Michele Bressan (b.1980) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.
He graduated the Photo-Video Department, The National University of Arts Bucharest (2009) and he earned a Master's degree in photography at the same university (2011). Michele Bressan was one of the winners of the Essl Award for photography and was nominated for the Henkel Art Award in 2009.
Selected personal exhibitions: the participation of Jecza Gallery at ViennaFair The New Contemporary (2013) and Waiting for the Drama, H’art Gallery, Bucharest (2012).
Selected group exhibitions: WHAT ABOUT Y[OUR] MEMORY, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; PASAJ, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, – Anexa, Bucharest; Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (video screening), La Gaîté Lyrique și Palais de Tokyo (2014), Europe/South-East. Recorded Memories, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2013), e-cité Bucarest. Une Scène Artistique Roumaine, Musée d'Art Moderne Saint Etienne (2011), Ne tourne pas la tête ! Mois de la Photo, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris; Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, Performance Art Institute San Francisco (2010), The Essl Art Award CEE 2009, The Winners, ESSL Museum, Vienna.
Ode to whatever it could be, 2010-2014, photography, series of 80 x 65 cm
Waiting for the drama, 2010-2011, photography, series of 50 x 40cm and 80 x 65 cm
Landscape studies, 2012-2013, photography, series of 80 x 100 cm
Universal, 2013, photography, 80 x 100 cm
Michele Bressan, Present, 2014, object, 20 x 12 x 2 cm
Single Use, three single use cameras, 24 exposures each, used by the artist in 2010, and undeveloped
Peste Dunăre, object ready-made, 2013, 1 sign 300 x 87cm and 5 painted plastic letters, 35 x 7x 4 cm each
Nașteri Mistice, 2014, object, book, 20 x 13 x 3 cm
Like in One of My Dreams, 2014, installation (scale model, desktop lamp, kitchen table, glass, and water), 168 x 75 x 75 cm (detail)
Fine, object (zinc plated sheet volumetric letters), 2014, 100 x 457 x 27 cm
Mesaje Personale [Personal Messages], text insert in weekly Romanian newspapers, 2013 ongoing