IVAN MOUDOV
 

Born 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Lives and works in Sofia,Bulgaria


 

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EDUCATION

 

2002 

Masters of Art, National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia

1995           

Graduated from the High School of Applied Arts in Sofia

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010

»Wine for Openings« Cabaret Voltaire«, Zurich

»Ivan Moudov«, Binz 39, Zurich

 

2009

»Romanian Trick« Artericambi, Verona

 

2008 

»Wine for Openings«, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo

»Trick Or Treat«, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

»Welcome«, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, curated by Katia Anguelova

»Ivan Moudov«, The 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, curated by Ulf Eriksson

 

2007           

»Already Made«, Siemens ArtLab, Vienna, curated by Iara Boubnova

 

2006           

»MUSIZ«, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, curated by Maria Vassileva

»Guide« (with Sibin Vasilev), Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv

»New Hope«, Goethe Institut, Sofia

 

2005           

»Reloaded«, Warszawski Aktyw Artystow, Warsaw, curated by Zbigniew Libera

»Ivan Moudov«, Quartier 21, Temporary Home Gallery, Vienna, curated be Vlad Nanca

 »Fragments«, ATA Center / Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, curated by Iara Boubnova

»MUSIZ«, Poduyane Station, Sofia

4х4, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, curated by Vessela Nozharova

 

2000           

»Still Life«, Remont Gallery, Belgrade

»Still Life«, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

 

1998           

»The 2000 Syndrome«, with Dessislava Dimova, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010

»Transitland in Trieste«, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy

»Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers (Edition concrete)« FRAC – Ile- de- France Le Plateau, Paris

»Dwelling- In – Travel« Art Today Association- Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv

»Playing the City II«, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main

»Hidden Publics«, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland

»August in Art« City Gallery-Varna, Varna

»The Other Side of the Coin«, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana

»Contemporary art and Mutual Trust«, Sant Limani, Istanbul

»Transitland«, Space, Bratislava

»Curated by: Walter Seidl – Physikallat in Sport und Beruf«, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

»Languages and Experimentations« - Young Artists in a Contemporary Collection, MART, Rovereto, Italy

»Studies and Theory«, Kwadrat, Berlin

»Electrified 02« - Hacking Public Space, SMAK, Gent

»Transitland«, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia MNCARS, Madrid

»Monumento A La Transformation« Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz

»Monument to Transformation«, Galerija Miroslav Krejevic, Zagreb

 

2009

»History, Memory, Identity: contemporary photography from Eastern Europe«, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
» Working Title. Tytuł Roboczy
«, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau

»Reflection of tomorrow«, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv

»Harburger Berge«, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

»Transitland«, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia

»Transmediale - Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP)«, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin

»28th Biennial of Graphic Arts«, Ljubljana, curated by Alenka Gregoric and Bozidar Zrinski

»After Ego« ATA Centre for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Plovdiv, curated by Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva

»Collection Dubai«, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Curated by November Payner

»Techniques« ICA- Sofia Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva and Iara Boubnova

»Monument to Transformation«, City Gallery Prague, Prague, curated by Vit Havranek and Zdenek Baladrin

10 Years of <rotor>, <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz

»Performing the East«, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

 

2008

»Römer VI – Kommunikologie« Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Sttutgart  

»Zero Gravity. The Architecture of Social Space« as part of 14th Week of Contemporary Art, Ancient Baths CCA, Plovdiv, curated by Vessela Nozharova and Bettina Steinbruegge

»On a clear day you can see forever«, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna

»Contemporary Art of Europe«, Chateau Pommery, Reims, curated by Fabrice Bausteau and Barbara Soyer

»La nuova Estetica Continuo e discontinuo«, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari

»Rondpoint (Roundabout)«, La BF15, Lyon

»VideoSalon 3«, galerija10m2, Sarajevo, curated by Nadia Timova

»moleculART«, Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, curated by Boris Kostadinov

»New Acquisitions«, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva

 

2007           

»A Place You Have Never Been Before«, 52nd Venice Biennial, Bulgarian Pavilion, curated by Vessela Nozharova

»Multiplicities«, ARC Projects, Sofia, curated by Chris Byrne & Iliyana Nedkova

»Residents«, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, curated by Nathalie Viot

»Lifting. Art and Theft«, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, curated by Atopia Projects

»Shortlist 2007«, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, curatorial committee

»Everyday Life«, Hellenic American Union, Athens, curated by Artemis Potamianou

»In Search of Lost Time«, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, curated by Vyara Mlevevska and Svetlana Kyumdjieva)

