Nita Mocanu

Date/place of birth: 05.03.1977, Arad, Romania

Lives and works in Arad

Contact: nita.stoica@gmail.com

Studies:

1995-2000 University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Graphic department

2000-2001 University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Photo-Video department 

SELECTED ART PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

2014
• Diary of a discussion on education and other things, Magma Contemporary Art Space,
Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania
• Diary of a discussion on education and other things, Conset Studio, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
• Dependent Artist Weekend, Arad, Romania
• Evasive diary, Kinema Ikon Serial/Season 1, Arad Art Museum, Romania
2012 
• European Travelers. Art from Cluj Today at Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest

2011

• BABY OB BOARD – exhibition, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sf. Gheorghe, Romania

2010

• INTERMEDIA 21 – Kinema Ikon - exhibition, Arad Art Museum, Romania

• 7010 - Kinema Ikon Project -exhibition, Arad Art Museum, Romania

2009

• Feminisme- H.artaProject, Timisoara, Romania 

2008

• The Way Things Are…-Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection,  Centre of Contemporary Art Torun, Poland

• Transreport, Rathausgalerie, Munchen, Germany 

2007

• Social Cooking Romania, ICR Berlin, Germany

• Precarity & Media Activism, Broeinest, Amsterdam, Holland

• Neighborhood – daily practice of social values (Eurobarometrul Vizual project by CIAC), Timisoara, Romania

• Art Generator Urban Arts Festival,Performing Arts Centre Multimedia, Stip, Macedonia

• Humor Works by City of Women, Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2006

• F[acts]igures, Amsterdam, Holland 2006/2007

• Young Artists’ Biennial Bucharest, Romania

• Balkan Black Box Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

• Minority Logbox caravan part of the KÜBA: Journey Against the Current project

• PERIFERIC 7 Biennial, Iasi, Romania

• HER POSITION IN TRANSITION Women Art Festival, Vienna, Austria

• cARTfilm Video Documentary Festival, Iasi, Romania

• THE MASCA EVENT, Masca Theatre, Bucharest, Romania

2005

• VideoNight by Arteast Foundation in the framework of ALTER-NATIVE 13, International Shor Film Festival, Tirgu-Mures , Romania

• CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS IN ROMANIA (part II) by Simona Nastac ICR London, England

• Alert 7’ , Cluj & Vama Veche, Romania

• Simultan – Video and Media Arts Festival, Timisoara, Romania

• AV Motional , Tranzit House, Cluj, Romania

• SPAZI APERTI Accademia di Romania in Roma, Italy

• On Difference #1 Local Contexts-Hybrid Spaces, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein ,Stuttgart, Germany

• OFFSET [2004]

2004

• AV Motional, Toaca /CIAC Foundation, Bucharest, Romania

• Art High School Cluj, Romania

• Video Channel, Nuremberg, Germany

• “The Way the World is” by Vector, The Turkish Bath, Iasi, Romania

• Extra Curricula, Tranzit House, Cluj, Romania

• Vienna Days in Bucharest, Moving Patterns, The New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

• [R][R][F] 2004 ---&XP//VideoChannel//"Local connection "

• DISPLAY, Protokoll Studio, Cluj, Romania

2003

• Re:Location 2 - UAP Gallery, Vienna Confectionery, Cluj, Romania

• Re:Location 2 - O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

2002

• “Call me!” ATAS Gallery, Cluj, Romania

• Experiment Space 4, SPACE Gallery-CIAC, Bucharest, Romania

• Real Presence 2 , at Tito Museum by SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

2001

• The arbitrary censorship and the elegant compulsion hidden trough manipulation, Tranzit  House, Cluj, Romania

• In Vitro, The Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, Tranzit Foundation, Cluj, Romania

2000

• Clean Art- TRANZ-art in SITU, Tranzit House, Cluj, Romania

• Izmit Performing Arts Festival, Izmit, Turkey

WORKSHOPS, PROJECTS, RESIDENCES

2010

• ”Video and Communication - Media Education across the Curriculum”, Berlin, Germany- I attended the course trough a Comenius scholarship

2007

• Ladyfest Romania- I was one of the organizers of the event in 2007 in Bucharest, Romania

2006

• Eclectic Tech Carnival Timisoara Romania– workshops on open source free software/women hack lab; I was one of the organizers of the event

• METHODS II – Research projects on Art –Society Relations - ArteFiera Bologna Exhibition Center 27th - 29th January 2006 By Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and Artfactories

2005

• ZagrebDox, documentary film festival, Zagreb, Croatia - I attended the documentary film  workshop

2003 - 2008

• member of D Media (D Media is an NGO for independent media) 

2003

• Artists in Residence Program, 07 January - 05 March 2003 , O.K Centrum Upper Austria, Linz

• Managing Performing Arts across Europe, Sofia (co-production of The Red House for Culture and Debate, Sophia, Bulgaria and THEOREM, Amsterdam, Nedherland); I attended the cultural management seminar

2002

• Gasthof - students meeting in Frankfurt (University of Art), workshops, debates, Frankfurt, Germany

2000

• MEDIAWAVE Photo/Film camp, Rabapatona, Hungary

• TRANZ-art in SITU project, the rehabilitation of the public space, Tranzit House, Cluj, Romania

See also:

http://nitamocanu.blogspot.com