Talk

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Anca Rujoiu, a curator and editor with more than fifteen years of experience working in contemporary art in Western and Eastern Europe as well as the Asia-Pacific region. Currently, Rujoiu is a curator at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, and co-curator of the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. Rujoiu was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2013–18), first as curator for exhibitions and later as head of publications. In 2019, she was the co-curator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania. As a member of the curatorial initiative FormContent (2011–13) in London, UK, she co-initiated the nomadic program “It’s Moving from I to It.” More recent curatorial projects include “The Inventory of the Week” (2023), the National Center for Dance Bucharest and “Solidarity is a Verb” (2022), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. Rujoiu is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; her research focuses on institution building, self-organization and alternative ways of constructing and writing histories.

Rujoiu’s presentation for the Curatorial Roundtable will focus on what it takes curatorially to activate different kinds of encounters that contribute to institutional building, increase the visibility of various communities, and recuperate devalued histories.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.