2011
Półprawda / Half-Truth, Gallery Le Guern, Warsaw, Poland, Curator Kamil J. Malinowski
BORN: 1964 – in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria
EDUCATION
1993 – Graduated from the National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia
Since 1996 – Assistant Professor in National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia
Since 1995 – Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia
selected individual shows
2010
Works, Non-Works and Illusions, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv
2008
Thoughts Within Thoughts - dual show with Alec Finlay, ARC Projects, Sofia
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
selected group shows
2012
GROUP SHOW, 0GMS Gallery-Drawer, Sofia, curators: Vladiya Mihaylova and Ivan Moudov
2011
Within / Beyond Borders – The Collection of the European Investment Bank at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece, curator Delphine Munro
Monument Valley (Jaegerspris revisited / a homage to Johannes Wiedewelt) arranged and compiled by artist and critic Andreas Schlaegel
No Network!1st „Time Machine”, Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-0 Ark Underground, Konjic,Bosnia & Herzegovina, curator Branislav Dimitrijević
Tolerabilis, Zeughaus Augsburg, Germany, curator Ilina Koralova
Monumental Privacy, Gallery Royal, Munich, Germany, curator Valio Tchenkov
Zwischenlager / Entrepot, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curator Rene Block
An Elusive Object of Art, Dana Charkasi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curator Iara Boubnova
The Art of Urban Intervention, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Check Republic, curators: Michal & Zdena Kolecek
No New Thing Under the Sun, group show in Royal Academy of Arts, in Tennant Gallery, curator Gabriel Coxhead
Vidéo et après, Suspended Spaces #1, video screening at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curator Brent Klinkum
2010
Suspended Spaces – depuis Famagusta, 18 January – 25 April 2010,
La Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, France, curator Brent Klinkum
The Collection. New Acquisitions 2008-2009, 19 Januari 2010 – 21 March 2010, Sofia Art Gallery
The Big Wave, Varna Biennial, August - September, 2010, City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria, curator – Maria Vassileva
Beyond Credit, Contemporary Art and Mutual Trust, 19 June – 25 July 2010, Antrepo-5 (Sanat Limani), Istanbul, Turkey, curators: Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev
2009
Who killled the Painting?, Works from the Block Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen Germany
“Black Little Curly Hair”,, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, curator Nicos Charalambidis
Techniques – ICA Gallery, Sofia,,2009, curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva
Land of Promise, part of Re Map 2-parallel program to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Greece, 2009, curator Iliana Fokianaki
2008
Ready Made Today, Steinle-Contemporary Gallery, Munich, Germany, curator Eva Kraus
“Transfert”, La BF 15, Lyon, France curator Perrine Lacroix
“No Place – like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe”, ARGOS-centre for art and media, Brussels, Belgium
“moleculART”, Gallery Raiko Alexiev, Sofia, curator Boris Kostadinov
2007
LEurope en devenir, curator Marius Babias, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France, October-November, 2007
Plus Zwei, curators Iara Boubnov and Liviana Dan.
MKM Museum Kuepersmuehle1 fuer Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, June – 26 August, 2007
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
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)
residencies
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