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Via Carlo Boncompagni 4420139 Milano
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Martedì - Venerdì:11.00 - 13.30 / 14.30 - 19.00
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15.00 - 19.00
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Via Carlo Boncompagni 44.
Martedì - Venerdì:.
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Born in 1974
Lives in Berlin, Rome, and Cluj, Romania
solo exhibiitons
2018
Entrelacs, Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2017
Victor Man, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Victor Man, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
2016
Victor Man, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany
Victor Man, MD72 / Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2015
Victor Man, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2014
Zephir, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Zephir, Zachęta– National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Zephir, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
2013
The Third Cover, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
In un altro aprile, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Szindbád, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Victor Man, The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
The White Shadow of His Talent, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Lazarus Protocol, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
The Painting, the Drawing, and Other Objects and Situations, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
The Painting, the Drawing, and Other Objects and Situations, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2010
The Dust of Others, ZERO…, Milan, Italy
2009
If Mind Were All There Was, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK
Victor Man, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Victor Man, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Victor Man, Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, île de Vassivière, France
2008
attebasile, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Black Hearts Always Bleed Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
On relative loneliness, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2007
Without going into the extravagance that’s in trees, ZERO…, Milan, Italy
Vestigial specialization on its way out, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Victor Man, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
2006
With the First Totters, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The place I’m coming from, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2005
Farewell till next time, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Victor Man, Plan B, Cluj, Romania
group exhibitions
2018
Lilia & Tulipan, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2017
The New Frontiers of Painting, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
Life A User’s Manual, Art Encounters 2017, Timisoara & Arad, Romania
Pélamide, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Con amore più che non amore, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy
2016
Artworks from Enea Righi Collection, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
These Strangers...Painting and People, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture since 1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Identity Revisted, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
DÉPENSES, LABANQUE, Béthune, France
2015
All the World's Futures: 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014
Mirror, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
20 Years Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
See What You See, 21er Huas - Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Wien, Austria
State of Mind, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Almoskönyv, Ujazdowski Castle, CCA, Warsaw, Poland
Vertigo in Painting, Centre D’art du Grand Quevilly, France
The Empty Pedestal, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
Imitatio Christie’s. partoftheprocess6, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
2013
Utopia Starts Small, Felbach Triennial, Felbach, Germany
Nightfall, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
European Travelers, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
Ein vages Gefühl des Unbehagens, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Nur hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
partoftheprocess5, ZERO…, Milan, Italy
Dislessica, Bianca Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
1:1, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
Cattedrale, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
GEN X, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino, San Marino
2012
La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Fremde Überall - Foreigners Everywhere, Jewish Museum in Vienna, Vienna, Austria
European Travellers, Art from Cluj Today, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
A House of Leaves, David Roberts Foundation, London, UK
Salonul de vera, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, Romania
Nightfall, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2011
A Geographical Expression, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Salonul de mai, Plan B, Cluj, Romania
Caderea, Muzeul de Arta, Cluj, Romania
Curated by, Galerie Charim, Vienna, Austria
2010
