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Ivan Moudov
Born 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
ivanmoudov@yahoo.com; +359 8999 115 99
2002 Masters of Art, National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia
1995 Graduated from the High School of Applied Arts in Sofia
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“Kitesurfing Injuries: Recasting Misfortune”, One Gallery, Sofia
2022
“Three Colors”, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
"One Minute Stalker", Toplocentrala, Sofia
2019
“Paintings For Hotels And Music For Elevators”, Struktura Gallery, Sofia
“First, Admit You Have a Problem”, Alberta Pane Gallery, Paris
“Period”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia Bulgaria
“Produced in and on the way to Tirana”, TULLA - Culture Center, Tirana Albania
2018
“Ticket to Music”, Contemporary Space, Varna
“Show off/on”, HomeFest, Bucharest
“Thirty seconds”, Installation, Baba Vassa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria
“Stones”, Doctor’s garden, Sofia
“Solo Exhibition”, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2016
“Performing an Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU), Zagreb
“Exchange” Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2015
“Certificate of Authenticity”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Certificate of Authenticity”, Artists Club Coffre Fort, Brussels
“Certificate of Authenticity”, Kluckyland, Vienna
“Certificate of Authenticity”, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
“Turbo Conceptualism”, Kunstverein Milano, Milano
“Certificate of Authenticity”, Tobacna 001 Cultural Centre, Ljubljana
2014
“Indifferent Show”, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv
2013
"Air Drawing Contest", MUMOK, Vienna
“Stones”, Casa Cavazzini Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Udine
“Untitled”, Contemporary Space, Varna
2012
“Performing Time”, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan
“Performing an Exhibition”, Siz Gallery, Rijeka
“The Glory Hole”, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
2011
“%”, W139, Amsterdam
“Solo Show” Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv
“One Square Meter”, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
2010
“Creation of a Museum of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria”, History Museum, Plovdiv
“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
“Ivan Moudov”, The 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2006
"MUSIZ", Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
"Guide" (with Sibin Vassilev), Art Today Association - Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
"New Hope", Goethe Institut, Sofia
2005
"Reloaded", Warszawski Aktyw Artystow, Warsaw
"Ivan Moudov", Quartier 21, Temporary Home Gallery, Vienna
“MUSIZ”, Poduyane Train Station, Sofia
”4x4”, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia
”Fragments”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
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
2023
I Wish It Was Mine, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice
2022
Manifesta 14, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Pristina, Kosovo
"Double Face", Structura Gallery, Sofia
“Virus Diary”, Centrul Multicultural al Universitătii Transilvania din Braşov, Braşov
“Occupy #3 NETWORKS”, Occupy Art Festival, New York City
“Artist - Collector - Public. The Hilger Collection”, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
2021
“The Hanging Show”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Jurnal de Virus”, Borderline Art Space, Iasi
“Bon Ménage”, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
“Future Unforgetable - Phase III. Under Deconstruction”, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv
“Farce – The Way we live”, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
“Virus Diary”, ABM Confecciones, Madrid
“In Defence of Solid Material”, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv
“Jurnal de virus”, 7th Edition of the Black and White Biennial, Satu Mare, Romania
2020
“Souvenirs from the Future”, ICA-Sofia , Sofia
“25 Years and 5 Themes Later ICA-Sofia retrospective”, National Art Gallery, Sofia
“Quo Vadis Homo; Danube Dialogues”, The Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad
“I Sometimes think that…”, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Lucca
“Art without/with the times”, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
“A Volte penso Che...”, Team Gallery, New York City
“Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn -The Anarchistic Amateur”, Raumimpuls, Waidhofen
2019
“Artificial Light”, Contemporary Space, Varna
“Samowar #9”, Galerie Coucou, Kassel
“The Anarchistic Amateur's Alphabet”, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
“Period II”, ICA-Gradina, Sozopol
“Ruhr Ding: Territories”, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum
“Period”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Collective Exhibition for a Single Body The Private Score - Vienna 2019”, Haus Wittgenstein - Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut, Vienna
“Animai Libars Vigne”, Museum Manzano, Udine
“#comment #fiction #document”, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2018
“The Gift”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Join the Dots / Unire le distanze”, Salone Degli Incanti - Ex Pescheria Centrale, Trieste
“From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
“Anima(L)rave”, Villa Manin, Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo
“Borderline Relation”, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest
2017
“A Show Without A Title But In The Holiday Spirit”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Samowar, Kunst Tee & Sensationen”, Galerie Coucou, Kassel
“Symptoms of Society”, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
“A Romance with Revolution”, Museum of nonconformist art, Saint Petersburg
“Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory”, Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana
