name: Daniel Nicolae Djamo
born: May 4th 1987, in Bucharest, Romania
studies:
I. Ph.D:
2013-onwards Ph.D in Visual Arts at the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest
II. Masters:
2009-2011 Masters of Arts, Photography and Video art department of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest
III. Bachelor of Arts:
2010-2013 Bachelor of Arts, Photography and Video art department of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest
2010-2014 Pedagogical studies license, 1st & 2nd Modules, the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest
2012 Bachelor of Arts, Media Class of Muthesius Kunsthochschule - Academy of Fine Arts and Design from Kiel, Germany - ERASMUS scholarship
2006-2009 Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Bucharest
awards:
2013 Henkel Young Artist's Prize CEE winner, mumok, Vienna, Austria
2013 ESSL Award CEE Romania winner, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
2013 Silver Snowflake award winner of the Sarajevo International Winter Art Festival (XXIXth edition) for "The art of touch" video exhibition, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013 Festival Internacional de la Imagen Special Mention, Manizales, Colombia - "Menu"
2012 Videoformes Prix de la Création Vidéo nominee, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2012 Thermaikos International Film Festival Original Idea Award winner, Thessaloniki, Greece - "Menu"
2011 The National University of Fine Arts Grand Prize winner, Bucharest
2011 StartPoint Prize Romania winner and 2011 StartPoint Prize finalist, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2011 Walthamstow International Film Festival Experimental Award winner, London, England - "Menu"
2011 Luksuz Film Festival Most Innovative Film Award winner, Luksuz, Slovenia - "Menu"
2011 ESSL Award CEE nominee for Romania
residencies:
2014 Artist-in-Residence program of the Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture of Austria & KulturKontakt Austria
2014 RAVI - Residences ateliers Vivegnis International, the city of Liège and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Liège, Belgium
2013 Berlinale talent campus #11 invited as director, the 63rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale, February 8th - February 15th 2013
2012 Tokonoma residency - during dOCUMENTA 13, June 1st - June 22nd 2012, Kassel, Germany
2012 Sideways - Exploring pathscapes in Belgium (with support from ICR Bruxelles), August 17th - September 17th, 2012
2012 BEGEHUNGEN artist in residence, July 26th - August 22nd 2012, Chemnitz, Germany
2011 ICR Paris (Romanian Cultural Institute from Paris) residence de creation, August - September 2011 period
selected exhibitions:
I. single:
2014 "before the end" (November - December), The Briggait, Glasgow, Scotland (upcoming)
2013 "COSTS - docking journals" (June), Victoria Art Gallery - Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest - "The Bolivian affair", "Bread at Ferma Rosie", "The notebook", "Buni" and "Deposit no. 38", curator: self-curated (license exhibition)
2013 "дo Ende" (February - March), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest - "x marks the spot", "Granny's house", "The notebook", "дo Ende", "RULAND" and videoworks, curator: Petru Lucaci (with support from Iosif Kiraly and Silvia Saitoc)
2012 "showroom" (July - August), Calina Gallery, Timisoara, Romania - "index", "RULAND" and videoworks, curator: Diana Marincu
2012 "RULAND" (June), TOKONOMA, Kassel, Germany (with support from Kassel Kunsthochschule - Kassel Academy of Fine Arts), during dOCUMENTA 13 - "RULAND" and videoworks, curator: Daniel Stubenvoll
II. group:
2014 "mail art: eternal" (January - February), The Storefront, Chicago, USA - "azmenia.com"
2013 "ESSL Award CEE 2013" (December 2013 - March 2014), ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria - "The notebook", "RULAND", "index", "Buni"
2013 "Object abuse" (December 2013 - January 2014), Spinach, London, UK - untitled work
2013 "Forever young?" (November), Center for Youth Studies, Expoforum International & ANT - 7th pavilion of Lenexpo, St. Petersburg, Russia - "Menu"
2013 "It will had happened" (November), apARTe Gallery, Iasi, Romania - "The notebook"
2013 "Multimedia Showcase .3" (October), Park Art Magazine, AXA building, Porto, Portugal - "The flame from Tei"
