Ioana Paun is an director and performance artist working and researching internationally, having graduated from Goldsmiths University London and UNATC Bucharest. Her work explores the ways humans behave in ferocious political, economic and health circumstances. I am particularly attracted by stories about outliers, destabilisation, paradox, moral dilemmas.

Her performances and ideas got support from contemporary performance art institutions such as le phénix scène nationale Valenciennes, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Europalia, MuseumsQuartier Viena, Kunstraum Lakeside, CEC ArtsLink, Teatro Luna Chicago, National Theatre Iasi, Ashtar Theatre Palestine, Teatrul Mic, Schauspielhaus Wien, Schaubühne Theatre, Museum for the arts of the 21st century MAXXI Roma, British Council, Onassio Centre in Athens, MNAC Bucharest.

Her efforts to support others culminated in 2017 when she created the Performance Programme at the
National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, producing the work of over 30 emerging performance artists. Since 2021conducting an extended research on Persona Studies, performativity and Instagram, that started in collaboration with Stanford University and Bard College in USA as part of a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar.