Alina Popa (1982-2019) born in Romania, studied finance and economics at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest/Romania (2000–2004) and painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Bucharest (2003–2007), where she finished her studies with a master’s degree in cinematography/photography (2007–2009).
In 2012 she co-created the Unsorcery project and method with Florin Flueras, in the frame of which they developed three concepts: Second Body, Dead Thinking and Eternal Feeding Technique. She co-?founded and worked with Irina Gheorghe as The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (BMR) since 2009. She co-?initiated the Art-?Leaks platform and translated the Xenofeminist Manifesto into Rumanian.
She won the 1st Prize in the photography section of the Cinemaiubit film festival and the 2006 Prometheus Prize of the Anonimul Foundation.
Alina Popa cared for a place from which it is possible to have artistic consequences, without a total break-up of life and art, of the politics of production and the politics of the product, of oneself as subjectivity and oneself as performance, of the art piece and its framing. She thus found herself at the border between visual arts and performance, the white cube and the black box, writing and theory. She was interested in artworks as environments more than in individual works, in mediums with fuzzy borders and spatiotemporal ruses. Her work was shown at Fap Sao Paulo, Times Museum Guangzhou, Pratt Manhattan Gallery NY, bak Utrecht, Wing Hong Kong, CCK Buenos Aires, Trafo Budapest, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Savvy Contemporary Berlin, MUMOK Vienna, Brut Vienna, DEPO Istanbul, PAF St Erme, CNDB Bucharest, MNAC Bucharest, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest, Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Jardim Equatorial Sao Paulo, Fabrica de Pensule Cluj, Teatru-Sp?l?torie Chi?in?u, House of Drama Oslo, Het Bos Antwerp and Theater Rampe Stuttgart.
Popa passed away of cancer in February 2019.