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Razvan
Ion is a visual artist,
curator and writer. He is the co-editor and co-founder (together with Eugen Radescu) of PAVILION [www.pavilionmagazine.org], a contemporary art & culture magazine, member of Critical Factor art group and co-director (together with Eugen Radescu) of Bucharest Biennale [www.bucharestbiennale.org]. _ Exhibitions____ SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 University of Art, Timisoara, Romania (with Gilles Saussier) 2003 International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 2002 International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania 2001 National Art Museum, Cluj, Romania SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Minority Logbox – multiple degrees of representation (by Emanuel Danesh and David Rich, in the frame of Kuba project) Rousse, Bulgaria: Cannetti House Novi Sad, Serbia & Montenegro: Museum of Contemporary Art Vukovar, Croatia: Vukovar City Museum Budapest, Hungary: Ethnographic Museum Bratislava, Slovakia: Tranzit Vienna, Austria: Nestroyhof 2006 Stop! Who is coming?, organized by National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia 2006 OutVideo, National Center for Contemporary Art,Ekaterinburg, Russia 2006 Videochannel, Gender Identity, Cologne, Germany 2005 identity_factories, MLR gallery, Bucharest. Curator:Eugen Radescu. 2005 Going Public, Modena, Italy. 2005 OutVideo, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia 2005 International Video Festival, Ankara, Turkey 2005 International Videoart Festival “Eros + Food”, Ferrara, Italy 2005 New Media Arts Festival, Bankok, Thailand 2004 InterFACES, Bangkok, Thailand. 2004 International Ljubljana Photo, Slovenia 2004 NY Experimental Digital Video Festival, New York, USA 2004 Punct şi de la capăt, Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania. 2004 Sex Diary, Zine project+exhibition, Sidney, Australia. 2004 Shake Well, Centro Cultural del Matadero, Huesca, Spain. 2004 OutVideo, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia 2004 International Contemporary Art Center, Budapest/Dunauvaroj, Hungary. 2004 ArtExpo 2004, Mexico, Mexic 2004 Le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany 2003 Videomaraton, [k:sak] Contemporary Art Center, Chisinau, Moldavia 2003 Visionaria Festival, Italy 2002 Mirror on the Balkans, Odelgao/Beograd, Yugoslavia _ Curatorial projects____ 2004 curator of: Andreas Müller-Pohle, codeZone, MLR gallery, video installation, photography, Bucharest, Romania 2004 country curator for International Ljubljana Photo, Slovenia _ Lectures____ O3one, Belgrade, Serbia InterSpace, Bourgas/Sofia, 2005 Art Academy, Timisoara, 2005 University of Derby, Derby, 2005 University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, 2004 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2004 Goesthe Institut Bukarest, 2003 _ Performance____ 2003 traffic_lights, intermedia theatre show, directed, original script: Razvan Ion & Eugen Radescu, produced by <<nix factory>> Bucharest _ Tv Broadcasting____ 2004 traffic_lights, the_janitor and quite_quiet_minutes, broadcast at SEE TV _ Commissoned Projects____ 2005 Recycle.Mentality, commissioned by Whirlpool (with Critical Factor) 2004 id_project, commissioned by Durex _ Residencies____ 2004 ArtLinks, New York, USA 2004 New Langton Center, San Francisco, USA _ Represented by____ EUROPE artphoto, Bucharest _ Books & multimedia catalogue____ razvan_ion:visual_witness, with essays by Lev Manovich, Tetsuo Kogawa, Mark Durden, Zsolt Petranyi, Eugen Radescu, Dana Altman, artphoto editions, 2004 hidden_identities, multimedia catalogue, artphoto editions, 2003 _ Selected work on publications and critics____ “quit_quiet_minutes”, on DVD at EVA Project, insert in Boiler magazine, 2005 “I remember” interview by EVA Project/Boiler magazine, 2005 “Hue, Saturation, Lightness”, by Lev Manovich, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “Between Technology and Media Politics”, by Tetsuo Kogawa, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “search:beauty”, by Dana Altman, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “Against Charade of Consumerism”, by Mark Durden, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “Eye of the Moment”, by Zsolt Petranyi, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “quite_quiet_identities”, by Eugen Radescu, in “razvan_ion:visual_witness”, book, 2004 “Hidden Identities in the work of Razvan Ion” by Dana Altman, Akrylic, August 2004 “Razvan Ion, ukryte tozamosci”, by Dana Altman, Kwartalnik Fotografia no. 12, 2003 ”Identity of Razvan Ion”, by Eugen Radescu, ART-hoc, May 2003 “traffic_lights”, by Leon Gherasim, ART-hoc, November 2003 “Asteptindu-l pe Venus”, by Ioan Es. Pop, Ziarul de Duminica, April 2002 “Beyond the visible”, by Adrian Armanca, Balkon, July 2002 “Mirror on the Balkans”, Catalogue, September 2002 “Venus Falls Into the S.P.A.C.E.”, by Gabi Dumitru, Imago, no. 14, 2002 “Exercit un act de luare in posesie”, interview, Timpul, November 2002 “Deconstruction of Identity is Re-Contextually Identity”, by Lorena Armulescu, Dilema, 2002 ”Razvan Ion, invisible identities”, by Gabi Dumitru, artphoto, no. 2, 2001 _ Selected writings____ “zero_privacy”, ART-hoc, November 2004 ”Photography/Object/Mirror”, Dilema, October 2002 ”The Relative Aesthetics of Photography”, Live Magazine, December 2002 ”Body/Art/Porn”, ArtPhoto, December 2002 _ |