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GABRIELA VANGA
biography
Born 1977, Romania, currently working in Paris, France
EDUCATION
2002-2003 Le Pavillon / Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2001-2002 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes
1997-2001 University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, RO
SOLO SHOWS
2006
Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2004
'' m e s b n p e n u l o i s o d '' - Galerie Public, Paris
Keep it unreal, Miss China, Paris
2003
Keep it unreal, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Project Room, Paris
2001
Beauty Items, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest
1999
Vis vienez, Tranzit Foundation, Cluj Napoca,
GROUP SHOWS
2005
The Sotryteller,(with Mircea Cantor) Yvon Lambert Gallery,Project Room, Paris
On Difference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Continental breakfast, Memory (w)hole, Ljubljana
2004
Love it or Leave it ,5th Biennale of Cetinje, Montenegro
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artist , Vrsac, YU (with Version )
2003
Intervention at Association Entre-Deux, Nantes
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Biennial of Prague, Prague
Incomprehension, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Preview Kalinderu Medialab /The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
VERSION conference, Frac Alsace, Sete
The map of the world, Lisieres, Strasbourg
workshop in Vietnam, Mekong Delta, Pavillion / Palais de Tokyo
2002
Ť 00 ' Une exposition qui grandit par le millieu, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
workshop Pyrenees mountains, Pavillion / Palais de Tokyo
A9 Forum Transeuropa, Museum Quartier, Vienna
.Version 0.2,issue launched at Espace En Cours, Paris
Photographier, Collection Lambert, Avignon
Rendez-vous roumain, Espace En Cours, Paris
Boundless Borders, Bilboards project in the city of Belgrad
Documents 11 young photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest
2001
Version bilingual magazine, founded by Gabriela Vanga, Mircea Cantor, Ciprian
Muresan, Nicolae Baciu, first number september 2001
Free show, Sindan Foundation, Cluj Napoca,RO, project with Version members
Artistpoly, Context network Bienale di Venezia, insert in the Romanian Pavillion
Mc Donald's featuring Brancusi project for Periferic 5 Biennial, Iassy (RO)
project with Version
2000
Say what?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest
Voyage d'affaires, Erban, Nantes(with Mircea Cantor)
1999
Untitled, Tranzit Foundation, Cluj Napoca, Ro
VIDEOS :
What if Tom invented Jerry (5'5'') 2003
Keep it unreal, (2') 2003
Chiump,ciamp,ciah (10') 2003
Tara, tara vrem ostasi ! (5'30'') 2002
Between hope and despair I (4') 2000
PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004
Claire Staebler L'exposition dont vous etes le heros. IDEA art+society, Cluj,
RO, n° 19
Keep it unreal, UPstreet magazine n°49, Paris
2003
Poster/Publication for Association Entre-Deux, Nantes
Amiel Grumberg, What if Tom invented Jerry..., IDEA art+society, Cluj, RO,
n° 15-16
Mirrors, insert Balkon n°13
All or nothing, Number° F, July issue
Mama used to say Number° E, Information without guarantee March-April issue
2002
Judit Angel, Rendez-vous roumain, in Praesens
2001
Jean Max Colard, Nouvelles frontieres, in Inrockuptibles n°312
11 young photographers, insert Balkon n°8
Alexandru Polgar, Esthetical operations with the camera, Balkon n°6
Born in 1970, she studied from 1990 to 1995 at the Fine Arts Department,
Nicholas Copernicus Uniwersity in Torun, Poland, where she received her
Master of Arts degree in 1995, and where she has been teaching since 1996.
She concentrates on painting, drawing, graphic arts, and space-and- time-
related activities. She now lives in Bydgoszcz.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2001 distinction of the Rector of Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń for
artistic efforts in the academic year 1999/2000
2001 fellowships of the Polish Ministry of Culture for the year 2002
2002 nomination for the Polityka magazine ''Passports'' award in the area of
finearts for the year 2002
2002 ''Artist of the Year'' title as result of a readers' vote in poll carried
out by Gazeta
Wyborcza in Bydgoszcz
2003 ''Spojrzenia 2003'' award of the Cultural Foundation of Deutsche Bank
2003 fellowships of the Polish Ministry of Culture for the year 2004
THE LIST
OF EXHIBITIONS
2000 Lying 2, The 7th Construction in Process, Bydgoszcz
2000 Arte en orbita - The Artist Museum, Spain
2001 Woman about Woman - Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała
2001 Masquerades - Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznań
2001 OIKOS - Leon Wyczółkowski Museum, Bydgoszcz
2002 Polacos - New Art from Poland - La Capella Gallery, Barcelona,
2002 Jabłońska vs Jabłońska - Sektor Gallery, GCK, Katowice
2002 Out-door AMS Gallery - Polish Institut, Berlin,
2002 Supermother - The Zachęta Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2002 Home Games 400 bilboards - AMS Gallery,
2003 Architectures of Gender, Contemporary Women's Art in Poland,
Sculpture Center, New York
2003 Art in a city - Out-door AMS Gallery, The Zachęta Gallery of Art, Warsaw,
Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
2003 Help - Manchattan Gallery, Łódż
2003 White Mazur - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2003 Spojrzenia - exhibition of artists nominated for the award of the Cultural
Foundation of Deutsche Bank, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa
2003 ''Under the white - red flag'' - New art from Poland - Estonian Art.
