andreea-cristina mircea

# sometimes NINA / NINANIÑA

multimedia artist · musician

bio
about-portrait.jpeg — between BER & CLUJ
Andreea-Cristina Mircea at work

Andreea-Cristina Mircea is a multimedia artist and musician working with sound, light, XR and storytelling to create immersive experiences. Her practice explores emotion, folklore, memory and the unseen — merging digital and physical spaces into sensorial worlds that invite presence, connection and transformation.

With a background in classical music, comparative literature and creative technologies, she moves between installation, spatial sound, voice-driven performance and interactive media. Beginning often from an intimate fragment (a story, a texture, a childhood memory), she builds environments where myth and daily life coexist and where technology becomes a medium for resonance rather than spectacle.

Whether site-specific or digital, her works unfold as poetic systems that hold space for recognition, ritual and reflection.

exhibitions · performances · concerts · residencies

2026

2025

  • 17.10–07.12JANUS — Music Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 01–03.11Tour with Bulgarian Voices Berlin — Hamburg & Bremen, Germany
  • 17–18.10Tour with Bulgarian Voices Berlin — France
  • 07–13.10Babaluda — group exhibition, Muzeul Etnografic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 03–08.09JANUS — Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria · ★ Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica Campus
  • 09–11.07Performance with Ay Din — xCoAx 2025, Dundee, Scotland
  • 01–06.06Listen to the Waters — Water & Biodiversity in Artistic Process, Athens, Greece
  • 31.05Concert with Bulgarian Voices Berlin — Museumfest, Museumsinsel Berlin, Germany
  • 30.05Widerhall — Klänge der Teilung · light installation with Ensemble Lili Boulanger, Alte Börse Leipzig, Germany
  • 26.05ReconstructionHOME — with Antonia Nestler, Moving Lines at re:publica, Berlin, Germany
  • 18.05Concert with Bulgarian Voices Berlin × BulCanto Berlin × Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig — Berlin, Germany
  • 23–29.04Babaluda — artistic residency, ritual documentation & research, Buru, Romania
  • 14–21.04Yofirja — guest musician, artistic residency with Perperuna Ensemble, searching for polyphonic songs & meanings, Ioannina, Greece
  • 03.2025Concert with BulCanto Berlin × Adam Goodwin & Jack Day — Berlin, Germany

2024

  • 12.2024Tangled Roots — interactive projection mapping with BulCanto Berlin, Theater im Delphi, Berlin, Germany
  • 11–12.2024DOR — despre dor — group exhibition, IAGA Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania · curated by Liviu Bulea
  • 10.2024ReconstructionHOME — with Antonia Nestler, DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  • 09.2024PhD Bookings Label Showcase — interactive installation, Backsteinboot, Berlin, Germany
  • 06.2024DOR 360 — room-size sound installation, Cosmic House Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 05.2024LEVITATION — Jubiläumskonzert with Bulgarian Voices Berlin & BulCanto Berlin, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
  • 05.2024Ecotones — augmented sound & photography, group exhibition, Catalyst Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • 04.2024ReconstructionHOME — AR installation, Resonant Realities, Waschhaus Potsdam · Sehsüchte Film Festival, Germany
  • 03.2024EPIPH-BYTES — plant & LED interactive installation, Resonant Realities, Waschhaus Potsdam, Germany
  • 04.2024EPIPH-BYTES — private showcase, Schreiber Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

  • 07.2023Tour in Turkey with BulCanto Berlin — Çanakkale Festival, Çanakkale; concert, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 04.2023DOR — a GPS-driven musical soundwalk, Doors to New Shores, Waschhaus Potsdam · Sehsüchte Film Festival, Germany

2022

2021

  • 09.2021DOR — uma lembrança — live interactive performance, Braga · Porto · Lisbon, Portugal; livestream at BEAST Film Festival (03.2021)
  • 09.2021/xperiences — audiovisual installation, Okna Espaço Cultural, Porto, Portugal
  • 06–09.2021AN ERROR… — Flesh and Bytes, Reactor, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 06–09.2021HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES — Open Days, Reactor, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2020

  • 12.2020LIGHTS — telematic performance, online
First exhibition 1995
Andreea-Cristina Mircea as a child at her first exhibition, 1995
Photo © Elena-Terezia Hegedus

education

  • 2024–Professional Doctorate — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca · Hybrid Performance / Vocal-Driven Synaesthetic Spaces (in progress)
  • 2022–MA Creative Technologies — Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Potsdam (in progress)
  • 2020–22MA Digital Interactive Arts — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2020–22MA History of Ideas, History of Images — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2013–18BA German Studies & Comparative Literature — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2011–15BA Musical Interpretation, Vocal Performance — Gheorghe Dima Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca

grants

  • 2024STIBET Stipendium — Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Potsdam
  • 2021I-Portunus Grant for Performance — Creative Europe Fund
  • 2021ERASMUS+ Mobility Grant — Filmuniversität Babelsberg
  • 2021Cultural Artistic Research Scholarship — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2020–22Bursa de Merit — Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
  • 2019Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs — curatorship & artist management with +East, Porto
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