Mircea Cantor
Nato nel 1977 a Oradea, Romania.
Vive e lavora a Parigi
Education
1992-1996 Fine Arts High School, Oradea
1997-1999 Academia de Arta ‘Ion Andreescu’, Cluj Napoca
1999-2000 Post Graduate, Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts, Nantes
2000 Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
2001-2003 DNAP, Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts, Nantes
Awards and Nominations
2011
Prix Marcel Duchamp Award, Paris*
Best Dance Short Film award, Tiburon International Film Festival, California
2010
Zece pentru Romania Award by Realiatea TV
2008
Nominated for Artes Mundi Prize 3rd edition, Wales*
2004
Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard award, Paris
Solo Exhibitions
2017
My Ruins are Your Flag, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
2016
La partie invisible de l’infini , Centre Pompidou , Atelier Brancusi (France)
SOLO SHOW Part III, Fondation Francès, Senlis (France)
SOLO SHOW Part II, Fondation Francès, Senlis (France)
SOLO SHOW Part I, Fondation Francès, Senlis (France)
5775 (Part II), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
2015
ART 45 | Unlimited, Art Basel (presented by Magazzino, Rome), Basel (Switzerland)
Anthropsynaptic – performance – Musée Picasso, Paris*
5775, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Selected Works, Rennie Collection, Vancouver*
You Can’t Take It With You, Istitut Culturel Italien, Paris
Ti do la mia giovinezza, Magazzino, Rome*
2013
Q.E.D., MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2012
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Centre Pompidou, Paris*
Special screenings at TIFF- Transilvania Interntational Film Festival, Cluj Napoca*
Restless: film and other works, Museum of Moving Image, New York
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi – MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Roma*
2011
More cheeks than slaps, le Credac, Ivry sur Seine
Phishing, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2010
Heilige Blumen, Kunsthalle Nuremberg
Shooting, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Solo Screening of Vertical Attempt, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Deeparture, 6eme nuit des Musée, Musée Rodin, Paris
Klug wie die Schlangen und einfältig wie die Tauben / Wise as serpents
and innocents as doves, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach
2009
Which light kills you, The Commun Guild, Glasgow
Tracking Happiness, Kunsthaus Zurich*
Preventative kiss for suspicious war, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
White sugar for black days, Yvon Lambert, Paris
The need for uncertainty, Camden Arts Centre, London*
2008
Future Gifts, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest*
The need for uncertainty, Arnolfini, Bristol*
The need for uncertainty, Modern Art Oxford*
2007
Magazzino di Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Deeparture at Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
A free smile, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York
Ciel Variable, FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims*
Deeparture, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Landscape is changing, Milton Keynes Gallery
2006
Jucãrii pentru copii (Toys for childrens)-with Ion Grigorescu, Protokoll Studio, Cluj Napoca*
Live/cinema – The title is the last thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art*
Burn to be Burnt, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Solo Screening of The landscape is changing, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2005
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
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*
2004
Preview, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome
2003
Corporate identity, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
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*
1999
Headlines, Gad Photogallery, Bucharest
Group Exhibitions
2017
The Place to be, Fondazione Maxxi, Rome
Violenti Confini, Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello, Italy
2016
CHOICES, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France),
Features- special project with Plan B, Cluj, Art Basel 2016
DO DISTURB, Festival Non Stop, Palais de Tokio, Paris, France
A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2015
ArtLine Milano, Palazzo Reale, Milan
The Nude in the XX & XXI Century, SOTHEBY’S S|2 Gallery, London
Appearance and Essence, Art Encounters, Timisoara
#Anthroposynaptic – ART UNLIMITED, Art Basel 2015
Now, at the latest – Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Com’è vivà la città, Villa Olmo, Como
Shibboleth, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Là où commence le jour, LaM- Musée d’art contemporain et art brut, Lille
Rastros Y Vestigios: Indagaciones sobre el Presente – Museo Amparo, Puebla
Reflexiones. Colleccion CGAC – CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory and Revolution 1916 – 2016, MAK, Vienna
Vita Vitale, The Azerbaijan Pavillion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice
Invitation au voyage – 15 years Marcel Duchamp Prize, La Centrale, Bruxelles
Cluj Connection 3D, Galerie Judin, Berlin
Fire and Forget. On Violence, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, New York (USA)
2014
Menagerie, ACCA – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, New York
Damage Control, Art and Destruction since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz
Fantome, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Manifest Intention. Drawing in all its forms and languages, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
19th Biennale of Sydney – You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney, Australia
The Red Queen, Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, TAS, Sidney, Australia
Une histoire – Art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui -Centre Pompidou, Paris
Neuromast: Certain Uncertainty and Contemporary Art. – Franklin Street Works, Stamford
A Few Grams Of Red, Yellow, Blue. New Romanian Art, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
La Science À L’oeuvre, Centre d’art contemporain de Pontmain, Pontmain
Me and You in a Living Room: Artists from the Ricard Foundation Award, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul
Le Mur, La collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Ichihara Art MIX 2014, Japan
The Disappearance of the fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon
Will Happiness Find Me? – Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna
Art Protects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2013
Oeuvres De La Collection Philippe Cohen Ans D’acquisations, Passage de Retz. Paris
Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York
Dinard, L’Amour atomique, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard
0 Perfomance – The fragile beauty of crisis / Special projects 5th Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow
Desire Lines, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Makhno’s Boys/Isaac Babel – Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Capitale(s), Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille
Dinard, l’Amour Atomique, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard
Le Pont, MAC, Marseille
2012
Voices of Images, Palazzo Grassi-François Pinault Foundation, Venezia*
TRACK, S.M.A.K. Gent*
I decided not to save the world, Salt, Istanbul*
Räume der Erinnerung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
European Travellers -Art from Cluj Today, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest*
One Sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
2011
I decided not to save the world, Tate Modern, London
Our magic Hour – Yokohama Trienale”, Yokohama*
Nuit Blanche Paris, International Visual Theatre, Paris
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Prix Marcel Duchamp, LaM Museum, Lille*
Characters in search of an exit, MOT International, London
