Rachel Monosov works in performance, photography, video, and sculpture. By delving into cultural notions of alienation, territorial belonging, and identity, she reflects a rootless present rife with broader social implications. She constructs entire worlds around her subjects, which function pursuant to their own set of laws. Her personal biography is weaved throughout, loading the work with social and political concepts echoing historical events.
Monosov holds two MFAs from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium
Since 2017, Monosov’s work has been included in exhibitions at BOZAR and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, Kunsthaus Hamburg and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in Germany, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Art in Bucharest, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, Serlachius Museums in Finland, Palazzo delle Espozitioni in Rome; and in three international Biennales: 11th Bamako Biennale, 13th Biennale of Dakar, and the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2019, she mounted her first solo museum exhibition at Tarble Arts Center in Illinois. She was awarded the German Academy in Rome Praxisstipendium, two grants from the Goethe Institut, the Northern Trust Purchase Prize, and was shortlisted for the Mack First Book Award. Her work has been acquired into the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum at Northwestern University, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Monosov is a co-founder of the CTG Collective.
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Education
- 2016
- MFA in Film, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
- 2014
- MFA The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
- 2010
- BFA Photography, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
- 2008
- The School of Visual Arts, New York
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024
- When All Is Still, Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries, with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
Rachel Monosov, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
- 2023
- Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape, Centrum, Berlin; Curated by Jorgina Stamogianni
- 2021
- LIMINAL, Academia Tedesca Rome Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
- 2020
- It’s All Written In The Stars, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest
- 2019
- The Challenge of Realism, Performance in collaboration with Lisa Lapierre and Victor Dumont, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
We are Almost There, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, USA; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru, Rehema Barber and Michael Schuetz (catalogue)
Solo Presentation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Art Brussels
- 2018
- The Blind Leader, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
Rachel Monosov + Admire Kamudzengerere, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Paris Photo
Transcultural Transience (with Isaac Chong Wai), ACUD Galerie, Berlin; Curator: Karma Ltd. Extended
1972 (with Admire Kamudzengerere), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
- 2016
- Pastoral, AC Repair Co., Toronto, Canada
- 2015
- Pastoral, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Effects of Displacement, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
- 2014
- The Premier of the Audition Acts as Symbol, REH-TRANSFORMER, Berlin, Germany; Curator: Marcus Kettel
Museum & Biennial Inclusions
- 2024
- Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,The Art Institute of Chicago
Control, curated by Catinca Tabacaru and Raphael Guilbert, Goethe Institut, Bucharest
- 2021
- Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evenston, USA (catalogue)
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Collateral Event to Art Encounters Biennial, Casa Artelor, Timisoara, Romania
- 2020
- State of the arts, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Curators: Johanna Adam and Miriam Barhoum (catalogue)
- 2019
- Sublimi Anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; curated by: Andrea Carlino, Philippe Comar, Anna Luppi, Vincenzo Napolano, Laura Perrone
Permanent Collections Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago; Curators: Antawan Byrd & Matthew Witkovsky
hybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg; Curator: Anna Nowak
CTG-R: Finland, Aleksanterin Linna Gallery, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
- 2018
- The Rebel, Dak’Art, 13th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal; Curator: Simon Njami (catalogue)
Meeting of the Minds, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
New Feelings: Transformative Play and Discourse on Photography from a Diasporic Perspective, CCAC, Portland, USA; Curator: Modou Dieng
- 2017
- Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters 11th Edition, Biennale of African Photography, Mali; Curator: Marie-Ann Yamsi (catalogue)
Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; Curators: Laura Herman and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence (catalogue)
Transcultural Protocol, performance in collaboration with Admire Kamudzengerere, Zimbabwe Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale; Curator: Raphael Chikukwa (catalogue)
Melodica, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
- 2016
- Zig Zag Zig, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & Raphael Chikukwa (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
- METAPHOR TO METAMORPHOSIS, KÖNIG GALERIE, Munich, Germany
- 2023
- State of Emergence, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery at NADA East Broadway, NY; Curated by Lesia Kulchynska and Catinca Tabacaru
Glass Barriers, Galerie-im-Saalbau, Berlin; Curated by Beatris Wakaresko
FREUNDESKREIS, S6 project space Berlin; Curated by Omer Polak
- 2021
- Mutual Matters, Goldrausch, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
STAYCATION, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru + SANDWICH, Bucharest, Romania
10e PRIX JEUNE CREATION, Moulin des Arts de St-Rémy, France
- 2020
- Messe in St. Agnes #2, König Galerie, Berlin
K60 at Wilhelm Hallen, PSM, Berlin
Enter Through The Void, Campo Victoria, Ghent, Belgium
The Performance Show, Fondation AVL Mundo, Rotterdam; Organizer: Catinca Tabacaru, Curator: Zippora Elders
- 2019
- Hypermaremma Chapter II, ‘La Città Sommersa’ Antica Città de Cosa, Ansedonia, Italy; Organizer: Giorgio Galotti
All gifted, אלמסן / المخزن / Almacén, Jaffa; Curator: Netta Laufer
Casted, Plek, Ghent, Belgium; Curator: Meer Collective
Tenants, Giorgio Galotti, Torino, Italy
41st Jalovik Art Colony, Kuća Kralja Petra, Serbia; Curators: Branislav Nikolic & Catinca Tabacaru
- 2018
- Unknowing Knowns Knowing Unknowns: (UNFINISHED), National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
CTG-R: Zimbabwe 2018, CTG Collective, CTG Harare, Zimbabwe
Fear of Change: true scenes and flat screenes, Site131, Dallas, Texas
- 2017
- Transcultural Protocol, ThalieLab Art Foundation, Brussels
An Orbit, The Drake, Toronto
Terra Nova, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ležerna Razmjena Bez Panike, Charlama Contemporary Art Gallery, Sarajevo
- 2016
- Fragmented Time, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Curator: Rachel Monosov
Zig Zag Zim, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
A perfect storm for business, The Governor’s Mansion, Ghent, Belgium; Curators: Liene Aerts, Wim Lambrecht & Wim Waelput
- 2015
- Devotion, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & William Corwin (catalogue)
Premio Carlo Bonatto Minella, Turin, Italy (selected artist)
La Vie mode d’emploi, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
Worlds of Nature, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 2014
- The Last Brucennial, New York; presented by Vito Schnabel and The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Kiss, Zona 30, Lima, Peru; Curator: Katie Peyton
- 2013
- Ever Ours, Beethoven Festival: LOVE, Merit School of Music, Chicago; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Special Project, Bit Map, Ghent, Belgium
100 Years in the Underground, Steichen to Sherman, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York
Conventional Codes Of, Lambert Fine Arts, New York; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
We Man, Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium
- 2011
- Hard Pop, ST-ART, Tel Aviv, Israel; Curators: Liora Belford & Serge Tiroche
Women’s Voices Now, Bradford Stewart Studios, Los Angeles; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
- 2010
- Women on Women, Zik Gallery, Jerusalem
Third Eye/I, White Box, New York; Curators: Raul Zamudio & Catinca Tabacaru
Just Art 2010, Benefit for the NYCLU, New York; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Site-Specific Works
- 2018
- Vox Populi (billboard), Harare, Zimbabwe
- 2017
- CTG Harare (architectural structure), Harare, Zimbabwe
- 2016
- Impossible Meeting Point (sculpture), Pool’s Island, Canada
- 2015
- Pink Village (community intervention), Harare, Zimbabwe
Screenings
- 2021
- Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic, Daata and EXPO Chicago, Online
- 2019
- Freedom in the Clouds, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
- 2017
- Melodica, cimmfest No.9, Chicago
Pink Village, dokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Melodica, Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain (Second Prize for Experimental Film)
- 2016
- Pink Village, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montréal, Canada; Curator: Nicolas Mavrikakis
Freedom in the clouds, cimmfest No.8, Chicago
- 2015
- The Visitor, 44th Edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam_, The Netherlands
The Visitor, Het Grote Ongeduld Xtra!, Cinemathek, Brussels, Belgium
- 2012
