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Adina Mocanu (b. 1990, Videle, RO) currently lives and works in-between Berlin (DE) and Bucharest (RO). She holds a BFA and an MFA from The National University of Arts in Bucharest. Between 2015 and 2016, Adina was an art resident of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. In the first half of 2017, she was resident and art teacher at Collins Living-Learning Center, University of Indiana (USA). She spent the last part of the year in New Orleans, researching the local magic traditions. In 2019, she took part in a transcultural residency called A Villa of One’s Own (FR / RO) curated by Anca Verona Mihuleț, Iris Ordean and Isabelle Henrion. Adina works mainly with performance and video, but she often integrates installation, photography and drawing in her practice. In 2018, she started an empirical research on the occult and how the otherworldly elements can be integrated in an artistic discourse. In 2021 - 2022, Adina was part of the key exhibition The Chronicles of the Future Superheroes at Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, curated by Anca Verona Mihuleț, showing the work Being Nina - a video installation and performance - having as its core the story of Nina Kulagina, a Russian housewife with telekinetic powers. The work was later acquired by the National Museum of Contemporary Art MNAC from Bucharest (RO). In 2023, Adina is a part of the events organized with the occasion of Timișoara - European Capital of Culture, participating in the group exhibition Made-up Histories Have Long Lives (Remix ID), as well as being awarded the Energy! Creative Grant with the project Residual Glitter.

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