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„Praxis! Emergent Curators’ Days” revine cu ediția 2026, care se va desfășura în perioada 25 iunie – 12 iulie. „Praxis!” este un proiect al Universității de Artă și Design din Cluj-Napoca cu caracter unic la nivel național, care oferă o platformă de exprimare și de afirmare profesională tinerilor curatori, precum și o ocazie pentru publicul clujean de a se întîlni cu producțiile a numeroși artiști din diferite generații.
Ediția din acest an a Praxis! cuprinde un număr de 16 expoziții, găzduite de diverse spații de artă din Cluj, realizate de către 16 tineri curatori (Diana Molnos, Xenia Tinca, Adriana Bicăzan, Gabriela Moldovan, Miruna Drăgușanu, Lina Țărmure, Denisa Rad, Călina Coman, Cristiana Ursache, Irena Domnița, Paula Martin, Daniela Domuța, Ruxandra Laza, Cristian Ciubotaru, Ana Caterina Correa de Lima, Vivien Yvette Precuț), coordonați de curatorul general și inițiatorul „Praxis!”, Bogdan Iacob, printre care se numără și absolvenți ai promoției 2026 ai programului de master Practici Curatoriale Contemporane al UAD. Lucrările a peste 50 de artiști ce utilizează medii diverse de exprimare creativă, de la nume deja intrate în istora artei recente românești pînă la artiști aflați în plină desfășurare a maturității creative sau la reprezentanți ai tinerei generații vor putea fi văzute în cele trei seri – maraton de vernisaje (25, 26 și 27 iunie) și pe întreaga perioadă a evenimentului.
Expozițiile „Praxis!” vor fi găzduite de următoarele spații de artă partenere, cărora le mulțumim călduros pentru disponibilitate și sprijin: Muzeul de Artă Cluj, Galeria Casa Matei, Centrul de Interes în Centru@Casa Hintz, Galeria Relicvar, Contemporar, La Cave – Institutul Francez din România, Biju Gallery, Matca artspace, Galeria Cosmic House, Meron Gallery, Camera, Vault One Gallery, Fundația Cosman, White Cuib și AtelierPatru.

Art historian, curator, and educator, a graduate of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, where she completed a BA in Art History and Theory and a Master’s in Curatorial Practices, Xenia Tinca is a dedicated professional committed to exploring and communicating contemporary art through emotion-informed and collaborative curatorial practices. With a professional path that merges project management, research, and art education, she has coordinated and curated exhibitions across diverse cultural venues, from museums to galleries to independent art spaces, such as Art Museum Cluj, Quadro Gallery or La Cave (of the Institut français de Roumanie á Cluj, where she has been responsible for a year’s curatorial program), and Sabot Gallery. She has curated exhibitions within the framework of Praxis! 2025 (at Biju Gallery), Cluj and Romanian Creative Week 2026 (at UAP Galleries), Iași.
Her work stands out through the promotion of emerging artists, the construction of coherent curatorial narratives, and her involvement in every stage of an exhibition’s development, from research and writing to artwork logistics and partner communication. She has also contributed as an art journalist, offering critical analyses and interviews that make contemporary art more accessible to the public.
Empathetic, rigorous, and dialogue-oriented, she creates spaces of encounter between audiences, artists, and ideas, where art becomes a living channel of cultural communication.
In "Praxis!" 2026 she is the curator, alongside Bogdan Iacob, of the exhibition "Horeb Gethsemane Eden" at Relicvar Gallery.

Yvette-Vivien Precuț is an emerging curator based in Cluj-Napoca who, through her curatorial practice, seeks to create a space for contemplation, with the exhibition conceived as an open theatrical stage. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in “Contemporary Curatorial Practices” at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.
She currently works in the field of lyric arts with poetry and has a background in the performing arts; thus, her research focuses on artistic processes, experimental film, performance, and documentation as material related to the works. Within this framework, she develops a dramaturgy situated at the intersection of corporeality and philosophical reflection, offering the viewer a space for introspection and critical mediation. The exhibition space also becomes a mental space, where the “stage” is reconfigured through the imagination.
Between 2023 and 2024, she completed an internship at the Quadro Gallery in Cluj-Napoca, where she gained experience in organizing exhibitions, conducting research, and managing gallery operations.
In “Praxis!” 2026, alongside Ana Caterina Correa de Lima, she is curating the exhibition “Code Shifts in a Neural Network” at Atelierpatru.

Ana Caterina Corrêa de Lima is an emerging curator based in Cluj-Napoca, currently completing her MA in Cotemporary Curatorial Practices at the University of Art and Design, where she also earned her BA in Art History and Theory. Her academic interests are rooted in contemporary art and the examination of the operational realities of the art market, framing its mechanisms through a theoretical lens that bridges critical discourse and pragmatic insight. At the intersection of theory and practice, her research focuses on how artworks engage with and reshape the fluid networks of the contemporary art world and its agents. Her curatorial practice is grounded in an interest in performance and other non-material, non-permanent artistic forms, with particular attention to how these practices circulate, resist commodification, and acquire meaning within institutional and market structures.
In “Praxis!” 2026, along with Yvette-Vivien Precuț, she is curating the exhibition “Code Shifts in a Neural Network” at Atelierpatru.

