Ciprian Muresan | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Ciprian Muresan

One-month stay in Kamov Residency

Ciprian Muresan (b. 1977.) is a romanian artist which lives and works in Cluj. He is present on international art scece for a long number of years by exhibiting his works in relevant museums and manifestations of contemporary visual arts - like MANIFESTA, Venice Biennial and Sydney Biennial. Since 2005. he is the editor of IDEA art+society magazine.

Selected Exhibitions:

2011.: Genius without Talent - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; Rearview Mirror - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON; Image to be projected until it vanishes - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano; Loophole to Happiness - Futura, Prague; Through a glass darkly - Mihai Nicodim Gallery , Los Angeles, CA; Ciprian Muresan - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY ; Communism never happened - Charim Galerie, Beč; Sin realidad no hay utopía - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla; Volume Collection - MMSU - Museum moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka; Kind of Change - New Acquisitions 2009-2011 - Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art – Budapest; Historical structures - new existentialism part 2 - Alte Fabrik - Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil; Il Ramo d'Oro - GC.AC - Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone; Loophole to Happiness,
Muzeum Sztuki Łódź
2010. - 1st Ural Industrial Biennial - Shockworkers of the Mobile Image Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg Ciprian Muresan - Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (solo exhibition); After the Fall - HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY ; No New Thing Under the Sun - Royal Academy of Arts, London Loophole to Happiness - Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest ; where do we go from here? - Wiener Secession, Vienna; Ciprian Muresan - Wilkinson Gallery, London (solo exhibition); Ciprian Mureşan - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (solo exhibition); How I wonder what you are, Plan b, Berlin (solo exhibition); The Unbelonging, Ex Chiesa di S. Matteo, Prometeo Gallery, Lucca, Milano (solo exhibition) Over and Over Again - Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk; 17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance, Sydney; There is no alternative (TINA) - Storey Gallery, Lancaster (Englend, Great Britain); Les Promesses du passé - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris; The Seductiveness of the Interval - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Colecţia Mircea Pinte – I - Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Cluj There Is No Alternative - Konsthall C, Hökarängen; The first Haifa Mediterranean Biennale - The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa; Monumento A La Transformación - Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz Morality Act III: And the moral of the story is... - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, etc. 2009. - CUE: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery; Incorrigible Believers, David Nolan Gallery, New York 4'33'', Cinemas Sture, Stockholm and Fyris, Uppsala; From One Thing to the Other, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm; Communism Never Happened, FEINKOST, Berlin; The Punishment of Lust and Luxury, Nicodim Gallery, LA; The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York The Seductiveness of the Interval, Romanian Pavillion, 53. Venice Biennial, etc. Over and Over Again, 1989-2009, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, The 2nd Biennial Art Sector, Katowice, itd. 2008. - TINA, The Drawing Room, London; where the east ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Auto da Fe, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Art Statements, Art Basel (solo exhibition); Monument to Transformation, Fragment #7: Communism Never Happened/Vocabulary, Tranzit, Bratislava; Monument to Transformation, Fragment # 6: Labour Day, Labor, Budapest; OÙ ? Scènes du Sud – Volet 2, Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes; Like an Attali Report, but different - On fiction and political imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Signals: A Video Showcase – Mash Up, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Schengen, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin; BERLIN SHOW #1, Plan B, Berlin; Fusion // Confusion, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen; Salon Of The Revolution, HDLU – Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb, etc.

01.06.-10.07.2012.

Ciprian Mureșan proposes a new version of his work “The Map” for SIZ Gallery - the starting point of the work is a military map, copied by children aged 6 to 9 who are asked to draw parts of the map in the absence of the whole picture.

The dismantled result becomes an abstraction – indents, rods, dotted lines, figures - elements that children use in school, but which reconstructed in a whole, put together, can somehow become a weapon. However, the pencils used by children to re-draw the map are soluble, eventually the whole being diluted.  

Also, Ciprian Mureșan develops his series of recordings from “Praxis of Starvation” (2012), which gather diverse testimonies on the experience of hunger, through two new interviews made in Rijeka.

This programme is supported by: The City of Rijeka -  Department of Culture, Primorsko-goranska County, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

Photo: http://www.raster.art.pl/galeria/wystawy/muresan/muresan_eng.htm

NGO SIZ

→ www.g-siz.com

SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.