Mihai Olos Biography

Mihai Olos (1940, Arinis, Romania – 2015, Amoltern, Germany) lived and worked in Romania and Germany.

Selected exhibitions include: The Knot, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2026) / Hocus Focus, Conector / OFF-space, Cluj Napoca (2025); _The Twist: Failing Empires, Triumphant Provinces, _National Museum of Contemporary Art, MNAC Bucharest (2024); _15, _Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2023); The Picasso E__ff__ect, Museum of Recent Art (MARe), Bucharest (2023); Lost in the Moment That Follows, Ways of Collecting: Ovidiu Șandor Collection, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague (2023); Monumental and ephemeral. Sculpted Memory, ‘U’ Baracks, Timisoara (2022); Building and Dreaming, BY ART MATTERS Museum, Hangzhou (2022); Art and The City 1974-2021, Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (2021); Infinite Beings: Joseph Beuys, Horia Damian, Ana Lupas, Mihai Olos, Erika Verzutti, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2021); When in Doubt, Go to a Museum. Works from the Ovidiu Sandor Collection, Lah Contemporary, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Collection Laurent Fiévet, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection (TBA21), City Museum of Ljubljana (2021); Folklore, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (2020); SEEING HISTORY - 1947-2007.THE MNAC COLLECTION, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2019); Perspectives, BOZAR Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels (2019); Mihai Olos, Centre Pompidou – Atelier Brancusi, Paris (2018); The Ephemerist. A Mihai Olos Retrospective, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2016); Olospolis, Plan B, Berlin (2016); Appearance and Essence, ArtEncounters 1st edition, Timisoara (2015); National Museum Brukenthal Sibiu, Romania (2010); Museum of Art, Baia Mare, Romania (2009); International Triennial of Small Sculpture, Murska Sobota, Slovenia (2001); City Art Gallery, Baia Mare, Romania (2000); Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf, Germany (1993); Golden Tripod, Schaubühne, Berlin (1993); The 39th Venice Biennale, ‘Space Capital 1970-1977’ by Joseph Beuys (1980); documenta 6, Kassel, in the framework of the Free International University of Joseph Beuys (1977); Mihai Olos, Maramures Museum, Sighet, Romania (1976); Art and the City, New Gallery, Bucharest (1974); Milan Triennial (1968).

Text courtesy Galeria Plan B.

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