born in Cluj, Romania, 1974

lives in Berlin and Cluj

solo shows

2016

Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany 

Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany 

2015

Gladstone Gallery, NY, USA

2014

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 

Zacheta Museum, Warsaw, Poland 

Zephir, DeutscheBank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

2013

The Third Cover, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

In un altro aprile, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy

Szindbád, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012

The white shadow of his talent, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

MUDAM, Luxembourg

2011

Lazarus Protocol, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

The Painting, the Drawing and some other Objects and Situations, Kunstverein Lübeck, Germany (with Dan Perjovschi)

The Painting, the Drawing and some other Objects and Situations, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany (with Dan Perjovschi)

2010

the dust of others, ZERO…, Milano, Italy

2009

If Mind Were All There Was, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London

Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, France

2008

attebasile, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Black Hearts Always Bleed Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

On relative loneliness, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy

2007

Without going into the extravagance that’s in trees, ZERO…, Milano, Italy

Vestigial specialization on its way out, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

2006

With the First Totters, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The place I’m coming from, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England

2005

Farewell till next time, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plan B, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

selected group shows

2015

56 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale Venezia

2014

Mirror, Frith Street Gallery, London

Vertiges de la peinture, Maison des Arts de Grand Quevilly, Grand-Quevilly

Imitatio Christie´s (partoftheprocess6), ZERO…, Milan

Siehe was dich sieht, Franz Graf, 21er Haus, Wien

The Empty Pedestal, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna

2013

Cattedrale, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy

Nur hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunst- und

Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Ein vages Gefühl des Unbehagens, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

2012

Fremde Überall-Foreigners Everywhere, selected works from the Pomeranz Collection, Jewish Museum, Vienna

Six lines of flight: shifting geographies in contemporary art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA

Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Paris, France

European travellers, art from Cluj Today, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

2011

Un’Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy 

2010

False recognition.The 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania

Der Offene garten, Kunstalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany

Romanian Cultural Resolution, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

Haifa Biennale, House Holds, Haifa, Israel

Berlin show #2,Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany

Tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

The concrete garden, off-site project Metz, organized by Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, France

Antidote 6, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

PPP, Public Private Paintings, collections in Flanders and Brussels, Muzee, Ostend

2009

Sequelism: Part 3 Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

In the Time of Art, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biennale Estuaire Nantes / St Nazaire, Le sang d’un poète, Frac des Pays de la Loire, France

Dreaming the Mainstream, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK

When the mood strikes, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

Esposizione Universale, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy

Reframing, CCA Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Andratx, Andratx/Mallorca, Spain

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, LA

2008

Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea

Wessen Geschichte / Whose (His)story, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Kabul 3000 (Love among the cabbages), ZERO…, Milan

Locked-in,Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, L

Back to Black, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Persona, Centre dArt du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France

Art Focus 5, Can Art Do More?, Jerusalem, Israel

Young Artists Biennial, Re-Construction, Bucharest, Romania

Berlin show #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany

2007

52 Venice Biennale, Low-Budget Monuments, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Gesellschaftsbilder, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

House Trip, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Duet, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

More or less in the same place or another, Plan B, (with Belu-Simion Fainaru), Cluj, Romania

Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

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, CA

Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland

AWOL, Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania

The Sun on the Wall, Pavel-House, Laafeld, Austria

Icon, Chung King Project, Los Angeles, CA

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, SI

Israel Museum, Views II, Jerusalem, Israel

Artists House, Facing the Real, Jerusalem, Israel

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