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STEFAN CONSTANTINESCU Born in Bucharest in 1968. Lives and works in Stockholm and Bucharest.

Stefan Constantinescu is a „special case”. Born in 1968 in Bukarest, he grew up in the Colentina district of the Romanian

capital, during Nicolae Ceausescu’s tyranny. He registered as an immigrant to Sweden in 1993, and he graduated from

both the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucarest and the Royal Univeristy College of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1996 and 1997

respectively. He is special in both the Swedish art context and the Romanian one, at the moment gaining more and more

international reputation for art projects recognizing and exploring precisely his own life and his experiences of being

„in between”. As in most serious, authentic, and well-qualified oeuvres, the autobiographical references are obvious,

although embedded in a discourse that also speaks, indirectly, of its own political and social points of departure.

(from Thank you for This Wonderful Day by Tom Sandqvist)

EDUCATION

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

1996 Bachelor of Art, Romanian Art Academy, Bucharest

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 An Infinte Blue, Galerie8, London

2009 Gallery Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv (curated by Catrin Lundqvist)

2008 The Golden Age for Children, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Joanna Sandell and Miriam

Andersson-Blecher)

Archive of Pain, The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm (producer: Giorgiana Zachia)

2007 Thanks For A Wonderful, Ordinary Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (curated

by Oana Tănase)

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

2004 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, The Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest; Vector Gallery, Iași; H.arta Gallery, Timisoara; Malmö Art Museum, Malmö (curated by Tom Sandqvist)

2003 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, ID:I Gallery, Stockholm (curated by Tom Sandqvist)

2000 Archive of Pain, co-authors: Cristi Puiu and Arina Stoenescu; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius;

Sala Dalles, Bucharest (curated by Tom Sandqvist)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND, lokal_30, Warsaw

I have a Dream, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław

2010 The Seductiveness of the Interval, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (curated by Alina Serban)

On Producing Possibilities, Bucharest Biennale 4, Bucharest (curated by Felix Vogel)

Teenagers of Socialism, Waterside Project Space, London (curated by Maxa Zoller)

2009 The social critique 1993-2005, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar (curated by Martin Schibli)

The Seductiveness of the Interval, Romanian Pavilion, 53 International Art Exhibition: La Biennale

di Venezia, Venice (curated by Alina Serban)

Dada East? Contextes roumains du Dadaïsme, Tourcoing, (curated by Zofia Machinicka and Adrian

Notz)

Bad Times/Good Times, FUTURA – Centre For Contemporary Art, Prague, (curated by Matei Bejenaru)

Portraits of the artists as young artist, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest

2008 The Map: Navigating the Present, Bildmuseet, Umeå (curated by Jan-Erik Lundström)

Periferic 8 – Art as Gift, Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iași, Romania (curated by Dóra Hegyi)

Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (curated by Zofia

Machinicka and Adrian Notz)

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There and Here, wip:konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Karolina Pahlén)

2007 Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (curated by Adrian Notz)

2006 Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (curated by Adrian Notz)

indirect speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (curated by Alina Serban)

2005 Minnesbilder, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm (curated by Viveca Lindenstrand)

On Difference #1. Local Contexts –Hybrid Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (curated

by Hans D. Christ and Iris Dressler)

2004 Blick 2004, Kunstverein Munich and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (curated by Maria Lind, Anna Livion-

Ingvarsson, Cecilia Widenheim)

2003 Narration in Swedish Contemporary Art, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping (curated by Marianne

Hultman)

2002 Public Art TransEuropa – Position: Romania, MuseumsQuartier, Quartier 21, Vienna (curated

by Susanne Neuburger)

SELECTED SCREENINGS, ARTIST TALKS

2010 Goldsmiths College, London

MOMA, Warsaw (curated by Zuzanna Janin and Agnieszka Rayzacher / lokal_30)

2009 Screening of The Passage, Eastside Projects, Extra Special People: Salon, presented by Viviana

Checchia, Birmingham

Screening of The Passage and Troleibuzul 92, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2006 Screening of The Passage within Politics of Space – conference in the context of the exhibition

On Difference #2: Grenzwertig, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (curated by Hans D. Christ

and Iris Dressler)

Artist talk – parallel event within Chaos: The Age of Confusion, Bucharest Biennial 2, Bucharest

FILMOGRAPHY

2010 Apartamentul 21 (pre-production), producers: 42 km, Bucharest / Eroikfilm, Stockholm

Taxi 2000 (pre-production), producers: 42 km, Bucharest / Eroikfilm, Stockholm

2009 My Beautiful Dacia, co-director: Julio Soto; producers: The ThinkLab Media, Madrid & Hifilm

Productions, Bucharest

Troleibuzul 92, producer: Comitetul Central, Bucharest

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.

FILM FESTIVALS

2010 My Beautiful Dacia, Trieste Film Festival, Trieste

2009 My Beautiful Dacia, Astra Film Festival, Sibiu

My Beautiful Dacia, Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal

2007 The Passage, Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm

2006 The Passage, Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca

The Passage, festivalul cARTfilm, Iasi

The Passage, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg

2004 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, 8th Annual Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris



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WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Fondation Louis Vuitton Pour la Creation, Paris

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Malmö Museum of Contemporary Art, Malmö

PUBLICATIONS

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

Stockholm

2008 The Golden Age for Children, The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm

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

2003 Dacia 1300 – My Generation, Simetria, Bucharest

2000 Archive of Pain, pionier press, Stockholm

SELECTED GRANTS

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



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Archive of Pain, 2000video installation, book

Stefan Constantinescu / video


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Northern Lights, 2006photographs, text

Stefan Constantinescu / photo


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Dacia 1300 – My Generation, 2007video-installation



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Build Your Own Dacia 1300!, 2007installation

Stefan Constantinescu / installations


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Memories with Stuffed Animals, 2008 installation (vintage photos, stuffed animals)

Stefan Constantinescu / installations


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Gadgets, 2008 Gadget 2: Monday, Tuesday, Wendesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Gadget 3: Hammer

Stefan Constantinescu / objects


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Troleibuzul 92, 2009video, 8 min.

produced by Comitetul Central, Bucharest



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The Golden Age for Children, 2008–2009pop-up book

Stefan Constantinescu / objects


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paintings from the series An Infinite Blue: 4, 6, 2009–2010oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm (4), 146 x 109 cm (6)

Stefan Constantinescu / paintings


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painting from the series An Infinite Blue: 1, 2009oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Stefan Constantinescu / paintings

Documents

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