• Nona Inescu C.V.
  • Born in 1991.
  • Lives and works between Athens, Greece and Bucharest, Romania.
  • Education
  • 2013 – 2016
  • National University of Arts, Bucharest, Photography and Video Department
  • Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Fashion Design Department
  • Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
  • Awards
  • 2022 Premio Ad occhi chiusi… Fondazione Merz & Artissima
  • 2021 Ducato Prize for Contemporary Art
  • Residencies
  • 2018
  • XXXII Ateliers Internationaux at Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
  • 2022
  • Cite internationale des arts, Paris, FR
  • 2023
  • Ad occhi chiusi… Fondazione Merz & ZACentrale, Palermo, IT
  • Solo exhibitions
  • 2024
  • Preservers (Case for the Earth), Orto Botanico di Palermo, Palermo, IT
  • Daisyworld, upcoming in August, Brooke Bennington, London, UK
  • Anthology (working title), upcoming in October, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2023
  • Grey Gardens, Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Saint-Fons, FR
  • Offerings, KVOST, Schaufenster, Berlin, DE
  • 2022
  • Relics. Quarries. Reliquaries, Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
  • 2021
  • Waterlily Jaguar, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
  • Venus Trap, Fiac!, solo presentation with SpazioA, Paris, FR
  • 2019
  • Corporealle, Künstlerhaus Bremen, curated by Nadja Quante, Bremen, DE
  • Verterberries, solo presentation with Sabot Gallery at Liste, Basel, CH
  • Acumen, Porcino, curated by Jesi Khadivi, Berlin, DE
  • 2018
  • An animal that was once thought to be a plant that transformed into stone,
  • SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
  • 2017
  • Lithosomes, Exile, Berlin, DE
  • 2016
  • Conversation with a Stone, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
  • Her latent image, Kube, Bucharest, RO
  • 2015
  • Hands don’t make magic, Sabot Gallery, Cluj, RO
  • Group exhibitions
  • 2025
  • Touch Nature, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, curated by Sabine Fellner, Linz, AT
  • Imagine Climate Dignity, Künstlerhaus Wien, curated by Barbara Höller & Simon Mraz, Vienna, AT
  • 2024
  • Control, Goethe Institut Bukarest, curated by Catinca Tabacaru & Raphael Guilbert, Bucharest, RO
  • Ruined, Sylvia Kouvali  x Import Export, part of Condo, London, UK
  • Touch Nature, SAC, Bucharest, RO
  • Home 2124, Rebonkers, curated by Dimitar Solakov, Varna, BG
  • In the mood for Interruption, curated by Tevz Logar, Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AT
  • The Mountain Touch, curated by Andrea Lerda, MUSE (Museo delle Scienze di Trento), Trento, IT
  • Earthcake, curated by Living Content (Adriana Blidaru), Targu Ocna Salt Mine, RO
  • Like Plants. An Ecological Perspective on Migration, curated by Anca Rujoiu, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO
  • Subjunctive mood, Lokayata Art Gallery, New Delhi, IN
  • 2023
  • Matrix Bodies, curated by Frederike Sperling, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
  • rooted, AKINCI Gallery, Amsterdam, NE
  • Wannseewandeln, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin, DE
  • I constantly wonder what time it is where you are, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
  • DER BIO-ADAPTER, Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, DE
  • Gems for the Garden, curated by Adriana Blidariu, Botanical Garden of Bucharest, RO
  • State of Emergence, curated by Lesia Kulchynska & Catinca Tabacaru, NADA East Broadway, NY, USA
  • Mental Pictures, Import/Export, Warsaw, PL
  • 2022
  • Devenir Fleur, curated by Helene Guenin & Rebecca Francois, MAMAC, Nice, FR
  • Entangled Life: The Forest as Neural Network, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, RADIUS, Delft, NE
  • Plant Kingdom, Budapest Galeria, Budapest, HU
  • Aliens are temporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  • Cassandra Complex, curated by Adriana Blidariu, basis, Frankfurt, DE
  • The Mountain Touch, Museo della Montagna, Torino, IT
