Experts in MoldArte

Caitlin Southwick
Caitlin Southwick is the Founder and Executive Director of Ki Culture and Sustainability in Conservation (SiC). She holds a Professional Doctorate in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Amsterdam. Before founding Ki Culture,...
Alex Calancea
Alex Calancea is a producer, composer and bass guitarist from the Republic of Moldova. After graduating from the Conservatory in Chisinau, he toured Europe, Asia and Russia as a bassist with a jazz fusion project; he continues with a pop rock project and has important...
Erwin Kessler
Erwin Kessler is an art historian, philosopher, curator and general director of the Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest - MARe. After graduating in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, he continued his studies in Art History and Theory at the Academy of Art in...
Alexandra Isaicul
Alexandra Isaicul is the coordinator of the Info Centre of the Moldova for Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps. It is an information centre managed by the Institute for Training in Development "MilleniuM" with the support of SALTO EECA, which aims to...
Joachim Umlauf
Joachim Umlauf is the director of the Goethe-Institut in Bucharest, leading at the same time the German-Romanian network of cultural centers in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, after previously being in charge of the Goethe-Institut in Lyon, Marseille, Paris,...
Mihaela Michailov
Mihaela Michailov is a playwright, co-founder of the Replica Educational Theater Center in Bucharest and a professor of dramaturgy at the National University of Theater and Cinematography „I.L. Caragiale ”, Bucharest. She is also a theater critic, collaborator of...
Radu Apostol
Radu Apostol is a theater and film director, light designer, founder and president of the Replika Cultural Association. The initiator of dramAcum, along with other directors, has stood out from the beginning, not only for the quality but also for the social...
Hans Knoll
Hans Knoll founded the Knoll Gallery in Vienna in the mid-1980s and the Knoll Gallery in Budapest in 1989, the latter being the first private commercial gallery to operate in the Eastern Bloc, which still exists. He is the curator of several international exhibitions,...
Erica Peaslee
Erica Peaslee is the cultural heritage manager and coordinator for monitoring the situation for the international organization SUCHO - Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online. Erica also works as a maritime historian and archivist for the Houston Maritime Museum in...
Carrie Pirmann
Carrie Pirmann is monitoring the situation in Moldova and Transnistria by SUCHO - Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online. Trained as a social science librarian, Carrie joined the organization in a desire to learn more about Ukraine, a country she felt close to in...
Adriana Scripcariu
 Adriana Scripcariu is an art historian and founder, together with her husband, the sculptor Virgil Scripcariu, of the Museum-Atelier-School in Piscu, Ilfov County. Starting from the local craft, pottery, with a history in the geographical area dating back to the...
Marcel Lazăr
 Marcel Lazăr is a pianist, cultural manager and the initiator of the festival Moldo Crescendo. After completing his musical studies in Cluj, Bucharest and Salzburg, he returns to the Republic of Moldova and develops a series of social, educational projects to...
Dumitrița Efremov
 Dumitrița Efremov is an architect and urban manager, counsellor and/or project coordinator of an impressive number of local, national and international projects. Her preoccupations focus on extensive projects of cultural regeneration and development and preservation...
Liliana Jitari
She is a university lecturer, at Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau. She wrote the studies „General Evaluation of the Potential of the Cultural-Historical Heritage Built in the Republic of Moldova” and „Types of cultural heritage values in the Republic of...
Caitlin Southwick

Caitlin Southwick

Caitlin Southwick is the Founder and Executive Director of Ki Culture and Sustainability in Conservation (SiC). She holds a Professional Doctorate in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Amsterdam. Before founding Ki Culture,...

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Alex Calancea

Alex Calancea

Alex Calancea is a producer, composer and bass guitarist from the Republic of Moldova. After graduating from the Conservatory in Chisinau, he toured Europe, Asia and Russia as a bassist with a jazz fusion project; he continues with a pop rock project and has important...

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Erwin Kessler

Erwin Kessler

Erwin Kessler is an art historian, philosopher, curator and general director of the Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest - MARe. After graduating in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, he continued his studies in Art History and Theory at the Academy of Art in...

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Alexandra Isaicul

Alexandra Isaicul

Alexandra Isaicul is the coordinator of the Info Centre of the Moldova for Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps. It is an information centre managed by the Institute for Training in Development "MilleniuM" with the support of SALTO EECA, which aims to...

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Eugeniu Harabara

Eugeniu Harabara

Eugeniu Harabara is the national coordinator of the EU4Culture project in the Republic of Moldova. The collaboration between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova has considerably progressed since 2014, when the Association Agreement was signed. The EU is...

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Natalia Cernat

Natalia Cernat

Natalia Cernat is Small Grants and Social Inclusion Programme Officer, Cooperation Office of the Swiss Embassy in Moldova. The Swiss Cooperation Office in Chisinau was opened in 2000 and administers technical assistance provided by Switzerland to the Republic of...

