ABOUT
Born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1979
Lives and works in Bonn, Germany
Education
He received Master’s degree from “Ion Creangă” Pedagogical State University in the field of Fine and Decorative arts (Chisinau, Moldova), Master’s Degree from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Moldova in Economic Sciences (Chisinau, Moldova) and Master’s Degree from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Contemporary Art (Bergen, Norway).
ArtisticWork
His artistic work explores questions of social life and interaction with the political system, using performance, painting, 3D objects, digital sculpture, sound-photo-video-light installations and VR technologies. This results in situational and contextual projects that create forms of intervention in public spaces, exhibition spaces as well as virtual reality.
CurrentResearch
Current research projects focus on memory trauma and its aestetisation, politics of invisibility, search for national identity of individual social groups and reaction to changes under the influence of mental features of the post – contemporary paradigm.
GroupProjects
As an organizer of group projects, exhibitions, workshops, the main basis of his activity is in the area of formation of new opportunities for direct discourse of artists, which are trying to develop new forms of social communication within the “big” art world and the free cooperation, opposing the institutional and commercial dictates.
Curatorial Projects
He implemented curatorial projects such as “Memories of the Future, or Beyond the Shadows of Empires”, full ⇔ empty gallery, Tokyo/Japan (2025), “Good Time ist tödlich”, Schwanhof, Marburg/Germany (2020), “Panorama of the past or how to survive yesterday’s tomorrow”, Gallery “co-ume lab” Tokyo/Japan (2016), “Universe 69”, “Gallery of sisters Mariam and Yeranuhi Aslamazyan”, Gyumri/Armenia (2015), “The indifference map”, Gallery “apARTe”, Iasi/ Romania (2014), “Destroying the zero presence”, Totaldobže Art Center, Riga/Latvia (2013), “Born of emptiness”, Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art, Krasnodar/Russia (2013) co-organizer of the project “Intervention 2”, Chisinau/Moldova (2007), co-organizer of the project “Intervention”, Chisinau/Moldova (2006).