“The Line While Crossing”, Prometeogallery, Lucca
“The Other Hand”, Galerie Coucou, Kassel
“A Romance with Revolution”, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar
“Symptoms of Society”, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong
“Le Désir “, Galerie Alberta Pane, Venice
“Crossroads between Eastern Europe and the River Plate region”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo, Montevideo
2016
“Look At Me! I Am Made For You!”, Projektraum LS43, Berlin
“Low-Budget Utopias - First Recycling”, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
“Cold Front From The Balkans”, Pera Museum, Istanbul
“Toyphilia And Toy Phobia”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Upside down: Hosting the Critique”, Museum of Contemporary Art in cooperation and City Art Gallery Ljubljana/MGML, Belgrade
“Low-Budget Utopias”, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
“On Disappearing and For Vanishing”, Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Tartu
2015
“Inside Out - Not So White Cube”, Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana
“Mature and Angry”, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
“Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell’arte nuova” Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
“Blurring Boundaries”, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Neuhausen
“Vrbnik May Day Assembly – Transaction”, Vrbnik, Croatia
OFF- Biennale, Budapest
“Grammar Of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works From Arteast 2000+ Collection”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
“Art Has No Alternative”, tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2014
"Prehod for sale”, ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“The Romanian-Bulgarian Union. A retrospective”, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest
“Un Cabinet D’amateur. 2 Years After”, Un Cabinet D’amateur, Sofia
“The Collection. New Acquisitions 2012-1013”, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
“Episode 6: Blank Page”, Insitu, Berlin
“Cote Interieur”, Tiroler kunstlerschaft – Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck
"Pravdoliub Ivanov & Ivan Moudov - Fragments of Demand", Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
2013
"All I Can Do Is Art", Czech Center, Prague
“The Third Finger”, Contemporary Space, Varna
“Passion de l’art en Finistere / Collection # 4”, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper – le Quartier, Quimper
“Unexpected Encounters”, Camera Austria, Graz
“Pubic Abstraction Private Construction”, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg
“Measures of Saving the World, Part 2”, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
"The Intransigent Ticket - The Artist as a Filter", Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles
“Gorgons in the Storage Room, or, Apocalypse Now”, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2012
“Winter Show”, Un Cabinet D’Amateur, Sofia
“Magnet and Antimagnet,” ICA-Sofia, Sofia
“Drifting Identities”, (KSA: K) Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau
“Versteckte Offentlichkeiten”, Motorenhalle, Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
“Present Unlimited. Sofia Contemporary,” various venues, Sofia
“With Criminal Energy - Art and Crime in the 21st Century”, Halle14, Leipzig
“Possible History. Bulgarian Art through the Collection of Sofia City Art Gallery,” Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
“Neighbourhood X.0”, Goethe Institut, Ankara
“Doppio Gioco - Double Game The Ambiguity of the Photographic Image”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
“Contemporary Icons - Recent Art from Bulgaria”, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, USA
“Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe”, Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
“Memoirs from a Cold Utopia”, Tallinna Kunstihoone/Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2011
“Kontakt Collection”, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
“Site Inspection – The Museum on the Museum”, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Budapest
“The Choice, 43 art historians - 43 artworks”, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
“Akto 6 – (Never Work)”, Akto Festival for Contemporary Arts, Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia
“Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution”, Kunstlerhaus k/haus Wien, Vienna
“Rearview Mirror”, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
“After the Flight”, ICA – Sofia, Sofia
“Curated by: iara boubnova – EAST by SOUTHWEST – An Elusive Object of Art”, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna
“Hidden Publics”, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
“Einraumhaus c/o Mannheim“, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
“NON”, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
2010
“Museum Souvenirs”, ICA - Sofia, Sofia
“Hidden Publics”, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
“Aquarium”, Alma Mather Gallery, Sofia
“Thank you for your Understanding”, 2nd International Antakya Biennial”, Antakya
“Gaudenz B. Ruf Award – Shortlist 2010”, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
“Word for Word, Without Words”, Mestna Galerija / City Museum Ljubljana, Ljubljana
“Transitland in Trieste”, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
“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/Basel
“The Big Wave / August in Art,” The Municipal Gallery Varna, Varna
“The Other Side of the Coin”, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
“Persona”, ICA - Sofia Gallery, Sofia
“Beyond Credit - Contemporary art and Mutual Trust”, Antrepo 5, Sanat Limani
Istanbul
“Our 20 Years in Contemporary Art”, ICA - Sofia, Sofia
“0gms“, Whitespace gallery, Bangkok
“Transitland”, Space, Bratislava
“Curated by: Walter Seidl - Physikalität in Sport und Beruf”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
“Languages and Experimentations- Young Artists in a Contemporary Collection”, MART, Rovereto
