Mihai Grecu
Romania
With the aim of bringing mental images and landscapes to life, Mihai Grecu’s video works move between photographic image exploration and experimental animation. His films depict a world that, like a dreamlike vision, exists in hidden dimensions of our reality. By blending poetic observations of a single place with subtle shifts in perception, he reveals the symbolic power of a landscape and the barely visible yet destructive impact of human presence within it.
Works
Exland, 2013, Video (stills), 7:40 min
ZUM TRAILER on Vimeo
ZUM VIDEO on YouTube
Glucose, 2012, Video (still), 7:18 min, 16:9
VIDEO on Vimeo
VIDEO on YouTube
we´ll become oil, 2011, Video (still), 8:00 min, 16:9
TRAILER on Vimeo
TRAILER on YouTube
Coagulate, production: Le Fresnoy, 2008, Video (stills), 6:00 min. 16:9
TRAILER on YouTube
Unlith, production: Le Fresnoy, 2007, Video (stills), 7:58 min, 16:9
TRAILER on YouTube
Biography
1981 born in Sebes (RO), lives and works in Paris und Roubaix (F)
2003 Licence in Graphic Arts at the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2004 National Diploma of Fine Arts (obtained the jury’s congratulations) at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (F)
2006 DNSEP at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (F)
2006 Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F)
Awards / Scholarships
2013 MQ Residency Award, Vienna (A); Best experimental film prize at Message to Man festival in Saint Petersburg for „Exland“; Kinodot Short Film Competition, Jury’s special mention for „Exland“
2012 Prix ARTE Creative for „Glucose“ au festival Côté Court Pantin; Timishort Film Festival (RO),Videorama Public Award for „Glucose“; 9th Naoussa International Film Festival (GR), Best Experimental Award for „Glucose“; 10th International Short Film Festival Tabor Film Festival (HR), Best Experimental Award for „Glucose“; Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market (JP), Crypton Best Sound Award for „Glucose“
2011 Tampere International Film Festival, Tampere (FI), best animation award for „We’ll become oil“
2010 Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Best Video Award for „Coagulate“; „forward“ – International Video Festival Volgograd (RUS), first prize; Tallinn International Student Film Festival, Tallinn (EST), Jury’s special mention; Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (F), Jury’s special mention for „Coagulate“; EXis Festival Seoul, Ex-Is award for „Coagulate“ (KOR); SCAM award for the best digital art work, Paris; Explora Award for Best Experimental Work, Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostella (ES)
2009 Film Festival Rotterdam, honourable mention for „UNLITh“
Solo-Exhibitions (selection)
2014 LOOP Barcelona, Video Art Fair (ES)
2011 „We´ll become oil“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
2008 Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin (D)
2006 „Labyrinth of my mind“, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux (F)
Group-Exhibitions (selection)
2015 „Apocalypse“, Hengesbach Gallery, Wuppertal
2014 10th Athens Video Art Festival (GR)
2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montréal (F); 30th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (D); ARKEN Museum, Ishøj (DK); Lichtsicht Biennale, Bad Rothenfelde (D); Contemporary Art Ruhr, C.A.R. Videolounge, Essen (D); TIME IS LOVE.7 – international video art program, Paris, London, Seoul, California; „Bildfrost (frozenness)“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); Moving Image Art Fair, New York (US); „Accumulations“, curated by Sabin Bors, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin (D); „Z-LAND“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin (D); „White cube – black box“, Kunsthaus Dresden (D); Dresden International Short Film Festival, Dresden (D)
2012 „20 YEARS“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); 61° Trento Film Festival, Trento (I); European Media Art Festival EMAF, Osnabrück (D); „20 YEARS“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin; St. Petersburg International Documentary, Short Film and Animated Film Festival, St. Petersburg (RUS); Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL); Bushwick Film Festival, New York (USA); Odense Film Festival, Odense (DK); Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (D); Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Lausanne (CH); Bucharest International Experimaental Film Festival, Bucharest (RO); Petaluma International Film Festival, Petaluma (USA); Nice Film Festival, Nice (F)
2011 „2 cm mehr – 2 cm de +“, Le Centre d´art le LAIT, Albi (F); Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand (F); European Media Art Festival, Art Hall/Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (D); International Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (PL); INVIDEO – International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond, Milano (I); 5th Biennale of Moving Image, Contour (B)
2010 „Unsichtbare Schatten. Bilder der Verunsicherung“, Marta Herford, Herford (D) , „Coagulate“, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D) 2009 Videonale 12, Festival für zeitgenössische Videokunst, Kunstmuseum Bonn (D)
2008 „Dans la nuit, des images“, Grand Palais, Paris (F); „The Dream Machine“, Video Short List, Passage de Retz, Paris (F); „Insomnies“, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent (F) „Panorama 9-10“, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F) „Studio“, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris (F)
2007 „Panorama 8 – présumés coupables“, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F); „Sous influences“, ADN Galeria, Barcelona (E); „Sous influences“, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris (F)
2006 „Orcaille“, collaboration with the Orpaille collective, Maison Rouge, Paris (F)
2005 „Speedforce“, at the ZKMax, Munich (D)