Manuel Pelmuş (b.1974, Bucharest) lives and works in Oslo. He is an artist with a background in choreography and dance and investigates the idea of a live presence within the context of exhibitions, exploring the human body’s relationship to memory and the construction of history. He was awarded the 2012 Berlin Art Prize for performing arts, and he represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale in collaboration with Alexandra Pirici in 2013. His work has been widely presented at a number of international museums and biennales, including, Palais de Tokyo, MUNCH, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou Paris, Kyiv Biennale, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. He was a research fellow at the Academy of Fine Art Oslo and is currently head of artistic research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.