Biography
Viviana Druga is a Berlin-based artist who uses performance and photography as her main forms of expression. Viviana Druga was born in Transylvania - Romania. Until the age of 12 she would visit her grandparents living near the Carpathian mountains. Her childhood was influenced by the free mountain life and the Christian-Orthodox Mysticism she was introduced to by her mother. Since 2008 Viviana Druga lives and works in Berlin.
Before leaving Romania in 2008, Viviana was predominantly interested in the social side of art, staging activist art performances in Bucharest such as infiltrating the international Biennial, photographing herself with the president on the street, dressed like a guerrilla, and convincing people to pose in their swimsuits in Winter at a busy intersection where an off-limits park had been constructed. Since moving to Berlin, Viviana has been investigating the personal, poetic and ritual side of performance, capturing these new aspects through photography - using art as a magical activity that can help the participants and audience to discover new dimensions of their selves.
