Ioana Vlasiu
Ioana Vlasiu, PhD in art history, is a senior researcher I. She graduated from Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in 1996. After graduation she began to work at the
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Program of the Romanian Academy - Encyclopedia of Romanian Art:
- director of the projects:
Dictionary of sculptors
Repertory of exhibitions in Bucharest.1868-1914
Dictionary of art collections and collectors in Romania
National research projects:
- director of the project “The Saint of
- coordinator of IAH research teams for the joint projects:
Study on Fundamental Symbols of Visual Communication (2003-2005)
CyberMuseum of
TEACHING
- invited professor at the National University of Arts, Bucharest; courses in the history of Romanian modern art (1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001).
GRANTS, RESEARCH RESIDENCIES
- 1994: grant from Getty Foundation, USA
- 1993: senior fellowship at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study
- in the 70s and the 80s: research residencies funded by the Romanian Academy or by the Romanian Union of Artists in Poland, USSR, DDR, Czechoslovakia.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
· Romanian National Committee of CIHA (Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art)
· Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA)
· Romanian Union of Artists
· member of Al. Tzigara-Samurcaº Foundation
CO-ORGANIZER OF INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIA AND EXHIBITIONS
Ioana Vlasiu has participated to the organization of several colloquia and exhibitions:
Les couleurs de l'avant-garde. L'art en Roumanie, 1910-1950, exhibition at the
Symbolist Themes and Motifs in European Art around 1900, international symposium at G. Oprescu
Mémoire sculptée de l'Europe et de ses aires d'influence XVIIe-XXe siècles, colloquium, Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg, 2001
Brancusi at his Zenith. And what next?, international symposium, Bucharest, 2001
Art and Ideology in Central and Eastern Europe, Romanian Academy & G. Oprescu Institute & IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board), Bucharest, 1992
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED AT G. OPRESCU INSTITUTE
2013: After Brancusi
2009: Futurism Today. 100 Years of the Futurist Manifesto
2007: Grigorescu and Modernity
2004: The last Classic. Gheorghe Anghel Centennial
2003: Three meanings of modernity, three anniversaries: Victor Brauner, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Octav Grigorescu
CONFERENCE PAPERS
BOOKS
Vasile Popescu (monograph), Ed. Meridiane, Bucureºti, 1971
Dimitrie Ghiaþã (monograph), Ed. Meridiane, Bucureºti, 1985
Anii ’20, tradiþia ºi pictura româneascã, Ed. Meridiane, Bucureºti, 2000
Miliþa Petraºcu (monograph), Ed. ARC, Chiºinãu, 2004
EDITED BOOKS
Dicþionarul sculptorilor din România, Vol. I A-G) and Vol. II (H-Z), Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucureºti, 2011-2012
Nicolae Grigorescu si modernitatea, Ed. DoMinor, Bucureºti, 2008. Ioana Vlasiu: editor and author of the paper 'Grigorescu ºi metamorfozele receptãrii critice', p. 67-77
JOINT VOLUMES
Articles / chapters in:
Tezaurul Academiei Române, vol. V: Colecþii de artã (series ed. by acad. Ionel Haiduc and acad. Pãun Ion Otiman; volume edited by Marina Sabados), Editura Academiei Române, Bucureºti, 2014
Istoria românilor. Vol. IX: România în anii 1940-1947, ed. by Dinu C. Giurescu, Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucureºti, 2008
Noi studii ale avangardei, ed. by Cãlin Stegeran, Editura Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, 2006
Constantin Brâncuºi: destinul postum, ed. by Silviu Angelescu, Bucureºti, 2002
Látvány és gondolat, ed. by Gh. Vida, Editura Kriterion, Bucureºti, 1991
Arta popularã a aromânilor din Dobrogea, Editura Meridiane, Bucureºti, 1979
ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Articles / entries on Romanian art and artists in:
International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA),
Bibliographie zur kunstgeschichtlichen Literatur în ost- und südosteuropäischen Zeitschriften, München, Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte, 1974-1978; 1990-1993
Thieme-Becker, currently Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, K.G. Saur Verlag, Leipzig, 1980-2008 – cca 100 entries
Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers,
Encyclopedia of
Enciclopedia artiºtilor români contemporani, Editura Arc 2000, Bucureºti, 2000
Un secol de sculpturã româneascã: XX, Dicþionar A-D, ed. by Alexandra Titu, Editura Meta, Bucureºti, 2001
AWARDS
Prize for Art Criticism, awarded by the Union of Romanian Artists (1990)
REFERENCES
Istoria ºtiinþelor în România. Istoriografia de artã în România, editor: Mircea Popescu, Bucureºti, 1979; Catalogul experþilor, Societatea academicã din România, Bucureºti, 1997.
The writings of Ioana Vlasiu were reviewed, cited or mentioned by Sanda Agalidi, Barbu Brezianu, Theodor Enescu, Amelia Pavel, Cãlin Dan, Magda Cârneci, Mihai Ispir, Marina Preutu, Vasile Florea, Irina Genova (Bulgaria), Crisztina Passuth (Hungary), Andras Zwickl (Hungary), Dragoº Gheorghiu, Paola Mola (Italy), Ioana Beldiman, Ruxandra Demetrescu, Anca Oroveanu, Costin Hostiuc, Maria Criºan, Carmen Popescu, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond (France).