Artists

Ciprian Muresan


b. 1977, Dej, Romania

Artist Bio

1977
Born in Dej, Romania

2006
FUTURA Residency, Prague

2006
Willa Warszawa Project

Lives and works in Cluj, Romania.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Recycled Playground, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, France

2011
Recycled Playground, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (traveling)
David Nolan Gallery, New York

2010
Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Incorrigible Believers, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
The Unbelonging, Prometeogallery, Lucca and Milano
How I Wonder What You Are, Plan B, Berlin

2009
Incorrigible Believers, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2008
Auto da Fe, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Art Statements, Art Basel
Work an Travel, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest

2007
Expulsion from Paradise, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
I Believe I Can Fall, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles

2006
Ciprian Says, Prometeo Gallery, Milan
Choose…, Galeria Plan B, Cluj

2004
The End of the Five-Year Plan, Studio Protokoll, Cluj


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2011
Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow, The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, The Power Plant, Toronto

2010
After the Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2009
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum, New York
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice
The Punishment of Lust & Luxury, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
Track Changes, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2008
TINA, The Drawing Room, London
Where the East Ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Monument to Transformation, Fragment #7: Communism Never Happened/ Vocabulary, Tranzit, Bratislava
Monument to Transformation, Fragment #6: Labour Day, Labor, Budapest
OÙ? Scènes du Sud – Volet 2, Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain
de Nîmes, Nîmes
Like an Attali Report, but Different – On Fiction and Political Imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
3D Rubliov, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Signals: A Video Showcase - Mash Up, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Schengen, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin
Fusion // Confusion, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
A Turn to the Real, Apollonia, Strasburg

2007
1st Annual Athens Biennale, Athens
Across the Trees, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
Noutati, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
The State of the Endangered Body, Trafo Gallery, Bucharest

2006
Small Wonder, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Czeslaw Milosz, To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Please Drive Slowly Through Our World, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles

2005
Motion Parade, Fotogalerie, Vienna
No Significant Incidents to Report, Galeria Vector, Iasi
On Difference #1, Wuertembergische Kunstvrein, Stuttgart
Textground, Display Gallery, Prague
Storyboards. Trapped in the Escape, Galeria Vector, Iasi

2004
Formate / Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna
The Way the World is, Turkish Bath, Iasi
The Violence of the Image / The Image of Violence, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest
Against the Space, curator Alina Serban, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Shake the Limits, Kalinderu MediaLab, Bucharest
Supernova – Art for the Masses I, Studio Protokoll, Cluj
Supernova – Art for the Masses II, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mircan, Mihnea and Ciprian Muresan, Artists Book. Cluj/Berlin: Plan B, 2009.
Ciprian Muresan, Alexandra Croitoru, Fabrication Defect, IDEA art + society no.
22/2005
Raymond Bobar, Nothing Worth Mentioning, IDEA art + society no. 22/2005
Roland Schöni, Visual Strategies of a Personal Gaze on the Local, IDEA art + society
no. 22/2005
Laicitate si complicitate, insert, Observator Cultural, September 15–21, 2005
Mihnea Mircan, COMMUNITY WORK – A Report, catalogue of the exhibition
Paradoxes: The Embodied City, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2005
Franziska Nori, On Difference #1, Local contexts – hybrid spaces, IDEA art + society
no. 21/2005
Catalin Gheorghe, Trapped in the Exposure, IDEA art + society no. 20/2005
Attila Tordai-S., Protokoll Questions Orthodoxy, Flash Art International no. 240,
January–February 2005
Yrjö Haila, Retkeilyn rikkaus, Taide, Helsinki, 2004
Ciprian Muresan, Gianni Motti und Christoph Büchel: Under Destruction #1, Springerin
no. 4/2004

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