Mureș Nicoleta (b.1996) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her practice is a continuous observation of the virtual body under different stress related situations, anxieties, fear. Her goal is to further investigate the possibilities and limitations that put the flesh, be it real or digital in the spotlight.
Her visuals predict a dystopian future, where people have to deal with unreal emotions, isolation, disembodiment while being influenced by the way in which technology fuels humanity’s desire to consume. Her projects reflect on how the Internet distorts life and the profound changes that affect humankind. The lack of reactions from reality is what made her think that we are heading towards a “numbness” of senses and personality. As we spend more time searching for content online, we increase the possibility that we become like the objects around us: still, fixed in appliances, immovable.
Nicoleta’s works were also displayed in festivals: Tour de Moon, Simultan, Digerati Emergent Media Festival and art fairs: Liste Art Fair Basel and Viennacontemporary.
Solo shows
2021
Rug beating- The Space 5X3, online
Group shows
2023
Desktop Studies, CAV – Visual Multimedia Art Center, Bucharest
Desktop Studies, Spam-Index X The Wrong Biennale, online
MAFA X Ready Media, Museum of Art, Arad
How to Trust a Simulation, Muzeul Național Tehnic Dimitrie Leonida, Bucharest
RMN-Ready Media Network, Altex București Orhideea, Bucharest
VideoClub (15th edition), Silent Green, Berlin
tell the story or it goes, MATCA artspace, Cluj-Napoca
BYoUSB by rhizome + do not research, The Locker Room, New York
Ghosts Whisper Loud and Clear, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca
No Nightlife, Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart
Les plus fins du siècle, NTT DATA Romania, Cluj-Napoca
UNSTABLE OBJECTS, Synthesis Gallery X New Art City, online
RÉVOLUTION V52- L’odyssée digitale, L’unique-Musée Dehors, Caen & Digitale Zone, Marseille
Pixel Lights, DIGITAL:CANVAS, Timișoara
Life in Virtuality, The Spirit Realm, online
They Thought We Were Alive and They Run Screaming, PLATO, Ostrava
2022
The Real Show @SNDW, Sandwich Offspace, Bucharest
The Bittersweet Chaos of Becoming, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
Current Alternatives to Something That is Missing, MATCA artspace, Cluj-Napoca
The Future Garden, Indecis, Timișoara
Companions in Misfortunes, LA Artcore, Los Angeles
After Party, ART CITY Bologna X Mock Jungle, Bologna
Kammerflimmer,Heizhaus, Nuremberg
2021
Teoreticențe, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest
The Sublime 3.0: Fear and Awe- Agora Digital Art X The Wrong Biennale, online
2121- Time Capsule, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest
There Are Dreams That Walk With Us In Our Shadowy Reality, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest
Light clarity avocado salad in the morning, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara
This Will Age Well, Leilei Gallery, Bucharest
kinema ikon: serial/ s.4 e.4- Digital Self-Portrait, Museum of Art, Arad
There Are Dreams That Walk With Us In Our Shadowy Reality, Rubik, Cluj-Napoca
Aer proaspat, CAV – Visual Multimedia Art Center, Bucharest
2020
#PPM5@theworkplace, Aici Acolo Pop-Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
My Life Coach Insisted on 90 Days of Self-Love, Atelier 35, Bucharest
Dunes, Dharma Initiatives, The Hague
2019
DIPLOMA, Bucharest
UAD graduation show, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca
EnjoyeTV, Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm
Residencies
2021
RoxyDx: InstaX Residency, online