  • My Tenderness is my biggest weapon, curated by Apart Collective, Bratislava, SK
  • Oblivion, Abundance and Aquarius, Open, Berlin, DE
  • 2021
  • You sit in a garden, curated by Chris Andrews, Centre Clark, Montreal, CA
  • Ducato Prize, Volumnia Space, Piacenza, IT
  • Electric Crossroads, curated by Radu Oreian, Bubble and Squeak, Brussels, BE
  • Harvest Home, curated by Veronika Cechova, AVU Pop Up Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • Under Pressure, curated by Living Content, Mobius Gallery, Bucharest, RO
  • How to be together, Art Encounters Biennale, curated by Kasia Redzis and Mihnea Mircan, Timișoara, RO Musikprotokoll, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AT
  • The Venus Trap, solo presentation with SpazioA gallery at FIAC, Paris, FR
  • 2020
  • Flow, curated by SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
  • touch, Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
  • Olev Subbi: Landscape from the End of Times, curated by Àngels Miralda, Tallinn Art Hall, EE Walking In Ice, curated by Justin Polera & Jesi Khadivi, XC Hua gallery, Berlin, DE Pulse /ˈsɪstəm/, initiated by Leo Fourdrinier, Galerie L’Axolotl, Toulon, FR
  • 2019
  • The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic, curated by
  • Antonia Alampi, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, DE
  • Taking Root, curated by Jurriaan Benschop, Kunst Im Tunnel (KIT), Dusseldorf, DE The invisible inhale of an oceanic carbon breath, curated by Cristina Ramos, Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología, Zaragoza, SP
  • Rethinking the Image of the World – Projects and Sketches, curated by Cristian Nae & Adrian Bojenoiu, Le Mill, La Louviere, BE
  • Mutagenèse, curated by Nicolas de Ribou & Joris Thomas, Maison R&C,
  • Marseille, FR
  • Interconnection: On Bodies of Water, curated by Veronika Čechová & Tereza
  • Jindrová, Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia, BG
  • Imbroglio (or the ability to incorporate possibilities), curated by Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, IT
  • Tales of the Haunted and the Body, Casa Cristea Schneider, curated by
  • Saskia Höfler-Hohengarten, Berlin, DE
  • What remains is what the poets found, PS120, curated by Jesi Khadivi & Justin
  • Polera, Berlin, DE
  • 2018
  • Manufacturing Nature / Naturalizing The Synthetic, curated by Diana Marincu,
  • Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR
  • Sometimes I can see it all perfectly, curated by Alisha Danscher, Soy Capitan,  Berlin, DE
  • Flood-Tide, Love Unlimited, Glasgow, UK
  • 10 Years of Love, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
  • Blood, Stop, Space, Gold, curated by Diana Marincu, JosedelaFuente Gallery,
  • Santander, ES
  • The Inhabitant, curated by Christina Gigliotti, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2017
  • Life A User’s Manual, Art Encounters, curated by Ami Barak and Diana Marincu, Timișoara, RO
  • Becoming an Apricot.., Survival Kit 9, curated by Inga Lace, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Solvita Kresse, Riga, LT
  • Notes on a Shell, curated by Tiago Abreu Pinto & Sergio Verastegui, Marseille, FR Monsone, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, RO
  • Grotto Capitale, Exile, Berlin, DE
  • Notes on the Afterlife, curated by Rokolectiv Festival, Salonul de Proiecte,
  • Bucharest, RO
  • Aerial Roots, Trapez, curated by Nikolett Eross, Budapest, HU
  • 2016
  • Gestures of Tomorrow, Kunstverein Nuernberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft,
  • curated by Judith Grobe, Nuernberg, DE
  • Camera Plus. Biennial of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image I, Iasi, RO
  • The Disappearance of Technology, ODD, curated by Mircea Nicolae, Bucharest, RO Künstlich! Natürlich!, Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, RO
  • 2015
  • Objects of Desire, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
  • 14 x 14 – Survey of the Danube Region, MNAC Anexa, Bucharest, RO