Alex Mirutziu
Born 1981 in Sibiu, Romania
Lives and works in Cluj, Romania
EDUCATION
Art University, Cluj-Napoca, RO
University of Fine Arts, Cuenca,, ES
University of Huddersfield, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Crash Mail of a Five Year Accident: screening and discussion with Alex Mirutziu and Diana Marincu, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara, RO
2019
The Unnerving Inches of Being, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Gaining in a State of Debt | curator: Nicola Trezzi, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2018
Around the Truth is the Truth, Kunstverein Ost, Berlin, DE
Between Too Soon and Too Late, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2017
This, like…, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, BE
No Blood Bank Included, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
2016
Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, DE
2013
Each thought’s an instant ruin with a new disease, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca RO
2012
What is the reality of never?, IASPIS – Lucie Fontaine Studio, Stockholm, SE
2011
Time’s own insult | curator: Maja Heuer, Glass Factory Lab, Boda, SE
Pending works & Scotopolitic object, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich, DE
Spending time in relation to usage, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2010
Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Some kill their love when they are young, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich, DE
2009
Manifest of flaw, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2002
Marriage or calling for water, Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, RO
PERFORMANCES
2020
Towards Exiting a Fold, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, RO
Doing Sub Thinking, Quoz Arts Fest, Concrete, Dubai, AE
2019
Bye, Bye… Hello!, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Placing the out of place, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, PL
Bottoms Know It, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2018
The gaze is a prolapse dressed in big business, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Doing Sub Thinking, Block Universe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Urgency of the Idea of Closure in Drawing, Art Safari, Bucharest / Kunstverein Ost, Berlin, DE
2017
Dignity To The Unsaid, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest / Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2016
How soon gone is gone, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, IE
Stay[s] against confusion, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2015
The Finnish Method, Venice Biennial, Palazzo Correr, Venice, IT
2014
Scotopolitic objects#2 for five performers and electroacoustic impromptu (in collaboration with Elias Merino), Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
2013
Scotopolitic objects#2 for one performer, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Improvisation 0 (with Gergo NAGY, Paul Devens, Joris Strijbos), Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
Camp festival, Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2012
Five moments of silence for Pending Work #7, IASPIS – Lucie Fontaine Studio, Stockholm, SE
Interview through sculpture (with Razvan Sadean), Spazio Vault, Prato, IT
2011
Action is guilt – Method to Rourke, Studio Corte17, Prato, IT
History is nothing but muscles in action (with Razvan Sadean), ZDB, Lisbon, PT
2010
Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US
When love melted cavalries in our hearts, Eira 33, Lisbon / Temps d’Images Festival, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Feeding the horses of all heroes, Romanian Academy, Rome, IT
Remains of the East (in collaboration with Alina Serban, Angelique Lehman), WUK Theatre, Vienna, AT
2009
Ping pong for VIP’s (with Alexandra Pirici), Temps d’Images Festival, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2008
Leave Gordon Brown alone, East Street Arts, Leeds / DuveGallery, Berlin / Independents Biennial 08, Liverpool, UK
2007
The shipwrecked sailor, Laurence Batley Theatre, director: John Britton, Huddersfield, UK
Anatomission, Cum2Cut Film Festival, Berlin, DE
2004
24h donation of sperm, Gallery of Fine Arts University, Cuenca, ES
2003
Boys first time, International Festival of French Theatre, Sibiu, RO
Sorrows of reconstruction, Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Missing song, Festival of the Architect, Cluj-Napoca
Gym to muscle lethargy, Gong Theatre, Sibiu, RO
Atrocity exhibition, Museum of 1989 Revolution, Timisoara, RO
2002
Chemical relaxing (in collaboration with Anca Falamas), British Council, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Atrocity exhibition, The Slaughter House, Sibiu / Old Casino, Cluj-Napoca, RO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2021
You Feel. And Drift. And Sing. From One Scene to Another | curator: Kilobase Bucharest, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
un/mute | curators: Daina Mattis, Melinda Wang, Undercurrent & Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, US
Mirror, Mirror? Contemporary Selfhood in Romanian Art | curators: Carmen Casiuc, Irina Gerdman, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
Towards a New Community | curator: Avi Lubin, Europe Day 2021, a video art event in public space: Eilat, Haifa, Tel Aviv, IL
HeartBeat 20 | curator: Călin Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, RO
