Rachel Monosov about

°1987 St. Petersburg , Russia

Live and work in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

2016 MA in Film, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent (KASK), Belgium

2014 MFA The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent (KASK), Belgium

2010 BFA Photography, Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel

2008 The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

MUSEUM & BIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS

2019 Sublimi Anatomie, Palazzo delle Espozitioni, Rome, Italy; curated by: Andrea Carlino, Philippe Comar, Anna Luppi, Vincenzo Napolano, Laura Perrone (upcoming)

2018 Unknowing Knowns Knowing Unknowns: , National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania

Meeting of the Minds, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare

Biennial of Dakar, 13th Biennial of Contemporary African Art; Curator: Simon Njami

NEW FEELINGS, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Portland, USA; Curator: Modou Dieng

2017 Europalia, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium; Curators: Laura Herman and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence

Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters 11th Edition, Biennale of African Photography; Curator: Marie-Ann Yamsi

Transcultural Protocol, performance in collaboration with Admire Kamudzengerere, Zimbabwe Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale; curator: Raphael Chikukwa

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

2016 Zig Zag Zig, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 We're Almost There, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois, USA

2018 The Blind Leader, Catinca Tabacaru, New York

2016 Pastoral, AC Repair Co., Toronto, Canada

2015 Effects of Displacement, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA

Pastoral, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2014 The Premier of the Audition Acts as Symbol, REH-TRANSFORMER, Berlin, Germany; Curator: Marcus Kettel

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2019 hybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Curator: Anna Nowak

Hypermaremma Chapter II, ‘La Città Sommersa’ Antica Città de Cosa, Ansedonia, Italy
All gifted, אלמסן / المخزن / Almacén, Jaffa, Israel; Curator: Netta Laufer
Casted, Plek, Ghent, Belgium; Curators: Meer Collective
TENANTS by Rachel Monosov, Margarita Maximova, and Jura Shust with Augustus Ruth, Giorgio Galotti, Torino, Italy
41st Jalovik Art Colony, Kuća Kralja Petra, Serbia; Curators: Branislav Nikolic & Catinca Tabacaru

2018 Transcultural Transience, Curatorial collective Karma Ltd. Extended, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Fear of Change: true scenes and flat screens, Site131, Dallas, Texas, USA

2017 Transcultural Protocol, performance in collaboration with Admire Kamudzengerere, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

An Orbit, The Drake, Toronto, Canada

TERRA NOVA, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA

LEŽERNA RAZMJENA BEZ PANIKE, Charlama Contemporary Art Gallery, Sarajevo

2016 Fragmented Time, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA

Zig Zag Zim, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA

A perfect storm for business, The Governor’s Mansion, Ghent, Belgium; Curators: Liene Aerts, Wim Lambrecht and Wim Waelput

2015 Devotion, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Curators: William Corwin and Catinca Tabacaru Art

Prize CBM (Premio “Carlo “Bonatto” Minella), Turin, Italy

La Vie mode d’emploi, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium

“Worlds of Nature”, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2014 The Last Brucennial, New York, USA; 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, USA; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru

Special Project, Bit Map, Ghent, Belgium

100 Years in the Underground, Steichen to Sherman, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York, USA

Conventional Codes Of, Lambert Fine Arts, New York, USA; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru

We Man, Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium

2011 Hard Pop, St-Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Curators: Liora Belford

Shepard Fairey and Co, Bradford Stewart Studios, Los Angeles, USA; curator: Catinca Tabacaru

SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS

2017 CTG Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe

2016 Impossible Meeting Point, Pool’s Island, Canada

2015 Pink Village, Harare, Zimbabwe

SCREENINGS

2017 Melodica, CIMMfest No.9, Chicago, USA
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, Chicago, USA

2015 The Visitor, 44th Edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam_, The Netherlands
The Visitor, Het Grote Ongeduld Xtra!, Cinemathek, Brussels, Belgium

RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS

2020 Künstlerhaus Lukas Scholarships, Germany (upcoming)

2019 German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo Fellowship, Praxisstipendium

live.make.share - Undecided Productions, Hanoi, Vietnam (Project in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Vietnam)

Serlachius Museum, Finland

2018 Jalovik Art Colony, Serbia
CRIPTA747, Torino, Italy

2017 CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions, 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 in collaboration with Matthew Evans, Pool’s Island, Canada
Dusangneuf Osangsett, Brussels, Belgium
Museum Dhondat-Dhaenens, House Van Wassenhove

2015 CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions, Harare, Zimbabwe

AWARDS & PRIZES

2017 Northern Trust Purchase Prize, EXPO Chicago
Europalia Curator’s Award, Belgium (Selected Artist); Curators: Laura Herman and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Art Institute of Chicago
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Foundation Blachère
Collection Praz-Delavallade
ST-ART by Serge Tiroche

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, Bideodromo Festival, Bilbao, Spain (3-day workshop)