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Victor Man

 
VICTOR MAN
Born 1974
Lives in Rome and Cluj, Romania
 
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
“Victor Man,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2023
“The Lines of Life,” Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2022
“From Wounds and Starry Dreams,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
“Eyelids, Towards Evening,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2021
"Victor Man," Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
2020
"Die Rose ist ohne Warum. Sie blühet, weil sie blühet," Galerie Neu, Berlin
2018
“Victor Man,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Victor Man,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
“Entrelacs,” Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2017
“Victor Man,” Blum & Poe, Tokyo
“Victor Man,” Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
2016
“Victor Man,” Galeria Plan B, Berlin
“Victor Man,” MD72 / Galerie Neu, Berlin
2015
"Victor Man," Gladstone Gallery, New York
2014
“Zephir,” Haus der Kunst, Munich
“Zephir,” Zachęta– National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
“Zephir,” Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin
2013
“The Third Cover,” Galerie Neu, Berlin
“In un altro aprile,” Villa Medici, Rome
“Szindbád,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012
“Victor Man,” The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
“The White Shadow of His Talent,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2011
“Lazarus Protocol,” Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
“The Painting, the Drawing, and Other Objects and Situations,” Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
“The Painting, the Drawing, and Other Objects and Situations,” Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2010
“The Dust of Others,” Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
2009
“If Mind Were All There Was,” Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
“Victor Man,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Victor Man,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
“Victor Man,” Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, île de Vassivière, France
2008
“attebasile,” Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
“Black Hearts Always Bleed Red,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
“On relative loneliness,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2007
“Without going into the extravagance that’s in trees,” Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
“Vestigial specialization on its way out,” Johnen Galerie, Berlin
“Victor Man,” Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
2006
“With the First Totters,” Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
“The place I’m coming from,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2005
“Farewell till next time,” Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
“Victor Man,” Plan B, Cluj, Romania 
Group Exhibitions
2024
“On Paper,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
“Summer Show,” curated by Philippe Parreno, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
2023
“Lacan, the Exhibition: When Art Meets Psychoanalysis,” Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
“Effectual Picasso (Picasso Effect),” Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest, Romania
“Looking Anew and Beyond: Contemporary Romanian Art from the Collection of the Arthur Taubman Trust,” Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, USA
2022
“Interior,” Michael Werner Gallery, Mayfair, London
“Notte Oscura,” Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
“Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition,” UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
"Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting," The Warehouse, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas
2021
“Carnivalesca: What Painting Might Be,” Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Fore-edge Painting," Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
“When in Doubt”, Go to a Museum, City Museum of Ljubljana, SI 
2020
“Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma,” The Warehouse, Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas
“Drawing 2020,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2019
“Werethings,” Galeria Plan B, Berlin
“Claude Mirrors” Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (three-person show)
“Louise Giovanelli,” Manchester Art Gallery, United Kingdom
“LA PLAGE,” Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
"La Brique, the Brick, Caramida", La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France
"Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde," Espace Niemeyer, Paris 
“O – Della materia spirituale dell’arte,” MAXXI, Rome
2018
"Une saison roumaine," Centre Pompidou, Paris
"TRICOLOR, MARe," Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest, Romania
"Alle. Künstlerinnen und Künstler in der Overbeck-Gesellschaft 1918–2018," Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Denmark
“Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto,” Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy
“Lilia & Tulipan,” Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2017
“The New Frontiers of Painting,” Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
“Life A User’s Manual,” Art Encounters 2017, Timisoara & Arad, Romania
“Pélamide,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels 
“Con amore più che non amore,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
“The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art,” Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy
“In Search of Characters…”, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE 
“Thinking Out Loud: Notes For An Evolving Collection”, The Warehouse, Dallas, US 
“Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US 
“Dissolve into a red dwarf”, Island, Brussels, BE
2016
"Artworks from Enea Righi Collection," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
"These Strangers...Painting and People," S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
"Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture since 1900," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Identity Revisted,” The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
“DÉPENSES,” LABANQUE, Béthune, France
“Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Hommage aux Donateurs des Collections Contemporaines”,   Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR                 
“QUAND FONDRA LA NEIGE, OU IRA LE BLANC”. Contemporary collecting at Palazzo Fortuny. Artworks from Enea Righi 
“Track Changes”, curated by Plan B at Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, BR 
“Quodlibet”, Lempertz, Brussels, BE 
“Monstres et Madones”, Triple V, Paris, FR
2015
"All the World's Futures: 56th International Art Exhibition," Venice Biennale, Venice
2014
“Mirror,” Frith Street Gallery, London
“20 Years Galerie Neu,” Galerie Neu, Berlin
“See What You See,” 21er Huas - Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Wien
“State of Mind,” Maison Particulière, Brussels
“Almoskönyv,” Ujazdowski Castle, CCA, Warsaw
“Vertigo in Painting, “ Centre D’art du Grand Quevilly, France
“The Empty Pedestal,” Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
“Imitatio Christie’s. partoftheprocess6,” Galleria Zero, Milan
“Franz Graf. Siehe was dich sieht, 21er Haus” - Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna, AT
2013
“Utopia Starts Small,” Felbach Triennial, Felbach
"Nightfall," Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
“European Travelers,” Mucsarnok, Budapest
“Ein vages Gefühl des Unbehagens, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
“Nur hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,” Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
“partoftheprocess5,” Galleria Zero, Milan
“Dislessica,” Bianca Arte Contemporanea, Palermo
“1:1,” Atelier 35, Bucharest
“Cattedrale,” Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome
"GEN X," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino, San Marino
Invited artist in the Guest Room of Mircea Cantor's exhibition Q.E.D., MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO 2012
“La Triennale: Intense Proximity,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“Six Lines of Flight,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Fremde Überall - Foreigners Everywhere," Jewish Museum in Vienna, Vienna
“European Travellers, Art from Cluj Today,” Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Mucsarnok,      Budapest
“A House of Leaves,” David Roberts Foundation, London
“Salonul de vera,” Galeria Plan B, Cluj, Romania
“Nightfall,” MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2011
“A Geographical Expression,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
“Salonul de mai,” Plan B, Cluj, Romania
“Caderea,” Muzeul de Arta, Cluj, Romania
“Curated by,” Galerie Charim, Vienna
2010
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
“Der Offene Garten,” Kunstahalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
“Romanian Cultural Resolution,” Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
“Tanzimat,” Augarten Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna
“Berlin show #2,” Plan B, Berlin
Haifa Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
“The concrete garden,” off-site project, organized by Centre international d'art
et du paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, l'ile de Vassiviere, France
“Antidote 6,” Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris
“PPP, Public Private Paintings,” Mu.Zee, Ostend, Belgium
2009
“Sequelism: Part 3 Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures,” Arnolfini, Bristol, England
“In the Time of Art,” Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Biennale Estuaire Nantes / St Nazaire,” Frac des Pays de la Loire Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Carquefou, France
“Dreaming the Mainstream,” Vilma Gold Gallery, London
“When the mood strikes,” Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
“Lesposizione Universale,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
“Reframing,” Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Andratx, Andratx, Spain
“15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2008
“Wessen Geschichte / Whose (His)tory,” Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Locked-in,” Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Back to Black,” Kestnergesellschaf, Hanover, Germany
“Persona,” Centre dArt du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
“Kabul 3000: Love Among The Cabbages,” Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
“Expenditure,” Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Art Focus 5, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Young Artists Biennial, Re-Construction, Bucharest
Berlin show #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin
2007
52nd Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
“Gesellschaftsbilder,” Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“House Trip,” Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
“Duet,” Lehmann Maupin, New York
“Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“More or less in the same place or another,” Plan B, Cluj, Romania
“Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection,” H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
“Paper Baglady & Other Stories,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Prague Biennale 3, Prague
“Filaturen,” Sies+Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
“Farewell to Icon,” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
“Cluj Connection,” Haunch of Venison, Zurich
“AWOL,” Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest
“The Sun on the Wall,” Pavel House, Laafeld, Austria
“Icon,” Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Willa Warszawa, Warsaw
“partoftheprocess2,” Galeria Zero, Milan, Italy
“Dark Dreams,” Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
2005
“Post Fragile,” Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
“Expanded Painting,” Prague Biennale 2, Prague
“Fragile,” Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2004
Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania
2003
City Art Museum Ljubljana, Mestna Galerija 1, Ljubljana
”Views 2,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Facing the Real,” Artists House, Jerusalem