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Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova

Anetta Mona Chisa (born in Romania) and Lucia Tkacova (born in Slovakia) collaborate since 2000. They both graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and currently they live and work in Prague.



Solo Shows:
2010
Far from You, Karlin Studios, Prague
2009
Wager, galerie Collectiva, Berlin
Fair Sex, Hermitage Gallery, Chicago (curated by Zuzana Stefkova)
Footnotes to Business, Footnotes to Pleasure, Christine Koenig gallery, Vienna
2008
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (curated by Marius Babias)
Blondes Must Be Stopped, Purple Room, Rome
Romantic Economies, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2006
Everything is Work, Tranzit, Bratislava (curated by Boris Ondreicka)
Magical Recipes for Love, Happiness and Health, f.a.i.t. gallery, Cracow (curated by Joanna Zielinska, Magdalena Ujma)
Ortografio de Potenco, Futura gallery, Prague
2005
The Red Library, Jeleni gallery, Prague (curated by Gabriela Kotikova)
Videosomic, Space Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Juraj Carny)
2003
A Room of Their Own, Medium Gallery, Bratislava


Group Shows:
upcoming:
Erased Walls, Madiations Biennale Poznan (curated by Matthias Reichelt)
2010
Beyond Credit, Sanat Limani, Istanbul (curated by Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva, Luchezar Boyadjiev)
Over the Counter - The Phenomena of Post-socialist Economy in Contemporary Art, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (curated by Eszter Lazar, Zsolt Petranyi)
Videodrome, Autocenter, Berlin (curated by Aaron Moulton)
Curated by_Vienna 2010 / Art&Film, Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna (curated by Pierre Bismuth)
Starter - Works from the Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, ARTER - space for art, Istanbul (curated by Rene Block)
Gender Check, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (curated by Bojana Pejic)
The artist in the (art) society, Motorenhalle, Dresden (curated by Andrea Domesle, Frank Eckhardt, Michal Kolecek)
The Atrocity Exhibition, Feinkost gallery, Berlin (curated by Aaron Moulton)
While Bodies Get Mirrored, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (curated by Heike Munder, Raphael Gygax)
Cinema X: I Like to Watch, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (curated by Paco Barragan)
The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica (curated by Mira Keratova)
Formate der Transformation 89 - 09, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
History, Memory, Identity: contemporary photography from Eastern Europe, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
2009
Formats of Transformation 89 - 09, Brno House of Arts
Communism never Happend, Feinkost gallery, Berlin (curated by Aaron Moulton)
Until the End of the World, AMP Gallery, Athens (curated by Max Henry)
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (curated by Ruba Katrib)
Gender Check, MUMOK Vienna (curated by Bojana Pejic)
Totale Erinnerung, Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
Donumenta, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
Don't Worry It's Only Money, City Art Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
Der Schnitt durch die Oberflache legt neue Oberflachen frei, Temporary gallery Cologne (curated by Max Mayer)
One day I will be a Star, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Francois Mitterrand, Villeurbanne (curated by Christian Alandete)
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (curated by Martina Weinhart)
Working Memory, Tranzit, Bratislava (curated by Mira Keratova)
Art Unlimited, Basel
Things and Thoughts, Collectiva gallery, Berlin
2008
Young Artists' Biennial, Bucharest (curated by Ami Barak)
6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (curated by Vasif Kortun, Manray Hsu)
Manual CC - Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, uqbar, Berlin (curated by Marianna Dobkowska)
All about Museum, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Vladimira Bungerova)
Petit Histoires, Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg
EL Gabinete Checo, Czech Centre Madrid (curated by Susana Blas Brunel)
Do Something Different, Barbican Centre, London
L'Art en Europe, Domaine Pommery, Reims
The Way Things Are ... Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
Flowers of Our Lives, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (curated by Joanna Zielinska)
2007
GDP, M'ars Gallery, Moscow (curated by Kristof Kintera)
L'Europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (curated by Marius Babias)
Equal Opportunities, C2C gallery, Prague (curated by Ivana Moncolova)
Humor Works, Skuc gallery, Ljubljana
Public art Bucharest (curated by Marius Babias)
Bad Beuys Entertainment, Boling, Bruno, Chisa & Tkacova, collectif fact, Matsoukis, Mirza, PrŽvieux, Rungjang, Zucconi, Galerie West, Hague (curated by vvork)
Bio Power, Medium Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Zuzana Stefkova)
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (curated by Daniela Zyman)
GDP, Municipal gallery, Prague (curated by Kristof Kintera)
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
The Space Between, The Daryl Roth Theatre, New York (curated by Sara Reisman)
New Video Art from Central Europe: Art Power, RISD Museum, Providence (curated by Viera Levitt)
Locus Solus (talks of inanimate reason at the country estate), Myto, Mexico City (curated by Jennifer Teets)
"art world etiquette", ThreeWalls, Chicago (curated by Ruba Katrib)
The Collection, Trafo gallery, Budapest (curated by Nikolett Eross)
Partners in Crime, gallery MC, New York (curated by Sara Reisman)
Culture Clash, Bastard gallery, Oslo (curated by Geir Haraldseth)
2006
Transfer, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad (curated by Lydia Pribisova)
YVAA, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina
Arrivals>Slovakia, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Marketenderin. Giveaways und Performances, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Runaway, Space Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Juraj Carny)
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (curated by Daniela Zyman, Boris Ondreicka)
Shadows of Humor, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw (curated by William Hollister)
Keine Wunderkammer, Hit gallery, Bratislava (curated by Ivana Moncolova)
My Love is Dead, gallery Oel-Fruh, Hamburg (curated by Mira Keratova)
Innenansicht, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna (curated by Alberto di Stefano)
Frisbee, Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno (curated by Frantisek Kowolowski)
2005
The Artist With Two Brains, NAB - Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham (curated by Chris Hammond)
It Happenned Elsewhere, Vision Center, Cork
Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
Iconoclash, The Spitz Gallery, London (curated by Mira Keratova)
RE-SHUFFLE: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Art in General, New York
2003
Seconds, Open Gallery, Bratislava
Curated Shows:
2006
Man, Hero, Spirit, Machine, Medium gallery, Bratislava
2003
ERROR, Hit Gallery, Bratislava