“Studies and Theory”, Kwadrat, Berlin
“Electrified 02- Hacking Public Space”, SMAK, Gent
“Transitland”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia MNCARS, Madrid
“Here, There and Everywhere”, HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna
“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. Tytul Roboczy”, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
“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
“After Ego”, Art Today Association - Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
“Collection Dubai”, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
“Techniques” ICA - Sofia, Sofia
“Monument to Transformation”, City Gallery Prague, Prague
“10 Years of ”, 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”, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
“On a clear day you can see forever”, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
“Contemporary Art of Europe”, Chateau Pommery, Reims
”It's Hard to Be an Artist”, Galerie ArtPoint / KulturKontakt, Vienna
“La nuova Estetica… Continuo e discontinuo”, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari
"Rondpoint (Roundabout)", La BF15, Lyon
"VideoSalon 3", galerija10m2, Sarajevo
"moleculART", Raiko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia
"New Acquisitions", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2007
"Multiplicities", ARC Projects, Sofia
“Residents”, Espace EDF Electra, Paris
"Everyday Stories", Hellenic American Union, Athens
"Lifting. Art and Theft", Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
“Gaudenz B. Ruf Award – Shortlist 2007", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
52nd Venice Biennial, Venice
"In Search of Lost Time", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
“Le Souvenir”, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
"Small Objects, Short Video", Corridor Gallery, Plovdiv
“You won't feel a thing - On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia”, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
“European re-Union”, Galerie ArtPoint, Vienna
"The Collection", Trafo Gallery, Budapest
2006
"Neither a White Cube, Nor a Black Box. History in the Present Tense", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
"Absent Without Leave (AWOL)", 2nd Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest
"I (ICH) An exhibition in three acts, Performative Ontology", Secession, Vienna
“You Won’t Feel A Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality And Anesthesia”, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
"Polish year in Madagascar", Atlas Gallery, Lodz
"Wild Capital", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
“JA / I, FUTURA”, Space for contemporary art, Prague
"Video works from Bulgarian Artists", Miller Weitzel Gallery, Detroit
"On Difference #2", Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
"Location Shots", Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
"WAS WÄRE WENN # 3- Hoerner/Antlfinger and Ivan Moudov", Jet, Berlin
2005
“F(acts)igures”, Artwalk, Amsterdam
"Serial Cases", Forum Stadtpark, Graz
"Play Sofia", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
"Hot Testing", Exit, Peja, Kosovo
"Translation Alternatives", Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna
“Tatort und Phantombild”, Schiller Festival, Weimar
"Freeze", Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
“Love it or leave it”, 5th Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje / Montenegro, Dubrovnik / Croatia, Tirana / Albania
"Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten", Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
"Dialectics of Hope", 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004
“Untitled (As yet)”, VI Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia
“Privatizations. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe (The Post-communist Condition)”, Within Luchezar Boyadjiev's „Freedom (is) for beginners”, Kunstwerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“The Sneeze 80x80”, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge Gallery, Athens
“Junge Akademie”, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin
“Borderline cases”, SCC, Belgrade
“Revolution is Not What it Used to Be”, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2003
"Video Screening 04", Galerie Martin Janda / Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
“Variations in Balkan Spaces”, Art Box, Thessaloniki
"Superformances", Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
"In the Gorges of the Balkans", Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
“Blut & Honig - Zukunft ist am Balkan”, Essl Museum - Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
"Hybrid – Liquid", Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Window Licking", Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon
"ImportExport", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002
"Reconstructions", 4th Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro
Manifesta 4, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt/Main
"In Search of Balkania", Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
"Circulation", Zoo Gallery, Nantes
"Double Bind", ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
“Trieste Contemporanea European Video Art Presentation”, Trieste
"Nadezda Petrovic Memorial", Nadezda Petrovic Art Gallery, Cacak, Serbia
2001
"Looming Up", Aspekte Galerie der Munchner Volkshochschule, Munich,
"Trendification", Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
"Never Stop the Action, Three Days Actionist Art in the City of Graz", Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
"Looming Up", Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2000
"What, How and for Whom", Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
"Paranoia Style", ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
Video Archaeology Festival, Sofia
"What, How and for Whom", HDLU - Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
1999
"Turning the Page", Apollonia Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
