The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest is glad to present the video exhibition SHE DEVIL, a show from a female perspective, run by Studio Stefania Miscetti in Rome from 2006 till 2009. SHE DEVIL is the name of a heroine in the Marvel Comics Universe Shanna the She-Devil and title of the famous 1989 Susan Siedelman film. In this circumstance it alludes, in a playful manner, to the diabolic and bizarre spirit with which the artistic experience investigates the day-to-day life. The videos represent the female points of view and place the various fields of the video art research in direct contrast with one another. The purpose of the initiative is to stress, at times using irony, at times realism, the collective consciousness on themes such as female identity, the body as repository of representation and meaning, and personal experiences on universal dimensions, even when the very intimacy of the artists is at the forefront of their works. SHE DEVIL proposes itself as an open platform towards new and different experiences. This short brochure (guide) escorts the visitor into the discovery of the 26 female artists, selected by both young and established curators. MNAC shows the past three editions of the screening: SHE DEVIL1 November 2006 SHE DEVIL2 November 2007 SHE DEVIL3 – March 2009 Curators:
Antonia Alampi, Simona Brunetti, Daniela Cascella, Gaia Cianfanelli, Dobrila Denegri, Tiziana Di Caro, Giulia Di Costanzo, Eleonora Farina, Maria Garzia, Maria Cristina Giusti, Caterina Iaquinta, Orsola Mileti, Cristina Natalicchio, Manuela Pacella, Cristiana Perrella, Elena Giulia Rossi, sybin, SSMM, Chiara Vigliotti.
Artists:
Alice Anderson, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Kelly Dobson, VALIE EXPORT, Nooshin Farhid, Oriana Fox, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Julia Kläring, Lucia Lamberti, Signe Lillemark, Loredana Longo, Annalisa Macagnino, Jenny Marketou, Amalgul Menlibayeva, Sabrina Muzi, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Lina Pallotta, Nordine Sajot, Erica Scourti, Federica Tavian Ferrighi, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Maddalena Vantaggi, Julia Weidner, Rona Yefman & Tanja Schlander, Mary Zygouri.
A sincerely “Good Luck!” for the future editions,
Eleonora Farina for MNAC
A true thanks to MNAC for having invited us to present an artists’ and curators’ “collective” work, born in 2006: SHE DEVIL, a confrontation field on feminine or better around the female side of perceiving and reacting to facts, to events, to feelings, to history. The opening at a so wide and different range of research was suggested by the will to offer to a common reflection works of artists, which can illuminate us on the reading of a world that seams today too big and too difficult to be understood and to be managed or, on the contrary, too reachable to be worthy of investigation. I think that today it is urgent the need of wondering about a common destiny: rights and certitudes, which seemed firmly acquired and definite, are always fainter and put in discussion and, if they are not imposed by the State (as in the case of repressive regimes), they are imposed by the variable and easily influenced climate of the art world with its, even if invisible, borders and mechanisms, mostly dictated by strategies and economy. Art is always the “last bastion” of individual expression’s liberty: let’s go on to train in the survey, in the research and in the confrontation, without the fear of the diversity, of the absurd, of the irony, of the seriousness, of the beauty.
Stefania Miscetti for all the artists and the curators Un vero grazie al MNAC per averci invitato a presentare un lavoro “collettivo” di artiste e curatrici nato nel 2006: SHE DEVIL, un campo di confronto al femminile o piuttosto intorno al lato femminile di percepire e reagire ai fatti, agli eventi, ai sentimenti, alla storia. L’apertura a un ventaglio così ampio e diverso di ricerca è stato dettato dalla volontà di offrire alla riflessione comune, opere di artiste e artisti che possano illuminarci sulla lettura di un mondo, che oggi sembra troppo grande e troppo difficile da capire e da gestire o, al contrario, troppo raggiungibile per essere degno di approfondimento. Oggi credo sia urgente interrogarsi su un destino comune: diritti e certezze che sembravano stabilmente conquistati e definiti sono sempre più labili e messi in discussione e se non sono imposti dallo stato, come nei regimi repressivi, lo sono dal clima variabile e influenzabile del mondo dell’arte con i suoi perimetri anche se invisibili e i suoi meccanismi dettati in gran parte da strategie ed economia. L’arte è sempre “l’ultimo bastione” della libertà individuale di espressione: continuiamo ad allenarci nell’indagine e nella ricerca e nel confronto, senza la paura della diversità, dell’assurdo, dell’ironia, della serietà, della bellezza.
SHE DEVIL1 14 - 25 November 2006
NOOSHIN FARHID
Invited by Daniela Cascella
She Wants Me To Go To Heaven single screen video, 2001, 16' The flat and seamless talk by Her is drowned in the sound of a typewriter, which erases the claims of the talk and reveals its monotony of tones and topics. He is sitting by Her, but his closeness is only an edited image: it's just the shell of his body that lies where it should. In fact, He only shows himself in a number of separated frames, and He talks about himself only when She is missing from the screen. And, by means of few, dry sentences (as opposed to the continual flow of her chattering) he expresses his own sense of displacement an emigrant to the UK from Iran, he's unable to find the right words: he begins to tell a story but can't take it to an end, he finds himself dealing the impossibility of a language which does not belong to him, yet he affirms the will to remain among the "Earthly People". Gestures, glances and words taken from the innermost soul because they are necessary, and only when necessary, against any prosaic excess of explanations.
