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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 and Bratislava.
Solo Shows (selected):
2009
Wager, galerie Collectiva, Berlin
Fair Sex, Hermitage Gallery, Chicago
Footnotes to Business, Footnotes to Pleasure, Christine Koenig gallery, Vienna
2008
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Blondes Must Be Stopped, Purple Room, Rome
Romantic Economies, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2006
Everything is Work, Tranzit, Bratislava
Magical Recipes for Love, Happiness and Health, f.a.i.t. gallery, Cracow
Ortografio de Potenco, Futura gallery, Prague
2005
The Red Library, Jeleni gallery, Prague
Videosomic, Space Gallery, Bratislava
2003
A Room of Their Own, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Group Shows (selected):
2010
While Bodies Get Mirrored, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Cinema X: I Like to Watch, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica
History, Memory, Identity: contemporary photography from Eastern Europe, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
2009
Formats of Transformation 89Ð09, Brno House of Arts
Communism never Happend, Feinkost gallery, Berlin
Until the End of the World, AMP Gallery, Athens
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Gender Check, MUMOK Vienna
Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
Donumenta, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
Der Schnitt durch die Oberflache legt neue Oberflachen frei, Temporary gallery Cologne
One day I will be a Star, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Francois Mitterrand, Villeurbanne
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Working Memory, Tranzit, Bratislava
Art Unlimited, Basel
Things and Thoughts, Collectiva gallery, Berlin
2008
Young Artists' Biennial, Bucharest
6th Taipei Biennial
Manual CC Ð Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, uqbar, Berlin
All about Museum, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Petit Histoires, Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg
EL Gabinete Checo, Czech Centre Madrid
Do Something Different,ÊBarbican Centre, London
L'Art en Europe, Domaine Pommery, Reims
The Way Things Are, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
Flowers of Our Lives, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
2007
Grubi domachni produkt 2, Mars gallery, Moscow
L'Europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Equal Opportunities, C2C gallery, Prague
Humor Works, Skuc gallery, Ljubljana
Public art Bucharest, www.spatiul-public.ro
Bad Beuys Entertainment, Boling, Bruno, Chisa & Tkacova, collectif fact, Matsoukis, Mirza, PrŽvieux, Rungjang, Zucconi, Galerie West, Hague
Bio Power, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
GDP, Municipal gallery, Prague
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
The Space Between, The Daryl Roth Theatre, New York
New Video Art from Central Europe: Art Power, RISD Museum, Providence
Locus Solus, Myto gallery, Mexico City
"art world etiquette", ThreeWalls, Chicago
The Collection, Trafo gallery, Budapest
Partners in Crime, gallery MC, New York
Culture Clash, Bastard gallery, Oslo
2006
Transfer, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad
YVAA, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina
Arrivals>Slovakia, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Marketenderin. Giveaways und Performances, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Runaway, Space Gallery, Bratislava
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Shadows of Humor, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw
Keine Wunderkammer, Hit gallery, Bratislava
My Love is Dead, gallery Oel-Fruh, Hamburg
Innenansicht, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
Frisbee, Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno
2005
The Artist With Two Brains, NAB - Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
It Happenned Elsewhere, Vision Center, Cork
Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
Iconoclash, The Spitz Gallery, London
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
2002
Art for EU, Povazska gallery, Zilina
2000
What You Get is What You Get, Priestor gallery, Bratislava
Group Shows (selected):
2009
Open Office, Aircraft Gallery, Bratislava
2007
Designo Inferno, Karlin Studios, Prague
Public art Bucharest, www.spatiul-public.ro
2006
Autopoesis, Sovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Fremdkoerper, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Office art, C2C Gallery Prague
2005
Second Sight - International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, National Gallery, Prague
Kaleidoskop. Fiktionen von Kunst und Wissenschaft, Oktogon, Dresden
Women Dialogue, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
2004
The Way like the World is, Turkish Bath, Iasi
E.U. positive, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
2003
PAL Fiction, Gallery Art Factory, Prague
The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Stadt in Sicht, KunstlerHaus, Vienna
Spheres of Valencies, Jan Koniarek gallery, Trnava
Permanent Romanticism, City gallery, Bratislava
2002
281m2, V. Spala gallery, Prague
Upsidedown, Priestor gallery, Bratislava
1999
What You See is What You Get, Medium gallery, Bratislava
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
2005
Women Dialogue, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
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