A show by Larisa Crunțeanu.

Under the title SEEDS (Planted By Other Women Inside My Head) the Romanian Cultural Institute Berlin presents an artistic-curatorial experiment resulted from Larisa Cruțeanu’s PhD research on artistic collaboration methods and practices at the National Arts University in Bucharest. With a strong background in both artistic and curatorial fields, the author alternates between the caring, channeling and contextualising other artists’ work on one side, and creating new works in resonance with her research and curatorial activity, on the other side. Thus, the exhibition Seeds… is composed of works realised as a reply to various conversations and personal or work-related experiences she has found herself throughout time alongside artists Xandra Popescu, Alina Popa, Sonja Hornung and Karolina Bielawska. The resulting exhibition creates an installation ambient which invites for a discovery of both the histories behind the artworks, and the individual practices of the inspiring fellow artists.

A couple of days later, on the 30th of May, starting 7 pm Larisa Crunţeanu, Xandra Popescu, Alina Popa, Sonja Hornung and Karolina Bielawska will meet and talk about their individual practices and about collaboration as a medium in the arts field.

Larisa Crunțeanu studied Photography and Moving Image and is currently a PHD candidate at the National Arts University of Bucharest. She works at the intersection of video and performance between research and speculation, often collaboratively, creating contexts for the emergence of new practices and organization. Between 2012-2016, she has run the Bucharest project space Atelier 35 with Xandra Popescu. She lives and works in Bucharest and Warsaw.
www.larisacrunteanu.com

Xandra Popescu works as a writer and filmmaker. From 2012 to 2016, together with Larisa Crunțeanu, she has led Atelier 35, one of the most active project spaces in Bucharest. She has a background in Political Science and Philosophy and studied Dramatic Writing at the National Film and Theatre University in Bucharest. She has written for cinema and works as a filmmaker at the intersection between the narrative and the visual. Currently she works in Berlin and Bucharest.
www.xandrapopescu.com

Alina Popa works mainly with performance and text. She draws with concepts, conceptualizes with movement, moves with thought, thinks with structure, structures with sound, sounds weird or not at all. She interrupts parties to give lectures, camouflages performances in workshops, writes SF as a documentary gesture, and will, at least once, intervene in a public discussion to talk about jaguars. She is interested how an artwork can become an artworld, a spatiotemporal ruse. She has produced artworks that function as systems: The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Artworld (Unsorcery), Black Hyperbox, Bezna. Her work was shown at CCK Buenos Aires, Times Museum Guangzhou, BAK Utrecht, MUMOK Vienna, Brut Vienna, PAF St Erme, CNDB, MNAC Bucharest, DEPO Istanbul, Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Wing Hong Kong, Jardim Equatorial Sao Paulo, Fabrica de Pensule Cluj, Teatru-Spălătorie Chișinău, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest, House of Drama Oslo, Theater Rampe Stuttgart etc.
http://alinap0pa.blogspot.nl/

Sonja Hornung is a visual artist. In 2010, she graduated from a Bachelor of Creative Arts majoring in Visual Media with First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne, where she studied under a Melbourne National Scholarship. In her work, she investigates the relationship between a market-based reality and the ideal of a world without borders, working between installation and public performance, often in collaboration with other practitioners. Her works in public space have been shown by General Public (Berlin, 2012), Neue Berliner Räume (2012-14), Kunsthaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2014) and the International Forum / Berliner Festspiel (2013). Her performance-based works have been shown at among others the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg, 2016) and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin (2016). As a writer, she has published criticism and essays with, among others, Frieze International, ArtSlant Berlin and KubaParis. Sonja Hornung graduated from the MA "Spatial Strategies" at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 2016 with a Mart Stam Atelier Scholarship and a DAAD Graduation Scholarship for international students. She continues to live and work in Berlin. http://sonja-hornung.net/

Karolina Bielawska works with painting, drawing and installation. Graduate of the Faculty of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2015 she was awarded an MA in The Painting’s Space Studio of Leon Tarasewicz. Her diploma was selected for the exhibitions "Coming Out – Best Degree Pieces Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw" (2015) and "Hosted Simply" exhibited in in Spectrum Tower, Warsaw (2015) and Heiligienkreuzerhof, Vienna (2016). Participant of the first edition of Biennale de La Biche (2017) – the smallest contemporary art biennale in the world. Between 2012-2016 she was assistant curator in Zachęta Project Room. Recipient of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship(2017). She lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
www.karolinabielawska.com