is an architect, researcher and educator who lives and works in Bucharest. Alex graduated from the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest (2004), obtained a Master of Social Science at Sheffield Methods Institute (2018) and was awarded a PhD at the Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield (2024). Since 2025, he has been a lecturer at the Landscape Design department, Horticulture Faculty, USAMV Bucharest. He investigates and supports informal practices of commoning in the context of collective housing in the post-socialist city. Alex is involved in action research projects, applied education, participatory design and cultural and civic activation. In the context of his PhD research, he initiated the OPEN Garage (2020-2025) space-project for research, mutual learning and community activation and developed the Bucharest Map of Neighbourhood Libraries (2022) engaged research.

is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Literary Studies, her main area of interest being the subtle relationship between self, fiction and what exists in that blankness. She is passionate about the disruption of borders and how fiction permeates into the mundane life, leaving gaps to be filled, which shows how life turns into story and story becomes life.

graduated from a Cultural Studies MA at the University of Bucharest, with a thesis titled “Narrating the Nation: Epistemic Violence in Roma Representation in British and Romanian Journalism.” As she prepares for admission to a PhD programme focused on autofiction and self-representation, she is trying her hand at more creative endeavours, including visual arts, poetry, and experimental prose.

is an artist-researcher working with photography and film, currently living and working in Brussels and Bucharest. After living abroad in various cities in Belgium and the Czech Republic, where she studied Photography and Cultural Studies, she became interested in her identity as a Romanian living in Europe and in her hometown, Bucharest. This led to the research project titled “Bucharest—The City with One Inhabitant. The City-Me,” which combines photography, video, and text. She is currently finishing a practice-based PhD at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts in Belgium.

is a sound artist, a radio & sound art producer, and the curator of the SEMI SILENT portfolio.

is a poet and translator. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest and holds a master’s degree from the Centre of Excellence in Image Studies. She contributed to several cultural publications and translated literature from English, French and Spanish (Kurt Vonnegut, Ernesto Cardenal, and more than 10 books for children). In 2019, she published her first poetry collection, The Industry of Comforting Adults (Max Blecher Publishing House). The book has received critical acclaim and has won the most important literary prizes, including the ‘Mihai Eminescu’ National Poetry Award. Her poems have been translated in more than 10 languages, including English, Italian, Swedish, Turkish and Hungarian and Serbian. She lives in Bucharest, where she is a member of the Poesis international editorial board and continues her studies with a PhD in Romanian literature.

is a photographer based in Bucharest, co-founder of FOC collective, collaborating as editor and producer with photographers in long-term visual documentary projects and publications on social and environmental topics.

is a master’s student at CESI

studied Sociology and Criminology in the UK, then came back home and decided to study Neurobiology for her Master’s Degree. Right now, she has no idea what she’s doing with her life. She has been writing since she was 6 years old. With her writing, she tries to recreate strong feelings for people to experience. There is such beauty in feeling.

is a visual researcher and image-maker working across photographic practice, text, and archival inquiry. She has a BA in Advertising and is currently pursuing an MA in Visual Studies at CESI, University of Bucharest. Her research engages the phenomenology of affect, postmemory, and spectral temporality in domestic photographic archives. During 2024 – 2025, she studied for one year in UNArte’s Photo-Video department, choosing to discontinue that program to remain aligned with personal values and the methodological transparency she demands of her practice. Her recent works have been shown at Combinatul Fondului Plastic (Sculpture Days), at UNArte (end-of-semester exhibition), at BIP Ploiești, and in small-scale presentations. Ongoing series include Transgenerational Hands from the Archive and Silent Interplay, both mapping the semiotics of touch and intergenerational transfer, as well as Gardens of Remembrace, which probes postmemory within mortuary environments.

is a visual artist and researcher based in Bucharest, currently pursuing a PhD at the intersection of political philosophy and architectural heritage.

made his debut with the volume Ce față cumplită am (Polirom, 2004), his most recent being Unde îți vei petrece veșnicia (Fractalia, 2020 – co-author). He has been featured in the anthologies Best European Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and Best of proza scurtă a anilor 2000 (Polirom, 2013). Since 1998, he has served as a curator at the Romanian Peasant Museum. He is the co-screenwriter of several feature films, such as Visul lui Adalbert (2011), Ultima zi (2016) și Uneori ninge cu zăpadă, alteori cu întuneric (2021).

is an MA student in Sibiu.

is a writer because he writes, which sounds much better than “Scriitor” in Romanian. Scriitor is cringe. Writing in the age of LLMs is also nothing to brag about, but rather something akin to an artisanal basket weaver, a niche, slightly sad occupation for out-of-touch urbanites left behind by progress.

 is a very online guy / he likes to hit reply / he’s incredibly vigilant.

is a film critic, cinema curator, and freelance translator/researcher. Her writing on cinema has appeared in international publications such as Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, Sabzian, Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot, and in local magazines such as Scena9, Matca Literară, FILM MENU, Films in Frame, Acoperișul de Sticlă, and Echinox. She has been an associate curator of BIEFF since 2020 and collaborates with festivals such as ESTE Film Festival and Art200. She has been the curator of the critique section of Revista Strîmbă since 2024. She won the Z9 Wildcard poetry competition at the Zona Nouă festival in 2022. His first poetry volume, ulaanbaatar, was published in 2024 by OMG Publishing and was nominated for the Mihai Eminescu, George Bacovia, and Observator Cultural awards for best debut.

is a Romanian experimental musical project by Cleg and Zone.

writes essays about nostalgia, ethics, aesthetics and film. She’s critical of gen-AI and its effects on the relationship between humans and artistic work. She also makes visual art, most notably photographic series exploring her feelings regarding these themes.

sometimes writes prose & poetry that fits her world & allows her to invent another world where she fits in the most. She’s overcoming an artistic block that lasted for years and is now experimenting with words, visuals, or other mediums that soothe & challenge her. She’s published work in Revista Strîmbă and her notes app. She hosts the monthly radio show Real BAE Shit on Black Rhino Radio.

came to Bucharest through an internship. As an art historian (University of Vienna, Università Roma Tre) and cultural theorist (University of Arts Linz), she uses language to cast light on the hidden and moldy cracks of our social togetherness.

is a landscape architect and researcher. They are finishing a phd on “Common maidan futures: caring for Bucharest’s marginal and peripheral landscapes” at the University of Sheffield.

