Fiche artiste

 Born in Oradea, Romania in 1977.
Lives and works on Earth.
Solo exhibitions
2016
SOLO SHOW – Part II, Fondation Francès, Senlis (France)
SOLO SHOW – Part I, Fondation Francès, Senlis (France)
Mircea Cantor - 5775 (Part II), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2015
ART UNLIMITED – Special Project, Art Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
Mircea Cantor – 5775 (Part I), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2014
Mircea Cantor : Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sanf, Vancouver (Canada)
Mircea Cantor – Ti Do La Mia Giovinezza, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)
2013
Mircea Cantor : Q.E.D (curated by Raluca Velisar, Mihai Pop), National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Bucarest (Romania)
2012
Mircea Cantor. Prix Marcel Duchamp 2011 (curated by Jean-Pierre Bordaz), Centre
Pompidou, Paris (France)
Special Screenings at TIFF, Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj (Romania)
Restless : film and other works, Museum of Moving Image, New York (USA)
Six Transit Gloria Mundi (curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Stefano Chiodi), MACRO,
Roma (Italy)
2011
More Cheeks Than Slaps (curated by Claire le Restif), le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
Phishing, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (Germany)
2010
Deeparture, 6eme nuit des Musées, Musée Rodin, Paris (France)
Shooting, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Heilige Blumen, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg (Germany)
Klug wie die Schlangen und Einfälting wie die Tauben / Wise as Serpents and Innocents as
doves, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach (Germany)
Solo Screening of Vertical Attempt, Kunst Werke, Berlin (Germany)
2009
White Sugar for Black Days, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
Which Light Kills You, The Commun Guild, Glasgow (UK)
The Need for Uncertainty, Camden Arts Center, London (UK)
Tracking Happiness, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland)
Preventative Kiss for Suspicious War, Johnen Galerie, Berlin (Germany)
2008
Future Gifts, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest (Hungary)
The Need for Uncertainty, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK) ; traveled to Modern Art Oxford (UK)
2007
Ciel Variable, FRAC Champagne Ardennes (France)
Mircea Cantor, Magazzino di Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy)
Deeparture at Black Box (curated by Kelly Gordon), Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (USA)
A Free Smile, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (USA)
Solo Creening of the Landscape is Changing, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK)
2006
Jucãrii Pentru Copii (Toys for Children) – with Ion Grigorescu, Protokoll Studio, Cluj Napoca
(Romania)
The Title is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (USA)
Burn to be Burnt, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
(Italy)
Solo Screening of the Landscape is Changing, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
2005
Mircea Cantor, Prix Ricard S.A, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Mircea Cantor, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Deeparture, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (USA)
Si tu Marches Plus Vite, il Pleut Moins Fort, Centro Arte Moderna, Gulbekian Fondation, Lisbon
(Portugal)
2004
Preview, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy)
2003
Corporate Identity, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (France)
Mircea Cantor, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
In Front of my Eyes, Trans>Area, New York (USA)
2002
The Right Man at the Right Place, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
Nulle Part Ailleurs, Le Studio-Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
Ping Pang Pong, Entre-Deux Association, Nantes (France)
1999
Headlines, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest (Romania)
Group exhibitions
2016
CHOICES, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
DO DISTURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
2015
VITA VITALE, The Azerbaijan Pavillion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy)
Shibboleth, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Fire and Forget. On Violence, Kunst Werke, Berlin (Germany)
Mapping Bucharest : Art, Memory & Revolution 1916-2016, MAK, Vienna (Austria)
Invitation au Voyage – 15 Years Marcel Duchamp Prize, La Centrale, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Cluj Connection 3D, Galerie Judin, Berlin (Germany)
Menagerie, ACCA (Australian Center for Contemporary Art), Melbourne (Australia)
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, New York (USA)
2014
Damage Control, Art and Destruction since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz (Autria)
Fantome, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Manifest Intention. Drawing in all it’s Forms and Languages, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea, Turin (Italy)
Les Yeux Seuls Sont Encore Capables de Pousser un Cri, Dvir Gallery, tel Aviv (Israel)
19th Biennale of Sydney – You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney (Australia)
The Red Queen, Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), Hobart (Australia)
Neuromast : Certain Uncertainty and Contemporary Art, Center for Contemporary Art,
Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland)
