Alexandra Croitoru (b.1975, Bucharest, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest.
She received her MA degree as well as her PhD from The National Academy of Arts, Bucharest. From 2010 to present she teaches at same university. She founded in 2010 together with Magda Radu the curatorial program Salonul de proiecte, part of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest.
Solo exhibitions:
2012
Do not forget you are an artist!, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO
2011
Dia Ton Vortrag (performance with students from The National University of Arts Bucharest) in collaboration with Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2009
A Fresco for Romania (with Stefan Tiron), Galeria Plan B, Berlin. DE
RE- , Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Copenhagen, DK
2007
A Work about Work and a Duel to the Death, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
An Exhibition on Photography, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
No Photo, Siemens_artLab, Wien, AT
A PRELIMINARY REPORT on the past and present use of psychotronic weapons of mass destruction in Romania (performance with Stefan Tiron) The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2006
Another Black Site (with Stefan Tiron), Galeria Plan B, Cluj. RO
2005
ROM_, Galeria Veza, Month of Photography, Bratislava, SK Documenting their Dream, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, RO
2004
POWERPLAY, H’art Gallery. Bucharest, RO
2001
Untitled 1, International Center for Contemporary Art. Bucharest, RO
Select group exhibitions :
2015
Few Were Happy with their Condition, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2012
Place for the Photo, Club Electroputere, Bucharest, RO
14×14 – Survey of the Danube Region. Positions in Contemporary Art / donumenta 2012, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE
2011
Summer in the Middle of Winter / ReMap 3, Kunsthalle Athena, GR
The body: a metaphor for an experience, CIAC – Centro Italiano d’Arte Contemporanea, Foligno. IT
Here and Then, Club Electroputere, Craiova, RO
Where is my place?, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
MULTI_PLI_CITES (travelling exhibition), Apollonia, Strasbourg, FR, 2010 & Le Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, FR , 2011 & Centre wallon d’Art contemporain La Châtaigneraie, Flemalle, 2012
2010
Are you a lucky artist? La fortuna secondo gli artisti, Biblioteca Civica Poletti, Palazzo dei Musei, Modena, IT
Police the Police / Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, RO
Hostipitality. Receiving Strangers, ms | Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL
Romanian Cultural Resolution, Spinnerei Werkschau (Halle 12), Leipzig, DE
Mircea Pinte Collection, Museum of Art, Cluj, RO
Ce qui vient. Les Ateliers de Rennes / Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, FR
The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, IL Brave New World, Mudam Luxembourg Berlin Show #2, Plan B Gallery, Berlin, DE
2009
Gender Check, MUMOK, Vienna, AT, 2009 & Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL, 2010 History, Memory, Identity: contemporary photography from Eastern Europe, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, IT
Invisible Body: Conspicuous Mind, The Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Sketches for a Project, lokal_30_warszawa_london_project, London. UK
Grenzenlos, CNDB, Bucuresti & Muzeul National Brukenthal / Galeria de Arta Contemporana, Sibiu, RO
The 2nd Biennial Art Sector, Katowice Translation Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
SOFT MANIPULATION. Who Is Afraid of the New Now? Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2008 & Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
2008
Strategies for Concealing, C-Space, Beijing. CN PANCEVO REPUBLIC! 13th Art Biennial Pančevo. 2008 Don’t Worry – Be Curious!, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU
Nuit de l’Europe / Rencontre d’Arles, Arles, FR
The World is Flat (with Stefan Tiron & Mircea Nicolae), Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK, 2008 & Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, NE, 2009
2007
History Simulator / donumenta 2007, Stadt. Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg, DE
From Bulgaria?…Oh, yeah, Bucharest! / Week of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BG
City Wall Gallery, Plan B & GTZ Billboard Project, Sibiu / European Capital of Culture, RO
Here and There is Over Here, BELEF Billboard Project, Belgrade, RS
SUREXPOSITIONS – Identités collectives / Identités individuelles. Museum of Art. Timisoara, RO
CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL & Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS, 2007 Normal Love – precarious sex. precarious work, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2006
Mixed Pickles / Overloaded, K3 Project Space, Zurich, CH
October Salon 2006: Art, Life & Confusion, Belgrade, RS
Sense of Pressure, Atelier als Supermedium / Artists Space for Contemporary Art, Den Haag, NL
Admission by Invitation, Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Copenhagen, DK
Global Fusion Close Up, Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Wien, AT How to Do Things? – In the Middle of (No)where…, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen & Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Artiste, Teppiste, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bondeno, IT
2005
Untouchable Things / BACKLIGHT International Photographic Triennial, Tampere, FI
Critique of Pure Image – Between Fake and Quotation, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BG
Global Fusion Close Up, Basement Gallery, Wien, AT
No significant incidents to report, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, RO
At the Border, La nuit des musees / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Buchares, RO
2004
formate / moving patterns – Bukarest ca. 2004, KUNSTHALLE wien project space, Wien, AT happy_to_be_there, Basement Gallery, Monat der Photographie, Wien. AT 2004
Romanian artists (and not only) love Ceausescu’s Palace?!, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
RE: LOCATION / Shake the Limits, Kalinderu MediaLab / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Atterrissage 4, ICR. Paris, FR
2003
We Are the Weather The Biennial of Woman Artists from the Balkans, National Gallery for Foreign Art. Sofia, BG
Bucuresti-Bucuresti via Beograd, Remont Gallery. Belgrade, RS
Preview, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Casual Photography, Design Forum Galleria, Helsinki, FI
La physique se contente de l’instantaneite, deInterese Gallery. Bucharest, RO
2002
‘here, now, Galeria Noua. Bucharest, RO
Casual Photography, Studio for Contemporary Art – Protokoll. Cluj, RO
Number One, Galeria Noua. Bucharest, RO
Photo Documents, 11 Young Artists in Balkon Magazine. Galeria Noua. Bucharest, RO
2001
Woman’s Room – Woman’s View, Exhibition of East European Female Photography. Zagreb, HR
2000
IN FULL DRESS , Brukenthal Museum. Sibiu, RO
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In the framework of :
- E.CITY – BUCHAREST : MULTI-PLI-CITIES, Exhibition, contemporary photography [1990 – 2010] : 26 November 2010 – 30 November 2010
- E.CITY – BUCHAREST : URBAN TRANSITIONS, Exhibition :05 November 2010 – 30 November 2010