Co-founders
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan
Andrei Gavril
Dana Andrei
Eduard Constantin
is an artist and designer based in Bucharest, Romania. He works with a variety of media and many of his projects have a processual character, developing as series on different periods of time. His recent projects include: “8 million” (2022-in progress), a large-scale, durational work reflecting on the number of horses which died during World War I; “All Inclusive” (2021-in progress), a series of watercolours depicting scenes from the cities where different realities coexist; “Passers-by with no Shadow” (2020-in progress), a series of watercolours realized during the emergency state caused by the coronavirus pandemic; “The Last” (2019-in progress), a series of drawings of species that went extinct, recorded since 1977; “Resurfaced” (2020-in progress), again looking at species that went extinct but reappeared, and “The First” (2015-in progress), another series of drawings, depicting people, objects or situations that created a landmark and which the artist considers important for his own life or practice. He is founding member, since 2021, of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, a collective project situated in a village in the proximity of Bucharest. He is a member of the Association of Artists of Malmaison Studios. Since its foundation in 2012, he has worked as graphic and exhibition designer with tranzit.ro Association. In 2003 he was one of the co-founders of e-cart.ro web magazine for contemporary art.
Raluca Voinea
is curator and art critic, based in Bucharest. Since 2012, she is co-director of tranzit.ro Association, which is part of tranzit.org network of Central and East-European independent cultural organisations. From 2012 to 2019 she managed tranzit.ro space in Bucharest, which included an art gallery, a communitarian permaculture garden and an Orangery (a space for hosting fragile plants and ideas). Starting with 2021, the ideas and approach that configured the tranzit space in Bucharest continue with The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, a collective project and land-stewardship endeavour, realised by tranzit.ro together with a group of cultural workers in the village of Silistea Snagovului, 40 km north of Bucharest. From 2008 until 2024, Raluca was co-editor of IDEA. Arts + Society magazine, published in Cluj, Romania. She was the curator of the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013, realised by artists Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș. She has published in artists’ catalogues, anthologies, and in magazines such as Cutra, mezosfera, Springerin, e-flux, Flash Art, Zeppelin, and others. She is co-founder, together with colleague Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, of the fluid curatorial frame The Resurrection Committee, aimed at curating research projects that are offering historical apertures from which to construct other narratives than the dominant ones of the moment.
Valentin Florian Niculae
He presents himself as an interdisciplinary profile, built from the interest for the work with plants and technical abilities. He has, as one says, green fingers, passionate about the care for and growing of plants. He likes to experiment, both in the work with plants and in the technical zone, manifesting a constant interest for repairing. His curiosity towards insects and animals complements his interests.
Iuliana Dumitru
Livia Pancu
Marius Babias
Maria Eichhorn
Olivia Mihălțianu
Stoyan Dechev
Ovidiu Țichindeleanu
Romanian philosopher, culture theorist, translator and educator, writing and teaching on critical social theory, the history and philosophy of senses, decolonial and intercultural thought, international politics, artistic practices in Eastern Europe, and cultural histories. PhD in Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York (2009). Studied philosophy in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Strasbourg (France), and Binghamton (NY). Editor of IDEA arts + society (https://idea.ro/revista/en), biannual journal of critical theory and contemporary arts. Collections coordinator, IDEA publishing house, Cluj, Romania (https://www.idea.ro/editura/). Member of the Editorial Board of L’Internationale Online (https://internationaleonline.org/). Member of the Transnational Board of European Alternatives (https://euroalter.com/transnational-board, 2023-present). Member of the Moldovan association The Center for Contemporary Arts Chişinău (KSA:K).Member of The Experimental Research Station for Art and Life (since 2021).
Raluca Popa
Raluca Popa was born in 1979, in Făgăraș. She has lived, studied, or worked in Sibiu, Cluj, Bucharest, and London. She now resides in Berlin. She is a visual artist.
Her work is referential, dedicated to reflecting on the different stages of life, spaces of proximity and forms of learning, through an ever-evolving engagement with existing materials such as a travel journal from the year 1990 which tells the story of her first border crossing, a collection of exam papers from all school subjects, gathered between 1991 and 1998, a collection of random pictures that her mother cut out from copies of a crossword magazine in the years following her retirement, her father’s drawing notebooks from the 1960s.
Thomas Poeser
Thomas is an artist from Berlin. His work is influenced by modernist theories and follows a minimalist aesthetic. He primarily uses geometric abstraction, focusing on the exploration of rhythmic and modular configurations. He creates dynamically structured systems of space, form, and color, often manifesting themselves in patterns and variations of the grid. Working mainly on paper, he frequently ventures into the sculptural realm. He also experiments with digital forms of expression, as well as sound art in the form of installations and performances of his electronic sculptural instruments.
Vlad Basalici
lives and works in Bucharest, RO and London, UK.
In his projects, he is interested in uncertainty in relation to unstable systems. He began to date his every work to 2012. In the same year, Vlad Basalici founded the Last Archive that contains newspapers from all over the world published on December 21st, 2012, the last day before the Apocalypse. His works, as a solo artist or in collaboration, have been presented at Alert Studio/Bucharest; Bozar/Bruxelles; brut/Vienna; Cabinet 44/Bucharest; Centrul pentru Introspecție Vizuală/Bucharest; CNDB/Bucharest, Dansehallerne/Copenhagen, Kunsthalle/Seinäjoki, Lateral ArtSpace/Cluj, Plan B Gallery/Berlin; tranzit.ro/Bucharest & tranzit.sk/Bratislava; Salonul de Proiecte/Bucharest; Sandwich Gallery/Bucharest.
