Krassimir Terziev
1969 born in
Dobritch,
Bulgaria
Lives in Sofia, Bulgaria
Education
1997 - National Academy of Fine Arts Sofia, Bulgaria - MA in Painting
Grants
2007 Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art *
2006/2005 Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2004 Fellowship, Visual Seminar, ICA-Sofia & CAS Sofia
2002 KulturKontakt Guest Studio Program, Vienna
2001 Annual Award, Irida Gallery, Sofia
1998 Artist in Residence, ARTS LINK, Thundergulch New Media Art Center, NYC
Artist in Residence, De Fabriek Gallery, Eindhoven
Solo Exhibitions
2008 BACKGROUND ACTION, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2007 MAKING MOVIES, Galleria NOUA, Bucharest, RO
2007 BACKGROUND ACTION Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2006 TERZIEV, SERAPIONOV, SULJEVIC, Beton Salon, MQ, Wien, AT
2005 REMOTE RESEMBLANCES – Goethe-Institut Sofia, BG
2004 EXCUSE ME, WHICH CITY IS THIS? – ATA Center /Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia; Intervention in public space – on the screens of Metromedia Network in all subway stations in Sofia,
2003 OTHER ADS (with Kalina Dimitrova)– Kulturkontat Guest Studios Programme, Davidgasse 10, Vienna, At
2002 ON THE BG TRACK - Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yu
2001 REALITY PIXELS - Irida Gallery, Sofia, BG
1999 EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ALRIGHT - The Kitchen, NYC,USA
SHOTS IN THE DARKNESS – De Fabriek Gallery - Eindhoven, the Netherlands
1997 LET’S DANCE - CLOTHES FOR COLLECTIVE LIFE - XXL Gallery, Sofia
Group Exhibitions
2007
SHORT LIST '07, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
THE PROJECTIONS PROJECT, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU; curator Mark Kremer (C)
REALE SENSATIONEN, HVB Kunstpalais, Munich, DE; curator Lóránd Hegyi
SOMETHING PERSONAL. SOMETHING COMMON, presentation of ICA-Sofia, Art Vienna, Vienna, AT
IDEAL URBANITY, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE; curators: Fabrizio Galanti, Jean-Baptiste Joly
CINEMA LIKE NEVER BEFORE, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, DE; curators: Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki (C)
SUITCASE ILLUMINATED#5 ON PARALLEL ECONOMY. P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia); Musee d'art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris (France)
WE LOVE CINEMA, Hessel Museum of Art /Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA; curator Ozkan Canguven
ODYSSEUS IN SEARCH OF EUROPE, on-line project by Goethe-Institut Network, www.goethe.de/odysseus
10 YEARS VIDEO ART IN BULGARIA, travelling exhibition, Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, BG
2006
THE PROJECTIONS PROJECT, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen, BE; curators Mark Kremer, Edwin Carels, Dieter Roelstraete (C)
2-nd International Filmfestival Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, DE
28e Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier, FR (C)
Scanners: The 2006 New York Video Festival, NY, USA
WILD CAPITAL II, Kunsthaus Dresden,DE; Curators Cristiane Menicke, Torsten Sophie Goltz (C)
VISIONS DU REEL, Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland (C)
2-nd international biennal for contemporary art shumen, Shumen, BG
PRODUCT Festival, Varna, BG
POLITICS OF SPACE. Konference in On Difference #2 Project, Baden-Wurtembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart, DE
TELLING TIME, Sophiensaele, Berlin, DE
100 DESSUS DESSOUS 2006, Parc Lavillette, Paris, FR
10th. International Sofia Film Festival, Sofia, BG (C)
CINEMA LIKE NEVER BEFORE, Generali Foundation, Vienna, At; curators: Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki (C)
CENTRAL, Umjetnicka Galerija Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo, Ba&Ha
NEW VIDEO NEW EUROPE, The Kitchen, NYC, US (C)
2005
PLAY SOFIA, Kunsthalle Wien, Project Space, Vienna, At; Curator Hedwig Saxenhuber
CENTRAL. New Art form New Europe – Kunstforum, BA., Vienna, At
WILD CAPITAL Symposium, Kunsthaus Dresden,DE; Curators Cristiane Menicke, Torsten Birne, Sophie Goltz
BELLUARD BOLWERK International Festival, Fribourg, CH (C)
PLATEAUX Festival, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Francfurt/Main, DE
MUTZIGZAG - Itinéraire d'art contemporain, Fort Mutzig, FR; curator Karine Vonna
Naissance et Renaissance de l'Art Vidéo Dans les Balkans, Museum of Contemprorary Art Strassbourg; curator Diane Amiel
APRIL MEETINGS, Media Art Festival, Belgrade, S&M
