Iulia Nistor (born Bucharest) is a visual artist and philosopher, living and working in Berlin and São Paulo. Nistor graduated in philosophy and completed her doctorate at the University of Regensburg. She received a Meisterschüler in Fine Arts from Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. Nistor will participate in the 2024/25 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP).
Solo exhibitions include: paintings and propositions, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2024); properties without object, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2023); Revenge of the Given, Plan B, Berlin (2019); Eary Poise, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2017); Canary in a coal mine, Plan B, Berlin (2017); Before Interpretation, Galeria Electroputere, Craiova (2015); .../.../..., Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (2015); (i)... (ii)... (iii)... (iv)..., Aiurart Contemporary Art Space, Bucharest (2014).
Group exhibitions include: Hocus Focus, Conector / OFF-space, Cluj Napoca (2025); Pictorial Resonance, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2024); Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2023); Living Together–Crossing Borders, The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin Valley, Haifa (2021); Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale, Timisoara (2021); Rethinking the Image of the World - Projects and Sketches, Ianchelevici Museum, La Louviere (2019); Iulia Nistor și Achraf Touloub. Spațiu (Continuare și sfârșit), Rezidența BRD Scena9, Bucharest (2019); After Rubens, Städelmuseum, Frankfurt/Main (2018); Mobile Biennale, Club Electroputere, Moldavia (2017); Gardeners Digest - The Yew, Societas Horti (CCA), Tbilisi (2016); The Real Kiss, JOHAN, Frankfurt/Main (2016); Appearance and Essence, ArtEncounters 1st edition, Timișoara (2015); PreisträgerInnenausstellung, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (2014); Escapes: Colony. Endocosmos. Ulysses. Unsent Postcards, Museo Guerra Junqueiro, Porto (2013).
Courtesy Galeria Plan B

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