IOSIF KIRALY (b. 1957-Romania) works in photography, installation and performance.
Beside his individual research, since 1990 he is member of the collaborative project subREAL* http://www.plueschow.de/fellows/subreal and for the past five years has been also working with a group of architects** in documentary projects related with the changes that shake the actual life and visual environment of the post-communist Romania.
Since 1992 he has taught photography at the University of Arts, Bucharest, where he became, in 1995, a founding member of the Photo-Video Department.
2005
“Paradoxes: The Embodied City”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon / P (cat)
“Sous les ponts”, Casino Luxembourg / L* (cat)
“Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe”, Museale Veneziano, Venezia / I (book)
“Blau, Die Erfindung der Donau”, Technisches Museum Wien / A (cat)
2004
“Cosmopolis 1” State Museum of Contemporary Art, Tessaloniki / Gr* (cat)
“We Are What We Are”, Minoriten Gallerien, Graz / A** (cat)
“Formate / Moving Patterns”, Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Vienna / A (cat)
“Romanian Artists (and not only) love Ceausescu’s Palace”, MNAC, Bucuresti / Ro (cat)
“Triaj”, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro**(S)
“Collage Europa”, The Netherlands Architectural Institute (NAi), Rotterdam /NL** (cat)
“Wiener Linien” - Kunst und Stadtbeobachtung seit 1960, Vienna / A* (cat)
“Communication 1:1:1”, MNAC-Kalinderu Medialab Bucuresti / Ro* (performance)
“Distance” - Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaujvaros / Hu
“Revolutions Reloaded” – Galleria Artra, Milan / I ; Play_gallery Berlin / D
2003
“Reconstructions”, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro
“In the Gorges of the Balkans”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel / D (cat)
“Blood & Honey” , Essl Collection Vienna / A* (cat)
2002
“In search of Balkania” , Neue Galerie Graz am Landsesmuseum Joanneum / A** (cat)
“Rest in Space”, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo / N* (cat)
“Interviewing the Cities”, IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm / S* (S)
“Interviewing the Cities”, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro* (S)
2001
“Interviewing the Cities”, Fotogalerie Wien /A* (S_cat)
“Ineterviewing the Cities”,Vox Gallery, Montreal / CA* (S)
“Empathy”, Museum of Art, Pori / Fi* (cat)
“Turrated Mansons”, Center for Contemporary Art, Bucuresti / Ro** (S) (poster)
2000
"Unlimited.Nl-3", Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam / NL* (cat)
"L'Autre Moitié de l'Europe", Galérie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris /F* (cd-ROM)
Internationale Kurzfilmtages, Oberhausen / D* (cat)
"La Ville / Le Jardin / La Mémoire", Académie de France, Villa Medicis, Rome/I* (cat)
“Indirect”, Profil Galerie, Bratislava / Sk (S_cat)
“Transitionland” – Muzeul National de Arta, Bucuresti / Ro (cat)
1999
“After the Wall “– Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe – Moderna Museet, Stockholm / S, Nationalgalerie, Berlin / D, Ludwig Museum Budapest / H* (cat)
“Biennale di Venezia” Romanian Pavilion / I* (cat)
1998
Berlin Biennale, Postführamt, Berlin / D* (cat)
“Serving Art 1&2” Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart / D* (S)
1997
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen / D* (cat)
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe / USA* (cat)
"2000 - 3.ArtSpace + Interface", Neue Galerie am Johaneum, Graz / A* (cat+cd-ROM)
“Biennale di Venezia” Romanian Institute / I” (cat)
1996
“Le Corps Photographie`” La Filature , Mulhouse / F (cat)
“Dataroom”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein / D* (S_cat)
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam / NL* (cat)
1995-1997
“Beyond Belief” – Contemporary Art from East Central Europe, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha / USA (cat)
1994
“The Castle”, Center for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski, Warsaw / PL*(S_poster)
“010101…” Centrul Soros pentru Arta Contemporana, Bucuresti / Ro (cat)
“Rumanische Avantgarte der 90er Jahre”, Epikur Galerie, Wuppertal / D (cat)
“22 Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo” / BR (cat)
“Mesiac Fotografie” Bratislava / SK (cat)
“Europa, Europa”. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa, Bonn/ D (cat)
1993
Biennale di Venezia - Aperto, Corderie dell'Arsenale, / I* (cat)
1992
2. Internatonale Foto-Triennale Esslingen / D (cat)
Istanbul Biennial, Fezhane, Istanbul / TR* (cat)
Draculaland, Museum of Art Bistritza / Ro* (cat)
Residencies and Grants:
2004-2005 - New Europe College / Getty Fellow, Bucharest / Ro;
2004 - Foundation BINZ39 Zurich / CH*
2002 - IASPIS, Stockholm / S*
2001 - Light Work, Syracuse, NY / USA
2000 - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art – Helsinki / Fi*
1999 - Schloss Plüschow - Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow / D*
Kultur Kontakt, Vienna / A*
1997-1998 - Akademie "Schloss Solitude", Stuttgart / D*
1995-1996 - Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Berlin / D*
1992 - Kultur Kontakt, Salzburg / A
Bosphorus University Istanbul / T
Invited Professor for Lectures/Workshops:
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam*; School of Film and Photography, Goteborg University*; The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm*; Merz Akademie, Stuttgart*; Kunstakademie, Stuttgart*; Art & Tech Institute, Linz*. ; Literaturhaus Berlin*; Goethe Institute Bucharest*, British Council Bucharest, SKC Beograd; Univrsity of Bucharest; University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest; Mobile Akademie, Berlin; Yazd University; etc.