Larisa Crunțeanu
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.
Her works are part of important private and public collections, exhibited in the following selected shows: 2021, One day the day will come when the day will not come, Art Encounters Biennial 2021, Timișoara; 2020-2021, DO IT BY HEART, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; 2021, Image Fantome, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest; 2020-2021, 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS, MNAC Bucharest; 2020, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Bucharest;2020, New East Poetistas, Alte Feuerwache—Projektraum, Berlin; 2020, A Room Full of Hysterical Women, Artissima Fondamenta, Torino; 2020, The Winner Takes It All, Montez Press Radio, New York; 2020, Wish, wishing and some associations to that, Radio Corax, Halle; 2020, A Room of One’s Own, Anca Poterașu Gallery, as part of NADA New York Gallery Open, Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery, New York; 2020, R.A.B.L.A. (Random Archives & Basic Loop Activators), kinema ikon, Arad Art Museum, Arad; 2019, Artissima Telephone, OGR Torino; 2019, A Room Full of Hysterical Women, Artissima ArtFair, Torino; 2019, BLUEPRINT, HALLE9 Leipzig; 2019, Keep Forgetting to Forget Me, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig;2019, ULTRASANITY, Savvy Contemporary and ifa Galerie, Berlin; 2019, Foreign Artists in Warsaw, Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw; 2018, Aria Mineralia, Anca Poterașu Gallery Bucharest; 2018, Aria Mineralia, Zacheta Project Room Warsaw; 2018, A Small Insignificant Love, tete Berlin;2018, A Small Insignificant Love, INDEX Foundation, Stockholm; 2017, Souvenir from Nowhere, Museu de Arte Brasileira – MAB FAAP, São Paulo; 2017, Seeds (Planted By Other Women Inside My Head), RKI Gallery, Berlin; 2016, D’EST Prologue, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; 2016, Public Speaking – with Sonja Hornung, District Berlin, Berlin; 2015, Femina Subtetrix – with Sonja Hornung, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest; 2013, BwO, Atelier 35, Bucharest; 2014, What about Y(our) Memory – with Xandra Popescu, MNAC, Bucharest;2014, SalonVideo – with Xandra Popescu, HAU, Berlin; 2013, Dear Money – with Xandra Popescu, Salonul de Proiecte, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna; 2013, Good Girls, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; 2012, I Hear Bucharest – with Larisa David, Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest; 2012, Casting for a Perfect Gentleman – with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, Bucharest.
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Insight into the video works of Larisa Crunțeanu
12 – 17.12.2021 @ Artak350 Residency – Bæringsstofa – Saga Centre, Grundafjörður.
The word “video” comes from Latin and means “I watch”. It is used internationally in the art world under the auspices of video art. There are often blurred boundaries between video art, filmmaking and documentary filmmaking, and Larisa Crunțeanu’s works are no exception, moving from reality to fiction in an endless conversation with the viewer.
Selected works will be on display at Bæringsstofa movie theater in the Saga Centre in Grundafjörður on Sunday December 12th from 15 to 19.
Larisa is currently doing a residency in Iceland as a part of the RO-CULTURE Program in collaboration with Artak350 where she will be working on a new project over the next three weeks.
The artist’s practice as performer, video artist and sound collector creating 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 have been shown in important institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, SAVVY Berlin, Zacheta Project RoomWarsaw, RKI Berlin and Museu deArte Brasieira – MAB FAAP, São Paulo.
