Ciprian Muresan

born in 1977, lives and works in Cluj, Romania
co-editor of VERSION artist run magazine [www.versionmagazine.com]
from 2005 editor of IDEA art + society magazine [www.ideamagazine.ro]

Selected exhibitions
2006
Czeslaw Milosz „To Allen Ginsberg”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Periferic 7, Focussing Iasi, Why Children?, curator Attila Tordai-S.
Choose..., Galeria Plan B, Cluj , RO
2005 Motion Parade, curator Alina Serban, Fotogalerie, Vienna, A
No Significant Incidents to Report, curator Mihnea Mircan, Galeria Nou?, Bucharest, RO
On Difference #1, curators Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ, Würtembergischer Kunstverein,
Stuttgart, D
Textground, curator Cosmin Costinas, Display Gallery, Prague, CZ
Storyboards. Trapped in the Escape, curator Cosmin Costinas, Galeria Vector, Iasi, RO
2004 Formate / Moving Patterns, curators Georg Schöllhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber, Kunsthalle
project space, Vienna, A
The End Of The Five Year Plan, curator Attila Tordai-S., Studio Protokoll, Cluj, RO (solo show)
Against the Space, curator Alina Serban, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
The Way the World is, curator Matei Bejenaru, Turkish Bath, Iasi, RO
The Violence of the Image / The Image of Violence, curator Alina Serban, The Young Artists’
Biennial, Bucharest, RO
Shake the Limits, curator Maria Rus Bojan, Kalinderu MediaLab, Bucharest, RO
Supernova – Art for the Masses I, curator Atilla Tordai-S., Studio Protokoll, Cluj, RO
Supernova – Art for the Masses II, curator Atilla Tordai-S., Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
2003 Her und Hin, Attraction and Solidarity, curator Attila Tordai-S., Art Museum, Cluj, RO
Inflexible Clash, curator Petranyi Zsolt, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, HU

Selected publications and bibliography
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
Ciprian Muresan, The Collector, IDEA art + society no. 19/2004
Raymond Bobar, People and Galleries, IDEA art + society no. 19/2004
Cosmin Costinas, New Fetishisms. A new generation in Romanian contemporary art, Umelec no. 3/2004
Ciprian Muresan, Un Chien Andalou, Umelec no. 3/2004
Beatrix Bertok, Sfârsitul a ce?, ART-hoc no. 32/2004
Mihai Pop, Europe as a Workshop, Praesens no. 2/2004
Cosmin Costinas, Protokoll Studio. New Projects, Praesens no. 3/2004
Cosmin Costinas, Art for the Masses and esthetic hidden in economic dimension, Arhitext no. 3/2004
Attila Tordai-S., How come that Patriarch Teoctist is present in a small gallery promoting contemporary art in the periphery of Cluj, Arhitext no. 12/2004
Cosmin Costinas, Supernova Hypermarket, IDEA art + society no. 17/2004
Cosmin Costinas, Unnecessary Mental Games for Unnecessary Historical Self Defense, catalogue of the Vrsac Biennial of Young Artists, 2004
Attila Tordai-S., Aperto Romania, Flash Art International no. 233, November–December 2003

Works

Rhinoceros, 2006 [more]



Choose..., 2005 [more]

Leap into the void, after three seconds, 2004
[more]




The end of the five years plan, 2004 [more]




Un chien andalou, 2004 [more]