About the work

This is a sketch for a performance or a happening.

Date and country of birth

1977, RO

About the artist

Born 1977 Dej, Ciprian Mureşan lives and works in Cluj. Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Ion Andreescu, Cluj (2000).

Although in 1989 the Ceaușescu regime came to a peremptory halt, that moment does not seem to have represented a “point zero” – the divide that separates the past from the present.
The confusion of the past with the present is perpetuated both at the level of our daily life, of the urban reality that surrounds us, as well as at the level of the cultural heritage presented in museums or in the public space (via monuments).
This inertia is often addressed in my works. Cultural heritage is presented only partially, in a censored manner, often moving within the confines of a comfort zone that avoids confronting the past.

Selected solo exhibitions include Un beau matin aux dents fermées, Hunt Kastner Gallery, Prague (2025); Double Shadow, Istuto centrale per la grafica-Palazzo della Calcografia, Rome (2024); None of it is real, but it’s based on events that took place, Aluvial, Cluj-Napoca (2023); The Spectre, National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC, Bucharest (2021); 2020 Incarnation, Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris (2020); Ciprian Mureșan, SMAK, Ghent (2019); L’atelier sans fin, Galerie de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Ways To Tie Your Shoes, Convent Art Space, Ghent (2017); Your Survival is Guaranteed by Treaty, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2015); Stage and Twist, Project Space, Tate Modern, London (2012);

Selected group exhibitions include Énormément bizarre. La collection Jean Chatelus, donation de la fondation Antoine de Galbert, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2025); The Impermanent: Four takes on the collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2025); The Twist: Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, National Museum of Contemporary Art, MNAC, Bucharest (2024); From Holbein to Trockel, Kunstmuseum Basel (2024); The Twist. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara (2023); Monumental and ephemeral. Sculpted Memory, ‘U’ Baracks, Timisoara (2023); My Rhino is not a Myth, Art Encounters Biennial, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara (2023); Colliding Epistemes’, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2022); A Biography of Daphne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021); Viva Arte Viva, 57 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2017); Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extracity Kunsthalle, Museum Middelheim, Antwerp (2014); Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2012); Les promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); and The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009).