Mircea Cantor

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Born: 1977, Oradea, Romania
Lives: and works in Paris and Cluj Napoca, Romania

Solo Exhibitions
2009
White sugar for black days, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
The need for uncertainty, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

2008
A J�v� aj�nd�kai/ Futur Gifts, Budapest, Hungary
The need for uncertainty, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
The need for uncertainty, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Covoare maramuresene, Victoria Berbecaru, Cluj, Romania

2007
Magazzino di Arte Moderna, Roma
Deeparture at Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
A Free Smile, Yvon Lambert, New York
Ciel Variable, Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France*
Solo Screening of Deeparture , Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Solo Screening of The Landscape is changing, Milton Keynes Gallery (UK)

2006
The Title Is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art *
The landscape is changing, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Burn to be Burnt, GAMEC -galeria di arte moderna e contemporamea, Bergamo, Italy
Jucarii Pentru Copii (Toys for Children) with Ion Grigorescu, Protokoll Studio, Cluj Napoca, Romania*

2005
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prix Ricard S.A., Centre Pompidou, Paris
Deeparture, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York
Si tu marche plus vite, il pleut moins fort, Centro arte moderna, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon,
Portugal*

2004
Preview, Magazzino d�Arte Moderna, Rome

2003
Corporate identity, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
(...), Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
In front of my eyes, Trans> Area, New York
2002
The Right Man at the Right Place, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Nulle part ailleurs, Le Studio-Yvon Lambert, Paris
Ping Pang Pong, Entre-deux Association, Nantes, France*
1999
Headlines, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest

Group Exhibitions
2008
Ex- Voto : Dans L`art contemporain, Reims, France
I am never at home, Johnen Galerie, Berlin Germany
28th Bienal de S�o Paulo, Brazil*
Eurasia, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (IT)
God and Goods - Spirituality and mass confusion, Villa Manin Centro d�Arte Contemporanea IT) *
Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now, Kunsthaus Zurich (CH) *
Locked In, Casino Luxembourg (LUX) *
Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales (UK) *
Mimetisme, Extra City - Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Antwerp, (B)

2007
Taking Time, Museo de Arte Contemporanea ,Vigo, (E)*
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Univ. Ithaca
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)*
An Atlas of Events, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon, (P)*
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (IT)*
Noise, Poeziezomer 07 Watou, Belgium *
Critical Foreground, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio (USA)
Logiques du r�ve �veill�, Les instants chavir�s, Montreuil (F)
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris* (F)
Hay algo de revolucionario en todo esto, Sala Parpall�, Valencia
Fairytale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Albania
I want to believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (CH)
Confined Innocence, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario (CA)*
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London* (UK)

2006
October Art Salon, Belgrade, Yugoslavia*
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contempor�neo de Sevilla, Spain*
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery*
Whitstable Biennale, Kent, UK
La force de l'art, Grand Palais, Paris
Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea*
Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France*
Human Game � Winner and losers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy*
Periferic 7, Iasi, Romania*
Czeslaw Milosz �To Allen Ginsberg�, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
LESS Strategie
alternative dell'abitare, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy*
Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris*
4th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, Berlin*
Notre Histoire�, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*
Dada East ? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
l Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias
Voices of Silence, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
Marcher, Maison des Arts Georges, Pompidou, Cajarc, France
New Video New Europe, The Kitchen, NYC, USA

2005
Global Tour, Art Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam
May you live in interesting times, Cardiff Fesitval of Creative Technology, A Picture This Moving Image
Project
War is over, 1945 � 2005 The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan, GAMeC - Galleria
d�Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy*
Modern Times, Museo d�Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy*
Nach Rokytn�k - The EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Generations of art-10 years at F.A.R., Fondazione Antonio Ratti*
On Difference, Wuertenmbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Cosmopolis, State Museum for Contemporary Art, Tessaloniki, Greece
TEXT ground, Display, Space for contemporary art, Prague
e-flux video rental, Project room of KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Revolution is on hold, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Theorema, une collection priv�e en Italie, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
The need to document, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland*
Works from the collection, Magasin 3 Konstahall, Stockholm
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist�s Eye, Museum of contemporray art, Chicago*
Irreducible, contemporary short form video, 1995�2005, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California*

