Raluca Croitoru (b.1989) is a visual artist and performer from Constanța (RO), currently based in Rotterdam (NL). Croitoru uses a multidisciplinary approach that coalesces elements from fine art, choreography and performance. Her practice focuses on embodiment and the interplay of the ambivalent states of activity and rest in everyday work and leisure environments. Croitoru works with live performances, installations and videos.

Croitoru followed the MA program at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the BA program at National University of Arts in Bucharest. Her works have been performed and exhibited at TBA Performance Festival, Portland (USA), Art in General, NYC (USA), Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (SE), Playground Performance Festival, Leuven (BE) and Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (RO). 

She was one of the co-founders of ONONO project space (2016 - 2019).
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In 2018, together with Elena Butica, she co-founded palier.ro, a project aiming to bring more visibility to the remaining repair workshops of Bucharest. Visit

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RECENT

2021

(March) Neutral Buoyancy streamed on Audible Artworks #2, RAAR, WORM Radio, Rotterdam

2020

(Dec) Artistic contribution for 2012 Alphabet Book, commissioned by tranzit.ro and The Last Archive, Bucharest

(Nov) Audio contribution for Floor Area Ratio, hosted by Yellow Brick and Radio 3 137, Athens

(Nov) Interview and audio contribution for Verdure Engraved zine produced by Jez Riley French

(Oct 1-30) Mentor for CAMPart, online contemporary art course about performative practices

(27 Oct, 7PM EST) Audio contribution for Sibling Gardens, assembled by Viktor Timofeev, hosted by Montez Press Radio, NYC

(Oct. 3-11) Neutral Buoyancy - sound installation at the Botanical Garden in Cluj; part of Open Access Showcase, Clujotronic 2020 Festival and Noaptea Alba a Galeriilor 2020

(Sept. 21-27) Belfort Lab#4 Going Deeper: Serendipity, Gamification And Other Games

UPCOMING

2021

(tbd) Pedagogical contribution for Woman and the Machine, commissioned by VISUAL Carlow

(Sept) Artistic contribution for I Can't Hear You, commissioned by Research and Waves, Berlin

(Nov) Solo-exhibition at Growing Space, Rotterdam