- Careless You, Women’s Voices From The Muslim World International Film Festival, Global Tour to 22 venues throughout Jordan, Lebanon, UAE and USA; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru; Organizer: Suzie Abdou
- 2011
- Careless You, Women’s Voices From The Muslim World International Film Festival, Los Angeles; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Residencies / Scholarships
- 2021
- STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS (Arbeitsstipendium), Germany
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany
- 2020
- Kunstlerhaus Lukas Scholarship, Germany
- 2019
- German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo (Praxisstipendium Fellow)
live.make.share – Undecided Productions, Hanoi, Vietnam (in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Vietnam)
Serlachius Museums, Finland (in collaboration with CTG Collective) (artist & organizer)
- 2018
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe (artist & organizer)
Jalovik Art Colony, Serbia (in collaboration with CTG Collective)
CRIPTA747, Torino, Italy
- 2017
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe
Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, USA
- 2016
- Thalie Art Foundation, Human Uplift Trust, India
Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany, Italy
CTG-R: Newfoundland, CTG Collective, Pool’s Island, Canada
Dusangneuf Osangsett, Brussels
Museum Dhondat-Dhaenens, House Van Wassenhove
- 2015
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe
Awards & Prizes
- 2020
- Ise-Agustin Foundation Scholarship, Germany
- 2019
- MACK First Book Award (shortlist)
- 2017
- Europalia Curator’s Award (Selected Artist), Belgium; Curators: Laura Herman & Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence
Northern Trust Purchase Prize, EXPO Chicago presentation with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
Second Prize for Experimental Film, Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Selected Collections
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, USA
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
Beth Rudin DeWoody, USA
Foundation Blachère, France
ST-ART and Africa First, Serge Tiroche Collections, Israel
Speaking Engagements & Teaching Workshops
- 2019
- Utopías y Heterotopías, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
Utopías y Heterotopías, Arte Ederren Fakultatea/ Faculted de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
- 2018
- The Political in the Poetical (3-day workshop), Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
- 2017
- Filmmakers Panel, dokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Photography & Film (3-week workshop with Lisa Lapierre), Trichirapalli, India; organized by Thalie Art Foundation
Selected Bibliography
Wilson, Jacob Charles. “Ten Photographers to Have on Your Radar in 2019.” AnOther, AnOther Magazine, 10 May 2019
Canestrelli, Greta, Spazi Angusti, Intervista all’artista russo-israeliana Rachel Monosov, Yanez Magazine, 24 September 2018
Twersky, Carolyn, Two Artists Rewriting the History of Interracial Marriage in Africa, New York Magazine, 26 March 2018
Pauline Doutreluingne and Petra Poelzl, Transcultural Transience by Karma Ltd. Extended, Art Berlin, 5 April 2018
Joyce, Beatrix, Exhibition // Karma Ltd. Extended’s ‘Transcultural Transience’ at ACUD Galerie, BERLINARTLINK, 31 March 2018
Furtado, Will, Where Drawing and Performance Meet, Contemporary&, 8 December 2017
Cohen, Alina, Amplifications of Memory, The Nation, 26 May 2017
Rachel Monosov “Pastoral” at AC Repair Co., Toronto, Mousse Magazine, 8 August 2016
Seven Belgian-based artists to keep on your radar (Part 3), The Word, 13 April 2016
Photo: Jesús Pastor
Photo: Jesús Pastor
In When All Is Still Monosov points to the relationship between Soviet monuments and the nexus of nuclear weapons, connecting these systems of control to contemporary warfare. Through opposition, the cement and glass create a visual poem of man-made ideas which could, and did, bring darkness to humanity. Socialist Realism played a role in shaping public perception within the Soviet Union, producing official accounts starkly different from the lived experiences of those affected. Today, the role of nuclear weapons as potential catalyst for unprecedented devastation looms large, adding an extra layer of urgency to these artistic narratives.
The accompanying two-channel video work fast forwards us into a post-nuclear future. A character plays the artist, the creator, who tirelessly carries the heavy cement sculptures, but breaks them at will, stepping out of the suspended disbelief demanded by these objects. She breaks them for artistic freedom, which was, and today still is, robbed from artists by oppressive governments. She breaks the whitewashed representation of a much darker reality. While this rebellion is taking place, on a second screen, where the objects lie broken and still, they offer a backdrop, a landscape, for the endurance of one of the few creatures which could survive a nuclear disaster.
