Bio

b. 18 September 1979, Romania
lives and works in Bucharest

Saint Machine is the pseudonym of a Romanian experimental artist and curator, interested in the conceptual aspects of perception. She is the author of immersive and responsive installations that investigate biological processes and study the notion of space as living structure in superposing instances: public-private, interior-exterior, real-virtual, physical-imaginary, hidden-revealed. They are organism-like sculptures that carry a digital core, use the human body to function and question the willingness to cede physicality and biological needs in exchange for digital content. In the interaction with these hybrid organisms emitting light, one’s success in controlling them is always equivalent to letting oneself assimilated by them.

 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: HYBRID SENSORIUM – MNAC – Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection

 

SOLO SHOWS

INSATIABLE MACHINES | Halucinarium Gallery, Bucharest, March-April 2020

FEED ME | Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Eleusis, Aug-Nov 2016

FEED ME | Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, April-June 2014

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, ART BIENNALE  & FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS (listed below by artwork)

 

INCREMENTAL GOD – emotion responsive 3d environment & performance

| (IM)POSSIBLE BODIES –  online international exhibition, 2020

| DISTANT ART – BUCHAREST GARDEN, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2020

| VIRTUAL MUSEUM – Madatac, Madrid, 2020

 

I, HUMAN – body responsive installation

| Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2019
| Athens Digital Arts Festival, 2019
| RADAR Festival, Bucharest, 2019
| FUSION – Art & Science exhibition, Bucharest, 2019
| Medialab-Prado, Madrid, February 2019
| FUSION – Art Residency at Măgurele Science Institutes, 2018

 

HYBRID SENSORIUM – breathing responsive media sculpture

| 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS – Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art, December 2020 – May 2021

| NON-SCULPTURE – Changwon Sculpture Biennale, September – November 2020
| POST DIGITAL START – La Nave Digital Gallery, MADATAC X, Madrid, February 2019
| SINGULARITY NOW – Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, May 2018
| MATIERE REELE / MATIERE VIRTUALE – RectoVRso, Art & VR Gallery – Laval Virtual, April 2018
| AI – THE OTHER I – Ars Electronica Festival, Post City, Linz, Sept 2017

 

NOW | participative installation
| OPENLAB – Bucharest ECoC Candidacy Programme, ARCUB Gabroveni, Aug 2016

 

FEED ME – interactive multimedia installation
| Ars Electronica Festival, Post City, Linz, Sept 2015
| Bucharest White Night, University Square, Bucharest, Sept 2014

 

ART DIRECTING, ILLUSTRATION & ANIMATION
AUTHENTIC ROMANIAN | Illustration project, Romanian Object Design, Cărturești, 2012
HD Voice | 3d mapping, Architecture University, 2011
VERTICAL | video mapping, Xtreme@b-fit in the street, Architecture University, 2009

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
TUMULT.space | Bucharest, May – June 2018
METAMORPHOSES | ARCUB Gabroveni, Bucharest, May-December 2017
BUCHAREST NOW, urban Interventions, OPEN LAB, Bucharest Candidacy for ECoC, 2016
Playground for Animation | Cocor Urban Screen, 1-5 Dec 2009
URBAN ART FESTIVAL (III) Cocor Media Channel, Sept 2009
URBAN ART FESTIVAL (II), Palace of Parliament, Bucharest Architecture University, Coltea, 2008
URBAN ART FESTIVAL (I), Palace of Parlament, Sept 2007
Who’s Afraid of Glass, Ioan Nemțoi, Museums Quartier, Vienna, May 2007
Communication BREAKdown, Simona Vilău, Cărturești Verona, 9-16 May 2007
artmix | interactive multimedia project & contempory art archive, Bucharest National Theatre, 2006
1200°C | Cărturești, Galeria Nemțoi, 1-15 Nov 2005
MY EXTRAVAGANZA |  glass installations, Ioan Nemțoi, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, 2004

STUDIES

2005-2006: National University of Arts Bucharest – Art History Master

2002-2005: University of Political Sciences – Communication and Media Studies

2000-2004: Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty (EN-FR)

1994-1998: Școala Centrală

CONTACT

E: thesaintmachine@gmail.com | M: +40 728 85 85 88