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 Exhibitions
TE SIMT ȘI TOTUL E NOU | Drossu Gallery, Iași, 2025
ACTIVE INFORMATION CARRIERS | G15D, Bucharest, 2024
ORGANISMS WITH A VIRTUAL CORE | Drossu Gallery, Iași, 2024
I, HUMAN | Timișoara National Art Museum & Ars Electronica Center, part of Compass Reloaded and Baroque Reloaded by MNArt – ECoC T2023 Programme, simultaneously taking place in Timișoara & Linz, linking the visitors of the two museums in realtime, curated by Aura Bălănescu and Veronika Krenn, 2023
I, HUMAN | esc medien kunst labor, Graz, 2021
I, HUMAN | Arcub, Bucharest, 2021
INSATIABLE MACHINES | Halucinarium Gallery, Bucharest, curated by Carmen Casiuc, March-April 2020
FEED ME | Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Eleusis, Aug-Nov 2016
FEED ME | Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, April-June 2014
Group Exhibitions (listed below by participating artwork, not year)
EMBRYO
| SPLASHH, Point ArtHub, curated by Medina Pop, Bucharest, 2025
TE SIMT ȘI TOTUL E NOU
| Ars Monitor, Artefacte Noi, 2025
CELL 0
| The Room That Remembers and Then Forgets, Point ArtHub, curated by Medina Pop, Bucharest, 2025
| Heritage Of The Past – Future Of The Community, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik (ICLD), 2024
FEAST
| De ce ne pasă (Why we care), Galateca Gallery, Bucharest, 2022
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 & ANIMATIONAUTHENTIC ROMANIAN | Illustration project, Romanian Object Design, Cărturești, 2012HD Voice | 3d mapping, Architecture University, 2011VERTICAL | video mapping, Xtreme@b-fit in the street, Architecture University, 2009
CURATORIAL PROJECTSTUMULT.space | Bucharest, May – June 2018METAMORPHOSES | ARCUB Gabroveni, Bucharest, May-December 2017BUCHAREST NOW, urban Interventions, OPEN LAB, Bucharest Candidacy for ECoC, 2016Playground for Animation | Cocor Urban Screen, 1-5 Dec 2009URBAN ART FESTIVAL (III) Cocor Media Channel, Sept 2009URBAN ART FESTIVAL (II), Palace of Parliament, Bucharest Architecture University, Coltea, 2008URBAN ART FESTIVAL (I), Palace of Parlament, Sept 2007Who’s Afraid of Glass, Ioan Nemțoi, Museums Quartier, Vienna, May 2007Communication BREAKdown, Simona Vilău, Cărturești Verona, 9-16 May 2007artmix | interactive multimedia project & contempory art archive, Bucharest National Theatre, 20061200°C | Cărturești, Galeria Nemțoi, 1-15 Nov 2005MY EXTRAVAGANZA | glass installations, Ioan Nemțoi, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, 2004
Education
2005-2006: National University of Arts Bucharest – Art History Master
2002-2005: University of Political Sciences – Communication and Media Studies
2000-2004: Languages and Literature University (En-Fr)
1994-1998: Școala Centrală
CONTACT
E: thesaintmachine@gmail.com | M: +40 728 85 85 88