Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
1968 Constanta, RO / 1974 Geneva, CH, work together since 2000

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, All Power to the Imagination!, Secession, Grafischess Kabinett, 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
2007
August, Play Gallery, Berlin
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, Budapest

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Workers Leaving the Workplace, ms Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Over the Counter, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
Why do we 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, Bucharest
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
Europe:In Between Document and Fiction, CNDB, Centrul National al Dansului, Bucuresti
Nothing is worth more than this day, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucuresti
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy, Centre National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, Lille
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 Biennial, 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 Biennial, 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
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, Bruxelles
2002
5 Senses, CRCA, San Diego

Screenings
2010 Essays in Post-Communism, Argos, Bruxelles
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, videokunst.ch, Bern
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 Festival Rencontres Internationales 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
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
2010 Becoming Minority, Becoming Former West, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2010 Something you should know, EHESS l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris
2010 There Is No Alternative, Rumänska kulturinstitutet, Stockholm
2009 Arte Martiale, ICR, Bucuresti
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, workshop, Institute of Architecture Ion Mincu, Bucharest in collaboration with Columbia University NY
2003 SHORT BREATH - Experiencing Architecture in Time of Displacements, International Symposium, CIAC, Bucharest

Awards
Fair:Play 2006 Video Festival, 1st prize, Play Gallery Berlin




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