La Science à l’Œuvre, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pontmain (France)
Me and You in a Living Room : Artists from the Ricard Foundation, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul
(South Corea)
Le Mur, La Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris (France)
The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon (France)
Will Happiness Find Me ?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
A Few Grams of Red, Yellow, Blue. New Romanian Art, Center for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland)
Il Piedistallo Vuoto. Fastasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna (Italy)
Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
2013
Œuvres de la Collection Philippe Cohen, Passage de Retz, Paris (France)
O Performance, the Fragile Beauty of Crisis / Special Project 5th Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow (Russia)
Vom Zaudern. Otive des Aufschubs. Ubergangsund Abschweifens, Wurttembergischer
Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany)
Expo 1 : New York, MoMA PS1, New York (USA)
Dinard, l’Amour Atomique, Palais des Arts du Festival, Dinard (France)
Desire Lines, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (Australia)
Capitale(s), Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille (France)
Le Pont, MAC, Marseille (France)
2012
Raüme der Erinnerung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (Germany)
European Travellers, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest (Romania)
I Decided Not to Save the World, Salt, Istanbul (Turkey)
TRACKS, S.M.A.K, Gent (Belgium)
One Sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of Image, Museuo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y
Leon (Spain)
2011
Big Brother : Artists and Tyrants, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard (France)
Prix Marcel Duchamp, LaM Museum, Lille (France)
Big Up 6, Ecuries de Baroja, Anglet (France)
Nuit Blanche Paris, International Visual Theatre, Paris (France)
Sphères 4, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel (France)
The Workers, MASS MoCa, North Adams (USA)
The Animal Gaze, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield (USA)
How to Disappear, The Luminary Arts Center for the Arts, Saint Louis (USA)
Characters in Search of an Exit (curated by Nicola C. Wright), MOT International, London (UK)
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London (UK)
Bold Tendencies, Peckham Space, London (UK)
I Decided not to Save the World, Tate Modern, London (UK)
My Paris – Collection Antoine de Galbert, Me Collectors Room, Berlin (Germany)
Just Another Brick in the Wall, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zürich (Switzerland)
Spin Off, Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto (Canada)
Communism Never Happened, Galerie CUC Charim Unger Contemporary, Berlin (Germany) ;
Charim Galerie, Vienna (Austria)
Life : a User’s Manual (curated by Aya Miron), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Israel)
Group Show, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Investigation of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden)
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Trienale, Yokohama (Japan)
Salonul de Mai, Galeria Plan B, Cluj Napoca (Romania)
Image to be Projected until it Vanishes, Museion, Bolzano (Italy)
Curated by, Galerie Charim, Vienna (Austria)
2010
Les Promesses du Passé – Une Histoire Discontinue de l’Art dans l’Ex-Europe de l’Est, Centre
Pompidou, Paris (France)
Believe in Miracles, Collection Lambert, Avignon (France)
Les Recherches d’un Chien, La Maison Rouge, Paris (France)
D’ailleurs – I Won’t Play Others to Your Same, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes (France)
Travail de la Rivière (curated by Claire le Restif), le Crédc, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
DADA EAST ? Contextes Roumains du Dadaïsme, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing (France)
Romances sans Paroles (curated by Ami Barak), La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse (France)
Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung, MARTa Herford, Herford (UK)
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilm Biennal, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (Germany)
Fische Hinterlassen Keine Spuren, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen (Germany)
Trei Culori Cunosc pe Lume / Ich Kenne Drei Farben auf Erden, Nassauischer Kunstverein,
Wiesbaden (Germany)
A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
Natual History, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)
CUE : Artist’s Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Art for the World, World Expo Shangai 2010, Shangai (China)
Over the Counter – Economy in Post-Socialist Art, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (Hungary)
Investigation of a Dog, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão (Portugal)
Fall Out, Desire and Disengagement in Contemporary Art, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (Sweden)
Face your Demons, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)
Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni. Giovani Artisti in una Colleczione Contemporanea, Museo
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (Italy)
Indefinite Destinations, Depo, Istanbul (Turkey)
2009
Les Archipels Réinventés, 10 ans du Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (curated by Christine
Macel and Emma Lavigne), Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Fleuves – Cneai =, Chatou (France)
