Catinca Malaimare
CATINCA MALAIMARE (b. 1996, Bucharest, Romania)
Catinca Malaimare is a Romanian-born London based artist. She received her MA at the Royal Academy School, UK. Malaimare’s choreography takes the form of performance, sculpture, audio and film, revealing our intimate relationship with technological tools. Using poetic, spiritual gestures, Malaimare facilitates ephemeral, fleeting moments which acknowledges our technological co-dependence. Malaimare contextualises her characters and their intervention with archaic technological elements and space in a multidimensional, continuous loop, even without their physical presence. Together the components of her installations and the performance play with time and metaphor, building on the artist’s ongoing observation of obsolete technologies.
Malaimare’s work has recently been acquired into the permanent collection of ING Global Art.
Photo: Mika Kailes
BORN 1996, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
EDUCATION
- 2022
- Postgraduate Programme, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- 2018
- BFA, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
MUSEUM & BIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS
- 2022
cross-border, Very Contemporary Performance Festival, Kunsthaus NRW, in partnership with IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
20th Biennial of Art Pančevo, refinery monastery, Pančevo, Serbia- 2021
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Collateral Event to Art Encounters Biennial, Casa Artelor, Timisoara, Romania
- 2016
What is the Future of Art?, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2023
ɣ and Ω hold hands, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Solo, Brooke Bennington Gallery, London, UK- 2022
Emergency Ex, RA Show 2022, London, UK
- 2020
- 22.200 LEDs, Another Mobile Gallery, curated by Robert Bajenaru, Bucharest, London
LO Sodium, ZIP exhibition, Agorama x Off Site Project (Virtual)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2023
The Picture, Brooke Bennington Gallery, London, UK
- 2022
Romanian Female Artists, Maverick Chelsea, New York, NY
STAYCATION, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru + SANDWICH, Bucharest, Romania- 2021
Dreams Made Flesh, Group show w/ Xavier Robles de Medina, Zoe Williams & Bruno Zhu, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020
- RA Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- 2019
- Landgrab, Group show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
- 2017
We Are All Involved In This Mess, Enclave Lab, London, UK
Prefix is post-, Lewisham Art House, London, UK- 2016
- Building a better world, curated by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé & Stefan Szczelkun, Farnham, UK
PERFORMANCES
- 2023
- Centrum, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
- 2021
- Seedy Pink, Sandwich Offspace, Bucharest, Romania
A Sight Better Than The Others, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania - 2020
- Two Screens Left Turned On At Night, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight II, Habeas Corpus (We Have A Body), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK - 2019
- It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight I, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
Bad sights. Bad Sights Ahead, Lecture Performance, 16 Nicholson Street Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Why not pour video into our eyes?, TUA Geidai, Tokyo, Japan
SUNs, STAMPEDE, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK - 2018
- It’s All Light Under These Neon Eyes, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
I am the System Master (No Signal), A Surrogate, Degree Show, Farnham, UK - 2017
- Intimaterial Symposium, Royal College of Arts & Techne, London, UK
SCREENINGS
- 2023
Emergency Ex, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, RO
- 2022
Emergency Ex, Somers Gallery, London UK
- 2021
- Eight of Clubs |♣|, PERFORMANCE DAY 3rd edition Festival, curated by Alex Mirutziu, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, RO
- 2020
- LO Sodium, Off Site Project (Virtual)
- 2018
Artists’ Film, SEED, Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Hastings, UK
Pilot Screens, PERICLO, Wales- 2017
- MONO, curated by Rafal Zajko, The Courtyard Theatre, London, UK
Working Press Archive, curated by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé & Stefan Szczelkun, Farnham, UK
RESIDENCIES
- 2023
- Centrum, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
- 2021
- STAYCATION, Symposium Residency, CTG Collective & SANDWICH Association, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020
- Agorama x Off Site Project, Raven Row, London, UK
- 2019
- Research Residency, Geidai Tokyo University of Arts, Sculpture & Intermedia, Tokyo, Japan
ART FAIRS
- 2021
- Hope Narcissism Takes Me Back, Textual performance, Immaterial Salon, ART
ORAMA (virtual)
AWARDS & GRANTS
- 2020
- Ivor Rey Travel Bursary, Paris, France
Ivor Rey Scholarship Fund, Artist Development Bursary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
PUBLICATIONS
- 2021
- Dreams Made Flesh, Booklet, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo, published on the occasion of Dreams Made Flesh at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery. Inspired by the Romanian tradition tăierea moțului
- 2020
- Feature, art, artist, curator, institutions in a local / global context…, b9 tranzit.ro
On The Road, Another Mobile Gallery. Published on the occasion of 22.200 LEDs curated by Robert Bajenaru
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
ING Global Art Collection
Catinca Malaimare at Club Are
Immersive club night performance
London, UK
Saturday, March 23rd