Marina Oprea

Marina Oprea (b.1989) lives and works in Bucharest and is the current editor of the online edition of Revista ARTA. She graduated The National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, with a background in photography and video art, and has since extend her interest into the area of critical writing. She is keen to point out the instances where pop culture meets contemporary art, her texts often indicating towards performativity as the intersection between the two. In between projects she makes translations and collaborates with various national and international artistic publications.

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August 1, 2017

The Sacred Spectacle

The Hierophant was less about art and more about show, but unfortunately it did not rise to the name or transcendence of the archetypal figure of The Prophet/Teacher.

— Marina Oprea

April 3, 2017

The first news from Polska

News from Polska #3: The Tickler and the Ticklee reunites some of Poland’s most relevant performance artists right here in Bucharest.

— Marina Oprea

February 23, 2017

Roman Tolici – superlative figurative

Roman Tolici is less interested in non-figurative forms; he does not wish to show the viewer something unparalleled because he thinks that the world's existing representations still speak out.

— Marina Oprea

December 5, 2016

Dancey, with a chance of duet

I couldn’t think of a better place to satisfy my need for expressive bodies and gushing energies than the National Dance Center.

— Marina Oprea

October 19, 2016

Perspectivism – The elusive White Horse

Hate is a very loose and general term, a feeling so familiar yet so unassumed. We hate to hate, we’d hate to be characterized as hateful, yet this is exactly what we are, and that’s OK.

— Marina Oprea