2004
The works I told you about, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Stock Zero (OPERA), MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Bucharest*
Prosismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris*
I�ll be your Mirror, A special project for Frieze Art Fair 2004, City Inn Westminster Hotel, London
Publishing Without Limits: New Directions for Art Magazines, Art Forum Berlin Talks (with Version)
Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje, Montenegro*
Nine Points of the Law, NGBK, Berlin*
Mediterraneo, MACRO, Rome
Plug in, Futura, Prague*
Quick-sand, De Appel, Amsterdam*
Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art*
The Happy worker, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, New York
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, Renaissance Society, Chicago/ Tate Modern, London

2003
Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania*
Phalanst�re, Centre d�art contemporain de Br�tigny
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany*
Poesis. The Everyday Differently, Kunsthalle/ Mucsarnok, Budapest*
Displaced, Ucla Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
50th La Biennale Di Venezia, Clandestine , Venice, Italy*
Unoccupied territotries, K&S; gallery, Berlin
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands*


2002
Les enfants du paradis, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
ForwArt 2002, Brussels*
A9 Forum Transeuropa, Museum Quartier, Vienna
Urban Tension, Museum in progress, Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt, Rome
Boundless Borders, Billboards project in the city, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, Kassel*
Festival -Rendez vous Roumain, Espace En Cours, Paris


2001
Documents 11 young photographers, New Gallery, Bucharest
Travers�es, ARC Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris*
Heimsuchung, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
49th La Biennale Di Venezia, (Context-network), Romanian pavillion, Venice, Italy
Art Judgment Show, Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Jean Pierre Magazine, CNEAI (Centre National de l�Estampe et de l�Art Imprim�), Chatou, France Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Bonn, Germany

2000
Transitioland, Museul National de Arta, Bucharest *
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Berlin *
Say What?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest *
Argos Project 2000, Vevey, Switzerland
Actif-Reactif, C.R.D.C., Nantes, France
International Boutique, >Public, Paris
MK2 project caf�, Paris
Periferic 4, Turkish bath, Iassy, Romania *
One Night Stand, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
Voyages d'affaires, ERBAN, Nantes, France


