Alina Lupu was born and raised in Romania and works as a writer and artist in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Rietveld Academie in 2016. Since then she has worked for Deliveroo, Helpling, Foodora, Uber, Thuisbezorgd, Hanze Groningen, Willem de Kooning Academy, de Taart van m'n Tante and Poké Perfect Amsterdam. Her pension will eventually total just over 2 euros a month. Her work has been shown at: W139, Amsterdam; Onomatopee, Eindhoven; Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn; Drugo More, Rijeka; Rheum Room, Basel; European Lab, Lyon; Diskurs, Giessen; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, and Goethe Institut, Bucharest. Alina Lupu is a general board member of Platform BK, an organization that researches the role of art in society and takes action for a better art policy, and starting September 2022, she will be a student of the Master Photography and Society at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
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In the Fellows-in-Process series the research fellows of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut 2022/2023 will share their process and findings with students and the Rietveld community at large. The series aims to aid interaction, while engendering meaningful conversations between the fellows, students and teachers of both institutes. To that end, events are open to Rietveld and Sandberg students and teachers. Below you can find all workshops. Note that for some workshops you have to sign up.
Art & Spatial Praxis – "Caught between a rock and a hard place in development."
aka Artists, Gentrification, The City
Alina Lupu's research fellowship has as a main line of inquiry the way that artists relate to the process of gentrification as actors in it.