{"id":2565,"date":"2025-04-25T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/artist\/pavel-braila\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:36:42","slug":"pavel-braila","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/artist\/pavel-braila\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Br\u0103ila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pavel Br\u0103ila (b.1971, Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova) began his career as a licensed cook and a three-time freestyle wrestling champion of Moldova. He later graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Technical University of Moldova, but shifted focus to photography and performance. Since 1996, Br\u0103ila has been involved with the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and in 1998, he participated in the exhibition \u201cThe Body and The East.\u201d In 1999, he became a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy. His work blends conceptual performance and experimental film, exploring the fragile economies of post-Soviet realities. Br\u0103ila has exhibited internationally at venues such as Neue Nationalgalerie, Tate Gallery, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Moderna Museet, and documenta (2002, 2017). Other significant exhibitions include the Renaissance Society (Chicago), Kiasma (Helsinki), MIT LIST Boston, K\u00f6lnischer Kunstverein, Manifesta 10 (Saint Petersburg), and the Kyiv Biennale 2024 in Vienna and Berlin. He lives and works in Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Br\u0103ila (b.1971, Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova) began his career as a licensed cook and a three-time freestyle wrestling champion of Moldova. He later graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Technical University of Moldova, but shifted focus to photography and performance. Since 1996, Br\u0103ila has been involved with the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"bienala":[22],"class_list":["post-2565","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","bienala-biennial-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bienala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bienala?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}