La Force de l’Art 02, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Videos Europa, Le Frenoy, Lille (France)
D’ailleurs I Won’t Play Other to Your Same, Galerie Art & Essai, Renne (France)
Le Travail de la Rivière, le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (UK)
Investigations of a Dog. Works from the FACE Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy)
Wintry, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy)
Barock, Museo MADRE, Napoli (Italy)
El Tiempo del Arte, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto (Canada)
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne (Germany)
GO EAST II – Mudam Collection supported by KBL European Private Bankers, Lusée d’Art
Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta – National Gallery of Arts, Warsaw (Poland)
Grandy Gallery, Bratislava (Slovakia)
Monument to Transformation 1989-2009, City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavniho Mesta
Prahy, Prague (Czech Republic)
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark)
Lichtzwang, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2nd Tessaloniki Biennale (Greece)
Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Galeria Andreiana Mihail, Bucharest (Romania)
Shifting Identities. (Swiss) Art Now, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lituania)
Reflection, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (Ukraine)
2008
Eurasia, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento et Rovetero, Rovetero (Italy)
God and Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea
(Italy)
Sapzi Aperti, Accademia di Romania, Roma (Italy)
Berlin Show #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (Germany)
I am Never at Home, Johnen Galerie, Berlin (Germany)
Stop.Look.Listen : an exhibition of Video Works, Haggerty Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee
(USA)
Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales (UK)
Las Lineas de la Mano, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (Mexico)
Ricard Foundation Prize – Winzavod, Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (Russia)
Be a Happy Worker : Work-to-Rule ! Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb (Croatia)
Dada East ? Romanian Context of Dadaizm, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
(Poland)
Paradies und Zurück – Sammlung Rheingold Zeitgenössische Kunst, Stiftung Schloss Dyck,
Jüchen (Germany)
28th Bienal de São Paulo (Brazil)
Can Art Do More ? Art Focus 5, Jerusalem (Israel)
Shifting Identities – (Swiss) Art Now, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland)
Locked In, Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Mimetisme, Extra City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (Belgium)
2007
Rouge Baiser, FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (France)
Logiques du Rêve Éveillé, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (France)
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
Critical Foreground, New Langton Arts, San Francisco (USA)
French Kissing in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami (USA)
Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio (USA)
Solo24Ore24Studen, MUSEION, Bolzano (Italy)
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (Italy)
Love Addiction : Pratiche Video dal 61’ ad Oggi – GC.AC, Galleria Communale d’Arte
Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone (Italy)
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London (UK)
Tiempo al Tiempo, MARCO, Vigo (Spain)
Hay Algo de Revolucionario en Todo Esto, Sala Parlappo, Valencia (Spain)
Dada East ? : the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Färgfabriken Stockholm (Sweden)
Stop. Look. Listen : An Exhibition of Video Works, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca (USA)
An Atlas of Events, Gulbekian Fondation, Lisbon (Portugal)
Noise, Poeziezomer 07, Watou (Belgium)
Mimétisme – Extra City, Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp (Belgium)
Fairytale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana (Albania)
I want to Believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (Switzerland)
Confined Innocence, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
House Trip, ART FORUM Berlin (Germany)
Temporally, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon (Israel)
Crimes & Splendors, RONMANDOS – Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Borderline/Miving Images 2007, Borderline, Beijing (China)
2006
Notre Histoire…, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
Mercher, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Carjac (France)
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (France)
La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (UK)
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (UK)
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, Sevilla (Spain)
Contos Dixitais, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
I Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias, Canarias (Spain)
Human Game – Winner and Losers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence (Italy)
LESS Strategie Alternative dell’Abitare, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano (Italy)
Voices of Silence, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (Israel)
Czeslaw Milosz « to Allen Ginsberg », Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venizon, Zürich (Switzerland)
Dada East ? The Romanian of the Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (Switzerland)
