Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan have been working collaboratively since 2012. They live and work between Bucharest and Vienna. Their practice is research-driven, instigated by the hidden or invisible patterns behind certain historical, social, or geopolitical narratives, and articulated through a range of materials, formats, and media including installation, video, and performance. The relationship between history and environment, climate, ecology, and the politics of resources, are often at the centre of their projects.
Their works have been shown in Territories of Waste, Museum Tinguely, Basel (2022-2023); Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022-2023); Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022); Weather Engines, Onassis Stegi, Athens (2022); 39th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial (2021); The Normal, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2021); Subnature, Trafo Gallery, Budapest (2021-solo); Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2021); Potential Worlds, Migros Museum, Zurich (2020-2021); Slow Life, Ludwig Museum, Budapest/Koblenz (2020-2021); Persona, MUCEM Marseille (2019); The Last Particles, 40mcube, Rennes (2019 – solo); Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara (2019, 2017); Ground Control, Centrala, Birmingham (2018 – solo); Manufacturing nature / Naturalizing the synhetic, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (2018); The Call of the Outside, tranzit.ro/Cluj (2018 – solo); Natural Histories. Traces of the Political, MUMOK Vienna (2017); Off Biennale, Budapest (2017, 2015); Dreams&Dramas. Law as Literature, nGbk Berlin (2017); Sounds and Sites, The Jewish Museum, New York (2016); Global Control and Censorship, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2016); Vienna Biennale, MAK, Vienna (2015); The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial (2015); Der Brancusi Effekt, Kunsthalle Wien (2014); We were so few and so many of us are left, tranzit.ro/Bucharest, tranzit.hu/Budapest (2013 – solo); Mum, am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennial, (2013); Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris/France (2012); Navigating London’s Lost Rivers, Camden Arts Center, London (2011 – solo).
They are the recipients of The Birgit Jürgenssen Prize 2022, awarded by The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and currently they are Creative Fellows at UCL’s, Postsocialist Art Centre, London.
www.beneraestefan.ro
2023 Artists in Residence
