About me
Georgiana Buț is an independent curator and cultural manager. She coordinated the project ECCA – European Center for Contemporary Art within the Cluj Cultural Center between september 2019- august 2021, and has been communication and program coordinator for SPAȚIU INTACT gallery within The Paintbrush Factory (2013-2015), and Quadro Gallery (2011-2013), Cluj. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral School of Philosophy within the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, where she is writing a thesis on exhibition as a medium of artistic practice.
Projects
- ECCA - The European Centre for Contemporary ArtThe European Centre for Contemporary Art (ECCA) strives to discover and foster artistic ideas for the future, emerging from three areas of artistic and curatorial work: researching, learning and creating. ECCA is an institution in the making. Currently designing a concrete meeting place in Cluj, a pilot space in form of a pavilion, a salon or an office, ECCA evolves into a project space and museum. Based in Cluj-Napoca, in the eye of the Carpathian mountain vortex, ECCA follows a constellation
- Departures From The SphereDepartures From The Sphere represents a series of events that took place online and offline, part of the BOTH WAYS project – a contemporary art exhibition that contributed, within the Science in the City Festival, to the edition of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2020) in Trieste. Departures from the Sphere comprised three physical locations – first, the exhibition in Trieste, Italy, then the exhibition moved in Cluj-Napoca and a satellite exhibition in Târgu-Mureș, Romania with the focus on o
Work history
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CuratorSelf-employed
Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFreelance
Curatorial activity (selection): Departures from the Sphere, Magazzino 27 in Porto Vecchio Trieste, Franciscan Monastery in Cluj, Camera K’ARTE in Târgu Mureș & online (2020); Echoes Beneath the Waves, The Art Museum Cluj-Napoca (2020); 2META+: An evening in my parents’ studio, French Institute, and Galeria Reflex, Cluj-Napoca (2019); End of the Line, Camera K’ARTE, Târgu-Mureș (2018-19), assistant curator Memory as Vision (curator: Horea Avram), Fabrica de Pensule spaces (2018).
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Project ManagerCluj Cultural Centre
- Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFull Time
I coordinated the project ECCA – European Center for Contemporary Art within the Cluj Cultural Center. ECCA is an institution in the making. Currently designing a concrete meeting place in Cluj, a pilot space in form of a pavilion, a salon or an office, ECCA evolves into a project space and museum. The European Centre for Contemporary Art (ECCA) strives to discover and foster artistic ideas for the future, emerging from three areas of artistic and curatorial work:
researching, learning and creating.
https://ecca.ro/
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Skills
- Contemporary art
- Music
- Philosophy
- Art Theory
- Exhibition
- Collection Development
- Project Management
- Content Translation
- Academic Writing
- Art Writing
Education
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PhD Student in Philosophy of ArtBabes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral School of Philosophy within the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, where she is writing a thesis on exhibition as a medium of artistic practice
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Master's Degree in Philosophy Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca
- Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Awards
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Excellentia AwardBabes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca
The Excellentia Award is offered by the Student Council of the Babeș-Bolyai University and it recognizes the active involvement in student life and it is an appreciation of outstanding academic performance in the field studied.