Iosif Király b. 1957
Iosif KIRÁLY is a Romanian visual artist, architect, and educator. His work investigates the relationship between perception, time, synchronicity and memory through photography, installation-art, drawing and more recently, video. He has initiated, coordinated, and, together with architects, visual artists, and anthropologists, participated in research projects related to the changes having occurred in post-communist Romania: D-Platform, RO-Archive, Triaj, Tinseltown. During the 1980s, Iosif Király became active in the mail art network, an international underground movement established by Fluxus. After 1989, he exhibited both individually and within the subREAL* group.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Letting the Days Go By, Water Flowing Underground, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest; MATCA artspace, Cluj Napoca/Ro
2019 Eroii au fost şi ei oameni ca noi, WASP, Bucharest/Ro
2019 Ocoliri și Reveniri; momente, locuri, oameni. Art Museum Galați/Ro
2019 88 Clouds Will Rain for You, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp/Be (within Europalia festival)
2019 88 Clouds Will Rain for You, Musica, Impulscentrum voor Muziek/ Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof/ CC Palethe/ Gemeente Pelt (within Europalia Festival)
2019 subREAL Listening to Sculpture în Tmisoara, Casa Artelor, Timișoara/Ro
2019 subREAL Serving Art Again, Paris Photo/Fr şi Jecza Gallery, Timișoara/Ro
2018 Closed Doors, Open Envelopes, early works 1995 2000, MNAC, Bucharest/Ro
Synapses, Borderline Art Space, Iasi/Ro
2018 87 Clouds Will Rain for You (in collaboration with Chritine Ulke), UNAgaleria and WASP in the frame eXplore Festival #13, Bucharest/Ro
2016 Stand by memoria impachetata. – Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea
2015 INREGISTRAREA URMELOR De la Performance la LandArt prin Fotografie si Mail Art. Iosif Kiraly si Doru Tulcan, 1970 – 1990. Jecza Gallery, in cadrul TAE (Timisoara Art Encounters)
2014 *Serving Art_1, Intact Gallery, Cluj / Ro
2013 *subREAL Retrospect, SALT, Istanbul / Tr (catalog)*
2013 Fotografia: de la melancolie la trauma, de la document la monument. Galeria Intact / Fabrica de pensule, Cluj / RO;
2013 *subREAL Retrospect, 1990 2012, MNAC, Bucuresti / Ro (catalog)
2013 Then and Now. Between Layers of Memory, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam / NL 2013 *Art is Concrete. Dataflow Camera Austria, Graz / A
2013 In cautarea momentului decisiv – Galeria Jecza, Timisoara / Ro (afis)
2010 Reconstructions – Camera Austria, Graz / A
2009 Reconstrucciones ‐ Museo de Semana Santa, Cuenca / E, in the frame of PhotoEspana
2009 Mapping Berlin – Bucharest 1989 2009, Galeria Posibila / Galeria subCarturesti, Bucharest / Ro (poster)
2008 Reconstruction(s) – Galerie Vrais Reves, Lyon / F, in the frame of Lyon September de la Photographie
2007 Tinseltown, German Cultural Center, Timisoara
2006 In Situ Institut Francais de Bucharest / Ro
2006 Memoria, Gallery Futura, Praha / Cz
2006 East from the West, Galleria Artra, Milano / I (poster)
2005 Blau, Die Erfindung der Donau, Technisches Museum Wien / A (book)
2004 Triaj, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro;
2004 *Communication 1:1:1, MNAC‐Kalinderu Medialab Bucuresti / Ro(performance)
2003 *Reconstructions, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro; 2002
2003 *Interviewing the Cities Stockholm, IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm / S
2003 *Interviewing the Cities Bucuresti, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti / Ro
2001 *Interviewing the Cities Vienna, Fotogalerie Wien /A (cat)
2001 Interviewing the Cities Montreal,Vox Gallery, Montreal / CA
2011 “Turrated Mansons”, Center for Contemporary Art, Bucuresti / Ro (poster)
2000 Indirect, Profil Galerie, Bratislava / Sk (cat)
1998 *Serving Art 1&2 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart / D
1996 *Dataroom, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein / D (cat)
1994 *The Castle, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski, Warsaw / PL(poster)
1992 *Draculaland, Museum of Art Bistrita / Ro (cat)