ARC Projects

Born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.

Education:
1993 - Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia
Since 1996 - Assistant Professor, National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008 - "Thoughts Within Thoughts" - dual show with Alec Finlay, ARC Projects, Sofia
2007 - "Double Trouble"- dual show with Valio Chenkov, Gallery Steinle, Munich
2003 - "Existing Objects"- ATA Center/ Institute for Contemporary Art-Sofia, Sofia
2002 - "Pessimism, No More", Musee des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
1999 - "Negligible Incidents", TED Gallery, Varna
1998 - "Vehicles Dream", Longwood Arts Project, New York
- "At the Level of the Eyes", TED Gallery, Varna
1997 - "Between Thoughts and Talks", XXL Gallery, Sofia

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2008 - "No Place Like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe", Argos, Brussels
- "moleculART", Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia (Curator Boris Kostadinov)
2007 - 52nd Venice Biennial, Bulgarian Paviloin, (Curator Vessela Nozharova)
- "Inbetweeness", Ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa, Rome (Curators Dobrila Denegri, Ludovico Pratesi)
- "Plus Two", Museum Kueppersmuhle fuer Moderne Kunst, Duisburg (Curators Iara Boubnova, Liviana Dan)
- Group show, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris (Curator Marius Babias)
- "Being Here", Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (Curators: Brent Klinkum, Patrick Huber)
2006 - "Check-in Europe", EPO, Munich (Curator Marius Babias)
- "Art, Life and Confusion", October Salon, Belgrade (Curator Rene Block)
- "Of Mice and Men", 4th Berlin Biennial (curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subothnick)
2005 - "Public Dreams", Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, (Curators Michal Kolecek. Ilina Koralova)
- "Sous les ponts, le long de la riviere-2", Luxembourg (Curator Enrico Lunghi)
2004 - "Flipside", Artists Space Gallery, New York (Curator Katherine Carl)
- "On Reason and Emotion", 14th Sydney Biennial (Curator Isabel Carlos)
- "Interupted Game", Gallerie fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig (Curators I. Koralova, M. Kolecek)
2003 - "In the Gorges of the Balkans", Fridericianum Museum, Kassel (Curator Rene Block)
- "Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan", Essl Collection, Vienna (Curator Harald Szeemann)
2002 - "Double Bind", ATA Center, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova, Georg Scholhammer)
- "Radiodumb", Zero Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza (Curator Paolo Zani)
- "Bound/less Borders"- Belgrade (Concept Biljana Tomic)
2001 - "Escape", The Tirana Biennial (Curator Giancarlo Politi)
2000 - Manifesta 3, "Borderline Syndrome", Ljubljana (curators Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg)
1999 - "Bacterium Bulgaricus Art", Museum for Foreign Art, Riga
1998 - "The Labyrinth", 2nd International Triennial of Graphic, Prague
- "Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich (curator Iara Boubnova)
1997 - "Back and Forth", New Icon, 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje,
Montenegro
- "Ars Ex Natio. Made in BG", Soros Center for the Arts, Plovdiv
- "Menschenbilder. Foto- und Videokunst aus Bulgarien", IFA Gallery, Berlin
1996 - "Bulgarian Glimpse Show", Association of Moscow Art Galleries and
BCIC, Moscow
1995 - "Orient/ation", 4th International Biennial, Istanbul

Public Collections:
National Gallery, Sofia
European Patent Office, Munich

Residencies:
2007 - Artist to Artist, Newcastle, England, Visiting Arts, Henry Moore Foundation
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, Zuerich, Switzerland

Selected Bibliography:
Catalogue, 52st Venice Biennial, Venice 2007
Mayer, Antje, "Kunstszene Sofia-Bilboard Heaven", Kunstmagazin Spike, 11, 2007
Wulffen, Tomas, Vir sind Kunst-Die 4. Berlin Biennale: Von Menschen und Maeusen, Kunstforum International, Mai-Juni, 2006
Catalogue, "Of Mice and Men", 4th Berlin Biennial, 2006
Catalogue, "Art, Life and Confusion", October Salon, Belgrade, 2006
Johnson Ken, "Flipside", The New York Times, 17 December, 2004
Catalogue, "Flipside", Artists Space Gallery, New York
Wei Lilly, South by Southeast, Art in America, December 2004, p 60
Catalogue, "On Reason and Emotion", 14th Sydney Biennial, 2004
Low Lenny, Ann, Please, just walk all over what I consider art, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 4, 2004
Catalogue, "In the Gorges of the Balkans", Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, 2003
Catalogue, "Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan", Essl Collection, Vienna, 2003
Catalogue, "Double Bind", ATA Center, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia, 2000
Rosenberg, Angela, Tirana Biennial: The Escape, Flash Art Int., November December, 2001, p 41
Catalogue, "Escape", The Tirana Biennial, 2001
Boubnova, Iara, Aperto Sofia, Flash Art Int., November - December, 2001, 53
Catalogue, Manifesta 3, "Borderline Syndrome", Ljubljana, 2000
Snodgrass, Susan, Report from Ljubljana, Art in America, Nov. 2000, p 55
Verwoert, Jan, Manifesta 3, Frieze, issue 55, 2000, p 113
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Manifesta Frenesie documentaire, Beaux Arts, Aout 2000, p 30
Becker, Jochen, Manifesta 3, Kunstforum, Okt. -Dez. 2000
Hoffman, Justin, Bulgariaavantgarde, Kunstforum, July-Sept, 1998
Wiedeman, Christoph, Blockadebrecher vom Balkan, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 04.05, 1998
Snodgrass, Susan, Pravdoliub Ivanov in XXL, Art in America, December 1997
Madra, Beral, "Fourth Istanbul Biennial Orients the Metropolis", Flash Art Int., Feb. 1996
Heartney , Eleanor, 4th Biennial, Art Press, 210/1996


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