ABOUT

Viviana Druga is a Romanian visual artist based in Berlin. Born in Transylvania, she spent her childhood with her sister, frequently visiting their grandparents in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains during school vacations. The interplay between the wild, free mountain landscape and the Christian Orthodox mysticism on her mother’s side left a lasting impression on her. These formative experiences continue to shape her artistic practice. Her work focuses on the biographical and poetic dimensions of installation and object-based art. For Druga, art is not merely a form of expression—it is a transformative activity, a magical act in the sense that it opens up new inner landscapes for those who engage with it. Echoing Joseph Beuys' idea of art as a liberating force, she sees creative practice as a means of personal and collective emancipation. Drawing from her rural upbringing and its connection to communal life, Druga is committed to reviving female aesthetics and forms of knowledge rooted in embodied experience. Through a "bottom-up" approach that fuses lived reality, street politics, and aesthetic formalism, she uses performance and visual storytelling to explore how rituals—both personal and collective—can become tools for empowerment and social transformation.

ABOUT

Viviana Druga is a Romanian visual artist based in Berlin. Born in Transylvania, she spent her childhood with her sister, frequently visiting their grandparents in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains during school vacations. The interplay between the wild, free mountain landscape and the Christian Orthodox mysticism on her mother’s side left a lasting impression on her. These formative experiences continue to shape her artistic practice. Her work focuses on the biographical and poetic dimensions of installation and object-based art. For Druga, art is not merely a form of expression—it is a transformative activity, a magical act in the sense that it opens up new inner landscapes for those who engage with it. Echoing Joseph Beuys' idea of art as a liberating force, she sees creative practice as a means of personal and collective emancipation. Drawing from her rural upbringing and its connection to communal life, Druga is committed to reviving female aesthetics and forms of knowledge rooted in embodied experience. Through a "bottom-up" approach that fuses lived reality, street politics, and aesthetic formalism, she uses performance and visual storytelling to explore how rituals—both personal and collective—can become tools for empowerment and social transformation.