Cristina Irian

Cristina IRIAN is a research-based artist, visual arts researcher, and curator who works with collections, photographic archives, and multimedia materials. She studied sociology (Trento & Regensburg), visual anthropology (Bucharest & Perugia), and holds a Ph.D. in visual arts from UNARTE Bucharest.

Her artistic practice, guided by the motto “No one left behind”, focuses on objects of memory, integrating photographic material into contemporary art pieces. Cristina has participated in over 50 exhibitions in Romania and abroad and is a member of Romanian Fine Arts Union and Futures, European Photography Platform. As part of her experimental endeavours in visual research and new technologies, she published the photo book „STRATA / B” (Omnia Photo, 2020, https://omnia.photo/2022/02/23/cristina-irian-stratab-ebook/). 

Subsequent experiments conducted between 2016 and 2020 resulted in two object-books - “The Seven Poems of Cristina Irian” (available on Versopolis, Poetry Expo 2024) and “The Eighth Poem of Cristina Irian” - created in collaboration with artist Mircea Bochiș.