»The Collection«, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, curated by Nikolett Eross

» Le Souvenir«, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany, curated by Frank Motz and Knut Birkholz 

»Small Objects, Short Video«, Corridor Gallery, Plovdiv

»European re-Union«, Galerie ArtPoint, Vienna, curated by Maria Vassileva                                                                           

 2006           

»Neither a White Cube, Nor a Black Box. History in the Present Tense«, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva and Iara Boubnova

»Art is Always Somewhere Else/AWOL«, 2nd Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, curated by Jenny Brownrigg, Branko Franceschi, Irina Grabovan, Simona Nastac, Oana Tanase

»I (ICH) An exhibition in three acts, Performative Ontology«, Secession, Vienna, curated by Vit Havranek

»Hoerner/Antlfinger and Ivan Moudov«, Jet, Berlin, curated by Annette Weisser

»You Won’t Feel A Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality And Anesthesia«, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, curated by Aneta Szylak

»Polish year in Madagascar«, Atlas Gallery, Lodz, curated by Janek Simon

 «Wild Capital«, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden

»JA / I, FUTURA« – space for contemporary art, Prague, curated by Vit Havranek

»Video works from Bulgarian Artists«, Miller Weitzel Gallery, Detroit

»On Difference #2«, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, curated by Galia Dimitrova

 

2005           

»Serial Cases«, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, curated by <ROTOR>

»Location Shots«, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, curated by Raimar Stange

»Play Sofia«, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber

»Hot Testing«, Exit, Peja, Kosovo (curated by <ROTOR>)

»Dialectics of Hope«, 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Hans-Ulrich Obrist

»Translation Alternatives«, Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna, curated by Kamen Stoyanov

»Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten«, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels

»Tatort und Phantombild«, Schiller Festival, Weimar, curated by Katharina Hohmann, Katharina Tietze

»Freeze«, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv

»Love it or leave it«, 5th Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje / Montenegro, Dubrovnik / Croatia, Tirana / Albania, curated by Rene Block, Natasa Ilic

 

2004

 »Untitled (As yet)«, VI Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia, curated by Sinisa Mitrovic, Ana Nikitovic, Jelena Vesic              

»Privatizations. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe (The Post-communist Condition)«, Within Luchezar Boyadjiev's „Freedom (is) for beginners«, Kunstwerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin curated by Boris Groys                   

»The Sneeze«, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, curated by Peter Lloyd Lewis, Natasha Makowski

»Junge Akademie«, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, curated by Angela Lammert                      »Borderline cases«, SCC, Belgrade                     

»Revolution is Not What it Used to Be«, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, curated by Michelle Cotton

 

2003           

»Video Screening 04«, Galerie Martin Janda / Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna

»Superformances«, Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

»In the Gorges of the Balkans«, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, curated by Rene Block

»Blood & Honey«, The Essl Collection, Vienna, curated by Harald Szeemann               

»Hybrid – Liquid«, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

»Window Licking«, Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon

»ImportExport«, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva

 

2002           

»Reconstructions«, 4th Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro, curated by Iara Boubnova and Andrej Erofeev

»Manifesta 4«, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt/Main, curated by Stephanie Moisdon Trembley, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Iara Boubnova

»In Search of Balkania«, Neue Galerie, Graz, curated by Roger Conover, Eda Cufer, Peter Weibel

»Circulation«, Zoo Gallery, Nantes

»Double Bind«, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, curated by Iara Boubnova, Georg Schollhammer

»Trieste Contemporanea European Video Art Presentation«, Trieste, curated by Maria Vassileva            

»Nadezda Petrovic Memorial«, Nadezda Petrovic Art Gallery, Cacak, Serbia, curated by Zoran Eric

 

 

2001           

»Looming Up«, Aspekte Galerie der Munchner Volkshochschule, Munich, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, curated by Walter Seidl

»Trendification«, <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, curated by Walter Seidl

»Never Stop the Action, Three Days Actionist Art in the City of Graz«, <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz

 

2000           

»What, How and for Whom«, Zagreb, Vienna, curated by Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović

»Paranoia Style«, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, curated by Dessislava Dimova

»Turning the Page«, Apollonia Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria, curated by Dessislava Dimova

»Video Archaeology«, Sofia, curated by Boris Kostadinov, Iliyana Nedkova

 

 

RESIDENCIES

 

2009

BINZ 39, Zurich

2008   

KulturKontakt, Vienna

Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

 

2006   

Recollets, Paris

 

2002/03

Post Diplome, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon

 

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