Ştefan Constantinescu

Works * CV * PDF portfolio

Born 1968, Bucharest, Romania. Lives and works in Stockholm and Bucharest.

Education
1998
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

1996
Bachelor of Art, Romanian Art Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Solo exhibitions (selected)
2011
An Infinte Blue, Galerie8, London

2009
Gallery Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel Curator Catrin Lundqvist

2008
The Golden Age for Children, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Curators Joanna Sandell and Miriam Andersson-Blecher
Archive of Pain, The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, Sweden Producer Giorgiana Zachia

2007
Thanks For A Wonderful, Ordinary Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania Curator Oana Tănase

2006
The Passage, H.arta Gallery, Timișoara, Romania
The Passage, Gallery Posibila, Bucharest, Romania

2004
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, The Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania Curator Tom Sandqvist
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, H.arta Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden Curator Tom Sandqvist

2003
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, ID:I Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Curator Tom Sandqvist

2000
Archive of Pain, co-authors Cristi Puiu and Arina Stoenescu, Venue: Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania Curator Tom Sandqvist
Archive of Pain, co-authors Cristi Puiu and Arina Stoenescu, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania Curator Tom Sandqvist

Group exhibitions (selected)
2010
Bless my homeland forever, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, Curator Ioana Marinescu and Karoline Mayer
Going Places, Re-thinking Tourism, Gotlands Konstmuseum, Visby, Sweden, Curator Angelica Blomhage
Handlung. On Producing Possibilities, Bucharest Biennale 4, Bucharest, Romania, Curator Felix Vogel
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, Curator Alina Serban
All that remains... The Teenagers of Socialism, Waterside Project Space, London, England, Curator Maxa Zoller

2009
The social critique 1993-2005, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden, Curator Martin Schibli
The Seductiveness of the Interval, Romanian Pavilion, 53 International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, Curator Alina Serban
Dada East? Contextes roumains du Dadaïsme, Tourcoing, France, Curators Zofia Machinicka and Adrian Notz
Bad Times/Good Times, FUTURA – Centre For Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech, curator Matei Bejenaru
Portraits of the artists as young artist, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2008
The Map: Navigating the Present, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Curator Jan-Erik Lundström
Periferic 8 – Art as Gift, Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iași, Romania Curator Dóra Hegyi
Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaizm, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Curators Zofia Machinicka and Adrian Notz
There and Here, wip:konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Curator Karolina Pahlén

2007
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden Curator Adrian Notz

2006
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland Curator Adrian Notz
indirect speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Curator Alina Serban

2005
Minnesbilder, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden Curator Viveca Lindenstrand
On Difference #1. Local Contexts – Hybrid Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Curators Hans D. Christ and Iris Dressler

2004
Blick 2004, Kunstverein Munich, Germany and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Curators Maria Lind, Anna Livion-Ingvarsson, Cecilia Widenheim

2003
Narration in Swedish Contemporary Art, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden Curator Marianne Hultman

2002
Public Art TransEuropa – Position: Romania, MuseumsQuartier, Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria Curator Susanne Neuburger

Screenings, talks
2010
And the moral of the story is..., Apex Art, New York City, USA curator Zoe Gray
Kingston University, London, UK
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
MORALITY: Act III, And the moral of the story is..., Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland curator Zoe Gray

2009
Screening of The Passage, Eastside Projects, Extra Special People: Salon, Presented by Viviana Checchia, Birmingham, England
Screening of The Passage and Troleibuzul 92, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006
Screening of The Passage within Politics of Space – conference in the context of the exhibition On Difference #2: Grenzwertig, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, Curators Hans D. Christ and Iris Dressler
Artist talk – parallel event within Chaos: The Age of Confusion, Bucharest Biennial 2, Bucharest, Romania

Film festivals
2010
Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey
Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Documenta Madrid, Madrid, Spania
Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
ZagrebDOX, Zagreb, Croatia
Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy

2009
Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania
Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada

2007
Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

2006
Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
festivalul cARTfilm, Iasi, Romania
Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden

2004
8th Annual Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France

Collections
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la creation, Paris, France
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Malmö Museum of Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

Publications
2009
Stefan Constantinescu, The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, Labyrinth Press, pionier press, Stockholm, Sweden

2008
The Golden Age for Children, The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, Labyrinth Press, pionier press, Stockholm, Sweden

2006
Northern Lights, IDEA arts+society, No. 23, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2003
Dacia 1300 – My Generation, Simetria, Bucharest, Romania

2000
Archive of Pain, pionier press, Stockholm, Sweden

Reviews (selected)
2009
Lynn Macritchie, Melancholy Giardini: The National Pavilions, Art in America, September
Catherine Millet, Venise – Participations nationales, Artpress, No. 359
Patricia Bickers, Art Monthly, July-August
Barbara A. MacAdam, Reviews – 53rd Venice Biennale, Art News, Summer
Astrid Mania, AUSNAHMEN VON DER SELBSTGENÜGSAMKEIT, Artnet, Juni
Simona Nastac, New Media, New Europe, Eikon – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art No. 63

2007
Sinziana Ravini, An Archive of Pain in the Palace of Oblivion, Site No. 21
Alina Șerban, Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Flash ArtNo. 258
Simona Nastac, Ștefan Constantinescu, Flash Art No. 256

2006
Focus Romania, Flash Art No. 251

2005
Ulrika Stahre, Så kort är ett liv – och så långt, Aftonbladet 24 November

2004
Susanne Neuburger, Ștefan Constantinescu: Dacia 1300 – My Generation, Springerin No. 3
Martin Schibli, Med rumänsk folkbil till det förflutna, Helsingborgs Dagblad
Jelena Zetterström, Jelena Zetterström ser Ștefan Constantinescu, Sydsvenskan 30 March

2003
Andreas Engström, Centraleuropeisk 'professionalism' i den svenska idyllen?, Nutida Musik No. 4
Milou Allerholm, Framtidens bil, På stan Dagens Nyheter 31 October
Milou Allerholm, Konsten att berätta, Dagens Nyheter 31 October
Cristina Karlstam, Berättelser i ung svensk konst, Uppsala Nya Tidning 24 October
Bo Borg, Konsten som berättar, Norrköpings Tidningar
Ulrika Stahre, Tomheten vinner, Aftonbladet 4 November
Pauli Olavi Kuivanen, Konsten har blivit mer tillgänglig, Norrköpings Tidningar 24 October
Måns Hirschfeldt, Globala vyer, Bildbyrån, P 1, Sveriges Radio 1 December

Grants (selected)
2009
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee: Two-Year Working Grant

2008
Media Desk Broadcast Grant for My Beautiful Dacia, co-director Julio Soto
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Project Support for The Golden Age for Children

2007
Romanian National Film Board Grant for My Beautiful Dacia, co-director Julio Soto

2004
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Project Support for The Passage
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee: Two-Year Working Grant

2002
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Project Support for Dacia 1300 – My Generation

1999
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Project Support for Archive of Pain
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee: Two-Year Working Grant