Manuel Pelmuș is a Romanian artist. He has a background in choreography, but has crossed over working mainly in the visual arts field the last couple of years. In 2013, he represented Romania (together with Alexandra Pirici) at the 55th Venice Biennale with the acclaimed project An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale. His recent work has been presented, among others, at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Tate Modern, London; The Kiev Biennale; MOMA, Warsaw; Para/Site, Hong Kong; Casino Luxembourg; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; De Singel, Antwerp; Museum M, Leuven; FIAC , Paris; Modern Museum, Salzburg; The National Museum of Art Bucharest; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Tate Liverpool; Judson Church, New York; Kunstverein, Stuttgart, etc. Manuel Pelmuș was awarded Berlin Art Prize for Performing Arts in 2012 and the Excellence Award of the National Dance Centre in Bucharest in 2014. Currently, he work and lives in Bucharest and Oslo.