1945 Bucharest, Romania
Lives and works in Bucharest, RO
Ion Grigorescu has addressed topics ranging from political commentary and reflections on history to his own body, spirituality and religion. Grigorescu has experimented with genres, formats and techniques, producing comic strips or performances or murals. Lately he has gained new recognition for his films from the 1970s, shot on Super8, for his texts and for his photographic projects realized during the final decades of Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule. Ion Grigorescu’s work may appear informal or baroque, but he is a particularly well-reflected artist who exercises the utmost economy of expression.

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Ion Grigorescu, Horse / Men Market, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Österreich, Austria
Ion Grigorescu, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2010
Oedipus The Wanderer, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
2009
Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim 1969–2008 Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathrin Rhomberg
Ludlow 38, European Kunsthalle Köln, Goethe Institute New York, USA (with Lili Dujourie)
2008
Superpositions, JGM Galerie, Paris
The Time Modified the Place, A l’Enseigne des Oudin, Paris
Ion Grigorescu, ARTRA, Milan
2006 Am Boden, Salzburg
2004 Recent Fotos, galerianoua, Bucharest
1998 Documents 1967-1997 MNAC , Bucharest (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Group Exhibitions
2011
Out of Place, Tate Modern, London, UK. Traveling to Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
52th Venice Biennial, Performing History: Ion Grigorescu, Anetta Mona Chisa, Lucia Tkacova, (Romania pavilion curated by Maria Rus Bojan and Ami Barak), Venice, Italy
2010
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
6. Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Katherin Rhomberg
Bucharest Biennale 4, Romania
The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Curated by Christine Macel and Joanna Mytkowska
Changing Channels, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2009
Gender Check - Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Subversive Praktiken Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Performing the East, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
Dada East? Romanian Contexts of Dadaism, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
Lili Dujourie & Ion Grigorescu, Ludlow 38, New York, USA
That who punishes himself, (with Isztvan Bertalan and Florin Mitroi) Mogosoaia Palace, Romania
Nothing is Worth More Than This Day, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2008
Crisis. Contra les aparences, Àngels Barcelona, Barcelona
Dada east? Romanian Context of Dadaizm, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Varsovia
kontakt...,works from the arte collection of ErsteBank Group,Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújvàros
2007
Art of the Possible, Lundskonsthall
Documenta 12, Kassel
October, Artra Milano
Dadaeast, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, Praga, Stockholm, Sibiu, 2008 Warsaw
Social Cooking Romania, NGFK Berlin
2006
Gray Zones, House of Art, Brno, GfZK Leipzig
Autopoesis, National. Gallery, Bratislava
Kontakte, Erstebank collection, MUMOK Vienna
Transit, MNAC, Bucuresti-1979 Engraving biennale Bradford
2005
Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation, Paradoxes, The Embodied City
The Family’s Legend, Curtea veche, Bucuresti
On Difference #1, Kunstverein Stuttgart-1981 xvi biennale Saopaolo
2004 Artists, do you Like Ceausescu Palace ? MNAC Bucuresti
About Poverty, conference,Central European University, and Ludwigsmuseum Budaspest
Cetinje Biennale, Love It or Leave It
Tessaloniki, Balkan Art
Kunsthalle Wien, Formate Bukarest-1991 Wanderlieder Stedelijk Amsterdam
Revolutions Reloaded, Milano, Berlin -1993 filmfestival Ossnabrueck
2003
Preview Remix Kalinderumedialab, Bucuresti
Prophetic Corners Iasi
In den Schluchten von Balkans, Kassel -1994 biennale SaoPaolo
2002 In Search of Balkania, Graz -1996 Corps photographie FRAC Alsace
2001 Double Life Generali Foundation, Vienna, Remedy for Melancholy,Edvik
kunsthalle, Stockholm -1997 XLVII biennale Venice
2000 2000+Collection, Ljiublijana -1998 Body and the East Moderna Galerija, Ljiublijana
1998 Out of Actions Losangeles, Vienna, Tokyo, Barcelone
Collection
Moderna Galerija - Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Eslovenia
National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucarest, Rumania
Muzeul de Arta Timisoara, Timisoara, Rumania