Studies
2011 – 2016 MA in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2008 – 2011 BA in Fine Art, University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Studies
2011 – 2016 MA in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2008 – 2011 BA in Fine Art, University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Film screenings
2023 “Mâna care taie”, International Human Rights Film Festival This Human World, Vienna
2023 “Mâna care taie”, 47. Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg (DE)
2023 “Mâna care taie (Cutting Hand)” screened in the frame of the program „Schnitt ins Land“ curated by Florian Wüst in the frame of Werkleitz Festival „Mein Schatz“ 2023, Halle (DE)
Film screenings
2023 “Mâna care taie”, International Human Rights Film Festival This Human World, Vienna
2023 “Mâna care taie”, 47. Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg (DE)
„Mein Schatz“ 2023, Halle (DE)
Exhibitions and performances (selection)
2021 The Portal, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four” Und, woher kommst Du? wedmi collective, open stage Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four”, Friedensbim Vienna (AT)
2021 COMMON GROUNDS DE_FACE, Sandkasten Syndikat Vienna (AT)
2021 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO)
2019 FAKE >> Wie fake ist unser Alltag << , RAUMSCHIFF, Linz (AT)
2019 paradies natur, curated by Judith P. Fischer, ecoart Vienna (AT)
2019 FEMALE – lebt und arbeitet in Wien, curated by Veronika Rudorfer, Galerie Rudolf Leeb Vienna (AT)
2018 Promising Paradise, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 performance “Albertine”, in the frame of Traumnovelle revisited, Mezannin Vienna (AT)
2018 Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2017 performance: Otilia’s enigma, producing the eastern feminine mystique, Performance in the frame of “Fucking Solidarity: queer concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective” Conference, University of Vienna (AT)
2017 Zwischenwelten, Mezannin, Vienna (AT)
2017 Dysplacement, Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO) (solo exhibition)
2017 Imagination and Conceptual Life, Performance with Pêdra Costa and Installation, “Donnerstags in der Bibliothek” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2015 With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2011 The stuff that stars are made of. Young Graduates from the School of Cluj, Galerie Mie Lefever, Gent, Belgium (BE)
2011 UAD Graduates Exhibition, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
Group exhibitions and performances (selection)
2022 “kültür gemma! is on“ online Festival Wien
2021 The Portal, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four” Und, woher kommst Du? wedmi collective, open stage Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four”, Friedensbim Vienna (AT)
2021 COMMON GROUNDS DE_FACE, Sandkasten Syndikat Vienna (AT)
2021 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO)
2021 Real Stories, Group show by the QM&A Artist Collective, Vienna (AT)
2020 Light at the end of the tunnel, AA Collections Vienna (AT)
2020 FOCUS IN festival, Online, curated by Judith Von Orelli, London, (UK)
2019 FAKE >> Wie fake ist unser Alltag << , RAUMSCHIFF, Linz (AT)
2019 paradies natur, curated by Judith P. Fischer, ecoart Vienna (AT)
2019 FEMALE – lebt und arbeitet in Wien, curated by Veronika Rudorfer, Galerie Rudolf Leeb Vienna (AT)
2018 Promising Paradise, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 Cooking the city – artists as contingency architects, Projektraum Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 performance “Albertine”, in the frame of Traumnovelle revisited, Mezannin Vienna (AT)
2018 Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2018 RCAA Tribute Award Showroom U1 Altes Landgut, Vienna (AT)
2017 performance: Otilia’s enigma, producing the eastern feminine mystique, Performance in the frame of “Fucking Solidarity: queer concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective” Conference, University of Vienna (AT)
2017 Zwischenwelten, Mezannin, Vienna (AT)
2015 With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Exhibitions and performances (selection)
2021 The Portal, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four” Und, woher kommst Du? wedmi collective, open stage Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four”, Friedensbim Vienna (AT)
2021 COMMON GROUNDS DE_FACE, Sandkasten Syndikat Vienna (AT)
2021 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO)
2019 FAKE >> Wie fake ist unser Alltag << , RAUMSCHIFF, Linz (AT)
2019 paradies natur, curated by Judith P. Fischer, ecoart Vienna (AT)
