Horea Avram

Horea Avram is an art historian and independent curator affiliated with the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, where he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media. His work bridges visual culture, media technology, and corporeality in performing arts.

• Research Focus: Contemporary artistic practices, aesthetics, and the intersection of media technology with bodily expression in visual and performing arts

Publications:

• Negotiable Perspective: Essays and Commentaries on Contemporary Artistic Practices (Eikon, 2021)
• Moving Images, Mobile Bodies: The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)

Contributions:

• Entry author in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Contributor to Theorizing Visual Studies (Routledge, 2013)
• Contributor to Encyclopedia of the Imaginaries in Romania (Polirom, 2020)

Professional Roles:

• Curator for Romania at the Venice Biennale (1999)
• President of AICA-Romania (International Association of Art Critics)