Magda Radu

Magda Radu is a curator and art historian based in Bucharest. She is a founder and co-director of the independent art space Salonul de proiecte a program focused on the production of new artworks, publications and discursive platforms. She is the editor and  co-editor of exhibition catalogs and books including Paul Neagu – The Monograph (2022), Art in Romania Between 1945- 2000. An Analysis from Today’s Perspective (2016), Dear Money (2014) and André Cadere/Andrei Cădere (2011). She co-curated the first international retrospective of Paul Neagu at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2021), Neue Galerie Graz (2022), and The Museum of Art Timișoara (2022-2023). In the last few years she curated exhibitions at institutions including KIOSK Ghent (in the framework of Europalia 2019); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin (n.b.k.); ArtEncounters Biennale, Timișoara; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; MUSAC, Leon; Photo España, Madrid. In 2017, she curated the Romanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale with the project Geta Brătescu – Apparitions. In the context of Timișoara 2023 – European Capital of Culture she co-curated the exhibition Mircea Nicolae – Small Things, Precious Things, conceived by Salonul de proiecte, as well as the performance program ZONA, conceived together with Corina Oprea.