Off Season Artist Residency works towards supporting emerging contemporary artists, facilitating connections between artists from different countries, and supporting their research process and the production and exhibition of new works.
Organizers
Dan Angelescu
Dan Angelescu is a cultural producer and curator based in Bucharest. With a primary interest in moving image, he has curated and coordinated Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF between 2013 – 2018 and was the project manager of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency between 2019 – 2022. He has worked in the communication/social media departments of several major cultural events in Romania, such as TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest and White Night of the Art Galleries, and is currently communication coordinator for One World Romania Association’s special projects, including the European network KineDok. He is the president of the Infinite Conversation Association, founded in 2019 to conceive and articulate Quote—Unquote, an interdisciplinary platform on (public) speech, as well as co-founder and co-curator of the Off Season Artist Residency. He holds an MA in Comparative Arts and Media Studies from Vrije University Amsterdam.
Donika Çina
Donika Çina is an artist and cultural activator from Albania. She is the founder and artistic director of Annex – a nomad artistic and educational program that brings together visual artists and visually impaired people in an endeavor to co-create and challenge their perspectives on artistic creativity. She graduated from the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Academy of Arts in Tirana and continued her studies at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, and further in HBK Braunschweig, Germany. As an artist, she has been part of numerous national and international exhibitions. As a curator and cultural activator, she is the co-founder of Bulevard Art and Media Institute, Tirana and a Field Officer of the Norwegian art organization Traavik.Info.
Bianca Oana
Bianca Oana is a writer, creative producer, and cultural manager, involved in projects like the international artists residency Off Season (2020-present) whose first edition outcome exhibition was part of Manifesta 2022, the (inter)national public debates tour Touch Me Not: The Politics of the Body (2019), Dragoș Hanciu’s photobook Hometown (2016), and the international screenwriting residency Strangers Scriptlab (2011). In 2022, Bianca was the creative producer of the Romanian Participation at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia with Adina Pintilie’s You Are Another Me – A Cathedral of the Body, which is traveling around Europe at the moment (Timișoara European Capital of Culture 2023 – Kunsthalle Bega, Stuttgart Kunstverein 2023, et al.). She is currently producing Pintilie’s second feature film Death and the Maiden. Bianca graduated the screenwriting section of the National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinema in 2009, and went on to produce several award-winning films, exploring the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Her most recent project is Theo Montoya’s Anhell69 which premiered in Settimana della Critica of Venice Film Festival 2022. Bianca is also a producer on Alexander Nanau’s double Oscar nominated Collective (2019) and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear and the Best Debut Film awards at the Berlinale Film Festival 2018. As an artist, she is interested in mixing poetry with other mediums, like photography and performance, exploring the intersection between femininity, mental health and sexuality. Her photography and writing are part of Telepoetics, a collaborative project which experiments with communication at distance initiated by artist Patricia Morosan (patriciamorosan.com). Started during the first lockdown of the 2020 pandemic, the project proposes an extended transfer of thoughts which underlines the paradox of shared distance. The idea that two bodies may influence each other, or act in concert, without actually being in contact, is the subject of the artistic research and telepathic experimentation.
Flaviu Rogojan
Flaviu Rogojan (b.1990) is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and cultural manager based in Cluj, Romania. His work explores the complex and intertwined nature of our online and offline lives, drawing on influences from science, technology, video games, and Internet culture. In his practice, he merges obscure information with conceptual art techniques to craft fictions and commentaries on current political issues. During his photography and fine arts studies at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, he was involved in organizing student union representation and educational projects, as well as running a students’ gallery called Ataș Project Space. Flaviu Rogojan is a founding member and coordinator of Aici Acolo, a curatorial collective and pop-up gallery project in Romania that transforms unused or abandoned spaces into temporary art spaces, organizes residencies, and supports artistic research for emerging artists. In 2022 he was awarded a Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Elian Stefa
Elian Stefa is an independent curator and architectural researcher based in Radhima and Lisbon. From 2019 he directs Galeria e Bregdetit, an independent space by the sea in the south of Albania, while he continues his territorial research with ARTiLERIA Sazan, a fellow of the Future Architecture Platform. Previously he has participated at the Albanian Pavilion at the 13th Architecture Venice Biennale with Concrete Mushrooms, a project which transforms Albania’s abandoned bunkers into tourist attractions, demystifying the communist territorial legacy in Albania.
Off Season aims to create connections between countries in the Balkan and Eastern European regions, by creating links and collaborations through the cultural sectors, that develop a new narrative around the potential of the sea-side as a space for inspiration and culture.
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