JULIA WEIDNER
Invited by Dobrila Denegri
Keep On video, 2003, 8’33’’
A simple scenery, such as a walk in the park in a sunny day, or such as a futile attempt to burst into common’s people’s day-to-day life with a soppy American movie from the Sixties that invites to always be on the “solar side of life”. So it is the video of the young Dutch Julia Weidner: a series of mini-gag of passers-by are shooted in real time. Captured in a private and anonymous moment, they are suddenly interrupted by a witty and innocuous musical comment composed by the artist. This sound-track transforms every scene into a sort of sketch, which portrays a specific social condition with a subtle irony and with witticism and, at the same time, poses the question why contemporary art today can possibly deal with themes such as optimism and populism.
KELLY DOBSON
Invited by Elena Giulia Rossi
Blendie 2003 – 2004, video, 3’ Blendie is a video-performance that investigates with humour the relationship between man and technologies. A software created by the artist enables a blender from the Fifties, to react to the human voice, becoming an interlocutor that from time to time seems not to respond to the human stimulus, revealing an own consciousness. As the result from a long research in design, engineering and psychotherapy, Blendie belongs to the broader project “Machine Therapy”, the construction of empathic machines, as is the case of Blendie, opens up paths of reflection on the social response to the integration of technology in the day-to-day life of the post-industrial era.
LUCIA LAMBERTI
Invited by Tiziana Di Caro
girls+cars+guns series of three pieces, oil on canvas, 2006, cm 100 x 120 Main characters of these paintings are women, represented when they are attacked by defence instincts or amuck, drawing their guns against the enemy. An unknown enemy, because he/she remains out of the scene, so that the attention of the viewer is focused on female expression only, which is so pursed as far as monstrous. Lucia Lamberti's starting points are low definition movies, that she downloads from internet; first she selects frames, then she decodes it through painting. As the artist is faking the pixels, the patterns are vibrant, and female beauty is completely turned into anything else. The scenes are dynamic and worried, and the idea of female beauty's been distressed by rage, madness, fear.
SHE DEVIL2 12 - 17 November 2007
MATHILDE TER HEIJNE
Invited by Daniela Cascella
No depression in heaven 2006, 4’00’’ Courtesy: Arndt & Partner, Berlin / Zürich Some lines from an old folk song are slowed down to the point of becoming a shadow, a ghost presence which haunts perception. Alone, a female voice outlines the melody in a chiaroscuro, accompanied by sparse guitar notes and an ongoing buzz. A light bulb sheds a warm halo on the darkness of a hut; on the other side of the wall, whiteness in its infinite hues exists, stained, as a reassuring cover. The woman is slave and master of herself: a dummy which moves about, driven by mysterious forces, a vehicle unaware of actions which transcend it. "I am dead and no-one can tell". Among painted scenarios, and swaps of frame and counter-frame, reality is presented as a construction and fiction seems true to the point of touching nerves which we weren't aware of. Until our glance no longer knows where to rest, and we no longer know who the victim is, and who the murderer; who is Death, and who is the Maiden?
NORDINE SAJOT
Invited by Elena Giulia Rossi
Cantine & Co. 1998, 2’40’’ In the video Cantine & Co. a girl serves her family dishes of latex while an off-screen voice reminds our collective memories of school canteens. The accelerated rhythm of the action wraps the whole in a surreal dimension where personal experience merges with the collective. Nordine Sajot investigates the themes of food and body language at the table and their social implications using many means (from photography to sculpture to video) which are often connected to each other. Cantine & Co. is part of the Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1998) installation and was produced as a parallel narrative to a series of latex sculptures.
ALMAGUL MENLIBAYEVA
Invited by Giulia Di Costanzo
Steppen Baroque 2003, 11’ Courtesy: Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin A desert setting, as the empty steppe of Asia's centre, in which live a group of seven women who make unknown rituals. This is the topic of a video that the artist dedicates to her ancestors, in which the contrast between the structural elements of her work play a fundamental role. A wilderness and marked landscape embellished by fantastic architectures, meets the baroque style of the hats and the weaves of women whose faces remember the shape of the traditional totem; the slow and meditative movements of the heroines evoke the strong and violent movements of the male heroes of the past. A return of woman's identity, forgotten by stories and legends.
MARY ZYGOURI
Invited by SSMM
Symbiosis 2007, 2’ Running daily life in a large chicken shed requires strength of character so that everything goes as it should, in other words, un certain regard. However the videocamera vibrates, is knocked and falls over. The insolence of the bipeds.
