The artist’s practice as performer, video artist and sound collector moves from reality to fiction in an endless conversation with the viewer. Larisa Crunțeanu’s works create contexts in which facts and memories are reactivated, encouraging a shared effort and the emergence of new practices. Many of her projects reflect on the notion of collaboration and the ideas existing behind objects and stories. Her works were shown in important institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, SAVVY Berlin, Zacheta Project RoomWarsaw, RKI Berlin, Museu deArte Brasieira – MAB FAAP, São Paulo.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Do It By Heart, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2019 Blueprint, Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2019 Keep Forgetting to Forget Me, Guest Gallery Space of Anca Poterașu Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2018 Aria Mineralia, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2018 Aria Mineralia, Zacheta Project Room, Warsaw, Poland
2018 A Small Insignificant Love, tete Berlin, Germany
2017 Seeds (Planted by Other Women Inside My Head), RKI Berlin, Germany
2015 Femina Subtetrix, – with Sonja Hornung, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2013 BwO, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
2012 I Hear Bucharest – with Larisa David, Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Casting for a Perfect Gentleman – with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
Group exhibitions, Screenings & Radio Shows
2021 The Show That Never Was/em>, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest
2021 Milk Me Sugar/em>, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
2020 – 2021 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS/em>, MNAC Bucharest
2020 ‘4 I 14 I 26 degrees east’/em>, Anca Poterașu Gallery & Litost Prague, NADA x Galila Barzilaï POC, Brussels
2020 Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest/em>, Bucharest
2020 REAKTOR/em> Film Festival Vienna
2020 MAFA7/em>, Art Museum Arad
2020 New East Poetistas/em>, Alte Feuerwache—Projektraum, Berlin
2020 The Life of the Plant/em>, Artissima Fondamenta, Torino
2020 The Winner Takes It All/em>, Montez Press Radio, New York
2020 Wish, wishing and some associations to that/em>, Radio Corax, Halle
2020 A Room of One’s Own, NADA New York Gallery Open 2020, Harlem, New York, United States
2019 Ultrasanity: On Madness, Sanitation, Anti-Psychiatry and Resistance, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, Germany
2019 Ultrasanity: On Madness, Sanitation, Anti-Psychiatry and Resistance, ifa Gallery Berlin, Germany
2019 Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, Poland
2018 Memory as Vision, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 Souvenir from Nowhere, Museu de Arte Brasieira – MAB FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 Belief in the Power of Gesture, Projektraum LS43 , Berlin, Germany
2016 Public Speaking – with Sonja Hornung, District Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 Never Alone – with Xandra Popescu, MNAC, Bucharest & B5 Studio, Târgu Mureș, Romania
2014 What about Y(our) Memory – with Xandra Popescu, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania
2014 SalonVideo – with Xandra Popescu, HAU, Berlin, Germany
2013 Dear Money – with Xandra Popescu, Salonul de Proiecte, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, Austria
2013 Good Girls, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2013 The Tour of Romania in 7 Days, Club Electroputere, Bucharest, Romania
2012 What We Destroy and Celebrate at the Same Time – with Xandra Popescu, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
2012 KM 0, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania
2012 More Than Perfect – with Maria Pitea, Platforma Space, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Pif, A Golden Era Hero, Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania
Performances
2019 BLUEPRINT, music performance, co-produced by Alex Bălă, Halle9, Leipzig
2018 Bite a Tail, Grow a Head, performance, tranzit.ro/Bucharest
2018 A Conversation Between Two Workers and a Rock, with Sonja Hornung, FORUM Stadpark, Graz
2017 – 2018 Bite a Tail, Grow a Head, FAAP Residency São Paulo & tranzit.ro Bucharest
2017 The Librarian, as part of Galerie Internationale – The Library, Blask Braszt, Łodz, Poland
2017 Black Hyperbox, Future Museum, Czech Center, Bucharest & National Dance Center, Bucharest, Romania
