Catinca Tilea

artistic research - community - design - DIY

Catinca Tilea is an artist and designer who uses product and interior design, installations, research, retail strategy, and other creative expressions to look at social dilemmas. The driving force of her practice is that design can fulfill an educational role. That is also why Catinca Tilea sees her audience as (conscious) participants in the creative process. Topics that appeal to them include environmental issues, social cohesion and integration.

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    • The Symbiocene Forest

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-10-2021 t/m 24-10-2021
    • In collaboration with: BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Week
    • Location: BioArt Laboratories, Eindhoven
    • Catinca Tilea has with her research project 'HOW (Household Organic Waste). A participatory material' contributed to this group exhibition. The theme of the Symbiocene Forest was to explore different ways in which man and nature can coexist better - in other words differently.
    • https://bioartlab.com/portfolio_page/introducing-symbiocene-forest-2021/

    Digital exhibition 'HOW (household organic waste), a participatory material' Dutch Design Week

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-10-2020 t/m 25-10-2020
    • In collaboration with: Dutch Design Foundation
    • Location: online,
    • In 2020, Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven took place online, as an exhibition in which visitors could digitally experience the works of various creative professionals. During this exhibition, Catinca Tilea showed her 'HOW (household organic waste)' research results.
    • https://ddw.nl/

    FungiFest Rotterdam

    Reading

    • 25-03-2020 t/m 26-03-2020
    • In collaboration with: BlueCity Rotterdam
    • Location: online, Rotterdam
    • Guest speaker with the research in practice "HOW (household organic waste), a participatory material"

    Science Weekend Rotterdam

    Reading

    • 05-10-2019 t/m 06-10-2019
    • In collaboration with: BlueCity Lab
    • Location: BlueCity, Rotterdam
    • During this weekend event, Catinca Tilea showed her empirical research 'HOW (household organic waste), a participatory material' to various groups of lab visitors.

    The Future of Craft

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-05-2019 t/m 12-05-2019
    • In collaboration with: London Craft Week
    • Location: Oxo Tower Wharf, London
    • Catinca Tilea was invited to present her interactive installation #1minuteLamp during London Craft Week. The artwork enables anyone to make a temporary lamp within a very short time. The installation takes a critical look at our urge for autonomy and the pleasure behind creating something, in the context of the consumer society.

    Design Chewing Festival

    Reading

    • 15-11-2019 t/m 15-11-2019
    • In collaboration with: Tent Rotterdam
    • Location: Tent Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • A presentation among other projects about Catinca Tilea's research in practice 'HOW (household organic waste), a participatory material'.

    Time Said: Can You See Me?

    Residencies / exchange

    • 10-11-2018 t/m 20-02-2019
    • In collaboration with: Film Werkplaats & Worm Pirate Bay
    • Location: Worm, Rotterdam
    • During the residency, 5 artists were asked to create a work of art on the theme of the passage of time. Catinca Tilea made a performative video that she filmed with a slow motion camera. In the video, the viewer can see every detail of how a piece of glass is destroyed. This as a symbol of how time our environment decays imperceptibly. All of the artworks are now on permanent display in the windows of Worm Pirate Bay.
    • https://vimeo.com/318274519

    IKEA hacked. Our products. Your Ideas

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 28-04-2018 t/m 01-02-2019
    • In collaboration with: Ikea Museum
    • Location: Ikea Museum Sweden, Almult
    • Catinca Tilea was invited to make an interactive playground of her installation #1minuteLamp for a year in the Ikea museum in Sweden.
    • https://ikeamuseum.com/en/almhult/exhibitions/

    Development Art-S-Cool, the art school from The Hague's Schilderswijk

    Task

    • 16-04-2018 t/m 12-01-2019
    • In collaboration with: Art-S-Cool
    • Location: Art-S-Cool, The Hague
    • In 2018, Art-S-Cool received support from the municipality of The Hague to further develop in strengthening equality of opportunity for the children and families from the Schilderswijk. Catinca Tilea contributed to the participatory design ideas project to more broadly connect Art-S-Cool's art activities to the social life in the neighbourhood.
    • https://www.art-s-cool.nl/

    London Design Fair

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-09-2018 t/m 23-09-2018
    • In collaboration with: London Design Fair
    • Location: Truman's Brewery, London
    • During this festival, Catinca Tilea presented her interactive installation #1minuteLamp in London.

