Biography

Cristi Pogacean

Born in 1980 in Targu-Mures, Romania. Lives and works in Targu-Mures.

In 2007, he represented Romania at the 52th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia.

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Alternate Histories, Plastic, Cluj-Napoca, RO

2018
About art and life, Raft Cluj / The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, RO

2013
Cristi Pogacean, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2012
Cristi Pogacean, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2005
Tales from the Other Side, DSBA, Bucharest, RO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
In our immediate environment, Plastic Contemporary, Cluj-Napoca, RO

2023
Looking Anew and Beyond, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, US

2018
DOUBLE HEADS MATCHES. A selection of contemporary artworks from four Romanian private collections, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, HU

2017
Life – A User’s Manual, ArtEncounters 2nd edition, Timisoara, RO

2016
Few Were Happy with Their Condition, Gallery 400, Chicago, US
BERLIN SHOW #4: Inventory, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2015
Few Were Happy with their Condition, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Cluj Connection 3D, Galerie Judin, Berlin, DE

2014
Through the Collector’s Eye. Works of the Generation 2000 from Cluj in Three Romanian Collections, The Office, Cluj, RO

2013
HOTSPOT CLUJ – NEW ROMANIAN ART, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, DK

2012
Salonul de vară, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO
European Travellers: Art From Cluj Today, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU
Cer variabil. Works from the Mircea Pinte Collection, Cluj in dialogue with Collectie G+W, Collectors House, Heerlen, NL

2011
En Obras. Coleção Teixeira De Freitas, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
Salonul de mai, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO

2010
Mircea Pinte Collection, Museum of Art, Cluj, RO
Aquarellhappening 2000-2009, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, AT
BERLIN SHOW #2, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2009
2nd Biennial Art Sector Katowice, PL
Track Changes, Wilkinson Gallery London, UK

2008
BERLIN SHOW #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2007
Low-Budget Monuments, Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
News, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Ready Media, Netherlands Media Art institute, Amsterdam, NL
Across The Trees, David Nolan Gallery, New York, US

2006
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, CH
2544, insert, Omagiu magazine #4, Bucharest, RO
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
Villa Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, DE

2005
Breaking Heart, Insert IDEA arts + society no. 20, Cluj, RO
On Difference #1, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE
Cover Story – DVD edition, Display Sub:Label, Display Gallery, Prague, CZ
Storyboards. Trapped in the Escape, Vector Gallery, Iași, RO

2004
Formate / Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna, AT
Romanian artists (and not only) love Ceaușescu’s Palace?!, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
Vršac Biennial of Young Artists, Belgrade, RS
Shake the Limits, Kalinderu MediaLab, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
Supernova – Art for the Masses, Protokoll Studio, Cluj / Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
Biennale de Paris, Paris, FR

2003
Re:Location 2, UAP Gallery, Cluj / O.K Centrum, Linz, AT
Re:Location 4, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU
Inflexible Clash, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, HU
Blood and Honey, Essl Collection, Vienna, AT

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues, Artist Books, Monographs

• 2017
  ”Who’s Afraid of Politics” in Life – a User’s Manual, ArtEncounters Biennale 2nd edition. Timisoara & Arad: Azero, 2017, p. 56. [catalogue]

  2010
  Mircan, Mihnea; Neal, Jane; Radu, Magda. Edited by Mihai Pop, Colecția Mircea Pinte. Cluj: Galeria Plan B and Museum of Art Cluj Napoca, 2010. [catalogue]

  2007
  Mircan, Mihnea; Haven, Meta (eds.) MEMOSPHERE. Rethinking Monuments. Berlin: Revolver. Archiv fur aktuelle Kunst, 2007.

Articles and reviews

• 2017
  Francis, Rich. ”Romania’s 10 Contemporary Artists and Where to Find Them,” The Culture Trip.com, January, 2017.

  2016
  Bogdan, Cristina. ”Some Present Artists,” Revista Arta.ro, January, 2016.

  2013
  Hernandez, Alejandra. ”Cristi Pogăcean – Galeria Plan B (Berlin),” ArtBits.blogspot.de, 2013.

  2012
  Gyõry, Katalin. ”Grey Shadow of Communism Hangs Over Artists,” Budapest Times.hu, May, 2012.

  2011
  Cohen, David. ”Communism Never Happened: Serban Savu and the Cluj Connection,” Art Critical.com, October, 2011.
  ”The Cluj School?,” Inside full of color.com, June, 2011. [insert]
  Grant, Daniel. ”Romanians of the Day- Romanian artist are in the spotlight all over the world,“ ARTnews.com, May, 2011.
  ST. ”CRISTI POGACEAN – the cautionary ‘TALES FROM THE OTHER SIDE’,” 2020.ro, 2011.

  2007
  ”Românii vizitează Pavilionul plini de prejudecăți pe care vor să și le confirme,” gândul.info, October, 2007.
  Bako, Irina. ”« Răpirea din Serai » cel mai admirat exponat românesc la Veneția,” 9am.ro, July, 2007
  Cotter, Holland. ”That Sanitation Truck Parked on the Pier? It’s Part of the Show,” The New York Times, February, 2007. [insert]
  Conway Morris, Roderick. ”Sins of Commission,” The Spectator, June, 2007. ”Art in the New Field of Visibility,” e-flux, January, 2007.

  2004
  Costinaș, Cosmin. ”New Fetishisms,” Umělec, No.3, 2004.

Press

• Stefan, Olga. ”Few Were Happy with their Condition: Photography, Video and Film in Romania,” Art Guide East, 2015

• Cohen, David. ”Communism Never Happened: Serban Savu and the Cluj Connection,” art critical, 2011

• Cotter, Holland. ”That Sanitation Truck Parked on the Pier? It's Part of the Show Review of the Armory Show 2007 featuring 'The Abduction from the Seraglio', a woven rug by Cristi Pogacean, at Plan B,” The New York Times, 2007

• Cotter, Holland. ”Across the Trees. Romanian Art Now,” The New York Times, 2007

• Eichler, Dominic. ”Think for a Minute. Review of the 52nd Venice Biennale,” frieze, 2007