Dana Fabini

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Dana Fabini (* 1963 in Cluj-Napoca ) is a Romanian conceptual artist .

Career

Fabini studied from 1983 to 1987 at the Institutul de Arte Plastice - today Universitatea de Artă şi Design / University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca . Doctoral studies in psychology and in visual arts. In 2005 she did her PhD in visual arts with a thesis on artistic creativity and relationships with art therapy . Since 1987 artistic activity and since 1990 academic teaching experience a. a. at the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca , at the University of Cologne and at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj . Personally experienced experiences such as the dictatorship and the turn to democracy in Romania , the status of women in society, integration in Germany and the intercultural dialogue are meditatively reflected in her artistic themes. She is a member u. a. in the Literatur Forum Südwest and in GEDOK Germany. She lives in Romania and Germany.

Artistic work

The core and characteristic of her work is a “visual linguistics”. She combines her own poetic texts and images to form a unit (see also visual poetry ). She uses classical and digital techniques, performance, sound and image installations. “The decisive factor is not the method itself, but the creative examination of the source material and its transformation.” (Dr. Donatella Chiancone-Schneider) In 2010, the overall concept Bibliotheca Diotima was created , which reflects her artistic and feminist position.

From a contemporary point of view, she reflects on the understanding of art e.g. B. in # 100Dada (video animation, 2016) and Ce este arta / Was ist Kunst (Textbild, 2011). She expresses the feminist attitude in an intellectual form and a. in Waiting Room: Loneliness (short film, 2017) or Der Faden der Ariadne (print installation, 2015). She experiments with the perception of real and fictional places and designs series such as Grădini abandonate (Abandoned Gardens) (photography, text, collage on handmade paper, 1999–2005). She poetically transcends the everyday in letters with dreams ( work in progress since 2000) and uses them to create artist books and editions that combine art and meditation.

She understands the effect of art in relation to the “opposite” and her work often takes the form of an intuitive dialogue on existential issues. She expands this dialogue from poetry to action and in 2016 designed the interactive-performative art platform Dialog in Agora . In this context, she coordinates intercultural projects on topics such as artistic creativity between the elite and the democratization of art, art in times of globalization, tradition and innovation in the artistic media. Extensive projects: 2016–2017 contemporary archeology and 2018–2020 cosmopolitan (ism) .

Exhibitions and performances (selection)

She has been exhibiting in museums and art galleries since the beginning of her career. Examples: Biennale Atelier 35 in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Galați and in the Baia Mare Art Center 1988, Annual International Miniature Exhibition Del Bello Gallery Toronto 1990, Art Festival Stare fără titlu ( untitled state) in the Art Museum (Baroque Palace) Timișoara 1991. It received 1992 the collective youth award UAP (Professional Association of Artists of Romania) for the group exhibition Ecce Homo , which was presented in the galleries in Cluj and Bucharest. In 1993 she opened her first major solo exhibition in the Galeria Mare Cluj UAP and received a scholarship at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid . She participates in exhibitions organized in the Art Museum (Bánffy Palace) Cluj Napoca , such as Academia 70 in 1996 or Liber Studiorum in 2000.

Other important exhibitions are: Medium AnnArt 5 Contemporary Art Festival at the Szekler National Museum Sfântu Gheorghe 1994, the group exhibition Nemzeti paradicsom (National Paradise) at the Balassi Institute Bucharest in 1996, the solo exhibition Grǎdini abandonate (Abandoned Gardens) at the University of Art and Design Cluj -Napoca Casa Matei Corvin 2005, Dreispung Triplu Salt Troskok international art project in the Künstlerforum Bonn 2008 and duo performance with Nicolas Simion as special guests at the 2nd International Ceramic Biennale Cluj 2015. 2016-2019 she participates in the international video and performance event Blue Hour in Cologne and 2018-2019 in the GEDOK projects 100 years of women's suffrage in several cities in Germany. On the occasion of the 4th International Ceramic Biennale Cluj 2019, she has been invited to a solo exhibition in the National Museum of the History of Transylvania.

