Born 1996, Bucharest, RO. Lives and works in London, UK.
Catinca Malaimare is a London based artist and current postgraduate student at The Royal Academy of Arts. Performing alongside anthropomorphised technologies, Malaimare’s choreography manifests our intimate relationship with photographic tools and the screens onto which they project our visages.
Catinca Malaimare is represented by Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
For portfolio enquiries, please contact the artist and the Gallery.
2018–2022
Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Diploma
2015–2018
University for the Creative Arts, BA (Hons) Fine Art and Contemporary Curating
VIDEO+RADIO+LIVE, Art Encounters Biennial (Timisoara, RO)
STAYCATION, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery + SANDWICH (Bucharest, Romania)
Agorama & Off Site Project, Group show (London, UK)
2021
Hope Narcissism Takes Me Back, Textual performance, Immaterial Salon at ART-O-RAMA (virtual)
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
22.200 LEDs, Solo, Another Mobile Gallery, curated by Robert Bajenaru (Bucharest, RO)
LO Sodium, Solo ZIP exhibition, Agorama & Off Site Project (virtual)
RA Premiums Interim Show, Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
It’s almost attractive to seal your lips tight, Group show, Habeas Corpus (We Have A Body)
2019–2018
Bad sights. Bad Sights Ahead, Lecture-performance, 16 Nicholson Street, (Glasgow, SCT)
Why not pour video into our eyes?, Performance, TUA Geidai (Tokyo, JPN)
SUNs, STAMPEDE, Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
Landgrab, Group show, Sadie Coles HQ (London, UK)
It’s All Light Under These Neon Eyes, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
SEED, Coastal Currents Arts Festival (Hastings)
2018–2016
Pilot Screens, PERICLO (Wales)
MONO, The Courtyard Theatre (London)
Intimaterial Symposium, Royal College of Art and Techne (London)
We Are All Involved In This Mess, Enclave Lab Goldsmiths (London)
Prefix is post-, Lewisham Art House (London)
Building a better world, curators Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Stefan Szczelkun
What is the Future of Art?, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (London)
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
Press
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
2021
STAYCATION, Symposium Residency, a collaborative project b/w CTG Collective & SANDWICH Gallery. Curated by Catinca Tabacaru, Rachel Monosov & Daniela Palimariu. Suported by Goethe-Institut Bukarest (Bucharest, RO)
2020
Agorama & Off Site Project, Artist-in-residence, Raven Row
Ivor Rey Travel Bursary (Paris, FR)
Ivor Rey Scholarship Fund, Royal Academy, Development Bursary
2019
Residency & Research, Tokyo University of Arts, Sculpture and Intermedia Departments Geidai (Tokyo, JPN)
2021
A sight better than the others, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo (Bucharest)
2020
22.200 LEDs, Another Mobile Gallery, curated by Robert Bajenaru (Bucharest)
Two Screens Left Turned On At Night, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight II, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
2019
It’s Almost Attractive To Seal Your Lips Tight I, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
Bad sights. Bad Sights Ahead, Lecture Performance, 16 Nicholson Street, (Glasgow)
Why not pour video into our eyes?, TUA Geidai (Tokyo)
SUNs, STAMPEDE, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
2018
It’s All Light Under These Neon Eyes, Royal Academy of Arts (London)
I am the System Master (No Signal), A Surrogate, Degree Show (Farnham)
2017
We are all involved in this mess, Enclave Lab, Goldsmiths (London)
Intimaterial Symposium, Royal College of Arts and Techne (London)
2021
Eight of Clubs |♣|, PERFORMANCE DAY 3rd edition Festival, curated by Alex Mirutziu, Centrul de Interes (Cluj-Napoca)
Eight of Clubs |♣|, curated by Luís Manuel Araújo, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (Bucharest)
2020
LO Sodium, Another Mobile Gallery, curated by Robert Bajenaru (Bucharest)
LO Sodium, Off Site Project (online)
2018
Artists’ Film at SEED, Coastal Currents Arts Festival (Hastings)
Pilot Screens, PERICLO (Wales) (curated)
2017
MONO, curator Rafal Zajko, The Courtyard Theatre (London)
Working Press Archive, Stefan Szczelkun (UK)
2016
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (London)