Expoziția „Common Grounds”

Galerie foto (CICA Museum, Gimpo, Coreea):

Biografii artiști participanți (EN)

Dho Yee Chung
Pulse to Light: A Wearable for Emotional Liberation
[2025]

Dho Yee Chung is a media artist and educator originally from South Korea. Her research and work examine how visual media has been shaped historically and how its related culture has proliferated in response to the evolution of technology. In recent years, she has delved into how cultural and social inequality is inherent in emerging visual media and technology. She has observed injustice related to identity, race, and social status in the digital space, and analyzed it through the lens of visual design. She had group exhibitions and screenings at UCLA New Wight Gallery and MIT Museum, among others. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at Oakland University, MI, USA.

Ciprian Ciuclea
A Model of Impact
[2025]

Ciprian Ciuclea (b. 1976 in Timișoara, RO) is a visual artist and researcher based in Bucharest. He is interested in interdisciplinary projects that focus mainly on the conceptual features of reception. The themes explored are close to the social aspects of communication, interpretation of messages, astrophysics and theoretical physics, and contemplation and surveillance, placed in relation to the scientific aspects of human existence. Ciprian Ciuclea is a distinct personality in the context of Romanian visual arts for his constant interest in researching the relationship between art, science and technology, as well as for applying advanced forms of thinking from scientific knowledge in the artistic field. He exhibited worldwide including Saitama Modern Art Museum (Japan), Engramme, Québec (Canada), Platforma MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (Romania), Brukenthal National Museum – Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu (Romania), Central European House of Photography, Bratislava (Slovakia), Silo Basement Space, Bergen School of Architecture (Norway), D. Manuel Palace, Evora (Portugal) or alternative spaces such as Hospital de Santiago, Cuenca (Spain), Forte Marghera, Venice (Italy), etc. He is president of Experimental Project (an independent platform for contemporary art and culture – experimentalproject.ro) and a founding member of the Romanian Society of Ophthalmogenetics. Between 2000 and 2017 he was the director of IEEB (International Experimental Engraving biennial). Ciprian Ciuclea holds a PhD in visual arts from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His PhD thesis on the interpretation of reality mediated by technology and the description of the mathematical language used in the production of images was published in 2022 by Vellant Publishing. Bucharest under the title The Particular Landscape.

Andrei Cozlac
4 minutes and 33 seconds until midnight 
[2026]

Andrei Cozlac (b. 1986) is a video artist and lecturer at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Department of Photography, Video and Computerized Image Processing, and associate professor at the Media Department of the Faculty of Theatre, George Enescu National University of Arts. Experimentally interested in the latest multimedia technologies, he collaborated on numerous independent visual projects, video-mapping projects, and live audiovisual performances. He began his VJ activity in 2005, activating in crew-ul Drom.ro și DGW, having collaborated with festivals and music events in the country and abroad. He designed video and light shows for theatre in collaboration with Silviu Purcărete, Radu Afrim, Alexandru Dabija, Charles Muller, Theodor Cristian Popescu, Eugen Jebeleanu, Ioana Paun, Octavian Jighirgiu, Florin Caracala, etc.

dr0mp [Radu-Alexandru Andrei] #editor
[2024]

„I am a multidisciplinary artist working with interactive environments and technology-driven visual narratives, ranging from large-scale public works to intimate experimental formats. Currently, my focus in works is to identify dissonant or contradictory emergent events that appear through interaction or through the internal logic of the concept. These moments can occur at different scales, within technical systems, conceptual structures, or even on a simple surface level. I have presented visual work at Romanian creative week, radar, and street delivery, and collaborated with brands such as Pepsi on visual projects. My visuals have also accompanied album launches in Berlin, and London. I also have contributed to creative community initiatives such as newmediajam and the ai2x europe program, supporting collaborative contexts for new media practitioners. Earlier in my journey, I explored graphic design and vj-ing, and I continue to work across disciplines to connect technology, audience interaction, and emotional expression.” (dr0mp)

Gustav Hellberg
Things That Get in our Way
[2024]

