROJECTS
Co-curated alongside Daniela Custrin & Lea Rasovszky
> april 2026 opening @ The Multicultural Centre of The Transylvanian University, Brașov
> 28.08. - 18.09. 2025 @ Satelit / "Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum, Bucharest
66 women have been reported murdered in 2025 in Romania. The number is clearly higher and it doesn't take into account all other forms of violence womxn and gender non-conforming people are still facing daily.
The exhibition started as a collective manifesto against gender-based violence, but also tackling with the exploitation of artists and other independent art workers on the art scene. Made without any budget, it gathered the voices of 21 womxn artists from Romania and the Romanian diaspora producing a pluridimensional perspective on contemporary violence and a call to solidarity. Through public debates and poetry readings, we tried to enlarge the perspective even more and create connection where understanding seems to fail.
Artists>> Adriana Preda, Anca Țintea, covrig, Diana Miron, Gabriela Nicolae, Giulia Crețulescu, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ioana Mincu, Ioana Stanca, Lea Rasovszky, Lorena Cocioni, Mara Verhoogt, Maria Năstase, Megan Dominescu, Miruna Radovici, Nicoleta Mureș, Otilia Fiastru, Roberta Curcă, Thea Lazăr, Veda Popovici, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi.
Parteners in debate> E-Romnja, Centrul FILIA, Anais.
Exhibitions>
Violence in My Heart
Exhibitions | Artistic Residencies>
Water Speaks Our Story
Co-curated alongside Daniela Custrin
Commissioned by Cu Apele Curate | More Green NGO
> april 2026 opening @ The Natural Sciences Museum Complex, Galați
> 30.08. - 12.09. 2025 @ UAP Art Gallery, Brăila
> 14.03. - 10.04.2025 @ Rezidența9, București
> 25.01. - 15.02. 2025 @ The Municipal Museum of Călărași
> 15.11. - 01.12.2024 @ Avramide House, Tulcea
The result of a two weeks artistic residency in the city of Sulina in the Danube Delta, between 12-26 September 2024, the exhibition gathers the responses of 11 artists from Serbia, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania to the dangers of plastic pollution to the human and non-human ecosystems along the Danube. Tackling with topics ranging from the memory of water, radical entanglements between human and non-human to imagining speculative futures, the works reflect a wide array of practices from writing, performing, photography, digital collage and video.
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Artists>> Agnes Bakucz Canário, Daria Anghel, Lukatoyboy, Nadja Kracunovic, Nina Blume, Manuela Pauk, Marco Verhoogt, Mihaela Vasiliu & Mara Oglakci, Veronika Varga, Vitaly Yankovy.
Research projects>
Sharing Food, Writing Recipes and Other Traveling Non-Apocalyptical Toolkits
Co-curated alongside Cristina Bută, Edith Lázár & Flaviu Rogojan.
Team> Aouefa Amoussouvi, Carmen Gheorghe, Dzekashu MacViban, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Mihaela Vasiliu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Pantea Armanfar, Sujatro Gosh, Veronika Varga, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi.
> 2024 - ongoing
International research collective into foodscapes and the slow practices of the everyday focusing on deltaic ecosystems, transnational collaboration and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.
Starting point> Sulina | The Danube Delta | Romania
An interconnected succession of events led us in 2024 to the story of the old Canning Factory in the port-city of Sulina, a long forgotten tale of interregional collaboration between Romania and the countries of West Africa part of the Non-Alignment Movement during the Cold War. But where could this story lead us further and what other stories does Sulina hold? What non-apocalyptical toolkits can we gather as recipes for a responsible collective future in the ruins of global capitalism?
STCEJORP TSAP
Exhibitions>
How to Trust a Simulation?
Co-curated alongside Lea Rasovszky & Georgia Țidorescu.
