Illustration above - Matei Branea

Corina Șuteu began her career at the age of 24 as a theater critic for the Teatrul magazine, where she later became editor. In 1991 she is appointed the Director of the UNITER, and in 1993, the Director of Theatrum Mundi (currently Metropolis).

Two years later she moves to France, where she is the Director of the European Master’s degree in Cultural management of the Business School in Dijon, and she sets up the ECUMEST Master programme. She there begins a whole different job, as a trainer and speacialist in cultural policies, cultural management and cultural cooperation. In 1998 she founds the ECUMEST Association, specialized in the professionalization of the cultural sector in Central Europe. Living in France until 2005, she develops a rich international expertise in management training and compared cultural policies.

Between 2006 and 2012 she is the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. In the fall of 2012, Making Waves, the Romanian film season at the Lincoln Center, is put under private ownership and, together with Mihai Chirilov and Oana Radu, she founds the ”FILM etc.” association and the ”Romanian Film Initiative” platform.

Corina Șuteu has published numerous studies and reports, and has co-edited the “Arts, Politics and Change. Participative Cultural Policymaking in South East Europe” (Boekmanstudies, Amsterdam, 2005) volume.  She is also the author of “Another Brick in the Wall, a Critical Overview of Cultural Management in Europe” (Boekmanstudies, Amsterdam, 2006).

The ”Policies for culture” programme, developed by the ECUMEST Association with the support of the European Cultural Foundation, has directly endorsed 20 projects in South-Eastern Europe, and has contributed to the documentation, analysis and democratization of cultural policies in the region.