Ileana Pintilie

Curator — Faculty of Arts and Design, West University Timișoara

Ileana Pintilie is an art historian and critic, university professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University Timisoara, independent curator, member of AICA; member of the board of the American online magazine ARTMargins between 2000-2010 (www.artmargins.com). She is the author of numerous studies and articles about modern and contemporary Romanian and Central European art such as: Activism in Romania during communism, Idea Publishing House, Cluj, 2000, Ştefan Bertalan. Roads at the Crossroads, Triade Foundation, Timișoara, 2011 and Bertalan. Overlappings. Experimental photography from the 1970s-1980s, Brumar, Timisoara, 2015, Constantin Flondor. Wege zur Form, K-West Verlag, Essen, 2022. She is an independent curator of several projects: Zona.Eastern Europe performance festival, Timişoara (1993-2002) and numerous contemporary art exhibitions including the retrospective Timişoara - neo-avant-garde concepts (1960-1970), at the Art Museum of Timişoara (2006-2015), Aller-Retour, (Biennial "New Icon ”, Cetinje, Montenegro, 1997), Body and the East, (Ljubljana, 1998), Shaping the Great City, Vienna and Los Angeles (1999 –2001), Kontakt...Works from the Collection of Erste Bank Group, MUMOK, Vienna ( 2006), Subversive Practices. Art under Conditions of Political Repression 60s - 80s / South America / Europe.