Valeria Barbas

Youbesc Creative Institute

BIOGRAPHIE

Valeria Barbas, (born 1984) is a multi-media artist, based in Republic of Moldova. She studied for a B.A. and a M.A. in music composition, Moldovan Academy of Music, Theatre and Art. B.A. in painting, State Pedagogical University. Winner of National Youth Award in literature and art (2011). Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Patrimony, Academy of Sciences, Moldova. Member of Moldovan Union of Painters, Union of Composers and Musicologists, Association of women in moldovan cinematography. Collaborates from 2008 as an artist with moldovan Center for contemporary art KSAK. Author and director of TV program ”Zona Ars” about moldovan contemporary art scene 2019-present at Moldova Public Company TV Moldova 1. PhD in study of art and culturology, author of a musicological book dedicated to new music from Moldova. Working medium: performance, video-art, sound, installation, film. Having a different background, Valeria Barbas is activating as a film director, and as performer of her own projects, the exploration of audio-visual field in (dis)connection, co/presence with the body are one of her main interest. Selected projects: video-art and performance at European Cultural Festival TANDEM of performance, RM (2012);video-art, performance at GHOST PAVILION campaign, part of ATLANTIS’11 and HEICO project at Venice Biennale (ed.54, 2011, IT);performance at SPACES project- sustainable public areas for culture in Eastern countries,Oberliht Association, RM(2013);video-art at Art as Civic Action,Citizens of Europe,2014 Berlin;Video-art ”Amitie” at What are our ruins?project Moldova-Russia-France,KSAK,RM&Les Ateliers du Vent, FR; Claxymphonie short doc.film, selected at Cronograf Documentary Film Festival, R.Moldova; sound project at contemp.art group exh., Zacheta Project Room,Warsaw; Wärmepol installation project, collab. with Frank Schulte (DE), organised by [KSA:K]Center for contemporary art&Goethe Institut, R. Moldova. She participated in workshops of documentary film in the frame of Moldox Festival of documentary film 2016, 2017, Republic of Moldova,tutors: Melody Gilbert (USA), Johanna Bernhardson (Sweden); workshops for directors and producers of documentaries, organized by TELEFILM Atelier, USA Embassy, Republic of Moldova (tutors Thomas Ciulei,Giovanni Robbiano, Peter Badac).

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