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Aliona Țurcan

Aliona Țurcan

Aliona Turcan is a lawyer by training, a specialist in non-profit law, with over 20 years of experience in the field. She is familiar with legislative drafting in the Ministry of Justice, author and co-author of many normative acts in the non-profit field, including...

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Adriana Moca

Adriana Moca

Adriana Moca is an actress and cultural manager, co-founder of the Cultural Association "Vis-à-Vis", which she has been leading since 2014. After studying acting and theatre in Bucharest and Paris, after acting in directing big names of the Romanian scene, like Silviu...

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Sergiu Musteață

Sergiu Musteață

Sergiu Musteață is a historian, professor and dean of the Faculty of History and Geography of the "Ion Creangă" State Pedagogical University of Moldova. He is also the founder and president of the National Association of Young Historians of Moldova. A former Fulbright...

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Angelica Iacob

Angelica Iacob

Angelica Iacob is an art historian and cultural manager, Head of the Art Department of the Bucharest Municipality Museum and lecturer for the discipline of Museology at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. She coordinated the departments of education,...

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Nika Skof

Nika Skof

Nika Škof studied sociology of culture and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, the University of Tübingen and the University of Sarajevo. She is currently a trainee at GiTa – Gestalt Therapy Institute in Ljubljana. She has worked as an associate expert in the...

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Vlad Ciobanu

Vlad Ciobanu

Vlad Ciobanu is a visual artist, working with painting, installations, film. His projects centre around the contemporary post-Soviet space. Through various artistic means, he likes to recreate urban space, buildings, reinvent public space. He is a member of the...

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Elena Nofit

Elena Nofit

Elena Nofit is the president of the NGO Council and the communicator for the CONTACT Centre of the Republic of Moldova. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the Institute of International Relations in Moldova and has a postgraduate degree in...

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Chris Torch

Chris Torch

Chris Torch is an independent cultural expert, project designer and international cultural policy consultant. Originally an actor and theatre director, Chris Torch expanded his career in the fields of cultural management, production and intercultural action. In 1977...

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Aura Corbeanu

Aura Corbeanu

Aura Corbeanu is an expert in cultural programs and projects, university professor, international evaluator, vice-president of UNITER and member of the Governing Board of the Romanian Cultural Institute. With an impressive activity in the theatrical field, Aura...

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Milena Dragićević Šešić

Milena Dragićević Šešić

Milena Dragićević Šešić teaches Cultural Policy, Management and Mediation at the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Art, being the former president of the same faculty (2000 to 2004). She has published 20 books and numerous essays on cultural management, intercultural...

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Corina Andrei

Corina Andrei

Corina Andrei is a sociologist and PhD in political science, an expert in international projects in the educational and social field. Within the Alternative Culture project, co-financed by the European Social Fund, Corina Andrei conducted a qualitative study on the...

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Dorin Vaculovschi

Dorin Vaculovschi

Dorin Vaculovschi is an expert in labor market and social policies issues, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Associate Professor of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova. Dorin Vaculovschi is part of the team of the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives...

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Andrei Chistol

Andrei Chistol

Andrei Chistol is a state secretary within the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova. A career civil servant, Andrei Chistol held various positions within the Ministry of Culture, which allowed him to participate in the elaboration of public policies, in...

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Carmen Croitoru

Carmen Croitoru

Carmen Croitoru is an associate professor at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography in Bucharest, with 20 years of experience in teaching cultural management. She is the general manager of the National Institute for Cultural Research and Training...

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Gabriel Rosana

Gabriel Rosana

Gabriele Rosana is a journalist and public policy specialist, with expertise in both the institutional and the non-profit environments. Associate member of the IAI (Instituto Affari Internazionali), Rome and collaborator of several Italian publications, Gabriele...

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Vladimir Bulat

Vladimir Bulat

Vladimir Bulat holds a PhD on Romanian culture in the Fanario era, with a thesis on Bucharest through the Lens of Its Slums, obtained at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest. He has given numerous conferences and colloquia and is the author of hundreds of articles and...

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Bogdan Crețu

Bogdan Crețu

Bogdan Crețu is a critic, literary historian, essayist and publicist, and is currently a professor at the Department of Romanian Literature, Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași. Since 2013 he is the director of the Institute of Romanian...

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Florin Ghioca

Florin Ghioca

Florin Ghioca is a journalist, theatre photographer and PR manager at the National Theatre in Bucharest. A theatre critic/theatricist by profession, he has dedicated the last eight years to the largest theatre in Europe (in terms of number of halls) and has managed to...

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Andreea Grecu Ciupală

Andreea Grecu Ciupală

Andreea Grecu Ciupală has long- term experience in the non-governmental sector for cultural associations and professional unions in the field of theatre, contemporary dance, creative education and cultural policies (Act Theatre, EcumEst, UNITER, DCM Project, Persona)....

