Pravdoliub Ivanov

1993 - Graduated from the National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria,

Since 1996-Assistant Professor in National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia

 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2013 - The Unanswered Question. İskele2, TANAS and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; September 8 – November 3, 2013; Curator: René Block

- Unexpected Encounters, Camera Austria, Graz, 22.9.-17.11.2013

2012 - WHY DUCHAMP? From object to museum and back (125 years), Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art Sofia
, Curator: Maria Vassileva, 08.03 – 01.04. 2012
- GROUP SHOW, 0GMS Gallery-Drawer, Sofia, Bulgaria, Curators: Vladiya Mihaylova and Ivan Moudov, 01.02. – 10.03. 2012

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, 7 August 7 – 7 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,http://www.weserburg.de/
- "Black Little Curly Hair", curator Nicos Charalambidis, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greecehttp://www.kappatosgallery.com/
- "Techniques" – ICA Gallery, Sofia, (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva), September-October, 2009
- "Land of Promise, (Curator Iliana Fokianaki), part of Re Map 2-parallel program to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Greece, September-October, 2009
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 - "L'Europe 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 - “Important Announcement”- Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, (Curators Maria Vasileva, Daniela Radeva)

- “Common Borders”, Plovdiv, (Curator Emil Mirazchiev)

- “3^rd Forest Art Path”, Darmstadt, Germany, (Curator Ute Ritschel)

- “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)

2005 - “Public Dreams”, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, (Michal Kolecek, Ilina Koralova)

- “Donumenta-4”, Regensburg, Germany, (Curators Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Sabine Rappel)

- “Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière-2”, Luxembourg, (Curator Enrico Lunghi)

2004 - “Cosmopolis-1, miccrocosmos X macrocosmos”, Thessaloniki, Greece, (Curator Magda Carneci) (C)

- “Flipside”, Artists Space Gallery, New York, USA, (Curator Katherine Carl) (C)

- “On Reason and Emotion”, 14^th Sydney Biennial, (Curator Isabel Carlos) (C)

- “Interupted Game”, Gallerie für Zeitgenössische 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)

- “Export-Import”, City Gallery, Sofia. (curator Maria Vasileva)

- “Mors Impossiblis”, Irida Gallery, Sofia. (curator Boris Kostadinov)

2002 - “Double Bind”, ATA Center, Irida Gallery, XXL Gallery, Sofia, (curators Iara Boubnova, Georg Scholhammer)

- “Radiodumb", Zero Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Piacenza, Italy, (curator Paolo Zani)

- “Bound/less Borders”- Belgrade, Yugoslavia (concept Biljana Tomic) (C)

- “Selfportrait”, Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, (curator Vesela Radoeva)

2001 - “Escape”, The Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania (Director Giancarlo Politi) (C)

- “Don't Look at Me with this Tone!”, Section 13 / UBA, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia

- “Reality Watch “, Municipal Art Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria (curator Iara Boubnova)

2000 - Manifesta 3, “Borderline Syndrome”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (curators Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg) (C)

- “At Room Temperature”, studio Ivan Moudov, Sofia (curator Dessislava Dimova)

- “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)

- “Turning the Page”, Apollonia '99, Sozopol, Bulgaria (curator Dessislava Dimova) (C)

- “Black See- North See”, Open Air Museum Drecht Banks Sculpture Park, The Netherlands

(curators Lucien Den Arend, Jan De Lange) (C)

- “Recipes”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)

- “Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans”, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, ArtExpo Foundation, Bucharest; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Art Box, Kavala, Greece; Contemporary Art Center of Larissa, Larissa, Greece (curator Andre Rouille) (C)

1998 - “The Archives”, Section 13 / UBA, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)

- “Onufri '98. Permanent Instability”, National Art Gallery,Tirana, Albania (curator Edi Muka)

- “The Labyrinth”, 2nd International Triennial of Graphic, Prague, Czech Republic, (curator of the bulgarian section Plamena Racheva) (C)

- “Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II”, Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany

(curator Iara Boubnova, concept Haralampi G. Oroschakoff) (C)

1997 - 9th International Biennial for Graphic Art (section “Photo-Graphic “), Varna, Bulgaria (curator Irina Genova)(C)

- “Black-Gray-White”, Kerava Art 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)

- “Bulgarian Art Book”, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator M. Pavlov) (C)

- “Menschenbilder. Foto- und Videokunst aus Bulgarien”, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

(curator Iara Boubnova) (C)

- “Das Spiel”, Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna, Austria (curator Barbara Wurtzl) (C)

- “Evidences. The Real Diversity”, 3rd Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia (curators G. Gatev, K. Minchev, S. Stefanov, H. Tcherkelov) (C)

- “Bulgarian Glimpse Show”, Association of Moscow Art Galleries and BCIC, Moscow

(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)

- “30 Grand Prix”, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia (C)

- “Week of Modern Art”, Old Turkish Bathhouse, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1994 - “N-forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations”, 1st Annual Show of the SCA-Sofia, Raiko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia (curators B. Klimentiev, D. Popova, S. Stefanov, N. Boshev) (C)

- “In Search for the Self-Reflection”, Old City of Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curator Iara Boubnova) (C)

- “The Artists of Lettre Internationale”, LitteraturHaus, Wien, Austria

- “The Nail”, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia

1993 - “Works on Paper”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)

- “Object Bulgarian Style”, 6 Shipka Str. Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva, Diana Popova)

1992 - “New Names”, Shipka 6 Street Gallery, Sofia

* (C)-catalogue

2007 - "Artist to Artist", Newcastle, England, Visiting Arts, Henry Moore Foundation
- "Artist talk in WorkPlace Gallery", Newcastle, England

2000 - Cite International 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

1994/5 - Foundation ARTEST / BINZ’39 Fellowship, Zürich, Switzerland