Olivia Nițiș
Olivia Nițiș is since 2005 a member of the Department for Modern Art and Architecture, where she currently holds the position of senior researcher. She also works as a free lance curator, art critic, journalist. Graduated from the
Contact
- e-mail: olivia.nitis@istoria-artei.ro; - correspondence: Institutul de Istoria Artei "G. Oprescu", Calea Victoriei 196, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania, CP 010098; Personal webpage: http://olivia.experimentalproject.ro.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
- International Association of Art Critics (AICA), since 2009;
- Experimental Project Association,
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
Research fellowship granted by New Europe College for the project Body Politics and the Mechanisms of Power in Romanian Art in 1980s and 1990s (2011-2012)
E&H Ochsenfeld Residency Award,
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Program of the Romanian Academy – Encyclopedia of Romanian Art:
- collaborating author of Dictionary of Sculptors;
2. National research projects:
- contributor to CyberMuseum of Romanian Art Universities (eMArt), 2005-2007
- "The Saint of Montparnasse" from Document to Myth: A Century of Constantin Brâncuși Exegesis (2011-2014)
3. International projects:
- Romanian coordinator for The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), Institute for Women and Art (IWA), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
BOOKS
Istorii marginale ale artei feministe [Marginal Histories of Feminist Art], Editura Vellant, București, 2014
Oglinda în fața femeii – Măști și structuri interioare ale femeii în artele vizuale [The mirror in front of the woman – The women’s masks and inner structures in visual arts], Fundatia Interart Triade,
EDITED PUBLICATIONS
Flavia Lupu. Narațiuni ale performativității/Flavia Lupu: Narratives of Enactment, București: Vellant, 2022, 144 p., Romanian-English bilingual edition; ISBN 978-606-980-105-5
Istorii MonuMentale/MonuMental Histories, catalog, Romanian-English bilingual edition, București: Arcub and Vellant, 2016
CONTRIBUTIONS TO JOINT VOLUMES
Dicționarul pictorilor din România. Secolul al XIX-lea (edition and foreword by Adrian Silvan-Ionescu), Institutul de Istoria Artei „G. Oprescu”, București: Oscar Print, 2020, 288 p. ISBN 978-973-668-535-4
Arta în România între anii 1945-2000 (eds.: Călin Dan, Iosif Kiraly, Anca Oroveanu, Magda Radu), București, NEC & UNArte & MNAC, 2016, 303 p., ISBN 978-606-720-061-4
Tezaurul Academiei Române, vol. V: Colecții de artă (series edited by acad. Ionel Haiduc and acad. Păun Ion Otiman; volume edited by Marina Sabados), Editura Academiei Române, București, 2014
Dicționarul sculptorilor din România. Secolele XIX-XX [The Dictionary of Romanian Sculptors. XIX-XX Centuries], Vol.I-II, ed.: Ioana Vlasiu, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2011-2012
'Femeia între liniște domestică și senzualitate în opera lui
'Spațiul ca experiment deschis. Studiu de caz:
'Art-critic, poems and Clips, Reflexions, Situasions - Object: la femme', in Famme(s) et Créativité, Cahier no. 3 de la RAL,M (Revue d'Art et de Littérature, Musique), Le chasseur abstrait editéur, Mazères, 2007
ARTICLES
"Istoriografia brâncușianǎ americanǎ dupǎ 1900: contribuția Annei C. Chave", Studii și cercetări de istoria artei. Artă plastică, new series, Tome 2 (46), 2012
'Material Histories. Feminism and feminist art in post-revolutionary Romania', N.Paradoxa, vol. 24, KT press, London, 2009; republished in the anthology Gender Check: A Reader, Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, ed. by Bojana Pejiæ, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 2010
'Session internationale de communications, Féminisme et culture. Développement et perspectives dans l’histoire de l’art et l’analyse culturelle, Bucarest, l’Institut d’Histoire de l’Art «G.Oprescu», 27 novembre 2009', Revue Roumaine d'Historie de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, tome XLVI, 2009
'Maria Pillat-Brateș, Pictură și reverie. Album', compte rendu, Revue Roumaine d'Historie de l'Art. Série Beaux-Arts, tome XLIV, 2007
'Memory Sediment II', La Morsure, vol. 3, no. 3, L'encart 9, Février-Mars 2007, Engramme. Centre de production en estampe | diffusion en art actuel, Québec.
SYMPOSIA - PAPERS AND ORGANISATION
Rhetorics of War in the Arts, international conference coordinated by Adrian-Silvan Ionescu and Olivia Nițiș, Romanian Academy, 5-6 October 2017
'Perspective 2008 and the feminist curatorial practice' - Feminism and Culture. Relevance and Perspectives in Art History and Cultural Analysis, international symposium, G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, 27 November 2009 (project director: Olivia Nițiș). Further details here.
