Ion Grigorescu (born March 15, 1945, in Bucharest) is a Romanian painter who was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists.
Grigorescu is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages. His subjects include both his private life and the passage of the Romanian people from life under communism to capitalism.Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim, author Marta Dziewanska, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2011
Personal exhibitions – selection 2013 – Trauma of the Exposed Body, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Church San Matteo, Lucca 2011 – Performing History, the Romanian Pavilion at the 54th International exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2011 – Rome seen with the eyes / Rome invented, with Bogdan Vladuţă, workshop, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; Grigorescu, galeria Mitterand, Zuerich; Horse, Men Market, (personal) Friedrichshof Sammlung; Grigorescu, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris; 2011 - Back to Back - with Ciprian Muresan, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest 2010 – Oedipus The Wanderer, Gregor Podnar gallery, Berlin; 2009 – The Poor people are fending for themselves Angels Gallery, Barcelona;Ion Grigorescu, exhibition catalog The poor people are fending for themselves, Angeles Gallery Barcelona, 2009 In the Body of the Victim, retrospective Modern Art Museum Warsaw; Lili Dujourie and Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York; 2008 – Superpositions, Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Gallery, Paris; Le Temps a modifié les lieux, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris; Retrospective Ion Grigorescu, Artra Gallery, Milano; 2007 - Ressources, with Geta Brătescu, M.N.A.C. BucharestIon Grigorescu, Exhibition catalog, Ressources, with Geta Brătescu, M.N.A.C. Bucharest, 2007; 2006 – Am Boden, Salzburg, Kunstverein; 2004 - Fotografii recente, Bucuresti, personal exhibition, Galeria Noua, Bucharest 1998 - National Museum of Art, Kretzulescu hall, Bucharest, personal exhibition 1993 - Mahlzeit für eine tote Kunst, Schauplatz Zeitgenossischer Kunst, Vienna
Group exhibitions 1981 - São Paulo Biennale, Brasil 1990 - Points East, Third's Eye Gallery Glasgow, 1991 - Wanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1994 - São Paulo Biennale, Brasil 1997 - Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion 1998 - Out of Actions, MOCA Los Angeles, Vienna, Barcelona, Tokyo; Body and the East, Moderna Galertja, Ljubljana 2000 - 2000+Collection, Ljublijana, 2001 - Double Life, Generali Foundation Vienna, Remedy for Melancholy, Edsvik Art, Sollentuna 2002 - Auf der Suche nach Balkanien, Graz neue Gallerie; In den Schluchten des Balkan, Friedericianum Kassel; 2003 - Prophetic Remix, M.N.A.C. Bucharest; Prophetic Corners, Iaşi 2004 - Bienala Cetinje, Love It or Leave It; Revolutions reloaded, Artra Gallery, Milan; Arteast, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Prolog, National Museum Arad, Romania; Formate, Bukarest, Kunsthalle Vienna; M.N.A.C., Bucharest, Vă place palatul Ceauşescu?; 2005 - Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation, Paradoxes, Embodying the city; 2006 – Kontakte, colectia Erstebank, MUMOK Vienna; Autopoesis, National Gallery Bratislava 2007 – Lund, Kunsthall, Possible in art Documenta 12, Kassel Dadaeast, (Zürich, Prague, Stockholm, Sibiu, Warsaw), Exit memory, desire, October, Artra, Milano 2008 – Crisis, galeria Angels Barcelona 2009 – Subversive Practices, Stuttgarter Kunstverein; Agents et Provocateurs, Dunaujvaros; Gender Check, Ludwigsmuseum Vienna 2010 – Subversive practices, Trafo, Budapest; Promesses du Passe, Centre Pompidou;Ion Grigorescu, Catalogue de l'exposition "Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou, 2010 4th Biennale Berlin; Bienala Bucurestiului, Bucharest and Stockholm; Agents and Provocateurs, Hartware Medien Kunstverein, Dortmund; Romanian Art, Leipzig, Spinnerei Frieze Art Fair London 2011 – Out of Place, Tate Modern Gallery, London; Desene, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion; Ostalgia, New Museum New York;
Awards 2020 – , Knight rank 1998 – Award for the church restoration painting 1998 – Award of the magazine Cuvântul 1993 – Award Andrei Cădere 1978, 1989 – Award of the art critics, Romania 1972 – Youth Award Romanian Union of Artists
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Bibliography Beeren, Wim in ”Wanderlieder” exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1991 Stiles, Kristine ”Uncorrupted Joy” in “Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979” exhibition catalogue, MOCA, Los Angeles, 1998 Pintilie, Ileana ”Actionism in Romania during the Communist Era”, IDEA Publishing House, Cluj, 2002 Kreuger, Anders “There is no transparence or appearance” and Faria, Nuno “Deja-vu. Some notes on Paradoxes: the embodied city” in "Paradoxes: the Embodied City", Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2005 Saxenhuber, Hedwig ”...that they mark everyday life in its depth”, in Springerin, Band XI, Heft 1 Fruejahr, Vienna, 2005 Cel ce se pedepsește singur. Stefan Bertalan, Florin Mitroi, Ion Grigorescu. Arta și România în anii 80–90, Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2009 Experiment în arta românească după 1960”- Adrian Guță, Performance art în România între 1980–1996, p. 79, Centrul Soros pentru artă contemporană, 1997 Alexandra Titu, Experimentul în arta românească după 1960, Ion Grigorescu, Editura Meridiane 2003 Ion Grigorescu, Studiul 3, Prolog, Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2009 Ion Grigorescu, Catalogul Romanian Cultural Resolution, editat de Editura Hatje Cantz, 2011; Ion Grigorescu, Catalogue de l'exposition „Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou, 2010; Ion Grigorescu, exhibition catalog, Ressources, with Geta Brătescu, M.N.A.C. Bucharest, 2007; Catalogul proiectului Performing History sub forma unui supliment special al numărului 38 al revistei "IDEA artă+societate", 2011 Ion Grigorescu, exhibition catalog The poor people are fending for themselves, Angeles Gallery Barcelona, 2009; Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim, author Marta Dziewanska, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2011
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