CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2021 Curator of the exhibition "TÊTE-À-TÊTE: Reimagining national identity", ARCUB, Bucharest;
2021 Curator of the "Sensing our constructed memories" exhibition, Bucharest Municipal Museum;
2020 Curator of the exhibition "TÊTE-À-TÊTE: Transforming fear into coexistence", BRD Scena 9, Bucharest;
2020 Curator within the "Exterior. Interior, Intimacy" project, Vaslui;
2019 Curator of the exhibition "Where to? Young artists on migration", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest;
2019 Curator of the exhibition "TÊTE-À-TÊTE: Your image is a battleground", Artmark, Bucharest;
2019 Curator of the charity exhibition "Rebirth", Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest;
2018 Main curator of the Cinehub film education program, in partnership with One World Romania;

WHERE TO? YOUNG ARTISTS ON MIGRATION @ MNAC

The closing of the AdDOC #3 documentary film festival, organized by One World Romania in Școală, took place at the MNAC through a visual art opening and the screening of a film from the festival selection.
The exhibition "Where to?" within AdDoc #3 has the same theme as the 2020 festival: migration and mobility. Consisting of mixed-media works made by high school students from all over the country, the exhibition aims to bridge distances through art, to break down the barriers that separate us and to celebrate the ideas that connect us, even from thousands of miles apart.

REIMAGINING NATIONAL IDENTITY @ ARCUB

“National identity is a person's sense of belonging to a nation; it refers to a subjective feeling, which you share with a group of people, one of recognizing a collective phenomenon, resulting from the similarities of several daily lives. In other words, it's all about connection, connecting and embracing where we come from and where we belong. The exhibition aims to explore the artist's relationship with his national identity and how this can be translated into art in a unique and personal way that reflects the realistic experiences he has had or wishes to have.

As everything is not pink, but not gray either, what can you do when your national identity no longer represents your own values and no longer aligns with your own beliefs? What national values and beliefs end up being symbolic, though? How does man incorporate his national identity into his own identity?" - LZR Magazine, Maria Hiastru

_Excerpt from the dialogue between Simona Popescu and me (Bucharest in 5 minutes): "Because this whole period has changed us in a profound way, I wanted not to resort to the famous white exhibition box, in which the works are placed on a white wall. And precisely because the theme is about constructed memories, I also wanted to build a new exhibition space in the space I already had. And that's why I wanted to create this labyrinthine form that you gradually discover and at the end you come to discover this inner space, which you can only access from a narrow place. And it's actually the biggest opening in the exhibition, which reaches our heart, after all. Everyone's heart. It's interesting, because everyone saw that space differently. I was talking to people and they said that's where they felt the heart of the pandemic was. Others said it was actually their bedroom. It was interesting to see how other people see the whole curatorial space differently. On the other hand part, I wanted to undo the simple curatorial conception, where the curator just comes and puts the works on a white wall. It seems to me, in addition to being outdated and not reflecting the relationship between artist and curator very well, this new construction also manages to change the way you, as a visitor, come and perceive art."