Residencies:
2009 Chateau Trebesice, artist-in-residence program of Futura Gallery Prague
2008 F+F, Zurich, Pro Helvetia artist-in-residence program
2007 Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw, Visegrad Fund artist-in-residence program
2006 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York City


Awards:
2006 Oskar Cepan Award - Young Visual Artists Award Slovakia









Anetta Mona Chisa

Education/Experiences:
1994-2000 Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava 2001-2002 curator of the Synagogue - Centre of Contemporary Arts, Trnava
since 2002 assistant teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague, New media department

Solo Shows:
2006
How life imitates art, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle
2005
Kohabyt, Gallery G99, Brno (curated by Frantisek Kowolowski)
2002
Art for EU, Povazska gallery, Zilina (curated by Mira Putisova)
2000
What You Get is What You Get, Priestor gallery, Bratislava (curated by Juraj Carny)

Group Shows:
2009
Open Office, Aircraft Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Erik Binder)
2007
Designo Inferno, Karlin Studios, Prague (curated by Pavel Humhal)
Public art Bucharest (curated by Marius Babias)
2006
Autopoesis, Sovak National Gallery, Bratislava (curated by Zora Rusinova)
Fremdkoerper, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Office art, C2C Gallery Prague (curated by Zuzana Stefkova)
2005
Second Sight - International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, National Gallery, Prague (curated by Jiri Suruvka)
Kaleidoskop. Fiktionen von Kunst und Wissenschaft, Oktogon, HfbK Dresden (curated by Constanze von Marlin)
Women Dialogue, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan (curated by Eva Khachatryan)
2004
The Way like the World is, Turkish Bath, Iasi (curated by Matei Bejenaru)
E.U. positive, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin (curated by Matthias FlŸgge, Eckhart Gillen)
2003
PAL Fiction, Gallery Art Factory, Prague
The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Stadt in Sicht, KunstlerHaus, Vienna (curated by Henny Liebhart-Ulm, Anna Soucek)
Spheres of Valencies, Jan Koniarek gallery, Trnava (curated by Lucia Stachova)
Permanent Romanticism, City gallery, Bratislava (curated by Richard Gregor)
2002
281m2, V. Spala gallery, Prague
Upsidedown, Priestor gallery, Bratislava (curated by Juraj Carny)
1999
What You See is What You Get, Medium gallery, Bratislava (curated by Joanna Mytkowska, Jana Oravcova)
Park of the Future, Western Gas Fabrik, Amsterdam

Curated Shows:
2009
Capitalistic Communism, House of Art Brno
2007
Erik Sikora - I Already Know, What I'm Going to Make Art for, Jeleni gallery, Prague
Simple Living, Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
2006
What Went Wrong, Sound Studio, Semper Depot, Vienna
There could be Misinformation, Galeria UNA, Bucharest
2004
About:blank, Burundi display, Bratislava
2003
Escape: CZ, Synagogue - Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava
ERROR, Hit gallery, Bratislava
2002
Franz Pomassl - Permanent Sound Installation, Synagogue - Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava

Residencies:
2006 Quartier21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, tranzit.org artist-in-residence program
2006 CEC ArtsLink residency hosted by 911 Media Arts Center Seattle
1998 Euarca (European Art Camps), Waldviertel, Austria








Lucia Tkacova

Education/Experiences:
1997-2004 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
2003-2005 co-founder and director of gallery HIT, Bratislava
2005 co-founder and director of Gallery SINGEL, Bratislava
since 2005 teaching assistant at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava

Solo Shows:
2004 Casting, Space Gallery, Bratislava

Group Shows:
2006
Les Beaux Ideals, Synagogue Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava (curated by Mira Keratova)
2005
Women Dialogue, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan (curated by Eva Khachatryan)
2003
Media Factory, Pecs
Commentary, Vojtech Loeffler Museum, Kosice
Freizonen, Vienna

Curated Shows:
2005
Donaumonarchie, Billboart Gallery Europe, Bratislava
2004
Kvalita super no problem, MAK, Vienna
2003
Pretty guys, Gallery HIT, Bratislava

Residencies:
2010 Meet Factory, Praha, Visegrad Fund artist-in-residence program
2005 Cite des Artes, Paris