VENTSISLAV ZANKOV
Address 1618
Contact phone/fax:
(+359 2) 8 569 682
Mobile +359 (0) 887 51 97 94
vzankov[at]nbu.bg
vzankov[at]yahoo.com
URL http://zankov.net
1988 M.A. in Fine Arts, National Academy of Fine Arts,
Sofia, Bulgaria, Department of Sculpture
2008 art
section at ontheweb.bg - editor
2007-ongoing Art and
2005-2008 39grama – bi-monthly /newspaper/ http://39grama.info editor in chief
2004 co-founder
of E80 Association - Exit Strategies&Projects http://www.e-80.info
2003 Creative director of Webstudio –
1997 – present lecturer
- New Bulgarian University
–
1999
establishing [Zet_maG]- e-zine for
art and culture in
co-founder of Interspace
– Media Art Centre, Sofia
establishing [elektrik_bg]
mailing list for art, culture, and communication in
1992
president of AAA (Art-in-Action Association)
1990-1992 art
teacher,
additional training
1991 course in “Use
of Computer and Video Technology in Education,” Sofia University,
Bulgaria
2005 VocINet
workshop: Interactive Storytelling, July 8-10, 2005, ICNM
2000
communication front [crossing points]
http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront
1997 Net.shop,
Fleshfactor Ars Electronica’97,
2004 Board
Chair E80 Association - Exit Strategies&Projects
http://www.e-80.info
1997 resident of Cite des Arts Internationale,
1990 elected member of the Union of
Bulgarian Artists
2006 4x4 off-road animals ongoing
http://4x4.39grama.info
2005 -2008 39grama – /newspaper/
2004-2008 ‘Close-up’ discussion club /every thurasday at 6.30 PM
2004 'GO & SEE' PROJECT the
visual, the conceptual, the political - modus operandi http://zetmag.org/na_tjasno/2005/go_see_en.htm
June Poetry
1999- ongoing [ELEKTRIK_BG] mailing list for art, culture, and
communication http://zetmag.org/elektrik_bg
1999 - 2001 [Zet_maG]
http://zetmag.org/magazine, online magazine for art, culture, and communications in
1999-2001 [CTRL-Z RADIO] net radio – talks, interviews, reports…archive, http://zetmag.org/radio
[ZTV] - [ctrl-z television]
interviews, reports, videoart...[engl]
[bg]
http://zetmag.org/tv
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or what will become of Bulgarian
culture [bg] interviews
http://www.ctrl-z.org/magazine/2001/projects/third_kind/index.html
2000 Morning Funeral Agency [engl] [bg]
http://zetmag.org/morning
AUDIO_SOFIA [bg]
http://zetmag.org/sofia_map/index.html
The
Art of Driving a LADA – or what’s up with Bulgarian culture /questionnaire/ [bg]
BALKAN_
ASS
[engl]
[bg] The Balkans belong to us, where do we, http://zetmag.org/balkan_ass/index.htm
2007-2008 „All About Him” project Goethe-Institut Bulgarien
& 39grama
2007 ‘Zeitgeist –Face Control’ contemporary Bulgarian photography at the
Photonic Moment 2007 Photon Gallery - Ljubliana,
Slovenia
2006 10
years videoart in
2004-2005 ‘male
in transition’ project ‘All about Him?’