2014 – 2015 Things that Don’t Matter – with Xandra Popescu, MNAC Bucharest, DISKURS FESTIVAL Giessen
2012 The International Treaty for Worldwide Peace, Make a Point, Bucharest, Romania
2011 I Hope This Gets to You – with Maria Pitea and Adrian Cristea, Prague Fashion Quadrienalle, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 Storm, Bucharest National Opera, Bucharest, Romania
2010 Next Level Motherhood, CNDB Bucharest, Romania
Curatorial projects
2017 Souvenir from Nowhere, group exhibition and performances by Irina Gheorghe, Alina Popa, Florin Flueraș, Xandra Popescu, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, MAB Centro gallery, FAAP foundation, São Paulo
2017 News from Polska #3: The Tickler and the Ticklee – performative arts festival with works by Zuzanna Ratajczyk, Eoghan Ryan, Ania Nowak, Piotr Wach, Marta Ziółek, Ramona Nagabczynska, Karolina Bregula, ZONE-L, National Dance Center and tranzit.ro, Bucharest
2016 The Telenational Dream, exhibition and screenings program with works by Barbis Ruder, Bernadette Weigl, Ewa Stern, Monira Al Qadiri, Britta Thie, Zuzanna Janin, Larisa Crunţeanu, Maria Drăghici, Ioana Păun, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (Alina Popa, Irina Gheorghe), CONGLOMERATE (Dafna Maimon, Christopher Kline, Derek Howard, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Sol Calero), Postspectacle (Iuliana Stoianescu, Florin Flueraş, Ion Dumitrescu), Roee Rosen, Xandra Popescu, Radu Jude, assistant curator Karolina Bielawska, Kino Iluzjon, Warsaw
2016 Hypercube pressed between the pages of a .pdf, performance and philosophy program with Adriana Gheorghe, Alina Popa, Ioana Gheorghiu, Florin Flueraș, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj
2015-2016 Public Speaking – exhibitions, workshops, performance, concert, research & production platform with Larisa Crunțeanu & Sonja Hornung, Xandra Popescu & Adrian Knuppertz, Veda Popovici, The Presidential Candidacy, curated and produced with Xandra Popescu, assistant curator Dana Andrei, Ivan Gallery & Atelier 35 & Cinemateca Union, Bucharest and District, Berlin
2016 Between Trial and Success – two days event with talks, performances and concert by Adrian Șchiop, Alina Popa, Florin Flueraș, Raze de Soare (Cosima Opârtan & Ion Dumitrescu), curated with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2012-2016 Atelier 35 Research Laboratory – with Xandra Popescu, research room, public events, talks, interviews exploring and reexamining the history of Atelier 35, Bucharest
2016 Below the Crossing Roads – solo exhibition Sorin Nainer, curated with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35 Bucharest
2015 Res Caecas, solo exhibition Roland Anton Laub, curated with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2015 The Lost Letters / Between the White and the Black Cube – Bucharest Art Week 2015 performance section with works by Irina Gheorghe, Florin Flueraș, Alina Popa, Veda Popovici, Richard Pettifer, curated with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35 Bucharest
2015 Goodbye Language – group exhibition, performance, conference with Zbyněk Baladrán, Adriana Gheorghe, Irina Gheorghe, Alina Popa, Marcus Steinweg and Tomáš Svoboda, curated with Xandra Popescu and Frantisek Zachoval, Atelier 35 and Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest
2015 Given a Random Point – solo exhibition by Arantxa Etcheverria, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2014 – 2015 The Force, The World, and the Popesse – exhibition and performance by Viviana Druga, curated with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2014 – 2015 The Guide to an Unacceptable Behaviour – performance program with Raluca Croitoru, Xandra Popescu & Larisa Crunțeanu, Larisa David, Adriana Gheorghe, Kiki Mihuță, Ada Mușat, Marina Oprea, curated with Xandra Popescu, MNAC, Bucharest
2014 There’s Nothing We Can Do With This Heritage, solo exhibition Dana Andrei & Coate Goale, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2014 Pink Purple and All The Rest – workshop, street actions object and agitprop installation by Veda Popovici, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2013 Exemplary Images – solo exhibition Bogdan Teodorescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest
Production
2021 Constanța 1905, short film by Radu Jude
2020 William and Henry, video work by Adriana Gheorghe
2016 You Are Safe With Me, short film by Xandra Popescu & Adrian Knuppertz
