Birth year
1977
Birth place
Humenné
Active in
Humenné, Brusel
Studied at
Institut tvůrčí fotografie, Slezská univerzita, Opava / Institute of Photography, University of Slezko, Opava, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Keywords
#fotografia
#performance
#video
#inštalácia
Last modified date
23.04.2021
Lucia Nimcová is an artist with a passion for the complicated, tragic and sometimes absurd set of social and cultural relations that form everyday reality in Eastern Europe. Consisting of photography, video, performance, and sound recording, her work attempts to capture both public and private experience within groups and communities of artist.
Solo Exhibitions (selection):
2017
Ukrainian Tango. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (BE)
2016
Khroniky. Krokus Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2015
From Room to Roam. (with Sholto Dobie & Martin Kollar), Albumarte, Rome (IT)
2014
Animal Imago. Images Vevey (CH)
2013
Blind Spots. Krokus Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2011
Old School. (with Alice Nikitinova), Billytown, Den Haag (NL)
2010
Open Studio. Heppen Transfer, Warszawa (PL)
An African Thunderstorm. Lumen Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2009
Unofficial. Donumenta, Regensburg (DE)
Leftovers. Funkeho Kolin (CZ)
Why bandits run faster than policemen? Heppen Transfer, Warszawa (PL)
2008
Unofficial. Kunstforum / Tresor, Vienna (AT)
Unofficial. Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina (SK)
Unofficial. Open Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Unofficial. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (IT)
2006
Instant Women. Art Hall Gallery (Kunstihoone), Tallinn (ES)
2005
Peripheries. Funkeho Kolín, Kolín (CZ)
Instant Women. Prague House of Photography, Prague (CZ)
2003
Slovakia 003. Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2019
The Influencing Machine. Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
Liquid Horizons. tranzit.sk, Bratislava (SK)
Camera Lucida. Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (AT)
2018
Michal Moravčík: UNITED WE STAND. Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica (SK)
Centralna, Srodkowo-Wschodnia. Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok (PL)
2017
Something Stronger Than Me. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (BE)
Facts and Clarifications. National Library, Riga (LT)
Double Coding. MUDAM (LU)
Childhood Dream. Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok (PL)
2016
Strategies and Tactics. Galerija Kortil (HR)
Two Worlds. Belgrade Cultural Centre (SRB)
Exhibition Posture. Contemporary Art Space, Batumi (GE)
d.art. Mechelen (BE)
Faces. Centro Centro, Madrid (ES)
2015
Subjective Female Documentalists. Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok (PL)
Ex & Post. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (AU)
Fall Open Studios. Triangle Arts, New York (US)
Summer Show. Krokus Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Faces Now – European Portrait Photography Since 1990. Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
Private Nationalism. Open Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Do You Hear Me? FOTODOK, Utrecht (NL)
Faces Now – European Portrait Photography Since 1990. Bozar, Brussels (BE)
Art Has No Alternative. tranzit.sk, Bratislava (SK)
2014
Krehky. Mikulov (CZ)
Best Photobooks of the Year. Photo Espana, Madrid (ES)
Undercover. Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta, St. Petersburg (RU)
2013
What Remains. BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz (PL)
Prague Biennale. Prague (CZ)
Limits of Fashion. Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow (PL)
2012
Drifting Identities. KSAK-Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (MD)
Bratislava Design Week. Bratislava (SK)
Each Memory Recalled Must Do Some Violence To Its Origins. undisclosed location, Utah (US)
On Migration. Photo Ireland, Dublin (IR)
Cantastoria. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (US)
Picturing The Difference. Grohman’s Villa, Fotofestiwal, Lodz (PL)
Zero Years. MODEM – Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen (HU)
2011
ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice. Art Miami (US)
Labour Show. Visual Culture Research Centre / National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv (UA)
Galicia: Topographies of Myth / Lost Stories. BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz (PL)
