Anul Nasterii:1968

Stefan Constantinescu

Was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1968. He lives and works in Stockholm and Bucharest.
STUDIES
1998 Master of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Bachelor of Art, Romanian Art Academy, Bucharest, Romania

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Troleibuzul 92 and Family Dinner, Film in the White Cube, NorrlandsOperan, Umeå, Curator: Maria Lantz
2012 Troleibuzul 92 and Family Dinner, Art in the Cinema – Moderna Museet, the Mini Cinema, Curator Catrin Lundqvist
2011 An Infinite Blue, Galerie8, London, UK, Curator Audrey Yeo
2009 The Golden Age for Children, 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, Timisoara, 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, Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania Curator Tom Sandqvist
—– Archive of Pain, co-authors Cristi Puiu and Arina Stoenescu, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania Curator Tom SandqvistSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of the Image, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain Curator Mark Nash
—– Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, Curator Eve Kask
—– Art Stage Singapore’ 12, presentation of Galerie8, London, UK
2011 Beyond the Crisis, 6 Bienal de Curitiba, Brasil, Curators Alfons Hug and Ticio Escobar
—– C.O.N.T.R.A.V.I.O.L.E.N.C.I.A.S Artistic practices against the aggression to women, Centre de Cultura de Palma, Spain, Curator Piedad Solans
—– The Last Analog Revolution, A Memory Box presented within the Romanian Cultural Resolution – documentary at 53 International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, Italy, Curators Stefan Constantinescu and Xandra Popescu
—– Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, londonprintstudio, London, UK, Curator Eve Kask
—– Vienna Fair’ 11, presentation of Waterside Project Space, London
—– Moving Image, an art fair of contemporary video art, New York, presentation of lokal_30 Gallery, Warszawa
—– Washed Out, Konsthall C / Central Tvätt, Stockholm, Sweden, Curators Corina Oprea, Isabel Löfgren, Judith Souriau, Milena Placentile, and Valerio Del Baglivo
2010 Video Zone #5– International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel Curator Chen Tamir, Guest curator Irina Cios
—– ARTISSIMA 17, Torino, presentation of lokal_30 Gallery, Warszawa
—– Audience as Subject, Part 1: Medium, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Curator Betti-Sue Hertz
—– C.O.N.T.R.A.V.I.O.L.E.N.C.I.A.S Artistic practices against the aggression to women, Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, San Sebastia, Spain, Curator Piedad Solans
—– Bless my homeland forever, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, Curators 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
—– Vienna Fair’ 10, presentation of Waterside Project Space, London
—– Art Cologne, presentation of lokal_30 Gallery, London-Warszawa
—– 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
—– And the moral of the story is…, Apex Art, New York City, USA curator Zoe Gray
—– MORALITY: Act III, And the moral of the story is…, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art,Rotterdam, Holland curator Zoe Gray
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
2009 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, Polen 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 NeuburgerSELECTED SCREENINGS, ARTIST TALKS
2010 Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
—– Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art / Plarform, Finland
—– Kingston University, London, UK
—– Goldsmiths College, London, UK
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 exhibitionOn 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

FILMOGRAPHY
2013 6 Big Fish, Producer ATMO, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Middag Med Familjen, Producer ATMO, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 My Beautiful Dacia, co-director Julio Soto, Producers The ThinkLab Media, Madrid, Spain and Hifilm Productions, Bucharest, Romania
—– Troleibuzul 92, Producer Comitetul Central, Bucharest, Romania
2005 The Passage, 62 min.
2003 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, 62 min.
2002 The Baron, 22.02.2002 (based on a concept by Cristi Puiu), 45 min.