Bibliography
2007
Cristina Hermeziu - O amintire cu Mircea Cantor, Evenimetul Zilei, 12 August 2007
Nick Hackworth, Preachiness overpowers Poetry, Evening Standard, UK, January 11, 2007
Sean James Rose, Mircea Cantor, po�te politique, Liberation, June 12, 2007
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Un Autre Monde est Possible , Beaux Arts Magazine no 275, 2007
Valerie Knoll, Reviews, Artforum, April, 2007
Tema Celeste #121 May/June 2007
2006
Alessandro Rabottini, A Future World, Flash Art, no 251 (Cover & Interview)
Von Harald Fricke, Von Wolfen und Rehen, Die Tageszeitung, March 25, 2006
Roberta Smith, �New Video, New Europe� Exhibition at the Kitchen, June 6, 2006
Steven Henry Madoff, At Berlin Biennial, Art Fits Evrywhere, The New York Times, 11.04
Jennifer Allen, The 4th Berlin Biennial, Artforum May, p. 181
Samuel Schellenberg, Bienale a la vie, a la mort, Le courier, April 29, 2006
Steffen Dengler, Der Wolf lauert uberall, Abbendzeitung Munchen, March 25, 2006
2005
Christy Lange, A story I want to belive, Parkett 74, pp. 200-203
Christy Lange, Artist meets con artist; Travel and tourism, Matches lit at both ends, Frieze,
November-December
Travis Jeppesen, Read this text, Umelec magazine, n� 3/2005, p.92
Ami Barak, Reviews � Mircea Cantor, Gabriela Vanga, Artpress, n� 315, p.86
Roxana Azimi, March� de l'art. Regard sur la nouvelle Europe, Le Monde, September 11
Ana Maria Onisei, Un nou Version al artei contemporane, Suplimentul de Cultura, Iasi, n�28, p.16
Dialog �ntre Mircea Cantor si Cosmin Costinas, Dilema veche, n�65, April 15 � 21, 2005, p.8
Yasmil Raymond, Memory, Events, and Other Realities, IDEA- Arts & Society, nr 22
2004
Boris Groys talks to Jan Fuchtjohann and Mircea Cantor, Janus, n�17/04, pp.74-78
Miriam Bers, Her und Hin, Tema Celeste, November - December
Florena Dobrescu, Mircea Cantor a c�stigat Premiul tinarului artist francez, Adevarul,Bucharest, 25
October 25, pg. 4
Francesca Shaw/Lavinia Garulli, Was will Europa, Flash Art International, July-Sept, n� 237, p. 100
Amiel Grumberg, Le guide de Rout�art, Beaux Arts magazine, no.242, pp.66-75
Simona Vladikova, Pictures at an exhibition, Umelec, Czech Republic, February, pp.80-81
Katia Reich, Nine Points of the Law, NGBK (exhibition catalogue), Berlin
Chiara Leoni, Prague gets plugged�, Flash Art International, May-June, n� 236
Amiel Grumberg, The landscape is changing, Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam
Victor Palacios, Arenas movezidas, Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam, pp.84-85
Yasmil Raymond Ventura, The happy worker, thesis at Bard College
Nicolas Bourriaud, Stock Zero (OPERA), Prologue : Bucharest, in cat. MNAC, Bucharest, October 25,
2004, p.4
2003
Attila Tordai-S, Aperto Romania, Flash Art International, November-December, n� 233
Vanina Pinter, L�oeuvre � processus, Etapes, Paris, November, no� 102
Michele Robecchi, Tirana Biennial 2, Idea art+society, n� 15+16
Elsa Demo, Tirana n� pasqyrat e rumunit Cantor, Shekulli, n� 208
Dan Perjovschi, Mircea Cantor Super star, Idea art+society, n� 14
Thomas Boutoux, Ouverture, Flash Art International, March-April, n� 229
Ami Barak, Mircea Cantor and the match theory, Balkon, n�13, Spring
Dossier : 10 vid�astes en vue, Beaux Arts magazine, no. 224
2002
Ping Pang Pong, Flip book, Entre-deux Association (ed.), Nantes, France
L�a Gauthier, Ecrans de fantasme, Mouvement, n�16, April - June
Traversari, Mircea Cantor, Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Balkon, n�10, Spring
Olivier Michelon, Je ne suis plus un �tudiant. Les post-dipl�mes en France, Le Journal des arts,
n�142
Hans Ulrich Obrist, First Take, Artforum International, January
Interlope 2002, ERBAN-Fine Art School, Nantes, France
2001
Magda Carneci, Traves�nd Travers�es, Artelier, n�7
Elena Deldrago, Piccoli miracoli della provincia francese, Il Manifesto, December 11
Jean Max Collard, Nouvelles fronti�res, Inrockuptibles, n�312
Stefanie Stadel, Rum�nien: der Zukunft zugewandt, Kunstzeitung, n�57, May
Catherine Millet, Transitioland, Art press, n�268, May
La petite Interlope, ERBAN-Fine Art School, Nantes, France
1999
Catalogue for the International Post Graduate Program at ERBAN-Fine Art School (exhibition
catalogue), Nantes, France, 1999
Ruxandra Balaci, Mircea Cantor's ..."Headlines"..., Artelier, n�3/4


Grants/Awards
Prix Paul Ricard S.A., Paris 2004