Nona Inescu

Relics. Quarries. Reliquaries., 2022

Litho/Swing, 2017

Nona Inescu (b. 1991) lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest.

She completed her studies in the summer of 2016 at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (Photography and Video Department) after studying at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London (2009-2010) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2010-2011). Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary and includes photography, installation, sculptures and video works. Based on a theoretical and literary perspective, the works focus on the relationship between the human body and the environment and the redefinition of this subject in a post-human key. The mediating properties of the body are rendered in several ways, projecting a translation of the world driven by affect, signaling its position as an interface between self and reality. Concepts of geological time and our intense interrelation with our surroundings compose an aesthetic of a primal contemporary togetherness in an organic and biological techno-sphere.

BORN 1991 IN ROMANIA
LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN BERLIN, GERMANY AND BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

EDUCATION

2016: National University of Arts, Bucharest, Photography and Video Department
2012: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Fashion Design Department
2013: Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023: Grey Gardens, Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Saint-Fons, FR
Offerings, KVOST, Schaufenster, Berlin, DE

2022: Relics. Quarries. Reliquaries, Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
2021: Waterlily Jaguar, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
Venus Trap, Fiac!, solo presentation with SpazioA, Paris, FR
2019: Corporealle, Künstlerhaus Bremen, curated by Nadja Quante, Bremen, DE
Verterberries, solo presentation with Sabot Gallery at Liste, Basel, CH
Acumen, Porcino, curated by Jesi Khadivi, Berlin, DE
2018: An animal that was once thought to be a plant that transformed into stone,
SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
2017: Lithosomes, Exile, Berlin, DE
2016: Conversation with a stone, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
Her latent image, Kube, Bucharest, RO
2015: Hands don’t make magic, Sabot Gallery, Cluj, RO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023: Matrix Bodies, curated by Frederike Sperling, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
rooted, AKINCI Gallery, Amsterdam, NE
Wannseewandeln, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin, DE
I constantly wonder what time it is where you are, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
DER BIO-ADAPTER, Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, DE
Gems for the Garden, curated by Adriana Blidariu, Botanical Garden of Bucharest, RO
State of Emergence, curated by Lesia Kulchynska & Catinca Tabacaru, NADA East Broadway, NY, USA
Mental Pictures, Import/Export, Warsaw, PL

2022: Plant Kingdom, Budapest Galeria, Budapest, HU
Aliens are temporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Devenir Fleurs, curated by Helene Guenin & Rebecca Francois, MAMAC, Nice, FR
Entangled Life: The Forest as Neural Network, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, RADIUS, Delft, NE
2021: You sit in a garden, curated by Chris Andrews, Centre Clark, Montreal, CA
Ducato Prize, Volumnia Space, Piacenza, IT
Electric Crossroads, curated by Radu Oreian, Bubble and Squeak, Brussels, BE
Harvest Home, curated by Veronika Cechova, AVU Pop Up Gallery, Prague, CZ
Under Pressure, curated by Living Content, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest, RO
How to be together, Art Encounters Biennale, curated by Kasia Redzis and Mihnea Mircan, Timișoara, RO Musikprotokoll, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AT
The Venus Trap, solo presentation with SpazioA gallery at FIAC, Paris, FR
2020: Flow, curated by SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
touch, Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
Olev Subbi: Landscape from the End of Times, curated by Àngels Miralda, Tallinn Art Hall, EE Walking In Ice, curated by Justin Polera & Jesi Khadivi, XC Hua gallery, Berlin, DE Pulse /ˈsɪstəm/, initiated by Leo Fourdrinier, Galerie L’Axolotl, Toulon, FR
2019: The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic, curated byAntonia Alampi, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Taking Root, curated by Jurriaan Benschop, Kunst Im Tunnel (KIT), Dusseldorf, DE The invisible inhale of an oceanic carbon breath, curated by Cristina Ramos, Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología, Zaragoza, SP
Rethinking the Image of the World – Projects and Sketches, curated by Cristian Nae & Adrian Bojenoiu, Le Mill, La Louviere, BE
Mutagenèse, curated by Nicolas de Ribou & Joris Thomas, Maison R&C,Marseille, FR
Interconnection: On Bodies of Water, curated by Veronika Čechová & Tereza Jindrová, Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia, BG
Imbroglio (or the ability to incorporate possibilities), curated by Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, IT
Tales of the haunted and the body, Casa Cristea Schneider, curated by Saskia Höfler-Hohengarten, Berlin, DE
What remains is what the poets found, PS120, curated by Jesi Khadivi & Justin Polera, Berlin, DE
2018: Manufacturing Nature / Naturalizing The Synthetic, curated by Diana Marincu, Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR
Sometimes I can see it all perfectly, curated by Alisha Danscher, Soy Capitan, Berlin, DE
Flood-Tide, Love Unlimited, Glasgow, UK
10 Years of Love, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
Blood, Stop, Space, Gold, curated by Diana Marincu, JosedelaFuente Gallery, Santander, ES
The Inhabitant, curated by Christina Gigliotti, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017: Life A User’s Manual, Art Encounters, curated by Ami Barak and Diana Marincu, Timișoara, RO
Becoming an Apricot.., Survival Kit 9, curated by Inga Lace, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Solvita Kresse, Riga, LT
Notes on a shell, curated by Tiago Abreu Pinto & Sergio Verastegui, Marseille, FR Monsone, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Grotto Capitale, Exile, Berlin, DE
Notes on the Afterlife, curated by Rokolectiv Festival, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO
Aerial Roots, Trapez, curated by Nikolett Eross, Budapest, HU
2016: Gestures of Tomorrow, Kunstverein Nuernberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, curated by Judith Grobe, Nuernberg, DE
Camera Plus. Biennial of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image I, Iasi, RO
The Disappearance of Technology, ODD, curated by Mircea Nicolae, Bucharest, RO Künstlich! Natürlich!, Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2015: Objects of Desire, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
14 × 14 – Survey of the Danube Region, MNAC Anexa, Bucharest, RO

RESIDENCIES

2023: Ad occhi chiusi… Fondazione Merz & ZACentrale, Palermo, IT

2022: Cite internationale des arts, Paris, FR

2018: XXXII Ateliers Internationaux at Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR

AWARDS

2022: Premio Ad occhi chiusi… Fondazione Merz & Artissima

2021: Ducato Prize for Contemporary Art

Control

Najax Harun, Nona Inescu, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Monica Mays, Rachel Monosov, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Oana Stanciu

Curated by Catinca Tabacaru and Raphael Guilbert

20 February — 23 March 2024

Goethe Pavilion, Calea Dorobanti 32

Control
Group exhibition with Najax Harun, Nona Inescu, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Monica Mays, Rachel Monosov, Chiedza Pasipanodya & Oana Stanciu.
Goethe Institute Pavilion, Calea Dorobanti 32
February 20 – March 23, 2024

NADA Miami
Miami: Dec 2-5, 2023
Nona Inescu, Rachel Monosov

Nona Inescu
Gems! for the Garden
Gradina Botanica, Bucharest
Sept 8 – Oct 31, 2023

Nona Inescu

Venus Traps, 2024

Offerings, 2023

Grey Gardens, 2023