User:Armoiregrimoire/Razvan Ion

Răzvan Ion (b. 1970) is a theoretician, curator, cultural manager and political activist. He is the co-editor (with Eugen Radescu), of PAVILION - journal for politics and culture, co-director of Bucharest Biennale and in 2008 he was appointed as director of PAVILION UNICREDIT- center for contemporary art & culture. He lectured at University of California -Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts-California, Political Science Faculty - Cluj, Art Academy - Timisoara, La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbon, etc. He writes in different magazines and newspapers. He recently curated "Exploring the Return of Repression" at Pavilion, Bucharest and rum46, Aarhus. He is now working on the book project "Exploring the Return of Repression" and his new curatorial project “Smash the Church! Smash the State!” dealing with anarchist and collective activism and social-political movements in art. Lives and works in Bucharest.