Mihnea MIRCAN

Profile

Born in 1976 in Bucharest. Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. Graduated with a PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University, Melbourne in 2022. 

Mihnea Mircan is a curator of contemporary art – often working also as an editor and educator – with an interest in art history’s extended narratives and their contemporary ramifications. He is currently working on the inaugural program of Plan B Foundation, a new space for art and research in Cluj, Romania. He is also an advisor at Rijksakademie Amsterdam since 2016.

Recent exhibitions and activities
2025 "Jonas Staal: Scaleless Models," Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest
2025 "The private public," Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, Romania
2024 "Miklos Onucsan: Pseudodrawings," Plan B, Berlin
2021 "A Biography of Daphne," ACCA, Melbourne
2021 "Landscape in a Convex Mirror," Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania

Publications
2025 "A Biography of Daphne," reader forthcoming from Spector books, Leipzig, Germany
2024 "Serban Savu- The Romanian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennial," retrospective catalogue forthcoming from Idea Books, Cluj

About curation

I am interested in anachronism and genealogy, in articulating curatorial narratives that bring into in the present some of art history’s long-standing interrogations. ‘Old’ notions such as the sublime or the monumental, allegory or transformation become dynamic, transversal operations in contemporary critical discourse, ways of making sense of the present, of our social, political or ecological predicaments. My concern has been to turn the potential abstraction of such notions into exhibition forms or curatorial processes, so that the exhibition itself is like an allegory, or a monument, or can be understood as being itself in a state of transformation. I have been thinking about exhibitions as sites of visual and critical conversation between artistic positions, images and historical moments.