Daniel Djamo


Daniel Nicolae Djamo is a Romanian visual artist and filmmaker. He finished the courses of the Time-Based Media department of the Bucharest National University of Arts, from Bucharest. He finished the PhD in Visual Arts at the School for Doctoral Studies, from Bucharest National University of Arts in June 2018.
Winner of the ESSL Art Award CEE, Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE, Startpoint Prize Romania, Louvre Museum, Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Arsenale di Venezia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Oxo Tower, Mori Art Museum, Asia Culture Center and Asia Culture Institute, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Bucharest Museum of Contemporary Art and the Essl Museum from Klosterneuburg. His video artworks have been screened in numerous video art and film festivals.

Feature film

Djamo finished in 2014 a documentary about the woman who helped his mother raise him, entitled "A last year in 114 minutes". The movie had its premiere in June 2014, at Transilvania International Film Festival, in Cluj.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018 "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Le Shadok: Fabrique du Numérique, Strasbourg, France, curators: Marine Froeliger & Michel Jacquet
  • 2018 "16 Sounds of Dadaocheng", URS127 – Art Factory, Taipei, Taiwan, curators: Hsun-Chen Lin & Yi-Kai Kao; with support from Jing-Liang Jung and Melody Ho
  • 2018 "Past futures", Likovni Salon Gallery – Celje Center for Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia, curator: Maja Hodošček
  • 2018 "Happy Dystopia #4", NRVK – Neuer Ravensburger Kunstverein, Ravensburg, Germany, curator: Robert Huber; opening speech: Christian von der Heydt ; with support from Ricarda Patientosch
  • 2017 "rise of nations", Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, curator: Tanita Groß
  • 2017 "Sixteen routes to the perfect sunshine", Galerija K18, Maribor, Slovenia, curator: Simon Žlahtič
  • 2016 "Magic… you want?", AAI – Afro-Asiatisches Institut Graz, Graz, Austria, curator: Astrid Kury
  • 2016 "Bjergtrolde" land art project, supported by Prof. Christel Stalpaert and Jan Hermans, ARPIA – art with landscape, Herzele, Belgium
  • 2015 "before the end", KKW, Leipzig, Germany, curator: Tatevik Sahakyan
  • 2015 "Unicorn tales", Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania, curator: Daria Ghiu
  • 2015 "The origin of the florist", The Stage, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curator: Tatevik Sahakyan
  • 2015 "Who's afraid of Blue, Yellow and Red?", Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, curator: Ioana Mandeal
  • 2015 "Unsichtbare Skulpturen", Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany, curator: Tatevik Sahakyan
  • 2014 "items", Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania – "items", curator: Anca Poterasu
  • 2014 "before the end", The Briggait, Glasgow, UK, curator: Tatevik Sahakyan
  • 2014 "A family matter", solo show with Anca Poterașu Gallery at Artissima, Turin, Italy, curator: Anca Poterasu
  • 2014 "Never glue birds to the ground", Schleifmühlgasse 12–14 Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curator: Carmen Bendovski
  • 2013 "дo Ende", Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, curator: Petru Lucaci
  • 2013 "Costs", Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, self-curated
  • 2012 "Showroom", Calina Gallery, Timișoara, Romania, curator: Diana Marincu
  • 2012 "RULAND", TOKONOMA, Kassel, Germany, curator: Daniel Stubenvoll