Ciprian Mureşan (b.1977, Dej) lives and works in Cluj. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj (2003); and The University of Art and Design, Cluj (2001). Select solo exhibitions include Ciprian Muresan, SMAK Museum, Ghent, BE (2019); Ciprian Mureșan, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Art Club 22: Ciprian Mureșan, Accademia di Francia a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome (2018); Ciprian Mureșan: All Images from a Book…, David Nolan Gallery, New York (2017); Ciprian Muresan, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2015); Stage and Twist, Project Space, Tate Modern, London (2012); Recycled Playground, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims and touring (2011); and Ciprian Mureșan, n.b.k., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2010). Select group exhibitions include Beating around the bush # 6: Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL (2020); End of Future, SAPS La Tallera Museum, Cuernavaca, MX (2019); How We Live, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill NY, US (2019); Perspectives, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE (2019); Geta Bratescu, Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Serban Savu, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome, IT (2019); Ciprian Muresan and Serban Savu, L’atelier sans fin, Atelier Brancusi - Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2019); An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, HK (2019); Grande Révolution Domestique, Le Familistère de Guise, Guise, FR (2019); La Brique, the Brick, Caramida, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, FR (2019); Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR (2019); Ciprian Muresan and Serban Savu, L'entretien infini, Une saison roumaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2018); The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin, DE (2018); A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London and Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2018); Acquisitions récentes du Cabinet d’Art Graphique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2018); VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale exhibition, Venice (2017); Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul: Freiburg, Museum fur Neue Kunst Freiburg, Freiburg (2017); Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, Works from Art Collection Telekom, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2017); Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); Without Reality There is No Utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla (2011); and No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010). 

George Grosz (1893-1959) lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. Studied Drawing at the Dresden Royal Academy of Art, specialising in Graphic Art (1909-11); the School of Arts and Crafts, Berlin (1912-14) and the Atelier Colarossi, Paris (1913). A prominent member of the New Objectivity Movement, a band of Social Realism in German avant-garde art, Grosz's work depicted and commented on German society between the wars. Also a member of Berlin's Dada movement, his caricatures critiqued the politics and culture of the day through satirical illustrations reflecting his observations of life in the city. Select exhibtions include Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London, UK (2017); George Grosz: Correct and Anarchic, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2010); The Years in America: 1933-1958, David Nolan, New York, US (2009); German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (2004); The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints 1912-1930, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (1997); The New Objectivity, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, US (1997); Art and Politics in Weimar Germany, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, US (1993). Expressionist works by George Grosz are held in a number of public collections world-wide including Kunsthalle, Hamburg; the Staatliche Museum, Berlin; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Mardrid and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US.