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Bildmuseet expands its team and welcomes Anca Rujoiu as Curator of Exhibitions from March 2024. With more than fourteen years of experience working in the field of contemporary art in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, she will be strengthening Bildmuseet’s position as one of Sweden’s foremost venues for international contemporary art, says director Katarina Pierre.
Anca Rujoiu, currently co-curator of the 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, has extensive curatorial, institution-building and publishing experience. She was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2013–18), first as Curator for Exhibitions and later as Head of Publications. At NTU CCA Singapore, she co-curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, commissions, projects, and public programmes. She held a position at the Royal College of Art London and led the Outset Visual Cultures Programme (2012-2013). As a member of the curatorial initiative FormContent (2011–13) in London, she co-initiated the nomadic program It’s Moving from I to It.
In 2019, Rujoiu was the co-curator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara. Other recent curatorial projects include the Inventory of the Week (2023), the National Centre for Dance Bucharest, Solidarity is a Verb (2022), Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and a collaboration with the Singapore Botanical Gardens (2022). In 2013, she was co-curator of Collective Fictions, one of the selected projects in Nouvelles Vagues, a program by Palais de Tokyo in Paris dedicated to young curators.
Rujoiu has published and co-edited several publications and artists’ books, including sentAp!, a special issue dedicated to the late artist Roslisham Ismail aka Ise (2021); Voyages de Rhodes by Thao Nguyen Phan (2018); Place.Labour.Capital. (2018); Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions (2017); Becoming Palm by Simryn Gill and Michael Taussig (2018); Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video (2016).
Her collaboration with Bildmuseet at Umeå University goes back to 2013. Rujoiu was an assistant curator for the exhibition Theatrical Fields at Bildmuseet, which was presented one year later at NTU CCA Singapore and led to the eponymous reader. She was one of the invited curators (2022, 2020, 2018) in the Networking North programme initiated by Bildmuseet.
Anca Rujoiu (b. 1984, Bukarest) is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; her research focuses on institution building, self-organisation, and alternative ways of constructing and writing histories. She graduated from the MFA Curating Programme at Goldsmiths College London and was one of the curators selected for the 3rd International Curator Course at the Gwangju Biennial (both in 2011).
