Born 1996, Bucharest, RO. Lives and works in London, UK.
Catinca Malaimare is a Romanian-born London based artist. Malaimare received an MA from the Royal Academy Schools in 2022. Performing alongside anthropomorphised technologies, Malaimare’s choreography takes the form of performance, sculpture, audio and film, revealing our intimate relationship with technological tools. Using poetic, spiritual gestures, Malaimare facilitates ephemeral, fleeting moments which acknowledges our technological co-dependence.
2018–2022
Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Programme
2015–2018
University for the Creative Arts (UK), BFA
2022
cross-border, Very Contemporary Performance Festival, Kunsthaus NRW, in partnership with IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
Best Boy Electric, 20th Biennial of Art Pančevo, refinery monastery, Pančevo, Serbia
2021
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Collateral Event to Art Encounters Biennial, Casa Artelor, Timișoara, Romania
2016
What is the Future of Art?, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2023
Solo, Final Hot Desert, London, UK (forthcoming)
Astropriest, Brooke Benington Gallery, London, UK
Gamma and Omega hold hands, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2022
Emergency Ex, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, RO
RA Show 2022, MFA, London, UK
2020
22.200 LEDs, Another Mobile Gallery, Romania
LO Sodium, ZIP exhibition, Off Site Project (Online)
2023
on the flip side was, Guts Gallery Projects, curated by Kollective Collective, London, UK
Player Piano, The Art Station, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Saxmundham, UK
The Picture, Brooke Benington Gallery, London, UK
2022
Romanian Female Artists, Maverick Chelsea, New York, NY
STAYCATION, SANDWICH, Bucharest, Romania
2021
Dreams Made Flesh, Group show w/ Xavier Robles de Medina, Zoe Williams & Bruno Zhu, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (Bucharest, RO)
2020
RA Premiums Interim Show, Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
2019–2018
Landgrab, Group show, Sadie Coles HQ (London, UK)
2017
We Are All Involved In This Mess, Enclave Lab Goldsmiths (London)
Prefix is post-, Lewisham Art House (London)
2016
Building a better world, curators Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Stefan Szczelkun
Art Fairs
2023
Artissima, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, IT (forthcoming)
2021
ART-O-RAMA, Immaterial Salon, FR (virtual)
Press
Artlyst: London Gallery Weekend, What Artlyst loved, Nico Cos Earle
Artforum: "Significant Others", Osman Can Yerebakan at the Art Encounters Biennial, October 2021
Interview: Catinca Malaimare with Ioan Big, Zile si Nopti magazine, July 2021
Publications
Studio Conversations with Catinca Malaimare, Romanian Cultural Institute (NY, USA)
Dreams Made Flesh, Booklet, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo, published on the occasion of Dreams Made Flesh at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery. Inspired by the Romanian tradition tăierea moțului
art, artist, curator, institutions in a local / global context..., b9 tranzit.ro, Feature
On The Road, Another Mobile Gallery. Published on the occasion of 22.200 LEDs curated by Robert Bajenaru
2022
André Dunoyer de Segonzac Prize
2021
STAYCATION, Symposium Residency, CTG Collective & SANDWICH,
Bucharest, RO
2020
Ivor Rey Fund, Artist Development Bursary
Agorama & Off Site Project, Artist-in-residence, Raven Row
Ivor Rey Travel Prize (Paris, FR)
2019
Residency & Research, Tokyo University of Arts, Sculpture and Intermedia Departments Geidai (Tokyo, JPN)
2023
Astropriest, for London Gallery Weekend, Brooke Benington Gallery, London, UK
2021
Seedy Pink, Sandwich Offspace, Bucharest, Romania
Live Rehearsal, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
A Sight Better Than The Others, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Romania
2020
Two Screens Left Turned On At Night, Royal Academy of Arts, UK
It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight II, Habeas Corpus (We Have A Body), Royal Academy of Arts, UK
2019
It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight I, RA, UK
Bad sights. Bad Sights Ahead, Lecture Performance, 16 Nicholson Street Gallery,SCT
Why not pour video into our eyes?, TUA Geidai, Japan
SUNs, STAMPEDE, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2018
It’s All Light Under These Neon Eyes, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
I am the System Master (No Signal), A Surrogate, Degree Show, Farnham, UK
2017
Intimaterial Symposium, Royal College of Arts & Techne, London, UK
We are all involved in this mess, Enclave Lab, Goldsmiths, London, UK
2022
Emergency Ex, Somers Gallery, London UK
2021
Eight of Clubs |♣|, PERFORMANCE DAY 3rd edition Festival, curated by Alex Mirutziu, Centrul de Interes (Cluj-Napoca)
2020
LO Sodium, Off Site Project (Virtual)
Artists’ Film, SEED, Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Hastings, UK
Pilot Screens, PERICLO, Wales