In the late nineties, Victor Man enrolled as a student at the Academia de Arte Plastice Ioan Andreescu, Cluj, but left after two years in order to study in Jerusalem between 2000 and 2004.
While in Jerusalem, he lived at the Poor Clares' Convent (Monastère de Sainte Claire [he]), and during this time mainly painted from nature inside of the monastery garden.
[3] In 2015 he contributed to the Venice Biennale a second time, when his work was featured in the main exhibition, "All The World's Futures," curated by Okwui Enwezor in the Central Pavilion.
[9] Literature and art history, collective memory and personal experience, are the elements woven together by the artist into a non-linear story where distinctions between present and past, fiction, imagination and reality are abolished.
[10] Uncertainty and oscillation between gender find an echo in other forms of transition: from human to animal, organic to artificial, face to mask.