Adelina Luft

Adelina Luft is a curator whose practice emerged and developed in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) along decolonial lines of thought and modes of working that favor long-term processes, collaboration and interdisciplinarity. Her projects address human-nonhuman interdependencies, land-based practices of resilience and resistance, as well as ways to self-determine a curatorial position in relation to institutional structures of power. In 2021 she relocated to Bucharest where she initiated various projects, among which We Are Here to Stay with Arab immigrants/refugees (2022), and curated the group exhibition Ecologies of Repair (2022). In 2023 she co-curated Biennale Jogja 17 – TITEN. Embodied Knowledges, Shifting Grounds, and began her work with tranzit.ro/Bucharest where she cocurates and co-organizes various projects at (and in relation to) The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life.

Adelina Luft is part of The Resurrection Committee collective (RO), together with Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu and Raluca Voinea. They curated together the exhibition Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, open to the public 10.5.–9.8.2025.