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VLAD NANCă
Born in Bucharest, Romania, 1979.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Happy Sunday, installation, performance, Work of the month at
the Contemporary Art
Museum, Bucharest, Romania; Dream of Bucharest, installation,
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; 2005 - Ups and
Downs, photography, H’art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania; Errorism, #
project, DSBA Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 – 4th Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania
(curator Mica Gherghescu); 2009 - Bad Times / Good Times, Futura
Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Land of Human Rights: Being
Responsible for Resources, , Graz, Austria; 2008 - Remix (with
Janek Simon), Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; 2007 - Social Cooking,
NKGB, Berlin, Germany; Der Prozess, Prague Biennale 3, Prague.
Czech Republic; 2005 - WeAreTheArtists: Mixed Pickels 1, K3, Zurich,
Switzerland; On difference #1, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany.
CONTACT: vladnanca@yahoo.com
zOLTAN BELA
Born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1977. Lives and works in Bucharest,
Romania.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Self Reflecting 30-solo exhibition Point Contemporary Gallery,
Bucharest; Transition Icons-solo exhibition-galleria Carini&Donatini-
Italy ; 2007 - Duo-solo exhibiton- La Scena, Bucharest, Romania; Close
Up - TC Art Gallery, Bucharest; 2007 – 2006 - Blow Up - Grand Cafe
Galleron, Bucharest, Romania.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 – 4th Bucharest Biennial of Young Artists (curator Mica
Gherghescu); 2009 – Arte Verona-artfair-Verona, Italy ; 2008
- Group exhibition-galleria Carini&Donatini-Italy; Arte Veronaartfair-Verona,
Italy.
CONTACT: z_bela@yahoo.com
CARLA CRUz
Born in 1977. Lives and works in London and Porto.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Utopias, Cyborgs and Other Tree Houses, Performance Art
festival Circular, Vila do Conde, Portugal; Navegar é Preciso, Viver não
é preciso. Plumba Gallery, Porto, Portugal; 2008 - School Landscapes,
Viseu, Portugal; 2007 - The Kiss – action: Kissing the Prime Minister
in the mouth, Casa de Serralves, Contemporary Art Museum, 21 Abril,
Porto; Public Porto, Porto; One Woman Show, Plumba Gallery, Porto;
The Creation of the World, Transfigurações Efémeras, Contemporary
Art Museum Park, Porto; 2006 - Fear + Desire, Platform, Vaasa,
Finland; Penelope Project, Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - All My Independent Women, Casa da Esquina, Coimbra,
Portugal; demoCRACY for Unsurpasable Horizon, No Souls For
Sale, Tate Modern; Journal of Antecipation, Rennes Biennale, France;
2009 -Open International Performance Festival, Beijing, China; The
Mews London, UK; Feministizarte Braga and Senhorio, Porto; 2008
- The Independence Project, 1:1 Projects, Rome, Italy; Café Portugal,
Bratislava, Slovakia, Évora, Ponta Delgada and Coimbra; Part-ilha,
Spike Island, Bristol, UK; Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbe Museum,
Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Crosstalk Festival, Budapest, Hungary;
2007 - Last News, Laznia, Gdansk, Poland;
CONTACT: carlabarroscruz@gmail.com
CHELSEA KNIGHT
Born in 1976. Lives and works in New York.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Acting Out, University of Syracuse, NY, USA; 2009 - I Lay Claim
to You, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, USA; 2008 - Fusion Chamber,
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA; 2007 - Room 101,
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; UNIDEE in Progress, Immigrant
Palace, Biella, Italy; Roots and Culture Gallery, Chicago, USA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition, Art in General,
New York, USA; 2009 - Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid,
Spain; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Les Rencontres
Internationales, New Cinema and Contemporary Art; New Videos
by Chelsea Knight and Tim Ridlen, MWMN Gallery, New York, USA;
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany; C.R.E.A.M Projects,
Whitney’s Biennial, Brooklyn, NY, USA; 2008 - Les Rencontres
Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Three Hours Between
Planes, Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago
Werkschauhalle Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, Chicago Cultural Center;
At Home and at Work, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, USA;
2007 - 10th Istanbul Biennial, Nightcomers Program, Istanbul, Turkey;
If I Can’t Dance: Feminist Legacies in Contemporary Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Gallery Villa Edison, In Loco: Un
Dialogo, Florence, Italy; Split/Span, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; 4th Annual Women’s Caucus for Art,
International Video Shorts Screening, New York, USA
CONTACT: chelsea@chelseaknight.com
DESIRE MACHINE COLLECTIVE
SONAL JAIN, born in Shillong, India, 1975.
MRIGANKA MADHUKAILLYA, born in Jorhat, India, 1978.
