Alex Mirutziu

Born in 1981 in Sibiu, Alex Mirutziu creates technologies of ephemeral reciprocity. Through his films, sculptures, and performances, the artist confronts the antagonism between desire and its satisfaction through the dissolution of strategic actions. In his works, the artist employs technologies of reuse, deterritorialization, and disruption of the bodily apparatus to identify the crisis of the lived body, prompting the human imaginary to modify reality. In his projects, the premise is that of identity as a problem and a task of transgression. The artist often addresses the theme of the difficulty of dying, exploring the concept of ‘un-selfing’, understood as the responsibility of the individual.

As part of his theoretical practice, the artist has lectured at (The Royal College of Arts, London, Von Kraal Theatre, Estonia, Konstfack, Stockholm, Bezalel University of Art and Design, Tel Aviv) and has collaborated with artists/writers/musicians/designers/philosophers among which, Grit Hachmeister (DE), Elias Merino (ES), Graham Foust (US), Graham Harman (US). His work has been shown at Royal Academy of Arts and Royal College of Arts (London), Von Kraal Theatre (Tallin), Konstfack (Stockholm), Glass Factory Lab (Boda), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Centre for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), Power Plant (Toronto), Mucsarnok Kunsthalle (Budapest), Center for Contemporary Art and National Museum (Warsaw), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), Frac des Pays de la Loire (Carquefou), Kunsthalle Praha, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kunsthalle Bega, Venice Biennale, The Mediterranean Biennale (Haifa), Art Encounters Biennial (Timisoara), Havana Biennial.