ALEXANDRU RAEVSKI - MD September 22, 1979 Born in Chisinau, Moldova EDUCATION: 1999-2000 <strong>Art</strong> school for kids “A. Sciusev”, Chisinau, Moldova. 2000-2005 Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University, specialty painting. Chisinau, Moldova. 2005-2008 State University of Technology, specialty: architecture, Chisinau, Moldova. 2008-2010 Master Degree in Economic Sciences. Academy of Public Administration under the President of Moldova, specialty: public management, Chisinau, Moldova. 2012- Confucius Institute, Chisinau, Moldova. SOLO EXIBITIONS 2011 “Chsn-Ksc” East - Slovakian Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia. “150 of 2513” KICA – Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>, Krasnodar, Russia 2010 “Friendly fire, which we won” Public space in the yai - pag.50 city, Chisinau, Moldova. 2007 “Choice”, Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> Centre KSA:K, Chisinau, Moldova. 2005 “Good by, by, by…”, “I. Creanga” University, faculty of <strong>Art</strong> and Design, Chisinau, Moldova CURATORIAL PROJECT 2010 “Land of other PEOPLE “, ART-hotel gallery, the association of young artists «Oberliht», Chisinau, Moldova. “Land of other PEOPLE “, in frame of “GLOB(E)SCA- PE”, II Moscow <strong>International</strong> Biennale for Young <strong>Art</strong>, Moscow, Russia. SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2011 “MAYBE” Festival of Public <strong>Art</strong>, Krasnodar, Russia. “Portrait of 19 Million” in frame of “Impossible Community” Moscow Museum of Modern <strong>Art</strong>, Moscow, Russia. A Complicated Relation: Part II, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden. Media Impact. <strong>International</strong> Festival of Activist <strong>Art</strong>, ARTPLAY Design Centre, 4 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>, Moscow, Russia. “<strong>Art</strong> under the sky”, Land-art festival Pjatihatki, Russia. “B68-free zone/art space”, «Oberliht», Chisinau, Moldova. 2010 “MAYBE” Festival of Public <strong>Art</strong>, Krasnodar, Rusia. Project “cityoneminutes” World exhibition in Shanghai, China. “Import-Export: From Moldova with Love”, New Museum, Weimar, Germany. 2009 One Sixth Plus, special project of 3rd Moscow Biennale, ZurabTsereteli’s art gallery, Moscow, Russia. “Free Wi-Fi” Zurab Tsereteli Gallery of <strong>Art</strong>s, Moscow, Russia 2008 „Interventii 3”, Bucharest, Romania, Kiev, Ukraine, Berlin, Germany. <strong>Art</strong> Reclaims Foreign Affairs -<strong>Art</strong>istic Statements from Europe and Beyond at the <strong>International</strong> Conference “New Paradigms, New Models – Culture in the EU’s External Relations” in Ljubljana, Slovenia „Found Footage” Galeria Posibila, Bucurest, Romania. QUI VIVE?, I Moscow <strong>International</strong> Biennale for Young <strong>Art</strong>, Moscow, Russia. 2007 “Consequences and Proposals”, Biennale of young artists, Tallinn, Estonia. RESIDENCES 2012 “Black Sea Calling” Linz, Austria 2011 “K.A.I.R” Kosice, Slovakia. “<strong>Art</strong> under the sky”, Pjatihatki, Russia. AWARDS 2008 Grant Step Beyond, E.C.F. Amsterdam, Holland. 2007 Grant Step Beyond, E.C.F. Amsterdam, Holland. 2005 Country museum complex award, Bacau/Romania. 2004 Scholarship “Young Creator”, Soros <strong>Foundation</strong> in <strong>Art</strong>s, Chisinau, Moldova. 2003 Municipal scholarship, Chisinau, Moldova. 1998 2 place- Professional kickboxing-league Champ, Professional Kickboxing Federation Kitek, Moscow, Russia. 1997 2 place- Eurasia-kickboxing Champ, Kazani, Russia. 3 place- Open champ of ukrainian kickboxing, Kiev, Ukraine. WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Bulgaria, Ireland, Russia, Moldova, Poland, country museums complex Bacau/Romania, Estonia, Canada, New Museum Weimar/Germany, Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> Centre KSA:K/Moldova, Kalmar Konstmuseum Kalmar/ Sweden, East - Slovakian Gallery Kosice/Slovakia.
ALEXANDRU RAEVSKI - MD yai - pag.51 STATEMENT In art I have come after an accident. After a complicated surgery and an extended semi-paralyzed standing in me were radical changes that have touched the first place of my inner world and what surrounds it. I began deeply to interest in issues of socio-political, psychological aspects of the worldview of people who were not only within my reach, but also beyond it. This was very different from what I have converged and excited before, at the time when I was a professional sportsman. Critical events have forced me to throw away the old values, while were offering an intriguing alternative. In the process of actively seeking and life-long learning I acquired artistic skills, which allowed me to formulate and to educate my artistic statement by means of contemporary art. Today, analyzing the traveled distance, I realize that I have done serious work on filling the Moldovan art space with actual practice, such as photo and video installations, performances, sculpture and painting, working with public space and other relevant artistic elements. The listed puzzles synthesize with my disturbing internal contradictions, forming at the same time my artistic response, which seeks to reveal processes not only our region but also to look beyond it. In my opinion, only the desire to achieve something not attainable can form and argue future vision of the day, regardless of the existing high degree of risk. Alexandru Raevski