b.2002, Târgu Mureș, RO
LANGUAGES EN, FR, DE, RO
C.V./STATEMENT ON PRACTICE
PORTFOLIO
Ilinca Fechete is a time-based [software] artist and researcher based in Munich. She is currently studying emergent digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Hito Steyerl and critical philosophy at The New Centre For Research & Practice as a student of Reza Negarestani.
Her interests span observations of the photographic [the infrastructure of mass image production], critical philosophy, speculative software, machine learning, mediation, encoding, 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.
Ilinca Fechete is a member of Studio CNP, NEU WORKSHOP and The New Centre for Research & Practice. She currently co-leads the independantly student-run academic lecture series Jour Fixe at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and is supporting ECHOES 2025, at Haus der Kunst in Munich.
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+49 163 874 9021
ilinca.fechete@gmail.com
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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, DE
2023 - 2024 Student of Olaf Nicolai
2020 - 2023 Student of Dieter Rehm/Michael Hofstetter
2023 XXVII CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
2023 Guest Student of Gerard Byrne, Städelschule, Frankfurt, DE
2022 Guest Student of Candice Breitz/Kerstin Honeit, HBK, Braunschweig, DE
2021 Student of Joseph Strau, Jour Fixe Project Class, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
2021 Student of Flaka Haliti, Salzburg International Academy of Fine Art, Salzburg, AT
2016 – 2020 Bealart Diploma, H.B Beal, London, CA
EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED]
2024 Invisible Cities, Frappant, Hamburg, DE, [Upcoming]
2024 Interelliptic, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, DE
2024 Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2024 €, Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz, Munich, DE
2024 As We May See, Gramazio Kohler Research, Institute for Technology in Architechture, Zurich, CH
2024 Individuation According To Simondon, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Archipelago, NO, [Solo]
2024 ROOT /ruːt/, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
2023 n.n, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE
2023 Autostrata1, DOMIE – Poznań, STROBOSKOP – Warsaw, Galeria UL – Gdańsk, PL
HALLE6 – Munich, DE
2023 Contracted Leasing, Space n.n, Munich, DE
2023 2. Bjienale Mladih, Belgrade, CS
2023 È ora di alzarsi, Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
2023 Insignia, None, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE, [Solo]
2023 Spring Affairs, Space n.n, Munich, DE
2022 n.n, HBK, Braunschweig, DE
2022 Karl & Faber Artprize Exhibition, Karl & Faber Auktionshaus, Munich, DE
2022 Rumors of Capture, Neu Workshop, Munich, DE
2022 :: :: [in context of the Max Ernst Prize Exhibition], Max Ernst Museums des LVR, Brühl, DE, [Solo]
2022 Eat The Cake And Have It Too, Milchstraße 4, Munich, DE
2022 Hi!a Film Festival, Munich, DE
2022 Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2021 To Be An Angular Something As A Round Nothing, Academy of Fine Art, Munich, DE
2021 Super BOOKS, HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, Hause der Kunst, Munich, DE
2021 The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, the Hague, NL
2020 Satellite Project Space, Artist of Excellence Award Exhibition, London, CA, [Solo]
2020 AA-AA, East Gallery, London, CA, [Solo]
CURATORIAL
2023 Autostrata1, PL/DE
2024 ECHOES, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
AWARDS AND GRANTS [SELECTED]
2022 – Ongoing Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, DE
2024 – Ongoing Scholarship of The New Centre for Research & Practice
2024 AiR, Interelliptic, Lothringer 13 Halle, DE
2024 Weißenburger Kunstpreis, DE
2024 Research + Production Grant, The Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2024 AiR, The Arctic Circle [Expedition and Residency], Svalbard Archipelago, NO
2023 LfA Bayern – Kulturförderung, DE
2023 BBK Bayern – Verbindungslinien, DE
2023 AiR, XXVII CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, IT
2023 AiR, Sierra María – Los Vélez, ES
2023 AiR, L’Appartamento, IT
2023 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, IT
2022 Finalist, Karl & Faber Kunstpreis, DE
2022 Max Ernst Prize, DE
2021 Deutschlandstipendium, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, DE
2019 John Templar Canadian Artist Award, CA
PUBLICATIONS [SELECTED]
2023 Autostrata1, DE, [Edition: 500]
2023 È ora di alzarsi, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, IT, [Edition: 500]
2023 Insignia, None, DE, [Edition: 20]
2023 C2.5 Magazine, DE/CH, [Edition: 100]
2023 Oram Littoris Primi Lego², DE, [Edition: 500]
2022 Poetics of E.ZG.04, DE, [Edition: 5]
2021 To Be An Angular Something As A Round Nothing, DE, [Edition: 150]
2021 HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, DE, [Edition: 100]
PROJECTS [SELECTED]
2024 – Ongoing Internship: ECHOES, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2023 – Ongoing Contributing writer: The New Centre for Research & Practice
2022 – Ongoing Co-organizing: Jour Fixe, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
2022 – Ongoing Co-organizing: Studio CNP, NEU WORKSHOP, Munich, DE
2022 – Ongoing Co-organizing: Refugio Kunstwerkstatt, Munich, DE
2024 Co-organizing: As We May See, CH
2022 Pannelist: FF, Berlin