Alexandra Croitoru (born 1975) is a Romanian photographer whose work seeks to challenge accepted ideas of power sharing and gender in
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
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Biography
Born in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
, Croitoru studied from 1993 to 1998 in the Graphic Department at the
National Academy of Arts
The National Academy of Arts ( bg, Национална художествена академия) is an institution of higher education in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest and most renowned school of arts in the country.
History
The National ...
. Since 1999, she has taught at the university's Photo-Video Department. In 2012, she participated in the artists' residency program at the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles.
[Sara Schnadt, "Alexandra Croitoru"]
, 18th Street Arts Center. Retrieved 24 March 2013. In 2014, Croitoru got her PhD degree from National Academy of Arts in Bucharest. Her thesis focused on the "nationalization" of
Brâncuși in Romania and was the base for her book published in 2015 in Romanian and translated in English in 2017, ''Brâncuși. O Viață Veșnică (Brâncuși. An Afterlife).''
Photography
Croitoru's work explores Romania's social and gender structures and examines the relationship between fact and fiction in documenting history. She is currently extending her work to cover transnational environments.
[ Her approach began during her studies in the 1990s when she started to challenge power structures and gender as (in her own words) "the Academy was at the time an extremely patriarchal environment."
]
Recent exhibitions
In addition to many group exhibitions, Croitoru has presented her work at a number of solo exhibitions:
* 2005: ''Documenting their Dream'', Galeria Noua, Bucharest,
* 2006 : ''Another Black Site'' (cu Ștefan Tiron), Galeria Plan B, Cluj
* 2007: ''O lucrare despre muncă și un duel cu moartea'', Centrul viitor de artă contemporană, Prague
* 2007: ''O expoziție de fotografie'', Galeria Andreiana Mihail, Bucharest
* 2007: ''No Photo'', Siemens_artLab, Vienna
* 2009: ''A Fresco for Romania'' (cu Stefan Tiron), Plan B, Berlin
* 2009: „''RE''-", Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen"Alexandra Croitoru"
Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
* 2012: ''The Cabbage Process,'' Galeria Plan B, Cluj
* 2015: ''The Sons and Daughters of Brancusi. A Family Saga'' (Act I), Timisoara Art Encounters, Galeria Helios, Timișoara; (Act II), Galeria Plan B, Cluj
* 2019: ''The Photographic Archive and history with a small h'', Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest
Published books
* 2017 Brancusi: An Afterlife, ACBooks,
References
External links
*
ttps://www.plan-b.ro/artist/alexandra-croitoru/ Artist page on PlanB.ro
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Photographers from Bucharest
1975 births
Romanian women photographers
Living people