Under the pseudonym Mircea Nicolae, Ionuț Cioană developed a practice situated between artistic intervention, urban anthropology, curatorial research and critical writing. His formation combined literary studies at the University of Bucharest with an MA in the Anthropology of Sacred Space at Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, followed by doctoral research at the National University of Arts in Bucharest on work and artistic freedom within the Romanian art scene from 1944 to 2010. Between 2006 and 2009, Nicolae carried out anonymous interventions in public space and abandoned sites, examining the social and political structure of Bucharest alongside more private forms of affective memory. His later projects, including Romanian Kiosk Company, o sută, An Altar for Each Day and the Prostheses cycle, moved between documentary attention, conceptual economy and deliberately fragile modes of production. His works were presented at Salonul de proiecte, tranzit.ro București, Ivan Gallery, Electroputere Gallery, the Vienna Biennale, MUSAC León, Pinchuk Art Centre and 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery in New Haven. In parallel, he developed a curatorial and critical activity, including an exhibition dedicated to Mattis Teutsch, organised with Szilárd Miklós in Bucharest, and a sustained body of writing for Scena9 between 2016 and 2020.