Biography

Anca Munteanu Rimnic

Born 1974 in Bucharest, Romania. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Anca Munteanu Rimnic graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Berlin, in 2001. She continued her studies at the Artcenter Pasadena with Mike Kelley and Jack Goldstein and at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA, with John Baldessari between 2002 and 2004.

Solo Exhibitions

2022
Die For Life (stage performance), Neumarkt Theater, Zurich, CH

2017
Simulanta, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Museum Villa Rot, Ulm, DE

2016
Lakta, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, DE

2015
Nest, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Charim Gallery, Wien, AT
Hodoronc Tronc, Wyspa Institut of Art, Gdansk, PL

2013
Lament, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Ugly Show for Blind People, Plan B Gallery, Cluj, RO

2011
X – Schule, HAU/Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, DE
Urbania, Schauspielhaus, Zurich, CH
Herbstkamp, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, DE

2010
Google Me Not, Thomas Flor Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE
Der Schalter, Theater Performance Piece, Schauspielhaus, Zurich, CH

2009
Anca Munteanu Rimnic, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Mentalitätsdiagnose, Prater der Volksbühne, Berlin, DE

2008
Exhibition, Fahnemann Gallery, Berlin, DE

2007
Babylon must Fal, cooperation with Jacques Palminger, Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
Who should I sleep with?, Kampnagel, Hamburg, DE

2005
Now I Can’t Find My Shoes, Korridor Project Space, Berlin, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
untranquil now, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
On Connection, Ephra Haus, Berlin

2023
In Touch, National Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, RO
International Sommerfestival, Kampnagel, Hamburg, DE
Papier & Klang, Paper Museum, Berlin, DE
My Rhino is not a Myth, Timisoara Art Biennial, Timisoara, RO
Lutnita Gallery, Chisinau, MD

2022
In Out And Out In, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, RO
Voyage autour de ma chambre, Bank of Culture Apollonia, Brasov, RO
State Of Hope, Timisoara Architecture Biennial, Timisoara, RO

2021
Invisible Cities. Imaginary Lands, Comenduira Garnizoanei, Timisoara, RO

2020
Amuse Bouche, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH

2019
The Principle of Migration, Foundation of the Arts, New York, US
It is up to the artists, Baba Vasa´s Cellar, Shabla, BG
Person, MuCEM Museum, Marseilles, FR
Bear Festival, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
End Of Future, Museo La Tallera, Cuernavaca, MX
PCF Paris Ex-east curated by Ami Barak

2018
More or Less, Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK
I don´t know, Societe Gallery, Berlin, DE
Performance Biennale, Buenos Aires, BR

2017
Per_formare una collezione #4, Museo Madre, Naples, IT
Notes on a Landscape, Kretzulescu Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Dejima, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
Profanation: Ghenos Eros Thanatos, Galleria Foscherari, Bologna, IT

2016
E´st Prologue, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE
Cabaret au Salon, Salon de Montrouge, Paris, FR
What´s the Riddle, Pi Artworks Gallery, London, UK
MonuMental Histories, Arcub Gabroveni, Bucharest, RO
Exhibition by 31 Woman, Philipp Pflug Gallery, Frankfurt, DE

2015
Come little Friend, Kulturstiftung Schloss, Agathenburg, DE
What we found, Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, FR
Timisoara Biennale, Art Encounters, Timisoara, RO
Chroma Key, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Videozoom, Sala 1, Rome, IT

2014
Brancusi Effekt, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AT
A few grams of red yellow, blue, Center of Contemporary Art Warsaw, Warsaw, PL

2013
Come, All Ye Faithful, Florian Seehofer, Zürich, CH
Salonul de Project, MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Bucharest, RO
Good Girls, MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Bucharest, RO

2011
Responding to the New Moon, Tanja Wagner Gallery, Berlin, DE
Dada Moscow, 4. Moskau Biennial, Moscow, RU
Merz World, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, CH
The Activity of Sound, Grieder Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Urbania, Schauspielhaus, Zürich, CH

2010
X-Schule, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, DE
Romanian Cultural Resolution, Electro Putere Art, Craiova, RO
An Image Instead Of A Title, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
Performance Program, Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin, DE

2009
Zeigen, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE
Nature, Fahnemann Gallery, Berlin, DE

2008
Hidden Treasures, General Public, Berlin, DE
Drawings, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin, DE

2006
Grupe 1, Gavin Brown Gallery, New York, US
Grupe 2, Mandrake Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2005
Ugly Show, Center of Contemporary Art Japan, Kitakyushu, JP
Center of Contemporary Art Japan, CCA Kitakyushu Artist in Residence, 12 months

2004
Put It In Your Mouth, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, US
Imaginary Is Potential, Sparwasser Berlin, DE

Awards / Scholarships

2022
Stiftung Kunstfond

2020
Stiftung Kunstfond

2005
DAAD Grant, Center of Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan

2003
Grant of the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, for Guest Studies at Cal Arts Los Angeles, USA

2002
Grant of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung for Guest Studies at Artcenter Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA

Bibliography

Publications

• 2023
  Art Encounters Biennal, ‘My rhino is not a myth. Art, sciene, fiction’