2019 FEMALE – lebt und arbeitet in Wien, curated by Veronika Rudorfer, Galerie Rudolf Leeb Vienna (AT)
2018 Promising Paradise, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 performance “Albertine”, in the frame of Traumnovelle revisited, Mezannin Vienna (AT)
2018 Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2017 performance: Otilia’s enigma, producing the eastern feminine mystique, Performance in the frame of “Fucking Solidarity:
queer concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective” Conference, University of Vienna (AT)
2017 Zwischenwelten, Mezannin, Vienna (AT)
2017 Dysplacement, Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO) (solo exhibition)
2017 Imagination and Conceptual Life, Performance with Pêdra Costa and Installation, “Donnerstags in der Bibliothek” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Arts Vienna (Graduates Exhibition) (AT)
2015 With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2011 The stuff that stars are made of. Young Graduates from the School of Cluj, Galerie Mie Lefever, Gent, Belgium (BE)
2011 UAD Graduates Exhibition, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
Group exhibitions and performances
2023 vienna art week
2022 “kültür gemma! is on“ online Festival Wien
2021 The Portal, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four” Und, woher kommst Du? wedmi collective, open stage Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
2021 Performance “… . 04.17 text four”, Friedensbim Vienna (AT)
2021 COMMON GROUNDS DE_FACE, Sandkasten Syndikat Vienna (AT)
2021 12 YEARS AFTER. A SURVEY OF ROMANIAN ART IN 180 WORKS, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (RO)
2021 Real Stories, Group show by the QM&A Artist Collective, Vienna (AT)
2020 Light at the end of the tunnel, AA Collections Vienna (AT)
2020 FOCUS IN festival, Online, curated by Judith Von Orelli, London, (UK)
2019 FAKE >> Wie fake ist unser Alltag << , RAUMSCHIFF, Linz (AT)
2019 paradies natur, curated by Judith P. Fischer, ecoart Vienna (AT)
2019 FEMALE – lebt und arbeitet in Wien, curated by Veronika Rudorfer, Galerie Rudolf Leeb Vienna (AT)
2018 Promising Paradise, Vienna Art Week, Open Studio Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 Cooking the city – artists as contingency architects, Projektraum Traktorfabrik Vienna (AT)
2018 performance “Albertine”, in the frame of Traumnovelle revisited, Mezannin Vienna (AT)
2018 Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, VBKÖ Vienna (AT)
2018 RCAA Tribute Award, Showroom U1 Altes Landgut, Vienna (AT)
2017 performance: Otilia’s enigma, producing the eastern feminine mystique, Performance in the frame of “Fucking Solidarity:
queer concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective” Conference, University of Vienna (AT)
2017 Zwischenwelten, Mezannin, Vienna (AT)
Arts Vienna (Graduates Exhibition) (AT)
2015 With Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2015 #viennaintransylvania, Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
2014 Action goes viral / HUT [Hinterhof.unter.terrain], Vienna (AT)
2013 (an)blicke#4 / Base-level Gallery, Vienna (AT)
2013 Could it be love? An exhibition with possible, Tailor’s Tower, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
2012 25 Jahre Artmark, Gallery Artmark, Vienna (AT)
2011 The stuff that stars are made of. Young Graduates from the School of Cluj, Galerie Mie Lefever, Gent, Belgium (BE)
2011 UAD Graduates Exhibition, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
Solo exhibitions
2021 Rastplatz, this, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2017 Dysplacement, Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
2017 Imagination and Conceptual Life, Performance with Pêdra Costa and Installation, “Donnerstags in der Bibliothek” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Solo exhibitions
2021 Rastplatz, this, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2017 Dysplacement, Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania (RO)
2017 Imagination and Conceptual Life, Performance with Pêdra Costa and Installation, “Donnerstags in der Bibliothek” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Artist talks (selection)
2023 Discussion after the filmscreening program “Schnitt ins Land” together with Marian Mayland and moderated by Florian Wüst, Halle (DE)
2022 Artist Talk in the frame of kültüř gemma! is on! online festival
2021 “ Recollections of a cold war working body or: “What is ‘RASTPLATZ’?“, he asks in Romanian,” virtual Arbeitszimmer, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2021 “a conversation on scenes of o – autotopography, the migrant body and memory” online conversation with Konstanze Spät, virtual Arbeitszimmer, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2020 QUESTION ME & ANSWER Artist talk #10 (with Aklima Iqbal and Olga Shapovalova)
