Mircea But
(b. 1991)
Mircea But (b. 1991 in Baia Mare, Romania), lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Graduated from the Painting department of the University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca, now owning both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree. As a student, he has been part of several exhibition projects, both on national and international level, thus making some of his work available for a wider public.
Mircea But received two Erasmus scholarships. Years 2014 and 2015 have brought the artist the benefits of participating in the Paintbrush Factory artist-in-residence project at Spatiu Intact. His art merges different environments and materials (acryl, spray, collages, photography) in order to obtain an experimental touch. The process is as important as the final product, each of the works representing a new discovery and, when put together, a complete puzzle.
STUDIES
2017 PhD degree, painting department, University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca
2013-2015 Master degree, painting department,
University of Art and Design from Cluj-Napoca
2010-2013 Bachelor degree, painting department, University of Art
and Design from Cluj-Napoca
RESIDENCIES / SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Art Residence at Budapest Art Factory, HU
2014-2015 Art Residence at Intact Space,
Paintbrush Factory Cluj-Napoca
July - September 2015 – Erasmus Placement scholarship
at Plan B Gallery, Berlin
November 2015 – Custody member of the Romanian Pavilion
at Venice Biennale
November 2012 – March 2013 – Erasmus Study scholarship
at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Territories, memories, zeniths, Borderline Art Space
at Victoria Gallery, Iasi
2012 Solo exhibition at ,,Expo Maraton”, Casa Matei Gallery,
Cluj-Napoca September
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Twice Told Tales, Biju Gallery, Cluj, RO
2022 Group Show, 104 Galerie, Tokyo, JPN
2021 Sleepwalkers Aroundline, Carausu&Singeorzean Gallery, Cluj, RO
2021 Central Station, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2020 The disjunction of change, Art Safe, Bucharest, RO
2020 Future Perfect, Magma Contemporary Medium, Sfantul Gheorghe, RO
2020 Echoes beneath the waves, Muzeul de Arta, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2019 Mother Tongue, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2018 Papanache/Camembert, Ecole superieure d’arts et medias, Caen, FR
2018 Blind Date, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
2017 Cosmic Green Solitude, Art + Text Budapest, Budapest
2017 The new locatar, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca
2017 Breaking rules, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
2016 White Night of the Art Galleries, Pop-Up Autumn Salon, Spatiu
Intact, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca
2015 ,,Latin love’’, Perugia, Italy
2015 UAD Graduate Exhibition – Expo Transilvania, Cluj-Napoca
2015 Group Exhibition ,,Latin love’’, Macerata, Italy
2015 Group Exhibition ,,Rumble in the jungle”, Casa Matei Gallery,
Cluj-Napoca
2015 Group Exhibition, „Wild Awake”, Lateral Art Space,
Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca
October 2014 – Group Exhibition „ Latin love”, Bari, Italy
2014 Exhibited artist during the conference helded by Luc Tuymans
at Intact Space, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca
2014 Group Exhibition „Latin love“, Casa Matei Gallery
2014 Land Art Project IP “ Green and Brown “, Ille d’Ouessant,
France
December 2013 Group Exhibition, Minerva Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
2013 Group Exhibition „Absorption”, Anaid Gallery, Bucharest September 2013 – Art Camp exhibition „In varful campului”, Iasi
2013 Art Camp exhibition „Ars Campus”, Ulmeni
2013 UAD Graduate Exhibition - Expo Transilvania, Cluj-Napoca
2013 Group Exhibition ,, Genetic adjusted”, Humanitas Gallery,
Cluj-Napoca
May 2011 Group student exhibition, UAP Gallery, Baia Mare
2011 Art camp exhibition ,,Ars Campus’’, Ulmeni
FAIRS
2019 Viennacontemporary, Vienna, AU
2016 Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Saatchi START Art Fair, London, UK
