Cristiana Cott Negoescu
Born 24.07.1991, in Bucharest, Romania
Living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany
Statement:
My work explores the complexities of human experience within socio-political systems and capitalist structures. Through performance, installation, and interactive settings, I challenge societal norms, highlighting cycles of commercial exploitation and the systemic flaws driving consumer culture.
I often incorporate elements of ritual, storytelling, and technological mediums, creating immersive environments that provoke dialogue between the work and audience. By drawing from both personal experiences and broader cultural narratives, my art invites reflection on autonomy, exploitation, and resilience.
Recent works address pressing issues such as ecological exploitation, industrialized labor, and bodily autonomy, continuing a practice grounded in critique and transformation.
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
- 78th International Bergische Public’s Prize, Visual-Art Prize, National Bank Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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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