The production of uranium glass, a unique radioactive material, was stopped once the Manhattan Project was underway. Although it is safe to handle and live with, its characteristic green glow is reminiscent of an ominous reality. The lingering specter of fear built by the proliferation of nuclear arsenals during the Cold War is imprinted on the collective consciousness and perpetuates a cycle of conflict and control that distorts our perception of power and security - an influence that continues to shape people's decisions, opinions and voting behavior decades after its fall.
Performance. Duration 40mins.
Orbetello Lagoon, Hypermaremma
Color, HD video, 30 min
LIMINAL, 2021
Liminal is a performance-based video work which translates the diverse states of our psychic and physical being during the Covid-19 pandemic into a digital exhibition. Conceived in early 2021 as a website to allow the public to virtually enter the three rooms of Villa Massimo in Rome without restrictions, in October 2021, at Casa Artelor in Timisoara, the work was presented for the first time as a 3-screen installation available for in-person public viewing.
The boundaries between us have dissolved. The lens replaces your eye, initiating and sustaining contact.
Inside this Liminal phase, we can change our identities and our governments. We exist in between the life we lived before and the life we will live after… whenever after comes. Still, the lasting effects on our psyche and social behaviors are still unknown. The only thing we know is that we miss touching another body, we miss our own bodies which could rebel! We are looking for the place of healing through movement together.
LIMINAL was originally commissioned by Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo.
Concept and Choreography: Rachel Monosov
Co-Choreography and performers: Rachell Bo Clark, Stephanie Amurao Music: Philipp Rhensius
Composer: Santa Bušs
Singer: Julia Shelkovskaia
Camera: Andrea Arnone
Video Editor: Vera Rosa Maria Herr
In Olympia Monosov takes Leni Riefenstahl’s film Olympia (1936) as a point of departure and investigates the bodily moments before the action and after the seconds between motionlessness and getting into shape. The artist scrapes out this sculptural moment of transition and works with the image of perfect bodies, standing united on the starting blocks and finishing line.
Concept and Choreography
Rachel Monosov
Performers
Camilla Borgaard, Victor Dumont, Susie Yugier
Rachell Bo Clark,Stephanie Amurao,Katrina Bastian
Music
INRA (Philipp Rhensius & Adam Ben-Nun)
Live Visuals
Lisa Lapierre
Three young actors, two woman and a man, conceived by your imagination and guided by your script, spend their days in the meditative, sun-filled, sprawling spaces of House Van Wassenhove, a concrete modernist architectural delight melted into the green environment that surrounds it, and set in the middle of Sint-Martens-Latem, one of the wealthiest municipalities of Belgium. The three young people have the air of luxurious, laid-back living. They fill their days with painting, playing piano, and eating clams, living in a kind of art enclave detached from the real world. This concealed, peaceful location can be read as a Garden of Eden. It feels as if we walk around in The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the painting that structures your film. As a whole, the setting is a separation from the general state of the world; an escape out of the accelerated Anthropocene; an antidote to the turbulent storm of world disorder; a fertile ground for artistic inspiration and introspection; a fitting place to contemplate our contradictory, toxic age of political conflicts, wealth inequality, and environmental degradation; to search for spiritual and religious significance. But, herein is the paradox: the three inhabitants protect themselves from any danger. But, is the danger not enclosed in this absence of danger? How can they contemplate about a world in which they do not participate? Is this idealized world as ideal as it looks? Is this triumph of love and art over war and misery, not straight up delusional?
Melodica completely convinced me of your sensitivity as an auteur - both as a writer and a director. You deliberately observe daily life and create drama of a high order of artistic integrity. As the British producer and dramatist Martin Esslin wrote in his book The Field of Drama: you, the director of a film, have the power to compel the spectator to look at certain things and to restrict the ability to look at others, which you want to conceal or withold. I like the way you control the tiniest gesture. How you masterfully create a state where characters operate in an enchanting, tender listlessness; and how you immerse us in a dark, often suicidal fairy tale bridging childishness and recognition with a veil of alienation and madness.
