Anetta Mona Chişa, born in Romania, and Lucia Tkáčová, born in Slovakia, live and work in Prague and Bratislava. They have worked mostly together since 2000, their projects being based on personal stories and on a play with the concept of access to different forms of power (professional, political, ideological and geographical). They react to the commoditization of art by intentionally disrupting the existing power structures and by trying to produce autonomous value zones.

"In the background of most of the artworks created by Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová is the potency and intensity of masculine and feminine fantasies and their encounters. The enigma of power division becomes a bone of contention—no matter whether it is the tension around Baudrillardian symbolic sexual power or real power, represented by masculine hierarchical structures. Inversive and subversive principles turn hierarchical standards inside out and upside down: the high is degraded, the low is elevated, the secret becomes expressed, the hidden becomes visible, the intuited becomes proven . . . Dialogue as a preeminent communication model is built into the intrinsic structure of the artwork, taking the form of female conversational game-playing. It justifies the artists' highly subjective declarations and explains their characteristic reality-show approach to authenticity." (Mira Keratova)


Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova

Anetta Mona Chisa (born in Romania) and Lucia Tkacova (born in Slovakia) collaborate since 2000. They both graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and currently they live and work in Prague and Bratislava.


Solo Shows (selected):
2008
Romantic Economies, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2006
Everything is Work, Tranzit, Bratislava
Magical Recipes for Love, Happiness and Health, f.a.i.t. Gallery, Cracow
FAQ, Quartier 21 - Ovallhalle, Museums Quartier, Vienna
Ortografio de Potenco, Futura Gallery, Prague
2005
The Red Library, Jeleni Gallery, Prague
Videosomic, Space Gallery, Bratislava
2003
A Room of Their Own, Medium Gallery, Bratislava


Group Shows (selected):
2008
Re-Construction, Young Artists' Biennial, Bucharest
Taipei Biennial
Projected Visions, Apollonia, Strasbourg
L'Art en Europe, Domaine Pommery, Reims
The Way Things Are…, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun
Flowers of Our Lives, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun

2007
Grubi domachni produkt 2, Mars Gallery, Moscow
L'Europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Equal Opportunities, C2C Gallery, Prague
Humor Works, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Public art Bucharest, www.spatiul-public.ro
Bad ... (Curated by vvork), Galerie West, Hague
Bio Power, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
GDP, Municipal Gallery, Prague
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
The Space Between, The Daryl Roth Theatre, New York
New Video Art from Central Europe: Art Power, RISD Museum, Providence
Locus Solus, Myto Gallery, Mexico City
"art world etiquette", ThreeWalls, Chicago
The Collection, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Partners in Crime, Gallery MC, New York
Culture Clash, Bastard Gallery, Oslo
2006
Transfer, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad
YVAA, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina
Arrivals>Slovakia, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Marketenderin. Giveaways und Performances, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Runaway, Space Gallery, Bratislava
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Shadows of Humor, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw/Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko Biala
Keine Wunderkammer, C2C Gallery, Prague/Hit Gallery, Bratislava
My Love is Dead, Gallery Oel-Fruh, Hamburg
Innenansicht, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
Frisbee, Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno
2005
The Artist With Two Brains, NAB - Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
It Happenned Elsewhere, Vision Center, Cork
Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
Iconoclash, The Spitz Gallery, London
RE-SHUFFLE: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Art in General, New York
2003
Seconds, Open Gallery, Bratislava

Curated Shows:
January/2006 Man, Hero, Spirit, Machine, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
June/2003 ERROR, Hit Gallery, Bratislava

Residencies:
F+F, Zurich (January - March 2008)
Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw (March - May 2007)
Arslink, 911 Media Seattle (October - November 2006)
ISCP, New York City (September - October 2006)
Quartier21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (March - May 2006)
Cite des Arts Internationales, Paris (June- August 2005)
EUARCA, Waldviertel Austria (June - August 1998)

Awards:
2006 Oskar Cepan Award (Young Visual Artists Award)

Anetta Mona Chisa was born in Romania. In 2000 she graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Currently she lives and works in Prague. She often works in collaboration with Lucia Tkacova.