Museum,
Tallin, CAC Wilno, Lituenia
2004 Distances - Le Plateau, Paris
2004 Art in the City - Frankfurt,
2004 The International Biennale of Art, ''Critics' Choice'', Lodz
2004 Biennale of Polish Art, ''The Palimpsest Museum'', - The Museum of Lodz
History, Poznanski Palace, Lodz
2005 MADONNA - Kunsthaus Dresden
MAŁGORZATA MARKIEWICZ
biography
EDUCATION
1994-1999 - School of Fine Art and Design, Krakow
Secondary education in the plastic arts. Painting, Sculpture, Drawing,
Photography, Computer, National Curriculum.
1999-2004 - Academy of Fine
Art, Krakow.
Multimedia Studio in Sculpture Department. Modular studies including: poster
design, philosophy of design, alternative design and ergonomics.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 - Cobweb, Potocka Gallery, Krakow
2003 - Quilt, Local Gallery, Krakow
2003 - Yellow Motive Project, Action in the public space, Krakow
2004 - Breathe, Action in the public space, Krakow
2004 - Warm- Cold, Goethe Institute/ Krakow, railway station, Krakow
2005 - Flowers, Otwarta Pracownia, Krakow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 - Money can't give happiness, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
2004 - Beauty or Painting Effects, BWA Bielsko-Biała
2004 - Biennale of young artists, Centrum of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
2004 - Nature and/of Art, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2004 - Boys & Girls, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw
2004 - Art Jeune / Consernes, Lille, France
2004 - Prym, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra
SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS
2002 - Reset, Media Art Festival, Krakow
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Magdalena Ujma, Women attack, 'Opcje'', 3/2003
Joanna Zielińska, The artist as a mother, wife and lover, ''Zadra'', 1/2004
CATALOGUES
2003 - Potocka Gallery, Krakow (individual catalogue)
2004 - Art Jeune / Concernes, Lille
2004 - Boys and Girls, Zachęta, Warsaw
2004 - Nature and/of Art, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2004 - One year grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
(* 1963)
Studied mathematic analysis and management at Economy University in Bratislava
(MA) and
arts at Faculty of fine arts, Technical University, Brno, Czech Rep. (MA),
then he continued his postgraduate studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava,
Slovakia (PhD. in Art).
He lectures new media, performance art, intermedia and sound art at Faculty
of fine arts in Brno and multimedia and contemporary art in Acadamy of
Arts in Banska Bystrica.
He started his artistic career as an autodidact in 1983
with manifestos ''Plays of the Plays'' and up to now, he created over
250 performances, exhibitions,
lectures, projects, symposiums, books, films, CDs, CD-Roms etc. He is known
as a performance artist, sound artist and conceptual artist who writes
about new media, sound art, computer art, live and performance art. His
artwork is based on scientific art research (from 2001 - philosophy of
language and signatures). He collaborated with Rose Bolleter, Jozef Cseres,
Ben Patterson, Jon Rose, Sachiko M, DJ MAO, Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Ostertag
etc. He was co-founder of the body motion nonverbal theatrical performance
group Balvan (1987) and Transmusic Comp. (1989), which introduced mixed-media,
free improvisation and performance work in former Czechoslovakia. He is
co-founder of Society for Non-conventional Music (Sound Off festival),
civic society KRUH publisher of Profil- contemporary arts magazine where
he is editor in chief-deputy (from 1991) and he is a member of WARPS -
World Association Ruined Piano Studies (Australia). He was director of
Slovenska sporitelna Bank Gallery (1995 - 2003).
Michal Murin
Rojen leta 1963 v Bratislavi. Študiral je matematično analizo in management na Ekonomski fakulteti v Bratislavi in umetnost na Filozofski fakulteti, Tehniška univerza, Brno, nato pa doktoriral na Akademiji za umetnost, Bratislava. Predava o novih medijih na Fakulteti za likovno umetnost v Košicah in zgodovino sodobne umetnosti in video umetnost na Akademiji umetnosti v Banski Bistrici.
