Raluca Croitoru (b.1989, Romania) is a Rotterdam-based visual artist and performer.Croitoru uses a multidisciplinary approach that coalesces elements from fine art, choreography and performance. She works predominantly with video and performance.
Her practice focuses on embodied and tacit knowledge. Croitoru uses choreography as a tool of investigation and expression, creating scripts and scores as frameworks for texts, movements and gestures. She is particularly interested in the meeting point between choreography as an artistic discipline and choreographies that can be encountered in public space, social spheres and domestic spaces.
Since 2021, Croitoru is a core tutor in the Autonomous Practices department at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam. She is also an active member of Filmwerkplaats collective at WORM Rotterdam.
Croitoru holds an MA from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a BA in Photography and Video from Bucharest National University of Arts.
Her works have been performed and exhibited at WET, TENT and Mama (NL), Changing Room, Berlin (DE), TBA Performance Festival, Portland (USA), Art in General, NYC (USA), Temps d’Image Festival Lisbon (PT), Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (SE), Playground Performance Festival, Leuven (BE) and Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (RO).
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RECENT
2024
(Nov 2024 - March 2025) TANDRU, solo-exhibition at WOLk, Rotterdam
(1 Dec) Filmwerkplaats Residency Showcase#3, UBIK, Rotterdam
(April - Dec) Expanded cinema residency at Filmwerkplaats, WORM Rotterdam
Fioritura screened at:
(19 Sept) Pirate Bay DIY Film Fest, WORM, Rotterdam
(14-24 Nov) Short film competition, L'Alternativa Experimental Film Festival, Barcelona
(4-13 Dec) Prisme #7 - argentique du futur, Nantes
(23 June) Electric Umbrella, WORM, Rotterdam (NL)
https://worm.org/production/electric-umbrella-17/
(15 -26 May) Artist in Focus at Romanian Creative Week, Iași (RO) &
(24 May) Artist Talk, hosted by Ioana Petcu at “George Enescu” National University of Arts https://romaniancreativeweek.ro/events/artist-talk-raluca-croitoru-ioana-petcu/
Fioritura screened at:
(24 May) ACT - theatre and arthouse cinema festival, Iași (RO)
(4 May) CosmiX III, Cinema Saint-André des Arts, Paris (FR)
(28 April) IRIS Short Film Screening, the Rum Shack, Glasgow (UK)
2023
[solo exhibition] A language that is felt, WET, Rotterdam
(Sept - Dec) Pink, Green, Iron, Yellow, series of somatic workshops created in collaboration with Maike Hemmers for her installation part of Dolf Henkes Prize,
TENT Rotterdam
2022
Art History Aerobics, part of Fictions, my body, National Dance Centre Bucharest, also performed at:
>>LEILEI Gallery, Bucharest (2021)
>>Playground Performance Festival@STUK, Leuven (2017)
>>The Performance Bar / WORM
2021
[solo exhibition] Water-based at Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam
Pedagogical contribution for Woman and the Machine, commissioned by VISUAL Carlow
sound sound marks, I Can’t Hear You, sound workshop commissioned by Research and Waves, Gallery Changing Room, Berlin
(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
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UPCOMING
2025
(31 May) Fioritura (16mm film), Handmade screening at Nova Cinema, Brussels
(21 - 25 May) Fioritura selected for Experimental Film Festival Process, Riga
(14 - 25 May) Co-curator for ACT - arthouse cinema and theatre, Romanian Creative Week, Iasi
(29 - 30 March) APPRECIATION, group exhibition, part of Rotterdam Art Weekend
(29 - 30 March) TANDRU, finissage solo-exhibition during the 13th edition of South Explorer
(1 Feb) Sunday, expanded-cinema performance at IFFR, Rotterdam
photo credit: Zsolt Szederkenyi