Ioana Neme\u0219 was one of the most prominent Romanian artists of her generation. She studied photography with Iosif Kir\u00e1ly at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. She was also a performance athlete in the national handball team until the age of 21 when, following a severe injury, she had to give up that career and chose to study art. The works and artistic research of Ioana Neme\u0219 were born from the need to communicate and visualize as clearly as possible the mechanisms hidden behind the visual, linguistic, and psychological systems that define us. The late artist had participated in major exhibitions such as the Istanbul Biennale (2009), U-Turn Copenhagen (2008), the Prague Biennale (2007), and the Bucharest Biennale 2 (2006). Her works have been exhibited at Art in General (New York), Secession (Vienna), Smart Project Space (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel), Royal College of Art (London), Salonul de Proiecte (Bucharest), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Triumf Amiria. Queer Culture Museum (Bucharest), Caixaforum (Barcelona), MNAC (Bucharest), Krolikarnia Sculpture Museum (Warsaw), Uj Gallery (Budapest), Goethe Institute (Sofia), Kim? (Riga), Bozar (Brussels), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), Trafo (Budapest), Drodesera Festival (Dro), Contemporary Art Gallery \u2013 Brukenthal Museum (Sibiu), Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160vestka Gallery (Prague), Wonnerth Dejaco Gallery (Vienna), Between Bridges Foundation (Berlin), and has appeared in publications such as 100 New Artists (published by Laurence King) and Romanian Cultural Resolution (published by Hatje Cantz). Ioana Neme\u0219 was also a laureate of the Future of Europe award from the Galerie Fur Zeitgenossische Kunst in Leipzig (2007) and was an artist in residence at Art in General (2011), IASPIS Stockholm (2010), Kulturkontakt Vienna (2004). Ioana Neme\u0219\u2019s artistic practice also included participation as a founding member in the activity of several collectives active in art, fashion, and interior design: Kilobase Bucharest (2010\u20132011), Apparatus 22 (2011), Rozalb de Mura (2004\u20132010) and Liste Noire (2004\u20132011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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