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lituania
Der Offene Garten, Kunstahalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
Romanian Cultural Resolution, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Berlin show #2, Plan B, Berlin, Germany
Haifa Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
The concrete garden, off-site project, organized by Centre international d’art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, l'ile de Vassiviere, France
Antidote 6, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
PPP, Public Private Paintings, Mu.Zee, Ostend, Belgium
2009
Sequelism: Part 3 Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures, Arnolfini, Bristol, England, UK
In the Time of Art, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biennale Estuaire Nantes / St Nazaire, Frac des Pays de la Loire Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Carquefou, France
Dreaming the Mainstream, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
When the mood strikes, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Lesposizione Universale, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Reframing, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Andratx, Andratx, Spain
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2008
Wessen Geschichte / Whose (His)tory, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Locked-in, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaf, Hanover, Germany
Persona, Centre dArt du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
Kabul 3000: Love Among The Cabbages, ZERO…, Milan, Italy
Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Art Focus 5, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Young Artists Biennial, Re-Construction, Bucharest
Berlin show #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin
2007
52nd Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Gesellschaftsbilder, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
House Trip, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Duet, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
More or less in the same place or another, Plan B, Cluj, Romania
Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA
Paper Baglady & Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic
Filaturen, Sies+Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
Farewell to Icon, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
AWOL, Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Hungary
The Sun on the Wall, Pavel House, Laafeld, Austria
Icon, Chung King Project, Los Angeles, USA
Willa Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
partoftheprocess2, ZERO…, Milan, Italy
Dark Dreams, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
2005
Post Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2004
Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania
2003
City Art Museum Ljubljana, Mestna Galerija 1, Ljubljana
Views 2, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Facing the Real, Artists House, Jerusalem
Selected bibliography
2013
“Victor Man, memorie ed enigmi di un artista romeno a Villa Medici”, Corriere della Sera, July
“Victor Man. Accademia di Francia – Villa Medici, Roma”, Flash Art Italia, October-November
Javier Hontoria, “Victor Man,” Artforum
2012
Intense Proximité: Une Anthologie du Proche et du Lointain: La Triennale 2012, Edition Artlys, Paris
L. Bismuth, “Victor Man dans la nuit du non-savoir”, Artpress, n° 388, April
2011
Schwabsky Barry, Vitamin P2, Phaidon Press, London and New York
Victor Man,‘If Mind Were All There Was’, edited by Alessandro Rabottini, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and Kaleidoscope Press, Milan
Francesco Bonami, Un’Espressione Geografica, exhibition’s catalogue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2010
Stefano Pirovano, Forma e informazione, JOHAN & LEVI editore
Valentina D’Amaro, “Spotlight Victor Man”, Flash Art Italia, Novembre, n.288, p.80
Laura Hoptman, Yilmaz Dziewior, Uta Grosenick, Distanz Verlag, The Art of Tomorrow
Yilmaz Dziewior, “where do you come from”, PARABOL #5
“Tanzimat,” Augarten Contemporary, p. 52-55.
2009
Yilmaz Dziewior, in conversation with Victor Man, Wessen Geschichte,Jahresring 56, Verlag der buchhandlung Walter Konig
Aeneas Bastian und Harriet Häußler,Aus Künstlersicht, Kerber Art Books, p.118-119
Wakefield Neville, “Victor Man”, Flash Art international, October, p. 74--76
Claire Moulène, “L'ile de Man”, Les Inrockuptibles, n° 693, p. 112-113
Victor Man, attebasile edited by Ikon Gallery, Birminghan & Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere.
Clark, Robert, “Victor Man, Birmingham”, The Guardian, January 3th
Raul Martinez, “On Relative Loneliness,” Art in America.com, June 17
2008
Tom Morton, “Shape Shifter”, Frieze, issue 119, Nov – Dec 8, p.160 - 165
Richard McComb, “Worlds collide in Victor Man exhibition”, The Birmingham Post, Dec 16th.
Holger Liebs, “Der Untergang des Jahres”, Sueddeutsche, December 27
Natalie Haddad, “Victor Man”, Frieze, issue 114, April, p.181
Chiara Leoni, “Yan Pei-Ming/ Victor Man/ Luca Vitone”,Flash Art Italia, n° 270, June - July, p. 118
Laura Garbarino, “Il mercato guarda a Est”,Flash Art Italia, n° 269, April - May, p. 124-126
Dominic Van Den Boogerd, “Out of the Cold: On Victor Man’s Work of Restraint”,Art Papers, January-February, p. 22-25
Tom Morton, Busan Biennale, exhhibition’s catalogue, p. 240-243
Ami Barak, Bienala Tinerilor Artisti, re-construction, exhibition’s catalogue, p. 112-113
Maria Bojan Rus, “Locked in”, p. 78-80.
