b.1979 Bucharest (RO), living and working in Bucharest
Education
1997 - 1999
University of Physical Education & Sports, Bucharest
2000 - 2005
University of Fine Arts, Bucharest
Exhibitions
2011
Times Colliding (Solo Show), Art in General, New York
Upcoming
Communism Never Happened, Charim Gallery, Vienna
Image Projected Until It Vanishes (Kilobase Bucharest), Museion - Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
No Network, 1st TIME MACHINE Biennial, AWC Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Color Studies, guest artist intervention at Christine König Gallery, Art 42 Basel
Imagine Being Here Now, The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
Performance during MAK Nite (Apparatus 22), MAK, Vienna
Morpheus Buyback - installation and performance (Apparatus 22) Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Situated Knowledge: I Follow Rivers of Thoughts (Apparatus 22), RCI, Venice
2010
Expensive Fiasco / Cheap Success (Solo Show), Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest
Relics for the Afterfuture (Brown) (Solo Show), Jiri Svestka Prague
An Image instead of a Title II, Club Electro Putere Craiova, Romania
Where do we go from here? Secession, Vienna
An Image instead of a Title (Romanian Cultural Resolution), Werkschau Halle 12, Spinnerei, Leipzig
Comrades of Time, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
2009
What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul Biennial 11, Istanbul
Relics for the Afterfuture (Brown) (Solo Show), Jiri Svestka Berlin
Don’t blame the messenger of gloom/Don’t blame the messenger of doom (Solo Show), Volta NY, New York
Grenzenlos, CNDB, Bucharest
On Joy, Sadness and Desire, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
The One Who Knows That Knows, Still Does Not Know How to Know, Nova Gallery, Zagreb
2008
U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Alpha 2000_Art prize Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) (Solo Show), Jiri Svestka Prague
2007
Prague Biennale 3, Prague
2006
Soleil Noir, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Monthly Evaluations_12,20,28.01.06 (Solo Show), RCI, New York
Temporary Studio: Monthly Evaluations (Solo Show), Orizont gallery, Bucharest
Strategic Questions: Platform 06, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
What is positive? Why? Strategic questions, De Appel, Amsterdam
Indirect Speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Bucharest Biennial, Bucharest
Focussing Iassi, Periferic Biennial 7, Iasi
2005
Hidden Rhtyhms, Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
FAMA FLUXUS MYTHOS BEUYS, Kunst+Projekte, Sindelfingen
Motion Parade, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
ON DIFFERENCE#1, Local Contexts - Hybrid Spaces, W. Kunstvereins, Stuttgart
TEXT ground, Display Gallery, Prague
2004
Monthly Evaluations / Me (October 2004) (Solo Show), Ellen de Bruijne Gallery, Amsterdam
Formate /Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle Wien - project space, Vienna
Green Box, Trafo gallery, Budapest
Distance, ICA, Dunaujvaros
Residencies
2012 Akademie Schloss Solitude (Apparatus 22), Stuttgart
2012 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2011 AIR laboratory, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2011 Art in General, New York
2010 IASPIS (Rozalb de Mura), Stockholm
2010 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2009 RCI Stockholm (Liste Noire)
2007 RCI London (Liste Noire)
2004 Kulturkontakt, Vienna
Lectures
2011
Conversation with New York Times columnist Andrea Codrington about art, design, obsessions and everything in between, Art in General, New York
2010
Translating Time: Losses & Gains, artist talk at Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
2009
Double Game: About Storytelling in Fashion and Emotional Interior Design (Rozalb de Mura & Liste Noire), RCI Stockholm, Sweden
2009
From Data Archiving to Emotional Evaluations, artist talk at Supermarket, Stockholm
2005
Monthly Evaluations presentation at Lost & Found, Amsterdam
Awards
2007
The Future of Europe Art Prize for Artists from Eastern Europe, Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Published Matter
2009
Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) available at Jiri Svestka Berlin & Prague
2008
What is positive? Why? Strategic Questions (insert), Revolver
2006
Interview with Denmark Gyllner in Praesens magazine, Sport/Art issue
2005
Monthly Evaluations project in Idea #20 magazine
The Wall project, e-cart magazine
Bibliography
2010
Five Times Bucharest, Sleek magazine
2009
100 to watch, a survey of Romanian contemporary creative scene
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Zeichen by Astrid Mania, Art Net
2008
Small Victories – Art, Sports and the Passing of Time, interview by Niels Henriksen for Karriere Art Bulletin,Copenhagen
Ioana Nemes, by Steve Peralta, Neoaztlan Magazine
2006
Focus Romania (artist profile), Flash Art international (nov-dec)
Monthly Evaluations project in Pavilion#9 magazine Chaos/BB2
Four Romanian Artists: Perjovschi, Nastac, Bejenaru, Nemes, MAP magazine
Doorsnee is niet goed genoeg, Wilma Sütö, mister Motley magazine 6, p. 34-35
2005
A wall of one’s own, by Livia Paldi, IDEA magazine #20
Monthly Evaluations/Me (October), by Falke Pisano, Arhitext magazine
Interview with Ioana Nemes, by Attila Tordai, Version magazine
Collaborative Work
2011
KILOBASE BUCHAREST
Initiated as an artist-run nomadic gallery by visual artist Ioana Nemes and arts marketing researcher and practician Dragos Olea, KILOBASE BUCHAREST aims to vigorously explore and push the limits and extents of the art market and the artist’s influence on it both through the content of its projects, exhibitions and its modus operandi.
2011
Part of the Apparatus 22, art & fashion collective
2006 - 2010
Part of the Rozalb de Mura, fashion collective
2004 - Present
Part of the interior design duo Liste Noire