Comanescu Nicolae - Romania
About the artist
Member since the very beginning
Born: 1968 Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest.
1998 Graduate University of Arts, Bucharest
1998 Founder member of Rostopasca Group, Bucharest
2002 Curator_ Coop Media Festival, Kalinderu Medialab, Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest
2002 Founder and director of tura_bar magazine and tura foundation.
Solo Shows:
2005
Siemens_artLab, Wien, Austria
2004
Grand Prix Remix, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Etaj ¾ Gallery, Bucharest (cat.)
2003
Nofocus DEMO, Trieste Contemporanea, Istituto Tommaseo, Trieste (cat.)
2001
Lex Luthor Found Projects, Fotogallery GAD/Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest
Group Exhibitions:
2004
Central – New Art from New Europe, Eine Initiative von Siemens_artLab und BA-CA Artforum in Kooperation mit Galerie Ernst Hilger, Salzburg, Graz, Bucharest (cat.)
Roumanie.exe, CNIT de La Défense, Paris, ESCO art contemporain and l'ESSEC Executive MBA Project
“Romanian artists (and not only) love the Ceausescus Palace?!” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Etaj ¾ Gallery, Bucharest (cat.) Curator: Ruxandra Balaci
Romanian Contemporary Painting, selection of commissioner Gunter Verheugen, European Commission, Bruxelles (cat.)
2003
PREVIEWS-KalinderuMediaLab/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Emergent Art on the Romanian Art Scene-video-screening in MACRO, Rome
2002
Coop Media Festival, Kalinderu Medialab, Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest
Creativity & cognition 2002, Loughborough University Art Gallery
8th Venice Architecture Biennial, Romanian Pavilion, D.S.B.A. project (cat.)
Weird Screen, Micromuseum, Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki
www.the-cyber-kitchen.com
Free Manifesta, Frankfurt
Free Biennial, New York/ TWITCH VISUAL & POLITI-VIDEO, Remote Lounge, N.Y.
Bound/less Borders, first outdoor touring Balkan project, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Sofia, Kassel (cat.)
Festival RDV roumain, Espace en Cours, Paris
Mirror at the bottom, A Virtual Memorial www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
Re:combo, Recife, Brazil
Reload, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum/ iS.CaM/ Net-Art Open Exhibition / 2002.
Twice Upon A Time... Balkan Video presentation, Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Coop_01, Atelier 35 / Coop_02, Kalinderu Medialab/MNAC, Bucharest
2001
Videotree, Firenze
Trieste Contemporanea Central European Video Art presentation, Trieste
Digital Media Festival, Quezon City, Philippines (cat.)
Mediaterra Festival, Micromuseum, Fournos Center for Art and Technology,
Athens (cat.)
Festival Computer Space, Sofia
Rostopasca insert in Context Network, 49 Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavilion (cat.)
Lex Luthor Found Projects, Periferic Biennial, Iasi
Virtual Mine, Saarland, Germany(cat.)
Video Lounge Festival, Outer Limits, New York
Transcafe, New Gallery, Bucharest
Rostopasca, Atelier 35, Bucharest
2000
Transitionland, National Museum of Art Bucharest (cat.)
Rostopasca Alliance, Czech Center, Bucharest
Argos project, Vevey, Switzerland (cat.)
Transferatu, ifa Gallery Berlin, Rostemplation, (ifa Gallery Bonn, 2001) (cat.)
Bananas, performance -installation, Rostopasca Group, 5th Periferic Festival, Iasi (cat.)
1999
Totally Blinds, Rostopasca group performance simultaneously developed in Bucharest and Annart Festival, Sf. Ana Lake
