Razvan Ion is a theoretician, curator, cultural manager and political activist. He is the co-editor (with Eugen Radescu

Eugen Radescu

Eugen Radescu is a politologist , cultural manager, curator and theoretician. He writes for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme "Identity Factories" and "How Innocent Is That?" at Bucharest...

), of PAVILION - journal for politics and culture, co-director of Bucharest Biennale

Bucharest Biennale

The Bucharest Biennale is a contemporary art festival held every two years in Bucharest, Romania. The first Biennale was held in 2005, with the following one held in May-June 2006. From 2006 onwards, the festival will be held every two years...

 and in 2008 he was appointed as director of PAVILION UNICREDIT- center for contemporary art & culture. Lives and works in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

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Teaching

He lectured at Liceul Doamna Stanca, Headlands Center for the Arts-California, Political Science Faculty - Cluj, Art Academy - Timisoara, La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbon, etc. He writes in different magazines and newspapers.

Recent projects

He recently curated "Exploring the Return of Repression" at Pavilion, Bucharest and rum46, Aarhus. He is now working on the book project "Exploring the Return of Depression" and his new curatorial project “Smash the Church! Smash the State!” dealing with anarchist and collective activism and social-political movements in art.

External links

• Pavilion Unicredit http://www.pavilionunicredit.ro/
• Bucharest Biennale http://bucharestbiennale.org/
• Pavilion Magazine http://www.pavilionmagazine.org/