Ion Bitzan, born 1924 in Limanu, Romania, died 1997 in Bucharest, Romania. Lived and worked in Bucharest.
Ion Bitzan graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1951, where he later started to teach.
Solo exhibitions include:
Ion Bitzan, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2018); The Prisoners of the Avant-Garde, a Ion Bitzan Retrospective, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (2017); E__xhibition of original works by Ion Bitzan, Romanian Cultural Institute, London (2006); Homage Ion Bitzan, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (2017); The Prisoners of the Avant-Garde, a Ion Bitzan Retrospective, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2018); Ion Bitzan Homage Ion Bitzan, The National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1998); Ion Bitzan, Galeria Bancorex, Galeria Next Graphics, Bucharest (1998); Object, Writings, Artist Books, The National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1996); OBJETS, ECRITURES, Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris (1996).
Selected group exhibition include:
The Twist: Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, National Museum of Contemporary Art, MNAC Bucharest, Bucharest (2024); Culturi agricole. Agricultura în arta românească modernă și contemporană, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (2022); Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale 2021, Timisoara (2021); 24 Arguments: The Early Years of Romanian Avant-Garde, Institute of the Present, National Museum of Art, Bucharest (2019); La Brique, the Brick, Caramida, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (2019); Before & After the Cultural Revolution in Romania: 1971, Postmodernism Museum, Bucharest (2016); Mapping Bucharest, Art, Memory and Revolution 1916-2016, Vienna Biennale (2015); Between the Lines, Galeria Plan B, Cluj (2014); Four Faces of Modernity: Bitzan, Maitec, Mitroi, Nicodim, Romanian Culture Institute, London (2011); Livres extraordinaires, Caroline Corre Gallery, Paris (2011); Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice (1997).
Courtesy Galeria Plan B

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