Diana Marincu
(B. 1986)
Diana Marincu is curator and art critic, artistic director of Art Encounters Foundation in Timisoara, member of AICA and IKT.
In 2017 she received her PhD from the University of Arts in Bucharest, Art History and Theory Department, with a research on curatorial discourses on identity and periphery constructed in large-scale exhibitions and biennales from 1989 to today. Between 2012-2018 she collaborated with Plan B Foundation in Cluj and Fabrica de Pensule. Between 2015 and 2017, she co-curated with Anca Verona Mihuleț the six-part curatorial project White Point and Black Cube, held at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.
In 2017, Diana Marincu co-curated with Ami Barak the second edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, under the title Life – How to Use, which included several distinct thematic chapters, such as the layers of the novel she was referring to, inviting over a hundred artists. Alongside the central exhibitions, the two curators dedicated a complementary section to independent spaces in Romania. As part of the 2018-2019 Romania-France Season, Diana Marincu curated two exhibitions in France, accompanied by catalogues: Persona, MUCEM, Marseille (2019); Manufacturing Nature / Naturalizing the Synthetic, Frac des Pays de la Loire (2018).
As part of the program created for the Art Encounters Foundation, Diana Marincu aims to explore the possible links between the geographical neighbourhoods of the region’s art scenes, to establish artistic connections based on cooperation / co-production and to support young generations of artists.