I was also touched by the sounds and the music - from natural recorded bird songs and harp, to strange synthetic noises. Reading the subtitles, I noticed two musicians, Stella Gotshtein and Omri Barel, were involved in the creation of this unique soundscape. Then you informed me about the intensive process of recording the sounds in Italy. Sometimes the soundscape provides a powerful ‘subtext’ indicating hidden thoughts and emotions of the characters. Sometimes it is used as antithetical to the visuals, co-existing in a dialectical relationship to each other. Also remarkable is how you diligently direct our attention towards thought-provoking questions: from underlying existential reflexivity, through which one comes to terms with notions of isolation, vanitas, meaning(lessness), the cosmos and the death; to (the breaking of) the self-awareness of the protagonists, and thus our own self-awareness… that moment when the performers look at us and we realize they are performing for us. The final meditations of the narrator muses in my head: “Je considère que je suis devenue philosophe à mes 28 ans. Et depuis je ne dors pas. Je compose souvent des réponses, mais là j’avance des questions derrière un miroir dans la nature, confuse de cette époque, notre époque.” In those last shots, we see the characters looking into the sky. It reminds me of the end of your video work Freedom in the Clouds where the female character, a researcher, is lying on the ground, gazing at what seems to be a utopian universe. It is true that in your films one can still dream to devise an optimistic antidote against the not-all-rosy reality.
Yours,
Sofie
Freedom In The Clouds, installation at Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois, USA
Rachel Monosov works in performance, photography, video, and sculpture. By delving into cultural notions of alienation, territorial belonging, and identity, she reflects a rootless present rife with broader social implications. She constructs entire worlds around her subjects, which function pursuant to their own set of laws. Her personal biography is weaved throughout, loading the work with social and political concepts echoing historical events.
Monosov holds two MFAs from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium
Since 2017, Monosov’s work has been included in exhibitions at BOZAR and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, Kunsthaus Hamburg and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in Germany, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Art in Bucharest, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, Serlachius Museums in Finland, Palazzo delle Espozitioni in Rome; and in three international Biennales: 11th Bamako Biennale, 13th Biennale of Dakar, and the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2019, she mounted her first solo museum exhibition at Tarble Arts Center in Illinois. She was awarded the German Academy in Rome Praxisstipendium, two grants from the Goethe Institut, the Northern Trust Purchase Prize, and was shortlisted for the Mack First Book Award. Her work has been acquired into the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum at Northwestern University, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Monosov is a co-founder of the CTG Collective.
Education
- 2016
- MFA in Film, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
- 2014
- MFA The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
- 2010
- BFA Photography, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
- 2008
- The School of Visual Arts, New York
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024
- When All Is Still, Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries, with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
Rachel Monosov, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
- 2023
- Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape, Centrum, Berlin; Curated by Jorgina Stamogianni
- 2021
- LIMINAL, Academia Tedesca Rome Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
- 2020
- It’s All Written In The Stars, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest
- 2019
- The Challenge of Realism, Performance in collaboration with Lisa Lapierre and Victor Dumont, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
We are Almost There, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, USA; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru, Rehema Barber and Michael Schuetz (catalogue)
Solo Presentation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Art Brussels
- 2018
- The Blind Leader, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
Rachel Monosov + Admire Kamudzengerere, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Paris Photo
Transcultural Transience (with Isaac Chong Wai), ACUD Galerie, Berlin; Curator: Karma Ltd. Extended
1972 (with Admire Kamudzengerere), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
- 2016
- Pastoral, AC Repair Co., Toronto, Canada
- 2015
- Pastoral, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Effects of Displacement, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