(b. 1984, Cluj-Napoca) is a London-based Romanian agitator, blogger and author. His collection of short stories Un sport care nu există was published in Romanian by Dezarticulat Books in 2025.

(1885-1936) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel The Rakes of Old Court, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I.

is profoundly concerned about silence, with a focus on how female bodies, societal perceptions, and behaviours are affected by it, advocating for a new approach to recovering gaze and visual attentivity. With a BA in Romanian and Spanish Language and Literature, she is focusing on her MA thesis in Visual Cultural Studies (CESI) at the University of Bucharest. Her research stems from traumatic silence, and it extends into tranzactive silence and incorpor(e)alization, two concepts she proposes for artistic visual forces, sensations and body figurability. She is also exploring spectrality, transgenerational trauma transfer and prosthetic memory through an analytic body of works from literature, photography, painting, film and theatre.

is a PhD candidate at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, where he researches accelerationism(s).

(1982-2025) was a Romanian writer, journalist, and photographer. Through a blend of documentary and fiction, his projects explored various aspects of Bucharest’s past. Books: Tehnologia expunerii universale (2018), Expres (2019), Șpec (2022), Dragii de ei au ochii oblici (2024).

is (to put it mildly) co-author of the volume Mesaje din Cluj (Messages from Cluj, 2016), alongside Nilu Crocodilu. And that’s it, she hasn’t done anything else (at least, not yet). She exists mainly as a verbal and textual act, usually in fleeting and awkward social situations.

(1991) is a Bucharest-based artist working with drawing, objects and artist books. In her work, she employs a systematic investigation into various types of structures, architectural vernacular, books, objects or the visuality of objects, often arranged as archives, technical drawings, swatches, notes, manuscripts or other forms used to organize and display information. She often explores the dynamic between the rational and the arbitrary, the private and the public, and between two- and three-dimensional states. She has a BA and an MA in Drawing from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and has done research in cultural studies at CESI – Centre of Excellence in Image Studies. Her work has been shown at MATCA art space in 2021, and Galeria Quadro in 2024 in Cluj-Napoca, Bevilleacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice in 2022, Accademia di Romania in Rome in 2019, GAEP Gallery in 2025 and 2023, Ivan Gallery in 2019 in Bucharest, Kunsthalle Bega in 2019 and the 2022 Beta Architecture Biennale in Timișoara.

studies cities and the ways we experience urban space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Faculty of Horticulture with an Erasmus+ year at the École de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois, and a master’s degree in visual studies at CESI. Now, as a PhD researcher, she explores how visual cultural studies can enrich urban analysis, seeking creative ways to read, map, and reimagine the city through collective memory and lived experience.

is a conceptual artist who wants to be a figurative painter who wants to be a conceptual artist.

is one of the monikers of Cătălin Matei, a Romanian sound artist based in Bucharest. He works as a sound designer, composer, performer and educator, with a diverse portfolio that includes music for animations, video games, fashion shows, theatre and dance performances. His works often feature self-built or modified instruments, interactive multimedia installations, bioart/biolinguistics, sonification and improvisational techniques that frequently venture into the absurd.

is a PhD student.

is an artist and filmmaker based in Bucharest, Romania. She uses animation, collage and digital art to explore themes of reality, dreams and how we navigate them in a changing world. She graduated from Falmouth University with her student film “Crispy Love-Line” which was nominated at the BFI Film Festival. When she is not animating, she enjoys writing and taking long walks, letting the community around her lend its inspiration.

lives and works in Bucharest, a city that, as one artist aptly described in the early 2000s, we all both love and hate at the same time. Her creative activity spans multiple professional levels, from artist to cultural manager. Interested in collaborative processes and communities from various areas, more or less known to the general public, she works alongside artists active in different cultural fields. Passionate about the creative community and beyond, she explores and collaborates with various spaces, from those self-managed by artists to museum institutions, which led her to initiate in 2007 NAG, the White Night of the Galleries – currently the longest-running event in Romania dedicated to contemporary culture.

Since 2016, she has been directly involved in the formation of the contemporary cultural centre Rezidența9, becoming its manager in 2018. Currently, she coordinates Rezidența9, curates exhibitions, imagines projects with and about people, cooks for friends, rarely paints, and carefully curates her social media accounts

is an artist from New York City who lives and works in Transylvania, Romania. Stanley uses a combination of mediums, including sculpture, writing, and game development, in order to explore the boundaries of literary narrative, with the aim of uncovering new techniques in storytelling.

is a visual artist who uses alternative photographic techniques and custom-built equipment to investigate themes such as memory, estrangement, and reconciliation with the past, employing intersectionality as a means of understanding the complexity of contemporary life.

studied at the Department of Photography and Moving Image at the National University of Arts, Bucharest. He uses political and cultural symbols to explore nostalgia and the changes in society, set against the backdrop of Romania and Eastern Europe’s recent history and the rise of aggressive capitalism in the early 2000s. In his most recent work, he explores space in various forms, from public space and architecture to outer space, consistently utilising archival material and references from art and architectural history to create unique subject matter materialising in sculptures and installations.