Cosmin Costinaş

Cosmin Costinaş was the co-Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Suns: the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024), and Senior Curator of Exhibition Practices at HKW-The House of World Cultures, Berlin where he has co-curated the exhibitions O Quilombismo (2023), and As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories (2023). He was co-Curator of You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body: the Romanian Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia. During his 11 year tenure (2011-2022) he oversaw the institution’s major expansion and relocation, having curated numerous exhibitions including Garden of Six Seasons and A beast, a god, and a line. He was also the Artistic Director of Kathmandu Triennale 2022; the fourth edition of Nepal’s premier international platform for global contemporary arts. Costinaș was a Curatorial Adviser at the Aichi Triennale (2022), Guest Curator at the Dhaka Art  Summit ’18 (2018), co-curator of La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, Dakar (2018), Co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), Curator of BAK, Utrecht (2008-2011), Co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010) and Editor of documenta 12 Magazines, documenta 12, Kassel (2005–2007).