    Dutch Design Week

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-10-2017 t/m 28-10-2018
    • In collaboration with: Dutch Design Week
    • Location: Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
    • During DDW 2017, Catinca Tilea presented her interactive installation #1minuteLamp.

    Dear Future Festival

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-10-2017 t/m 08-10-2017
    • In collaboration with: European Social Innovation Week
    • Location: Tilburg, Tilburg
    • Presentation and workshops around the interactive installation #1minuteLamp, a work of art that enables anyone to make a lamp assembly very quickly.

    Performance, Objects, Bodies

    Residencies / exchange

    • 03-07-2017 t/m 15-10-2017
    • In collaboration with: iii (Instrument Inventors) and Quaternary Contemporary Art Initiatives
    • Location: Quaternary Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague
    • During the summer of 2017, artists Catinca Tilea, Ludmila Rodriques, Natali Blugerman and Marit Mihklepp were invited by iii to do a residency together on the theme of the interaction between the body and the art object. Catinca Tilea based her search on her interactive installation #1minuteLamp. The results were exhibited at Quaternary Contemporary Art Initiatives during the Hoogtij festival and TodaysArt.
    • https://vimeo.com/248485773

    Samizdat Online

    Task

    • 03-08-2016 t/m 29-11-2017
    • In collaboration with: Samizdat Online
    • Location: online,
    • Samizdat Online is an online arts and culture magazine. Catinca Tilea worked for a period as an editor.

    Understanding Territoriality

    Residencies / exchange

    • 10-06-2016 t/m 15-09-2016
    • In collaboration with: Public Room Center for Design and Innovation (MK), Netwerk (BE), Cittadelle Arte (IT) and Creative Europe Program (EU)
    • Location: Public Room Center for Design and Innovation, Skopje
    • In the summer of 2016, Catinca Tilea, together with two other artists and designers, was commissioned to come up with something for the interior of Public Room. For the library she created an installation that people could use to create shapes in the sky - The Design Abacus.
    • https://understandingterritoriality.wordpress.com/

    Help, we're popular!

    Task

    Illustration work for Fresh Concrete

    Other

    • 16-07-2015 t/m 23-08-2017
    • In collaboration with: Fresh Concrete
    • Location: online, Rotterdam
    • Guest illustrator at Vers Beton
    • https://versbeton.nl/

    Guest illustrator at NRC

    Task

    • 05-01-2015 t/m 23-01-2015
    • In collaboration with: Vers Beton and NRC
    • Location:, Rotterdam

    Bread Needed

    Other

    • 22-05-2014 t/m 27-08-2015
    • Location:, Rotterdam
    • Together with other partners, Catinca Tilea founded BroodNodig, a foundation that aims to convert bread waste into energy.
    • http://broodnodig.co/

    Pilot exhibition 'Elements of Architecture'

    Task

    • 06-05-2013 t/m 27-05-2013
    • In collaboration with: ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles], MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), IABR (International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam), OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture)
    • Location: De Dependance, Rotterdam
    • In preparation for OMA's 2014 contribution to the Architecture Biennale in Venice, OMA, in collaboration with IABR, ZUS and a group of MIT students, organized a pilot exhibition, as a study on the theme 'Elements of Architecture'. Catinca Tilea worked as a production assistant on this project.
    • https://www.oma.com/publications/elements-of-architecture

    Infinite Instances. Studies and Images of Time

    Project

    • 03-08-2011 t/m 23-11-2011
    • In collaboration with: ArcheTime and Olga Ast
    • Location: , New York
    • 'Infinite Instances' is an artistic research collection of projects in the form of a book. Catinca Tilea has contributed to both the book and the group exhibition in New York with her project MyTime.

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Stimulation fund

    • 2019
      Publication

    • Help, we're popular!

    • 2016
    • book
    • NAI010 - Eeva Liukku & Sereh Mendias
      Publication

    • Infinite Instances. Studies and Images of Time

    • 2011
    • book
    • Mark Batty Publisher NYC - Olga Ast