Bold Tendencies 5, Peckham, London
Big Brother: Artists and tyrants, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard*
Salonul de mai, Galeria Plan B, Cluj Napoca
Image to be projected until it vanishes, Museion, Bolzano
The workers, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachussets
Curated by, Galerie Charim, Vienna*
How to disappear, The Luminary Arts Center for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
2010
Les Promesses du passé – Centre Pompidou, Paris *
Art for the world, World Expo Shanghai 2010, China*
La Carillon de Big Ben – Centre d ́art contemporain d ́Ivry, le Credac, Ivry sure Seine*
I Believe in Miracles, Collection Lambert, Avignon
Les recherches d’un chien, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung, MARTa Herford, Herford*
A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Romances sans paroles, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse
Over the Counter – Economy in Post-Socialist Art, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest*
Investigations of a dog, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
Face your demons, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni. Giovani artisti in una collezione contemporanea,
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Cont. di Trento e Rovereto*
Ich kenne drei Farben auf Erden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Natural History, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto
Fische hinterlassen keine Spuren, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
You-WE + Ablo. 25 Video della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Milan
Indefinite Destinations, Depo, Istanbul
Fall Out – Desire and Disengagement in Contemporary Art, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2009
Barock, Museo MADRE, Napoli*
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne
The world is Yours, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana*
Universal code, The Power Plant, Toronto*
Les Archipels reinventes, Centre Pompidou, Paris*
Lichtzwang, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2nd Tessaloniki Biennale, Greece*
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford*
La force de l’art 2, Grand Palais, Paris*
Videos Europa, Le Frenoy, Lille*
Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Galeria Andreiana Mihail, Bucharest
D’ailleurs – I won’t Play Others to Your Same, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
Travail de la riviere, Centre d’art contemporain – le Credac, Ivry sur Seine*
2008
28th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil*
Here is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Can Art Do More? Art Focus 5, Jerusalem*
I am never at home, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Eurasia, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto*
God and Goods – Spirituality and mass confusion, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea*
Shifting Identities – (Swiss) Art Now, Kunsthaus Zurich*
Locked In, Casino Luxembourg*
Artes Mundi 3, National Museum Cardiff, Wales*
Mimetisme, Extra City - Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Antwerp
2007
Taking Time, Museo de Arte Contemporanea,Vigo*
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Univ. Ithaca
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis*
An Atlas of Events, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon*
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena*
Noise, Poeziezomer 07, Watou*
Critical Foreground, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Logiques du rêve éveillé, Les instant chavirés, Montreuil
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris*
Hay algo de revolucionario en todo esto, Sala Parpalló, Valencia
Fairytale, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Albania
I want to believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Confined Innocence, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario*
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London*
2006
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla*
Contos Dixitais, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
October Art Salon, Belgarde*
I Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias*
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich*
Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea*
Dada east? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Volaire, Zurich
Voices of Silence, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France*
Human Game – Winner and losers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery*
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable
Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?, Iasi*
La Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris *
Czeslaw Milosz “To Allen Ginsberg”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Marcher, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc
LESS ? Strategie alternative dell’abitare, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan*
Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris*
4th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, Berlin*
Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*
2005
Global Tour, Art Travel and Beyond, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands*
May you live in interesting times, Cardiff Fesitval of Creative Technology, UK
War is over, 1945 – 2005 The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan,
GAMeC, Bergamo*
Modern Times, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
Nach Rokytník – The EVN Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna*
Generations of art-10 years at F.A.R., Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como*
On Difference, Wuertenmbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Cosmopolis, State Museum for Contemporary Art, Tessaloniki*
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
Theorema, une collection privée en Italie, Musée d’art contemporain, Collection Lambert, Avignon*
The need to document, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel*
Works from the collection, Magasin 3 Konstahall, Stockholm, Sweden
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
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, (with Version magazine) Art Forum Talks Berlin
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 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 *
Phalanstère, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny
In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel*
Poesis. The Everyday Differently, Kunsthalle/Mucsarnok, Budapest,*
Displaced, Ucla Hammer Museum, Los Angeles*
50th La Biennale Di Venezia, « Clandestine » Venice*
Unoccupied territotries, K&S Gallery, Berlin*
International Film Festival, with Smen video, Rotterdam*
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*
Traversées, ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris*
Heimsuchung, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
49th La Biennale Di Venezia, Context-network, Romanian pavillion, Venice*
Art Judgment Show, Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
Jean Pierre Magazine, CNEAI -Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé, Chatou*
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Bonn*
2000
Transitioland, Museul National de Arta, Bucharest*
Transferatu, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany*
Say What?, Eforie Gallery, Bucharest*
Argos Project 2000, Vevey
Actif-Reactif, C.R.D.C., Nantes*
International Boutique, Public, Paris MK2 project café, Paris, France Periferic 4, Turkish bath, Iasi *
One Night Stand, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
Voyages d’affaires, (with Gabriela Vanga) ERBAN, Nantes
*catalogue
Selected Public Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,Madrid, Spain
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Museum of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Magazine 3, Stockholm
