Alexandra Croitoru

 
Alexandra Croitoru (born 1975, lives and works in Bucharest) is a visual artist. Between 1993 and 1998 she studied at The National Academy of Arts Bucharest. Since 1999 she has been teaching at the Photo-Video department of the same institution. She holds a PhD from UNArte Bucharest. Since 2011 she has been co-curator at Salonul de proiecte Bucharest. Her projects have been presented in exhibitions organized by institutions such as Kunsthalle Winterthur, MNAC Bucharest, transit.ro/ Bucharest, Club Electroputere Craiova, MUMOK Vienna, among others. Her PhD research, focusing on the “nationalisation” of Brancusi in Romania, was the starting point for the editorial project Brancusi – An Afterlife as well as for the exhibitions she curated in 2015 in connection to it: “The Sons and Daughters of Brancusi. A Family Stage” – (Act I) at Galeria Plan-B Cluj and (Act II) as part of Timișoara Art Encounters.
 
Alexandra Croitoru - Brancusi - An Afterlife
2016
English edition
Archive Books
An analysis of the posthumous interpretations of Brancusi's life and work, and of the political use of the Romanian sculptor as a nationalist figure.


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