Vlad Nancă & Vlad Gaivoronschi
Architects, Romania
About Vlad Nancă
Vlad Nancă (b. 1979, Bucharest) studied within the Department of Photography and Moving Image at the National University of Arts, Bucharest. His early practice signaled a visionary artistic perspective, while also catalyzing the consolidation of the young artist scene in Bucharest. Some of his early works employ political and cultural symbols, evoke nostalgia, and investigate the metaphoric tension between public and domestic spaces, all against the backdrop of Romania and Eastern Europe’s recent history. The cityscape of Bucharest provided the backdrop for his poetic and subtly political artistic gestures. The shift from the embodied movement of his early actions in the city to the embedded movement in objects the artist makes and interferes with is visible in his recent work. Through constant idiosyncratic humor and playful semiotics of imagery, Nancă’s recent practice unveils a resurgence of the notion of space (from architecture and public space, to outer space), thus forging constellations of subjectivities, sculptures, and installations.
About Vlad Gaivoronschi
Vlad Gaivoronschi is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Timișoara, within the Polytechnic University, since 1990. He teaches Theory of Architecture. He is a constant presence in international and national publications with articles, projects, books and monographs, he has also been a partner of the architecture studio Andreescu & Gaivoronschi since 1990. He has realized over 60 projects and received over 50 awards and nominations at national and international competitions, among which we mention: second place at the Central Glass Competition, Tokyo 1981, the European ECCS Award for Steel Construction in 1997, nominations at the European Architecture Prize "Mies van der Rohe" 2008 and 2010. It was on the short list of the World Architecture Festival W.A.F. Barcelona 2010 and Berlin 2016, won the German Design Award, Frankfurt 2018 and 2020, and Big SEE Ljubljana Architecture Festival 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024. He received The International Jury President's Prize at the Saint Gobain Gyproc International Competition 2021. He held numerous conferences in cities such as Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Chisinau, Prague, Warsaw, Durban, Athens and Istanbul. He had exhibitions in Timisoara, Bucharest, Cluj, and Sibiu, at the Venice International Architecture Biennale in 1991 and 1996. Other exhibition in: Tokyo, Budapest, Leipzig, Szeged, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Singapore, Berlin , Seoul, Frankfurt, Ljubljana. Between 2010 and 2018, he was the President of the Timișoara branch of the Romanian Order of Architects. He is a member of the Professional Practice Commission of U.I.A. – International Union of Architects.