Artist's Bio
Moncea Malina (b.1995) is a Romanian artist who works with an array of mediums like photography, video, object or sculpture, often intertwining them in installations. She examines themes such as urban mythologies and how they have infiltrated through popular ideologies the spaces we inhabit, the way we think about certain social and political topics and more often, how elusive and optically ambiguous, the fictions we play and reenact in our midsts are (any extension of our body or the internal experience that shapes us). Malina appreciates the eerie and uncanny aspect (as well as the aesthetic representation) of what lies beyond conscious thought and researches what part is fiction and what is objective truth in the liminality of the mind. “As an artist who continually seeks exploration and experiment, i think of the melange of mediums and concepts as a contemporary necessity, while entering the world of the “post”, because here lies everything beyond the limitations of labels, the greys, the misunderstood and the baffling”.
Education
2014-2017
Bachelor's Degree
George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Romania
2017-2019
Master's Degree
George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Romania
2019
Sorbonne ART University UVT4 Erasmus Scholarship
2022-Present
On-going Doctoral Degree
George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Romania
Selected exhibitions
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OBSERVATOR, Greenhouse, Iasi, November 2024 - January 2025
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Frozen Narratives: A Collection of Lived Moments, CAV Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, October 2024
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Contemporary Art Auction, Quadro Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June-October, 2024
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Venice Architecture Biennale, co-participation in the film ERGONOMICA through WASP, 2023
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Biennale of Contemporary Art, MoCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2023
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Collective Wall- Liminal Marks, National Art Museum of Moldavia, Chișinău, Moldavia, 2024
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Accelerator Mentorship, Fabulating about a Gelato Machine, Brașov Art Museum, 2023-2024
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MULTISPECIES, WASP (Working Artspace and Production), Bucharest and Tulcea, Romania, 2024
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EXPLORING PLUREALITIES, WASP (Working Artspace and Production), 2024, Bucharest, Romania
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Out Of Visible Time, National Museum Complex Neamt, Piatra-Neamt, May, 2024
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Shore Archives, CAV Gallery, Bucharest, December 2023
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Local (H)ours, Tranzit House, Iași, November 2023, part of GALLERY NIGHT
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Strategies of Disappearance, apARTE Gallery, Iași, September 2023
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Rise of Women, Committee de Regions, Brussels, Belgium, 8-10 February, 2023
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Working Title #3, MAGMA Contemporary Medium, Sfântul Gheorghe, March 2023
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Colectia viitoare/Future collection, January 2022, Victoria Gallery, Iasi, Romania
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What can Art do about It, WASP, Bucharest, September-November 2022
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Future Perfect #3, Magma Contemporary Medium, Sfantul Gheorghe, Romania, 2021
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Solo Show: Be the outside | looking in, Victoria Gallery, Iasi, Romania, May, 2021
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INTERSECCIÓN Festival, Coruña, Spain, 2020
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BODY SPACE: Citizenship and Territories, Comenduirea Garnizoanei, TimiÈ™oara, România, 2020
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YOUNG ARTISTS CONNECTIONS, MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest, România, 2020
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ArtiÈ™ti Împreună/ Artists Together, TIFF, Cluj-Napoca, Muzeul de Artă, 2020
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Solo Show: Indicative Correlation, Theodor Pallady Gallery, IaÈ™i, România, 2020
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Săpând în Oglindă/ Digging inside the mirror, apARTE Gallery, IaÈ™i, România, 2020
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Domestic Dissidence, Victoria Gallery, 2019, IaÈ™i, România
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Artsafari, „Young Blood. Arta timpului tãu” ,2019, Oscar Maugsch Palace, Bucharest, România
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Re-GENERATOR. Micro-festival de arte performative Residency and exhibition, 2019, Teatru Fix, IaÈ™i, România
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Street Delivery open-space exhibition, 2019, IaÈ™i, România
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ExpoziÈ›ia AbsolvenÈ›ilor, 2019, Victoria Gallery, IaÈ™i, România
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Post-photographic Narratives, 2019, WASP (Working Artspace and Production), Bucharest, România
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Dezarhivări, apARTe Gallery, IaÈ™i, România, 2019
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L'image Manquante, Sorbonne Pantheon UFR4 University, 2019, Paris, France
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Reprocessing memory, 2018, Victoria Gallery, IaÈ™i, România
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P.F.Artist – apARTe Gallery , 2018, IaÈ™i, România
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Camera obscura – Cupola Gallery, 2017 -IaÈ™i, România
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Along the Ruins, "Photo Romania Festival", SapienÈ›ia University, 2016, Cluj-Napoca, România
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EV > V –apARTe Gallery –2015 – IaÈ™i, Romania