Ion Grigorescu


Ion Grigorescu is a Romanian painter, was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists and advocates of anti-art, postulating a radical consolidation of artistic activities with quotidian life. He is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages that documented both his private life and the passage of the Romanian people from life under communist regimes to the realities of expansive capitalism.
He is represented by , Bucharest and Berlin.

Personal exhibitions - selection

Grigorescu, galeria Mitterand, Zuerich;
Horse, Men Market, Friedrichshof Sammlung;
Grigorescu, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris;
In the Body of the Victim, retrospective Modern Art Museum Warsaw;
Lili Dujourie and Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York;
Le Temps a modifié les lieux, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris;
Retrospective Ion Grigorescu, Artra Gallery, Milano;
Body and the East, Moderna Galertja, Ljubljana
Remedy for Melancholy, Edsvik Art, Sollentuna
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Friedericianum Kassel;
Prophetic Corners, Iaşi
Revolutions reloaded, Artra Gallery, Milano;
Arteast, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana;
Prolog, National Museum Arad, Romania;
Formate, Bukarest, Kunsthalle Viena;
M.N.A.C., Bucureşti, Vă place palatul Ceauşescu?;
Autopoesis, National Gallery Bratislava
Documenta 12, Kassel
Dadaeast,,
Exit memory, desire, October, Artra, Milano
Agents et Provocateurs, Dunaujvaros;
Gender Check, Ludwigsmuseum Wien
Promesses du Passe, Centre Pompidou;
4th Biennale Berlin;
Bienala Bucurestiului, Bucuresti and Stockholm ;
Agents and Provocateurs, Hartware Medien Kunstverein, Dortmund;
Romanian Art, Leipzig, Spinnerei
Frieze Art Fair London
Desene, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest;
Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion;
Ostalgia, New Museum New York;

Awards