b.2002, Târgu Mureș, Romania
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Born in Romania and growing up tri-lingually on the southern coasts of Canada, Ilinca Fechete has been living and working since 2020 in Munich, Germany, where she currently studies new media at the Academy of Fine Arts under Hito Steyerl and Critical Philosophy at The New Centre For Research & Practice under Reza Negarestani. Her interests are centered on observations of the photographic [the infrastructure of mass image production], critical philosophy, mediation, and real events while emphasizing conceptual methods to engage in political reflections and geopolitical preoccupations. Traversing algorithmic, semantic, photographic, and virtual nodes [negotiations] of the underlying conditions of exhibitive production, [re]presentation, and display, her practice often measures the tension between idea and implementation. Here, the construction of thought, the relationship between image and identification, the traversal from the Real to the symbolic, and the difference between prominence and authority are employed and implicated [implied] within new attempts at meaning often speaking to the necessity of inequality, and the myths of artistic practice.
[Recently she has undertaken a 5-month research trip across Eastern Europe with a nuclear scientist and former colleague, Anna Nikou from the University of British Colombia, Canada [the results of which are to be exhibited in 2025]. She has also co-curated the trans-national exhibition series Autostrata with Anastasiia Batishcheva and is about to take part in an expedition to the Arctic Circle in June 2024].
Ilinca Fechete is a member of Studio CPN, NEU WORKSHOP and The New Centre for Research & Practice. She currently co-leads the academic lecture series Jour Fixe at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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+49 163 874 9021
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EDUCATION
2024 - Ongoing Student of The New Centre for Research & Practice
2024 - Ongoing Student of Hito Steyerl, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
2023 XXVII CSAV - Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 - 2024 Student of Olaf Nicolai
2020 - 2023 Student of Dieter Rehm/Michael Hofstetter
2023 Guest Student of Gerard Byrne at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2022 Guest Student of Candice Breitz/Kerstin Honeit at the HBK, Braunschweig, Germany
2021 Student of Flaka Haliti, Salzburg International Academy of Fine Art, Salzburg, Austria
2016 - 2020 Bealart Diploma, H.B Beal, London, Canada
AWARDS AND GRANTS [SELECTED]
2022 - Ongoing Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Germany
2024 - Ongoing Scholarship of The New Centre For Research & Practice
2024 Weißenburger Kunstpreis, Weißenburg, Germany
2024 Research Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2024 AiR, The Arctic Circle [Expedition and Residency], Svalbard Archipelago, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
2023 LfA Bayern - Kulturförderung, Germany
2023 BBK Bayern - Verbindungslinien, Germany
2023 AiR, XXVII CSAV - Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 AiR, Sierra María - Los Vélez, Spain
2023 AiR, L’Appartamento, Napoli, Italy
2023 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2022 Finalist, Karl & Faber Kunstpreis, Munich, Germany
2022 Max Ernst Prize, Brühl, Germany
2021 Deutschlandstipendium, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany
2019 John Templar Canadian Artist Award, London, Canada
EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED]
2024 Invisible Cities, Frappant, Hamburg [Upcoming]
2024 Under Aegis, The Arctic Circle - Svalbard Archipelago, Norway [Upcoming]
2024 Weißenburger Kunstpreis, Weißenburg, Germany
2023 Arkadenale, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany
2023 Autostrata [Transnational Exhibition Series: Artist and Curator], DOMIE - Poznań, STROBOSKOP - Warsaw, Galeria UL - Gdańsk, Poland, HALLE6, Munich, Germany
2023 Contracted Leasing, Space n.n, Munich, Germany
2023 2. Bjienale Mladih, Belgrade, Serbia
2023 È ora di alzarsi, Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 Insignia, None, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
2023 Spring Affairs, Space n.n, Munich, Germany
2023 Film Premiere, Ring-Theatre, Kunstverein Amberg, Amberg, Germany [Solo]
2022 Karl & Faber Kunstpreis Exhibition, Karl & Faber Auktionshaus Munich, Germany
2022 Rumors of Capture, Neu Workshop, Munich, Germany
2022 :: :: [in Context of the Max Ernst Prize Exhibition], Max Ernst Museums des LVR, Brühl, Germany
2022 Eat The Cake And Have It Too, Milchstraße 4, Munich, Germany
2022 Hi!a Film Festival, Munich, Germany
2022 Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2022 University Future Festival, [Artist and Speaker], Berlin, Germany
2021 To be an Angular Something as a Round Nothing, Academy of Fine Art, Munich, Germany
2021 Super BOOKS, HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, Hause der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2021 SpatialHijacks, Salzburg International Academy of Fine Art, Höhensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria
2021 The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival at the Hague, Netherlands
2020 Satellite Project Space, Artist of Excellence Award Exhibition, London, Canada [Solo]
2020 AA-AA,East Gallery, London, Canada [Solo]
CURATORIAL: https://autostrata.eu/
PUBLICATIONS [SELECTED]
2023 Autostrata, Munich, Germany
2023 È ora di alzarsi, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 Insignia, None, Munich, Germany
2023 C2.5 Magazine, Munich, Germany + Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Oram Littoris Primi Lego², Munich, Germany
2023 Kontingentale, Kontingent Kollektiv, Munich, Germany
2022 Poetics of E.ZG.04, Munich, Germany
2021 Poetics of Opacity, Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2021 To be an Angular Something as a Round Nothing, Munich, Germany
2021 HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany