Iulia Gabriela Toma (1974) is a mixed-media artist who works with textile, photography, painting, installation and text. Recently she has been focusing on social issues that she expresses in her own individual way: feminism, women’s rights, interpersonal relations in closed communities, materiality of urban living and social justice. She teaches in the Department of Art & Design, Textile section at the National University of Arts Bucharest. Among her recent exhibitions: 1st Timisoara Art Encounters APPEARANCE & ESSENCE group show; Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory and Revolution 1916 – 2016, group show at MAK for Vienna Biennale 2015; Twilled connections, group show for tranzit.ro, Bucharest; Kinder. Küche. Kirche, solo show Calina Gallery, Timisoara; Untitled Fighter, solo show Ivan Gallery, Bucharest.
Claudiu Cobilanschi (1972) works at the blurry boundary between art and media, using, as journalist, multiple mediums for different kinds of expression and, as an artist, the benefit of these media’s mutual conflict. In his practice, he approaches issues of stereotypical thinking, forecasting and physicality through photography, performance, super8 cinema, studies of expressiveness, video-documents and interactive movies. Among others, he has been working with: ParadisGaraj & Die Kunsthalle Bucharest, Platforma & Salonul de Proiecte Anexa MNAC Bucharest, Barbara Seiler Gallery Zürich, Kunsthalle Winterthur, DEPO Instanbul, Rotwand Gallery Zürich, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, IG BILDENDE KUNST Vienna, Nida Art Colony Lithuania, HBK Saar Saarbrücken, Romanian Cultural Institute, Motorenhalle Dresden, Kunsthalle Krems.