Olivia Mihălţianu b. 1981
Olivia Mihaltianu lives and works in Bucharest. The artist’s approach is related to cross-media and process-oriented projects involving video, film, photography, object-making, installation and performance. Usually long-term projects, the works follow various visual aspects related to personal identity and social life in different cultures, political and economic situations, in a global and local context, by questioning topics such as: the role played by the artist today, archetypal human patterns, re-contextualization, and alienation. Working with specific locations, from urban fabric to deserted beaches and from mountain tops to isolated islands, filtering everything through iconic images inspired by cinema, video-art and photography, by using historic cameras and cutting-edge technologies, is an attempt to move freely through time, personal perceptions and social expectations.
Selected Solo Shows
Cette histoire n’est pas fantastique, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
Cette histoire n’est pas fantastique at Foire internationale de photographie d’art – PARIS PHOTO, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Curiosa Section, Paris
Rewind, Hoast, Independent Space Index festival
Film-métrage, LOOP Barcelona, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Spain
Winyan Kipanpi Win, The Visit, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Winyan Kipanpi Win |The Woman Who Was Waited For, Zygote Press, Cleveland, USA
Winyan Kipanpi Win |The Woman Who Was Waited For, Factory, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
island / 7days, Galerie Centrum, Graz, Austria
Anyone But Me, Anywhere But Here, Contemporary Art Gallery, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
7-OLIVIA, HT003 Gallery, White Night of The Galleries, Bucharest, Romania
Selected Group Shows
Direct Exposure project in WeTransfer: Art and Politics in Appropriate Hands, Casa Artelor, Timisoara
Artistic Enquiries into Plants, Tranzit Bucharest, Romania
Persona, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille, France
Ex-east, The past and present stories of the Romanian avant-garde, the French Communist Party Headquarters in Paris, Oscar Niemeyer building, France
New Acquisitions, Contemporary Art Museum Athens (EMST), Greece
Frac des Pays de la Loire, XXXIIe Ateliers Internationaux du Frac, ‘Manufacturing nature / Naturalizing the synthetic’
D Platform Season @ Borderline, Iasi, Romania
D Platform Season 2, Victoria Art Center Bucharest, Romania
Life – A User’s Manual, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania
Out Of Place, 3rd Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhinn Valley, Israel
curated by_Edit Sasvari: Homage – Ideal or Patern?, Knoll Galerie Vienna / Budapest, Austria
White Night of The Galleries Retrospect – Memory Leaks, ARCUB, Bucharest, Romania
Time LOOPS, 7th International Experimental Engraving Biennial – Fabricated Histories, Fact and Fiction in Recent History, Bucharest, 2016
Une autre cité, Tranzit.ro/ Bucharest, Romania
55 Venice Biennale, Reflection Center for Suspended Histories. An Attempt, New Gallery, Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research, Venice, Italy
Good Girls, Memory, Desire, Power, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
A Tour of Romania in 7 Days, Club Electroputere, Bucharest, Romania
From the Backstage, Salonul de proiecte, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Situated Knowledge: I follow rivers of thoughts, Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research, Venice, Italy
Curated by_Ami Barak, Communism never happened, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
4th Young Artists’ Biennial Bucharest, Romania
where do we go from here?, Secession, Vienna, Austria
The Knot, The Promised City, Berlin, Bucharest, Romania
Wakefield Meadows, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
die welten neuzumachen, The Evangelical Church, Sibiu, Romania
Shifting identities, Romanian Cultural Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Transfer II, Schafhof-Europaisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
3rd Young Artists’ Biennial Bucharest, Romania
XIII Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Puglia, Italy
Social Cooking Romania, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
How to Build a Universe That Does Not Fall apart Two Days Later, Documenta Regensburg
Neighborhood, Visual Euro-barometer, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery 3/4, Bucharest
OverExposures, Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania
FEMiDOM, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania / Gallery Fisk, Bergen, Norway
Her Position In Transition/International Women Art Festival, Vienna, Austria
formate / moving patterns, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Residencies and Grants
Frac des Pays de la Loire, XXXIIe Ateliers Internationaux du Frac,’Manufacturing nature / Naturalizing the synthetic’
Cleveland Foundation – Creative Fusion: International Artist Residency Program, USA
AIR-Krems, Austria
Cultural City Network Graz Fellowship, Austria
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
Gulliver Connect, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Schafhof – Europaisches Künstlerhaus, Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
Openart, Eretria, Greece
Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris, France
Found Footage, KSAK, Kishnev, Moldova
Art Shakes the Politics, S. Lucia del Mela, Italy