Anca Mihuleţ is a curator working at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania. She has created a theoretical platform for emerging artists and young curators, organizes exhibitions and artistic residencies; also deals with museum strategies, visual inquiry and analytic artistic approach. Her last research projects, realized in 2011, are
Situated Knowledge. I follow rivers of thoughts, together with Apparatus 22 (Maria Fărcaş, Ioana Nemeş, Erika Olea, Dragoş Olea) and Olivia Mihălţianu atThe Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice and
The Future – Creating Contemporary Art Between the Walls of the Museum at The National Contemporary Art Museum, Korea. Contact:
anca@brukenthalmuseum.ro
Andreiana Mihail is from Braşov. After she studied philosophy at Bucharest University and philosophy of art at Pantheon Sorbonne Paris, in 2006 she opened a contemporary art gallery in Bucharest. For more details about the gallery go to www.andreianamihail.com.
Corina L. Apostol (B.A., Duke University) is a Ph.D candidate in the Art History Department at Rutgers University, NJ. Her research focuses on artists’ archives in Eastern Europe and Russia in the post-socialist period. As a Dodge Fellow, Apostol is a graduate assistant at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, where she is working on the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union.
Daria Ghiu. Born in Bucharest (1983). 2001-2005 Studies of literature, communication and art history at the University of Bucharest and Università degli Studi di Perugia (I). 2005-2006 Master within the Publishing Program at the University in Bucharest. 2006-2007 Studies at the European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin). 2008-2010 Master in Art History and Theory (University of the Arts, Bucharest). 2008 Art educator at Manifesta 7 in Italy. Since 2007 art journalist for Romanian cultural magazines and art magazines. Since 2008 permanent collaborator at the Romanian Cultural Public Radio as a radio author, focusing on the contemporary art scene. Since September 2010 doctoral fellow at the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Zurich within the bounds of the Focus Project Venice Biennale. The dissertation project discusses the cultural representation of the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Iulia Popovici is theatre critic for the weekly Observator cultural, and a permanent collaborator of the portal LiterNet. She held conferences about Romanian theatre in New York, Poznan, Warsaw, Vienna, she coordinated drama workshops and was the editor of the dance supplements of Observator cultural. She edited the anthology of new Romanian drama, in Hungarian translation, Kortárs román drámák (Cluj, Editura Koinonia, 2008), an anthology of Romanian drama in Polish translation and another, of contemporary Polish drama, in Romanian translation. Now she is working for a second Polish theatre anthology and for her PhD research.
Laura Panait. PhD student in Urban Anthropology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj. Member of the Paintbrush Factory, Cluj
I find myself at the confluence between academic research and cultural activism, with one foot in the researches of creative communities which are involved in the exploration of public space, and with the other in the practice of this field, being an active member of several organizations which have tried to activate public space through different interventions and analysis, such as Bauhaus Kolleg Dessau (Sibiu & Luxembourg), AltArt Foundation Cluj, ICR Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2010, etc. Currently I follow a doctoral research at Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.
Oana Tănase is an art critic and curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, where she has recently organized solo exhibitions by Romanian artists, such as Gili Mocanu, Ştefan Constantinescu, Roman Tolici, and Aurelia Mihai. As a freelancer, she has been involved in projects that approach the contemporary photography and video art, such as Bucharest – a paradox city (The City Museum, Madrid, 2011), Ne tourne pas la tete (ICR Paris, 2010), Ateliers des images (French Cultural Institute, Bucharest, 2009 - 2010), Temps d’ ecoles d’ images (UNAgaleria, Bucharest, 2008; Turnul Croitorilor, Cluj, 2009 and 2010) and the 2008 edition of SurExposition Timişoara (Museum of Art, Timişoara). She has been contributing editor for various cultural publications in Romania. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Arts in Bucharest with a thesis concerning the documentary practices in contemporary art.
Raluca Voinea is curator and art critic, based in Bucharest. She is cofounder (in 2006) of E-cart.ro Association, together with which she currently develops a long-term programme of cultural debates and artistic interventions in public space. In 2010 she was one of the four curators of the project The KNOT: Linking the Existing with the Imaginary, which took place in the public space of Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest. She is an editor for IDEA arts + society magazine since 2008. Starting with 2012 she is coordinator (together with Attila Tordai, Livia Pancu, Lia Perjvoschi and Matei Bejenaru) of tranzit.ro Association (a member of tranzit.org network).
