Biography

Nanci/Cristian Nanculescu (1984). Bucharest-based artist with a background in performance and dance, working fluidly and interdisciplinarily across performance, dance, installation, visual art, and curation. They studied cartography at the University of Bucharest and have been active as a dancer and performer since 2006. Over the years, they have collaborated with artists from diverse fields, engaging in performance, contemporary dance, dance-theater, and visual arts—works that have been presented in museums and biennials worldwide. Since 2014, they have been creating and producing their own works, showcased in festivals and art spaces both in Romania and internationally. In December 2020, they were honored with the National Dance Center Bucharest Prize for their contribution to Romanian contemporary dance.

Their practice is at a stage of active formation, experimentation, and expansion. They have developed a personal artistic language that intersects performance, dance, and site-specific research, yet they are still in the process of refining their methods and deepening their understanding of how the body can transform public space. They are not at an established stage; instead, they are building their trajectory through projects that test new formats, collaborations, and contexts.

Artistic project

My project is a performative research in public space that investigates how physical monuments have shaped, remodeled, or imposed meaning onto the urban environment in Romania—and proposes an artistic counter-gesture through dance and performance. While monuments traditionally act through materiality, permanence, and authority, my work focuses on the opposite: the capacity of movement, ephemerality, and embodied presence to reconfigure how space is perceived, remembered, and inhabited.

Format: ongoing 

Size of audience: 500 people maximum

Specific location: outdoor spaces space

Timing/duration: ongoing