Adriana Bicăzan lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. She is pursuing a PhD at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, where she previously completed a BA in Art History and an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices. Her academic and curatorial interests focus on sequential art, Western comics, and manga, with a particular interest in pop culture and otaku subculture, explored as relevant visual and social frameworks within contemporary artistic practices.
Over the past three years, she worked alongside Zina Gallery, a contemporary art gallery based in Cluj-Napoca, where, as gallery assistant, she has been involved in organizing exhibitions and contributing to gallery’s participation in national and international art fairs. In 2025, she curated her first exhibition, As Above, So Below, presented at Vault One Gallery, featuring artists Mihai Ciplea and Sergiu Ujvarosi.
Her curatorial practice is centered on supporting and promoting emerging artists, with a focus on creating spaces for dialogue between new artistic practices, contemporary visual culture, and audiences.
In Praxis! 2026 she is curating "Underneath All Traces of Comfort" at Matca artspace.

Miruna Drăgușanu is an emerging curator and currently a PhD candidate in Visual Arts, with a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Theory and a Master's degree in Contemporary Curatorial Practices, obtained from University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. Her activity is defined by the exploration of contemporary art from feminist perspectives, having as a central objective the mapping and promotion of female artists from Romania. She considers curating an act of cultural responsibility; therefore, her work methodology focuses on collaborative formats and on the generation of critical content, transforming simple exhibition into strategies for the visibility of essential, yet insufficiently explored, artistic perspectives.
Her curatorial activity includes exhibitions such as “Low-Key Epiphany” at Relicvar, Cluj-Napoca within Praxis! Emergent Curators’ Days, (2025), “Acts of Belonging” at Mansarda Gallery, Timișoara (2026), and “Low-Key Epiphany” at the International Center for Contemporary Art - Baia Turcească, Iași, as part of Romanian Creative Week (2026).
In Praxis! 2026, she is curating the exhibition "Almost Still" at Meron Gallery.

Irena Domnița is currently pursuing her MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices at the University of Art and Design. She holds dual BAs in Philosophy and Graphic Arts, a combination that continues to shape her approach to ideas and her sensitivity to visual form.
Her research emerges from a sustained engagement with contemporary art, exploring how we make sense of what we perceive, particularly the process we undergo in order to create meaning from the tension between what is perceptible and what eludes articulation. She is especially interested in the ways images exceed their own visibility, affecting us through aesthetic experiences.
In Praxis! 2026 she is curating the exhibition “Where My Name Begins” at Cosmic House Gallery.

Paula Martin is an emerging curator and artist based in Cluj-Napoca. Her practice attempts to connect the yearning from within oneself to the visual world.
She earned her Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts (Sacred Arts – Mosaic) in 2022 (University of Alba Iulia) then went on to complete a MA in Heritage and Cultural Tourism (UBB Cluj-Napoca) and is currently completing another MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices (at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca)
Her transdisciplinary approach dictates an anthropological approach to art. She believes that an entire human life might not be enough time to truly grasp the human condition with all its values and shifts, but all can partake in creating an understanding of it.
In "Praxis!" 2026 she is curating the exhibition "No Sacred Time" at Vault One Gallery.

Cristian Ciubotaru is a graduate of the Contemporary Curatorial Practices master program of the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca, where he also earned his Bachelor’s degree in the Art Pedagogy. He has previously been responsible for writing the curatorial texts for the exhibitions ”Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Drawing” and “Aerul Crud Al Dimineții”, organized at Casa Matei Gallery and the Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, respectively.
As an emerging curator, Cristian seeks to explore through his practice a variety of relevant themes of contemporary art (identity, memory, grief), understood through a thoughtful selection of evocative works. His curatorial approach is based on facilitating a mediated experience for the public, achieved through the creation of a coherent and immersive dialogue between the expressive potential of the exhibition environment and the aesthetic qualities of the selected artworks, particularly their textures and shapes. He aims to create spaces of visibility for the artists he collaborates with, enabling both their works and artistic identities to be encountered and understood.
In Praxis! 2026 Cristian Ciubotaru is curating “Echoes of a Memory” at Casa Matei Gallery.

Daniela Domuța views curating as a form of artistic practice in itself. Her aim is to inspire the creation of meaningful, participatory experiences while bringing culture closer to people. Developing her practice within the international art scene, she has curated exhibitions and followed a multidisciplinary cultural professional path that includes project management, interview based writing, and cultural mediation. Daniela has an academic background in art history and theory and pursued MA studies in contemporary curatorial practices at UAD, focusing on the development of artist-run structures and alternative institutional models. She cultivates a collaborative approach, focused on building accessible cultural platforms, and strengthening the connection between art and society. She has curated show like “Take a Breath before Stepping in”, Palatul Sebestyén, during Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor (October 2025), "The Knot" with Vault One Gallery at Art Market Budapest (October 2025), “Misticism” at Căminul Subcultural (April 2025), "Back to Square One", solo show Miruna Morțe at Deutsches Kulturzentrum Klausenburg (March 2026) and “Remaining Space Available” at Matca Artspace (December 2024).
In Praxis! 2026 she is curating “Writing the Exhibition” at White Cuib.