Selected solo exhibitions:
2008
Romantic Economies, Medium Gallery, Bratislava (with L. Tkacova)
2006
How life imitates art, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle
Everything is Work, Tranzit, Bratislava (with L. Tkacova)
Magical recipes for love, happiness and health, f.a.i.t. Gallery, Cracow (with L. Tkacova)
FAQ, Quartier 21 - Ovallhalle, Museums Quartier, Vienna
Ortografio de Potenco, Futura Gallery, Prague (with L. Tkacova)
2005
Nonstrategic Scenarios: The Red Library, Jeleni Gallery, Prague (with L. Tkacova)
Kohabyt, G99, Brno
Videosomic, Space Gallery, Bratislava (with L. Tkacova)
2003
A Room of Their Own, Medium Gallery, Bratislava (with L. Tkacova)
2002
Art for EU, Povazska galeria Zilina
2000
What you get is what you get, Priestor Gallery, Bratislava


Selected group exhibitions:
2008
Flowers of Our Life, Centre of Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu", Torun
2007
Grubi domachni produkt 2, Mars gallery, Moscow
L'Europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Equal Opportunities, C2C Gallery, Prague
Humor Works, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Bad ... (Curated by vvork), Galerie West, Hague
Designo Inferno, Karlin Studios, Prague
Just Between Us, Karlin Studios, Prague
Bio Power, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Public art Bucharest, www.spatiul-public.ro
Autopoesis, Sovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Fremdkoerper, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
GDP, City Gallery, Prague
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
The Space Between, The Daryl Roth Theatre, New York
New Video Art from Central Europe: Art Power, RISD Museum, Providence
Locus Solus, Myto Gallery, Mexico City
"art world etiquette", ThreeWalls, Chicago
The Collection, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Partners in Crime, Gallery MC, New York
Culture Clash, Bastard Gallery, Oslo
2006
Transfer, Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad
YVAA, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina
Arrivals>Slovakia, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Marketenderin. Giveaways und Performances, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Runaway, Space gallery, Bratislava
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Shadows of Humor, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw/Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko Biala
Keine Wunderkammer, C2C Gallery, Prague/Hit Gallery, Bratislava
My Love is Dead, Gallery Oel-Fruh, Hamburg
Innenansicht, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
Frisbee, Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno
Office Art, C2C Gallery, Prague
2005
The Artist With Two Brains, NAB - Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
It Happenned Elsewhere, Vision Center, Cork
Second Sight - International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, National Gallery, Prague
Kaleidoskop. Fiktionen von Kunst und Wissenschaft, Oktogon, Dresden
Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
Iconoclash, The Spitz gallery, London
Women Dialogue, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
RE-SHUFFLE: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Art in General, New York
2004
The Way like the World is, Turkish Bath, Iasi
E.U. positive, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
Billboart Gallery Europe
2003
Seconds, Open Gallery, Bratislava
PAL Fiction, Gallery Art Factory, Prague
Too Many Exceptions, Povazska galeria, Zilina
INOUT - Gallery Karolinum, Prague
The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Stadt in Sicht, KunstlerHaus, Vienna
Spheres of Valencies, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
Permanent Romanticism, GMB, Bratislava
2002
281m2, Galeria V. Spaly, Prague
Upsidedown, Galeria Priestor, Bratislava
(in)time, Povazska Galeria, Zilina
1999
What You See is What You Get, Medium gallery, Bratislava
Park of the Future, Western Gas Fabrik, Amsterdam

bjorn hegardt
b. 1974 lives and works in berlin and oslo

education (selection)

1997-2001 the academy of fine arts in trondheim (KIT), norway
1999-2000 kunsthochschule berlin (KHB), germany

exhibitions & publications (selection)
* collaboration with theo ågren
** catalogue produced to the exhibition

2007
Independent Drawing Gig 3 QUARTAIR contemporary art initiatives exhibition space the hague, holland
Anonymous Drawings 7 GLUE berlin
Framed by Fukt galleri F15 moss, norway (curated animation program for the show animotions) **
FUKT/D Drunk on Dreams fruehsorge contemporary drawings berlin **
(curated by bjørn hegardt & yane calovski)
Spazi Aperti romanian academy rome, italy **
launch of FUKT/D Drunk on Dreams the issue Liste07 basel, switzerland
fukt launch & screening at studio 5/servicio-ejecutivo brooklyn, new york, usa
wild west deutsch-amerikanisches institut (DAI) saarbrücken/st wendel

2006
IDG independent drawing gig II museum of contemporary art skopje macedonia
suspicious landscape konstepidemin göteborg sweden
the poster issue sometimes drawing publication
the square root of drawing temple bar gallery group exhibition, dublin, ireland **
skopje whirlwind press to exit project space skopje, macedonia *.r{}*
prosjektrommet 93-06 momentum exhibition space/galleri F15 moss, norway *
fukt exhibition, launch and screening at torpedo kunstbokhandelen oslo, norway
fukt launch and screening at galleri 54 gothenburg, sweden
fukt screening and launch of the animation issue museum of contemporary art skopje macedonia
fukt launch at 3rd berliner kunstsalon germany

2005
opening of torpedo/drawing show torpedo kunstbokhandel oslo norway
norske bilder oslo city hall/galleri brandstrup oslo norway **
projekt 0047 in trondheim galleri-sg trondheim norway (w.marius martinussen)
correlations kunstverein INGAN berlin germany
2005 fukt guest editorial in magazine D (D editor yane calovski)
vitamin D -new perspectives in drawing (anthology) phaidon press