ORIANA FOX
Invited by Chiara Vigliotti
Consciousness, Understanding ‘N’ Trust 2004, 5’50’’ Common run, women who gather to tell, confide a secret, find solutions to their problems or to those of another, destroy a myth that makes unsafe or talk to a simple state of mind. Every character is Oriana Fox and each Oriana Fox is one of us. The attention to scenic details helps to underline aspects of women world: resignation, reaction, understood. Laughing at us to learn to know ourselves, recognizing limits and insecurities but also merits and good points Not finding one’s alter ego? Mission Impossible!!
TRINE LISE NEDREAAS Forget Me Not 1
Invited by Cristina Perrella
2004, 5’36” What are we prepared to risk in our desire to fulfil our need for the admiration of others? How strong can the need to leave something behind and to be remembered at all costs be? Trine Lisa Nedreaas’s video is part of a series of three showing individuals demonstrating the potentially lifethreatening speciality which gained them a place in the Guinness Book of Records. In this mini-gallery of phenomena the sword-eater, the only woman, stands out for the authentically dramatic quality that her actions possess. The dryness and the classic composition with which the artist shoots her subjects does not contrast with the strangeness of the action, it reveals symbolic power, inevitability. Detached yet sensual at the same time, the woman challenges her body while penetrating it, she expresses the desire to go right through it and to deepen her relationship with it, to regain her ownership of it. The video is disquieting but not without humour; it communicates directly with the unconscious.
VALIE EXPORT Raumsehen und Raumhören 1974, 9’26’’
In Raumsehen und Raumhören, seeing and hearing space, of 1974 two video cameras and a mixer make possible a closed-circuit action that demonstrates not only the differences in the way the viewers perceive a person who is physically present in the room and simultaneously electronically reproduced, but also how the image is manipulated by its electronic conveyance. The camera zooms in and out, subjecting the performer's monitor likeness to permanent alteration. Specific synthetic sounds are linked to the picture.
SHE DEVIL3 19 - 28 March 2009
ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Invited by Cristiana Perrella
Croisée f crossing 2005, 5’ Courtesy: Galerie La B.A.N.K., Paris Religion often persists with the female body: it denies it, it wants it to suffer, overpower it, make it invisible. The young French-Algerian Zoulikha Bouabdellah reminds us of this with a gesture, taking care to leave a large margin of ambiguity in her interpretation: rejection and rebellion, exorcism and purification or a sacred act? The work of Bouabdellah frequently deconstructs and reveals preconceptions towards Arabic and Islamic culture, however her combination of humour and the element of surprise, allows her to approach crucial issues with a very light touch. Her videos are like short and pointed anecdotes: they go straight to the point, instantly communicating concepts while others would use a flood of text.
SABRINA MUZI
Invited by Gaia Cianfanelli
Tortures 1, 2, 3 2001, 10’ The introduced three-act video Tortures presents three performances by the artist: a woman who suffers abuse and resistance by a male figure. A woman who is denied her needs and necessities: the inability to speak, to see, to perceive and to interpret the world; the inability to have her own space because of who is occupying the territory, stating his power; the denial of the possibility to build in order to take care of one’s house, and the will of imposition which becomes spite. The cancellation of freedom’s expressions, along with the subjective and cultural identities, is still the limit with which the human being must confront in order to cohabit with one another.
SIGNE M. LILLEMARK
Invited by Eleonora Farina
Wind 2008, 46’’ The wind is blowing. The scarf is flying away. The gust of Wind breaks up the old, to open the doors to the interior turbulence of the young girl’s mind. Maybe the turbulence of the new. In the background is a typical Bucharest ‘bloc’ of houses.
ERICA SCOURTI
Invited by Chiara Vigliotti
Ghost Story 2006, 3’50’’ The title of the video is Ghost Story because it was written quoting book’s titles that tell of other people’s lives. Mostly celebrities that figure on covers in a sequence measured by the sound of adjectives and catchy sentences. Erica Scourti tells about herself this way, with the artwork clearly being a description of her life. A woman, a youngster, an artist, she borrows the voice of an actress packing a video-performance that is aware of the story. She deeply studied who has experimented before her: the verb visual poetry (Giuseppe Chiari, Wolf Vostell, Ben Vautier) and the English performance (Gilbert&George) re-editing all with devilish femininity.
JENNY MARKETOU
Invited by Elena Giulia Rossi
The War Prayer 2008, 4’ A woman, covered in a Muslim veil, is portrayed in the act of prayer. As the video progresses the image blurs and transforms itself into abstract compositions until only the woman’s outlines are visible. Her voice is replaced by the
buzzing of a fly, the only sound heard as the text of a poem appears and dissolves over the woman’s shape. The poem, written by Mark Twain in 1904 in reference to the Spanish-American War, was censored at the time and only published after his death. Those elements which gave us certainty of the woman’s identity as well as of the fact that she is praying with Twain’s words, are put into discussion by the word “Amen” with which the text ends, reminding us of the Christian prayer. The video opens up to a universal dilemma on the uncertainty of the nature of truth, an uncertainty suggested by the increasing blurriness of the initial image and of the texts.
