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Manuel Pelmuş

Manuel Pelmuș, born in Bucharest, Romania, is a choreographer and artist who reimagines performance in the context of the visual arts. He uses continuous live presence, enactment, and the human body to explore memory and the construction of history. His work has been presented widely internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MUNCH, Oslo; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Para Site, Hong Kong; Judson Chruch, New York; MOMA, Warsaw; Dansens Hus, Oslo; TanzQuartier, Vienna; and Tanz im August, Berlin, among others. Pelmuș represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale together with Alexandra Pirici.. He has additionally participated in the Off-Biennale, Budapest; the Kyiv Biennale, Kiev; Gothenburg Biennale, Gothenburg; Off-Biennale, Budapest.In 2012, Pelmuş was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performing arts and later recognized with the prize for excellence from the National Dance Center of Bucharest in 2015. He lives in Oslo.

Research results

  • Bojana Cvejić, Benjamin Pohlig, Sunniva Rørvik, Saša Asentić, Myriam Levy & Ana Bigotte: Choreographing Antifascism (2026).
    Performing Arts. More information
  • Saskia Holmkvist, Manuel Pelmus, Nkule Mabaso & Michael Sperlinger: Book Release: Margaret (Back Translation) by Saskia Holmkvist (2025).
    Other presentation. More information
  • Manuel Pelmus: Permanent Collection – simultaneous ongoing action (2024).
    Other. More information
  • Manuel Pelmus: Permanent Collection Tøyen (2023).
    Visual Arts. More information
  • Manuel Pelmus: Performance lecture: Manuel Pelmus “Borderlines” (2023).
    Lecture. More information
  • Per Roar & Manuel Pelmus: Panel: Message in a bottle? – performative memory work and reactivation of choreographic potentials. (2022).
    Academic lecture. More information
  • André Eiermann, Mette Edvardsen, Solveig Styve Holte, Eszter Salamon, Manuel Pelmus & Dragana Bulut: Panel Discussion "Conversation Choreography" - Artistic Research Week / Kunstnerisk forskningsuke - Oslo National Academy of the Arts / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. (2021).
    Programme participation. More information
  • Merete Røstad, Per Roar, Solveig Styve Holte, Eliot Moleba & Manuel Pelmus: Pilot: Preparing – engaging in memory research artistically, ethically and politically (2020).
    Lecture. More information
  • Manuel Pelmus: Collective Exhibition for a Single Body - The Private Score Leuven 2019: Manuel Pelmus & Pierre Bal Blanc (2019).
    Museum exhibition. More information