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

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

"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

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

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… Read More

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

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