Carmen Rasovszky Romanian, b. 1952

Carmen Rasovszky (b. 1952) lives and works in Bucharest. She holds a BA in Scenography in 1977 from the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute of Arts. She is one of the representative artists on the Romanian contemporary art scene, an emblematic figure for both the 1980s and 1990s, two decades marked by radical upheavals, post-communism, and prolonged social transitions that defined Southeastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In her artistic practice, drawing, performance, and video are tools of survival, critique, and escape from the social reality of a world displaced by utopia and change. Active in the fields of film, television, and theater, Rasovszky stands out in the contemporary art scene with a distinctive level of freedom and liberation in her artistic discourse, often using her own body as one of the "props" in a scenography. Beyond the appearance of an optimistic and ironic act, the underlying themes she explores are often ones of revolt, gravity, and critique, effortlessly blending satire with poetry, irony with self-irony, dark humor with deep sensitivity.

Her recurring themes focus on feminism, with an emphasized perspective on femininity, the artist's position as a woman, identity, gender, and avant la lettre multiculturalism. She works both independently and in a symbiotic partnership with Gheorghe Rasovszky since the beginning of her career, with numerous projects and productions where authorship is relativized.