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        Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor

        artists, Bucharest

      1. Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor are artists who have worked together since 2000. Their artistic practice consists of film, photography, painting, performance, and site-specific projects. On the occasion of the FORMER WEST Research Exhibition Surplus Value at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (06.09–09.11.2009), Vătămanu and Tudor took part in BAK’s Research-in-Residence program in 2009. Previous residencies include: FRAC|Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque (2008); Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2008); Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2006); and Project Room, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2003). Exhibitions include: Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, 2016; Clinical Architectures for a Compositionist Future, CAMERA PLUS, Biennial of contemporary photography and moving image, Centrul de Fotografie Contemporană, Iași, 2016; Graphisches Kabinett, Secession, Vienna, 2009; Appointment with History, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, 2008; August, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, 2008; Living Units, Mercer Union, Toronto, 2008; and Re-animating the city, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 2006. Recent group exhibitions include: Liquid times, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2009; Pièces de résistance: Forms of Resistance in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, 2009; Nothing is worth more than this day, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, 2009; Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, 2009; Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2009; 5th Berlin Biennial, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, 2008; Art as Gift, Periferic Biennial 8, Iaşi, 2008; Like an Attali Report, but different. On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2008; Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, 2008; Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2008; Atomized, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam, 2008; Low-Budget Monuments, 52nd Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, 2007; The Building Show, Exit Art Gallery, New York, 2007; Der Prozess, Collective memory and social history, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, 2007; and How to Do Things? In the Middle of (No)where…, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 2006. In addition the artists regularly participate in numerous festivals, screening programs, and curatorial projects. Vătămanu and Tudor live and work in Bucharest. [Last updated 2017]


        MONA VA˘ TA˘ MANU and FLORIN TUDOR are artists who have worked together since 2000. Their artistic practice consists of film, photography, painting, performance, and site-specific projects. Exhibitions include: Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, 2016; and Clinical Architectures for a Compositionist Future, CAMERA PLUS, Biennial of contemporary photography and moving image, Centrul de Fotografie Contemporana˘ , Ias¸ i, 2016.