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For Rotterdam artists

Oana Clitan

conceptual - digital - digital technology - installation - internet - media

Oana Clitan is an artist and designer exploring how language and contemporary communication are influenced by technology and media.

In her multidisciplinary practice she likes to remix and recontextualize existing materials - contemporary visuals found on the internet or old archive materials. Her works range from multi-screen installations to intricate drawings and digitally printed textiles.

Through building various narratives and dystopian scenarios, in her latest projects she addresses themes such as propaganda and rhetorics about technology, the post-truth society and the expression of online identity. One persistent point of interest is the transition between communicating with text to communicating with images in online conversations and the use of animated GIFs as rhetorical devices.

www.oanaclitan.com

Ars Electronica festival

Exhibition / presentation

07-09-2022 t/m 11-09-2022
In collaboration with: V2_ Lab for Unstable Media
Location: Ars Electronica festival, Linz

T(HUIS) - Rotterdam Architecture Month

Exhibition / presentation

01-06-2022 t/m 30-06-2022
Location: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Visions of 010 melting @ Motel Mozaïque

Exhibition / presentation

21-04-2022 t/m 23-04-2022
In collaboration with: V2_
Location: Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Was uns berifft // As far as we're concerned Dresden

Exhibition / presentation

24-02-2022 t/m 08-03-2022
Location: Gallery Raskolnikow & Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden

Was unsberifft // As far as we're concerned Rotterdam

Exhibition / presentation

15-10-2021 t/m 12-11-2021
Location: The Archive, Rotterdam

Deep Truth / Future news, official screens

Exhibition / presentation

09-09-2021 t/m 09-01-2022
Location: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/content/2995/en/deep-truth

Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2021 / Art Evening XL

Exhibition / presentation

09-09-2021 t/m 11-09-2021
Location: V2, Rotterdam

Summer Sessions 2021

Residencies / exchange

01-07-2021 t/m 12-09-2021
In collaboration with: V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media
Location: V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
During this residency I developed the first leg of my project '...we were but electrons on the threshold'.
https://v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions-2021

Mind Over Matter / Future news, official screens

Exhibition / presentation

01-12-2020 t/m 14-03-2021
Location: Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden

AiR at C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts

Residencies / exchange

01-09-2020 t/m 31-10-2020
Location: C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden

The New Current / Future news, official screens

Exhibition / presentation

05-02-2020 t/m 09-02-2020
Location: Spanish Cube, Rotterdam
https://www.thenewcurrent.org/

Open Archive / Future news, official screens

Exhibition / presentation

03-11-2019 t/m 10-01-2020
Location: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
https://collectie.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/sites/default/files/open_archief_desktop_4_0.pdf

Open Archive / Dutch Design Week 2020 / Future news, official screens

Exhibition / presentation

17-10-2019 t/m 25-10-2019
Location: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
https://collectie.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/activiteiten/open-archief

LEX4.1

Exhibition / presentation

06-09-2019 t/m 30-09-2019
In collaboration with: Nicole Sciarone
Location: Gallery Lecq, Rotterdam
http://www.galerielecq.nl/index.php/exposities/37-6-septemberi-12-oktober-2019-oano-clitan-nicole-scarione

'...all else is poor translation'

Exhibition / presentation

13-09-2019 t/m 30-09-2019
Location: White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca
https://www.facebook.com/whitecuib/photos?tab=album&album_id=2511384742281616&ref=page_internal

APA Kabar? / Disputation between rocks and heats

Exhibition / presentation

29-03-2019 t/m 26-05-2019
Location: MAMA, Rotterdam
https://thisismama.nl/en/events/home-en/apa-kabar-whats-new/

Hubbub le Scope Palermo

Exhibition / presentation

01-11-2018 t/m 20-11-2018
In collaboration with: Lavinia Xausa, Nikos Kostopoulos, Mihai Gui
Location: Borderline, Palermo

Vermont Studio Center residency

Residencies / exchange

01-10-2018 t/m 28-10-2018
Location: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Hubbub LeScope

Exhibition / presentation

17-11-2017 t/m 19-11-2017
In collaboration with: Lavinia Xausa, Nikos Kostopoulos, Mihai Gui
Location: Wolfart Projectspace, Rotterdam

Anthropomorphism of Media

Exhibition / presentation

26-08-2017 t/m 03-09-2017
In collaboration with: Sylvana d'Angelo, Larissa Monteiro
Location: Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver

Goodbye expectations. hello you.

Exhibition / presentation

09-06-2017 t/m 31-07-2017
Location: Visual Kontakt gallery, Cluj-Napoca

HAUS residency

Residencies / exchange

26-05-2017 t/m 08-06-2017
Location: Visual Kontakt gallery, Cluj-Napoca

Acknowledgments

Romanian Cultural Institute New York
2017

Open Archive (Het Nieuwe Instituut and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision supported by Mondriaan Fund)
2019

CBK Rotterdam (PPR grant)
2020

Stimulation Fund (for 'All the Feels' short film)
2020

Amarte Fonds (for 'All the Feels' short film)
2020

CBK Research and Development (for 'All the Feels' short film)
2021

Makers counter, Stichting Droom en Daad (project grant for 'Electrons')
2021

Municipality of Rotterdam (scenario grant for 'Electrons')
2021

Stimulation Fund Experiment Grant ('Pixels of lost time and space')
2021

National government
2020, The Hague