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Attila Kim, Commissioner
Attila Kim has been the Commissioner of Romania at La Biennale di Venezia since 2016. An architect with extensive experience in architectural and cultural event design, exhibition architecture, and restoration, he has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (2009, 2011, 2017), for the Iacov Chernikhov contemporary architecture award, and received numerous awards and nominations at the National Architecture Biennale and the Transylvania Architecture Biennale (11 awards and 13 nominations). In 2016, Kim was awarded the Art and Society Leadership Award for the Contribution to Cultural Patrimony from the Aspen Institute.
He has designed international exhibitions including Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room at La Biennale di Venezia; Mircea Cantor: Q.E.D., Deimantas Narkevicius: Cupboard and a Song, Geta Brătescu: The Artist’s Studio, subREAL / Retrospect, all National Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest; European Travellers: Art from Cluj Today, Kunsthalle Budapest; Transformation, Romanian Sculpture 25 Years After the Revolution, Beelden Ann Zee Museum,The Hague; Between the Lines and Gheorghe Ilea: The Relocation Story, Plan B Gallery Cluj. He has been the exhibition architect for the Romanian Design Week, and a series of design presentations showcasing Romanian creatives Stockholm Design Week, Vienna Design Week, London Fashion Week, and London Architecture Festival.
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Corina Bucea, Project Manager
Corina Bucea is a cultural manager based in Cluj, with extensive experience in coordinating cultural projects, arts production, and cultural management. She manages the flagship programme The Academy of Change of the Cluj Cultural Centre and is a founding member of the contemporary art space Fabrica de Pensule / The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj. She has been involved in numerous international projects, being connected with networks such as IETM and/or Balkan Express.
In the past years, Bucea has been working on a number of projects representing Romania both at the Art and the Architecture editions of the Venice Biennale, including in 2013 and 2016 as project coordinator for Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuș – An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale and Selfie Automaton respectively; as custodian coordinator for Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room in 2015, and as project coordinator for Geta Brătescu - Apparitions in 2017.
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Bianca Oana, Creative Producer
Dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, Berlin-based producer Bianca Oana has been building, over the past 10 years, a solid expertise in handling challenging, unconventional filmmaking processes, at the unpredictable border between fiction and reality, and with complex international co-production structures. Besides producing Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, Oana has been involved since 2009, in developing, producing and distributing multi-awarded art-house films including Collective by Alexander Nanau (double Oscar nominee in 2021 for Best Documentary and Best International Feature), Toto and his Sisters by Alexander Nanau, and Turn off the Lights by Ivana Mladenović. As guest-expert and advisor, Oana held lectures at institutions and events such as Berlinale Talents, Berlin (2019), Consolidating European Cooperation Through Co-Production, Bucharest (2019 conference organised by MEDIA Creative Europe Romania), Days for a Creative Europe, Paris (2018 conference organised by the Council of Europe), International Conference on Women in Film Industry – Zagreb (2019), and others.
She has served as a jury member for festivals and funding bodies such as IDFA Bertha Fund & IDFA Forum, Sundance Film Institute, Visions du Reel , InterFilm Berlin Script Pitch, and others.
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George Chiper-Lillemark, Director of Photography
George Chiper-Lillemark studied Cinematography at the UNATC National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”, after receiving a degree in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He has been the cinematographer of six award-winning features and over 30 shorts. His work has been honoured in major film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam or Sarajevo.
Chiper-Lillemark is a long-term collaborator of Adina Pintilie, having been director of photography on Touch Me Not, as well as on a number of her preceding shorts. He is the recent winner of the Lion of the Future and Giornate Degli Autori Best Director awards at Venice Film Festival 2021 for the Romanian feature film Immaculate, which he photographed and co-directed (together with Monica Stan). He was the director of photography, among others, for Beyond the Hill by Emin Alper (2012), Songs of my Mother by Erol Mintas (2014), The Camp in Razoare by Cristi Iftime (2012), The Palm Lines (2009) by George Chiper (2009), and Sandpit#186 by Adina Pintilie & George Chiper.
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Martin Backhaus, Exhibition Design
Martin Backhaus is a Berlin-based exhibition designer, technical director and creative producer and project manager, who works within the triangle of design, technology and management of audiovisual productions such as media exhibitions, fiction and documentary films, virtual & augmented reality, and animation projects. He has a cinema education and a background as a creative producer and in post-production, animation & visual effects artist, being a 2013 graduate of Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg. The hybrid-documentary Die Menschenliebe, presented at Visions du Réel 2014 festival was awarded with the German First Steps Award 2014. He collaborated with director Dustin Loose on the short film The Last Will in 2014, which won a Student Oscar in 2015.
