Lilia Dragneva
born in 1975, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.
Studied Art at the Moldovan Republican Painting School, Music in
the Music School #5 in Chisinau and Fashion Design at the State
Institute
of Art, Chisinau. Since 1995 works as independent artist together
with Lucia Macari in the field of Contemporary Art.
Since 1999 she has been making research for her master's studies
at the department of Art History in The Academy of Science, Rep.
of Moldova.
The topic: 'Contemporary Art in Republic of Moldova'.
Among her curatorial work are exhibitions and symposia like:
BANII, action/manifesto, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova; Video Marathon
Night'99, 3rd edition of video night, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova (dedicated
to the 'Absolute Film' from William Moritz collection); International
Exhibition 'Identity Signs', Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova;
International Camp for Creation CarbonART'2000, CARBONART' 2003 -
The inexistent
space and CarbonArt '2004 - Memory lane, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova;
Regards projetes - video program from Balkans, Strasbourg/France,
Thessalonica/Greece, Belgrade/Serbia, Sophia/Bulgaria, Chisinau/Moldova
(curator of the
Moldovan video block), Donumenta 2004 Exhibition / Regensburg, Germany.
She collaborated in developing of the catalog 'Gioconda's Smile.
From Mythic to Tehno ritual' and made research for the publication
'Unfortunately last Sunday afternoon somebody left the door open
',
Sittard, Netherlands. With Lucia Macari she initiated the project
'Kinovari (imatazia)' - the first exhibition of this project took
place
in Chisinau between June 5-15 - 2000.
Currently she is the Director of the Center of Contemporary Art [ksa:k]
in Chisinau.
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
1999 - Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau KSA:K
GRUP EXHIBITIONS [selection]
2001 - 'INVASION', Chisinau, R. Of Moldova
2000 - 'Unfortunately last Sunday afternoon somebody left the door
open
', Sittard, Netherlands
1999 - Exhibition of Modern art Transit Napok'99, Cluj, Romania
- WRO-99, Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
- Carbonart, 4th edition of camp for artists, Chisinau, Moldova
- After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 - The 25th contemporary art show of young artists, Zagreb, Croatia - First
prize
- Senses Test Station - International forum of art initiatives, Moscow, Russia
- Performance festival PERIFERIC 2, Iasi, Romania
- Gioconda's smile - from the mythical to techno ritual, performance festival,
Chisinau, Moldova
- Film festival MEDIAWAVE, Gyor, Hungary
- Body and the East, Museum of modern art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997 - Film festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Film festival DaKINO, Bucharest, Romania.
- Cast an eye, photo exhibition, Chisinau, Moldova
- Messages from Tzara - Reflections in RE, 2nd annual exhibition of SCCA Chisinau,
Moldova
1996 - 6th Kilometer, 1st annual exhibition of SCCA Chisinau, Moldova
- Carbonart, first edition of camp for artists, Sadova, Calarasi, Moldova
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE [selection]
2004 - Donumenta'2004 Exhibition, Regensburg, Germany
2004 - International Camp for Creation CARBONART 2004 - Memory lane,
Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2003 - International Camp for Creation CARBONART 2003 - The inexistent
space, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2001 - Regards projetes, video program from Balkans, Strasbourg/FranceThessalonica/Greece,
Belgrade/Serbia, Sophia/Bulgaria, Chisinau/Moldova (curator of the
Moldovan video block)
2000 - 'KINOVARI (imitazia)', Chisinau, R. of Moldova
- CarbonART, 5th edition of creative camp, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
- 'Identity signs', Chisinau, R. of Moldova
1999 - Video Marathon Night'99, 3rd edition of video night, Chisinau, R. of
Moldova
1998 - Money, exhibition-manifesto, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
Websites:
http://www.art.md/kinovari/
http://www.art.md/mznak/
http://arhiva.art.md/dragnev/
http://www.donumenta.de/