CIPRIAN MUREŞAN

Muresan’s approach treats visual culture as raw material, offering a personal reading of established cultural symbols. This process invites viewers to question the permanence and authority of historical narratives. His works reveal the fluidity and complexity of meaning over time. Muresan’s practice highlights how cultural symbols, often taken for granted, can be transformed through artistic intervention. Ultimately, his work reflects a plural, layered approach to both history and visual culture, engaging with the past to create new possibilities for interpretation.

Ciprian Muresan, born 1977 in Dej, Romania, lives and works in Cluj, Romania.
Muresan was the curator of the Romanian Pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, 2024.
Solo exhibitions include: Doppia Ombra, Central Institute for Graphics, 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); Ciprian Muresan, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2021); Ciprian Muresan, S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2019); Incorrigible Believers, Plan B, Berlin (2018); Art Club 22: Ciprian Muresan, Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici, Rome (2018); Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome (2016); Your survival is guaranteed by treaty, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2015); Recycled Playground, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2013); Tate Modern, London (2012, with Anna Molska); Contemporary Art Center, Geneva (2012); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2011); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2010).

Group exhibitions include: Enormement Bizarre, La collection Chatelus donation Antoine de Galbert, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2025); Borders are Nocturnal Animals, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2025); One Eye Laughing, the Other Crying. Art From Romania. Ovidiu Șandor Collection, The International Cultural Centre, Krakow (2025); The Impermanent: Four takes on the collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2025); From Holbein to Trockel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2024); Don’t Dream Dreams, Works from the Art Collection Telekom, MG+ / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2023); Lost in the Moment That Follows, Ways of Collecting: Ovidiu Șandor Collection, Kunsthalle Prague, Prague (2023); Different Degrees of Freedom, Kunsthalle Bega, 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); Beating around the bush # 6: Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2020); Perspectives, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2019); Geta Bratescu, Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Serban Savu, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome (2019); An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); How We Live, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill New York (2019); Ciprian Muresan and Serban Savu, L’entretien infini, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin (2018); Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Cher(e)s Ami(e)s. New presentation of works from the collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015); Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory and Revolution 1916 – 2016, MAK, Vienna (2015); Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extracity Kunsthalle, Museum Middelheim, Antwerp (2014); Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2013); Six Lines of Flight, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), San Francisco (2012); Promises From the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); The Seductiveness of the Interval, the Romanian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009).

Courtesy Galeria Plan B