Ciprian Mureşan (b. 1977, Romania) graduated from the University of Art and Design in 2001 as well as the Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Ciprian Mureşan's art critiques history and artistic canon through recontextualisation and deconstruction, showcasing a playful yet sardonic perspective on the world. Born in communist Romania, his work reflects his experiences of transition to capitalism and challenges institutionalised systems with irony and wit.
Solo exhibitions include Doppia ombra, Instituto centrale per la grafica, Rome, Italy (2024); None of it is real, but it’s based on events that took place, Aluvia, Cluj, Romania (2023); Ciprian Mureșan, S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Debandadă istorică, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2019); Art Club 22: Ciprian Mureșan, Accademia di Francia a Roma — Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2018); #1.3 WAYS TO TIE YOUR SHOES: CIPRIAN MUREȘAN, Convent Art Space, Ghent, Belgium (2017); Ciprian Mureșan, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy (2016); Your survival is guaranteed by treaty, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (2015); Page by page, screenings on the façade of MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy (2013); Recycled Playground, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2013); Stage and Twist (with Anna Molska), Project space, Tate Modern, London, UK (2012); Recycled Playground, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2012); Dead Weights, Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania (2012).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerede Gallery, London, UK (2024); Galeria Nicodim,10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2023); Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania (2021); Perpectives, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Ciprian Muresan et Serban Savu: L’atelier sans fin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019); An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); Ciprian Muresan et Serban Savu: L’entretien infini, Centre Pompidou, Paris,France (2018); A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London, UK (2018); Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2018); I AM THE MOUTH, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (2018); VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale exhibition, curated by Christine Macel, Venice, Italy (2017); Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory and Revolution 1916 – 2016, MAK -Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (2015); HOTSPOT CLUJ - NEW ROMANIAN ART, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2013); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (2012); Never Odd or Even, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany (2011); After the Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA (2010); No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2010); The Generational Triennial: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York, USA (2009); The Seductiveness of the Interval, Romanian Pavilion, the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009).
Highlights and collections
Muresan’s work is included in numerous public and private collections, among them being ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Art Collection Telekom, Bonn, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; Pomeranz Collection, Vienna, Austria; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; The Sander Collection, Darmstadt, Germany; Tate Collection, London, UK; The Taylor Collection, Denver, USA.