Svojo umetniško pot je začel kot avtodidakt z manifestom Igre iger leta 1983. Leta 1987 je bil soustanovitelj gibalne, neverbalne, gledališke-performans skupine Balvan (Boulder, 1987-92) in v letih 19891996 clan skupine Transmusic Comp., ki je na bivšem Čehoslovaškem vpeljala mešane medije, prosto improvizacijo in performans. Je tudi soustanovitelj Društva za nekonvencionalno glasbo (Sound Off festival, 1990) in član WARPS (World Association Ruined Piano Studies, Avstralija, 1997). Bil je tudi soustanovitelj društva KRUH, ki izdaja Profil, časopis za sodobno umetnost, kjer je od 1991 namestnik glavnega urednika. V letih 1995-2003 je bil direktor Galerije Slovenska sporitelna banka.
Danes deluje kot performer, zvočni umetnik in konceptualni umetnik, ki piše o novih medijih, zvočni umetnosti, računalniški umetnosti in performansu. Njegovo delo temelji na umetniško-znanstvenem raziskovanju, od leta 2001 dalje predvsem na filozofiji jezika. Sodeloval je z Rose Bolleter. Jozefom Cseresom, Benom Pattersonom, Jon Rose, Sachiko M, DJ MAO, Otomo Yoshihide, Bobom Ostertagom itd. Od leta 1986 je razstavljal in izvajal performanse na Slovaškem, Češkem, Madžarskem, Poljskem, v Sloveniji,
Srbiji, Makedoniji, Avstriji, Italiji, Franciji, Nemčiji, v Macau, na Taivanu, na Japonskem in v Avstraliji.
Več informacij:
http://www.asa.de/magazine/iss4/11murin.htm
http://www.radioart.sk
http://warholes.rgb.sk
http://www.warpsmusic.com
http://www.muzeum.si/the-gesture/michal-murin%20.htm
2004
EXHIBITIONS:
Under the Blue Sky, Open Gallery, Bratislava
PERFORMANCES:
Slovak Performance Art, Galéria BWA, Bialsko Biala, Poland
2003
PERFORMANCES:
Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Performance Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
The 10th Nipon Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Nagoya - Aichi, Kyoto,
Osaka, Nagano, Japan
2002
EXHIBITION:
HÍD, Vajda Lajos Studio, Sentendre, Hungary
Fluxorama, String them up, Mains D'Oeuvres, Paris
PERFORMANCES:
TRANSART COMMUNICATION, Nové Zámky
Performance Art Festival, Ernst Museum, Budapest
MittelFest 2002, SUPERDOWNLOAD, AREA 06, Cividale, Italy
ROSENBERG MUSEUM, Mains D'oeuvres, Saint-ouen, Paris
2001
EXHIBITIONS:
Action Art in Slovakia 1990 - 2000, Tatranská galéria, Poprad
Art in Action 1965 - 1989, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
PERFORMANCES:
Actinart - TransArt Communication, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
READY To..., Art as Archive, International Kunstler Forum and National
Gallery, Prague
TEXT:
L'art de performance en Slovaquie - A partir d'une forme artistique et
de sa réflexion vers la coexistence de mondes solitaires / Performance
Art in Slovakia - From the Art-Form, and its Reflection Towards the Co-Existence
of Solitary Worlds. In: Art Action 1958-1998. Ed.: Richard Martel. Éditions
Intervention, Québec, Canada, 2001,
2000
EXHIBITIONS:
REALITY/REAL (E)STATE, Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Bratislava
20. century in Slovak visual art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
1999
EXHIBITIONS WITH PERFORMANCES:
Hommage a Dick Higgins, Ernst Museum, Budapest
The Dark Side of the EI Huis, Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgicko
WARHOLES, Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce
Rosenberg Museum, Flux Museum - Humor Kirche, Wiesbaden
STRING 'EM UP - Rosenberg Museum, V2, Rotterdam
was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
He graduated from the Art University of Belgrade, Academy of Applied Arts
and Design as photographer and graphic designer. He had numerous one-person
shows and took part in more than 70 group shows. Received grants for
art projects in France and USA. In his commercial line of work he collaborates
with many Yugoslav rock & pop stars, works for fashion designers
and does editorials for best Yugoslav magazines. Worked for all major
advertising agencies in Yugoslavia: Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett,
Bates, Ovation BBDO, Sholtz & Friends, Publicis Virgo, ICPS, Cyber
Entertainment... etc.
Some of the international clients were: Smirnoff, Lucky Strike, ICN pharmaceuticals,
Sony, Coca Cola, Reebok, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble... etc. Many ads featuring
his photographic work,were awarded at NewYork Festivals, Eurobest, Epica
and Cresta.
Born: June 30, 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia
From 1984 to 1989 - Editor in ''Kultura'' weekly in the department of Visual
Arts. Author of several articles on contemporary Bulgarian and foreign art.
