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Lives and works in Bucharest

EDUCATION

1969 Graduated Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Performing History, Romanian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (with Anetta Mona Chi?a & Lucia Tká?ová). Curated by Maria Rus Bojan and Ami Barak
Horse / Men Market, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorg (near Vienna), Austria
'A Complicated Relation, part I' Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2010
Bucharest Biennale 4
Oedipus The Wanderer. Gregor Podnar Gallery, Berlín

2009
Gallery Àngels Barcelona, Spain
Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim 1969–2008, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

2008
Superpositions, JGM Galerie, Paris
The Time Modified the Place, A l’Enseigne des Oudin, Paris

2006
Ion Grigorescu :Am Boden, Salzburg Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

2004
Recent Fotos, Galeria Noua, Bucharest

1998 Documents 1967-1997, MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Museum of parallel narratives (1956-1986) In the framewoirk of L’internationale. MACBA, Barcelona. ES
The Diplomatic Tent, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, RO
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, USA
Out of Place, Tate Modern, London, UK. Traveling to Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan

2010
Changing Channels, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
After The Fall, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
6 Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Katherin Rhomberg
The promises of the past, 1950 – 2010, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Rumanian Cultural Resolution, Spinnerei Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Gender Check , Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2009
Lili Dujourie & Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York, USA
That who punishes himself, (with Isztvan Bertalan and Florin Mitroi) Mogosoaia Palace, Romania
Nothing is Worth More Than This Day, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Subversive Praktiken ,Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart,Germany
Performing the East , Salzburg Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

2008
Crisis. Contra les aparences, Àngels Barcelona, Barcelona
Dada east? Romanian Context of Dadaizm, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Varsovia
kontakt...,works from the arte collection of ErsteBank Group,Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújvàros

2007
Art of the Possible, Lundskonsthall
Documenta 12, Kassel
October, Artra Milano
Dadaeast, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, Praga, Stockholm, Sibiu, 2008 Warsaw
Social Cooking Romania, NGFK Berlin

2006
Gray Zones, House of Art, Brno, GfZK Leipzig
Autopoesis, National. Gallery, Bratislava
Kontakte, Erstebank collection, MUMOK Vienna
Transit, MNAC, Bucuresti-1979 Engraving biennale Bradford

2005
Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation, Paradoxes, The Embodied City
The Family’s Legend, Curtea veche, Bucuresti
On Difference #1, Kunstverein Stuttgart-1981 xvi biennale Saopaolo

2004
Artists, do you Like Ceausescu Palace? MNAC Bucharest
About Poverty, conference,Central European University, and Ludwigsmuseum Budapest
Cetinje Biennale, Love It or Leave It
Tessaloniki, Balkan Art
Kunsthalle Wien, Formate Bukarest-1991 Wanderlieder Stedelijk Amsterdam
Revolutions Reloaded, Milano, Berlin -1993 filmfestival Ossnabrueck

2003
Preview Remix Kalinderumedialab, Bucuresti
Prophetic Corners Iasi
In den Schluchten von Balkans, Kassel -1994 biennale SaoPaolo

2002 In Search of Balkania, Graz -1996 Corps photographie FRAC Alsace

2001 Double Life Generali Foundation, Vienna, Remedy for Melancholy,Edvik kunsthalle, Stockholm -1997 XLVII biennale Venice

2000 2000+Collection, Ljiublijana -1998 Body and the East Moderna Galerija, Ljiublijana

1998 Out of Actions Losangeles, Vienna, Tokyo, Barcelona

COLLECTIONS

Moderna Galerija - Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Eslovenia
National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucarest, Rumania
Muzeul de Arta Timisoara, Timisoara, Rumania