2013 "Switched over" (October - November), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "Le noir subit"
2013 "Darkness at the edge..." (June - July), Propeller - Center for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada - "Le noir subit"
2013 "ESSL Art Award CEE Romania" (May - June), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "index", "Buni", "showroom" + "RULAND"
2013 "Now&After - Between Image and Personality" (April - May), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia - "Menu"
2013 "city: 2013" (May), Studio Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine - videoworks
2013 "Filmideo" (April), Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA - "Menu"
2013 "Sarajevo International Winter Art Festival - The art of touch", XXIXth edition (February - March), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - "Buni" project
2013 “The articulated painting” (January - February), Caminul artei gallery, Bucharest, Romania - “T watching the out the window puzzle”
2012 "SVEART - Biennale Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea di Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent European Art)" - representing The National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest (November 2012 - February 2013), Saint-Vincent, Italy - "index" and "The barricade"
2013 "5 in the house" (November 2012 - January 2013), Anca Poterasu gallery, Bucharest, Romania - “index”, “I lost HIM”, “The origin of art”
2012 "Aspects of Balkan Photography. New route in the time of crisis" - "Worlds under Construction" (October), Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece - "index", "The barricade"
2012 "Sideways Festival" - one month residency in Belgium with exhibitions in Menen, Herzele, Bruxelles, Turnhout, Zutendaal (August - September), Belgium - "Places of rest", "My road" and "291"
2012 "BEGEHUNGEN ART FESTIVAL" (August - September), Chemnitz, Germany - "RULAND", "index" and videoworks
2012 "INSIDE OUT" (July), Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany - videoworks
2012 "Cabinet of Curiosities" (July), Center for Quantum Technologies, The National University of Singapore, Singapore - "The fat lamb"
2012 "Niemandsland" (June - July), geh8, Dresden, Germany - videoworks
2012 "nichts - I have nothing to say and I am saying it" (June), geh8, Dresden, Germany - videoworks
2012 "Body world II" (April - May), Victoria Art gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "Routine"
2012 "Cross senses" (March - April), Panke Gallery, Berlin, Germany - "numquam fidelis"
2012 “BYOB” (March), Platforma of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania - “Sound of music”
2012 "StartPoint Prize 2011 selection" (January - March), Gavu Cheb Gallery, Cheb, Czech Republic - "index"
2011 “Body world” (December 2011 - March 2012), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - “Sound of music”, “Untitled Syria”
2011 "StartPoint Prize 2011" (October - December), Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic - "index"
2011 “Contempora” (September), Palace Hall, Bucharest, Romania - "Buni"
2011 IDEO\IDEIS - young art (August), during the VIth edition of IDEO\IDEIS Youth Theatre Festival, photography, Alexandria, Romania - "index"
2011 "Startpoint Prize Romania" (June - July), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "index"
2011 "Night of Cultural Institutes" (June), French Cultural Institute from Bucharest - "Buni" presentation in the “Bibliothèque Jeunesse” space, Bucharest, Romania
2011 "ESSL Art Award CEE Romania" (June), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "deposit no. 38"
2011 “Norway Grants” (May - June), Photo Annex of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2011 "The Other body" (May), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - ''index''
2011 "Body under surveillance" (March - April), Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania - "Buni"
2010 "Cities Methodologies" (October - November), the Scarlat-Ghica mansion & UNAgaleria - the Gallery of the National University of FIne Arts, Bucharest, Romania - "beyond the façade"
film festivals:
2014 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 27. International Film Festival, Germany - "And I loved only you..."