Both live and work in India.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Curated by
Sandhini Poddar, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany;
2009 - Unreal Asia, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen,
Germany; Landscape of Where, Galerie Mirchandani & Steinruecke,
Mumbai, India; Video Wednesday, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India;
2008 - 48C. Public. Art. Ecology, New Delhi, India; Anant Art Gallery,
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New Delhi, India; Festival du Nouveau Cinéma et le Vidéographe,
Montreal, Canada; Courts Metrages, les 21 instants Vidéo, Marseille,
France, Quebec, Canada, Lebanon, Palestine, Venezuela and Argentina;
Amsterdam-India Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
CONTACT: periferry@gmail.com
GAYLAN ABDULLAH ISMAIL
Born in 1983. Lives and works in Erbil, Iraq.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Cornerhouse, Contemporary Art Iraq, Manchester, UK; SARA,
Dado: Transform Project, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq; Hawlyr Gallery, ixhibite,
Erbil, Iraq; 2009 - The Netherlands Consulate, Erbil, Iraq; 2008 -
Municipal Gallery, Erbil, Iraq.
CONTACT: gaylanart@yahoo.com
jIN SHAN
Born in Jiangsu, China, 1977. Lives and works in Shanghai.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Stephen the Speculator, ddm warehouse, Shanghai, China.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Today, Tomorrow, But Not Too Far Double Infinity, Van
Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, ArtHub Asia,
Shanghai; Like no place known, Rmit School of Art Gallery,
Australia; 2009 - Animamix Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing,
MoCA, Shanghai, Taipei MoCA and Guangdong Art Museum; There
is on I am in team program e.v, Berlin, German; History in the
Making: Shanghai 1979 - 2009, Shanghai; Exit Shanghai, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA; The X
Baltic Triennial of International Art 2009, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania;
2008 – Art Beijing, Art Fair; Comfortable, Contemporary Art
Exhibition Shanghai; New World Order, Groninger Museum, the
Netherlands; Shoot, ARCO Solo Project, Madrid, Spain; 2007 -
Three Generations, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing; Rejected Collection,
Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai; Migration
Addicts, Collateral Event 52th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; 2006
- Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Migration Addicts Sculpture
Square, Singapore; Bitmap, International Digital Photo Project,
Alternative Space Loop, Seoul.
CONTACT: jinshan0377@yahoo.com.cn
MARIE VOIGNIER
Born in 1974. Lives and works in Paris.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Marcelle Alix, Paris, France; 2006 - Oberwelt, Stuttgart,
Germany.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - 6th Berlin Biennale; CAKE Contemporary, Ireland ; Spatial City
: An Architecture of Idealism, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee,
USA; ; 2009 – Hinterland, Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France;
The Beautiful is just the first degree of the Terrible, State Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Videoclub, Paris; Passerelle
Contemporary Art Center, Brest, France; 2008 - Contemporary Art
Biennial, Rennes, France; Be seeing you, Centre Pompidou, Paris;
Bass Model Diffusion, Fieldgate Gallery, London; Rendez-Vous,
Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, China; 2007 – Rendez-Vous, Les
Subsistances, Lyon, France; Contemporary art center of Vénissieux
and MLIS, Villeurbanne, France; 2006 - Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
CONTACT marievoignier@gmail.com
MIRKO SMERDEL
Born in 1978. Lives and works in Florence and Milan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Myth Making Landscapes, curated by Aria Spinelli and Paolo
Caffoni, CHAN Gallery, Genova, Italy.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Practicing Memory ,Città dell’Arte, Biella, Italy; The
Documentary, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy; Carte Blanche / The
Historical Archive: four interpretations, Unicredit Studio, Milan, Italy;
Horror Vacui / Occupying the present, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy;
Rapallo Fotografia Contemporanea / Open Space, Rapallo, Italy; 2009
- Territoria #4 / Simbosi, Prato, Italy; Splav Meduze, Celje, Slovenia;
Nothing But a Show, Sforzesco Castle, Museum of Ancient Art/
Museum of Decorative Art, Milan, Italy; 2008 – Backpackers, Borgovico
33, Como, Italy.