From 1990 to 1992 - Editor in ''Fax-Art'' weekly.
In 1992/93 - President of the Club of (eternally) Young Artist.
Since 1995 - Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia (Founding
Member). Art manager and designer of the editions of ICA - Sofia: BULGARIAAVANGARDE
(Salon Verlag, Koeln, 1998), Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans
(Istanbul, 1999), Locally Interested (ICA-Sofia, 2000), Mariela Gemisheva.
Out of Season
Out of Fashion (Sofia, 2001), Take It Easy. Towards a Strategy
for representing Bulgaria (British Council, Sofia, 2003), Manifesta and us
(ICA, Sofia, 2003), Sofia as a Sight (Visual Seminar, Sofia, 2004), An Eye
for the Pale City (Visual Seminar, Sofia, 2004), Balkan Reunion/Pub(lic) Conference
(2005), etc. Art manager and designer of ''altera'' monthly mangazine (2005)
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2005 - Quotations. Moscows Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004 - Natural Modernism. French Institute, Sofia
- BC + KP + 36 = Project (together with Bruce Checefsky). SweetThirtySix
Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2003 - Drawing as Craftsmanship. ATA Center/Institute of Contemporary Art,
Sofia
2002 - Reading & Eating Ink, Grass, Ants, Wood, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
- Bugs/Reading & Eating (together with Bruce Checefsky) and other Texts
and Watercolors, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
2000 - ''The Most Wooden piece of Beethoven's'', Performance together with
Krassimir Jeliazkov and Plamen Mirchev, Varna, City Gallery
- ''Quotation'', Goethe Institute, Sofia
- ''Hommage to Pushkine. The Text as a Still-Life'', City Gallery, Dimitrovgrad,
Bulgaria
- ''Hommage a Pouchkine. Le texte comme nature morte'', French Institute, Sofia
1999 - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1998 - ''Short Stories about Love and Writing'', Ata Center for Arts,
Sofia
1997 - ''Swiss Cross Book'', TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
- ''Swiss Cross Book'', Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
- ''Art - Advertisement. Symbols and Vegetables. From Drawing to Object
and from Object to Text'', French Institute, Sofia
- ''Switzerland Revisited'', Residency of the Ambassador of Switzerland,
Sofia
1996 - ''The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven's'', Dossev
Gallery, Sofia
1995 - ''Bulgarian Still-lifes for Foreigners'', Ata-Ray Gallery,
Sofia
- ''European Kitchen Painting'', Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- ''The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven's'', Autumn Exhibitions, Old City,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- ''The Oh God, No/O Yeah' Book and other Books and Vegetables', KulturKontakt,
Vienna
1994 - ''National Style'', KA Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria
1993 - ''From Switzerland with a Wooden Fence'', Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- ''Grüezi'', Scuol-Nairs, Switzerland
1989 - Gallery of The Decorative Art Magazine, Moscow
1986 - 108 Rakovski Str. Gallery, Sofia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2003 - In the Gorges of the Balkans. A Report, Kunsthalle Fridericianum,
Kassel, Germany
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut,
Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Kassel
- EU-wide-en-largement, Europarliament, Brussels
- EXPORT/IMPORT. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002 - In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz,
Austria
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut,
Belgrade, Scopje, Rijeka
- Reconstructions, IV Biennial in Cetinie, Montenegro
2001 - EUROPA ERWEITERN, Industriellen Vereinigung, exhibition of KulturKontakt,
Vienna
1999 - Apollonia Summer Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
- Drechtoevers Sculpture Park, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
- ''200 Years Pushkin'', Association of Art Galleries, Moscow
- Special Selection, International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany
- ''Recipes. Contemporary Art Manual'', Institute of Contemporary Art,
Sofia
1998 - ''Archive'', 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
- ''The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession'',
Helsinki
- ''Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II'', Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringer
strasse, Munich,
Germany
- ''The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession'',
Wien
- ''Art and Notes'', Municipal Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria
1997 - ''Back and Forth'', 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro,
Yugoslavia
- ''Photographics' '' project, International Print Biennial Varna97,
Bulgaria
- ''ARS EX NATIO. Made in BG'', 4th Annual Exhibition of the SCA -
Sofia, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1996 - ''Bulgarian Glimpse Show'', Moscow
- ''Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova'', IV St. Petersburg Biennial, Russia
- ''Art on Wheels'', project of ''Food Carrier/Papp'', Munich,
Germany
- ''Art in Landscape'', International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- ''Plastic Image of the 90-ies'', National Palace of Culture, Sofia
- ''The Art Colony, Galichnik'', Skopje
1995 - ''Art in Landscape'', International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp,
Austria
- ''30