ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

Alina Serban @ Attic Arts

Alina Serban is curator and art critic, currently a PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London with a paper on engaged aestheticism called From Socialist Realism to the Turn to Conceptualism. She has various contributions to Romanian and international conferences, exhibition catalogues and art magazines, as well as many curatorial projects.

As artist-in-residence at the Romanian Cultural Institute London, she will work on a research project on posters relating to the Romanian revolution of 1989 from the Victoria & Albert Museum collection. The research is part of a cataloguing project of 300 posters from Eastern Bloc, that will go on the Victoria & Albert Museum website by the end of August 2009. The project will explore the national graphic traditions, pre-communist imagery and the visual languages developed to describe the new political landscape after 1989.
The catalogue will sit as a permanent resource on the V&A website and will also provide an educational tool particularly relevant to themes of recent history, modern languages and citizenship.

When: 23 March - 21 April 2009;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute London