Ileana Parvu

Ileana Parvu is a professor of art history and theory at HEAD – Genève. Her research focuses on the crossing of boundaries between the arts and the overcoming of artistic genres in the 20th century; the notion of the object in the 20th and 21st centuries; material culture theory; artists’ writings; the history of contemporary Eastern European art; the relationship between art and the politics of making in conceptual practices; and the question of craft in the visual arts.
Her most recent books are La consistance des choses. Peter Fischli, David Weiss et le temps retourné (Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2021); with Jean-Marie Bolay, Bénédicte le Pimpec, and Valérie Mavridorakis, Faire, faire faire, ne pas faire. Entretiens sur la production de l’art contemporain (Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2021); A Show of Hands: Crafting Concepts in Contemporary Art (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025); and Les fils renoués : Ana Lupaş, les années 1970 (Rennes, Sombres torrents, forthcoming 2025).
On A Show of Hands: Crafting Concepts in Contemporary Art, an interview with Anthony Masure and Nadia Radwan was published in the HEAD journal under the title “Decentering Conceptualism,” Issue, May 12, 2025: https://www.hesge.ch/head/issue/publications/decentrer-conceptualisme-anthony-masure-ileana-parvu-nadia-radwan