- 2014
- The Premier of the Audition Acts as Symbol, REH-TRANSFORMER, Berlin, Germany; Curator: Marcus Kettel
Museum & Biennial Inclusions
- 2024
- Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,The Art Institute of Chicago
Control, curated by Catinca Tabacaru and Raphael Guilbert, Goethe Institut, Bucharest
- 2021
- Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evenston, USA (catalogue)
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Collateral Event to Art Encounters Biennial, Casa Artelor, Timisoara, Romania
- 2020
- State of the arts, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Curators: Johanna Adam and Miriam Barhoum (catalogue)
- 2019
- Sublimi Anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; curated by: Andrea Carlino, Philippe Comar, Anna Luppi, Vincenzo Napolano, Laura Perrone
Permanent Collections Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago; Curators: Antawan Byrd & Matthew Witkovsky
hybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg; Curator: Anna Nowak
CTG-R: Finland, Aleksanterin Linna Gallery, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
- 2018
- The Rebel, Dak’Art, 13th Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal; Curator: Simon Njami (catalogue)
Meeting of the Minds, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
New Feelings: Transformative Play and Discourse on Photography from a Diasporic Perspective, CCAC, Portland, USA; Curator: Modou Dieng
- 2017
- Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters 11th Edition, Biennale of African Photography, Mali; Curator: Marie-Ann Yamsi (catalogue)
Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; Curators: Laura Herman and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence (catalogue)
Transcultural Protocol, performance in collaboration with Admire Kamudzengerere, Zimbabwe Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale; Curator: Raphael Chikukwa (catalogue)
Melodica, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
- 2016
- Zig Zag Zig, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & Raphael Chikukwa (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
- METAPHOR TO METAMORPHOSIS, KÖNIG GALERIE, Munich, Germany
- 2023
- State of Emergence, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery at NADA East Broadway, NY; Curated by Lesia Kulchynska and Catinca Tabacaru
Glass Barriers, Galerie-im-Saalbau, Berlin; Curated by Beatris Wakaresko
FREUNDESKREIS, S6 project space Berlin; Curated by Omer Polak
- 2021
- Mutual Matters, Goldrausch, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
STAYCATION, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru + SANDWICH, Bucharest, Romania
10e PRIX JEUNE CREATION, Moulin des Arts de St-Rémy, France
- 2020
- Messe in St. Agnes #2, König Galerie, Berlin
K60 at Wilhelm Hallen, PSM, Berlin
Enter Through The Void, Campo Victoria, Ghent, Belgium
The Performance Show, Fondation AVL Mundo, Rotterdam; Organizer: Catinca Tabacaru, Curator: Zippora Elders
- 2019
- Hypermaremma Chapter II, ‘La Città Sommersa’ Antica Città de Cosa, Ansedonia, Italy; Organizer: Giorgio Galotti
All gifted, אלמסן / المخزن / Almacén, Jaffa; Curator: Netta Laufer
Casted, Plek, Ghent, Belgium; Curator: Meer Collective
Tenants, Giorgio Galotti, Torino, Italy
41st Jalovik Art Colony, Kuća Kralja Petra, Serbia; Curators: Branislav Nikolic & Catinca Tabacaru
- 2018
- Unknowing Knowns Knowing Unknowns: (UNFINISHED), National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
CTG-R: Zimbabwe 2018, CTG Collective, CTG Harare, Zimbabwe
Fear of Change: true scenes and flat screenes, Site131, Dallas, Texas
- 2017
- Transcultural Protocol, ThalieLab Art Foundation, Brussels
An Orbit, The Drake, Toronto
Terra Nova, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ležerna Razmjena Bez Panike, Charlama Contemporary Art Gallery, Sarajevo
- 2016
- Fragmented Time, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Curator: Rachel Monosov
Zig Zag Zim, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York (catalogue)
A perfect storm for business, The Governor’s Mansion, Ghent, Belgium; Curators: Liene Aerts, Wim Lambrecht & Wim Waelput
- 2015
- Devotion, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & William Corwin (catalogue)
Premio Carlo Bonatto Minella, Turin, Italy (selected artist)
La Vie mode d’emploi, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
Worlds of Nature, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 2014
- The Last Brucennial, New York; presented by Vito Schnabel and The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Kiss, Zona 30, Lima, Peru; Curator: Katie Peyton
- 2013
- Ever Ours, Beethoven Festival: LOVE, Merit School of Music, Chicago; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Special Project, Bit Map, Ghent, Belgium
100 Years in the Underground, Steichen to Sherman, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York
Conventional Codes Of, Lambert Fine Arts, New York; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
We Man, Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium
- 2011
