Vladimir PARFENOK
(Uladzimir PARFIANOK)

Vladimir Parfenok:
text about my art

Exhibitions
CV

Date of Birth    28.09.1958
e-mail: kuplibmn@user.unibel.by

Prior education

-- Belarusian State University, Minsk, 1975--1980

-- Studio of Creative Photography "Studio-3" directed by Valery LOBKO,

Minsk, 1985--86

-- practical study in KATALOG magazine, Copenhagen (Denmark), 1994

Experience

-- technologist at the state electronic plant in Minsk, 1980--1989

-- photographer, printer at the state productive association in Minsk, 1989

-- editor of the art photography department in Mastatstva (Art) magazine, the only state art magazine published in Belarus, 1991-- till today

-- one of the organizers of Pravintsyja (Province) informal association of creative photography which activity in 1987--1993 could change Minsk into one of the capitals of non-official photographic art in the former USSR

-- member of the board of the Belarusian Union of Art Photographers, which was not officially registered, 1991

-- curator of the exhibitions of new Belarusian photography in the State Gallery of Art (Sopot, Poland, 1994) and IFA-Gallery (Berlin, Germany, 1994)

-- participant of the numerous group photographic and art exhibitions around the former USSR and abroad starting from 1986 and the author of one person exhibition project Lucida momenta (1995) which was exhibited in Denmark, Poland and Belarus

-- art adviser and curator of NOVA gallery of visual arts which was founded in Yanka Kupala Central Public Library in Minsk, 1996 -- till today

-- contributor to Manifesta-2 reference book (article on the situation in the contemporary Belarusian art), 1998