andreea-cristina mircea

# sometimes NINA / NINANIÑA

multimedia artist · musician

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

Andreea-Cristina Mircea (b. 1992, Cluj-Napoca) is a multimedia artist and musician working across interactive installation, spatial sound, XR and performance. She builds from documented memory, speculative worlds, archaic folklore and personal archive — the parts of a story that were never written down.

A piece usually starts from something small and private: a song, a texture, a childhood object. From there it goes outward — voice handed to Ambisonics and multichannel arrays, a memory to projection and sensor — until myth and daily life coexist in it. The technology is a material, not the subject.

She studied classical voice, comparative literature and creative technologies in Cluj-Napoca and at Filmuniversität Babelsberg. She performs as NINA / NINANIÑA, and is based in Berlin, between Porto and Cluj-Napoca.

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
  • 14–21.04Perperuna — artistic residency, 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
  • 06.2024DOR 360 — room-size sound installation, Cosmic House Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 05.2024Ecotones — augmented sound & photography, group exhibition, Catalyst Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • 04.2024ReconstructionHOME — AR installation, Resonant Realities, Waschhaus Potsdam · Sehsüchte Film Festival, Germany
  • 03–04.2024EPIPH-BYTES — plant & LED interactive installation, Resonant Realities, Waschhaus Potsdam; private showcase, Schreiber Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

  • 04.2023DOR — a GPS-driven musical soundwalk, Doors to New Shores, Waschhaus Potsdam · Sehsüchte Film Festival, Germany

2022

  • 04–06.2022GROTÄ — Beyond the Frame, Sehsüchte Film Festival, Potsdam; PACE Festival, Potsdam, Germany
  • 04–05.2022AN ERROR OCCURRED WHILE SEARCHING FOR AN UPDATE — Beyond the Frame, Sehsüchte Film Festival, Potsdam, Germany; group exhibition, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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… & HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES — Flesh and Bytes & Open Days, Reactor, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2020

  • 12.2020LIGHTS — telematic virtual performance, online

1995

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
  • 2018BA German Studies & Comparative Literature — Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • 2015BA 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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