Mircea Cantor
"Better to be a guest than a prophet in your own country"
"Mieux vaut être hôte que prophète en son pays"
Interview | Entretien - Mircea Cantor
Interview | Entretien - Jean-Pierre Bordaz
Selected biography and bibliography
MIRCEA CANTORBorn in Oradea in 1977. Lives and works on Earth. Represented by Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Magazzino, Romewww.mirceacantor.ro
2011Marcel Duchamp Award, ParisBest Dance Short Film, Tiburon International Film Festival, California
2010Ten for Romania, Realitatea TV
2008 Nominated for the 3rd Artes Mundi Award, National Museum Cardiff, Wales
2004Fondation d'enterprise Ricard Prize, Paris
Solo exhibitions:
2012Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Pompidou, Paris Special screenings, Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), Cluj-Napoca "Restless: Film and Other Works", Museum of Moving Image, New York "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi", MACRO, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rome
2011 "More Cheeks than Slaps", le Crédac, Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine "Phishing", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2010 "Heilige Blumen", Kunsthalle Nürnberg "Shooting", Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv Solo Screening - "Vertical Attempt", Kunst-Werke, Berlin "Deeparture", Musée Rodin, Paris "Wise as Serpents and Innocents as Doves", Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2009 "Which Light Kills You", The Commun Guild, Glasgow "Tracking Happiness", Kunsthaus Zürich "Preventative Kiss for Suspicious War", Galerie Johnen, Berlin "White Sugar for Black Days", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris "The Need for Uncertainty", Camden Arts Centre, London
2008 "Future Gifts", Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest "The need for Uncertainty", Arnolfini, Bristol "The need for Uncertainty", Modern Art Oxford
2007 Magazzino d'arte moderna, Rome "Deeparture at Black Box", Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. "A Free Smile", Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York "Ciel Variable", FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Solo Screening - "Deeparture", Museo Tamayo, Mexico Solo Screening - "The Landscape is Changing", MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2006 "Toys for children", with Ion Grigorescu, Protokoll Studio, Cluj-Napoca "The Title is the Last Thing", Philadelphia Museum of Art "Burn to be Burnt", GAMeC, Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo Solo Screening - "The Landscape is Changing", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2005 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Prix Fondation d'enterprise Ricard, Centre Pompidou, Paris "Deeparture", Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York "Si tu marches plus vite, il pleut moins fort", Centro de arte moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
2004 "Preview", Magazzino d'arte moderna, Rome
2003 "Corporate Identity", FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou "(...)", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris "In Front of My Eyes", Trans> Area, New York
2002 "The Right Man at the Right Place", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris "Nulle part ailleurs", Le Studio, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris "Ping Pang Pong", Association Entre-deux, Nantes
1999 "Headlines", Fotogaleria GAD, Bucharest
Group exhibitions:2012 "Ruptures. Forms of Public Address", Cooper Union, New York "Spaces of Remembrance", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf "Voices of Images", Palazzo Grassi-Fundazione François Pinault, Venice "TRACK", S.M.A.K. Gent "I Decided Not to Save the World", SALT, Istanbul "European Travellers - Art from Cluj Today", Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest "One Sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of Image", MUSAC, Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León
2011 "I Decided Not to Save the World", Tate Modern, London "Our Magic Hour", Trienala Yokohama "Characters in Search of an Exit", MOT International, London "Big Brother. Artists and Tyrants", Palais des arts et du festival, Dinard "Image to be Projected Until it Vanishes", Museion, Bolzano "The Workers", Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams "How to Disappear", The Luminary Center for the Arts, Saint Louis
2010 "Les promesses du passé", Centre Pompidou, Paris "Art for the World", World Expo Shanghai 2010 "I Believe in Miracles", Collection Lambert, Musée d'art contemporain, Avignon "Les recherches d'un chien", La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris "Unsichtbare Schatten. Bilder der Verunsicherung", MARTa Herford "A Shot in the Dark", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis "Fall Out. Desire and Disengagement in Contemporary Art", Malmö Konsthall
2009 "Barock", MADRE, Museo d'arte contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples "The World is Yours", Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark "Universal Code", The Power Plant, Toronto "La force de l'art 02", Grand Palais, Paris
2008 "In Living Contact", 28th São Paulo Biennial "Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Can Art Do More?", Art Focus 5, Jerusalem "Eurasia. Geographic Cross-Over in Arts", Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto "God & Goods. Spirituality and Mass Confusion", Villa Manin, Center for Contemporary Art "Shifting Identities. (Swiss) Art Now", Kunsthaus Zürich "Locked In", Casino Luxembourg "Artes Mundi 3", National Museum Cardiff, Wales
2007 "Taking Time", MARCO, Museo de arte contemporánea, Vigo "Brave New Worlds", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis "An Atlas of Events", Centro de arte moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon "Numerica", Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro de arte contemporanea, Siena "Critical Foreground", New Langton Arts, San Francisco "Power Play", Artpace, San Antonio, Texas "Airs de Paris", Centre Pompidou, Paris "Paranoia", Freud Museum, London
2006 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla "Contos Dixitais", CGAC, Centro Galego de arte contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela October Art Salon, Belgrad Busan Biennial, South Korea "Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire", Cabaret Volaire, Zürich "Voices of Silence", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art "Le printemps de septembre", Toulouse "Notre histoire...", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2005 "Global Tour. Art Travel and Beyond", W139, Amsterdam "May You Live in Interesting Times", Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology "War is Over, 1945-2005. The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan", GAMeC - Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo Theorema, a private collection in Italy, Collection Lambert, Musée d'art contemporain, Avignon "Universal Experience. Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Irreducible. Contemporary Short Form Video, 1995-2005", CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2004 "Works I Told You About", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris "Stock Zero (OPERA), MNAC, Bucharest "Prosismic", Espace Paul Ricard, Paris "9 Points of the Law", NGBK, Berlin "Quicksand", De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam
2003 "In the Gorges of the Balkans", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel "Displaced", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles "Clandestine", 50th Venice Biennale
2002 "Les enfants du paradis", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris "ForwArt 2002", Brussels "A9 Forum Transeuropa", Museum Quartier, Vienna "Urban Tension, Museum in progress", Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt, Rome "Boundless Borders, Billboards Project in the City", Belgrade, Sarajevo, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, Kassel
2001 "Documents 11 Young Photographers", Galeria Nouă, Bucharest "Traversées", ARC, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
2000 "Transitioland", National Museum of Art, Bucharest "Voyages d'affaires" (with Gabriela Vanga), ERBAN, Nantes
Monographs and artists' books:
Mircea Cantor. Prix Marcel Duchamp 2011, Paris, Éditions du Center Pompidou, 2012
Mircea Cantor - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Macro Roma, Edizione Quodlibet, 2012
Mircea Cantor, Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich / Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg / Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, 2009
Mircea Cantor. The Need for Uncertainty, Oxford, Modern Art Oxford / Bristol, Arnolfini, London, Camden Arts Center, 2008Mircea Cantor. The Silence of the Lambs, Cologne, Walter König/ Cluj, IDEA Design and Print, 2007
Mircea Cantor, Reims, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne / Paris, Yvon Lambert, 2007
Mircea Cantor, flip book, Tel Aviv, Dvir Gallery, 2005
Mircea Cantor. Ping Pang Pong, flip book, Nantes, Association Entre-deux, 2002
