About

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 pondering concerns that I have experienced directly, or through other people.

Education:

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

• 2018- present, Meisterschülerin Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

• 2017- 2018 Johannes Paul Raether

The University of Lincoln, UK.

• 2013 Bachelor in Media Production for Photography, Film and Video.

Prizes:

2022

Take heart Scholarship, Fonds Darstelende Künste, within Neustart Kultur project BKM.

2020

Sparkasse Reisestipendium

Deutschland Stipendium

Residences and laboratories:

2021

• 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 Germany

2019

Expanded Bodies 2.0, Digital Laboratory as part of “Temps d’image” festival, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2018

Koleg für Kunst, Interdisciplinary Residency , Montepulciano, Italy.

Selection of the latest exhibitions and events:

2022

• Informal Sector, performative installation, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

2021

• Space restraint, video and performance, Quartier Am Hafen, invited by Wilko Austermann (curator), Cologne, Germany.

• Half body half human, Elbow room happening, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

• Homa Aparato – Performative installation and social experiement, in collaboration with Instituto Italiano di Technologia, with the support of Goethe-Institut Italy, at Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy.

• Batch 11, Performative installation, for D-C Open Festival, Live Lab Studios, Düsseldorf, Germany

• SURPLUS, Performance, for Journey through a body, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Top Floor Idol, performative installation, for Empty-Spaces II – Unpin the Butterfly,
Graf-Recke str.,Düsseldorf, Germany

• habitat, Drone installation, Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland

2020

• 195 cubic centimeters for Empty Spaces – what are we living for?, performative installation, Transit space provided by Boeker Immobilien, curated by Mara Sporn, Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Legs and arms, 20 Artomat series, objects, Mönchengladbach, Germany

• What’s the problem? Everything is fine!, Film, Aether Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands

• DICTUM – video installation, Rundgang Kunstakadmie, Düsseldorf

• The movement of transformation III – Video intallation, Goethe Bunker, Essen, Germany

2019

• Remix early introspective, talk and exhibition, Onomato Kunstlerverein, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Migration Souvenir, performative installation, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany

• The True Truth, performative installation, Die Digitale, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Home-made, performance and multimedia exhibition, GOLD+Beton Gallery, Cologne, Germany

• Spit it out! An Upskirting Representation, Multimedia performative installation and experimental video art, Plan.d Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

• 129 Ways to get a man, Performance and photography installation, Snerk Gallery, Tromsø, Norway.

• Fortuna Brevis, multimedia performative installation, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

2018

• AUTOMATON, Performative installation, durative – Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

• While I get ready, the world is burning, durative performantive installation, Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf Germany.

• If you wash it, it’s like nothing has happened, performance, Ilka Theurich Studio, Hannover, Germany

• Rundgang II Emphatic Apparatus I, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany.

• Düsseldorf PhotoWeekend, polaroid Exhibition, Fanzmann Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2017

• Performance and Video installations, In Goldenen, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Growth // Video Performance within The Love School Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.

• BLOCKED // Performance Concept by Terry Buchholz, durative performance at Produzentengalerie during Kunstpunkte festival, Düsseldorf, Germany

• Surrogate, performance and video installation, Kö Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

• A cup of tea, Performance at Gate-art-zone, Düsseldorf, Germany, event curated by performance artist Angelika Fojtuch, as an intercultural dialogue in between Germany and Poland.

• What’s the problem?// Everything is fine. Performance into open spaces, Dusseldorf, Germany

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, UK
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, Impossible Project Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.!Polaroid Photography experiments exhibition.

2015:

• Nonsense Observations #2, Pygmalion Theatre, Vienna, Austria

Selection of publications :