In the past decade, he worked extensively on media exhibitions, spatial design and architecture, 360° immersive experiences, virtual and augmented reality, and new real-time technologies in general. Recent works that were created in collaboration with Berlin-based design studio Tamschick Media+Space include the Museo Lavazza Universo experience in Turin, Italy (2018) and the KTM Motohall Racing Heroes immersive film in Mattighofen, Austria (2019). The Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang Kinetic Sculpture exhibition (2017) was awarded a Red Dot Award in 2017.
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Manuel Grandpierre, Sound Design
Manuel Grandpierre is an award-winning sound designer, musician, and re-recording mixer living in Vienna. He studied sound engineering at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has been working as a sound designer and re-recording mixer on various feature and documentary films for the past decade, encompassing sound recording, sound design and re-recording mixing.
He has worked on projects including the internationally acclaimed The Last of the Unjust by Claude Lanzmann, The Shine of Day by Tizza Covi, and Rainer Frimmel and Angelo by Markus Schleinzer.
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Bernhard Maish, Artistic Consultant for Sound
Bernhard Maish is one of the most renowned sound designers and re-recording mixers living in Austria. He has been awarded the Austrian Film Award for Best Sound both in 2011 and 2012. He has collaborated with Adina Pintilie for various projects.
His filmography includes Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie (2018) - Golden Bear & GWFF Award for Best First Film at Berlinale 2018; Joy by Sudabeh Mortezai (2018) - Label Europa Cinemas Award at Venice Film Festival 2018; Walden by Daniel Zimmermann (2018) - Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary 2018; Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade (2016) - FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2016, 2016 European Film Award winner (for European Film, Director, Actress, Actor, Screenwriter), Lux Prize winner 2016; Little Girl by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel (2009) - Label Europa Cinemas Award at Cannes Film Festival 2009; Lourdes by Jessica Hausner (2009) - FIPRESCI Prize and Signis Award at Venice Film Festival 2009; Funny Games by Michael Haneke (1997) - Silver Hugo Award at Chicago Film Festival 1997, FIPRESCI Prize at Ghent Film Festival 1997; Models by Ulrich Seidl (1998) - Audience Award at Sarajevo Film Festival 1999.
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Martin Backhaus, Technical and Post-Production Coordinator
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Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Marcel Pérès & Ensemble Organum, Music
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Augmented Space Agency, VR Installation Design
Ciprian Făcăeru
Sabin Șerban
Dan Făcăeru
Augmented Space Agency are the explorers of the expanse found at the convergence of reality and virtuality, with the mission to discover new creative and innovative technologies that can generate new sustainable connections between physical and digital spaces. Their work revolves around new media technologies, immersive, interactive and digitally augmented experiences found in the real-virtual continuum and is supported by a crew specialising in software application development, experience design and XR digital content production.
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H3 & Kaustik, Light & Video Sculpture Design
Andrei Mitișor
Florin Niculae
Marius Dumitrașcu
Răzvan Pascu
H3 represents a multidisciplinary collective working with new media art, industrial design and robotics. The team’s projects range from light sculptures and permanent structures to performance and immersive experiences. Kaustik is a production boutique specialised in creating stage sets, props, interior design, and temporary structures for events & exhibitions.
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Vertical Studio, Architecture
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Paul Dunca / Paula Dunker, Paolo Lagana, Răzvan Firea, Supporting Performers
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Laurențiu Răducanu, 2nd Camera Cinematographer
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Dragoș Hanciu, 3rd Camera Cinematographer
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Adrian Cristea, Set Designer
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Maria Pitea, Costume Designe
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Anca Bărbuică, Script Supervisor
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Daniel Neugebauer, Mediation & Education
Daniel Neugebauer is head of the Department of Communications and Cultural Education at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). His research there is focused on new approaches to intersectional and international forms of learning. Educated as a literary scholar, he is interested in the interfaces of communication and educational work. He received additional training in marketing and cultural work for elderly people. Having trained at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, from 2012 to 2018 he headed the division of marketing, mediation, and fundraising at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands. During this period, he helped shape the museum as one of Europe's most inclusive art spaces. In 2016 - 2017, he coordinated marketing for documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens.
In recent years, inclusion and queering have been the focus of his institutional practice. He is an active member of Berlin’s council for the Arts and is involved as an advisory board member in various smaller international art institutions. He publishes regularly on topics such as inclusive learning, body semiotics and artistic speculation on corporeal futures.
