Muntean / Rosenblum

Markus Muntean (b. 1962 in Graz) and Adi Rosenblum (b. 1962 in Haifa) met in the 1980s when they were both studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. They began collaborating as Muntean/Rosenblum in 1992. Painting has always remained at the heart of their oeuvre, which also comprises video works and installations. The artist duo ran Bricks & Kicks, one of Vienna’s first “Off-Spaces”, from 1995 to 1998 and hence count among the co-initiators of the city’s artist­-run spaces. They shared the professorship of contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1999 to 2005 and were awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts (Painting and Graphics) in 2001.

Muntean/Rosenblum have had major solo exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna (2000), De Appel, Amsterdam (2002), the Salzburger Kunstverein (2003), Tate Britain, London (2004), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004), MUSAC, Museo de Arce Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon (2006), the Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig (2007), the Essl Museum, Kloster­neuburg (2008), CAC, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga (2012), the Institut fur zeitgenossische Kunst, Nuremberg (2014), the Parkview Museum, Beijing (2017), MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,A Coruiia (2018), MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kracow, (2018), Albertina, Vienna (2022) and Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2024).

They took part in the 2nd Berlin Bienniale in 2001 and in the 261h Sao Paulo Biennale in 2004, and have also participated in numerous group shows all over the world, including at the Tel Aviv Museum (2019), Kunsthalle Rotterdam (2019), the Stadel Museum, Frankfurt (2015), MAXXI, Rome (2016), the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010), Kunstmuseum Bern (2010), the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2006), and Kunsthalle Niirnberg (2001).

Their works are to be found in museum collections across the globe, including those of MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kracow, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemoraneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and the Museum Kunstpalast, Diisseldorf.