2004
simple actions projekt0047 berlin (solo exhibition)
høstutstillingen kunstnernes hus oslo **
kjærlighet vestlandske kunstmisjon bergen, norway
betwixt & between galleri 21 malmö, sweden (w.mariken kramer & theo ågren)
wild west 516 magnifico artspace albuquerque, new mexico USA **
wild west landmark arts lubbock, texas USA **
copy cat mess hall chicago USA, curated by lars bang larsen and brett bloom
what a curious feeling by the way- gallery for contemporary art bergen, norway *

2003
look into the future and understand why iaspis galleri stockholm -curated by jan christensen
wild west augenblick - raum für gegenwartskunst berlin **
copy cat academy gallery aarhus, denmark
wild west basekamp philadelphia USA **
office at iaspis studio stockholm *
fukt 03 -launch soc.stockholm stockholm, sweden
artist books bomuldsfabrikken arendal, norway

2002

the drawing biennia galleri F15 moss norway **
galleri 54 gothenburg, sweden (with mariken kramer & theo ågren)
a given circumstance -gesture in a situ arcadia university art gallery -curator richard torchia & sandra firmin, philadelphia USA
vårutstillingen fotogalleriet oslo, norway
calm before the storm galleri F15 moss, norway *

2001
royal danish artacademy gallery copenhagen, denmark
trøndelagsutstillingen, center for contemporary art trondheim & touring in trøndelag, norway.
interviews trondheim museum of modern art norway **
interviews UKS galleri oslo **

2000
galleri 60 umeå, sweden (solo exhibition)
galerie mörkefischer grünbergerstr.17 berlin *

since 1999 editor for FUKT – a magazine for contemporary drawing

grants and residencies

2007 Ministry of foreign affairs Norway, for Liste07, Basel
2007 circolo scandinavo per artisti e scienziati rome, artist-in-residency, may 2007
2007 BKH (Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond) 1 year working grant
2006 norwegian governments working grant for younger artists, 1 year
2006 iaspis internationellt kulturutbyte
2004 billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond
2003/2005 office for contemporary art norway international support
2003 iaspis stockholm, 4 months artist-in-residency
2002 the art grants committee sweden, two years working grant
2002 helge ax:son johnsons foundation, travelling grant
2001 norwegian governments working grant for younger artists, 2 years
1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 norwegian artists foundation (vederlagsfonden) project grants
2002/2006 art council norway

The Necklace a cura di:
Scintilla Robina & Norberto Dalmata


Stefania Galegati (Bagnacavallo RA, 1973) lives and works in Italy and in New York. Her alter ego, Scintilla Robina is a young curator and collaborates with some magazines like «Donna Oggi», and «Fitness and Culture». She has been the art curator of the Diesel store in New York, since 2005. She lives and works in New York. Marco Raparelli (Rome, 1975) lives and works in Rome. His alter ego, Norberto Dalmata is a critic and philosopher. He studied at the Moderna University of Siena. He collaborates with many art magazines, like «Brufolo» and «Flash Art Slovakia». He lives in Rome.

Audacemente situata in una zona di Roma non propriamente ricca di eventi culturali e gallerie, la Purple Room, spazio dedicato alla produzione e promozione del "libro d'artista", la si cerca tra i palazzoni di Colli Albani, e quando la si trova ci si imbatte in una vera e propria straordinaria oasi aliena al quartiere.

l'idea della Purple Room si materializza ovviamente per caso nel corso di una buffa conversazione tra Dario Morgante e Luisa Montalto più di un anno fa, in tempi nei quali i loro rispettivi lavori gli permettevano di tergiversare in infinite conversazioni e progetti improbabili tra alghe fritte e riso alla cantonese. Evidentemente una di queste ipotesi si è realmente materializzata, e quindi mentre alle spalle un ribollente mondo editoriale prende forma tra le mani della purple press, di fronte, su strada, c'è questa vetrina pacata e curiosa.

si imbatte in personalità varie e decide, con tempi tutt'altro che frenetici di selezionare e realizzare libri di artisti che in questa prima fase sono selezionati da Norberto e Scintilla.
Il primo Libro realizzato e presentato per il debutto dello spazio è stato Evidence from Beneath di Bjorn Egardt, l'artista che vive e lavora tra berlino ed Oslo, Utilizza come media il disegno lieve particolareggiato ed insieme surreale nella scelata dei soggetti. il prossimo libro ed evento in programma è della coppia Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, stravagante coppia di artiste che vive a lavora tra Prague and Bratislava dal carattere artistico decisamente provocatorio.

In futuro sicuramente, oltre che di libri la Purple Room intende dedicarsi alla serigrafia d'autore, d'altra parte non è che uno degli strumenti di stampa con i quali gli artisti potrebbero confrontarsi e che questo spazio non intende trascurare.