LOREDANA LONGO
Invited by Maria Cristina Giusti
Explosion #15 / The Wedding Feast 2007, 1’35’’ Courtesy: Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milano Francescopantaleone ArteContemporanea, Palermo The tables are set, it’s clear that the guests are coming. Luckily, they are not here yet, otherwise there wouldn’t be that much to celebrate. In the project Explosion Loredana Longo arranges with meticulous care atmospheres in places and times, which are close to her but also belong to everybody: the dinner of Christmas eve, the honeymoon suite, a simple and cosy corner of the living room. But the familiarity of these images only lasts a few seconds, whereas fear takes over. Then the artist comes back, and she tries to gather together, with the same care, every bit and put it back in its place where it was part of a something, but she is aware that it will never be like it was before.
ANNALISA MACAGNINO
Invited by Simona Brunetti
Depil_azione_sentimentale 2008, 2’ 25” Pink and punk: between these two extremes takes place Annalisa Macagnino’s video which, quoting the Gina Pane’s famous performance Sentimental Action (1973), chooses to open her personal, intimate ritual of transformation to the public. The result, halfway between the Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty and the video clip language, is a concentration of black humour, cyber aesthetics and symbolic aspects connected to the new obsessions for the body and for the cult of an always aseptic and stylish beauty. Assaulted, lacerated, violated, the skin exposes its pores to the world, becoming the visible and provocative manifestation of the outrage that the body has decided to endure in order to continue to make sense out of it.
ALICE ANDERSON
Invited by sybin
The Doll’s Day 2008, 10’ An artist with a mysterious imagination, Alice Anderson makes sculptures, photographs and videos that are defined by the presence of characters who echo the beauty of despair and the intensity of memory. Like robots, such characters behave in a cold and distant manner. By transforming into a doll, Anderson also becomes one of these characters, and thus also positions herself as one of the artworks’ many protagonists. The video The Doll’s Day is a “fairytale” that re-interprets the concepts underlying the search for personal identity, in this case obtained through a violent liberation from the parental - particularly maternal - grip.
MADDALENA VANTAGGI 3menda_mente 2006, 4’41’’
Invited by Manuela Pacella
Our every day mask draws itself in the private of our thoughts, in the surreal scenery of our mind where we dance according to the rhythm of an intimate and cathartic soundtrack, free from our and others judgment, unaware of the real context where it is: this is the simple message that develops during the three acts of the video. The artist doesn’t have a peculiar interest for the technique quality of the chosen medium, but she makes the video as a vehicle of her meaningful needs tinged with healthy irony. The black and white alternation with the colour, emphasizes the difference between reality and creative freedom which, once stopped in the silence, unveils the fraud of a world without a face.
RONA YEFMAN & TANJA SCHLANDER
Invited by Atonia Alampi
Pippi Longstocking 2006. The strongest girl in the world at Abu Dis 2008, 3’30” The famous red-haired heroin Pippi Longstocking is struggling with a new and inedited feat: to succeed in opening a gap in the Israeli separation wall constructed in the West Bank. In this video created in collaboration between the Israeli artist Rona Yefman and the Danish artist Tanja Schlander, the young woman becomes an Antiauthoritarian symbol while trying with all her forces to neutralize the “weight” of the wall, not caring about the consequences that her gesture could generate. Both disquieting and comical, this work highlights the need to overcome, through the will of individuals, the atrocities caused by political and cultural conflicts.
FEDERICA TAVIAN FERRIGHI
Invited by Caterina Iaquinta
Puttane (Whores) 2008, 13’ The video is a work in progress where women tell about other women who left their mark in myths, history, religion and art. Pandora, Malinche, Eve, Yoko Ono are linked, notwithstanding their different centuries, by imponderable and “undisciplined” ways of behaving that make them unpredictable and heroic. The story is always the same: when a woman takes control of a situation she becomes the bearer of ruin and destruction. This changes them into negative heroines of diabolic appearance and, even if they are endowed with good intentions and spirit, despite their aim is sharing and finding a point of contact, they are involved in mechanisms that the official history judges negatively. Their small and big deeds just become the body of evidence.
JULIA KLÄRING
Invited by Maria Garzia
Re-move. A re-consideration of movement 2008, 4’ Movement of the body and bodies. How is movement socially produced and which elements influence it? How is movement made possible or restricted? A performative mapping by the artist is related to elements that evolved from a web research for moving images and questions on cyber-spaces, technology and the human body, nature and culture, with a focus on the notion of femininity. Video images of performances, documentaries and art projects, found on the Internet, were re-activated through this new actuation and the far reaching notion of movement is reconsidered through technological possibilities and ongoing political questions.
ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA
Invited by Cristina Natalicchio
Headache 2008, 11’37’’ A female figure confronting the black abyss. It is not, however, the usual black background, rather a magnetic inside of black hole, the perfect space of non-existence. The film is an attempt to put life in order again, a
sophisticated, existential choreography, which at each moment strikes a different stylistic tone: grotesque animation, surrealistic phantasmagoria, corporal play reminding us of experiments in body art. The dance pantomime is taking place and tells us the story of self-destructive impulses of the body, the story that reaches its conclusion with a deceptive happy end.
LILIBETH CUENCA
Invited by Orsola Mileti
The Artist’s Song 2007, 4’ Dressed as a novel living sculpture – wearing pedestal-like shoes and white artificial limbs - Lilibeth Cuenca wanders around in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen, surrounded by masterpieces. She dances and sings, as if she were in a music video. She tells us the cliché of contemporary art and she keeps on quoting artists and facts that have made recent art history, dealing especially with the role of the artist. Within the dancing rhythm of the song, she draws an irreverent and ironic fresco of the mechanisms and ambitions connected to the contemporary art scene.
Special guest:
LINA PALLOTTA
Invited by Chiara Vigliotti
shouting in the dark, 2009 series of seven black and white photographs, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a famous non - profit cultural organization in New York (East Village), which since 1980 has become a place of meeting and exchange for underground¹s most significant American poets and intellectuals who gathered for presenting to the public their literary works. The Nuyorican was founded in 1973 by Puerto Rican writer and poet Miguel Algarin in the living room of his apartment and after two years was transferred to a public place. The meetings took place as a real individual perfomances and at the end of each event, was declared a winner. From 1992, Lina Pallotta has documented with her photographs, the Nuyorican cultural activity and Shouting in the Dark (2009) is an extract from this long work. Specifically for SHE DEVIL will be exhibited a project of seven, black and white, female’s portraits. All women that, in those years, have driven with strength and courage the New York cultural life.
ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES Alice Anderson was born in London (UK) in 1976. She lives and works in London. Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2009 – The Doll’s Day, Artprojx Space, London (UK); 2008 – Miroir Miroir : Emmurée, Musée Marc Chagall, Nice (FR). Group shows: 2009 – Voo Doo, Riflemaker, London (UK); 2008 – Peur et Desir, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR); Hbox, Tate Modern, London (UK); 2006 – Art Unlimited / Art Film, Art Basel, Basel (CH).
Zoulikha Bouadbellah was born in Moscow (RU) in 1977. She lives and works in Paris (FR). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2008 - Silence, Galerie 52’13’’, Berlin (DE); 2007 – Bleu Blanc Rouge... and other colours, La B.A.N.K, Paris (FR); 2006 – Mutation, La Lettre Volée, Brussels (BE); 2005 – Zoulikha Bouabdellah, IZIKO, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (ZA). Group shows: 2008 – Turin Triennial, Turin (IT); 2007 – “7ème Biennale de Bamako”, Mali (ML); Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); 52nd Venice Biennial, African Pavillion, Venice (IT); 2005 – Africa Remix, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); Hayward Gallery, London (UK); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP).
Lilibeth Cuenca was born in Manila (PH) in 1970. She lives and works in Copenhagen (DK). Selected Exhibitions - Solo shows: 2008 - Mis United, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö (SE); A Void 3 & Mis United, Renwick Gallery, New York (USA); 2007 - A Void 1, Kirkhoff Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK). Group shows: 2009 - re-act-feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE); 2008 - In Transit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE); Perform History, Aahus Kunstbygning, Aarhus (DK); U–Turn, Kvadrianale, Copenhagen (DK); 2007 - Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York (USA); About Time, Aalborg Kunstmuseum, Aalborg (DK).
Kelly Dobson lives and works in the USA. Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: Cornell University's Olive Tjaden Gallery. Group shows: 2008 - Untethered, Eyebeam, New York (USA); 2005 – Scope Art in New York, New York (USA); 2005 - Goldsmiths College, London (UK); 2004 - Millennium Museum, Beijing (CN); 2004 – ISEA, Helsinki (FIN) and Tallinn (EST); 2001 - The MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA); 2000 - Witte de With Rotterdam (NL).
VALIE EXPORTs artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions,Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, VALIE EXPORT. DER SCHMERZ DER UTOPIE/THE PAIN OF UTOPIA. La Biennale di Venezia 2007. 52nd International Art Exhibition think with the senses. feel with the mind. art in present tense. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria., Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festiva; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sidney, New York, etc Nooshin Farid was born in Tehran (IR). She lives and works in London (UK). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2007 - Borderline, E:vent Gallery, London (UK); 2004 - SPACE at The Triangle, London (UK); 2000 - The Centre of Attention, London (UK). Group shows: 2009 - Do Something Different, The Barbican Centre, London (UK); 2009 - 16 hours, screening and talk, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (UK); 2008 - Rencontres Internationales, Nouveau Latina, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Centre Pompidou and Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR); 2008 - videoist 2010, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, Kartal Culture Centre, Istanbul (TR); 2007 - Videoist, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul (TR). Oriana Fox was born in New York (USA) in 1978. She lives and works in London (UK). Selected exhibitions Solo show: 2006 - play: special edition volume 8 - Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust Kunsthalle Wien (Halle 1, Halle 2 im MQ), Vienna (A). Group show: 2007 - e-flux video rental, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris (FR); e-flux video rental, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (USA); 2006 - e-flux video rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX (USA); Beauty and the Beast, Fieldgate Gallery, London (UK); Video Cocktail, Tate Modern, London (UK); 2005 - Biennale! - Film and Video Exhibition, BizArt, Shanghai (CN).
