Cristiana Cott Negoescu
Born 24.07.1991, in Bucharest, Romania
Living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany
Statement:
I am a multimedia artist, or better said, a conceptographer. My main point of focus is performance art, followed by video and photography.
I concentrate my attention on social-political-spiritual matters, giving them a context in live or recorded actions. Through these artistic actions, I give examples of situations that I have experienced directly, or through other people.
Education:
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 – 2022
- Meisterschülerin in the class of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
2017 – 2018
- Class of Johannes Paul Raether
The University of Lincoln, UK
2013
- Bachelor in Media Production for Photography, Film and Video
Prizes:
2024
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Friedrich-Vordemberge-Stipendium für Bildende Kunst 2024, Stadt Köln, Germany
2023
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Förderpreis des Landes NRW, Visual-Art Prize, Ministry of Culture and Science, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Research Scholarship, Fonds Darstellenden Künste, NEUSTARTKULTUR, NRW, Germany
2022
- Take Heart Scholarship, Fonds Darstellende Künste, within Neustart Kultur project BKM
2020
- Sparkasse Reisestipendium
- Deutschland Stipendium
Residences and laboratories:
2023
- Borderland Residencies, Kulturraum Niederrhein, hosted by Museum Goch, Germany
- PALACE Utopia Artist Residency – Worringer Platz, Düsseldorf
2022
- Art and Computation Laboratory, Berlin, Germany
- Das Art and Computation Laboratory ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informatik, dem Goethe-Institut und dem Weizenbaum-Institut.
- Goethe Institute Artificial Intelligence Residency, Generation A=Algorithm, Genoa, Italy.
- Raketten Station Insel Hombroich Residency, Neuss, Germany
2020
- Art hotel Ufer residency, Parallel entry-points, Düsseldorf
2019
- Expanded Bodies 2.0, Digital Laboratory as part of “Temps d’image” festival, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
2018
- Kolleg für Kunst, Interdisciplinary Residency , Montepulciano, Italy
Exhibitions and events:
Solo-Exhibitions:
2024
- Latent Sector, performative installation, arthotek, Cologne
- Restraint Relief, immersive installation, Weiden Space, Düsseldorf
2023
- Levels of Living Waters, video and water installation, PALACE Utopia Artist Residency – Worringer Platz, Düsseldorf
- Collective Subconscious, automated installation using chat gpt-3, Open AI, MUR BRUT 27, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- Domestic Sector, performative installation, daindiefront, Düsseldorf
2022
- Disgusted, but still very hungry, performative installation, D-C Open Festival, Nails Project Raum, Düsseldorf
- Rank and File, performative installation, graduation project Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Informal Sector, performative installation, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2021
- Space Restraint, video and performance, Quartier Am Hafen, invited by Wilko Austermann (curator), Cologne
- Homa Aparato, performative Installation and social experiment, in collaboration with Instituto Italiano di Technologia, made possible by Goethe-Institut Italy, at Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy.
- Batch 11, performative installation, for D-C Open Festival, Live Lab Studios, Düsseldorf
- Surplus, performance, Journey Through a Body, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
2019
- Home-made, performance and multimedia exhibition, GOLD+Beton Gallery, Cologne
- 129 Ways to get a Man, performance and photography/ installation, Snerk Gallery, Tromsø, Norway
- Fortuna Brevis, performative installation, Rundgang, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Remix Early Introspective, multimedia exhibition with artist talk, Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
Group-Exhibitions:
2024
- Sugar Coating, performative installation, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
- Collective Subconsciousness, installation, Kunstmuseum Solingen
- There is no place like home, performative installation, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
2023
- Ignorance Is Bliss and Violence, performance, Don’t You Fear The Void, Jacobihaus, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
- Critical Infrastructures, photography, 250 Jahre Jubiläum Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
- Exit through Limbo, performative installation, for Empty Spaces III, Ulmer Höhe, curated by Mara Sporn, Düsseldorf
- Catalogue Magazine Launch, banner photography, Art in Public Space, organised by the SERPENTINE gallery, Cork Street, London, UK
- Spring Performer, installation, Kunstverein Marburg, Marburg
- Human Principle, performative installation, Art Must Be Beautiful, WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf
2022
- Causal Nexus, installation and photography for PARADISIAC, at Austellungsraum 16, curated by Markus Kersting, Cologne
- What is the industry doing with us?, performative workshop, HBK, Braunschweig, Germany
- habitat, drone installation, Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2021
- Half body half human, performance, Elbow Room Happening, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Top floor idol, performative immersive installation, “Empty Spaces I – Unpin the butterfly” curated by Mara Sporn, Graf-Recke Str. 82, Düsseldorf
2020
- Dictum, video installation, Rundgang, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- 195 cubic centimeters, performative installation, “Empty Spaces I – What are we living for?” curated by Mara Sporn, Kaiserswerth/ Düsseldorf
- Arms and Legs, 20 Artomat-Series, objects, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- Wo ist das Problem? Alles ist gut!, film, Aether Festival, Den Haag, The Netherlands
- The movement of Transformation III – video installation, Goethe Bunker, Essen, Germany
2019
- Migration Souvenir, performative installation, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf
- The True Truth, performative installation, Die Digitale, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
- Digital Dirt, multimedia performative installation and experimental video art, Spuck es Aus! An Upskirting Representation, Plan.d Gallery, Düsseldorf
2018
- AUTOMATON, durative performative installation, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
- While I get ready, the world is burning, durative performantive installation, Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
- If you wash it, it’s like nothing has happened, performance, Ilka Theurich Studio, Hannover, Germany
- Emphatic Apparatus I, performantive installation, Rundgang, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
- Düsseldorf PhotoWeekend, polaroid exhibition, Fanzmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
2017
- Performance and video installations, In Goldenen, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Growth, video performance, The Love School Festival, New Orleans, USA
- BLOCKED, durative performance, concept by Terry Buchholz, Produzentengalerie, Kunstpunkte Festival, Düsseldorf
- Surrogate, performance and video installation, Kö Gallery, Düsseldorf
- A cup of tea, performance, Gate-art-zone, curated by Angelika Fojtuch, as an intercultural dialogue in between Germany and Poland, Düsseldorf
- What’s the problem? Everything is fine, performance into open spaces, Düsseldorf
2016
- Underrated Understanding, performance, The Univeristy of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Nonsense Observations #3 – All that we perceive, Flipside Art Space, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Age doesn’t matter, Bargehouse, London
- Photography exhibition, done as a documentary series about old people and their means of having fun
- Labyrinth Installation, Bucharest Fashion Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
- Connecting the dots, Free Press House, Bucharest, Romania
- The Embassy’s Festival, National Romanian Library, Bucharest, Romania
- Staged Naturally, Polaroid photography experiments exhibition, Impossible Project Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2015
- Nonsense Observations #2, performance, Pygmalion Theatre, Vienna, Austria
Selection of publications :
- A cup of Tea | Editorial | Wotisart? Magazine | UK • Maximilianus | Editorial | Germany
- Being old in Romania can be a lot of fun | Editorial | Vice magazine | Europe | USA | Asia
- Work Publication | AA Magazine | UK
- Top of the Romanian Women Photographers | F64 | Romania • Child of Yggdrasil| Paper chase magazine | UK
- On the side of the road | Jute magazine | USA
- Polaroid apparition | Polaroid of the Day | Spain
- Poem selections | Berlin Artparasites | Germany
- Interview and performance apparition | Visible Spectrums | UK