Rachel Monosov

Rachel Monosov (geb. 1987 in Russland) arbeitet mit Performance, Fotografie, Video und Skulptur. Indem sie sich mit kulturellen Vorstellungen von Entfremdung, territorialer Zugehörigkeit und Identität auseinandersetzt, reflektiert sie eine wurzellose Gegenwart, die weitreichende soziale Implikationen mit sich bringt. Monosovs Arbeiten wurden in Ausstellungen in der Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, im Art Institute of Chicago, im Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rom und auf Biennalen gezeigt, so auf der 11. Bamako Biennale, der 13. Biennale von Dakar und im Simbabwe-Pavillon auf der 57. Biennale di Venezia. Sie erhielt das Praxisstipendium der Deutschen Akademie Rom Villa Massimo.

Rachel Monosov
BORN 1987, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN, GERMANY


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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

Solo Presentation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Art Brussels

2018 The Blind Leader, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York

The Blind Leader, 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

2016 Pastoral, AC Repair Co., Toronto, Canada

2015 Pastoral, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, Belgium


MUSEUM & BIENNIAL INCLUSIONS

2021 Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Chicago (catalog) (Forthcoming)

2020 State of the arts, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Curators: Johanna Adam and Miriam Barhoum (catalog)

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 (catalog)

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 (catalog)

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 (catalog)

Melodica, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

2016 Zig Zag Zig, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & Raphael Chikukwa (catalog)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 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, نزخملا / ןסמלא / Almacén, Jaffa, Israel; 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, Israel
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

The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
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
Aristide, Ramona, Din singurătatea ecosistemului (“From the solitude of the ecosystem”), Observator Cultural, 19 January 2021
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