Anetta Mona Chișa & Lucia Tkáčová

Bio

Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová have been working in collaboration since 2000. They both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. At the heart of their collaboration lies their quest to find a means of reconciling the political with the aesthetic validity of art. Their recent solo exhibitions include: a no, A voLcanic attaCk, a hiT, a Muse, Museumcultuur Strombeek Gent (2018), i aM a hoT ice, an avAst Luck, a no aCt, Soga gallery, Bratislava (2017), checkouT a Mania, aCt A saLvation, Plusminusnula gallery, Zilina (2017), a huMan, a Lack, a Coin, a cAst. voTe it, Future Museum, Bucharest (2017), I look at a sun, i am a catch, a cave ant, Rotwand gallery, Zurich (2016), ah, soul in a coma, act naive, attack, GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2015), aCtivaTe aMok, not a causaL chAin, waterside contemporary, London (2013). Their projects have been featured in numerous international exhibitions from Art in General New York, n.b.k. Berlin, the 54th Venice Biennale, MoCA Miami, MuMoK Vienna, Manifesta 10, The Power Plant Toronto, Taipei Biennale, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, ZKM | Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art to National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest among others.

Private Collection

2005 - 2010
various items, case, dimensions variable

Private Collection is a collection of various objects that we stole in the years 2005 to 2010 from renowned private galleries for contemporary art in Paris, Berlin, London, Vienna, Zurich, Rome and New York. We focused only on the most known galleries that have a strong position on the market, participate in the most prestigious art fairs and events, dictate the trends of the whole artistic machinery and set themselves up as the arbiters of qualities and value of art. However, while stealing we focused exclusively-solely on banal things that are easily replaceable creating a collection of discrete objects from everyday life. Conceived as a piratical gesture (a volitive and intentional disrupt of the existing chain of artist-curator-collector), the work is an attempt to undermine the orthodoxies of a capitalist market within the art system.

Exhibitions where the work was displayed:

2017 Collection Collective. Template for a Future Model of Representation, tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2015 Soft Codes, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
2012 Rearview Mirror, Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta
2011 Rearview Mirror, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art gallery, Toronto
2010 How to Make a Revolution, MLAC - Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2009 The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2008 Flowers of Our Lives, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
2008 Art Basel (Christine Koenig Gallery Vienna)
2008 Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, n.b.k, Berlin
2007 L'Europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2007 The Collection, Trafo gallery, Budapest
2006 The Brno House of Arts
2006 Viennafair (Space gallery, Bratislava)
2006 Ortografio de Potenco, Futura gallery, Prague

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“Private Collection” in the show “The Making of Art”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Photo credit: Norbert Miguletz Fotografie