Mihnea Mircan is the former artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, where he has curated 'A slowdown at the museum', '1:1. Hans van Houwelingen and Jonas Staal', the series 'Cross-examinations', and 'Jean-Luc Moulène, Endwards'. Mircan has also curated exhibitions at several institutions including the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Museion, Bolzano; Stroom Den Haag, Den Haag; Spinnerei, Leipzig; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; and the Venice Biennale, as curator of the Romanian Pavilion in 2007. He was the editor of the book Hans van Houwelingen: Undone, and has contributed essays to monographs on Pavel Büchler, Nina Beier, Patrick Nilsson and Remco Torrenbosch, and to the catalogue 'Six Lines of Flight'. His writing also appeared in journals such as Mousse, Manifesta Journal and Afterall.