Cosmin Costinas
(Romania/China)
Cosmin Costinas is the Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong since 2011. He was Guest Curator at the Dakar Biennale (2018), Curator at Dhaka Art Summit (2018), Co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), Curator of BAK, Utrecht (2008-2011), Co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010), and Editor of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel (2005–2007). At Para Site, Cosmin Costinas oversaw the institution’s major expansion and relocation to a new home in 2015, and curated or co-curated exhibitions including: An Opera for Animals (2019); A beast, a god, and a line (toured at Dhaka Art Summit ‘18, TS1/The Secretariat, Yangon, and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2018); Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs (toured at MCAD, Manila and Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, 2016-2017); Afterwork (toured at ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, 2016-2017); and A Journal of the Plague Year (toured at The Cube, Taipei, Arko Art Center, Seoul, and Kadist Art Foundation and The Lab, San Francisco, 2013-2015) in recent years, a.o. He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has edited and contributed his writing to numerous books, magazines, and exhibition catalogs and has taught and lectured at different universities and institutions around the world.
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