Gustav Hellberg (b. 1967, Stockholm) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans lens-based media, spatial and interactive installations, and processor-controlled technologies. His practice explores the entangled relationships between people, places, and systems—particularly those governing ownership, real estate, and environmental sustainability. Initially rooted in investigations of urban dynamics, Hellberg’s work has increasingly turned toward the frictions between urban centers and peripheral or rural landscapes, reflecting a deepening concern with the exploitation of natural and human resources in zones of transition and tension. Hellberg studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1993–1998) MFA, with an exchange year at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin (1995). He later pursued studies in aesthetics and philosophy at Stockholm University. In 2000, he relocated to Berlin, where he lived and worked until 2016. From 2016 to 2023, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He is currently based in Goheung, South Korea, and teaches photography at Suncheon National University. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at institutions such as Hamish Morrison Galerie (Berlin), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles), Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Malmö Art Museum, and the City Museum of Stockholm. He has also participated in international group exhibitions including ThingWorld: Triennial of New Media Art National Art Museum of China, Momentum 4 (Moss), EMAF (Osnabrück), Spaced 3: North by Southeast, AGWA, Perth, Lift-Off Online (Melbourne, 2024), and the Bandung Photography Triennale 2022. Recent exhibitions include On Off Shore, CICA Museum, Glimp Ghost Memory: Journey to the Lost Time at Daedok Cultural Center, Daegu and the Bandung Photography Triennale 2025.

Sung-a Jang
Suspended Bloom: Post-Mortem Meditations 
[2025]

Sung-a Jang’s work unfolds in the seams where boundaries between disciplines, methods, and modes of sensemaking blur and evolve. Her practice treats the artistic process as an interrogative tool, bridging the rigor of research with the spirit of creative inquiry. Each project finds its own constellation of tools, processes, and materials through cycles of creation and reflection. Her work explores the dynamic interplay between human, machine, and nature—where control meets emergence, precision meets play, and body meets code—to open new ways of thinking, making, and connecting. Projects often unfold around speculative scenarios or persistent questions that resist closure. The forms that emerge remain provisional and incomplete—threads of thought rather than conclusive statements, invitations to dwell in the question and let the mind wander beyond what is known.

Minsu Kim
CHIMERA 
[2025]

„As a creator, I have always asked myself a persistent question. In a world where so many remarkable works already exist, what kind of work can someone born later still create? I found one answer in screendance, where dance, cinema, and artificial intelligence meet. Just as theatre expanded into cinema, and music found a new popular form through the music video, I believe dance can also become a contemporary art form through dance film.” (Minsu Kim)

Alex Jaehyun Kim
The Eternal Return
[2025]

Alex Jaehyun Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across artificial intelligence, audiovisual installation, speculative media, and computational aesthetics. His projects explore the relationship between machine autonomy, collective memory, and post-human imaginaries. Combining artistic research with technological experimentation, his practice investigates how algorithmic systems reshape perception, authorship, and emotional experience. Through immersive installations and generative environments, he constructs speculative scenarios that blur the boundaries between fiction, technological infrastructure, and social reality. His work has been presented internationally in exhibitions and media-art contexts focused on emerging technologies, interactive systems, and contemporary digital culture.

Cătălin Marinescu
Circular Memory
[2025]

Cătălin Marinescu is a Romanian visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice unfolds between performance, photography, installation, and object-based art. His work investigates the relationships between body, memory, fragility, and systems of repetition, often constructing performative situations centered on endurance, precarious balance, and symbolic labor. His projects frequently explore the instability of identity and the cyclical nature of human experience through actions that oscillate between ritual, absurdity, and meditative repetition. By integrating sculptural elements, interactive dispositifs, and performative gestures, Marinescu creates frameworks in which the body becomes both subject and medium of reflection. He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, and interdisciplinary contexts in Romania and internationally, participating in projects focused on contemporary photography, performance art, and new-media practices.

Radu Martin
Parasite
[2025]

Radu Martin is a visual artist whose practice moves between installation, experimental media, photography, and speculative visual research. His projects frequently examine unstable relationships between technology, ecology, corporeality, and systems of power. Working across physical and digital environments, he develops immersive structures that investigate processes of transformation, contamination, and adaptation within contemporary culture. His artistic approach combines sculptural thinking with media-based experimentation, often generating hybrid visual ecologies situated between fiction and material reality. He has participated in exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects focused on contemporary image culture, speculative media, and expanded artistic practices.

Mihai Savin
The Sculptor Sleeps Tonight
[2025]

Mihai Savin is a Romanian visual artist working across sculpture, installation, photography, and interdisciplinary media practices. His work frequently explores the relationships between materiality, memory, technological mediation, and the transformation of artistic labor within contemporary culture. Combining sculptural thinking with speculative visual narratives, Savin develops projects situated between physical objecthood and mediated representation. His installations often investigate themes of fragmentation, temporality, and the unstable status of the image in post-industrial and post-digital environments. He has participated in exhibitions and collaborative projects dedicated to contemporary visual culture, experimental media, and expanded sculptural practices.