NEW VIDEO NEW EUROPE A Survey of Eastern European Video – Stedjelick Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Dacota
2004
NEW VIDEO NEW EUROPE A Survey of Eastern European Video – TATE Modern, London, UK; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US
IMPAKT Festival for experimental film, video and new media, Utracht, NL
EXTENDED VIEWS – StadSchal, Maastricht, NL
CENTRAL. New Art form New Europe – Galerie Hilger & Siemens Austria, Wien, At/ (C)
THE MAKING OF BALKAN WARS – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopije, Mk (a project by Personal Cinema)(C).
PRIVATIZATIONS. CONTEMPORARY ART FROM EASTERN EUROPE (THE POST- COMMUNIST CONDITION) – Within Luchezar Boyadjiev's "Freedom (is) for beginners" - Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE (Curator Boris Groys)(C).
ARTE FIERA BOLOGNIA 04 – represented by Irida Gallery (C).
NEW VIDEO NEW EUROPE A Survey of Eastern European Video - The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (curator Hamza Walker)(C).
THE MAKING OF BALKAN WARS – Media Art Lab, ARCO 04, Madrid, Es (a project by Personal Cinema Group)(C).
2003
9TH. CAIRO BIENIAL – The bulgarian participation in the Bienial, Ehnaton Art Center, Cairo, Egypt. (C)
BLOOD LINES & CONNECTIONS – Contemporary Art Museum, Denver, USA / curator Sydney Payton
VIDEO ART BG – contemporary video Art from Bulgaria, Klinikum Ludwifshafen e.g., Munich, DE (curator Svilen Stefanov)
FORUM OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL EXCHANGES THESSALONIKI 2003, Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki, GR– curator Nina Vagic/Personal Cinema
VIDEO SCREENING 04 – travelling programme – Galerie Martin Janda Raum fuer Actueller Kunst, Vienna; VTO, London; Zero, Piacenza; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; ICA, Sofia – (curator of the bulgarian programme Yara Boubnova)
THE LAST EAST-EUROPEAN SHOW – Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yu (curators Stevan Vukovic/Dragan Todorovic; curator for my project Galina Dimitrova) (C)
KONTEXT:EUROPE - Impuls from Balkans, Les Subsistances, Lion, France, curator Klaus Hersche
IMPORT – EXPORT. CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BULGARIA– Sofia Art Gallery, Sofa, BG (curator Maria Vassileva) (C)
2002
KONTEXT:EUROPE - Impuls von Balkans - Public Art Festival, organised by Theater des Augenblicks, Vienna, At
ART VIENNA, Vienna, At, represented by Irida Gallery
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES – Insbruck Art Expo, At
2000 HOLD YOUR BREATH - Artequil Gallery/off project, Monteral, Canada
1998 TRANSLOCATION/Media Art from South Eastern Europe - Generali Foundation, Viena, At , Curator Iara Boubnova
1997
IN SEARCH OF... - video installation - ARS EX NATIO Made in Bulgaria – Plovdiv, curators Iara Boubnova & Maria Vassileva
LIBRARY PARANOIA - 15 min. video tape - Video Positive ‘97 - Virtual revolutions - screening - Liverpool, UK
SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
2007
CINE Y CASI CINE, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, ES
10 YEARS VIDEO ART IN BULGARIA, Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, BG
14-TH. NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, Anthology Film Archives, NY, USA
2006
2-nd International Filmfestival Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, DE
28e Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier, FR (C)
Scanners: The 2006 New York Video Festival, NY, USA
VISIONS DU REEL, Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland (C)
POLITICS OF SPACE. Konference in On Difference #2 Project, Baden-Wurtembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart, DE
TELLING TIME, Sophiensaele, Berlin, DE
100 DESSUS DESSOUS 2006, Parc Lavillette, Paris, FR
10th. International Sofia Film Festival, Sofia, BG (C)
34TH. FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE LA ROCHELLE, La Rochelle, FR
2005
BELLUARD BOLWERK International Festival, Fribourg, CH (C)
PLATEAUX Festival, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Francfurt/Main, DE
2004
IMPAKT Festival for experimental film, video and new media, Utracht, NL
1997
Video Positive ‘97 - Virtual revolutions - screening - Liverpool, UK
Collections
Sofia Art Gallery
Bibliography
Boicheva, Margarita. Interview: Krassimir Terziev, The State simulates it's Exhistence, Democracy Today, issue # 37, year II, 14.09.2007
ON THE FOREGROUND – KRASSIMIR TERZIEV. Daniela Radeva, Kulture Weekly #28. July 20, 2007, p.8.
