Mihai
Grecu
Visual artist & filmmaker
Experimental cinema · AI · CGI
Le Fresnoy, Studio National
des Arts Contemporains
Rotterdam · Tribeca · Locarno
Grand Palais · Ars Electronica
Born in Romania
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Mihai Grecu is a Romanian visual artist and filmmaker, a graduate of Le Fresnoy, living and working in Paris.

Situated at the intersection of experimental cinema, artificial intelligence and computer-generated imagery, his practice explores the age of post-truth, synthetic nature and political imaginaries. Through allegory and the recontextualization of propaganda images, he creates dreamlike visions that question the authority and reliability of images.

Winner of the French Union of Film Critics Award, his films and artworks have been presented and awarded at major international festivals (Rotterdam, Montreal, Clermont-Ferrand, Videobrasil) and exhibited in leading institutions and exhibitions (Grand Palais, Cube, Ars Electronica, Videoformes, among others).

Education
2006–08
Post-diplôme, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing
2003–06
ESAD, Strasbourg
1999–03
Université des Arts et du Design, Cluj-Napoca
Solo exhibitions
Apocalypse now! — A+E Gallery, Paris
Alternative past — MNTRplus, Bucharest
Catastrophology — Casa Matei, Cluj
Cult.Illusion.Tyranny — Art Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin
AInimals — Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
Mirage — Data Galerie, Paris
Digital Desert — Biju Gallery, Cluj
Between Doom and Wisdom — Matca Art Space, Cluj-Napoca
Z-land — Rolf Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
MEP Virtuelle — Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
We'll become oil — AsifaKeil, Vienna
We'll become oil — Rolf Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
Coagulate — Slash Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
Coagulate — Rolf Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
Coagulate — La Panera Art Center, Lleida
Unlith, Coagulate — Art Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin
Labyrinth of my mind — Le Cube Gallery, Issy-les-Moulineaux
Selected group exhibitions
2026
Rire sur un volcan — POUSH, Paris
2025
Le Regne des images — FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
2025
Biennale de l'Image Tangible — Espace Niemeyer, Paris
2024
Focus on collection — Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw
2024
RAD Art Fair, Bucharest
2024
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
2023
Ars Electronica, Linz
2023
Stereolux Scopitone, Nantes
2022
22nd Biennial Videobrasil — Sao Paulo
2021
Encore & En-corps — Bonlieu scène nationale, Annecy
2020
Eyelid noon — IOMO Gallery, Bucharest
2020
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
2019
On Frail ground — Art Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin
2019
Du fond de l'Océan — Des étoiles nouvelles, Bobigny
2019
Grasping at Straws — The 5th Floor, Tokyo
2018
Filmer l'Art en VR — Auditorium du Louvre, Paris
2018
Loop Art Fair, Barcelona
2018
Video Forever: Animal Death — Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
2017
La Fabric — Fondation Salomon, Annecy
2017
6th Lichtsicht Projection Biennale, Bad Rothenfelde
2017
OLHO — Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
2016
3rd Bienal de Montevideo
2016
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
2016
Le Fresnoy — Mémoire de l'imagination, BNF, Paris
2015
Open Rhapsody — Beirut Exhibition Center
2015
Imagining Crisis — Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2015
Apocalypse — Hengesbach Gallery, Wuppertal
2014
Arte video night — Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014
Liquid Landscape — MACRO Testaccio, Rome
2013
Lichtsicht — 4. Projektions Biennale, Bad Rothenfelde
2013
Moving Image Biennale, New York
2013
Catastrophology — Arko Art Center, Seoul
2012
17th Videobrasil — SESC, São Paulo
2012
ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal
2011
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw
2011
EMAF — Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
2010
Invisible Shadows — Marta Herford Museum
2010
Vidéo Short List / Dream Machine — MAC, Niterói
2009
Videonale 12 — Kunstmuseum, Bonn
2008
Dans la Nuit des Images — Grand Palais, Paris
2008
Panorama 9-10 — Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
2006
Sousinfluences — ADN Galeria, Barcelona
2006
Geladen. Videokunst — Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2005
Mental images — ZKM, Karlsruhe
Contact
Instagram @thegrecu
Press & CV Available on request