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NAME: Pravdoliub Ivanov
BORN: 1964 - in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in
Sofia, Bulgaria
EDUCATION:
1993 - Graduated from the National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Since 1996 - Assistant Professor in National Academy for Fine
Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Since 1995 - Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia |
| 2009 |
"Techniques" - ICA Gallery, Sofia, (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva), September-October, 2009 |
| 2009 |
"Land of Promise, (Curator Iliana Fokianaki), part of Re Map 2-parallel program to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Greece, September-October, 2009 |
| 2008 |
"thoughts within thoughts" - dual show with Alec Finlay,
ARC Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 2007 |
"Double Trouble" - dual show with Valio Chenkov, Gallery Steinle, Munich, Germany |
| 2003 |
"Existing Objects" - ATA Center / Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia, Sofia |
| 2002 |
"Pessimism No More", Musee des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| 1999 |
"Negligible Incidents", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria |
| 1998 |
"Vehicles Dream", Longwood Arts Project, New York, USA
"At the Level of the Eyes", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
"Macro Swiss", at the Swiss Embassy Residence, Sofia |
| 1997 |
"Between Thoughts and Talks", XXL Gallery, Sofia |
| 1996 |
"Photo-Installations", dual show with Kalin Serapionov, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
"Territory", Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv |
| 1995 |
"Zwei Wege", BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland |
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| 2008 |
“Ready Made Today”, Steinle-Contemporary Gallery, Munich, Germany (Curator Eva Kraus) |
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“Transfert”, La BF 15, Lyon, France (curator Perrine Lacroix) |
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"No Place - like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe", ARGOS-centre for art and media, Brussels, Belgium |
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"moleculART", Gallery Raiko Alexiev, Sofia (curator Boris Kostadinov) |
| 2007 |
"LEurope en devenir", curator Marius Babias, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France, October-November, 2007 |
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"Plus Zwei", curators Iara Boubnov and Liviana Dan.
MKM Museum Kuepersmuehle1 fuer Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, June - 26 August, 2007 |
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"A Place You Have Never Been Before", 52 Venice Biennial, Bulgarian Pavilion, (Curator Vesela Nozharova) (C)
"Being Here", Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland, (Curators: Brent Klinkum, Patrick Huber) |
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"Inbetweeness", Ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa, Rome, Italy, (curators: Dobrila Denegri and Ludovico Pratesi) |
| 2006 |
"Neither a White Cube, nor a Black Box. History in Present Tense"- Sofia Art Gallery, (Curators Iara Boubnova,
Maria Vasileva)
"Art, Life and Confusion", October Salon, Beograd, Yugolsavia, (Curator Rene Block) (C)
"3rd Forest Art Path", Darmstadt, Germany, (Curator Ute Ritschel) (C)
"Check-in Europe", Europe Patent Office, Munich, Germany, (Curator Marius Babias)
"Regards à l’Est", Caen, France, (Curator Brent Klinkum)
"Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial", (curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subothnick) (C) |
| 2005 |
"Donumenta-4", Regensburg, Germany, (Curators Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Sabine Rappel) (C)
"Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière-2", Luxembourg, (Curator Enrico Lunghi) (C) |
| 2004 |
"Cosmopolis-1, micro cosmos X macro cosmos", Thessalonica, Greece, (Curator Magda Carneci) (C)
"Flipside", Artists Space Gallery, New York, USA, (Curator Katherine Carl) (C)
"On Reason and Emotion", 14th Sydney Biennial, (Curator Isabel Carlos) (C)
"Interupted Game", Gallerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, (Curators I. Koralova, M. Kolecek)
"Multiplications", Multiples, Collection of British Council, City Gallery, Sofia, (Curator Maria Vasileva) |
| 2003 |
"In the Gorges of the Balkans", Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany, (Curator Rene Block) (C)
"Blut & Honig", Zukunft ist am Balkan, Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria, (Curator Harald Szeemann) (C) |
| 2002 |
"Double Bind", ATA Center, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia, (curators Iara Boubnova, Georg Schollhammer)
"Radiodumb", Zero Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza, Italy, (curator Paolo Zani)
"Bound/less Borders" - Belgrade, Yugoslavia (concept Biljana Tomic) (C) |
| 2001 |
"Escape", The Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania (Director Giancarlo Politi) (C) |
| 2000 |
"Manifesta 3, Borderline Syndrome", Ljubljana, Slovenia, (curators Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg) (C)
"On the Other Hand", Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, (curator Dessislava Dimova) (C) |
| 1999 |
"Bacterium Bulgaricus Art", Museum for Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia (curator Plamena Racheva) (C)
"Black See- North See", Open Air Museum Drecht Banks Sculpture Park, The Netherlands (curators Lucien Den Arend, Jan De Lange) (C) |
| 1998 |
"Onufri '98. Permanent Instability", National Art Gallery,Tirana, Albania (curator Edi Muka)
"Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany(curator Lara Boubnova, concept Haralampi G. Oroschakoff) (C) |
| 1997 |
"Black-Gray-White", KeravaArt Museum, Finland (curator Ljuben Kostov) (C)
"Back and Forth. New Icon", 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, YU (curators Andrei Erofeev, Bernard Marcade, Iara Boubnova) (C)
"Ars Ex Natio. Made in BG", 4th Annual Show of the Soros Center for the Arts-Sofia, Old City of Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva) (C)
"Menschenbilder. Foto- und Videokunst aus Bulgarien", IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curator Iara Boubnova) (C) |
| 1996 |
"Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova", 4th International Biennial, St.Petersburg, Russia (curator Iara Boubnova) (C) |
| 1995 |
"Orient/ation", 4th International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (curator Rene Block) (C) |
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(C)-catalogue |
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| 2007 |
"Artist to Artist", Newcastle, England, Visiting Arts, Henry Moore Foundation
"Artist talk in WorkPlace Gallery", Newcastle, England |
| 2000 |
"Cite Internationale des Arts", Paris, France |
| 1999 |
"Open Air Museum Drecht Banks Sculpture Park", The Netherlands |
| 1998 |
"ArtsLink, Fellowship, Longwood Arts Project", New York, USA |
| 1996 |
"KulturKontakt Fellowship", Horn, Austria |
| 1994/95 |
"Foundation ARTEST" / BINZ’39 Fellowship, Zürich, Switzerland |
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