- Hard Pop, ST-ART, Tel Aviv, Israel; Curators: Liora Belford & Serge Tiroche
Women’s Voices Now, Bradford Stewart Studios, Los Angeles; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
- 2010
- Women on Women, Zik Gallery, Jerusalem
Third Eye/I, White Box, New York; Curators: Raul Zamudio & Catinca Tabacaru
Just Art 2010, Benefit for the NYCLU, New York; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Site-Specific Works
- 2018
- Vox Populi (billboard), Harare, Zimbabwe
- 2017
- CTG Harare (architectural structure), Harare, Zimbabwe
- 2016
- Impossible Meeting Point (sculpture), Pool’s Island, Canada
- 2015
- Pink Village (community intervention), Harare, Zimbabwe
Screenings
- 2021
- Alternate Assembly: Environmental Impact in the Era of Pandemic, Daata and EXPO Chicago, Online
- 2019
- Freedom in the Clouds, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
- 2017
- Melodica, cimmfest No.9, Chicago
Pink Village, dokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Melodica, Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain (Second Prize for Experimental Film)
- 2016
- Pink Village, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montréal, Canada; Curator: Nicolas Mavrikakis
Freedom in the clouds, cimmfest No.8, Chicago
- 2015
- The Visitor, 44th Edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam_, The Netherlands
The Visitor, Het Grote Ongeduld Xtra!, Cinemathek, Brussels, Belgium
- 2012
- Careless You, Women’s Voices From The Muslim World International Film Festival, Global Tour to 22 venues throughout Jordan, Lebanon, UAE and USA; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru; Organizer: Suzie Abdou
- 2011
- Careless You, Women’s Voices From The Muslim World International Film Festival, Los Angeles; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Residencies / Scholarships
- 2021
- STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS (Arbeitsstipendium), Germany
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany
- 2020
- Kunstlerhaus Lukas Scholarship, Germany
- 2019
- German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo (Praxisstipendium Fellow)
live.make.share – Undecided Productions, Hanoi, Vietnam (in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Vietnam)
Serlachius Museums, Finland (in collaboration with CTG Collective) (artist & organizer)
- 2018
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe (artist & organizer)
Jalovik Art Colony, Serbia (in collaboration with CTG Collective)
CRIPTA747, Torino, Italy
- 2017
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe
Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, USA
- 2016
- Thalie Art Foundation, Human Uplift Trust, India
Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany, Italy
CTG-R: Newfoundland, CTG Collective, Pool’s Island, Canada
Dusangneuf Osangsett, Brussels
Museum Dhondat-Dhaenens, House Van Wassenhove
- 2015
- CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe
Awards & Prizes
- 2020
- Ise-Agustin Foundation Scholarship, Germany
- 2019
- MACK First Book Award (shortlist)
- 2017
- Europalia Curator’s Award (Selected Artist), Belgium; Curators: Laura Herman & Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence
Northern Trust Purchase Prize, EXPO Chicago presentation with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
Second Prize for Experimental Film, Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Selected Collections
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, USA
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
Beth Rudin DeWoody, USA
Foundation Blachère, France
ST-ART and Africa First, Serge Tiroche Collections, Israel
Speaking Engagements & Teaching Workshops
- 2019
- Utopías y Heterotopías, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
Utopías y Heterotopías, Arte Ederren Fakultatea/ Faculted de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
- 2018
- The Political in the Poetical (3-day workshop), Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
- 2017
- Filmmakers Panel, dokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Photography & Film (3-week workshop with Lisa Lapierre), Trichirapalli, India; organized by Thalie Art Foundation
Selected Bibliography
Wilson, Jacob Charles. “Ten Photographers to Have on Your Radar in 2019.” AnOther, AnOther Magazine, 10 May 2019
Canestrelli, Greta, Spazi Angusti, Intervista all’artista russo-israeliana Rachel Monosov, Yanez Magazine, 24 September 2018
Twersky, Carolyn, Two Artists Rewriting the History of Interracial Marriage in Africa, New York Magazine, 26 March 2018
Pauline Doutreluingne and Petra Poelzl, Transcultural Transience by Karma Ltd. Extended, Art Berlin, 5 April 2018
Joyce, Beatrix, Exhibition // Karma Ltd. Extended’s ‘Transcultural Transience’ at ACUD Galerie, BERLINARTLINK, 31 March 2018
Furtado, Will, Where Drawing and Performance Meet, Contemporary&, 8 December 2017
Cohen, Alina, Amplifications of Memory, The Nation, 26 May 2017
Rachel Monosov “Pastoral” at AC Repair Co., Toronto, Mousse Magazine, 8 August 2016
Seven Belgian-based artists to keep on your radar (Part 3), The Word, 13 April 2016