Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
1968/1974 work together since 2000

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
There Will Be Hope, D+T Project, Brussels
Land Distribution, Lombard - Freid Projects, New York
2009
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, All Power to the Imagination!, Secession, Vienna
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Surplus Value, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Dissolving Absolute Structures, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg
2008
Appointment with History, Lombard - Freid Projects, New York
August, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucuresti
Living Units, Mercer Union, Toronto
2006
Re-animating the city, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2005
Unitati de locuit, CIAC, Bucuresti
2004
Orase de Consum, Galeria Vector, Iasi
Consuming the City, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck
2003
Living Units, Project Room, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
One Sixt of th Earth. Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon
Homo Economicus, Cabinet Gallery, London
2011
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul
Evidence of Bricks, TBA:11 Festival, PICA Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion Collateral Event, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
Rythmic Exercises, Bwa Sokol, Nowy Sacz
Homo Economicus, MD72, Berlin
Image projected until it vanishes, Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano
Stücke des Widerstands - Pièces de résistance, Motorenhalle, Dresden
Between Appropriation and Interventions, Christianssands Kunstforening, Kristiansand
Action Directe, D+T Project, Brussels
Kind of Change, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Why do you resist? Forms of Resistance in Contemporary Art, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Magazine, New York
Bucharest - A Paradoxical City, PhotoEspana Festival, Museo de la Ciudad, Madrid
Alter Scrinium. 10 Theses of the Architecture, Vladivostok International Film Festival
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, New York
On y danse tout en rond, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Magical and Poetical Structures, New Existentialism Part 4, Kurator, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona
2010
Flying Down to Earth, FRAC Lorraine, Metz
Modern Dialect, M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Shockworkers of the Mobile Image, 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg
Constructing History: the future life of the past, Kunsthalle Lissabon
Related Spaces, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Walking the Hinterland, Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels
No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London
May we also be temporarily, 21 Rozeendal, Enschede
Workers Leaving the Workplace, ms Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Over the Counter, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
Why do you resist? - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori
Matter of Negotiation, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck
Volando Hacia La Tierra / Flying Down to Earth, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
The Realism Question, Rumänska kulturinstitutet, Stockholm
Histories de L’Est, La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona
Bucharest Biennale 4, Handlung. On Producing Possibilities, Bucuresti
Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden - Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Celebration, Uqbar Project Space, Berlin
There Is No Alternative, Rumänska kulturinstitutet and Konsthall C, Stockholm
Architecture and its Discontents, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan
ATOPIA, Art and the City in the 21st Century, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
2009
Liquid Times, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster
Cultural Memories / Recits Paralleles, Insitu / Fabienne Leclerc Gallery, Paris
Pièces de résistance: Forms of resistance in contemporary art, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
Invisible Body, Conspicuous Mind, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles
Department for Art in Public Space, Asociatia E-cart, Bucuresti
Europe:In Between Document and Fiction, CNDB, Centrul National al Dansului, Bucuresti
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy, Centre National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, Lille
Nothing is worth more than this day, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucuresti
International Media Art Biennale Wro 09, Expanded City, Wroclaw, Poland
Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucuresti
Dada East? Contextes roumains du Dadaisme, Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Lille
Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
2008
5th Berlin Biennale, When Things Cast No Shadow, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
6. Gyumri Biennial, Transformation of History or Parallel Histories, Gyumri
Art as Gift, Periferic Biennial 8, Iasi
Like an Attali Report, but different, On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom den Haag, The Hague
Salon of the Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb
Another City, Another Life, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Baltic / Balkans, Restaging the Past, Museum of Contemporary Art in Szczecin
Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Atomized, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam
New World, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
2007
52nd Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Low-Budget Monuments, Venice
The Building Show, Exit Art Gallery, New York
Prague Biennale 3, Der Prozess, Collective memory and social history
"... not figments of a madman's imagination...": the Uncanny in Contemporary Romanian Video, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
October. Exit, Memory and Desire. Artra Gallery, Milano
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Fargfabriken, Stockholm
Obsessions, Sabrina Raffaghello Gallery, Ovada, Alessandria
The Other City > what became of the modernist housing, Hungarian Cultural Center New York
Coded Cinema, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Transforming Memory. The Politics of Images, 24 Nadezda Petrovic Memorial, Cacak
2006
How to Do Things? - In the Middle of (No)where, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
AWOL, Young Artists Biennial, Bucuresti
Urban Contact Zone, sharing areas - using places, Westwerk, Hamburg
Fair:Play, Play Gallery, Berlin
Accidentes, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
Liquid Matter, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
De/re/constructii, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti
Cutia Neagra / Black Box, DUMB, Brno
2005
Art-chitecture of Change, Isola Art Center, Milano
Nu au fost semnalate incidente deosebite, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti
Motion Parade, Fotogalerie Wien
Continental Breakfast, Ljubljana Castle
A Warlike People, Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Longtime, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
2004
Terrorvision, Exit Art Gallery, New York
Revolutions Reloaded, Artra Gallery, Milano; Play Gallery, Berlin
Media-Space 04, Micro Utopia Re-Utilisation and Shifts in Urban Space, Stuttgart
Formate / Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Wien
2003
Border Device(s), insert in Border Counter / Multiplicity Collective, Utopia Station, the 50th Venice Biennial; Roomade Gallery, Brussels
2002
5 Senses, CRCA, San Diego

