born in 1980, lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
june 2009 – Glass Globes / 25 demolished houses / The New Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, solo exhibition. Part of a six months residency (June – November 2009) at the Institute during the Venice Biennial, awarded by a jury whose members were Andreas Fogarasi, the winner of the Golden Lion at the 2007 Venice Biennial, Fabio Cavallucci, the coordinator of Manifesta 2008 and Saverino Simi de Burgis, art critic and professor ar the Art Academy in Venice.
october 24, 2008 - Zarea / Made in Republica Moldova / Apartamentul 17, Bucharest. An independent exhibition space created by the exhibiting artists hosted works that were produced in Chisinau / Republic of Moldova during the Interventii3 project.
september 2008 - Interventii 3 / Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, organized by Oberliht Association. Project for interventions in public space, between 19-29th of September, finalized with a series of collaborations with other artists.
august 9, 2008 - Ten demolished houses / galeria 29, Bucharest. My first personal exhibition in Romania, in the home gallery I set up in the living room of my apartment.
april to june 2008 - The world is flat / Orvergaden Institut for Samtidskunst / Copenhagen, Denmark.
june 2008 - Destination Metelkova / SCCA - Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana , Slovenia. One month residency at the end of which the opening of my first personal exhibition took place in the Alkatraz Gallery.
april / may 2008 - Artists-in-residence-program / Zavod Celeia - Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia. Participated in the Vstop Prost / Admission Free festival for art in public space.
march 2008 - Post for Kyrgyzstan / Kyrgyz National Museum for Fine Arts. Sent one fragment from the House of the People in Bucharest Romania to Kyrgyzstan by mail, for a mail-art exhibition.
january 2008 – Re_play / on the site of the ruined foundation of a Communist building between the National Library, The Commerce Chamber, and Unirii Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania. Three young artists occupied for a short period of time an abandoned space, that became an exhibition space for one day. Their works re-considered the meanings of local objects, stories and habits. Elena Ciobanu, Mircea Nicolae and Tudor Prisacariu organized and exhibited their works.
november 2007 – Back to the future / Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania. The exhibition placed together artists whose works investigated the Romanian social-cultural context from a historic perspective. Anca Benera, Daniel Gontz, Cezar Lazarescu, Vlad Nanca, Mircea Nicolae, Dragos Platon, Tudor Prisacariu, Sonokolor (Ciprian Dicu si Sergiu Doroftei) participated with their works. Curator: Vlad Nanca.
october 2007 - DIY Ambient Intelligence Workshop / Altart Foundation, Cluj, Romania. Held by Michel van Dartel and Simon de Bakker from the V2 team - Institute for Unstable Media. The participants used Arduino boards and Velleman kits in order to create and control an environment that was responsive to the human presence.
august 2007 - Binarium - Urban Aquarium / Altart Foundation, Cluj, Romania. A group of artists were invited to develop projects linked to the real and virtual life of the city of Sibiu, the Cultural Capital of Europe for the year 2007. They were also asked to make public space interventions in the same city. Invited artists: plankton (AT), Szabó Kriszta (RO), Mircea Nicolae (RO). Curatori: Istvan Szakats, Stefan Tiron.
galeria 29
Beginning with the month of August 2008 I opened a gallery in the living room of the apartment where I live with my family. This exhibition space allowed me to work independently, following my own interests. It also allowed me to function as an exhibiting artist and as a curator, at the same time. For some of the exhibitions I invited other curators to write the texts, in which case I was only the organizer of the event. At the end of the openings all the exhibits were given to the public through a raffle or tombola procedure. A number of ten exhibitions took place over a period extending for almost a year.
august 9, 2008 - mircea nicolae - ten demolished houses
september 12, 2008 - elena ciobanu - scars / cctv
october 11, 2008 - lidia neagu - 1997 / 2008
november 1, 2008 - razvan botis - sugar/ earth / rosy sausage - (curator: stefan tiron)
december 6, 2008 - michele bressan - found footage
february 20, 2009 - misionarul no limits - kagule (curator: a Theology student)
march 6, 2009 - tudor ene - sheet metal and paint
march 20, 2009 - alina samoschi - pufarine
march 27, 2009 - claudia cristea / sinziana marin / mircea nicolae – the last exhibition
june 12, 2009 - lea rasovszky – drawings on wallpaper
january 14 – february 4, 2009 – curator of the ‘Michele Bressan – 1980’ exhibition at Atelier 35, as an extension of the activity in galeria 29. The exhibition functioned as a work in progress. Each week the exhibits changed entirely. Polaroid photographs, portraits of some people born in 1980, found amateur photos transposed on Polaroid, along with three short movies shot on super 8 film were presented.
april 20, 2009 – curator of ‘Home alone’ by Jean-Lorin Sterian, at the exhibition space from the Laborator propriu cultural center, Bucharest.
april 30, 2009 – curator of ‘65 plus’ by Michele Bressan, at the Ark – The Customs Warehouse, Uranus-Rahova, Bucharest.
june 12, 2009 – curator of ‘Dreamboys’ by Lea Rasovszky at DraftOne project gallery, Bucharest.
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