Mihai Zgondoiu

Mihai Zgondoiu (b. 1982, Romania) is an independent artist, curator and gallerist with a PhD in visual arts. Since 2014 he is an associate PhD lecturer at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, and from 2018 and at the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timisoara.
Mihai was also the initiator and coordinator of the „Atelier 030202” gallery in Bucharest (2009 to date), co-curator of the „geamMAT” gallery of the Art Museum in Timisoara (2012 - 2014) and co-curator of the „Atelier in transition” artist run space (2009 -2013).
His projects, either personal or curatorial, evoke a critical (and self-critical) spirit towards thought clichés in today's society, parodying the false values and icons created by the new media through different types of fake news propaganda.
In 2017 he won the Prize of the Romanian Union of Plastic Artists for "Art in the public space", and in 2019 the JCE (Jeune Creation Europeenne) Contemporary Art Bienalle – Romanian selection.

Among his most recent exhibitions and projects: Thank you for buying, Contemporary Istanbul & Alert Studio – Bucharest, Rubik Collumn, Revolution Square – Brasov 2018, Fighting with Mozart!, Creart Gallery – Bucharest 2018, EXTRAfaces, Galeria Uj Kriterion - Miercurea Ciuc 2017, Fight with Mozart!, RKI - Vienna Contemporary (AT) 2017, New Wall - Calina Gallery Timisoara 2017, Dada Brancusi, MB-XL Gallery Bruxelles (BE) 2016 & Galateca Gallery – București 2016, The Artist's Golden Hand, FivePlus Gallery – Viena (AT) 2014 & Aiurart Gallery – Bucuresti 2013, Lenin's Sleep, Free Press Square – Bucuresti 2011, The Red Line, the National Dance Center of Bucureşti 2011, The Red Carpet, the Schlooss Museum courtyard – Linz, (AT) 2011, Freedom as Visual Pattern, Hampden Gallery - Incubator Art Space, Amherst, Massachusetts (USA) 2010, Me Matrix, Calina Gallery – Timisoara 2009, Me, Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum – Sibiu, 2008.

He also participated in HIT – Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels (Guest Artist) 2019 (BE), Fragments, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels 2019 (BE), At Different Angles, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Bucharest 2018 (RO), RERE. Overriding Design with Art and Vice-Versa – Vienna Desi...