Works and lives in Berlin (Germany) & Csiksomlyo (Transylvania)

1974 Born in Marosvasarhely (Targu-Mures)

1992-1998 University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Founder:

2007 BAZIS Contemporary Art Magazine

2007 BAZIS Association

2010 BAZIS project space, Cluj-Napoca

2015 BAZIS contemporary art space, Cluj-Napoca, www.bazis.ro

Personal Exhibitions:

2008 Punct ochit - Punct lovit, Contemporary Art Gallery of National Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania
2009 Black Transfusion, Mathias House Gallery, University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2010 genesis-project, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Debrecen, Hungary
2010 BLACK OBJECTS, ANAID Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2012 OBJET, BAZIS Contemporary Art Space, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2013 ABlackJECTION, ANAID ART Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2014 3 New Works, BAZIS Contemporary Art Space, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014 DECOMPOSITION, Exhibition space Reale Società Canottieri Bucintoro 1882 A.S.D, Venice, Italy
2014 RESIDUUM, ANAID ART Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2016 DISSECTING THE UNKNOWN, ANAID ART Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 Works, BAZIS Contemporary Art Space, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 SUBSTRATUM, ANAID ART Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 KAWARGA SKETE, Gonginichi / Velikiy Dvor, Podporozhye, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
2021 Remains of the Remains, CENTRUL DE INTERES- BAZIS contemporary, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2022 THE ABSENCE, ANAID ART Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2022 BODY IN THE FIELD, ANAID ART Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 SPUREN AUF DEM FELD, ANAID ART Gallery, Altes Dampfbad, Baden-Baden, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection):

1998 Ujlipotvarosi Klub Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1998 Barabas Miklos Association,Targu-Mures, Romania
2000 HVA Gallery, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2001 INTERart 2001, International Contemporary Art Project, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2002 INTERart 2002, International Contemporary Art Project, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2002 Black Box, HVA Gallery, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2002 PROJECT ROME, TEMPTATION, Accademia di Romania in Roma, Roma, Italy
2002 PROJECT ROME, TEMPTATION, Hungarian Cultural Center, Bucharest, Romania
2002 PROJECT ROME, PEREGRINATIO, Lazar Castle, Lazarea, Harghita, Romania
2002 MAMU Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003 OPEN STUDIO, HVA Gallery, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2003 Vaszary Gallery, Kaposvar, Hungary
2003 THE GREAT HUNT, Backa Topola, Serbia & Montenegro
2003 THE SPIRIT SEARCH ITS PLACE, INTERart 2003, International Contemporary Art Project, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2003 AIR1903ART2003, Airport Zagreb, Zbirka Collection Politeo, Croatia
2004 ATELIER DESCHIS/NYITOTT MUHELY/OPEN STUDIO, HVA Gallery, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2004 Young Colours, Etaj ¾ Gallery, National Theater, Bucharest, Romania
2004 INTERart 2004 Face to Face, Gallery of Gyarfas Jeno, Sekler National Museum, Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania
2004 INTERart 2004 Face to Face, UNA Gallery, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2005 INTERart 2004 Face to Face, KO.KE.M. Contemporary Art Museum and Gallery Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2005 INTERart 2005 Do we score another own goal today?, KO.KE.M. Contemporary Art Museum and Gallery Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2005 HUNKYS, ATAS Gallery, University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, Romania
2005 Mathias House Gallery, University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, Europa Artium, Autopsy Project, Romania
2006 INTERart 2005 Do we score another own goal today?, Contemporary Art Gallery of National Museum Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania
2006 Autopsy Project, KO.KE.M. Contemporary Art Museum and Gallery Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2007 Autopsy Project, Cultural Center Brancovenesti Palace, Bucharest, Romania
2008 Under Natural Circumstances, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Debrecen, Hungary
2009 Messiah's - Western man and the idea of redemption in modern and contemporary visual art, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Debrecen, Hungary
2009 “GROWHT”, Parti Gallery, Pecs, Hungary
2010 "Unusual Suspects", IVAN Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2011 "Welcome to the Uncanny Valley", BAZIS Contemporary Art Gallery, F.D.P. - Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2011  SPARTA – dell’altra arte, White Project Gallery Pescara, Italy
2012 EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
2012 CLUJ meets BERLIN, BAZIS contemporary art space, Moosdorfstrasse 7-9, Berlin, Germany
2013 MUTATIONS, BAZIS contemporary art space, Moosdorfstrasse 7-9, Berlin, Germany
2013 ABSORPTION, ANAID Art Gallery Bucharest, Romania
2014 HIDDEN FIELD, UltraStudio, Pescara, Italy
2016 ALMOST OBJETS, Szentendre, Hungary
2016 ART CAPITAL, Szentendre, Hungary
2018 ON PAPER, BAZIS contemporary, CENTRUL DE INTERES, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 ART CAPITAL, Szentendre, Hungary
2019 Camambert Papanache, SPATIU INTACT, Cluj-napoca, Romania
2019 Changing Places. ICA-D INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Dunaujvaros. Hungary

