She is curator and art critic, Artistic Director of the Art Encounters Foundation Timișoara, member of AICA and IKT. She received her PhD at the Bucharest National University of Arts in 2017, at the Art History and Theory department, with a research on the curatorial discourses about identity and From 2012 to 2018 she worked with the Plan B Foundation from Cluj and with the Paintbrush Factory. Between 2015-2017she co-curated with Anca Verona Mihuleț the project in six parts The White Dot and The Black Cube, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. Within the programs created for Art Encounters Foundation, Diana Marincu aims to strengthen the link between the regional artistic scenes, to establish artistic connections based on co-production, and to support the young generation of artists.

Daria Ghiu holds a PhD degree in Art History and Theory with a thesis on the history of the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (UNARTE Bucharest). She is an art critic and historian, journalist at Radio România Cultural and, occasionally, a curator. In November 2015, IDEA Publishing House published her volume ”În acest pavilion se vede artă”, as a result of her doctoral research. Between 2016 and 2023 she was an associate lecturer at CESI - Center for Excellence in Image Studies. She is the producer of the radio shows ”Arte frumoase” and ”Orașul vorbește” (Radio Romania Cultural). Since 2007, she has been writing art chronicles in various cultural and art publications in the country and abroad.

With an academic background in both art history and theory and photography and video, she curated exhibitions in museums, galleries and independent spaces across Romania and abroad and contributed in, or co/edited various art publications. Over the years, she has produced, independently or in collaboration, a series of exhibitions with varied themes and stakes, from large retrospectives to group exhibitions with complex themes.

Sandra is since 2022 Director of Exhibitions and Programmes at MNAC – The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, where she works since 2014.