Bad Society / Memory Kontrol. Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina (SK)
Zero Years. Museum of Art, Žilina (SK)
Bodytalks – Videoart & Cinedans in Public Space. Maastricht (NL)
View to the Lichthof. MODEM, Debrecen (HU)
Wij Zullen Doorgaan. Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem (NL)
Disarming. Cyprian Majerník Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Identity Bluffs. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (NL)
Flashbulb Memory. Studio Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Home Edition. Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica (SK)
2010
Monumentalism: History and National Identity in Contemporary Art. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Bless my homeland forever. I, too, will try to forget... Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)
The Heat. Meet Factory, Prague (CZ)
Over the Counter; Economy in Post-Socialist Art. Budapest Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle (HU)
FOREX / This is Our Time. Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (ZA)
Quickscan NL#01, Photography now. Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
The Good Old Days. Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus (DK)
The Romance of My Young Days, the Future of My Nostalgia. Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica (SK)
2009
Labyrint 09: Writings and observations. Botyrka Konsthall, Tumba (SE)
Communism Never Happened. Feinkost Gallery, Berlin (DE)
New History. Kharkov Art Museum (UA)
Last and Lost. Zeche Zollverein, Essen (DE)
Portrait. Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (AT)
2008
Open Ateliers. Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
Beyond Walls. Noorderlicht Festival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
Last and Lost. Branderburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam (DE)
European Photographic Identities. Recontres Arles (FR)
Young Visual Artists Awards. Magacin, Beograd (SRB)
2007
Open Ateliers. Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
Egon Bondy. Tranzit, Bratislava (SK)
Oskar Cepan Award. Gallery Medium, Bratislava (SK)
Glocal Girls. Prague Biennale 3, Prague (CZ)
Facelift. AIR Gallery, New York (US)
2006
Henkel Art Award 2006. Tresor / Kunstforum, Vienna (AT)
2ndInternational Biennial of Young Artists / Art is Always Somewhere Else. Bucharest (RO)
Arrivals > Slovakia. Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK)
Femmes d’Europe. Saint Tropez (FR)
Urban Condition. Museum de Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
Last and Lost. Literaturhaus Munchen (DE)
A Woman’s Place. Sirius Arts Centre, Cork / Cobh (IR)
2005
Slovakia 001 – 005. Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
Neat / Women on Women. Kogart Gallery, Budapest (HU)
I Image - Central European Self-stories. Dorottya Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Urban Condition. public art project, Bratislava (SK)
2004
Instant Europe. Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea (IT)
Joop Swart Masterclass. Foam, Amsterdam (NL)
Breakthrough. Grote Kerk den Haag (NL)
Interrupted Image. State Gallery, Banská Bystrica (SK)
Slovak Photography. Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg (AT)
Distance. Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dnaujvaros (HU)
2003
Glokality. Open Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Private Woman. Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
Photo Biennale. Art Museum, Imatra (FI)
Privat Frei. Open Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Stadt im Sicht. Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
Slovakia Through the Lenses of Documentary Photographers. Complex Desjardins, Montreal (CA)
2002
Confrontations. Prague House of Photography, Prague (CZ)
Czech and Slovak Photography 1980 – 2000. Museum of Arts, Olomouc (CZ)
2001
Young Slovak Photography. Internationale Fototage, Herten (DE)
Performances / Festivals / Screenings / Radio Appearances (selection):
2018
Politics of Truth II – Observation. ETC Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2017
Songs for Random Family. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (BE)
Bajka. Cinema NOVA, Brussels (BE)
Bajka. Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva (CH)
2016
Bajka. Jihlava Documentary Film Festival (CZ)
Bajka. Bratislava International Film Festival (SK)
Khroniky. The Laughing Bell / Muckle Mouth, London (UK)
2015
Bajka / Roadside. Fotograf Festival, Prague (CZ)
Khroniky. Radio Devín (SK)