Aneta Grzeszykowska was born in Warsaw (PL) in 1974, where she currently lives and works. Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2009 - Raster gallery, Warsaw (PL); 2008 - Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (IT); Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz (AT); Karlskorona Kunsthaus, Karlskorona (SE); 2007 - Photomonth, Cracow (PL); Polnisches Institut, Düsseldorf (DE); 2006 - Polnisches Institut, Berlin (DE); Robert Mann Gallery, New York (USA). Group shows : 2008 – Videozone, Centre for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv (IL); Transfotografia, Gdansk; Noleftovers, Kunsthalle Bern (DE); Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Center, London (UK); 2007 Reality Effect, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL); Anachronism, Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE); 2006 - 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE). Julia Kläring was born in Vienna (A) in 1978, where she currently lives and works. Selected exhibitions: 2008 Salon fauxpas brutal, Brut/Künstlerhaus, Vienna (A); diskurs-festival: cyborgs crossing, Performance-Festival, Giessen (DE); 2007 – Art-E-conomy at Challengers! LOM, Venice (IT); Private Dancers. Labour-FreedomSecurity, Galerie O3ONE, Belgrade (RS); 2005 – April Meetings. Academy of Fine Arts Beograd meets Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, SKC Belgrade (RS); Medialisierung |Arbeit | Spatialisierung | (Re)Politisierung (Medialisation | Work | Spatialisation | (Re)Politisation), FLUC, Vienna (A). Lucia Lamberti was born in Salerno (IT) in 1973. She leaves and works in Capriglia (IT). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2009 - Prénom Vincent – Vincenzo, Consolato Italiano a Bruxelles (B) (upcoming); 2005 - Smokers, Picagallery, Naples (IT); 2003 - Plog, Zen, Salerno (IT); 2000 - Bodies, Galleria Liolà, Terrasini (IT). Group shows: 2009 – Un altro nastro per Krapp, Interno 22 Gallery; 2008 - Premio Terna 01: l’arte si sposta dal Museo alle Piazze, Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome (IT); Fresco Bosco, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula (IT); Finis Terrae, Castello dell’Abate, Castellabate (IT); 2007 - Atelier 07, Fondazione Orestiadi, Gibellina (IT); 2005 – Finalist Premio Celeste, Magazzini del Sale, Siena (IT); 2003 - Giallo Mimosa, FRAC (Fondo Regionale per l’Arte Contemporanea), Baronissi (IT); 2002 - ArtMiami, Miami Beach Convention Center, U.S. (Galleria Docci, Forte dei Marmi - Siena); 2000 - Young Artists, Galleria Verrengia, Salerno (IT). Signe M.Lillemark was born in Copenhagen (DK) in 1982. She lives and works in Bucharest (RO). Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2008 - Price at the “Experimental Film Festival”, National University of Arts, Bucharest (RO). Projects: 2008 - VJ-ing and art director for the dance performance FRIHED!? with the dance group MomAndDad, Copenhagen (DK); Invisible and Wind, “FFEST Film Festival”, Cluj-Napoca; Set design and camera operator at the short film “the Palm Lines” by George Chiper; Mentionable price for set design at the film festival “Cinemaiubit”, Bucharest (RO). Loredana Longo was born in Catania (IT) in 1967, where she currently lives and works. Selected exhibitions Solo shows and performances: 2008 – Explosion #17 Happy New Year, Teatro Festival Italia, Naples (IT); Cover, Galleria Traghetto, Rome (IT); 2007 – Explosion #15 / The Wedding Feast, “Festival Drodesera”, Trento (IT); Explosion #14 Honey Moon, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan (IT); 2006 – Explosion #8 Sweets, Galleria Francescopantaleone arteContemporanea, Palermo (IT); Double 1 #1 / Happy Birthday, Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam (NL); 2005 - Involved, Giardini della Biennale – 51a Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (IT). Group shows: 2008 - Tina B, “The Prague Contemporary Art Festival”, Praga (CZ); Il corpo in movimento, Museo Pecci, Prato (IT); Abbracadabra, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid (ES); 2007 – Shanghai 2007 MilanoMadeinDesign, Shanghai Duolum Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (CN); Il paesaggio mobile del nuovo design italiano, Triennale di Milano (IT). Annalisa Macagnino was born in Tricase (IT) in 1981. She lives and works in Lecce (IT). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2006 – A girl like me, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja, Lecce (IT); 2004 - Disegni segni grafie, Fondo A. Verri, Lecce (IT). Group shows: 2007 - Ius primae noctis, Castello D’Ayala Valva, Carosino (IT). Jenny Marketou was born in Athens (GR) in 1954. She lives and works in New York (USA). Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: Solo-project, International ART PULSE, New York (USA); Off-White, The Black Box,