2015 The History of Art Retraced Through the Black Square, video work by Veda Popovici
2015 The Degree of Freedom at -273 Degrees Celsius, group exhibition curated by Anu Ramdas, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2014 Stranded Travellers, group exhibition curated by Adriana Blidaru, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2014 Use at Your Own Risk – group exhibition curated by AVmotional & Interface Culture Lab Ars Electronica, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest
2014 ARTouch, multimedia exhibition for visual and hearing impeared visitors, kotki visuals studio, for the National Museum of Art of Romania and Orange Foundation
2013 Click to Add Normality – group exhibition curated by Alexandra Croitoru, Atelier 35 & National Arts University, Bucharest;
2013 1:1, curated by Mihaela Varzari, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2012 Neagoe Basarab, multimedia exhibition of works and original frescoes from the Argeș Monastery exhibited by the National Museum of Art of Romania, kotki visuals studio
2012 Mihail Kogălniceanu holographic projection exhibition, kotki visuals studio, Mihail Kogălniceanu Memorial Museum House, Iași
2012 Alexandru Ioan Cuza holographic projection, kotki visuals studio, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Palace, Ruginoasa, Iași
2012 Curing Nostalgia, Remedies for a Historical Emotion, exhibition curated by Cătălina Bolozan, Atelier 35, Bucharest
Lectures, Workshops & Public Talks
2021 If I could have said it with words, online conversation with curator Sara Rossling for the Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm
2018 A Multitude of Love, public conversation with curator and art critic Frida Sandström, Index Foundation, Stockholm
2017 Research Practices, Artistic Actions, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest
2017 Black Hyperbox book launch, Future Museum, Czech Center, Bucharest
2016 D’EST Prologue, projection and Q&A with Xandra Popescu, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2016 Scarred Hearts, projection and Q&A, Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw
2016 Public Speaking – with Xandra Popescu, District Berlin
2016 At the Mirror – projection and talk, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest
2015 Agents of Speculation workshop – with Sonja Hornung, ODD, Bucharest
2014 The Leeches are Speechless, with Catalina Insignares, DISKURS FESTIVAL, Giessen
2014 Voice&Intimacy, Klub Irrko, Vienna
2013 – 2014 Alternative Identities – with Xandra Popescu, Ioana Stan and Silvia Vasilescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2012 Where I Come From, lecture-performance, dasWerk, Vienna
2012 Turkish Female Artists in the 21st Century, National Arts University, Bucharest
Commissioned performance
2019 actress, Simple Women, directed by Chiara Malta, IT-RO
2019 actress, Hustler, Baby, directed by Xandra Popescu, DE
2018 actress, And then the Ant Sang to the Cricket, directed by Xandra Popescu, DE
2018 actress, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, directed by Radu Jude, RO-DE-BG-FR-CZ
2017 librarian & guide for The Library by Galerie International, Blask Brzask Festival, Łodz
2016 performer, Public Collection, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Tate Modern, London
2016 performer, Untitled, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Sui Generis Festival, Lucca
2016 actress, Scarred Hearts, directed by Radu Jude, RO-DE-BG-FR
2015 performer, Public Collection, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Pompidou Metz, Metz
2015 performer, Pirici&Pelmuș Contemporary, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Geneva Art Fair 2015, Geneve
2015 performer, Public Collection, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, ON2015, Bologna
2014 performer, Just Pompidou It!, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Pompidou Center, Paris
2013 performer, An Immaterial History of the Venice Biennale, durational piece by Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș, Romanian Pavilion, Giardinni, Venice
Scholarships & Residencies
2018 META Cultural Foundation, Slon
2018 Forum Stadpark – with Sonja Hornung, Graz, Austria
2017 FAAP – Sao Paolo, Brazil
2015 ODD – with Sonja Hornung, Bucharest, Romania
2014 danceWEB scholarship, ImpulsTanz festival, Vienna, Austria
2014 Erste Stiftung MQ – with Xandra Popescu, Vienna, Austria
2012 Emotional Bodies and Cities – Cultural Center Apostu, Bacău, Romania
