Ioana Nemeș
Ioana Nemeș (b. 1979, Bucharest, Romania – d. 2011, New York, USA) was a handball player until she was 21 when she suffered a knee injury. She reoriented herself towards the study of photography at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. Fascinated with time, language and non-linear narrativity, Ioana Nemeș’s practice set off from an ongoing and unconstrained process of self-evaluation. Nemeș’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums and contemporary art centers such as Art in General, New York (2011), Secession, Vienna (2010), Istanbul Biennial (2009), Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (2009), U-Turn, Copenhagen (2008), Prague Biennial (2007), Bucharest Biennial (2006), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006). Her work continues today to be displayed as part of international exhibitions group such as A Few Grams of Red, Yellow and Blue, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle (2014); Ritual Without Myth, Royal College of Art, London (2012); Desire is War, Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Museum Brukenthal (2011); Communism Never Happened, Char Gallery, Vienna (2011). Nemeș was awarded with Future of Europe Art, Gallery Zeitgenössische fur Kunst, Leipzig in 2007.
Ioana Nemeș, Untitled (Friday 11.01.2008), 2008, epoxide, paint, lacquer, 100 x 70 x 10 cm. Courtesy of Ovidiu Șandor Collection, Timișoara
