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Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. Vlad studied at the Art university Bucharest, Photography and Video Department.
Since 2001 Vlad exhibited across Europe, involved in various art projects using photography to document urbanity.
I studied photography and video at the University of Arts in Bucharest. Drawing on the environment and influence of Bucharest life, I document urbanity through photography. Since the beginning of my practice I have been actively involved in the progression of the Romanian young artists’ scene by hosting “home galleries”, running the Incepem emailing list and its subsequent Incepem fanzine, by curating exhibitions and more recently co-founding Scoala Generala free school in Bucharest. Throughout the years I have made a great use of DIY methods, both for running the home gallery and other group projects as well as for personal work. Utilizing different mediums my varying personal projects employ political and cultural symbols, often using word-play to evoke nostalgia and referencing Romania’s recent history and challenging the current social and political status quo. Besides that group projects which I have coordinated I very much enjoy collaborating with other artists on a more direct, personal level as it happened with Janek Simon in Remix (Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland) and with Mircea Nicolae and playwright Nicoleta Esinencu for two site specific installations in Chisinau, Moldova (part of Inteventii 3 festival). Recently my work has been greatly influenced by the urbanity and street environment. Photographical documentation of street objects and situations have been the base of a series of new sculptures and installations.
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source: icr-londoncouk
Vlad Nanca studied Photography and Video at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. He has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions in Romania and abroad, such as: Dream of Bucharest, Stuttgart, 2007 (solo); Boulevard Renault 12, Bucharest, 2007 (solo); Overcoming Dictatorships, Birmingham, 2008 (group); Social Cooking, Berlin, 2007 (group).

As artist-in-residence at the Romanian Cultural Institute, he will develop a research into the artistic and teaching activity of acclaimed artist Paul Neagu, with support from the ‘Paul Neagu’ Estate.
The project, called Paul Neagu hyphen Slade hyphen Contemporary Sculpture, aims to explore Paul Neagu’s defining influence on the development of British contemporary sculpture. The results of the research will be presented within the ‘Paul Neagu’ exhibition at the ICR London early October this year.