Mircea Cantor, born in 1977 in Oradea, lives and works in Paris. He works with video, installation, photography, sculpture or ready-mades, creating minimal and effective gestures through which he responds to the expectations and self-referential needs of museums and cultural institutions today. He has had solo shows in institutions such as Philadelphia Museum of Art, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (2006), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon (2005) and he has participated in group exhibitions such as the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Spain, 4th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, Berlin (2006), The need to document, Kunsthaus Baselland, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of contemporray art, Chicago (2005), Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, 50th Venice Biennale (2003). In 2007 he has a solo show at FRAC Champagne Ardennes in France.