Mitte, Berlin
Anca Munteanu Rimnic
Treatise on Bruises
Plan BTreatise on Bruises, Anca Munteanu Rimnic’s second solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B, brings together a group of new works across a wide range of media, including sculpture, film, photography, and textile. Through an intuitive and imaginative assembly of objects, the artist explores how resonant conditions can be materially produced or inscribed. Her practice centers on the relationships between body, object, and meaning — between self-attribution and external designation, between the visible and the felt. Munteanu Rimnic engages with transitional zones in which objects become sites of projection, opening up specific modes of interpretation. “Anca Munteanu Rimnic’s new exhibition is a treatise on bruises, an expanded investigation of skins as conceptual and metaphorical places for her works, skins as they are impacted and transformed by internal or external forces. Skin’s task to delimit separate bodies is made diffuse or blurry, allegorically turned against itself and into a study of confluence. Battered or caressed, resonated or muffled under layers of padding, exposed to inimical circumstances or treated like a precious relic, it mediates the pairing of the corporeal and the abstract in the artist’s project, unifying things and selves and creating a space where they can be imprinted onto one another, engaged in an exchange of attributes.” —Mihnea Mircan Anca Munteanu Rimnic (b. 1974 in Bucharest, Romania) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Berlin, in 2001, and continued her studies at the ArtCenter Pasadena and at the California Institute of the Arts, California, USA, until 2004. Selected solo exhibitions and performances include: Rite for Fall (performance), Kampnagel, Hamburg (2024); Die for Life (performance), Neumarkt Theater, Zurich (2022); Lakta, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar (2016); Nest, Kunstverein Braunschweig (2015); Hodoronc Tronc, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk (2015); Ugly Show for Blind People, Galeria Plan B, Cluj (2013); X – Schule, HAU/Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2011); Urbania, Schauspielhaus, Zurich (2011); Der Schalter (performance), Schauspielhaus, Zurich (2010); Who should I sleep with? (performance), Kampnagel Hamburg (2007). Selected group exhibitions include: Hocus Focus, Conector / Off-space, Cluj (2025); untranquil now, Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2024); On Connection, Ephra Haus, Berlin (2024); In Touch, National Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu (2023); Papier & Klang, Paper Museum, Berlin (2023); My Rhino is not a Myth, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara (2023); State Of Hope, Architecture Biennial, Timisoara (2022); Amuse Bouche, Museum Tinguely, Basel (2020); Persona, MuCEM Museum, Marseilles (2019); Bear Festival, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2019); End of Future, Museo La Tallera, Cuernavaca (2019); Ex-east, PCF, Paris (2019); The Principle of Migration, Foundation for the Arts, New York (2019); Performance Biennial, Buenos Aires (2018); Per formare una collezione #4, Museo Madre, Naples (2017); Dejima, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2017); E´st Prologue, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016); Cabaret au Salon, Salon de Montrouge, Paris (2016); Videozoom, Sala 1, Rome (2015); Brancusi Effekt, Kunsthalle, Vienna (2014); A few grams of red yellow, blue, Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2014); Good Girls, National Museum of Contemporary Art/MNAC, Bucharest (2013), Dada Moscow, 4. Moskau Biennial (2011).