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Member of the Fine Arts Union of Romania, , Art Criticism Section, since 1986
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Ileana Pintilie, an art critic and curator, professor at the Faculty of Arts at the West University in Timişoara / Romania. Among her issued volumes: Actionism in Romania during the Communist Era (Idea Design and Print, Cluj / Romania, 2002), Mitteleuropäische Paradigmen in Südosteuropa. Ein Beitrag zur Kultur der Deutschen im Banat (in collab. with Roxana Nubert, Praesens, Vienna / Austria, 2006), Ştefan Bertalan: Crossroads (2010) and Ştefan Bertalan – Überlagerungen / Suprapuneri / Overlappings: Experimental Photography during 1970–1980 (Brumar, Timişoara / Romania, 2015). Also published articles and essays on Romanian and foreign contemporary art in catalogues and volumes like Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe (Routledge, London / UK, 2018).
Was granted the National Award for Art Criticism (1994, 2015).
Curated several monographic and collective exhibitions in Romania and abroad, among which: Zone Performance Festival (www.zonafestival.ro, Timişoara / Romania, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002) Body and the East from the 1960s to the present (Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana / Slovenia, 1996), Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890–1937 (Kunstforum, Vienna / Austria, & Getty Museum, Los Angeles / USA, 1999–2001), Kontak... Works from the Collection of the Erste Bank Group (mumok, Vienna / Austria, 2006), Subversive Practices: Art under Conditions of Political Repression, 60s–80s – South America & Europe (Romanian Dept., Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart / Germany, 2010) and Paul Neagu: The Artwork as a Visual Hermeneutics (Museum of Art, Timişoara / Romania, 2014).
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