ABOUT
Born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1979
Lives and works in Bonn, Germany
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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His artistic work has been presented at the Leerstand als Begegnungsraum, Bonn /Germany (2024), National Museum of Art, Chisinau /Moldova (2023), Zpațiu /Zpace, Chisinau/Moldova (2021), Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg/Germany (2020), Regensburg Museum of History, Regensburg/Germany (2019), #00 Havana Biennial, Havana/Cuba (2018), Center for Creative Industries (CCI) “Fabrika”, Moscow/Russia (2017), Museum and Science Center “Arktikum”, Rovaniemi /Finland (2017), Gallery “co – ume lab”, Tokyo/Japan (2016), East Centric Architecture Triennial, Bucharest/Romania (2016), Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin /Germany (2015), Zachęta – Project Room, Warsaw/Poland (2015), Knoll Gallery, Budapest/Hungary and Vienna/Austria (2014), Kunsthall, Bergen/Norway (2014), Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna/Austria (2013), gallery Cândido Portinari, Rio de Janeiro /Brasil (2013), Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice/Italy (2013), Bergen County Jail, Bergen/Norway (2012), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow/Russia (2011), the Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar/Sweden (2011), 3rd – 4th – 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow /Russia (2009 – 2011 – 2017), World Exhibition, Shanghai/China (2010), New Museum, Weimar/Germany (2010), 1st – 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow/Russia (2008 – 2010), Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn/Estonia (2007), National Museum of History and
Archaeology, Chisinau/Moldova (2006), National Museum of Art, Chisinau/Moldova (2002), among others.
He was awarded several grants, scholarships and awards, including scholarship from Austrian Federal Chancellery (Vienna /Austria), scholarship from CEC ArtsLink (New York/USA), Aalto ARTS Scholarship from Aalto University of Arts, Architecture and Design (Helsinki /Finland), grant for a group exhibition from Nomura Foundation (Tokyo/Japan), grants for organizing group exhibitions from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Bergen/Norway), grant from EEA Grants (Oslo/Norway), scholarships from Norwegian Ministry of Education, travel grants from “KUNO” (Tallinn/Estonia), grants “Step Beyond” (Amsterdam /Netherlands), award from Museum Complex “Iulian Antonescu” (Bacau /Romania), among others.
His works are part of private collections in Norway, Ireland, Bulgaria, Russia, Moldova, Poland, Estonia, Canada, Armenia, Austria, and Germany.
Works in Public Collections
Goethe-Institute, Yerevan/Armenia
Regensburg Museum of History, Regensburg/Germany
Luciano Benetton Collection
Country Museums Complex “Iulian Antonescu”, Bacau/Romania
New Museum, Weimar/Germany
Contemporary Art Centre KSA:K, Chisinau/Moldova
East — Slovakian Gallery, Kosice/Slovakia
Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar/Sweden
Bergen Kommune, Bergen/Norway
Bukhara Art Museum, Bukhara/Uzbekistan