ARCO06 Art Fair, Madrid (ES). Group shows: 2008 – Dans La nuit, des images, Le Grand Palais, Paris (FR); Worlds on Video, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fondazione La Strozzina, Florence (IT); 2008 – 2007 Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt (DE); 2006 – ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologien, Karlsruhe (DE); 2004 – Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid (ES). Almagul Menlibayeva was born in Kazakhstan in 1969. Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2007 - On the road, galerie davide gallo, Berlin (DE); 2004 - Steppen Baroque, video and painting, Alma-Ata the gallery, Almaty (KZ); 2003 - Rudolff gallery mix. media, Amsterdam (NL); Arttra gallery, video and mix. media, Amsterdam (NL). Group shows: 2007 - Performance Peristan for the opening of Venice Biennale 52, Central Asian Pavillon, Venice (IT); Time of the Storytellers, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (FIN); Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES). Sabrina Muzi was born in San Benedetto del Tronto (IT) in 1964. She lives and works in Bologna (IT). Selected exibitions – Group shows: 2009 – Except, ArteFiera, Bologna (IT); 2008 – Container Project osservatoriolaboratorio mobile di arte pubblica, Bologna (IT); “VideoAttitudes” International Festival Corps et Territoires, Amiens (FR); “Catodica” Loving too, Teatro Miela, Trimestre (IT); Videa2, Siena-Ferrara (IT); Appunti#2, CIAC Centro Internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea, Genazzano, Rome (IT). Trine Lise Nedreaas was born in Bergen (N) in 1972. She lives and works in New York (USA) and Berlin (DE). Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2007 - GalleriBrandstrup, project room, Oslo (N); Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR); AR contemporary, Milan (IT); LUXE gallery, New York (USA); Profil, Stavanger, Rogaland Kunst Museum. Group shows: 2007 - Gjensyn og fremtiden, Vigelands Museet, Oslo (N); REALITY CROSSINGS, 2nd International Photo Festival, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ludwigshafen (DE); Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples (IT); Arts Grant, Kunstnernes Hus, Royal Caribbean, Oslo (N); Into Me /Out of Me, MACRO, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Rome (IT). Lina Pallotta was born in S. Salvatore Telesino (IT) in 1955. She lives between New York (USA) and Rome (IT). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2009 – Basta lavorare e morire sul confine messicano, Mole Vanvitelliana Ancona (IT); Palazzo Tursi, Genova (IT); 2008 - Maschio Angioino, Naples (IT). Group shows: 2009 - I bought me a cat , MICAMERA - Photography And Lens-Based Arts, Milan (IT); 2006 - The World in a Picture/The World in a Borough, Queens Museum of Art, New York (USA); Azido Gallery, San Francisco (USA). Nordine Sajot was born in France in 1975. Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2007 - Ex voto multiplo07, Galleria container, Rome (IT); 2006 - M3 c/o Careof, Milan (IT); Cultura Fisica, Museo Laboratorio Università La Sapienza, Rome (IT); Gorni/Sajot, Museo PAV, 19°edizione Festival “Time in Jazz”, Berchidda (IT); 2005 - Cultura Fisica, Villa Capriglio, Turin (IT). Group shows: Falso Movimento, CIAC Centro internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea Castello Colonna, Genazzano (IT); Gemine Muse, G.A.I.; Il Silenzio è d’oro, Chiostro di S.Giovanni, Teramo (IT); 2006 - Catodica 2, Galleria LipanjePuntin, Trieste (IT). Erica Scourti was born in Athens (GR) in 1980. She lives and works in London (UK). Selected exhibitions: 2009 – Zero de Conduite, Elevator Gallery, London (UK); Sasion Video ‘Different Horizons’ Programme, Ecole des Beaus Arts Valenciennes, Valenciennes, (FR); 2008 – Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC (CA); Roxy/NoD, Prague (CZ); The Whole World tank.tv, London (UK); 2007 – Videonale 11 selection, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES). Federica Tavian Ferrighi was born in Lendinara (IT) in 1976. She lives and works between Padua and Milan (IT). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2008 - Limina Architetture, 1,2,3,4, Maria Sorgato Cultural Centre, Noale, Venice (IT). Group shows: Seek Refuge, Mestre, Venice (IT); 2007 – Living with a Monument, Galleria Reciclarte, Pamplona (ES); Cool under pressure Pandora, Placentia Arte, Piacenza (IT); 2006 – Dreams and Nightmares, Viafarini, Milan (IT).
