Pavel braila biography

Pavel Braila is a Moldovan artist who was born in 1971.
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Pavel Brăila

Pavel Brăila (born 1971 in Chişinău, Moldova) works in various media including video, photography, performance, and installation. Since the mid-1990s, his works have been shown in numerous international group and solo exhibitions. In his films and performances he invites the viewer to participate in his world of cultural observations, for which he often investigates social absurdities overlooked by global geopolitical discourse. He has twice been invited to documenta (2002, 2017) and participated in Manifesta 10 (2014). In 2006-2007, Brăila was a fellow in the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Poster project for Kyiv Perennial

2024,
Offset prints

The poster project draws attention to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine and contextualizes it as a war within and against Europe. The invited artists create one poster each with the leading question: What will happen to Europe if the war against Ukraine continues for ten more years? Half of the print-run of posters will be flyposted in Berlin and the other half will be available for free at the different locations of Ky

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I really miss dancing
2021
neon tubes and plexiglas 77 cm
Location: Ștefania Palace

Pavel Braila’s neon light installation on display in the foyer of a former local bar, now closed, featuring the words “I really miss dancing” can be read as a longing for joy, community and togetherness following the crises of the recent years.

Vera means Belief
2023
Video, 20 min
Location: Ștefania Palace

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moldova has been the closest transit hub for refugees fleeing south Ukraine. It was here that the artist Pavel Braila encountered the 72-year-old pensioner Vera Derevianko. Over the last year, Vera’s house has been a blue tent in the Palanca refugee camp, situated on the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. She has refused to leave her ”blue lagoon” despite many offers of better accommodation, explaining that she wants to be as close as possible to her home and to her children and grandsons, who have remained in Ukraine, despite the constant threat of bombardment. Meanwhile, her relationship with her children is complex, as they have different points of

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Pavel Brăila

Since the mid-1990s the artist took part in numerous international art exhibitions and film festivals with films, videos, installations, photos, and performances. In 2002 his film “Shoes for Europe” was shown at the Documenta11. In 2003 Braila initiated in Moldova the unique project “Alte Arte” - a TV Magazine on Contemporary Art, that was produced by artists and broadcasted on Moldovan national TV.

In 2007, being an artist in residency of DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Pavel Braila presented his monumental installation “Barons'Hill” in Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. During one month, 24 hours around, his six channel video was taking advantage of the transparency of Mies van der Rohe's architecture and made the work visually and audibly accessible to visitors outside the building. His film Definitively Unfinished was awarded in 2009 at the Oberhausen International Film Festival.

In 2011 Braila presented "Chisinau - city difficult to pronounce" a four-part video work, which he created for the exhibition at