Khroniky. Ressonance FM (UK)
2014
Khroniky. WFMU Radio (USA)
2013
There Must Be Order. Ex Elettrofonica, Milan (IT)
Museumnacht. Filmmuseum, Dusseldorf (DE)
New Slovak Photography. Recyclart, Brussels (BE)
La Nuit Instant. Marseille (FR)
There Must Be Order. Via Farini, Milan (IT)
2012
Stedelijk @ IDFA. IDFA, Amsterdam (NL)
Now & After 12. Vyatka Art Museum, Kirov (RUS)
Now & After 12. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RUS)
International Short Film Festival. Oberhausen (DE)
New Codes / Athens Video Art Festival. Athens (GR)
2011
The Recent History of Daily Utopias. Werkstattkino, Munich (DE)
2009
Nomad Space. Artfilm, Trenčianske Teplice (SK)
Directors Lounge. Pictura, Dordrecht (NL)
Lost & Found. Waag Society, Amsterdam (NL)
5thBerlin International Directors Lounge. Berlin (DE)
Curatorial Work:
2009
Leftovers. Funkeho Kolín, Kolín (CZ)
2008
UNOFFICIAL II. Open Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2006
Urban Park. (installations in the prefabs) Humenné (SK) [www.urbanpark.sittcomm.sk]
RUSYNS – Lost Homes. Museum of Arts, Prešov (SK) [www.rusnaci.sittcomm.sk]
2005
001 - Slovakia - 005”, Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
Representation in Collections:
MUDAM (LU)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
The New York Public Library (US)
Rijksakademie Artists’ Endowment Fund, Amsterdam (NL)
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
sittcomm.collection (SK)
Books:
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: Animal Imago, sittcomm.sk, 2013, ISBN: 9788097147785
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: Double Coding, handmade, 2008
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: UNOFFICIAL, Zoneattive, 2008, ISBN: 8889303085
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: Models by Maria, handmade, 2007
RUSYNS: Lost Homes, CEE PhotoFund, 2006, ISBN: 8096949756
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: Slovakia 003, FOTOFO / IVO, 2003, ISBN: 8085739364
Catalogs:
What Remains. Nowy Sacz: BWA Sokol, 2013, ISBN: 978-83-63341-84-8
Lost Stories. Nowy Sacz: BWA Sokol, 2011, ISBN: 978-83-63341-08-4
Flashbulb Memory. Budapest: Studio Gallery, 2011, ISBN: 978-963-88935-4-3
The Archive as Project. Warszawa: Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, 2011, ISBN: 978-83-933045-8-5
Monumentalism. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2010, ISBN: 978-90-5662-773-7
Quickscan - Photography now. Rotterdam: Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2010, ISBN: 978-90-801072-2-9
The Good Old Days. Aarhus: Kunstbygning, 2010, ISBN: 978-97-92025-09-8
Donumenta 2009. Regensburg, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-9809125-6-3
NIMCOVÁ, Lucia: UNOFFICIAL III. Nurnberg: Verlag fur moderne Kunst, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-940748-63-8
Open Ateliers.Amsterdam: Rijksakademie, 2008
TRANSFORMING 68/89. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-940938-26-8
The Language of Humour. Bratislava: SOGA, 2008, ISBN: 978-80-89011-66-7
Behind Walls - Eastern Europe before and beyond 1989. Groningen: Aurora Borealis, 2008, ISBN: 978-90-76703-37-4
New Slovak Photography. Bratislava: FOTOFO, 2008, ISBN: 978-80-85739-47-3
Open Ateliers. Amsterdam: Rijksakademie, 2007
Praguebiennale 3. Praha: Prague Biennale, 2007, ISBN: 88-7816-142-X
Last & Lost, Atlas d'une Europe Fantome. Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc, 2007, ISBN: 978-2-88250-199-8
Arrivals >>> Slovakia. Margate: Turner Contemporary / Modern Art Oxford, 2007,
Oskar Cepan Award. Bratislava: NCSU, 2007
Absent without Leave [awol], Young Artists. Bucharest: Biennial, 2006
Menotrentuno / Tourism Revolution. Soter Editrice, 2006, ISBN: 88-88915-21-4
Poetic Bratislava. Bratislava: FOTOFO, 2006
Last & Lost.Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006, ISBN: 3-518-41772-x
Femmes d'Europe. Saint Tropez: Artfab, 2006
Funkeho Kolin. Kolín: Funkeho Kolín, 2005, ISBN: 80-903666-0-0
I Image - Central European Self-stories. Budapest: Photolumen / Dorottya Gallery, 2005, ISBN: 96370532150
Photosynkyria. Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2005, ISBN: 960-88028-3-0
Instant Europe. Codroipo: Villa Manin - Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, 2004
Pride, Joop Swart Masterclass. Amsterdam: Stichting World Press Photo, 2004, ISSN: 1568-6809
Mio Photo Award 2004. Osaka: Japan, 2004
Private Women. Bratislava: FOTOFO, 2003
Czech and Slovak Photography 1980 – 2000. Olomouc: Muzeum umění, 2002, ISBN: 80-85227-50-9