Mihnea Mircan

curator and writer, Antwerp

Mihnea Mircan (born 1976) is a curator and writer. He is the artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp where in 2011 he curated A Slowdown at the Museum and 1:1 Hans van Houwelingen & Jonas Staal. His upcoming projects at Extra City include a solo presentation by Jean-Luc Moulène and the group exhibition Allegory of the Cave Painting. From 2005 to 2006 he was curator of Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. At the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Mircan curated exhibitions such as: Sean Snyder (with Florin Tudor), 2007; SUBLIME OBJECTS, 2007; Video Works—Jaan Toomik, 2005; and the series of site-specific interventions Under Destruction, 2004–2007. His other curatorial projects include: Image to be projected until it vanishes, Museion, Bolzano, 2011; the solo exhibition of Hans van Houweligen Until it stops resembling itself, Stroom Den Haag, Den Haag, 2011; History of Art, the, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2010; and Low-Budget Monuments, Romanian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2007. He edited the book Hans van Houwelingen: Undone (2012) and has recently contributed to the catalog of the exhibition Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2012 and to monographs of Pavel Büchler, Labor in Vain (2011), and of Nina Beier, Nina Beier: Text (2010). His writing appears in magazines such as Mousse and Manifesta Journal. Mircan lives and works in Antwerp. [Last updated 2012]