Ioana Cristina Casapu is a Berlin-Based author and curator developing literary and interdisciplinary cultural formats within transnational and diplomatic contexts.
With a background in business administration, strategic communication, and event production, she has worked as a journalist for the Goethe-Institut, Senior Editor at Thought Catalog (New York), and as press officer and event co-producer for Innovation in Politics Institute (Vienna) and the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin).
Her writing has appeared in over 30 anthologies and magazines in English and Romanian, including DAZED, Goethe-Institut, Berlin Art Parasites, DILEMA, and Stadtsprachen, and engages themes of migration, feminism, social rupture, loneliness in European metropolises, and global culture. She debuted in 2016 with Deviații de Stereo (Casa de Pariuri Literare, Bucharest), published in English in 2019 as Heart Beats: A Memoir of the Millennial Generation on Social Media.
In 2024, she founded FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for FLINTA* authors with migration or refugee backgrounds.
BOOKS
2025 – Berliner Tagebuch: Die Geschichte meiner inneren Berliner Mauer (fiction, essays), KLAK Verlag, Berlin, German translation by Gundel Große
2022 – NOI 2 | WIR 2 – Deutsch-rumänische Duos im Porträt, (nonfiction, anthology), Goethe-Institut Bucharest, texts by Ioana Casapu, Venera Dimulescu, Manuela Klenke, Diana Meseșan, and Anne Reinert.
2021 – Innovation in Politics – 50 Creative and Courageous Political Projects, (nonfiction anthology), Vienna
2024 – Litehouse Vol. 1 (poetry anthology), Lisbon; contributor.
2020 – Otherwise Engaged: A Literature and Arts Journal Volume 5, Quarantine Edition (literary journal, poetry anthology), contributor
2019 – Heart Beats – A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media (novel, translated and adapted into English by Ioana Casapu from Deviații de stereo), Casa de Pariuri Literare, Bucharest
2016 – Deviații de stereo (novel), Casa de Pariuri Literare, Bucharest
OTHER PUBLISHED WRITING
2025 –
“When the World Crisis Meets the Personal Crisis” (poetry), Girls and Queers To The Front #12: FIRE, Warsaw
“Ghostwriter,” (fiction, essay), Stadtsprachen Magazin, April issue “There Will Be Beauty in Everything,” (fiction, essay), Stadtsprachen Magazin, June issue, Berlin
2024 – “A dead sister at the Red Sea” (Ro: O soră moartă la Marea Roșie), “Corseted by Heritage” (Ro: Încorsetată de patrimoniu), “On remembrance and forgetting” (Ro: Mulțumesc pentru recunoștință, mulțumesc pentru uitare“, (essays), DILEMA, Bucharest
2024 – „Un cineclub feminist ce îndeamnă la o privire profundă asupra feminității în film” (opinion), Observator Cultural, Bucharest
2020–2023 – Author of the column Jurnal de Berlin, fictional essays, Goethe-Institut Bucharest
2021 –The Political Power of Disability, Locate Victims Beirut Saves Lives, A Heart-Centered Approach to Politics, Effective Altruism as a Driver of Change in a Post-Pandemic World, opinion, Innovation in Politics Institute,Vienna
2021 – Contributing writer, Lustery Magazine, Essays, Berlin
2020 – Contributing writer, TAST Magazine, Poetry, Zürich
2020 – Co-author, “A/Part of Me”, ein Schreib- und Bildhauerprojekt, das die Isolation während der Corona- Pandemie dokumentiert, poetry anthology, winner of the Residence Scena 9 Societe Generale working stipend, Bucharest
2018 – Contributor, C-Heads Magazine, short fiction, Berlin
2016 – Author, The Anatomy of Depression, nonfiction, Thought Catalog, New York
2016 – Author, Mourning The Intense Loss of Female Friendships in Adulthood, nonfiction, Thought Catalog, New York
2015 – Author, My Pubic Hair, a Tell-Tale from Goya to Stoya, essay, Art Parasites, Berlin
CURATOR, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Since 2025 – Curator and co-producer, There is No Past in Berlin, with Lars Jongeblod
Since 2024 – Curator and co-producer Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), FLINTA* KULTUR SALON, FLINTA* Literatur Berlin
EXHIBITIONS, TALKS, READINGS
2024 – Group exhibition, Sequences Photography Festival, Ploiesti, Romania; Group Exhibition, POSITIONS Berlin, Hilgemann.Art
2024 – Reading, When in doubt, look for a butterfly, Essay, Convergence I, Lettrétage, Berlin 2023 – Exhibition, POSITIONS Berlin, Hilgemann.Art
2022 – „NOI 2 | WIR 2 – deutsch-rumänische Duos im Porträt“, exhibition launching the book with the same title, Romanian Cultural Institute Berlin
2022 – “Wild at Art”, Group exhibition, Text/Art Installation, “I Have Lost All My Battery in You”, Hilgemman.Art, Berlin
2022 – “Art in Context 4” Group exhibition, Text/Art Installation, “I Have Lost All My Battery in You”, Diploma – Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest
2021 – “Wholy Mother“, Group exhibition, Text/Art Installation, Strata Gallery, Bucharest
2021 – “Love Lost, Miami Art Basel“, Text/Art Installation, Group exhibition, Strata Gallery, Bucharest
2020 – “Heart Spaces”, Solo exhibition, Text/Art Installation, Monopol, Berlin Art Week
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2026 – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Spartenoffene Förderung, FLINTA* KULTUR SALON, Berlin
2026 – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Projekt- und Lesereihenförderung Literatur, Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), Berlin
2025 – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Projekt- und Lesereihenförderung Literatur, Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), Berlin
2023 – The New York Times Jury Prize, Unfinished Festival, for the essay When in Doubt, Look for a Butterfly, Bucharest
2020 – Artists Rooms working grant for the project A/PART of Me, Fundația 9 and BRD Groupe Société Générale, Bucharest
2011 – 3rd place, Ion Țiriac National Literary Debut Competition, awarded for the novel Deviații de Stereo, Bucharest