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Larisa Oancea, Mediation & Education
Larisa Oancea is an art historian and independent researcher based in Venice. She holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. Her thesis investigates the influences of Renaissance art on European cinema, from Sergei Eisenstein to Peter Greenaway and Lech Majewski. Trained both as an art historian and an anthropologist, Oancea has developed a strong interest in the intersection of the arts with other disciplines. She is the author of Nancy Spanier. The Arc of a Dancing Life – a monograph about the American dancer and performer Nancy Spanier – published by Performance Inventions in December 2021.
Her most recent experiences include various collaborations: researcher for Siam’s Guy Books, Yogurt Magazine, Performance Inventions; museum assistant at Prada Foundation, Triennale di Milano, Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Pino Pascali; curator of numerous film sessions (Casa del Cinema Pasinetti, Venice; Floating Cinema Festival, Venice; Palazzo Cesi, Acquasparta; Center for Contemporary Art Club Electroputere, Bucharest/Craiova, among others). She is currently the researcher and manager of Tiane Doan na Champassak’s studio and artists’ books collection in Venice.
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Georgiana Petcu, Head of Communication
Having 15 years of experience in the field, Georgiana Petcu has designed and managed numerous information and communication campaigns for European institutions, companies and associations, while also promoting art and cultural projects, such as Touch Me Not - The Politics of the Body and explore festival, dedicated to performing arts. She was previously involved in promoting the LUX Film Days, Europe Day and the launch of the European Year of Citizens in Romania, as well as other events of the Representation of the European Commission and the European Parliament Information Office in Bucharest (2010 – 2015).
Between 2008 and 2018, she worked in local communication and public affairs agencies, where she coordinated the Cultural, Lifestyle & Corporate PR departments, being responsible for the development of communication strategies, campaign planning and implementation, media relations management, content creation, online communication and evaluation of actions carried out by project teams. Through her collaborations with international organisations and her editorial projects, she is involved in promoting creative industries and art initiatives. She contributed to the promotion of the Romanian Design Week, Diploma and Ideo Ideis festivals between 2016 and 2018, and also of Romanian creatives and art spaces, museums and galleries on the Homo Faber Guide platform, dedicated to European craftsmanship.
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Tiana Alexe, Communication Coordinator
Tiana Alexe completed her master’s degree in Cultural Management and Marketing at the UNATC National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest, receiving a BA in Theatre Studies (Cultural Management & Journalism) from the same university. During her studies, she carried out several internships that involved the promotion of cultural events, such as: Undercloud - International Independent Theatre Festival (2018), National Theatre Festival (2015 - 2016), Excelsior Teen Fest (2017 – 2018), and Ploiești International Film Festival (2014).
Starting 2019, her work at ACT Theatre has allowed her to be part of or organise different cultural projects. She works as an editor of the theatre magazine Teatrul Azi.
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Iris Opriș, Social Media
Iris Opriș is a digital communications specialist and journalist based in Bucharest. Her professional experience spans over a wide range of artistic, cultural and media projects over the past 15 years.
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Sean Yendrys, Graphic Design
Sean Yendrys is an independent graphic designer based in Berlin. He is currently Head of the MA Curriculum in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn.
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Julia Novitch, Website Development
Julia Novitch is a graphic designer and programmer.
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Lucian Indrei, Production Assistant
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Eugenio Ambrosin, Local Production Support
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Larisa Oancea, Translation
Larisa Oancea is an art historian and independent researcher based in Venice. She holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. Her thesis investigates the influences of Renaissance art on European cinema, from Sergei Eisenstein to Peter Greenaway and Lech Majewski. Trained both as an art historian and an anthropologist, Oancea has developed a strong interest in the intersection of the arts with other disciplines. She is the author of Nancy Spanier. The Arc of a Dancing Life – a monograph about the American dancer and performer Nancy Spanier – published by Performance Inventions in December 2021.
Her most recent experiences include various collaborations: researcher for Siam’s Guy Books, Yogurt Magazine, Performance Inventions; museum assistant at Prada Foundation, Triennale di Milano, Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Pino Pascali; curator of numerous film sessions (Casa del Cinema Pasinetti, Venice; Floating Cinema Festival, Venice; Palazzo Cesi, Acquasparta; Center for Contemporary Art Club Electroputere, Bucharest/Craiova, among others). She is currently the researcher and manager of Tiane Doan na Champassak’s studio and artists’ books collection in Venice.
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Bertha Savu, Translation
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Maria Gabriela Mitrofan, Financial Coordinator
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Cristina Serafim, Katharina Thoms, Accountancy