Name: Andrea Faciu
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Year of Birth: 1977
She lives and works in Munich & on the road.
Education:
1997-2004 Academy of Arts, Munich, class Prof. Olaf Metzel, free sculpture, diploma
1987-1991 Art Lyceum „Nicolae Tonitza“, Bucharest
Solo exhibitions:
2011
ConTrakt, Artothek, Munich
2010
Dreams and Complices, Kunstverein Junge Kunst, Wolfsburg, curated by Susanne Koehler & Kunstverein Braunschweig (Remise) curated by Hilke Wagner
Videocube, "raum fuer kultur", Frankfurt/Main (curated by Astrid Kiessling)
2009
Constant Consistencies, Staedtische Kunsthalle Lothringer13, Munich
Videocube, "raum fuer kultur", Frankfurt/Main
2007
Daily Mechanics, Winds of Normality, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren Videocube, "raum fuer kultur", Frankfurt/Main (together with Ondrej Svadlena)
2006
Read me, Reader, if I bring you Joy, Kath. Akademie, Munich
2005
Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
STRUCTURE ONE, Project Space, Rathausgalerie, Munich
2004
Videocube, "raum fuer kultur", Frankfurt/Main (together with Astrid Nippoldt)
Group exhibitions:
2010
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (curated by Susanne Ghez), Landscape I-IV, Galerie der Kuenstler, Munich (curated by Annika Schoemann, cat.)
Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich (self curated exhibition)
DIVING FOR PEARLS in your own soup, Staedtische Kunsthalle Lothringer13, Munich
2009
The Seductiveness of the Interval, 53rd Biennale di Venetia, Giardini, Romanian Pavilion (together with Stefan Constantinescu & Ciprian Muresan, curated by Alina Serban, cat.)
The Jerusalem Syndrome (curated by Nina Montmann, Jack Persekian)
Reading the City, ev+a 33rd Edition, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland (curated by Angelika Nollert & Yilmaz Dziewior)
Beneath the Remains, Arttransponder & public space, Berlin (curated by Vlad Morariu)
2008
Favoriten 08, Kunstbau-Staedtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (curated by Matthias Muehling, Felix Prinz, cat.)
Between the Images, Romanian Cultural Institute, in cooperation with Cinemateket, IASPIS, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, wip:konsthall, Stockholm (curated by Petra Bauer, Kim Einarsson, Helena Holmberg)
DIVING FOR PEARLS in your own soup, London UK
transreport, Rathausgalerie, Munich (initiated by Andrea Faciu & Tim Wolff, cat.)
transreport, ArtLabs, Sibiu
BJCEM XIII Biennial of Young Artists, Puglia
MOVES, Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin
Video, Romanian Cultural Institute, Prague
Sky wide open (together with Michail Pirgelis) Artlodge, Verditz/Afritz
Most - Bridge, La Fabrika, Prague (curated by Petra Vankova)
RE-Construction, Young Artists Biennial, Bucharest (curated by Ami Barak)
Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2007
Quatro Stelle, Villa Romana, Florence
Project Space of MMK Frankfurt/Main (curated by Udo Kitelmann, Mario Kramer)
Ars viva 2006/2007 - Narration, Stadtgalerie Saarbruecken (curated by Matthias Winzen)
Ars viva 2006/2007, House of the Lords of Kunstat, Brno (curated by Radek Horacek)
EXPEDITION MEDORA III, Kunstarkaden, Munich
Touching the City, No 1, Vector Association Gallery, Iasi
Friends, Foes and Collaborators, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (curated by Attila Torday-S.)
La Boum III, Krakaw (curated by Robert Crotla)
Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
2006
Im Anfang war das Wort / In the Beginning was the Word, Haus der Kunst, Munich (curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Corinna Thierolf)
Ars viva 2006/2007 - Narration, Oktogon, Hochschule der Kuenste, Dresden
YBA - Young Bavarian Artists, GAGOSIAN GALLERY, Project of the Berlin Biennial, Berlin (curated by Olaf Metzel, cat.)
PERIFERIC 7 Biennial / SOCIAL PROCESSES, Former Turkish Bath, Iasi,(curated by Marius Babias, Angelika Nollert, cat.)
Ursula Blickle Videolounge, Video archive in cooperation with Kunsthalle Vienna
Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
NVIDEO, Monza (cat.)
EXPEDITION MEDORA, Project space of ZKMax, Munich
Eight Days - Video project in public space, Munich
Jahresgaben, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren
2005
VIDEOTHEKA, Centro per l‘ Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Paperart 9 Biennial, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren (curated by Dorothea Eimert, cat.)
Jahresgaben, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren
SayNoProduction II, Galerie Klueser 2, Munich (curated by Olaf Metzel)
2004
MANIFESTA 5, Biennial for Contemporary Art, San-Sebastián (curated by Marta Kuzma & Massimiliano Gioni)
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro (curated by René Block & Natasa Ilic, cat.)
Harald Falckenberg Collection, Maison Rouge, Paris
Photography, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
No. 1, Video, RED CELL, Munich (curated by Olaf Metzel, cat.)
Debut Exhibition, Academy of Arts, Munich
artistic participation with the video work LE LUNEUX (2003) to the film The Sleeper, directed by Benjamin Heisenberg
2003
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (curated by René Block, cat.)
Sights, Haus der Kunst, Munich (curated by Stephanie Rosenthal)
In the very Silence, Franziskanermuseum, Villingen-Schwenningen
Vacant Room, Hotel Mariandl, Munich
Art on the Ground, Kulturzentrum und Theaterlabor, Schwabhausen
2002
LOG IN, zdb-Zé dos Bios Gallery, Lisbon
2000
Kunstbuero Hasenbergl, Munich
from 2005
Co-founder of the female artists' group EXPEDITION MEDORA
Co-initiator (together with Tim Wolff) of the exhibition project 'transreport'
Awards, residencies:
2007
Residence scholarship, Villa Romana, Florence
Project scholarship of the City of Munich, project IMPLANTEXTRAKT
2006/2007 - Narration, Art Award of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Industrie im BDI, Berlin
Backyard Residency - New Program of Artists’ Residencies in South-East Europe between Vector Association, Iasi, // Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, TR // new media center_kuda.org, Novi Sad — Belgrade, SCG
2004
Scholarship 2004-2005, Juergen Ponto - Stiftung, Frankfurt
Scholarship 2005-2007, Guenther-Peill-Stiftung, Dueren
Debutant Award, Academy of Arts, Munich
2003
Art Award, Dannerstiftung, Munich
2002
Scholarship for foreign students, Academy of Arts, Munich
2001
MAHAG - Art Award, Munich
Public and private collections:
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany
Artothek, Munich, Germany
Galerie Neue Meister Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
Kunstsammlung Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Dueren, Germany
Harald Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Egbert Dommering, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kerstin & Dirk Liesenfeld, art-lodge, Austria
Rui Vilar, Lissabon, Portugal
