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Graduated Stage Design at the National Academy of Arts (2002), MA in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2009. Member of the Actors’ Union in Bulgaria since 2008 and member of the Stage Designers’ Guild with the Actors’ Union in Bulgaria – founder and member of the Via Pontica Art Group (2002) and of the Subhuman Theatre (2004). He has had nine individual exhibitions and a number of participations in general exhibitions and festivals in Bulgaria and in Europe. Living and working in Sofia.
Individual exhibitions:
Fantomat (interactive installation), Chiostro Rinascimentale dell’Universita della Tuscia, di S. Maria in Gradi, Viterbo, Italy (2008); Luminant, Empty, Outside (drawing, performance), EIBank Gallery, Sofia; From Here to There (animation, kinetic object), Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia (2005); Cut (drawing, painting, installation), Kunstwerk, Potsdam, Germany (2004).
Group exhibitions:
Interactive Spaces, Stage Design Guild, Sofia Theatre (2009); Symposium for Emerging Arts Fucina.off ‘08, Spoletto, Italy; Black/North SEAS Project, Odessa, Balchik, Varna, Mangalia, Istanbul; Stay, Stay, Opening the Closed Shops Project, Central Public Bath, Sofia; Contemporary Art from Bulgaria (curator Nadezhda Djakova), Studio Stag, Arena Vestfossen Art Centre, Vestfossen, Norway; 13th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Pancevo, Serbia; 13th Biennale of Young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Puglia, Italy (2008); 27th International Festival of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow; Agorafolly Outside/Inside, Åuropalia 2007, Brussels; Third International Festival of Contemporary Art Balkan Art Week, Terminal/00/, Ljubljana/London (2007); Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Serbia Gallery, Nis; 10 Years Video Art in Bulgaria (curator Adelina Popnedeleva); Visual Immortality – Second Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shumen (2006); Fifth Salon of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo; Donumenta (curator Regina Hellwig-Schmidt), Regensburg (2005).
Awards:
Diploma for best Stage Design for the performance “Rogodzen”, 27th International Festival of the All- Russian State Institute of Cinematography (2007); Fifth Salon, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pancevo (2005).
Catalog:
Fantomat
wood, metal, DVD, TV 7", interactive installation, 160x50x30 cm, 2008
OrthoMan
fibreglass, metal, wood, leather, papier-mâché, DVD, Arduino electronics, interactive installation, 150x90x60 cm, 2009
Tabula Rasa
wood, body action, interactive installation, 200x80x60 cm, 2008
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