Bibliography

SPUREN AUF DEM FELD. exhibition catalogue, Anaid Art Gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany

Art Book: REMAINS. Zsolt Berszan, Carsten Ahrens, Gerda Széplaky, Diana Dochia, 2022 (The monographic catalogue Remains: Zsolt Berszán provides in-depth insights into the works that the Romanian artist created between 2014 and 2021. Roughly one hundred artworks—paintings, sculptures, and mix-media objects—shaped by the idea of dissolution and decay are presented in three chapters. The artist again and again insinuates the human body, which becomes visible in a macabre play of distortions, contortions, and torn fragments. Zsolt Berszán in not interested in the individual itself, but in human remains, which themselves become the topic.) English, German, 142 colored and 2 b/w
illustrations. KERBER VERLAG BERLIN. https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/1959/zsolt-berszan

Sötét és néma. Széplaky Gerda. Filozófiai esszék – irodalomról, filmről, képzőművészetről. Kiadó: L’Harmattan Budapest 2019. 94-114 pages.

BALKON­_ 2019_2
28 | SZÉPLAKY GERDA: Emberi maradék | Poszthumán perspektíva Berszán Zsolt művészetében
https://balkon.art/home/print/balkon-2019-2/

Gerda Szeplaky. WOUNDING THE COLOR BLACK: On Zsolt Berszan's art. Published on Aug 21, 2018  
https://issuu.com/bazis/docs/wounding_the_color_black

Gerda Szeplaky. WOUNDING THE COLOR BLACK: ON ZSOLT BERSZÁN’S ART. modernism.ro

Horváth Márk. A SÖTÉT ANYAG RETTENETES KÖNNYEI. Poszthumán gondolatok Berszán Zsolt műveiről. veneratio.eu

Decomposition, exhibition catalogue, Art Hungaria, 2014

Uj muveszet, art magazine: Az anyag utja, July 2014

European Travellers, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary, 2012

Genesis-project, exhibition catalogue, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary, 2010

Arta, art magazine: Dosar de artist, #0/2010

Praesens, art magazine: Another beginning, 2010/2

Messiahs, exhibition catalogue, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary, 2009

Under Natural Circumstances, exhibition catalogue, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary, 2008

Autopsy, exhibition catalogue, Palatele Brancovenesti, Bucharest, 2007

Simposions:

2011 Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, BAZIS platform - presentation, Budapest, Hungary

2005 UNA Gallery, National University of Art, Bucharest, Romania

Presentation: INTERart 2001, International Contemporary Art Project, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania

Presentation: OPEN STUDIO Contemporary Art Magazine

2005 Simposion, ATELIER DESCHIS Association in collaboration with University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca

2005 Invited at Autumn Academy, Europa Artium, organized by University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, Romania
Prezentation: KO.KE.M. Contemporary Art Museum and Gallery Miercurea Ciuc and OPEN STUDIO Contemporary Art Magazine

2006 Self publishing fair, OPEN STUDIO Contemporary Art Magazine presentation, Carturesti Bookstore Bucharest, Romania