1. —Team

Cosmin Costinaş

curator, BAK, Utrecht (2009 to 2011)

Cosmin Costinaş (born 1982) was curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst between early 2009 to late 2011, where he curated the exhibitions I, the Undersigned by Rabih Mroué; Expo Zero (together with Boris Charmatz and Martina Hochmuth); and Surplus Value by Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor. He co-edited (with Jill Winder) the first monograph on the work of Vătămanu and Tudor (2009). Costinaş studied art history and history at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He is an advisory board member of PATTERNS/ERSTE Foundation, Vienna. Costinaş co-curated (with Ekaterina Degot and David Riff) the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, entitled Shockworkers of the Mobile Image, Ekaterinburg, 2010, and was an editor of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel/Vienna in 2005–2007. He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has contributed his writing to numerous magazines, books, and exhibition catalogs across Europe and South East Asia. Other recent curatorial projects include: After the Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography in given places, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2009; The Demon of Comparisons, Electric Palm Tree, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2009; Like an Attali Report, but different. On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2008; and Textground, Display Gallery, Prague, 2004. Costinaş currently is executive director of Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong.