Exhibitions

Biography

Victor Man

(b. 1974, in Cluj, Romania) lives and works in Cluj and Rome.
In 2007 represented Romania at the 52nd International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di
Venezia.
Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year in 2014.

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Victor Man, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2023
The Lines of Life, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2022
Eyelids, Towards Evening, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
From Wounds and Starry Dreams, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, FR

2021
1837, Abbozzo per un Autoritratto, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, IT

2020
Die Rose ist ohne Warum. Sie blühet weil sie blühet, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE

2018
Flowering Ego, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
The Chandler, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
"Entrelacs", Centre d'Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH

2017
Victor Man, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, JP
Victor Man, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, DE

2016
Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
Victor Man, MD72/ Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE

2015
Victor Man, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2014
Zephir, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Zephir, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Zephir, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, DE

2013
The Third Cover, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
In un altro aprile, Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome, IT
Szindbád, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, BE

2012
Victor Man, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, LU, curator: Christophe Gallois
The White Shadow of His Talent, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US

2011
Lazarus Protocol, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Victor Man with Dan Perjovschi - The Painting, the Drawing, and Other Objects and Situations, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, traveled to Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE

2010
The Dust of Others, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT

2009
If Mind Were All There Was, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK, curator: Tom Morton
Victor Man, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Victor Man, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL, curator: Jaap Guldemond
Victor Man, Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, île de Vassivière, FR, curator: Chiara Parisi

2008
attebasile, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK, curator: Nigel Prince
Black Hearts Always Bleed Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US
On relative loneliness, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), IT, curator: Alessandro Rabottini

2007
Without going into the extravagance that’s in trees, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT
Vestigial specialization on its way out, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Victor Man, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, DE

2006
With the First Totters, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The place I’m coming from, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

2005
Farewell till next time, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Victor Man, Plan B, Cluj, RO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London, UK
Summer Show, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, CH
Lacan, The Exhibition: When Art Meets Psychoanalysis, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FR

2023
The Picasso Effect, Museum of Recent Art (MARe), Bucharest, RO
Looking Anew and Beyond, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, US
Lost in the Moment That Follows, Ways of Collecting: Ovidiu Șandor Collection, Kunsthalle Prague, Prague, CZ

2022
Notte Oscura - Conversation Piece Part VIII, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CN

2021
Fore-edge Painting, MACRO Museum, Rome, IT
Carnivalesca. What Painting might be, Kunstverein Hamburg, DE
When in Doubt, Go to a Museum, City Museum of Ljubljana, SI

2020
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2019
On the Spiritual Matter of Art, MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT
Werethings, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
La Plage, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT
Claude Mirrors, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE
Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery, UK
La Brique, the Brick, Caramida, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, FR
Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR

2018
Une saison roumaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
TRICOLOR, MARe – Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest, RO
Alle. Künstlerinnen und Künstler in der Overbeck-Gesellschaft 1918–2018, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE
Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto, Palazzo Ducale, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, IT
Lilia & Tulipan, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, DE

2017
In Search of Characters..., Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
The New Frontiers of Painting, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, IT
Life A User’s Manual, Art Encounters 2017, Timisoara, RO
The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, IT
Thinking Out Loud: Notes For An Evolving Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
Pélamide, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, BE
Con amore più che con amore, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, IT
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Dissolve into a red dwarf, Island, Brussels, BE

2016
Identity Revisited, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Hommage aux Donateurs des Collections Contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
These Strangers...Painting and People, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
QUAND FONDRA LA NEIGE, OU IRA LE BLANC. Contemporary collecting at Palazzo Fortuny. Artworks from Enea Righi Collection, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, IT
Track Changes, curated by Plan B at Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, BR
Dépenses, Labanque, Béthune, FR
Quodlibet, Lempertz, Brussels, BE
Monstres et Madones, Triple V, Paris, FR

2015
All the World's Futures, Central Pavilion Giardini - 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT, curator: Okwui Enwezor

2014
Mirror, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
20 Years Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
Franz Graf. Siehe was dich sieht, 21er Haus - Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna, AT
Vertiges de la peinture / Vertigo in painting, Maison des Arts du Grand Quevilly, Fr
States of Mind, Maison Particulière, Brussels, BE
Almoskönyv, Ujazdowski Castle, CCA, Warsaw, PL
Imitatio Christie's. partoftheprocess6, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT

2013
Utopia Starts Small, 12th Fellbach Triennale, Fellbach, DE
Nightfall. New tendencies in figurative painting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
Invited artist in the Guest Room of Mircea Cantor's exhibition Q.E.D., MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO
DISLESSICA, Bianca Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, IT
Nur hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, DE
Ein vages Gefühl des Unbehagens, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
GEN X, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino, San Marino, IT
1:1, Atelier 35, Bucharest, RO
partoftheprocess5, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT
Cattedrale, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT

2012
La Triennale. Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, curator: Okwui Enwezor
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco (SFMOMA), US, curator: Apsara Di Quinzio
European Travellers, Art from Cluj Today, Mȕcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU, curator: Judit Angel
A House of Leaves, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, GB, curator: Vincent Honore
Salonul de vara, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO
Nightfall, MODEM, Debrecen, HU, curator: Jane Neal
Foreigners Everywhere, Jewish Museum, Vienna, curator: Ami Barak

2011
Un'Espressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT, curator: Francesco Bonami
Salonul de mai, Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO
Caderea, Muzeul de Arta, Cluj, RO, curator: Erwin Kessler
Curated by, Galerie Charim, Vienna, AT, curator: Ami Barak

2010
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT, curator: Evaldas Stankevičius
Der Offene Garten, Kunstahalle Lingen, Lingen, DE, curator: Meike Behm
Romanian Cultural Resolution, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE, curator: Mihai Pop
Tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, AT, curator: Eva Maria Stadler
Berlin show #2, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE
Household Goods, The first Haifa Biennale, Haifa, IL, curator: Belu-Simion Făinaru
The concrete garden, off-site project Metz, organized by Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, FR, curator: Chiara Parisi
Antidote 6, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, FR
PPP, Public Private Paintings, collections in Flanders and Brussels, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, BE

2009
Sequelism: Part 3 Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, co-curated by Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna)
In the Time of Art, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, AR, curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Biennale Estuaire Nantes / St Nazaire, Le sang d’un poète, Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR, curators: Adam Budak & Laurence Gateau
Dreaming the Mainstream, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
When the mood strikes, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Lesposizione Universale, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, IT, curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Reframing, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CCA) Andratx, Andratx/Mallorca, ES, curator: Barry Schwabsky
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, US

2008
Wessen Geschichte / Whose (His)story, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE, curator: Yilmaz Dziewior
Locked-in, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU, curator: Maria Rus Bojan
Back to Black, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover, DE, curator: Veit Görner
Persona, Centre d'art contemporain du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR, curator: Sandra Patron
Kabul 3000: Love Among The Cabbages, Galleria Zero, Milan, IT
Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, KR, curator: Tom Morton
Art Focus 5. International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, IL, curator: Ami Barak and Bernard Blistène
Re-Construction, Young Artists Biennial, Bucharest, RO, curator: Ami Barak
Berlin show #1, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, DE

2007
Low-Budget Monuments, 52nd Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion, Venice, IT, curator: Mihnea Mircan
Gesellschaftsbilder, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE, curator: Yilmaz Dziewior
House Trip, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, DE, curator: Ami Barak
Duet, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, US
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
More or less in the same place or another (with Belu-Simion Făinaru), Galeria Plan B, Cluj, RO
Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, US
Paper Baglady & Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Prague Biennale 3, Prague, CZ, curator: Simona Nastac
Filaturen, Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf, DE

2006
Farewell to Icon, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Cluj Connection, Haunch of Venison, Zürich, CH
AWOL, Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, RO, curator: Simona Nastac
The Sun on the Wall, Pavel-House, Laafeld, AT, curator: Gregor Podnar
Icon, Chung King Project, Los Angeles, US
Willa Warszawa, Warsaw, PL
partoftheprocess2, Galeria Zero, Milan, IT
Dark Dreams, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, DE

2005
Post Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, CH
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, CZ, curator: Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova
Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, CH

2004
Museum of Art, Cluj, RO

2003
City Art Museum Ljubljana - Mestna Galerija 1, Ljubljana, SI
Views 2, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Facing the Real, Artists House, Jerusalem, IL

Selected public and private collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art San Francisco (SFMOMA), San Francisco; Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) di Bergamo; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Centre International d'art et du Paysage, L'île de Vassivière; National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; David Roberts Collection, London; Kadist Art Foundation Collection, Paris/San Francisco.

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues, Artist's Books, Monographs
  • 2020
    Victor Man. Berlin: Galerie Neu and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2020. [monograph]
    DRAWING 2020. New York: Gladstone Gallery and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2020. [catalogue]

    2019
    Della materia spirituale dell’arte. Rome: MAXXI Museum and Edizioni Quodlibet, 2019. [catalogue]

    2018
    Victor Man. Childhood Drawings for Rózsa. Geneva: Centre d'édition contemporaine, 2018. [artist book]
    ALLE: Künstlerinnen und Künstler in der Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck 1918-2018. Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2018, p. 381.
    TRICOLOR. Bucharest: MARe – Muzeul de Arta Recenta and Vellant Publishing, 2018, p. 77.

    2017
    Paparoni, Demetrio. Le Nuove Frontiere Della Pittura. Milan: Skira, 2017.
    Zsolt Petrányi. “Within Frames. Modernist Innovations in Socialist Realism 1958–1968” in Within Frames: Art of the Sixties in Hungary (1958-1968). Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery, 2017, pp. 28-63.
    Astral Bodies. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2017.

    2016
    Glesman, Amanda. The Campaign for Art: Gifts for the San Francisco Museum. San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016.
    These Strangers...Painting and People. Ghent: S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, 2016. [catalogue]
    Victor Man. Luminary Petals on a Wet Black Bough. Berlin: Galeria Plan B, Sternberg Press, 2016. [artist book]

    2015
    Enwezor, Okwui (ed.). La Biennale di Venezia: 56th International Art Exhibition: All the World's Futures. Venice: Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia, 2015. [catalogue]
    Victor Man. New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2015. [artist book]

    2014
    The Twenty First Century Art Book. London: Phaidon Press, 2014, p. 163.
    Herbert, Martin. The Uncertainty Principle. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014, p.155-173, ISBN 978-3-95679-001-0.
    Fau, Alexandra. Vertiges de la Peinture - Une Oeuvre entre “Chien et Loup.” Le Grand-Queilly: Maison des Arts, 2014, p. 29, 50-51. [catalogue]
    Ghiu, Bogdan; Hutte, Friedhelm; Rabottini, Alessandro. Szindbad, Victor Man. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-942294-26-3 [catalogue]

    2013
    Harvey, John. The Story of Black. London: Reaktion Books, 2013.
    Neal, Jane. “Victor Man” in Art Cities of the Future. edited by Antawan I. Byrd and Reid Shier, London: Phaidon Press, 2013, pp.76-77.
    Gerhardt, Ulrike. Utopia Starts Small—12th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture 2013, Köln: Walter König, 2013.
    Hermes, Manfred. T/U, Victor Man - The Third Cover. Berlin: Galerie Neu, 2013.

    2012
    Intense Proximité: Une Anthologie du Proche et du Lointain: La Triennale 2012. Paris: Edition Artlys, 2012.
    Antidote: The Ginette Moulin & Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection. Zürich: JRP|Ringier, 2012.
    Six Lines of Fight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and University of California Press, 2012. [catalogue]

    2011
    Herbert, Martin. “Victor Man”. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, 2011, pp. 204-207.
    Man, Victor. If Mind Were All There Was: Nine Themes on Giuseppe Sacchi. Glasgow: Transmission Gallery / Milan: Kaleidoscope, 2011. [artist book]
    Un’Espressione Geografica. Torino: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Mousse Publishing, 2011, pp. 202-215. [catalogue]
    Gateau, Laurence. Le sang d’un poète, Frac des Pays de la Loire, 2011.
    Di Quinzio, Apsara. “Victor Man”. Romanian Cultural Resolution. Ostfildern: Hatje Kantz, 2011, pp. 180-181.
    Behm, Meike. Der Offene Garten. Hannover: Gutenberg Beuys, 2011. [catalogue]

    2010
    Pirovano, Stefano. Forma e informazione. Monza: JOHAN & LEVI Editore, 2010.
    Hoptman, Laura; Dziewior Yilmaz; Grosenick, Uta (eds.).The Art of Tomorrow. Berlin: Distanz Verlag, 2010.

    2009
    Dziewior, Yilmaz, in conversation with Victor Man. Jahresring 56: Wessen Geschichte. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2009, pp. 200-219.
    Victor Man: attebasile. Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham & Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, 2009. [artist book]
    Bastian, Aeneas und Häußler, Harriet. Aus Künstlersicht. Bielefeld: KERBER Verlag, 2009, pp.118-119.

    2008
    Morton, Tom. Busan Biennale. 2008, Busan: The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, 2008, pp. 240-243.
    Barak, Ami. Bienala Tinerilor Artisti, re-construction. 2008, pp. 112-113.
    Rus, Maria Bojan. Locked in. Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg, 2008, pp. 78-80.
    Gorner, Veit. Black in Current Painting. Heildelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2008, pp. 93-97.

    2007
    La Biennale di Venezia, Vol. II, Venice: Marsilio, 2007, pp.126-129. [catalogue]
    Memosphere. Rethinking Monuments. Berlin: Revolver, 2007.
    Asthoff, Jens. Bild in raum/Bild im kopf. Gessellschaftsbilder. Zeitgenössische Malerei, 2007 p. 5.

    2006
    Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-06. London: Frieze Art Fair, 2006.
    Nastac, Simona. Absent Without Leave: Young Artists' Biennial. Bucharest: META, 2006.
    Schwabsky, Barry. Victor Man: the Place I’m Coming From. London: Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2006.
    Willa Warszawa. Raster (ed.). Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2006, pp. 88-93.

    2005
    Kontova, Helena, Politi, Giancarlo. Prague Biennale 2. 2005, pp.106-107.
    Costinas, Cosmin. 32 Romanian Painters. Bucharest: H´art Gallery, 2005, pp. 250-261.

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Articles and reviews
  • 2021
    Feldhaus, Timo. "Die Geister sind zurück," Monopol Magazine, February 2021.

    2020
    Müller, Jens. "Blaue Träume," Der Tagesspiegel, October 2020.
    Lavrador, Judicaël. “On Self Portraits,” Beaux Arts Magazine, February 2020.

    2019
    Epps, Philomena. "Claude Mirrors," Artforum, October 2019.
    Geers, David. “Victor Man: Gladstone Gallery,” Frieze, January/February 2019, p. 227.

    2018
    “Victor Man. Painting, After All,” L'Officiel Art Italia, April 2018, pp. 60-61.
    “Victor Man,” Féros, No. 3, January 2018, pp. 14-15.

    2017
    Mousse Magazine, No. 61, December 2017 - January 2018, p. 171.

    2016
    Reski, Gunter. “Zeitlos oder Antiquarish,” Texte Zur Kunst, No. 26, September 2016, p. 203-205.
    Adbusters. VOL. 24, issue 123, No.1, Jan./Feb. 2016.
    Koerner von Gustorf, Oliver. “Vom langen Korridor der Kunstgeschichte,” AD - Architectural Digest Deutschland, No.170, June 2016, p. 92-94.
    “Victor Man. Fidèle à ses noirs désirs,” Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 386, November 2016.
    “Victor Man,” Art Press 2, No. 42 « Georges Bataille », August - October 2016, p. 28.

    2015
    Kántor, Lajos. “POKOLJÁRÁS (FESTÕILEG),” Korunk, November 2015, p. 115.
    Pavel, Laura. “On Diving into Artistic Potentiality – the Infra-Gaze of Interpretation,” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2015, pp. 36-49.
    Fiduccia, Joanna. “Critics' Pick,” Artforum, April 2015.
    Petrányi Zsolt. “Victor Man – Zephir, Haus der Kunst, München,” UJMUVESZET, January 2015.

    2014
    Nedo, Kito. "Abnehmendes Licht," Art, April 2014.
    Preuss, Sebastian. “Between Myth and Reality: Victor Man’s Existential Painting,” Deutsche Bank ArtMag, March 2014, pp. 36-41.
    Verhagen, Erik. "Victor Man," Art Press, No. 415, October 2014. p. 20.
    Di Pietrantonio, Giacinto. “Framenti di pittura e di mistero,” Arte, Marzo 2014, No. 487, p.123-126.

    2013
    Hontoria, Javier. “Critics’ Picks: Victor Man,” Artforum, October 2013.
    Annarumma, Maria Teresa. "Victor Man, Villa Medici, Roma," Flash Art, No. 312, p. 77, 2013.
    Lavrador, Judicael; Schlesser, Thomas. "Dossier / La Peinture Contemporaine," Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 345, 2013, p. 61.
    Vărzari, Mihaela. “1:1,” ARTA Magazine, Issue 10, 2013, pp. 90-91.

    2012
    Bismuth, Léa. “Victor Man dans la nuit du non-savoir,” artpress, No. 388, April 2012, pp. 45-48.

    2011
    “Vassivière, l'art a trouvé son île,” Beaux-Arts éditions, November 2011, p.50.
    Casavecchia, Barbara. “Un’Espressione Geografica,” Frieze, Issue 142, October, 2011.

    2010
    D’Amaro, Valentina. “Spotlight Victor Man,” Flash Art Italia, Novembre, Issue 288, p.80, 2010.
    Rabottini, Alessandro. “Looking Back: Solo Shows,” Frieze, January - February, Issue 128, 2010, p.89.
    Dziewior, Yilmaz. "Where do you Come From?," Parabol Art Magazine #5, 2010.
    “Tanzimat,” Augarten Contemporary, 2010.

    2009
    Wakefield, Neville. “Victor Man: Ring of Fire,” Flash Art International, October, 2009, pp.74 - 76 + Cover.
    Neal, Jane. “The New Roman(ian) Order,” Modern Painters, September, 2009, pp.54-61.
    Sherwin, Skye. “Ten painters you should meet,” Ten Men, Autumn-Winter, 2009, p.83.
    Martinez, Raul. “On Relative Loneliness: Victor Man,” Art in America.com, June 17, 2009.
    Beauvallett, Eve. “Memory-Man,” Mouvement.net, May 14, 2009.
    Davies, Lillian. “Critic’s Picks: Victor Man,” Artforum, April 27, 2009.
    Clark, Robert. “Victor Man, Birmingham,” The Guardian, January 3, 2009.
    Moulène, Claire. “L'ile de Man,” Les Inrockuptibles, Issue 693, 2009, pp.112-113.

    2008
    Morton, Tom. “Shape Shifter,” Frieze, Issue 119, November - December, 2008, pp.160-165.
    McComb, Richard. “Worlds collide in Victor Man exhibition,” The Birmingham Post, December 16, 2008.
    Liebs, Holger. “Der Untergang des Jahres,” Sueddeutsche Zeitung, December 27, 2008.
    Leoni, Chiara. “Yan Pei-Ming/ Victor Man/ Luca Vitone,” Flash Art Italia, Issue 270, June – July, 2008, p.118.
    Haddad, Natalie. “Victor Man,” Frieze, Issue 114, April 2008, p.181.
    Garbarino, Laura. “Il mercato guarda a Est,” Flash Art Italia, Issue 269, April – May, 2008, pp.124-126.
    Campagnola, Sonia. “Victor Man,” Flash Art, Issue 259, March – April, 2008, pp.134-136.
    Stringfield, Anne. “Critic’s Picks: Victor Man,” Artforum, February 19, 2008.
    Miles, Christopher. “Darkness Falls, Abstraction Illuminates,” LA Weekly, February 20, 2008.
    Myers, Holly. “Piece together the clues,” The Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2008 p. 32.
    Bonaspetti, Edoardo. “Interview,” Mousse, Issue 12, January, 2008, pp.16-19.
    Van Den Boogerd, Dominic. “Out of the Cold: On Victor Man’s Work of Restraint,” Art Papers, January-February, 2008, pp. 22 – 25.

    2007
    “52nd Venice Biennial: Rumänien,” Kunstforum, Issue 188, October-November, 2007, p. 275.
    Busing, Nicole, Klaas, Heiko. “Gessellschaftsbilder, Artist,” Kunstmagazin, Issue 73, pp.48-55.
    Stocchi, Francesco. ”Yin and Yang; on the 52nd Venice Biennial,” Spike, Issue 13, 2007, p.37.
    Rabottini, Alessandro. “Plural Solitude,” MAP, Issue 11, Autumn 2007, pp. 36-41.
    Eichler, Dominic. “Think for a minute,” Frieze, Issue 109, 2007.
    Van Den Boogerd, Dominic. “Six uneasy pieces,” Metropolis M, Issue 4, 2007, pp. 82-83.
    Mugnaini, Alberto. “Victor Man,” Flash Art Italia, Issue 265, August – September, 2007.
    Casavecchia, Barbara. “Prague Biennale 3,” Flash Art, Issue 255, July – September, 2007, p. 68.
    Watson, Simon. “Victor Man,” Whitewall Magazine, Issue 6, p. 64.
    Di Drusco, Fabia. “52 Biennale di Venezia; Victor Man,” L’uomo Vogue, Issue 381, 2007.
    Borcherdt, Gesine, Gartner, Barbara. “Die Biennale-Highlights,” Monopol, Issue 6, 2007, p. 39.
    Price, Matt. “Cluj Connection,” Flash Art, Issue 253, March – April, 2007, p. 74.
    Hohmann, Silke. “Hello Bucharest,” Monopol, Issue 1, January, 2007, pp. 64-77.
    Kontova, Helena. “Interview with Victor Man,” Prague Biennale 3, 2007.

    2006
    Nastac, Simona. “Victor Man. A Painter in Love with his Subjects,” Flash Art, Issue 251, November – December, 2006, pp.100-102.
    Politi, Giancarlo, Kontova, Helena. “Top 100 Artists,” Flash Art, Issue 250, October, 2006, pp. 68-70.
    Casati, Marta. “Part of the Process 2,” Flash Art, Issue 250, October, 2006, p. 62.
    Williams, Gilda. “Victor Man,” Artforum, September, 2006, p. 394.
    Greben Stein. “Deirdre,” ARTnews, Summer, 2006, p.140.
    Romano, Gianni. “Interview with Victor Man,” Contemporary, Issue 82, 2006, pp. 56-59.
    Cumming, Laura. “Critic’s Choice,” The Observer, May 14, 2006.
    Neal, Jane. “Coming in From the Cold,” Art Review, May, 2006, pp. 110-113.
    Neal, Jane. “Victor Man at Plan B,” Art in America, January, 2006, p. 130.
    Omagiu Magazine, Issue 4, Insert, 2006, pp.154-159.

    2005
    “Bright Young Things,” Art Review, Vol. IX, December, 2005, p. 102.
    Neal, Jane. “Post Fragile,” Flash Art, Issue 244, October, 2005.
    Dan, Liviana. “Curators have dreams,” Arhitext, Issue 8, 2005, p. 150.