> 27.09. - 15.10.2023 @ Satelit | "Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum, Bucharest
In a present programmed by marketing algorithms, impulses become automatic. The new habits generated by technological progress produce a sense of comfort and detachment, while the endless flow of information creates confusion and exhaustion. In the chaos of conflicting sensations, the impression of unprecedented digitally mediated connection is matched by that of isolation and failure. In the background, the sciences announce the danger of global warming, the sixth mass extinction, and pave the way for the colonization of other planets as a fallback. A change of perspective seems necessary in this context: a redefinition of the intentions and relationships that guide us in the world, based on the intuition of a precariousness that characterizes existence. In such a framework, how do we write our histories, and what responsibility do we have for those we forget? Technology is an extraordinary tool for archiving the present and preserving much-needed information for researchers and analysts of the future, but how do we plan to program it to avoid the neoliberal logic of productivity and consumption and to find a middle way between analogue methods and complete mechanization? (excerpt from the curatorial text).
Artists> Ana Avram, Andrei Arion, Adrian Ganea + Hortensia Mi Kafchin | + Flaviu Rogojan, Ciprian Ciuclea, Lucia Ghegu, Mihaela Vasiliu, Nicoleta Mureș.
Artistic Residencies>
Beyond Me Is Us
> 2-15 August 2023 @ Anexa Matka, Cornetu, IF
Beyond Me Is Us was an artistic residency program based on cooperation and knowledge exchange between two artist collectives: L1 Studios (Bucharest, RO) and Drujba Collective (Chișinău, MD). Combining a large area of perspectives and techniques, the program focused on slow & diy practices as a form to deviate from the norms of turbo-capitalism, as well as on exploring possibilities of living and being together. Divided between collective and personal time, the program included a variety of workshops starting from screen printing, sewing, sound, listening to writing, collage and self-publishing methods following the samiszdat model. Sleeping in common rooms, in tents or hammocks in the garden of the house, cooking and eating together, exchanging opinions, feelings, passing thoughts or self-care tricks made space for the self and the other in another kind of allyship. From using at-hand and local resources to practicing ways of sharing (care, knowledge, skill), another sort of economy grew.
L1 Studios> Adriana Preda, covrig, Katian Velea, Miruna Radovici, Otto Constantin.
Drujba> Andrei Morari, Ecaterina Samonii, Kristina Jacot, Maxim Poleacov, ruben hollinger.
Extra Guides: admina, Alin Cincă, Jasmina Al-Qaisi.
Kajet Kornet is the result of the two-weeks exercise on cohabitation, sharing food, space, resources, work, thoughts, knowledge & skills and of dreaming of other ways of collectively organizing, while dismantling borders through the dissolution of authorship.
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Experiments>
Karaoke Room
Exhibitions | Artistic Residencies>
The Bittersweet Chaos of Becoming
Co-curated alongside Edith Lázár
> 15-29 July 2022, Letea village, Tulcea
> 10-30 November 2022 @ Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
There must be some molecular record of our touch in the codes of living that will leave traces in the world (Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto).
How do we think with others and how do we approach that which is not us, human and non-human alike? How do we co-exist and co-evolve with other species? We have always been part of a collective mesh, far beyond just human, as the shadow of calamity reflects now in the visibly failed social contracts, the effects of ecological collapse, and the feeling of exhaustion. But is that all there is? Or are there other delicate touches and dormant memories waiting to blossom, to envelop us in more organic, sensitive bonds? Can we restore a feeling of hope perhaps?
We think of co-evolving from within the porosity of our bodies. From the multiple interdependencies that constitute our being and the world itself. To think from within this porosity enlivens ways of imagining non-hierarchical arrangements of the social realities. It unfetters vulnerabilities and unfolds a more-than-human perception of the world. We can’t afford the hubristic attitude that has hindered sensing in the ongrowing capitalist system, creating histories of violence, and leaving deep scars in bodies and landscapes. But we can’t romanticize either a newfound connection with nature, a retreat like escapism. (excerpt from curatorial notes).
Artists> Adrian Ganea, Adrian Preda, Anca Bucur, Dan Beudean, Flaviu Rogojan, Lea Rasovszky + Andrei Arion, Marta Mattioli, Mihaela Vasiliu, Nicoleta Mureș, Sillyconductor, Thea Lazăr.
The exhibition was part of the imaginative context I Believe in the Continuous Evolution of Species. an exercise on non-anthropocentric thinking - proposed by Michelle, and further developed with Edith. And was a follow-up to a summer residency in the Letea village of Danube Delta during July, envisioned as an exchange between artists and curators.
