Adriana Blidaru

Adriana Blidaru is an independent curator and writer based between New York and Bucharest. She is the founder of Living Content, a nonprofit platform for contemporary art focused on ecology, interdependence, and collective imagination. Over the past two years, she has curated EARTHCAKE (2024), the first edition of the Living Content Biennial, staged 250 meters underground in a Romanian salt mine; Gather Strip Sweat (2025), a series of poetic readings in a Russian bathhouse in Manhattan; and Gems! for the Garden (2023), a sprawling group exhibition in Bucharest’s botanical garden. Alongside her work with Living Content, Adriana has curated independently for institutions and galleries including Public Gallery (London), Basis e.V. (Frankfurt), afterhours (Paris), Wendy's Subway, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, Judd Foundation, the Hessel Museum of Art (NY), Plan B Gallery (Berlin), and others. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Swiss Institute in New York and has held research and curatorial residencies in Japan, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. Her writing appears in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, CURA., Kaleidoscope, Texte zur Kunst, and others. She was guest editor at CURA. and continues to lead and edit Living Content. Adriana holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a BFA from Oxford University.