Ricarda CiontoÈ™ (born 28 June 1968) is a German actress, curator, production manager and an artistic director of
NORDWIND Platform and Festival in
Berlin
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since 2005, where she lives and works.
Education
Ricarda CiontoÈ™ studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
from 1998 to 2001. During this time, she also worked at the theatre at
Josefstadt
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in Vienna.
Career
From 1996 to 1998, Ciontos performed as an actress at the
Salzburger Festspiele. This was followed by various positions in Vienna, Mannheim, Magdeburg, Berlin, Tbilisi and Bucharest prior to 2005. She worked with directors such as
Gábor Tompa, Otar Egadze,
Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Eberhard Köhler,
Alexander Waechter, Andrei Serban and Vladimir Sorokin.
In 2005, she started NORDWIND Platform and Festival, which has since become one of the biggest presentations of Nordic art in Germany. The festival assembles around 300 artists from Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Russia and other countries each year, depending on the thematic focus, with audience numbers of up to 18 000 and partners in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Bern, Helsinki, Oslo, Moscow, Stockholm, Copenhagen, New York and Tallinn.
Apart from her activity as a curator, Ciontos works as a lecturer and mentor for the PAP (Performing Arts Program) program and for the international qualification program "Women in Leadership Positions" of the
Viadrina European University
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (german: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) is a university located at Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, Germany. It is also known as the University of Frankfurt (Oder). The city is on the ...
in Frankfurt/Oder. Since 2016 she is associate producer for
Future Perfect Productions, an agency for contemporary art in New York City.
Personal life
Ciontos has
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 ...
n roots, and in addition to Romanian and German, she speaks English, French and Italian. In an interview with Berlin Art & Culture, Ciontos described actors James Dean, Bette Davis, and Gena Rowlands to be her biggest cultural idols
References
External links
Nordwind Platform and FestivalWebsite
*https://www.pap-berlin.de/die-bereiche-des-performing-arts-programm/beratung-und-qualifizierung/mentoringprogramm/mentoringprogramm-einstieg/jahrgang-2015/ricarda-ciontos/
;Interviews
(in German) in Hamburger Abendblatt, 05.12.2017
"Nicht sofort einordnen"(in German) in taz.am wochenende, 09.12.2017
Northern wilds: Nordwind Festivalin EXBERLINER, 10.11.2015
(in German) in Der Tagesspiegel, 24.11.2013
Nordic Arts in Berlin – from concept to cultural managementin ArtClue Eastern Europe Art Magazine, 14.03.2012
* (In English) Berlin Art & Culture Blog https://berlinartblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/interview-with-ricarda.html
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1968 births
Living people
German people of Romanian descent
Actresses from Berlin
21st-century German actresses