CONTACT: mirkovitz@gmail.com
OLIVER RESSLER
Born in Knittelfeld, Austria, 1970. Lives and works in Vienna.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - What Is Democracy?, Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum
– ACAF, Alexandria, Egypt; What Is Democracy?, 2009 - What
Is Democracy?, Siz Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia; 2008 - Live Despite
Capitalism, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany; “For A
Completely Different Climate”, Artra Galleria, Milan, Italy; 2007 - Fly
Democracy, Protokoll Studio, Cluj, Romania; 2006 - Now-Time
Venezuela, Part 1: Worker-Controlled Factories, Berkeley Art Museum,
Berkeley, USA (with Dario Azzellini); 2005 - An Ideal Society Creates
Itself, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2010 - Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization, Nottingham
Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; The politics of art, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The
Social at the Berardo Collection, Museum Berardo Collection, Lisbon,
Portugal 2009 - Rewind, Fast Forward. Video Art from the Collection
of the Neue Galerie, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria; Disobedience – An
ongoing video archive, MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Bucharest, Romania; The Spectacle of the Everyday, Biennale de Lyon,
France; 2008 Taipei Biennial, Taipei (RC); 49th October Salon, Belgrade
(RS); Videozone 4, Videozone – International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv,
Israel; 2007 - Moscow Biennial, Russia; Forms of Resistance. Artists
and the desire for a social change, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the
Netherlands; The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Second
International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
CONTACT: oliver@ressler.at; www.ressler.at
RUTI SELA
Born in Jerusalem, 1974. Lives and works in Tel Aviv.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Hamidrash Gallery, Tel Aviv; 2009 - Honomim Avni Institute, Tel-
Aviv; 2008 - Rare Medium, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; 2006
- “Cordova”, The Center for Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - 6th Berlin Biennale, Germany; 2009 - 11th Istanbul Biennial,
Turkey; SCOPE New York 09; 2008 - “Art TLV”, 2nd Tel Aviv Biennial,
Israel;”Festival des Urbaines”, Laussane, Switzerland; “Art TLV”, 1st
Tel Aviv Biennial, Israel; Video-Zone, the 4nd Biennial of Video Art, Tel
Aviv; Mittelmeer Biennial, Köln, Germany; Onlyconnect”, Chelsea Art
Museum, New York; “Rare Medium”, The Center for Contemporary
Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (as curator); 2007- “War and Cinema” screening at
Pompidou Center, Paris, France; Haifa Museum, Israel; 2006- Sydney
Biennial, Australia; “L.A Freewaves”, Film Festival, Los Angeles; “Mini-
Israel”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; “8th Annual Video Marathon”,
Art in General Gallery, New York; “Serial Cases”, Exchange program
between Israel, Croatia, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Czech Republic
& Romania; ‘Identity in Crisis’, Ambasciata di Marte, Florence, Italy;
“Dreams and Trauma” - Moving Images and the Promised Lands, Haus
der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
CONTACT: rutisela@gmail.com
MAAYAN AMIR
Born in Hadera, Israel, 1978. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - 6th Berlin Biennale, Germany; 2009 - 11th Istanbul
Biennial, Turkey; Nova Gallery, Zagreb; Tina B , The Prague
Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic; CPHDOX,
Copenhagen, Denmark; Reverse Pedagogy - Season Two – Venice;
Scope Art Fair, New York, USA; 2008 - TPW Gallery, Toronto,
Canada; Festival des Urbaines, Switzerland; Kolon Biennale,
Kolon Germany; Kil Halle für Kunst, Germany; Storefront for Art
and Architecture, New-York, USA; 2007 - Artneuland, Martin
Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; Dazed Gallery, “Undo”, London, UK;
Screening night “War and Cinema”, C. Pompidou, Paris, France;
CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA; 2006 -
Sydney Biennale, Australia; Dreams and Trauma, Moving Images
and the Promised Lands, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
Germany.
CONTACT: ammaayan@zahav.net.il
SHADI HABIB ALLAH
Born in 1977. Lives and works in New York and East Jerusalem.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Reena Spaulings Fine Art , New York 2006 - An Ongoing Tale,
sponsored by A.M. Qattan Foundation, Al-Hajaj Gallery,
Ramallah; 2005 - 99, Nashashibi Center, Jerusalem
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - B-Sides, 6-8 Months, New York; Columbia MFA Thesis
Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, USA; 2009
- Palestine c/o Venice, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; The
Thousand and One Nights, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA;
First International Video Art & Multimedia Festival of Ramallah,
Ramallah, Palestine; 2008 - Twisted Reality, Center for Digital
Art, Holon, Israel; 2007 - Riwaq Biennal, Palestine; In Focus, Tate
Modern, London, UK; 2005 Unidee in Progress, Cittadellarte,
Biella, Italy
CONTACT: shadi.h.a@gmail.com
pETRUŢ CăLINESCU
CONTACT: petre_76@yahoo.com
IOANA MOLDOVAN
CONTACT: ioanamol@yahoo.com
MARIUS NEMEŞ
CONTACT: mariusnemes@yahoo.com; contact@mariusnemes.com
ANDREI PUNGOVSCHI
CONTACT: andrei.pungovschi@gmail.com
MIRCEA REŞTEA
CONTACT: mircea2005@gmail.com
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