WRITER
2012 Viking Line Story, co-writer Xandra Popescu
—– 6 Big Fish (short), co-writer Xandra Popescu
2011 Middag Med Familjen (short), co-writer Xandra Popescu
2009 My beautiful Dacia (documentary), co-writer Julio Soto
—– Troleibuzul 92 (short)

FILM FESTIVALS
2012 Family Dinner, Kinoforum – Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo, Brazil
—– Family Dinner, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
—– Family Dinner, European Film Festival Palic, Serbia
—– Family Dinner, Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
—– Family Dinner, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes, France
—– Family Dinner, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden
2011 Troleibuzul 92, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden
2010 My Beautiful Dacia, Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festiva, New York, USA
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Mediterranean Film Festival in Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina
—– My Beautiful Dacia, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festiva, Prague, Czech Repulic
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Festival International de Cine Documental de la Ciudat de Mexico, Mexico
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Medimed Documentary Film Market, Barcelona, Spain
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Festival de Cine de Pamplona, Spain  – My Beautiful Dacia, Iasi International Film Festival, Iasi, Romania
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, Italy
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey
—– Troleibuzul 92andMy Beautiful Dacia, Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Documenta Madrid, Madrid, Spania
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
—– My Beautiful Dacia, ZagrebDOX, Zagreb, Croatia
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2007 The Passage, Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 The Passage, Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
—– The Passage, festivalul cARTfilm, Iasi, Romania
2006 The Passage, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden
2004 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, 8th Annual Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, FranceTV BROADCAST
2012 Family Dinner, HBO East
2011 My Beautiful Dacia, ADR/MDR (Germany)
—– My Beautiful Dacia, YLE (Finland)
—– My Beautiful Dacia, TVR (Romania)
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Televisio de Catalunya (Spain)
2010 My Beautiful Dacia, SVT (Sweden)
—– My Beautiful Dacia, Channel 4 (UK)

PUBLIC 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
2011 Romanian Cultural Resolution, Contemporary Art in Romania, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
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
SELECTED ARTICLES
2011 Richard Unwin, “Romanian project to premiere at Venice”, The Art Newspaper, June 2011, London, UK
—– Magnus Bons, “På jakt efter invärtesminnet”, Konstperspektiv, Nr 2 May, Stockholm, Sweden
—– Marianna Liosi, “Stefan Constantinescu”, Drome Magazine, Italy
—– Chris Bors, “Audience as Subject, Part 1: Medium”, Artforum International Magazine (January), New York, USA
—– Luisa Etxenike, “Vuelco radical”, El Pais (24.02), Madrid, Spain
2010 Amanda Cachia, “Audience as Subject, Part 1: Public Relations”, Canadian Art (WINTER 2010–11), Toronto, Canada
—– Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic, “Audience as Subject: Part I: Medium”, SFGate (9 december), San Fracisco, USA
—– Michele Carlson “Audience as Subject, Part I: Medium”, Art Practical – Online Magazine (2.6)
—– RTVE, “CONTRAVIOLENCIAS, Prácticas artísticas contra la agresión a la mujerl”, Metropolis, programa semanal sobre cultura y arte contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
—– Richard Unwin, “Iron Curtain project unites European artists from East and West”, The Art Newspaper, Jul 2010, London, UK
—– Alexander Ferrando, “From Venice to the Renaissance Society”, Flash Art, July
—– Daniel Tucker, “The Bucharest Biennale 4: Getting Real”, Hart International, June 2010 Sinziana Ravini, “Bukarestbiennalen BB4”, Göteborg_Posten, June
—– Daniel Tucker, “Truth is Stranger On the Bucharest Biennale 4: Handlung. On Producing Possibilities”, Art-Agenda, June
—– Jamie Keesling, “The Seductiveness of the Interval at The Renaissance Society”, Chicago Art Criticism, May
—– Roxanne Samer, “The Seductiveness of the Interval at The Renaissance Society”, Chicago Art Magazine, May
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 DecemberSELECTED GRANTS
2011 Stockholm Kulturstipendium
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
—– 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 GrantSELECTED PRIZES
2010 Jury Award “Best International TV Documentary” for My Beautiful Dacia at The International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, Mexico
Second Prize, jury award for My Beautiful Dacia, Documenta Madrid, Spania

Sursa: http://www.stefan-constantinescu.com/index.php?/cv/cv/