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Dragnev Lilia
Lilia Dragneva and Lucia Macari started their artistic duo from a serious involvement into sound-and-image experimentation. This was a result of their interest in the cross-pollination of various sources of the 20th century art (among which avant-garde music, Dada manifestations, electronic technologies), which resulted in a series of installations, video pieces and performances aimed at drawing the public out of its state of normal passivity. The duo also curated a two-year long appropriation project meant to fill in the deficit of information on the 20th century art that Moldova suffers from. The project, called "Kinovari (imitatzia)" (Cinnabar imitation), called on the artists of Moldova to copy works of art from this period and sign the copies with their names. The project however was not limited only to copying but also encouraged experimentation with names, trends and other artistic landmarks. Moving on from appropriation to synthesis, the duo researched the oral traditions of various regions, sections of the population, age groups, areas of occupation, etc. in order to form an artistic opinion about either forgotten or forbidden subjects of contemporary life and thus show the emergence of a new, actual mythology of the country and the mutual influence of psychological energies of various societal groups.




Born
May 23, 1975, Chisinau, Moldova

Home address:
str. Academiei 12, ap.5, Chisinau, Moldova

Tel: + 373 2 21 27 66

E-mail: dragneva@lycos.com



Works

Allegory, installation, 1996


Aphros, action, 1996


Transformation of sound into music and music into sound, video installation, 1997

All works »

Education
1986 - 1993 National Lyceum of Arts "Igor Vieru", Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1993 - 1999 State University of Arts, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1999 - Master's studies at the department of Art History in The Academy of Science, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Member of the advisory board of the South East Europe Contemporary Art Network (SEECAN)
2001 - Member of the regional monitoring board of the BalkanKult - Balkan Cultural Co-operation
1999 - 2002 - Executive Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau KSA:K
2002 - Artistic Director of KSA:K

Workshops
1997 - Tzara Rerun Novara, video workshop, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Project Management & Fundraising. Center for Contemporary art, Chisinau, Moldova.
2000 - Strategic Planning, Budapest, Hungary
2001 - Workshop of freelance curators in contemporary arts, Association of Art Historian, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Group exhibitions
1995 - Fashion festival, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1995 - Art-Jam, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1996 - Kilometrul 6, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Cast an eye, photo exhibition, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Messages from Tzara - Reflections in RE, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Reflections, exhibition of textile art, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Film festival VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1997 - Film festival DaKINO, Bucharest, Romania.
1998 - Performance festival PERIFERIC 2, Iasi, Romania
1998 - Film festival Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary
1998 - Gioconda's smile - from the mythical to techno ritual, performance festival, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1998 - Senses test station - International forum of art initiatives, Moscow, Russia
1998 - The 25th show of young artists, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 - Body and the East, Museum of modern art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 - WRO'99, Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
1999 - Exhibition of Modern art Transit Napok'99, Cluj, Romania
1999 - After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 - ÊINOVARI (imitazia), Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Unfortunately last Sunday afternoon somebody left the door open…, Sittard, Netherlands
2000 - Identity signs , Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2001 - InvAsia, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2002 - Regards projetes - moving video project, Thessalonica/Greece, Belgrade/Serbia, Sophia/Bulgaria, Chisinau/Moldova, Bucharest/Romania

Camps
1996 - Carbonart'96, CSAC, Sadova, Calarasi, Rep. of Moldova
1998 - Carbonart'97, CSAC, Radenii Vechi, Ungheni, Rep. of Moldova
1999 - Carbonart'99, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova

Curatorial experience
1998 - Money, exhibition-manifesto, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
1999 - Video Marathon Night'99, 3rd edition of videonight, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - KINOVARI (imitazia), Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - CarbonART, 5th edition of creative camp, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - Identity signs, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2001 - Regards projetes, video program from Balkans, Strasbourg/France
Thessalonica/Greece, Belgrade/Serbia, Sophia/Bulgaria, Chisinau/Moldova (curator of the Moldovan video block)

Seminars/Conference
2000 - "Forum for artistic exchanges in Southeast Europe", Thessalonica, Greece
2001 - Conference in the frame of Summer University, Strasbourg, France
2001 - CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL INDUSTRY IN THE BALKANS, Music/Visual Arts, BalkanKult, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2002 - Balkan Art Network (BAN) session, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 - "Projected Vision" - video program from Balkans, in the frame of the conference of Summer University, Cetinje Biennale, Montenegro
2002 - Scientific Conference of the Institute of Art Study, of the Academy of Science of Moldova, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2002 - Round table „Fest machine", Altay/Novosibirsk, Russia
2002 - Presentation in the frame of Video Festival „Dreamcatcher", Kiev, Ukraine
2002 - Conference of Contemporary Art „Revisiting the exhibition", Vector Foundation, Iasi, Romania
2002 - Conference „Funding the Future", BalkanKult, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Awards
1993 - I Award -"Igor Vieru", National Lyceum of Arts "Igor Vieru", Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1998 - I Price, The 25th show of young artists, Zagreb, Croatia


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