Her personal appearances include a. Dada Labyrinth in the Romanian Library (Freiburg im Breisgau) 2016, Waiting Room: Loneliness in the Art Museum (Bánffy Palace) Cluj Napoca 2017, Tête-à-tête in the Galateea Contemporary Art Bucharest in 2018, Utopie cu maestrul (Utopia with the Meister) in the cultural center Schloss Mogoșoaia 2019 and many presentations such as B. 2019 in Berlin, Romanian Cultural Institute Titu Maiorescu .

Publications (selection)

As an artist she published in publishing since 2018 Eikon their works as art book in the series: Dana Fabini Bibliotheca Diotima , Editura Eikon, Bucureşti, ISBN 978-606-711-891-9 , Vol 1-2 (Romanian / German).

Since 2016 she has been the editor of the series: Dialog in Agora , Editura Eikon, București, ISBN 978-606-711-556-7 , Volume 1-2-3 (Romanian / German).

She writes essays on artistic creativity , social art and art action . Examples:

  • Creativitate artistică. Relaţii între artele vizuale şi terapia prin artă (Artistic Creativity. Connections between Visual Arts and Art Therapy), Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj Napoca, 2006, ISBN 973-610-468-0 (Romanian)
  • Receptarea în artele vizuale. Implicaţii în terapia prin artă (Reception of the visual arts. Applications in art therapy), Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, Cluj Napoca, 2006, ISBN 973-686-949-0 (Romanian)
  • Aurelia Mihai : This is the hour in: Balcony No. 13/2003 Fundația Idea (Stiftung Idea) Cluj-Napoca ISSN  1454-7872
  • AC / DC Projects: Schlingensief and Perjovschi in Museum Ludwig Cologne , in: IDEA artă + societate (IDEA Kunst + Gesellschaft) No. 22/2005, Cluj Napoca, ISSN  1583-8293 (Romanian, English)
  • I am from no country , in: Catalog of the exhibition Ugly Places by Bogdan Achimescu, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville , 2005 (English)

Literature and interviews (selection since 2006)

  • General German newspaper for Romania : From art that heals , interview by Aida Ivan, 2019
  • TVR3: Dialog între arte (Dialogue of the Arts): Dana Fabini and Vianu Mureșan , broadcast by Mihaiela Ilea, 2017
  • TVR Cluj: Bună dimineața Transilvania (Good morning, Transylvania), broadcast by Vasile Hotea-Fernezan, 2016
  • Radio Free Europe : Dana Fabini: Ce este arta? O amăgire cu care trăim și care ne supraviețuiește (What is art? An illusion that we live with and that survives?), Interview by Lucian Ștefănescu, 2016
  • Deutsche Welle : Arta și dialogul european (Art in European Dialogue), article and interview by Dana Alexandra Sora, 2008
  • Catalog The School of Cluj. Artists-Professors of the University of Art and Design , Ed. Mihai Pop, IDEA design & print, Cluj 2006 (English)

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Dana Fabini In: Catalog Tête-à-tête , Eikon, București, 2018, p. 23, ISBN 978-606-711-859-9 (Romanian / German / English).
  2. ↑ Dana Fabini's secret In: Dana Fabini: Bibliotheca Diotima. încotro iubirea | where the love volumul 1 | Volume 1, 2018, p. 67.
  3. ^ Art Forum International
  4. ↑ z. B. Blue Hour VIII
  5. ^ GEDOK Freiburg
  6. ↑ Cluj Ceramics Biennale 2019 (events)
  7. ↑ https://adz.ro/artikel/artikel/von-kunst-die-heilt
  8. ↑ Broadcast by Mihaiela Ilea 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBkZv-cY7c
  9. ↑ Broadcast by Vasile Hotea Fernezan 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLD-JzM3pK4
  10. ↑ Interview to listen to https://www.europalibera.org/a/27889805.html
  11. ↑ https://www.dw.com/ro/arta-și-dialogul-european/a-3262000
personal data
SURNAME Fabini, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj-Napoca