'Femeia între liniște domestică și senzualitate în arta lui Grigorescu', symposium on Grigorescu and Modernity, G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, October 2007
'Dunărea între simbol și realitate la Altdorfer și Școala Dunăreană' - Istros / Danube. The River and its Representation in Art, international symposium, 2nd edition, Călărași, 3-4 November 2006
CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Crossing Self-histories, Marilena Preda Sânc exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art,
The Comet, Carmen Acsinte solo show, Calina Gallery,
Statement: I Advocate Feminism, ArtPoint Gallery, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, 2011; artists: Elena Kovylina (Russia), Igor Grubic (Croatia) & Lana Cmajcanin (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Patricia Teodorescu (Romania)
Breakable Structure, Madalina Lazar exhibition, Recycle Nest Gallery,
Idila/Idyll, Austrian-Romanian contemporary art, curator for the Austrian Cultural Forum, Atelier 030202, 2010
Contemporary Nightmares, Romanian contemporary art, group exhibition, Atelier 030202, 2010
Micro/Macro, Ileana Dana Marinescu solo show,
For
The World as Introversion, Jan Eugen solo show, Calina Gallery,
The International Experimental Engraving Biennial, 4th edition/ IEEB4, 2010 (consultant curator)
Cristina Garabetanu exhibition, Galeria Calina,
Air sign, Ileana Dana Marinescu exhibition (contemporary decorative art), Foisor,
Lights, Radu Buriac exhibition (contemporary graphic art), Foisor, Foisor,
The path of the squares, Desa Vlahutin exhibiton (contemporary Croatian sculpture), Foisor,
Flashes of identity, Simona Dobrescu exhibition (print, object, video), Calina Gallery,
Lithuanian contemporary art exhibition, 5, Caminul Artei Parter Gallery, 2008
2nd International Painting and Printmaking Workshop, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Fine Arts Faculty, romanian participation, Canakkale, Turkey, 2008 - curator for Romania
Our memories – our space, Bogdan Mateias exhibition, Lapidarium,
International Experimental Engraving Biennial, 3rd edition,
Perspective 2008, international exibition of contemporary feminist art,
Knods, Ciprian Chirileanu exhibition (graphic art), Nit Gallery, 2007
Memory sediment, Ciprian Ciuclea exibition (installation), Nit Gallery, 2006
My Infanta, Olga Popescu exhibition (painting), Nit Gallery, 2006
The Mirror in front of the Woman, group exhibiton: photo-sound installation, ¾ Gallery,
OTHER OUTPUTS
- permanent contributor to Radio Romania Cultural programmes/reports on art;
- texts on contemporary visual art and exhibition reviews in Contrapunct, Observator Cultural, aLtitudini, Time Out Bucharest;
- texts in exhibition catalogues: The International Biennial of Experimental Engraving, 2nd edition, Timisoara, 2005; Nit Gallery, Bucharest, 2006; A Day, National Olimpics of Fine Arts, Cluj Napoca, 2007; The International Biennial of Experimental Engraving, 3rd edition, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Bucharest, 2008; Perspective 2008 – a contemporary feminist art project, 2008; Bogdan Mateias ehibition, Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center, Bucharest, 2008; Cristina Garabetanu exhibition, Calina Gallery, Timisoara, 2009; Simona Dobrescu exhibition, Calina Gallery, Timisoara, 2009.
- poetry (Special Prize of the Jury, Student’s Spring Festival, 2003).
CITATIONS AND REFERENCES
Suzana Fântânariu, Xilogravura - matrice stilistică. Re-scrieri. Cronicile vremii, Ed. BrumaR, Timișoara, 2009, p. 203-204; Ruxandra Demetrescu, 'Redimensionări grigoresciene', Dilematica, no. 32, ian. 2009; Adrian Guță, Generația 80 în artele vizuale, Ed. Paralela 45, 2008, p. 85; Mihai Plămădeală, 'Perspective 2008', Observator Cultural, no. 192, noiembrie 2008; Lucia Popa, 'Artă feministă internațională la Anaid Art Gallery', Cotidianul.ro, noiembrie 2008; Andra Rotaru, '13 artiste feministe', Ziarul UNU, no. 8, decembrie 2008; Liliana Barborică, 'Artă feminista: Perspective 2008 - Un proiect de artă contemporană feministă sau cui îi este frică de feminism?', Altitudini, Anul III, no. 34, decembrie 2008; Ion Bogdan Lefter, 'Două artiste asiatice', Altitudini, Anul III, no. 34, decembrie 2008; Corina Teacă, 'Artele vizuale după '90. Fluxul memoriei', Ziarul de Duminică, no. 35, 7 septembrie 2007, p. 7; Oana Băluță 'Dați-ne măcar ziua înapoi', in Gen și viață cotidană - Conspirația Tăcerii (editor Cristina Ștefan), p. 65-87, Ed. Arefeana, București, 2007; Oana Băluță, 'Dialoguri feministe în fața oglinzii', Altitudini, anul I, no. 6, 08.2006, p.23; Dan Mircea Cipariu, 'Noul descântec al cutiei cu semn grafic imprimat', Cultura, anul II, no.12, 9.03.2006, p.31; 'Integrare vs Separare' (presentation of the book Oglinda în fața femeii), Analize, no.14, 2004, p. 56; Contrapunct, no. 4-6, dec. 2004 - presentation of the book Oglinda în fața femeii, p. 18; Simona Vasilache, Observator Cultural, no. 243, 19.10-25.10.2004, Reviews, vol. Oglinda în fața femeii, p. 27.