2019 Artist talk Bewährungsprobe#29, Depot Kunst und Diskussion Wien
Artist talks
2023 Discussion after the filmscreening program “Schnitt ins Land” together with Marian Mayland and moderated by Florian Wüst, Halle (DE)
2022 Artist Talk in the frame of kültüř gemma! is on! online festival
2021 “ Recollections of a cold war working body or: “What is ‘RASTPLATZ’?“, he asks in Romanian,” virtual Arbeitszimmer, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2021 “a conversation on scenes of o – autotopography, the migrant body and memory” online conversation with Konstanze Spät, virtual Arbeitszimmer, thealit
Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen (DE)
2020 QUESTION ME & ANSWER Artist talk #10 (with Aklima Iqbal and Olga Shapovalova)
2019 Artist talk Bewährungsprobe#29, Depot Kunst und Diskussion Wien
2018 Artist talk with Angela Stief, Vienna Art Week, Traktorfabrik
2017 Artist talk with Voica Puscasiu (UBB Cluj), Atelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Residencies
2021 Arbeitszimmer thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen, in the frame of COAPPARATION Part 3. (DE)
2021 Kunst am Stern Residency, Curated by Aftab Maher & Ahoo Maher and supported by Hendrix Wien (AT)
Curatorial projects/ Publications/ Contributions and Other projects
Tanja Ostojić‘s Mis(s)placed Women? 2009-2022: A Collaborative Art Project
2021 “Otilia’s enigma, notes on the performance” Feminist Critique East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies (online 2021) and in print 2022: Feminist
Critique East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, nr.5/2022, Special issue “Fucking Solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a Post-Soviet
Perspective”, p.107-112
2020 Contribution to “Half of the sky” Project by The Golden Pixel Cooperative, in the frame of the exhibition „When Gesture Becomes Event“
Künstlerhaus Vienna (8.12.2020 – 5.4.2021) and Diagonale Film Festival 2020
2019 contribution to “Misplaced Women?” Project by Tanja Ostojić (as part of Telciu Summer School) “Alexandra Tatar’s Story” published on
Misplaced Women? platform: misplacedwomen.wordpress.com
2018 Curator, Cooking the city – artists as contingency architects, Projektraum Traktorfabrik Vienna
2016 Missing Catalogue (co-work), Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz
2015 Curator, #viennaintransylvania, Alelier 4, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2014 The Grammar of Display, Seminar and Publikation with Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunsthalle Wien
Press
(mention)
des Theophil-Hansen-Baus am Schillerplatz, Juni 2021
“Interview with Alexandra Tatar”, by Ulrike Schild,Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin – 15.06.2020
“Female – lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Jung, aufstrebend, weiblich” by Désirée Hailzl, artmagazine.cc – July 2019
“Reflexionen des Weiblichen”, VOR Magazin 6/2018 (DE)
#viennaintransylvania exhibition review by Voica Puscasiu, Arta. Revistă de Arte Vizuale, 22-23 pp. 131
Press
“kültür gemma! Alexandra Tatar im Porträt”, von Anna Soucek, Kulturjournal Radio Ö1, 17.08.2021
des Theophil-Hansen-Baus am Schillerplatz, Juni 2021
Der Standard Lichtblicke: Kurze Filme und Kunst durch die Scheibe (abbildung)
“Interview with Alexandra Tatar”, by Ulrike Schild,Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin – 15.06.2020
“Female – lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Jung, aufstrebend, weiblich” by Désirée Hailzl, artmagazine.cc – July 2019
Die Presse – Schaufenster, Vienna Art Week, 16.11. 2018 (abbildung)
“Reflexionen des Weiblichen”, VOR Magazin 6/2018 (DE)
#viennaintransylvania exhibition review by Voica Puscasiu, Arta. Revistă de Arte Vizuale, 22-23 pp. 131
Press
“kültür gemma! Alexandra Tatar im Porträt”, von Anna Soucek, Kulturjournal Radio Ö1, 17.08.2021
“Blickwechsel – Nina Schedlmayer spricht mit Absoventinnen der Akademie”, BIG Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien: Sanierung und Restaurierung des Theophil-Hansen-Baus am Schillerplatz, Juni 2021
Der Standard Lichtblicke: Kurze Filme und Kunst durch die Scheibe (abbildung)
“Interview with Alexandra Tatar”, by Ulrike Schild,Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin – 15.06.2020
Press
“Blickwechsel – Nina Schedlmayer spricht mit Absoventinnen der Akademie”, BIG Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien: Sanierung und Restaurierung des Theophil-Hansen-Baus am Schillerplatz, Juni 2021
“Interview with Alexandra Tatar”, by Ulrike Schild,Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin – 15.06.2020