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born in 1980 in Tîrgu-Mures, Romania
lives and works in Tîrgu-Mures, Romania
pogacean@hotmail.com

Education
2003 gratuated from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, RO

Selected Exhibitions
2006
2544, Insert, Omagiu magazine #4, Bucharest, RO
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
Villa Holiday Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, D
Billboart in Bucharest, Bucharest, RO / Usti, CZ
2005
Tales from the Other Side, DSBA, Bucharest, RO
Breaking Heart, Insert IDEA arts + society no. 20, Cluj, RO
On Difference #1, Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, D
Cover Story - DVD edition, Display Sub:Label, Display Gallery, Prague, CZ
Storyboards. Trapped in the Escape, Vector Gallery, Iasi, RO
2004
Formate / Moving Patterns, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, A
Romanian Artists (and not only) Love Ceausescu's Palace?!, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
Transylvania Express, La BF15, Lyon, FR
Shake Night, Kalinderu MediaLab, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac/Belgrade, YU
Shake the Limits, Kalinderu MediaLab, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
Art for the Masses I, Protokoll Studio, Cluj, RO
Art for the Masses II, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
Biennale de Paris, Paris, FR
2003
Re:Location 2, UAP Gallery, Cluj, RO / O.K Centrum, Linz, A
Re:Location 4, Casino de Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, L
Inflexible Clash, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, HU
Blood and Honey, Essl Collection, Vienna, A
2002
Couleur Locale, Fortress Gallery, Tîrgu-Mures, RO
Supernova, Sindan Cultural Center, Cluj, RO
Supernova, Atas Gallery, Cluj, RO

 
Cristi Pogacean does not belive in the striking evidence of the physical forms, not in the flexible reality of history and its mythologies... He senses danger in the encounter between fabricated forms and collective obsessions... But this doesn't stop him from irresponsibly playing in society's dream factory, in the dark room of the engineering department where errors, malformations and monstrosities occur.
Cristi Pogacean does not really believe in anything but in the freedom to change one's mind...
Cosmin Costinas

Cosmin Costinas is an art critic and freelance curator.
Coordinating editor of Documenta 12 magazines project, contributing editor of IDEA arts + society (Cluj) and of Version (Paris/Cluj).
Lives and works in Vienna and Bucharest.
 
2544
2006, video, 5’, pictures from the making of 2544
 
 
Lead
2006, lead helmet
 
 
Untitled
2006, billboard
 
 
The Abduction from the Seraglio
2005, woolen carpet, 110 x 160 cm
 
 
Breaking Heart
2004-2005, medallion - gold, silver or brass
 
 
Untitled
2005, video, 5'
 
 
Modernist Bird House
2005, bird house, wood
 
 
The actors of Subliminal History
2004, video, 2'50"
 
 
Video Cross
2004, video, loop 5'39"
 
 
Caranime
2002, video, loop 8"