Large scale cyanotype on 100%cotton
Performative body prints
Various dimensions
2024-ongoing Read More

Photographic series black and white, double exposure printed on Sugar Cane 300g white wooden frames, antireflexive glass 65x89.6cm Read More

Larisa Crunţeanu and Sonja Hornung’s artistic research takes as its starting-point (post-) mining landscapes in East Germany and Romania. Together, they investigate how the desire for an ecological and just transformation collides with ongoing, profi t-driven extraction processes. Who benefits from the desire for change and restoration, and how does this repeatedly negatively impact people and ecosystems? Read More

Video, color, 19.52min Concept, text, voice: Larisa Crunțeanu Recordings, sound design, editing: Laurențiu Coțac Read More

Protocols of Singularity: An Artist on Artistic Practice By: Larisa Crunțeanu Editor: Petre Mogoș Translator: Miruna Fulgeanu Copy editor: Natasha Klimenko Graphic designer: Rose van Zijl Publisher: Dispozitiv Books 2023 Read More

Installation, sound performance, interactive website Romanian/English Exhibition and public space versions presented simultaneously Blue Sun - group exhibition hosted by the National Art Museum Timișoara September 2023 Read More

Sound, stereo, 19.18 min Text, voice: Larisa Crunțeanu Recordings, soundmix: Laurențiu Coțac Commisioned by Tentative Transmits:The Radio as G/Host, organized by Olivia Berkowicz and Marianna Feher. Read More

Larisa Crunțeanu’s solo show at 10 & zero uno art project space in Venice explores the intricate process of character-making, in rapport with concepts of identity and personal agency. Working across mediums, the artist often engages with metafictions in her conceptual-art practice, focusing on breaking through reality seen as a monolithic axiom of linear experiences. As digital media creates an ever-growing terrain filled of virtual-selves, Larisa questions whether our perceived real-selves haven’t always been partly a work of fiction, and if so, how did this narrative begin? Read More

A territory as a stand-in for another, further away territory. A time as a stand-in for another time that is yet to come, which reminds one of another, long gone time. In the darkest month of the year on the frozen Iceland, time and space lose their indexicality and start making signs, sending signifiers on loose chases with no ends. Read More

Audio guide, part of Didona series Performed live by the artist or individually by audience based on geolocation alongside tram line 16 Bucharest, september 2022 Read More

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In Under the Bridge, Larisa Crunteanu takes on space as both liminal and heterotopic. None of this story is visible, but all of it relies on its placement there, on a ‘tram island’, under the bridge. An exercise in slow ontology and a poststructuralist proposal of a stopframe of space as a projection surface. Read More

While living in Warsaw for a couple of years I had this weird feeling people on the street were secretly talking Romanian and not Polish. Although the two languages are very different, they share a specific sonic landscape in their usage of rough sounds, placed in the back of the mouth. Read More

Larisa Crunțeanu takes the exhibition beyond the present moment, in an anterior future. The absence, which is not nothingness, feeds the need of the mind for linearity, of stories that anchor the present... Read More

Sound design & video editing: Laurențiu Coțac Research and script: Jasmina Al-Qaisi Concept, script, voice: Larisa Crunțeanu October 2021 Read More

A former TV actress revisits the characters and actors that she co-starred in the popular Romanian soap-opera „Forbidden Love“, years after the show was aired. The amateur actors relive the shared experience on the set, going through the stories, the betrayal and the madness that made up their lives on screen. While they reflect upon their roles as part of a love triangle gone mad, the absurdities of fictional reality-tv become more and more visible. Were they just instruments in a plot written by an invisible hand or did they manage to create a humane story by their own modest means? Read More

Triptych metal structure composed of three rectangles of 65x150cm held between them with magnets, supporting a special coated PVC curtain with sewed interventions made by the artist, 186 x 150 cm Read More

"Do It By Heart​" is an intimate and abstract exploration of the possibility that language and different societal thinking and imagination patterns, understood as a collective heritage of pre-individual reality quota, can be approached as territories of encounters and productive confusions. If what we know by heart is anchored in language and discourse, in institutions and common cultural references, what we do by heart are the acts of encounter and contact with other subjectivities - not in a physical space, but in communality, in what we share involuntarily, without choosing and even without realizing. Read More

Gestures of affection are doomed to be stuck, impossible to deroot from sex. Gestures of love cannot be described as body movement[1]. Intimacy, which does not always make sense, is what we fear and shift with language... Read More

In an unidentifiable derelict location, with metallic background noises that recall a factory or perhaps a railway depot, a nonhuman entity undergoes something akin to a beautifying ritual, but in reverse... Read More