4th Berlin Biennal for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany)
Busan Biennal, Busan (South Korea)
Periferic 7 : Focusing Iasi / Why Children ? Lasi (Romania)
October Art Salon, Belgrade (Serbia)
2005
Theorema, une Collection Privée en Italie, Musée d’Art Contemporain Collection Yvon Lambert,
Avignon (France)
Universal Experience : Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(USA)
Irreductible, Contemporary Short From Video, 1995-2005, CCA Wattis, San Francisco (USA)
On difference, Wuertenmbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany)
E-flux Video Rental, Project Room of KW Institue of Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany)
Wa ris Over, 1945-2005, The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan, Galleria
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (Italy)
Revolution is on Hold, Isola Art Center, Milano (Italy)
Modern Times, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro (Italy)
Generations of Art – 10 years at FAR, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (Italy)
Nach Rokytnik, the EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien (Austria)
Global Tour, Art Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
May you Live in Interesting Times, Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology, Cardiff (UK)
Cosmopolis, State Museum for Contemporary Art, Tessaloniki (Greece)
TEXT Ground, Display, Space for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)
The Need to Document, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (Switzerland)
Works from the Collection, Magasin 3 Konstahall, Stockholm (Sweden)
2004
The Works I Told you About, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (France)
Prosismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris (France)
Nine Points of the Law, NGBK, Berlin (Germany)
Publishing Without Limits : New Directions for Art Magazines, Art Forum Berlin Talks (with
Version), Berlin (Germany)
Stock Zero (OPERA), MNAC, Bucharest (Romania)
I’ll Be Your Mirror, A special project for Frieze Art Fair 2004, City Inn Westminster Hotel,
London (UK)
New Video, New Europe : a Survey of Eastern European Video, Renaissance Society,
Chicago (US) ; Tate Modern, London (UK)
Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje (Montenegro)
Mediterraneo, MACRO, Roma (Italy)
Plug In, Futura, Prague (Czech Republic)
Quick-Sand, De Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (Ireland)
The Happy Worker, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Anandale-onHudson, New York (USA)
2003
Phalanstère, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (France)
Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (Albany)
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (Germany)
Poesis. The Everyday Differently, Kunsthalle/Mucsarnok, Budapest (Hungary)
Displaced, Ucla Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Clandestine, 50th la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (Italy)
Unoccupied Territories, K&S Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
International Film Festival, with Smen Video, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2002
Les Enfants du Paradis, Galerie Yvon lambert, Paris (France)
Festival Rendez-vous Roumain, Espace en Cours, Paris (France)
ForwArt 2002, Brussels (Belgium)
A9 Forum Transeuropa, Museum Quartier, Vienna (Austria)
Urban Tension, Museum in Progress, Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt, Roma.
Boundless Borders, Billboards Project in the City, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Tessaloniki,
Kassel.
2001
Traversées, ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
Heimsuchung, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (France)
Jean Pierre Magazine, CNEAI (Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé), Chatou
(France)
Documents 11 Young Photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest (Romania)
49th La Biennale di Venezia (contexte-network), Romanian Pavillion, Venice (Italy)
Art Judgment Show, Moderna Galerija Ljubliana (Slovenia)
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Bonn (Germany)
2000
Actif-Reactif, CRDC, Nantes (France)
International Boutique > Public, Paris (France)
MK2 Project Café, Paris (France)
Voyages d’Affaires (with Gabriela Vanga), ERBAN, Nantes (France)
One Night Stand, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York (USA)
Say What ?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest (Romania)
Transitioland, Museul National de Arta, Bucharest (Romania)
Periferic 4, Turkish Bath, Lasi (Romania)
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
Argos Project 2000, Vevey (Switzerland)
Works in public collections
CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris (France)
MUSEUM ABTEIBERG, Monchengladbach (Germany)
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid (Spain)
MAGZINE 3, Stockholm (Sweden)
KUNSTHAUS ZURICH, Zürich (Switzerland)
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (USA)
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, Philadelphia (USA)
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, Washington D.C (USA)
WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis (USA)
Awards and Grants
Prix Paul Ricard S.A, Paris (France), 2004
Nominated for Artes Mundi Prize 3rd Edition, Wales (UK), 2008
Zece Pentru Romania Award by Realitea TV (Romania), 2010
Best Dance Short Film Awards, Tiburon International Film Festival (USA), 2011
Prix Marcel Duchamp, Paris (France), 2011