Anca Poterașu

Founder and President

Anca Poterașu is the founder and president of ARAC. With over a decade of experience in curating and cultural management, she plays a key role in shaping the association’s vision and long-term strategy. Since founding ARAC in 2012, she has led numerous national and international projects that support contemporary artists through residencies, exhibitions, publications, and educational initiatives.

She is also the director of Anca Poterașu Gallery in Bucharest, an active platform for emerging and established artists from Romania and beyond.

Daria Corlățan

Assistant Curator

Daria is an emerging curator who holds a master’s degree in curatorial studies from the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, completed with a research focus on the recontextualization of archival documents within artistic practice. Her interests lie in the realms of post-photographic images, the intersection of cultural memory and art, as well as museum strategies and cultural policies.

Ioan Burnar

Office Manager

Born in Săcel, Maramureș, in 1974, with studies and a bachelor’s degree in Financial and Banking Management. An experienced manager with a proven track record in the information technology field and in hardware and software sales (1998–2026). A pioneer in the field of associations and NGOs. In 2000, I founded the first association in Historical Maramureș, in Săcel: YMCA (ACT YMCA Săcel). Over the years, it developed community projects for young people, computer literacy programs, a social club, sports and recreational activities, as well as scholarship programs for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Involved in the national movement, the YMCA Romania Federation, between 2000 and 2015, rising from member of the federation’s board to the position of President. I made a major contribution to the development of the national movement and to building partnerships with YMCA USA and YMCA Global. I joined the ARAC team in 2026 as a collaborator, to contribute to the organization’s development and to the implementation of artistic programs and projects, both in Maramureș and in Bucharest.

Lorena Marciuc

Curator

Lorena Marciuc is a curator and researcher. She holds a double bachelor’s degree in art theory and English/German literature and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in alternative – specifically sonic – curatorial practices. She writes and shapes exhibitions that move between the territories of curatorial theory (the theory of the curatorial condition) and aesthetics, with particular attention to the processual character of the aesthetic object. She has extensive prior experience in editorial and publishing work within the cultural field, and has been part of international working groups such as EARN, at the conference “The Postresearch Condition” (2021), her contribution acknowledged in the eponymous publication edited by Henk Slager at Metropolis M, Utrecht. In 2025, she co-edited the volume Under the Last Magnetic Sun. Practices of (Counter)Research Imagination, published by SDAV-UNAGE. In 2026, she took part in the International Curatorial Students Assembly at Università Iuav di Venezia.