Audio, stereo, 1.09 min Poster, b&w Read More

A series of dressing screens bearing quotes from characters from works of fiction, poetry and theater, characterized as 'hysterical', either within the same writing frame or in its criticism. Each triptich, named after a character, has a central panel with a quote from the respective character, a suggestion of itspossible  clothing and its architectural surrounding space at the time the central words were uttered. The material of the panels and the costumes is a very light organza, typical of wedding veils, and the printed quotes and architectural plans are realized in silkscreening technique, with a combination of ink and cement. Read More

A walk-in installation and scenography about collective consciousness that explores similarities between the architectural plan and the clothing cutting pattern. The work took inspiration from Sala Omnia, a historical building originally designed to host the meetings of the Romanian Communist Party, which will convert into the National Dance Centre in the near future. Read More

Shrill neon-colored curtains mark the entrance to the exhibition space. They form a threshold and clear visual demarcation between what is outside — an objective reality we all seem to agree upon — and the interior, where subjectivities multiply: Pushing through the curtains, we find ourselves in the dark limbo of Larisa Crunțeanu’s latest exhibition tale. It is a tale composed of various narratives that are at the same time complementary and conflicting: subjective imaginations musing on the idea of contemporary female identities. Read More

The audio script mixes monologues and dialogues in English, quotes from poetic and philosophical texts about consciousness and the self, political and administrative quotes defining nature and what is natural, replies from online discussion forums about consciousness, the possibility of knowing the truth or exemplifying errors in mathematical judgment, with warm sounds (recreated digitally) seemingly collected from natural environments—sounds that indicate human presence (laughter, sighs)—as well as sounds that imply a military atmosphere (marching, Morse code, trumpet calls). Read More

Video, color, 14.27min
Camera, sound: Laurențiu Coțac

In an idyllic natural landscape, a strange shape emerges from behind a hill and moves towards the camera. This amorphous shape appears to be two-dimensional, its contours filled with a digital image, as used in Adobe software to signify a missing picture.

A short portrait of a modern peasant caught in a moment of rest during field work. The film is an attempt at capturing a glimpse of the character's relationship with nature, between functionality and contemplation. Read More

Larisa Crunțeanu’s project started with two meetings. The first, with the artist Sonja Hornung, took place during the Femina Subtetrix research project in 2015. The artists’ collaboration revolved around the Romanian post-socialist textile factory APACA, which they studied in terms of power, gender and media presence. The second meeting is closely linked to the first one. At the end of their collaboration, while walking through the centre of Bucharest, Crunțeanu and Hornung encountered a bizarre object: a silent, stone- shaped loudspeaker standing on a lawn. The paradoxical finding provoked many questions, not only about what the object was and what it was for, but also about what it sounded like and what its voice said. Was it one of the voices of a larger group? What was its function in the natural environment? Read More

Curated by Anja Lückenkemper
Tête Berlin
1-28 August 2018

With the exhibition “A Small, Insignificant Love” Larisa Crunțeanu delves into the emotional universe of the Romanian reality-telenovela Forbidden Love. Spanning over 8 years of weekly releases, the show presented cases of socially unacceptable romance, crossing boundaries of inter-generational

Seeds (Planted By Other Women Inside My Head) is an artistic-curatorial experiment resulted from Larisa Cruțeanu’s PhD research on artistic collaboration methods and practices, at the National Arts University in Bucharest. With a strong background in both artistic and curatorial fields, the author alternates between the caring, channeling and contextualizing other artists’ work on one side, and creating new works in resonance with her research and curatorial activity, on the other side. Read More

What makes somebody’s world? And how come a world can be owned? And what makes one’s world different from another’s? What’s left outside of it? All the other’s worlds. All the worlds. Their name? Worlds. Read More

Video, color, 6.45min
realized by proxy through an interview for Digi TV
Realized in collaboration with Sonja Hornung, as part of the research and exhibition project Femina Subtetrix

In 2014, I began working with Sonja Hornung on Femina Subtetrix, a research and exhibition

Solo exhibition together with Sonja Hornung. Video, sculpture, photography, performance for video. September - October 2015, Ivan Gallery Bucharest. Curated by Xandra Popescu. Read More

I would manipulate people with my voice. I would have the most seducing voice. I would know how to sounds less aggressive when I ask for something. I would be able to pronounce the french rrr. I would have a speech impediment. I would have a big space between my two front teeth... Read More

Video (colour, sound), 11min., 2013-ongoing.  Each new presentation of the video is a recording of the previous one. Read More

Live performance, aprox 30 min National Dance Center CNDB Bucharest June 2010 Read More