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Rusu Stefan

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Str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, Ap-2,
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Post code 2012 Chisinau

www.art.md

  • Enlightening Walk/2002

    Enlightening Walk/2002 - 

    a performance in the frame of Intersection Project organised by New Artists Association/Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2002
  • LAZO/7'20/2005

    LAZO/7'20/2005 - 

    Still image from the video by Stefan Rusu related to the construction of the Moldavian identity
  • RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project exhibition, Chisinau/2008. Photo by Ilya Rabinovich.

    RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project exhibition, Chisinau/2008. Photo by Ilya Rabinovich. - 

    A project and exhibition designed and curated by Stefan Rusu

Stefan’s artist and curatorial agenda is closely connected to undergoing processes and changes occurred in the post-socialist societies after 1989. Among his preoccupations are the aspects of mass-manipulation techniques, social engineering strategies (political engineering), forms of colonization and culturalization that culminated in some cases with the construction of artificial states and new nations, as it is the case of Autonomous Republic of Birobidjan, Republic of Karelia (both are part of Russian federation) or Republic of Moldova (independent state and former part of USSR). Rusu was trained as visual artist and later extended his practice to curating, managing and fund-raising projects, editing TV programs, producing experimental films, TV reports and documentaries.

His recent curatorial projects includes: Found Footage Workshop (2007) - in-depth exploration of digital filmmaking techniques and aesthetics combined with the reuse of archival media, Cultural Campaign (2006-09)- a long term project dealing with the post conflict resolution situation and decontamination of cultural environment in Moldovan regions: Transnistria (a territory controlled since 1991 by Russian army and security service FSB) and UTA Gagauzia (territorial-administrative unite populated by Turkish Christian Orthodox community). His latest internationally mediated projects include MOLD-GOLIA- video art from Moldova in the frame of Czechpoint - Exhibition of Political Art at NOD Gallery from Prague and Museum of Art Zilina/Slovakia and New Old Routes – Central Asian Video Art presented at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland and at BizArt Center, Shanghai, China.

In 2008 he curated RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios organized by KSA:K- Center, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi that consisted in a series of interdisciplinary workshops, production of 3 documentary films (1 film produced by VECTOR Association and 2 others by KSAK Center), colloquium and seminars that took place in Iasi and Chisinau, a project publication and final exhibition produced by KSA:K- Center in Chisinau. The project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions (Moldova region from Romania and the Republic of Moldova). Details about the project content and participants on: www.art.md

Starting from the year 2000 he is involved in the evolution of KSAK Center in the frame of which he is developing curatorial projects and artist initiatives. Since 2005 he was involved in the production of AlteArteTV project where he was appointed as editor-in-chief.

In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at Stichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co-curated Mercury in Retrograde: mercuryinretrograde.deappel.nl/

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