Born 1977 in Dej, Romania
Lives and works in Cluj, Romania
2006
FUTURA Residency, Prague
2006
Willa Warszawa Project, International Art Festival, Warsaw
Lives and works in Cluj, Romania
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Ciprian Muresan, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2013
All that work for nothing! That's what I try to do all the time!, Galeria Plan B, Berlin
The Praxis of Starvation, Video Room: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2012
Stage and Twist, Project Space, Tate Modern, London (with Anna Molska); traveled to: Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland (2013)
Ciprian Muresan, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Ciprian Muresan. Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Dead Weights, Museum of Art Cluj Napoca, Cluj, Romania
2011
Recycled Playground, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; Traveled to: Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland (2012), Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2013)
Ciprian Muresan, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2010
Ciprian Muresan, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Ciprian Muresan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Ciprian Muresan, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Incorrigible Believers, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
The Unbelonging, Prometeogallery, Lucca; Traveled to: Prometeogallery, Milan
How I Wonder What You Are, Galeria Plan B, Berlin
2009
Incorrigible Believers, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Luv, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, Romania
2008
Auto da Fe, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Art Statements, Art Basel
Work an Travel, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
A Turn to the Real, Apollonia, Strasburg, France
2007
Expulsion from Paradise, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
I Believe I Can Fall, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Ciprian Says, Prometeo Gallery, Milan
Choose…, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, Romania
2004
The End of the Five-Year Plan, Studio Protokoll, Cluj, Romania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (Curated by Mihnea Mircan)
A FEW GRAMS OF RED, YELLOW, BLUE. New Romanian Art,, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2013
Without Reality There is No Utopia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary At, Salt Lake City, Utah
2012
III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
Referencing History, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube, Staatliche Kusthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
European Travellers, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Never odd or even - a text spaced exhibition, Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2011
Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow, The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, The Power Plant, Toronto
2010
After the Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York; Traveled to: Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
where do we go from here, Secession, Vienna
Over and Over Again, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty and the Distance, Biennale of Sydney, Australia
There is no alternative (TINA), Storey Gallery, Lancaster
Les Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris
The First Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, Israel
Monumento A La Transformación, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Morality Act III: And the moral of the story is..., Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum, New York
The Seductiveness of the Interval, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice
Portraits of the Artists as Young Artists, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Track Changes, Wilkinson Gallery, London
CUE: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
4'33'', Cinemas Sture, Stockholm and Fyris, Uppsala, Sweden
From One Thing to the Other, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm
Communism never happened, FEINKOST, Berlin
The Punishment of Lust & Luxury, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Nimic mai de pret ca valoarea zilei, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The 2nd Biennial Art Sector, Katowice, Poland
Try to make a simple gesture, no matter how small!, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008
TINA, The Drawing Room, London
Where the East Ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Monument to Transformation, Fragment #7: Communism Never Happened/ Vocabulary, Tranzit, Bratislava, Slovakia
Monument to Transformation, Fragment #6: Labour Day, Labor, Budapest
OÙ? Scènes du Sud – Volet 2, Carré d´art, Musée d´art contemporain
de Nîmes, Nîmes
Like an Attali Report, but Different – On Fiction and Political Imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
3D Rubliov, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Signals: A Video Showcase - Mash Up, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Schengen, FEINKOST, Berlin
Fusion // Confusion, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
A Turn to the Real, Apollonia, Strasburg, France
BERLIN SHOW #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin
Salon of the Revolution, HDLU—Mestovic Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Since We Last Spoke About Monuments, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2007
1st Annual Athens Biennale, Athens
Across the Trees, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
Noutati, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The State of the Endangered Body, Trafo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Fargfabriken, Stockholm
…not figments of a madman’s imagination…, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Friends, Foes and Collaborators, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Ciprian Muresan and Adrian Ghenie, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Small Wonder, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Czeslaw Milosz, To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Periferic 7, Focusing Iasi, Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iasi, Romania
Please Drive Slowly Through Our World, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Motion Parade, Fotogalerie, Vienna
No Significant Incidents to Report, Galeria Vector, Iasi, Romania
On Difference #1, Wuertembergische Kunstvrein, Stuttgart
Textground, Display Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Storyboards. Trapped in the Escape, Galeria Vector, Iasi, Romania
2004
Formate / Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna
The Way the World is, Turkish Bath, Iasi, Romania
The Violence of the Image / The Image of Violence, The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, Romania
Against the Space, curator Alina Serban, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Shake the Limits, Kalinderu MediaLab, Bucharest, Romania
Supernova – Art for the Masses I, Studio Protokoll, Cluj, Romania
Supernova – Art for the Masses II, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mircan, Mihnea and Ciprian Muresan, Artists Book. Cluj/Berlin: Plan B, 2009.
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