Jiri Svestka Gallery  

IOANA NEMES
1979 - 2011

Education

2000 – 2005
University of Fine Arts, Photo-Video department, Bucharest

Residency

2010 C-tin Brancusi, Cite des Arts, Paris - 3 months
2009 ICR Stockholm - 1 month
2007 ICR London with Liste Noire - 1 month
2003 Kulturkontakt, Vienna - 3 months

Selected solo exhibitions

2011
Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
Curated by Vienna - East by South West, Galerie Charim Wien
Irrealigious, Minoriten-Galerie, Graz
Image projected until it vanishes, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
No Network, 1st TIME MACHINE Biennial, AWC Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
WHO AM I TO FEEL SO FREE: Clothing as Site for, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
Communism Never Happened, Charim Gallery, Vienna

2010
Expensive Fiasco / Cheap Success, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest
Textsurfer Classic, Pianissimo, Milan
Relics for the Afterfuture (Brown), Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague

2009
Relics for the Afterfuture (Brown), Jiri Svestka Berlin
Don’t blame the messanger of gloom/Don’t blame the messanger of doom, solo project at art fair Volta NY, New York

2008
Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure), Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague

2006
Monthly Evaluations_12,20,28.01.06, RCI, New York
Temporary Studio: Monthly Evaluations, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest

2004
Monthly Evaluations, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

Selected group exhibitions

2011
Image projected until it vanishes, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
No Network, 1st TIME MACHINE Biennial, AWC Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Monthly Evaluations_Moiré, guest artist intervention at Christine König Gallery, Art 42 Basel
WHO AM I TO FEEL SO FREE: Clothing as Site for, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest
Communism Never Happened, Charim Gallery, Vienna

2010
An Image instead of a Title II, Club Electro Putere Craiova, Romania
where do we go from here?, Secession, Wien
An Image Instead of a Title -The Romanian Cultural Resolution, Werkschau, Leipzig
Comrades of Time, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest

2009
What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul Biennial 11, Istanbul
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 “Future of Europe“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig

2007
Prague Biennale3, Prague

2006
Soleil Noir, Salzburger Kunstverein
Strategic Questions: Platform 06, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna + De Appel, Amsterdam
What is positive? Why? Strategic questions, De Appel, Amsterdam
Indirect Speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest
Focussing Iassi, Periferic 7, Art Biennial, Iasi

2005
Hidden Rhythms Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
FAMA FLUXUS MYTHOS BEUYS, Kunst+Projekte, Sindelfingen
Motion Parade, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
ON DIFFERENCE#1, Local Contexts - Hybrid Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
TEXT ground, Display Gallery, Prague

2004
Formate /Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle Wien - project space, Vienna
Green Box, Trafo gallery, Budapest
Distance, ICA, Dunaujvaros

Awards

2007
The Future of Europe - Art Prize for Artists from Eastern Europe from Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

Bibliography

2009
Catalogue Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) available at Jiri Svestka Berlin & Prague
100 TO WATCH, a survey of Romanian contemporary creative scene
(http://www.100towatch.ro/#/Ioana+Nemes)
Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Zeichen by Astrid Mania
(http://www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/mania/mania10-02-09.asp)

2008
Small Victories – art, sports and the passing of time, interview by Niels Henriksen for Karriere newspaper,Copenhagen
Ioana Nemes, by Steve Peralta, Neoaztlan magazine
www.neoaztlan.com

2006
profile in Focus Romania, Flash Art international (nov-dec)
Monthly Evaluations project in Pavilion#9 magazine Chaos/BB2
Four Romanian Artists: Perjovschi, Nastac, Bejenaru, Nemes, MAP magazine (www.mapmagazine.co.uk)
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
(www.idea.ro)
Monthly Evaluations/Me (October), by Falke Pisano, Arhitext magazine
Interview with Ioana Nemes, by Attila tordai, Version magazine

Special collaborations

Part of the creative design duo Liste Noire
(www.listenoire.ro)
Part of the Romanian progressive fashion label Rozalb de Mura
(www.rozalbdemura.ro)

Ioana Nemes is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
www.jirisvestka.com
www.ioananemes.ro