Veit Gorner, “Black in current painting”, p. 93-97, Kehrer Verlag Heilderberg
Edoardo Bonaspetti, “Interview”, Mousse, issue 12, January, p. 16-19
Christopher Miles, “Darkness Falls, Abstraction Illuminates”,LA Weekly, February 20th
Holly Myers, ‘Piece together the clues’, The Los Angeles Times, February 1th, p. 32
Sonia Campagnola, “Victor Man”, Flash Art, n. 259, March - April, p. 134-136
2007
“52 nd Venice Biennial; Rumanien”, Kunstforum, Bd. 188, October-November, p. 275.
Busing, Nicole & Klaas, Heiko. “Gessellschaftsbilder”, Artist kunstmagazin, nr.73, p. 48-55
Francesco Stocchi, “Yin and Yang; on the 52 nd Venice Biennial”, Spike, issue 13, p. 37
Jens Asthoff, “Bild in raum/Bild im kopf”, Gessellschaftsbilder Zeitgenössische Malerei, p. 5
Alessandro Rabottini, “Plural Solitude”, MAP, issue 11, autumn, p. 36-41
Dominic Eichler, “Think for a minute”, Frieze, issue 109
Dominic Van Den Boogerd, “Six uneasy pieces”, MetropolisM, issue 4, p. 82-83
Alberto Mugnaini, “Victor Man”, Flash Art Italia, n° 265, August - September
Casavecchia, Barbara, ’Prague Biennale 3’, Flash Art, n. 255, July – September, p. 68
Watson, Simon, ’Victor Man’, Whitewall Magazine, issue 6, p. 64
La Biennale di Venezia, Vol. II, exhibition’s catalogue, Marsilio
Memosphere. Rethinking Monuments, Revolver
Fabia Di Drusco, “52 Biennale di Venezia; Victor Man”, L’uomo Vogue, n° 381
Gesine Borcherdt, Barbara Gartner, “Die Biennale-Highlights”, Monopol, n° 6, p. 39
Helena Kontova, “interview with Victor Man”, Prague Biennale 3exhibition’s catalogue
Matt Price, “Cluj Connection”, Flash Art, n° 253, March-April, p. 74
Hohmann, Silke, “Hello Bucharest”, Monopol, n° 1/2007, January, p. 64-77
2006
Nastac, Simona, Flash Art, n.251, Nov-Dec, p.100-102
Williams, Gilda, ‘Victor Man’, Artforum, September 2006, p. 394
Politi, Giancarlo; Kontova, Helena, ‘Top 100 Artists’, Flash Art, n.250, Oct., p. 68-70
Casati, Marta, ‘Part of the Process 2’, Flash Art, n.250, October, p. 62
Omagiu Magazine, #4, insert, p.154-159,
Nastac, Simona, Biennial of young artists, AWOL,
Schwabsky, Barry,’ Why paint pictures?’ The Place I’m Coming From, exh. cat.
Willa Warszava, Raster (ed.), Revolver, p. 88-93 exh. cat.
Greben, Stein, Deirdre, ARTnews, summer, p.140
Romano, Gianni, "Interview with Victor Man’, Contemporary, #82, p. 56-59
Cumming, Laura, ‘Critic’s Choice’, The Observer, May 14th.
Neal, Jane, ‘Coming in From the Cold’, Art Review, May, p. 110-113
Neal, Jane, 'Victor Man at Plan B', Art in America, January, p. 130
2005
“Bright Young Things”, Art Review, vol IX,December, p. 102
Liviana Dan, “Curators have dreams”, Arhitext, n° 8
Jane Neal, “Post Fragile”, Flash Art, n° 244, October
Helena Kontova, Giancarlo Politi, “Prague Biennale 2”, exhibitios catalogue,p.106-107
Cosmin Costinas, “32 Romanian Painters”, p. 250-261