2013 BIEFF - Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania - "Menu"
2013 Rotterdam VHS Film Festival, 18th edition, Rotterdam, Netherlands - "Wishing on New Year's day"
2013 Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania - "The showroom"
2013 Naoussa International Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece - "And I loved only you..."
2013 Docuart Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania - "The barricade"
2013 Festival of Migrant Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia - "And I loved only you..."
2013 Experiments in Cinema v8.53 Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - "Le noir subit"
2012 Balkans Beyond Borders Film Festival, Tirana, Albania - "Menu"
2012 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 25. International Film Festival, Germany - "Menu"
2012 The 8th Berlin International Director's Lounge, Berlin, Germany - "Menu"
2012 Experiments in Cinema v7.9 Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - "Menu"
2012 Sardinia Film Festival, Sassari, Italy - "The barricade"
2012 Romanian Film Festival at Stanford and UC Berkeley - Romanian Experimental Movies, Berkeley (CA), USA - "Menu"
2012 Thermaikos International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece - "Menu"
2011 Walthamstow International Film Festival, London, England - "Menu"
2011 Luksuz Film Festival, Slovenia - "Menu"
2011 Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, England - "Menu"
art festivals:
2013 The International Motion Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus - "Le noir subit"
2013 Festival Internacional de la Imagen - the XIth International Image Festival - The Media Monographic show, Manizales, Colombia - "And I loved only you..." and "Menu"
2013 Athens International Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece - "Le noir subit"
2013 Cairo Video Festival, 5th edition, Cairo, Egypt - "The silver wolf"
2013 Miden Video Art Festival, Kalamata, Greece - "The fat lamb"
2013 The TGV in 50 seconds video art project - "La nuit du train au cinéma", in honor of the Lumière brothers film “L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat” (1895), screening in the "EDEN" cinema hall of La Ciotat, on the occasion of ”Marseille-Provence 2013, Capitale Européenne de la Culture”, CO.AR.CO. Association Culturelle, Marseille, France - "And I loved only you ..."
2012 AVIFF Cannes - Art Show Cannes - Photo and Video, during Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France - "Menu"
2012 Videoformes - Festival d'Art Video & Cultures Numeriques (Video Art & Digital Cultures Festival), Clermont-Ferrand, France - "Menu"
2012 Cologne OFF VIII – Cologne International Videoart Festival - "Untitled Syria"
2012 Athens International Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece - "The fat lamb"
2012 Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques - 25th edition, Marseille, France - "Menu"
2012 FIVA - Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Sorts"
2011 UAMO Art Festival, Munich, Germany - "Menu"
2011 Cologne OFF VII – Cologne International Videoart Festival - "Menu"
2011 Reworks Art Festival - Music and Contemporary Art, Pireus, Greece - "Menu"
2011 VIDEO FACADE Video Art Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - "Menu"
2011 Simultan Videoart Festival, Timisoara, Romania - "Menu"
2011 EBIENALE - George Enescu Art Biennale, during the 2011 George Enescu Music Festival, Bucharest, Romania - "Buni", "Deposit No. 38", "Menu
2011 ELIA (European League of Institutes of Arts) NEU\NOW Live Festival in Tallin, selected to represent Romania for Visual Arts (Photography - "Deposit No. 38" and "Index") and Video\Film section ("Menu" and "The fat lamb"), Tallin, Estonia, November 2011
curatorial activity:
curator of "Marotte", alongside Marius Tanasescu, September 2013, Victoria Art Gallery, Bucharest
curator of the "Enescu screenings" short film program at Grand Cinema Digiplex, September 2013, Bucharest
workshops and other activities:
portfolio reviewer of photography, alongside Constantin Nimigean and Tudor Prisacariu, during Romanian Design week - LOVE ISSUE Portfolio talks, May 23rd, 2013, Stirbei Palace, Bucharest
attendant at Cristi Puiu's masterclass entitled "Observational documentary and Wang Bing's works", October 25th-October 30th 2011, 2011 Astra Film Festival, Sibiu
attendant at Zalka Imre's workshop of XIXth century technique photography, June 21st- June 26th 2010, the Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bucharest

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