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Institution
An organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose
The projects in the Red Section focus on various, often paradoxical, inconsistent or incongruent institutional rules and regulations (the principles according to which museums and galleries operate, exhibition and institution opening rituals, the roles museums and collectors play in valorizing works of art, etc.). In this, they take on diverse forms of subversive interventions in public space(s), performative actions, and interventions in museum and gallery collections. As he devises ostensible institutional codes or deconstructs and transforms existing ones, Moudov often transgresses the limits of what is legitimate, creating situations that put viewers to the test.
- Fragments, 2002 – 2010 Fragments is a long-term project that Ivan Moudov started right after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. The work consists of five...
- Fragment, 2003 The video is a documentation of the process of “collecting” for Ivan Moudov’s Fragments series. Shot in January 2003, it shows Moudov stealing...
- Guide, 2006 (in collaboration with Sibin Vassilev) Guide is a work created together with the Berlin based sound artist Sibin Vassilev. For about a year both artists were visiting contemporary art...
- Musiz, 2005 MUSIZ (Museum for Contemporary Art), 2005 MUSIZ was a public action / happening, which faked the opening of a Museum for Contemporary Art in...
- MUSIZ (Champagne Pommery for the Grand Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia), 2008 MUSIZ (Champagne Pommery for the Grand Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Sofia), 2008 The work was produced in the framework of the...
- The Wine for Openings, 2007 “The Wine for Openings is a Cabernet Sauvignon I produced on the occasion of the Bulgarian National Pavilion at the 52 nd Biennale di Venezia....
- The Pavilion, 2019 The Pavilion , is a sound installation of 23 loudspeakers on plinths. The project gives a voice to 23 rejected submissions for the...
- Creation of a Museum of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria, 2010 The work is a project for the legal registration of a private Museum of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria (MUSIZ). The artist invited attorney-in-law...
- Bulgarian Institute of Culture (BIC) Hamburg, 2009 Bulgarian Institute of Culture is a project for the creation of a fictional institution. The work was created as a public art project within the...
- 0gms cabinet, 2011 0gms cabinet is an object and an exhibition space. It was created in the framework of the 0gms gallery - a collaborative project between Ivan...
- Romanian Trick, 2008 Romanian Trick is a performance, which has a further purpose as means to collect works of art. Central to the work is a simple trick that the...
- Untitled 2013 Untitled, 2013 addressed and ignited dormant historical and social tensions in public space. The work consisted of a construction fence...
- Nineteen Problems, Nineteen Paintings, 2013 Nineteen Problems, Nineteen Paintings, 2013 addresses the challenges of the actual space of the institution. As the title suggests, in this...
- Right Hand, Middle Finger, 2012 Right Hand, Middle Finger, 2012. Metal cut on laser. Installation view, Halle 14 Leipzig.
- Wine for Openings (Baba Vasa's Cellar), 2018 Wine for Openings (Baba Vasa's Cellar) , is an installation consisting of a simple do-it-yourself device, which allows wine to flow...
- A Loafer, 2019 A Loafer, consists of dirty shoeprints, left as if inadvertently by careless visitors on the gallery wall. However, on closer inspection it...