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