THE BATTLE ON THE BACKGROUND. Margarita Boicheva, Democracy Today, July 20, 2007, p.15.
GEKÜSST UND WEGGETRAGEN. "KINO WIE NOCH NIE": IN EINER AUSSTELLUNG DER AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE WIRD DIE FILMSPRACHE SEZIERT. Harald Jähner, Berliner Zeitung, 11.05.2007 http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/feuilleton/652979.html
ART-GUIDE:SOFIA. Antje Mayers, Spike Art Quarterly #11, 2007,Berlin 0 Vienna
BILDER DURCH BILDER ERKLÄREN, Christiane Hitzemann, Freitag #03, 20.01.2006
Short review on ORF, about the exhibition "Kino wie noch nie" - Kulturjournal - Sabine Oppolzer - Do, 19.01.2006, ORF, AT
http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/60377.html?filter=5
GLOBAL FLOWS OF EXTRAS – Ivaylo Ditchev, Lettre international – Berlin, IV, 2005
AN EYE FOR THE PALE CITY – Alexander Koissev, Visual Seminar II, Revolver, 2004
A FORECAST FOR SOFIA – Diana Popova, Visual Seminar II, Revolver, 2004
CLOSED CIRCUIT VIDEOINSTALLATIONEN. EIN LEITFADEN ZUR GESCHICHTE UND THEORIE DER MEDIENKUNST MIT BAUSTEINEN EINES KÜNSTLERLEXIKONS - Slavko Kacunko, Logos-Verlag, Berlin 2004,
BETWEEN TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS. THE BULGARIAN ART OF THE 90'S – Svilen Stefanov/Chavdar Popov, LIK, 2003
interview with Krassimir Terziev by Joane Richardson, “SUBSOL” Electronic Magazine issue 3 2002, http://www.subsol.c3.hu
Review on the Exhibition "Upside-Down by Lucia Gavulova, "Umelec", Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine, 3/2002, Divus,Praag, CZ
http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=238&roc=2002&cis=3
”Going East/The Ground for NET.ART in the Former Eastern Block (Central and Eastern Europe) “ Rossitca Daskalova, ”CIAC” Electronic Art Magazine issue 12/2001/
http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/en/entrevue02.html
Seduced and Intrigued - A review by Heather Anderson
For the exhibition held in the Ballroom Gallery, A part of HX: Halifax Exhibition of International Art, September 11 - October 21, 2000
http://www.khyberarts.ns.ca/hyper/gallery/exhibit/past/seduced_review.html
”Medi@terra Festival” Catalogue 2000/p. 66-67
”Schizoid Architecture
”Kultural Dimentions of The Visual/Dinamics of The New Bulgarian Art”, Svilen Stefanov, 1998
”Directed by Krassimir Terziev” Elisaveta Mussakova, ””Art in Bulgaria” Magazine issue 46-47/1998/p. 29-30
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