IULIA NISTOR

In her series of Evidence-paintings, Nistor focuses on depicting the contingent properties of objects rather than the objects themselves. This approach avoids a common aesthetic, as the paintings aim to capture the elusive nature of these accidental properties, thereby challenging the expectations we have of their representation.

“Paint has been applied to wooden supports with a precision and formal variety that implies accuracy to ulterior subjects, which yet remain undefinable,” Mark Prince describes Nistor’s works “It is consistent with this cultivation of paradox that, although Nistor’s paintings are riddled with illusionism, they question its workings rather than attempting to conceal them.”

Instead of communicating specific content, her paintings serve as tools to observe the mental processes involved in representation.

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Iulia Nistor** (*1985, 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 am Main. She participated in the 2024/25 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP).

Solo exhibitions include: paintings and propositions, Plan B, Berlin (2024); properties without object, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2023); Revenge of the Given, Plan B, Berlin (2019); Two Forward, Three Back, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (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: IT’S NO CRIME TO TICKLE TIME. 20 Years of Plan B, Plan B, Berlin (2025); Hocus Focus, Conector / OFF-space, Cluj Napoca (2025); Pictorial Resonance, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2024); Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo (2023); The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin Valley, Haifa (2021); Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale 2021, 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 am Main (2017); Mobile Biennale, Club Electroputere, Moldavia (2017); Gardeners Digest - The Yew, Societas Horti (CCA), Tbilisi (2016); The Real Kiss, JOHAN, Frankfurt am Main (2016); Appearance and Essence, ArtEncounters 1st edition, Timișoara (2015); P_reisträgerausstellung,_ Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (2014); Escapes: Colony. Endocosmos. Ulysses. Unsent Postcards, Museo Guerra Junqueiro, Porto (2013).

Courtesy Galeria Plan B