Pavel Brăila

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Pavel Brăila (* 1971 in Chișinău ) is a Moldovan conceptual artist who works with film, video , installation , photography and performance .

life and work

Pavel Brăila studied at the Technical University of Moldova in Chișinău, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht , the Netherlands and at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing , France.

Brăila's film project Shoes for Europe was shown at documenta11 in 2002 .

“At the small Ungheni border station on the Moldovan-Romanian border, the trains have to be converted from the gauge common in Moldova to the standard gauge common in Romania and Western Europe. The lengthy passage of the train from east to west and the laborious, labor-intensive process of adjustment - each train lasts three hours and is raised two meters to change lanes while passengers pass through customs - the artist illegally documents inside and outside the wagons, filming is not officially allowed in the Moldovan border area. "

- Documenta11 short guide

In 2007, Brăila created the installation Barons' Hill in the Neue Nationalgalerie as artist in residence for the DAAD's Berlin artist program . Pavel Brăila's film Definitively Unfinished , which premiered at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen , was awarded the Prize of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009.

Brăila was a participant in numerous group exhibitions. Among other things in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam; Tate Gallery , London; Renaissance Society , Chicago; Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne; Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan; Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg; Royal College of Art Galleries, London; Moderna Museet , Stockholm, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam; documenta 14 in Kassel; Manifesta 10 in Saint Petersburg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ art encounters Pavel Brăila accessed on January 7, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ Performing the East Pavel Brăila accessed on January 7, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 46, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
  4. ↑ Galeria Labirynt Pavel Brăila accessed on January 7, 2019 (English)
  5. ^ Technical Museum Vienna Pavel Brăila , accessed on January 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Brăila, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moldovan concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Chișinău