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Adrian Dohotaru

Adrian Dohotaru

Adrian Dohotaru is a politician, author and civic environmentalist activist and has a doctorate at the "George Baritiu" Cluj-Napoca Institute of History of the Romanian Academy. His professional activity is based on the concept of advocacy on environmental, social and...

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Iulian Fruntașu

Iulian Fruntașu

Iulian Fruntașu (b. July 5, 1970, Chisinau, SSR), Romanian writer. He worked for several years in the field of diplomacy and international relations. He is currently the author and moderator of the Foreign Policy Connections show at TVR Moldova. Author of several...

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Maria Ivanov

Maria Ivanov

born September 21, 1993, Cuhnești village, Glodeni district. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, "Alecu Russo" State University, Balti, first cycle - Bachelor's degree. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" State University, Iasi, second...

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Paula Erizanu

Paula Erizanu

Paula Erizanu (b. 1992) is a writer and journalist. He studied history and literature at the New College of the Humanities in London, then journalism at City University London. He wrote about the 2009 protests in the Republic of Moldova in This is my first revolution....

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Liliana Jitari

Liliana Jitari

She is a university lecturer, at Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau. She wrote the studies „General Evaluation of the Potential of the Cultural-Historical Heritage Built in the Republic of Moldova” and „Types of cultural heritage values in the Republic of...

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Dumitrița Efremov

Dumitrița Efremov

 Dumitrița Efremov is an architect and urban manager, counsellor and/or project coordinator of an impressive number of local, national and international projects. Her preoccupations focus on extensive projects of cultural regeneration and development and preservation...

read more
Marcel Lazăr

Marcel Lazăr

 Marcel Lazăr is a pianist, cultural manager and the initiator of the festival Moldo Crescendo. After completing his musical studies in Cluj, Bucharest and Salzburg, he returns to the Republic of Moldova and develops a series of social, educational projects to...

read more
Adriana Scripcariu

Adriana Scripcariu

 Adriana Scripcariu is an art historian and founder, together with her husband, the sculptor Virgil Scripcariu, of the Museum-Atelier-School in Piscu, Ilfov County. Starting from the local craft, pottery, with a history in the geographical area dating back to the...

read more
Carrie Pirmann

Carrie Pirmann

Carrie Pirmann is monitoring the situation in Moldova and Transnistria by SUCHO - Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online. Trained as a social science librarian, Carrie joined the organization in a desire to learn more about Ukraine, a country she felt close to in...

read more
Erica Peaslee

Erica Peaslee

Erica Peaslee is the cultural heritage manager and coordinator for monitoring the situation for the international organization SUCHO - Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online. Erica also works as a maritime historian and archivist for the Houston Maritime Museum in...

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Hans Knoll

Hans Knoll

Hans Knoll founded the Knoll Gallery in Vienna in the mid-1980s and the Knoll Gallery in Budapest in 1989, the latter being the first private commercial gallery to operate in the Eastern Bloc, which still exists. He is the curator of several international exhibitions,...

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Radu Apostol

Radu Apostol

Radu Apostol is a theater and film director, light designer, founder and president of the Replika Cultural Association. The initiator of dramAcum, along with other directors, has stood out from the beginning, not only for the quality but also for the social...

read more
Mihaela Michailov

Mihaela Michailov

Mihaela Michailov is a playwright, co-founder of the Replica Educational Theater Center in Bucharest and a professor of dramaturgy at the National University of Theater and Cinematography „I.L. Caragiale ”, Bucharest. She is also a theater critic, collaborator of...

read more
Joachim Umlauf

Joachim Umlauf

Joachim Umlauf is the director of the Goethe-Institut in Bucharest, leading at the same time the German-Romanian network of cultural centers in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, after previously being in charge of the Goethe-Institut in Lyon, Marseille, Paris,...

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Cultural policies Republica Moldova
It is an independent report prepared by Ghenadie Sontu in 2015, within the Compendium program of the Council of Europe. The Compendium of Data and General Trends in European Cultural Policy (COMPENDIUM) is a reference work on European cultural policies, doubled by a...
Developing Cultural and Creative Industries in Moldova
The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) have been recognised by the EU and integrated into its policy documents and programmes for more than a decade. This report provides a bird’s-eye view of the cultural and creative industries sector in the six countries of the...
Profile of the Creative Industries of Moldova
This material was implemented in 2020, by Artcor School, as part of the assistance for the Creative Industry in the Republic of Moldova, provided by the Competitiveness Project for Moldova, funded by USAID, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Assistance was made possible...
The Conference on the Future of Europe calls for better working conditions for artists
After one year, the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) concluded its work on 30 April, reaching a consensus on a wide range of proposals that will formally trigger a process to amend the EU Treaties. The final act of the Conference will be held in...