  2020
  Hatje Cantz, Museum Tinguely, ‘Amouse-Bouche’, ed. by Anja Müller-Alsbach

  2019
  MUCEM Musee des Civilisations de lÉurope et de la Mediterranee Marseille, ‘Persona’, ed. by Laure Lane, Editions du Mucem

  2016
  Vellant Publishers Bucharest, ‘Istorii MonuMentale’, ed. by Olivia Nițiș

  2015
  Distanz Verlag Berlin, ‘Anca Munteanu Rimnic’, ed. by Uta Grosenick

  2014
  The National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest & Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest
  ‘Dear Money’, ed. by Alexandra Croitoru & Magda Radu

  2013
  Imago Mundi, ‘Vienna for Arts Sake’, ed. by Peter Noever

  2011
  Hatje Cantz, ‘Romanian Cultural Resolution’, ed. by Alexandru Niculescu & Adrian Bojenoiu

  2008
  Fahnemann Projects Berlin, ‘Drawings’, ed. by Clemens Fahnemann

  2006
  The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, ‘Checkpoint Charley’, ed. by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni & Ali Subotnick

  2005
  Korridor Project Berlin, ‘Exhibition Magazine’, ed. by Sabine Schmidt & Fanny Gonella

Press

• 2023
  “Sala de marmura”,  Express Banat, May 2023.
  “Vier Fragen an”, FAZ, January 2023.

  2022
  “Periscop. Traversind spatiul oglinzii”, Observator Cultural, December 2022.
  Munteanu, Daniel Tudor, “Another Breach in the Wall”, Revista 22, November 2022.

  2020
  Douglas, Sarah, “There Are 60 Galleries at the Felix L.A. Fair. One of Them Doesn’t Exist”, Art News, February 2020.
  Schmitz, Rudolf, “Pizza essen im Umami-Raum”, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, February 2020.

  2019
  Koeberle, Susanna, “Neue Räume?”, Swiss Architects, November 2019.
  Damian, Vasile, “Opt artisti romani expun la Mucem din Marsilia (audio interview)” April 2019.

  2018
  Saval, Nikil, “Money for Sale, Heroin-Injected Lasagna”, The New York Times, August 2018.
  Centenera, Mar, “El arte argentino levanta vuelo en arteBA”, El Pais, May 2018.
  Alsonso, Rodrigo, “En constante crecimiento”, La Nation, May 2018.

  2017
  Vistrup Madsen, Kristian, “Anca Munteanu Rimnic”, Frieze, August 2017.
  Völzke, Daniel, “Berliner Galerie zieht um”, Monopol, August 2017.
  Acha, Gabriela, “Critic´s Guide”, Frieze, June 2017.

  2016
  Kobel, Stefan, “Da schau her”, Tagesspiegel, September 2016.
  “Auch Ritter werden mal schwach”, Braunschweiger Zeitung, September 2016.
  “Anca Munteanu Rimnic”, Weltkunst, July 2016.
  Schacht, Daniel Alexander, “Goslars geschlagener Ritter”, Hannoversche Allgemeine, May 2016.

  2015
  Barillà, Silvia Anna, “Proposta Artistica elevata ma transazioni sul fascia bassa”, Il Sole 24, September 2015.
  Brunner, Bettina, “Anca Munteanu Rimnic”, Frieze, August 2015.
  Vogel, Sabine, “Kurator, Collector”, DiePresse, May 2015.
  Bass, Astyaj Ghassemi, “Must-See Art Guide: Vienna”, Artnet, May 2015.
  “Interview with Artist Anca Munteanu Rimnic”, Vernisage TV, April 2015.

  2014
  Trenkler, T., “Grosser Bahnhof für die zeitgenössische Kunst”, Der Standard, September 2014.
  “Cover Image for the Art Berlin Contemporary”, Monopol, September 2014.
  Group, Rose Maria, “Finde die Kunst”, FAZ, September 2014.
  Ruthe, Ingeborg, “Im Fluxus schlägt das ewig junge Herz”, Berliner Zeitung, September 2014.
  Berner, Irmgard, “Der Bär im Kristall-Laden”, Berliner Zeitung, September 2014.
  “A few grams of red, blue, yellow”, Spike Magazine, Nr. 40, July 2014.
  Vogel, Sabine, “Der Brancusi Effekt”, DiePresse, April 2014.

  2013
  Finel Honigman, Ana, “Critics Picks”, Artforum, September 2013.
  Oprea, Adriana, “La mujer indocumentada”, Revista Arta, No. 10, p. 65-67, March 2013.

  2011
  de Artega, Alicia, “Diez obras imperdibles en arteBA 2011”, La Nation, May 2011.

  2010
  Roshani, Anuska, “Das tote Reh trägt blaue Puschen”, Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 2010.
  Mazenauer, Beat, “Die Auskunft als Orakel”, Nachtkritik, November 2010.

  2009
  Amdahl, Georg, “Schärfere Konturen”, Berliner Zeitung, April 2009.

  2008
  “Massenszene der Sympathiebekundung”, Berliner Zeitung, December 2008.
  “Frisch geklöppelt Jens Hinrichsen”, Tagesspiegel, October 2008.