Video @Petre Fall | Photos @Serioja Bocsok
Curatorial Programs>
How Should We Talk About Queer Culture?
> part of Triumf Amiria. The Queer Culture Museum [?]
> september 2021-march 2022
> Bucharest: Atelierele Malmaison, Goethe-Institut, Suprainfinit Gallery, SwitchLab, Combinatul Fondului Plastic
> Cluj: Tranzit House
> Timișoara: Kunsthalle Bega
> online
What kind of institution could encompass the endless possibilities of queer? A multidisciplinary educational program collateral to the project Triumf Amiria. The Museum of Queer Culture[?], How Should We Talk About Queer Culture? aimed at creating (safer) space(s) for the many local queer perspectives as well as more understanding of the queer experience nationally. Exploring the contemporary notion of queer, as it is thought of by theorists today, expanded the research on sexuality and gender to related issues on race, class, ability and neurodivergence. On the occasion of 20 years since the decriminalization of same-sex relationships in Romania, the program navigated local histories and practices and foreign approaches in order to shape its own queer embodiment. The program included a series of workshops, talks, screenings, public and group readings, research, performances, concerts and parties.
Artists> Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Raj-Alexandru Udrea, Vera Hofmann, Sofia Zadar, Göksu Kunak, Hyenaz, Nóra Ugron, Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker, Alex Mirutziu, Adriana Chiruță, Patrick Brăila, Apparatus22, Billie Rose, Luca Istodor.
Collectives> Cenaclul X, Corp. Platform, Queer Night, 2 Pupeze Negre, CUTRA, The Queer Vegan Community, Free Pages.
Experiments>
Locuri / Dislocare (Housing / Displacement)
Amid real estate development and the big festivals in Cluj, some of the city's inhabitants live on the edge of subsistence in a neighbourhood created by the Municipality in 2001 next to the Pata Rât city dump. For 20 years, more than 700 people have been waiting for the Romanian authorities to fulfil their obligations and relocate them in decent conditions. But living in Cluj is becoming increasingly expensive, and plans for a metro or train line to the airport to make it easier for tourists and workers to get in and out of the city seem more important than the lives of people living in Pata. The capitalist machinery makes no exceptions: only capital makes a safe shelter.
Maria Stoica, a resident and Roma activist living on Cantonului street in Pata Rât talks about the violence and discrimination she faced coming from a marginalized environment. More than the issue of housing, the interview touches on issues of privilege, ethnicity, gender, access to work and social services and the need for solidarity and support from the authorities and the wider community.
Housing / Displacement (Locuiri / Dislocare) was an exercise within the multidisciplinary performing arts workshop Healing Portraits, coordinated by Eugen Jebeleanu and organized by Focus Atelier Cluj together with Casa Tranzit. Based on an interview with Maria Stoica conducted on 07 September 2021. The video was presented as part of the short film "Locuiri", made with Juan-Jose Almarza, Adriana Creangă and Attila Godri.
Sound | Artistic Residencies>
Rezidența21
A platform for independent music and sound fostering the development of the local scene through production & DJing workshops, events and artistic residencies. The platform is also a space for experimenting with different formats and spaces, growing in collaboration with the residents according to their research and practice interests. Sometimes it acts like a label, releasing digital LPs/EPs or diy videos for the music produced during the artistic residencies - you'll probably find Rezidența21 on all streaming platforms.
Artists in residence>
> 2022, Letea, Danube Delta: #Fluid, admina, Sofia Zadar, +SHE+, ricky horror, Suce Fraga, Chlorys | + p1ne tree, Dasha Druje, Borusiade, Aleksandra Sakara, Brașov.
> 2020, Richiș, Sibiu / Letea, Danube Delta: Brașov, Sagan Ummo and Andy Tziouras, Poetrip, Simina Oprescu, Diana Miron, Laurențiu Coțac, Sillyconductor, Corp. Platform | + Tudor Petruțiu, ASMR, Julio Elvsey, Costin Duțu, Cristiana Achim, Roxana Ardeleanu, Aldessa, Patrick Brăila, Octavia, Raj-Alexandru Udrea, Gheordu, una.
