{"id":3191,"date":"2024-10-06T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hengesbach-gallery.com\/mihai-grecu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:45:04","slug":"mihai-grecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hengesbach-gallery.com\/en\/mihai-grecu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mihai Grecu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mihai Grecu<\/h2>\n\n\n

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With the aim of bringing mental images and landscapes to life, Mihai Grecu\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Works<\/p>\n\n

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Exland<\/em>, 2013, Video (stills), 7:40 minZUM TRAILER<\/strong><\/a> on VimeoZUM VIDEO<\/strong><\/a> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Glucose<\/em>, 2012, Video (still), 7:18 min, 16:9VIDEO<\/a><\/strong> on VimeoVIDEO<\/a><\/strong> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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we\u00b4ll become oil<\/em>, 2011, Video (still), 8:00 min, 16:9TRAILER<\/a><\/strong> on VimeoTRAILER<\/strong><\/a> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Coagulate<\/em>, production: Le Fresnoy, 2008, Video (stills), 6:00 min. 16:9TRAILER<\/a><\/strong> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Unlith<\/em>, production: Le Fresnoy, 2007, Video (stills), 7:58 min, 16:9TRAILER<\/a><\/strong> on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Biography<\/p>\n\n

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\u2019s congratulations) at the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs de Strasbourg (F)2006 DNSEP at the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs de Strasbourg (F)2006 Le Fresnoy \u2013 Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F)<\/p>\n\n

Awards \/ Scholarships<\/p>\n\n

2013 MQ Residency Award, Vienna (A); Best experimental film prize at Message to Man festival in Saint Petersburg for \u201eExland\u201c; Kinodot Short Film Competition, Jury\u2019s special mention for \u201eExland\u201c2012 Prix ARTE Creative for \u201eGlucose\u201c au festival C\u00f4t\u00e9 Court Pantin; Timishort Film Festival (RO),Videorama Public Award for \u201eGlucose\u201c; 9th Naoussa International Film Festival (GR), Best Experimental Award for \u201eGlucose\u201c; 10th International Short Film Festival Tabor Film Festival (HR), Best Experimental Award for \u201eGlucose\u201c; Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market (JP), Crypton Best Sound Award for \u201eGlucose\u201c2011 Tampere International Film Festival, Tampere (FI), best animation award for \u201eWe\u2019ll become oil\u201c2010 Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Best Video Award for \u201eCoagulate\u201c; \u201eforward\u201c \u2013 International Video Festival Volgograd (RUS), first prize; Tallinn International Student Film Festival, Tallinn (EST), Jury\u2019s special mention; Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (F), Jury\u2019s special mention for \u201eCoagulate\u201c; EXis Festival Seoul, Ex-Is award for \u201eCoagulate\u201c (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 \u201eUNLITh\u201c<\/p>\n\n

Solo-Exhibitions (selection)<\/p>\n\n

2014 LOOP Barcelona, Video Art Fair (ES)2011 \u201eWe\u00b4ll become oil\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin2008 Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin (D)2006 \u201eLabyrinth of my mind\u201c, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux (F)<\/p>\n\n

Group-Exhibitions (selection)<\/p>\n\n

2015 \u201eApocalypse\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Wuppertal2014 10th Athens Video Art Festival (GR)2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montr\u00e9al (F); 30th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel (D); ARKEN Museum, Ish\u00f8j (DK); Lichtsicht Biennale, Bad Rothenfelde (D); Contemporary Art Ruhr, C.A.R. Videolounge, Essen (D); TIME IS LOVE.7 \u2013 international video art program, Paris, London, Seoul, California; \u201eBildfrost (frozenness)\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); Moving Image Art Fair, New York (US); \u201eAccumulations\u201c, curated by Sabin Bors, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin (D); \u201eZ-LAND\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin (D); \u201eWhite cube \u2013 black box\u201c, Kunsthaus Dresden (D); Dresden International Short Film Festival, Dresden (D)2012 \u201e20 YEARS\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D); 61\u00b0 Trento Film Festival, Trento (I); European Media Art Festival EMAF, Osnabr\u00fcck (D); \u201e20 YEARS\u201c, 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 \u201e2 cm mehr \u2013 2 cm de +\u201c, Le Centre d\u00b4art le LAIT, Albi (F); Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand (F); European Media Art Festival, Art Hall\/Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabr\u00fcck (D); International Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (PL); INVIDEO \u2013 International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond, Milano (I); 5th Biennale of Moving Image, Contour (B)2010 \u201eUnsichtbare Schatten. Bilder der Verunsicherung\u201c, Marta Herford, Herford (D) , \u201eCoagulate\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin (D) 2009 Videonale 12, Festival f\u00fcr zeitgen\u00f6ssische Videokunst, Kunstmuseum Bonn (D)<\/em>2008 \u201eDans la nuit, des images\u201c, Grand Palais, Paris (F); \u201eThe Dream Machine\u201c, Video Short List, Passage de Retz, Paris (F); \u201eInsomnies\u201c, Maison d\u2019Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent (F) \u201ePanorama 9-10\u201c, Le Fresnoy \u2013 Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F) \u201eStudio\u201c, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris (F)2007 \u201ePanorama 8 \u2013 pr\u00e9sum\u00e9s coupables\u201c, Le Fresnoy \u2013 Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (F); \u201eSous influences\u201c, ADN Galeria, Barcelona (E); \u201eSous influences\u201c, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris (F)2006 \u201eOrcaille\u201c, collaboration with the Orpaille collective, Maison Rouge, Paris (F)2005 \u201eSpeedforce\u201c, at the ZKMax, Munich (D) <\/p>\n\n

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