Private and Public Spaces – A Photo-based Selection from the Balázs–Dénes Collection, Budapest Photo Festival 2021, FUGA – Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, HU
The Meaning of Sculpture | curator: Liviana Dan, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
When in Doubt, Go to a Museum | curator: Tevž Logar, City Museum of Ljubljana, SI
2020
12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Wounded Identity | curator: Ileana Pintilie, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, RO
The Meaning of Sculpture | curator: Liviana Dan, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, RO
Il faut cultiver notre jardin | curator: Ovidiu Leuce, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2019
Because in our dreams we took risks | curator: Diana Marincu, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara, RO
Changing Places – Works by Artists of Centrul de Interes, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, HU
La Brique, the Brick, Cărămida | curator: Ami Barak, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR
Ex-East. Past and recent stories of the Romanian avant-gardes | curator: Ami Barak, Espace Niemeyer – Siège du Parti communiste français, Paris, FR
2018
Manufacturing Nature / Naturalizing The Synthetic | curator: Diana Marincu, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
De Rerum Natura | curators: Călin Man, Ileana Selejan, Arad Museum Complex – Department of Natural Sciences, Arad, RO
A World Has Still To Be Built | curator: Diana Marincu, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara, RO
Travelling with a blind map | curator: Flóra Gadó, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest, HU
Art on Stage | curator: Hervé Mikaeloff, Central Pavilion, Art Safari Bucharest, RO
KEDEM-KODEM-KADIMA | curator: Nicola Trezzi, Center for Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv, IL
Double Heads Matches | curators: Diana Marincu, Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, HU
2017
The Impossible Garden | curator: Liviana Dan, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, RO
2016
I’m the Invisible Man | curator: Diana Marincu, Anca-Verona Mihulet, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Few Were Happy with their Condition | curator: Olga Stefan, Gallery 400 – University of Illinois at Chicago, US
2015
Appearance and Essence, 1st Art Encounters Biennial | curator: Rainald Schumacher, Nathalie Hoyos, Timco Halls, Timisoara, RO
Few were happy with their condition | curator: Olga Stefan, Motorenhallen, Dresden, DE
Inventing the Truth, on Fiction and Reality | curator: Diana Marincu, 56th Venice Biennale, Romanian Institute for Culture and Research in Humanities, Venice, IT
Few Were Happy with their Condition | curator: Olga Stefan, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2014
A few grams of red, yellow, blue | curator: Ewa Gorzadek, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Through the Collector’s Eye. Works of the Generation 2000 from Cluj in Three Romanian Collections, The Office,
Cluj-Napoca, RO
2012
European travelers, Art from Cluj today | curator: Judit Angel, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU
A brand new baby carriage standing there on the porch, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
Play dice would be nice, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, FR
Works and interview through sculpture, Spazio Vault, Prato, IT
Rearview mirror | curator: Christopher Eamon, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CA
2011
Rearview mirror | curator: Christopher Eamon, Power Plant, Toronto, CA
Pulse within the veil | curator: Georgiana But, Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Beyond the liminal experience | curator: Francesco Scasciamacchia, Spazio Vault, Prato, IT
Object-orientation, Cerritos Art Gallery | curator: Joseph Cervantes, Norwalk, US
2010
Self-portraits | Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Il Caos #2, Le Migrazioni | curator: Raffaele Gavarro, Island of San Servolo, Venice, IT
Ars homo erotica | curator: Pawel Leszkowicz, National Museum, Warsaw, PL
2009
Exploring the return of repression | curator: Razvan Ion, Pavilion—Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest, RO
Message in a bottle, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Lumen Evolution Festival, Leeds, UK
From the periphery | curator: Noa Treister, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, RS
2008
Optica, International Festival of Video Art | Paris, Madrid, Gijon, ES
Sex in transition | curator: Noa Treister, Kucevo, RS
What is white? | curator: Jenny Lee, Piera Ravnikar, Ada Street Gallery, London, UK
2007
The eye of the beholder | curator: Liviana Dan, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
A show that took the place of a star, Showroom Ottakring, Vienna, AT
No hope no fear | curator: Alex Mirutziu, Balanta Warehouse, Sibiu, RO
2004
Desire in the making | curator: Alex Mirutziu, University of Fine Arts, Cuenca, ES
2002
Head_Start | curator: by Liviana Dan, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2021 Undercurrent, New York – US
2019 Outset, Tel Aviv, IL
2018 Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
2016 The Centre For Dying On Stage #3, Cow House Studios, , IE
2016 Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2015 Art Encounters, Timisoara, RO
2014-2015 IASPIS Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm, SE
2011 The Glass Factory Lab, Boda , SE
2011 Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon , PT
2010 Eira33, Lisbon, PT
2009 ColectivA, Cluj-Napoca, RO