Cosmin Costinaş
Cosmin Costinaş born in Satu Mare (RO) in 1982, is the Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong (since 2011), and Artistic Director of Kathmandu Triennale 2021. He was a guest curator of La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain-DAK’ART, Dakar (2018); guest curator at the Dhaka Art Summit (2018); co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); curator of BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2008-2011) (NL); co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010)(RU); and editor of documenta 12 Magazines, documenta 12, Kassel (2005–2007)(DE).
Courses
Exhibitions
2018-2020 A beast, a god, and a line, Dhaka Art Summit; Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1/The Secretariat, Yangon; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; Kunsthall Trondheim (NO); MAIIAM, Chiang Mai. Koloa: Women, Art, and Technology, Para Site, Hong Kong; Nuku’alofa, Tonga; Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland (NZ). Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong. 2019 An Opera for Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Para Site, Hong Kong. 2018 Long Green Lizards (curated with Inti Guerrero), La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, DAK’ART, Dakar. 2016-2017 Movements at an Exhibition. Manuel Pelmus, Para Site, Hong Kong. Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs (curated with Inti Guerrero), MCAD, Manila; Para Site, Hong Kong; Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok. 2013-2015 A Journal of the Plague Year (curated with Inti Guerrero), TheCube Project Space, Taipei; Kadist and The Lab, San Francisco, CA (US). 2014 10 Shanghai Biennale – The Social Factory, Power Station of Art, Shanghai. 2012 Acts of Voicing, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE).
Publications
Costinas, A. Janevski: Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The New Performance Turn, its Histories and its Institutions, Sternberg Press, 2018.
Chong, C. Costinas, L. Ma: Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo-MUAC, 2016.
Chou, C. Costinas and Q, Lim: Afterwork, Para Site, 2016.
Costinas, I. Guerrero, L. Ma: A Journal of the Plague Year, Sternberg Press, 2015.
Chong and C. Costinas, Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York, Sternberg Press, 2015.