Mathilde ter Heijne was born in Strasbourg (FR) in 1969. She lives and works in Berlin (DE). Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2007 - Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA (USA); Currents, Beijing, (CN); 2006 - No depression in heaven, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE); Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (DE); 2005 - BASE 103, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (DE); Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA (USA); Forgetting, Hospitalhof Stuttgart (DE); 2004 - Kunstverein, Hannover (DE); Fuck Patriarchy!, Viafarini, Milan (IT). Maddalena Vantaggi was born in Gubbio, Perugia (IT) in 1981. She lives and works in Gubbio. Selected exhibitions - Solo shows: 2008 - Impasse, Galleria AOC F58, Rome (IT); 2007 - Raccordi d’autore, SAIE, Bologna (IT). Group shows: 2009 - GAE#0, Giovani Artisti Eugubini, Palazzo Pretorio, Gubbio (IT); 2008 - 92ma Collettiva Giovani, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (IT); Social art Praxis, Principle Hope, Manifesta7, Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto (IT); London Biennale, Opening 2008, Paris (FR); 2007 - Open#0, Magazzini del Sale, Venice (IT); 2007 - Progetto Biennale d’Arte 2007, Arsenale, Venice (VE); 2006 – “Monza New Media Festival”, Monza (IT); 2005 – Design Possivel, OCA, San Paulo (BR).
Rona Yefman was born in Tel Aviv (IL) in 1972. She lives and works between Tel Aviv and New York (USA). Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2009 – Armory Show Art Fair, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, New York (USA); 2006 - 2 Flags, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv (IL). Group shows: 2009 - 2009 Tel Aviv time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IL); The Age of a different Re-Action, Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin (DE); 2008 Can Art do more? Art Focus #5, Jerusalem (IL); MFA First year show, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York (USA); 2007 - Infintu Et Contini Multiplex, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York (USA); 2006 - InsideOut, Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum Marco, Vigo (ES). Julia Weidner was born in Neuburg an der Donau (DE) in 1977. She lives and works in Vienna (A). Selected exhibitions: 2008 - smitten (Performance) in 3raum Anatomietheater and im_flieger WUK, Vienna (A); 2007 Amorphose (Performance) in 3raum Anatomietheater, Vienna (A), Esperanto in Brick 5, Vienna (A); 2006 - Real Presence 2006, Belgrad, Büdelsdorf near Hamburg, International Exhibition Nord Art. 2005 - Ladyfest Vienna, filmfestival, in Schikaneder Kino, Raum 35 Vienna (A); auswahl 05, Kunstforum Ebendorf Raumacht, Vienna (A); 2004 - Experimental Video Art: exhibition by Thai, British, German, Austrian, Norwegian young artists, Video, K.M.I.T.L; 2003 - saw between the lines, Klaus Engelhorn Galerie 20, Vienna (A); 2002 - Soziale Skulptur, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (A). Mary Zygouri was born in Athens (GR) in 1973. She lives and works in Athens. Selected exhibitions – Solo shows: 2005 - Hacking Reality, Intervention - Performance at the Theatre Square, collaboration-participation with the Cleaning Public System of Athens (GR); 2003 - Way out, Photographs-videos-performance, gallery The Apple, Athens (GR); 2001 - Room-Anteroom, Installation-video Projection in the "House-Space" of Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (UK). Group shows: 2007 - 4th Tashkent International Contemporary Art Biennale/ New: Illusion or Reality ,Uzbekistan; Evolution de l’Art vers l’ immateriel.Gallery EdiA, Bratislava (SK); 8 March : Festa della donna - Homage: Carolin Linding, Gina Pane. - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Calice Ligure (IT).
Studio Stefania Miscetti (Rome, IT) - Since the beginning of the activity in 1989 the gallery has worked to promote young and established Italian artists as well as to present artists internationally recognized as major protagonists of avant-garde movements which have marked contemporary history of art, in collaboration with Museums and International Institutes and Academies. Among the others: Hermann Nitsch, Nancy Spero, Wolf Vostell, Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono, Doris Bloom, William Kentridge, Orlan, Marina Abramovic, Michal Rovner, Michele Oka Doner, Leon Golub, Alfredo Jaar, as well as by international artists of younger generations such as Anya Gallaccio, Manfred Erjautz, Michael Kienzer, Smith /
Stewart, Eric Madeleine, along with Italian artists Fiorella Rizzo, Maria Lai and younger generation Italian artists Paolo Canevari, Giandomenico Sozzi, Adrian Tranquilli, Nordine Sajot.
SHE DEVIL ON TOUR run by Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome 30.03.2009 – 31.05.2009 Opening 30.03.2009 18h30 Graphic Logos © Gianmaria Mazzeo General Graphic : Giovanni Currado Editing: Cristina Agostini Photos: Humberto Nicoletti Serra Courtesy: Arndt & Partner (Berlin / Zürich), Galerie Davide Gallo (Berlin), Galerie La B.A.N.K. (Paris), Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst - Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Amsterdam), Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani (Milan), Francescopantaleone ArteContemporanea (Palermo). For the organisation of “SHE DEVIL on Tour” at MNAC many thanks to: Eleonora Farina, Raluca Velisar, Chiara Vigliotti Partners: Media partners: