With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Romanian born writer, art critic and curator Cosmin Costinaş, currently curator at BAK (Utrecht, The Netherlands), will participate at the 99th Annual Conference of the College Art Association. Costinas will join Sven Spieker, University of California at Santa Barbara; Piotr Piotrowski, Polish National Museum; Lolita Jablonskiene, National Gallery of Art; Zdenka Badovinac, Moderna galerija; Emilia Kabakov; Viktor Misiano, Contemporary Art Center; and Karel Cisar, Charles University on SAT, February 12, 2:30 pm-5:00 pm for the panel "Art Margins: Curatorial Practice in Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Wall". The panel is initiated by ARTMargins, an online magazine dedicated to contemporary Central and Eastern European visual culture.
Cosmin Costinaş (born 1982) is curator at BAK - basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht) since early 2009, where he curated the exhibitions I, the Undersigned by Rabih Mroué; Expo Zero (together with Boris Charmatz and Martina Hochmuth); and Surplus Value by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor. He co-edited (with Jill Winder) the first monograph on the work of Vătămanu and Tudor (2009). Costinaş studied art history and history at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is an advisory board member of PATTERNS/ERSTE Foundation, Vienna. Costinaş co-curated (with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff) the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, entitled Shockworkers of the Mobile Image, Ekaterinburg, 2010, and was an editor of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel/Vienna in 2005–2007. He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has contributed his writing to numerous magazines, books, and exhibition catalogs across Europe and South East Asia. Other recent curatorial projects include: After the Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography in given places, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2009; The Demon of Comparisons, Electric Palm Tree, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2009; Like an Attali Report, but different. On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2008; and Textground, Display Gallery, Prague, 2004. Costinaş lives and works in Amsterdam and Utrecht.
February 8-15
Hilton New York Conference Headquarters Hotel
1335 Avenue of the Americas
(with special events throughout NYC)
SAT, February 12, 2:30 pm-5:00 pm | Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York: "Art Margins: Curatorial Practice in Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Wall"