Screenings
2011 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 e-flux video rental, MG+MSUM Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art + Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkov, Ljubljana
2010 Essays in Post-Communism, Argos, Cinema Arenberg Brussels (solo)
2010 After Architects, Stadtkino Basel
2010 e-flux video rental, Fondazione Giuliani per l'arte contemporanea, Rome
2009 Cultural Memories / Recits Paralleles, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris
2009 Another City, Another Life, Vilnius Coop: gaps, fictions and practices, X Baltic Triennial of International Art
2009 Espectros: Arte y transicion, Centro Cultural de Espana / Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala
2009 Another City, Another Life – of the Archives, Rotor Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
2009 Only in the Dark, Mercati di Traiano, Rome
2008 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2007 After Architects, film programme, Kunsthalle Basel, Architekturmuseum
2007 Bucuresti-Berlin - Aktuelles Kino aus Rumänien, Kino Babylon, Berlin
2007 Procesul, Progr, Bern (solo)
2007 London Festival of Europe, Courtauld Institute of Art
2007 Cinema Bucharest, 36th Film Festival Rotterdam
2006 The other City, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
2006 Elektronenstrome, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2006 Cover Story, Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Display Gallery, Prague (2005)
2006 e-flux video rental, Extra city, Antwerp; Mucsarnock Budapest
2005 Rencontres Internationales, Nouveau Cinema et Art Contemporain Paris-Berlin
2005 e-flux video rental, Portikus, Frankfurt; KW Institute for Contemporary Art
2003 Cybersonica 03, ICA, London
2003 Arcipelago, 11th International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Rome
2003 Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
2002 Coop Festival Kalinderu Medialab, MNAC Bucharest
2002 ISEA, Orai, Nagoya
2002 Backup Festival, Weimar

Artist in residence
2011 DAAD, Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, Berlin
2009 BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
2008 Shadow Writing, FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque
2008 Another City, Another Life, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2006 How to Do Things? - In the Middle of (No)where, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
2005 AIR Vienna
2005 USF Verftet, Bergen
2004 Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck
2003 Project Room, Ludwig Museum Budapest

Lectures
2011 Art in Context Seminar, UDK, Universitat der Kunste, Berlin
2011 Workshop, 12th Istanbul Biennial Educational Program in collaboration with Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD
2011 Communism Afterlives, Wiels, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels
2010 Something you should know, EHESS l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris
2010 There Is No Alternative, Rumänska kulturinstitutet, Stockholm
2010 Istoria se scrie in strada - Cafe bar Manifest despre revolutii - Asociatia E-cart, CNDB, Bucuresti
2010 Becoming Minority, Becoming Former West, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2010 University of Arts, Bucuresti
2009 Arte Martiale, ICR, Bucuresti
2008 University of Arts, Iasi
2007 Uqbar Project Space, Berlin
2007 A-61, Cologne
2007 Cabaret Voltaire, dada haus, Zurich
2006 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland
2005 How to Do Things? - In the Middle of (No)where... Colloquium, Bethanien, Berlin
2005 Living Units, Khib, Bergen
2005 After the Happy 90es, Goethe Institut, Bucuresti
2004 Living Units, Consuming the City, Buchsenhausen Labor, Innsbruck
2004 Post Communist Architecture in Bucharest, Institute of Architecture Ion Mincu, Bucharest in collaboration with Columbia University NY
2003 Short Breath - Experiencing Architecture in Time of Displacement, CIAC, Bucharest

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