Maria Rus Bojan has been a co-curator of Performing History, the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2011. She curated Ulay’s first international retrospective at Centro Parraga Murcia, 2005 and contributed as an expert to the recent retrospectives at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2020. Her long-term collaboration with German artist Ulay (1943-2020) led to the publication of the authoritative monograph „Whispers”, which was awarded the AICA Netherlands Prize in 2015.

During her 30 year career, Maria Rus Bojan organized international projects including seminal figures of the Romanian art scene, such as Ana Lupaș, Cornel Brudașcu, Ion Grigorescu, Paul Neagu, as well as contributing to the debut of today’s most succesful artists from the new generation including Victor Man, Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan and Alin Bozbiciu. Maria Rus Bojan is a Romanian art critic and independent curator living and working in Amsterdam. He worked in relation to important visual artists (such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Daniel Knorr, Victor Man, Miklós Onucsán, etc.).

The New Paradigm (a Manifesto)”, 2015) and Linia de producție: lucrând cu arta (”The Production Line: Working with Art”, 2014). Noua paradigmă (un manifest) (”Everything Must Be Translated. His most recent books are the volumes of poetry Strîngerea armelor (Metoda) (”Gathering Arms (The Method)”, 2021) and Cu Orice e posibil (”With Anything (Is) Possible”, 2019), and the essays Pandemiocrația (”Pandemiocracy”, 2020), Totul trebuie tradus. In 2011, together with the curators Maria Rus Bojan and Ami Barak, he represented Romania at the Venice Biennale, and since 2011 he has been the general curator of the Bucharest triennial of architecture East Centric. Multilaterally, he writes and publishes poetry, essays (on literature, philosophy, media, contemporary art, architecture, translation theory and pedagogy, politics) and translations (over 70) of French philosophy and literature (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Bourdieu, Latour, Baudrillard, Guattari, Rancière, Bataille, Bergson, Weil, Veyne, Barthes, Baudelaire, Artaud, Breton, Leiris, Duras, Sade, Sansal, Nothomb etc.). Bogdan Ghiu is a poet and writer , one of the main members of Generation 80 and of the former Cenaclul de Luni (Monday Cenacle, some of the most important literary movements and, respectively, literary groups of Eastern Europe in the last decade of the communist regime).

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