2002-2003 ‘Aggression, Auto-aggression, Accident’ international art&theory
project in collaboration with Goethe institut,
http://zetmag.org/aggression
2001-2002 White, Male, Straight’ multimedia project - group exhibition,
http://zetmag.org/white
2001 Sense of style
Irida gallery Sofia
2001 Local Literacy, a series of three videos, as part of Videoarchaeology
–3, The Archaeology of Desire,
2000 [error]tica,
a series of three videos, Balkan Video federation festival of videoart,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia http://www.dijafragma.com/nonflash/projects/bvf.htm
Dumb, a series of three videos
1999
Homework, a series of five videos
1997 Homo Sapience – reconstruction, 4 channel videosculptur,
1992-1995 The Last Supper, 13-channel videoinstallation,
performances/actions
2005 "7 BRIDES SPITTING" at the opening of the exhibition
‘HIM ‘ Rayko Aleksiev Gallery,
2004 2-nd
of June /
reading Botev, Murgash Gallery,
‘Symptom’ performance thogether
with Adelina Popnedeleva, Irida Gallery,
2003 A
HOMELESS MAN, I BADLY NEED A MERCEDES BEC action 25-27dec
2002 Bubble speech at the opening of Gadgets for Playing
exhibition Irida Gallery Sofia
1997 Make War Not Love performance, Kapelica gallery, Ljubliana, Slovenija
1992
Limits of Agony, Action
II, exhibition of blood prints, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
Beefsteak and Fried Potatoes, one-man performance, Shipka 6
Gallery,
1991
Limits of Agony - Action I, performance in
state-owned slaughterhouse,
Red 1,
Doctor’s Garden, Sofia
Red 2 and Red 3, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia Happy end, exhibition
Am I God, Proshek Brewery,
Sofia, one-week happening
with the Art in
action association
Cream-art, action, Shipka 6 Gallery,
1ààà, happening with the Art in Action
association and 1000 Days newspaper, Sofia
1990 Island, action with the Art in Action
association, Bougras
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
2005 “HIM” painting, sculpture, multimedia and [neo]romantism ‘Rayko Aleksiev’ gallery Union of Bulgarian Artists Sofia
2004 Passion&fear painting, sculpture ‘Krag+’
gallery Sofia
2002 Gadgets for Playing painting Irida Gallery,
The White Side of the Darkness sculpture ‘8’gallery,
1999
[error]tica, painting, XXL Gallery,
A Sense of Style, Irida Gallery,
1999
porn? – a way to reach the plain truth, painting, Vision
and Sound National Autumnal Exhibitions,
1999 Tutti-frutti, or art as desert, paintings, sculptures,
and drawings,
Micheva’s fashion cafe
1997
48 hours with Zankov, paintings, Admirer Gallery,
1995
Without
Innocence, paintings, Mix Gallery,
1994 Works on
Paper, Wittgenstein House,
1992
1991
Post-Constructive Intentions, paintings, prints, and sculptures, AAA Gallery,
1990
Autumn
Salon-Open Air, 10 sculptures in wood, metal and stone. Three metal sculptures permanently installed in the Doctor’s Garden, Sofia
1989 Works on Paper, Shipka 6
Gallery,
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
VIDEOHOLICA - AUGUST
IN ART BIENNIAL - VARNA
‘Pistolet” gallery on SWAB Art Fair,
Barcelona
“20 õ 20”- 20 years
of ‘8’ GALLERY - painting, sculpture and photography,
Squardi Sonori 2008 Itally festival of media and time based art
Close distance
national exhibition of painting Union of Bulgarian Artists
“RED” The project “Video Salon” (March 07-21, 2008)
Galerija10m2; Sarajevo,
curator Nadia Timova
Photonic Moments III - Sarajevo Winter Festival - New Temple Gallery
New Collected works in Municipal Gallery -Sofia
2007
‘Zeitgeist –Face
Control’ contemporary
Bulgarian photography at the Photonic Moment 2007 Photon Gallery -
Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About
"The East" But Were Afraid
to Ask Curated by Boryana
Rossa Troy University USA
"COINCIDENCE I/2007 European cultural center
– Collogne
ESKIMO
COZMETICS selection of works that treat the striving
for
BEAUTY, HYGIENE and YOUTH April 26 - May 11 Pistolet
Gallery -Sofia
2006 National exhibition of sculpture 2006 Union of
Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
10 years videoart in Bulgaria idea A. Popnedeleva
Eastern Neighbors, Utrecht, Holland
Important Announcement Municipal gallery Sofia
August in Art
– festival of visual arts,
Varna – 7.08-17.09.2006
Section 13
– Raiko Aleksiev
gallery, Union
of BG artists
The
Body national exhibitionq painting Union of BG artists 6, Shipka st.
”1000 km Sofia - Vienna”
Dauhaus independent art space, Sofia
2005 “Actionism in
THE ART OF
THE OVERHEAD Basement, Enghavevej 42,
Capturing
Utopia Fournos, Center for Digital
Culture
‘The Portrait’ painting – national exhibition, Union of Bulgarian
artists, 6. Shipka str.
2004 IDEA-NON-REALIZATION Exhibiton of Art gallery Pozega
in the National Museum Kraljevo
BG top 5 – annual exhibition
of irida gallery
Poetic/social painting, Union of
Bulgarian artists, 6. Shipka str.
ArteFiera – art has a point Bolognia, Itally 22 - 26.01.2004 Hall 34, B-21
2003 Idea-non-realization Gradska galerija Pozega , Serbia&Montenegro
Medienturm, Graz, Austria
3rd international bunkerfilm festival
NL
13. internationales bochumer videofestival
EXPROT/IMPORT Municipal
Gallery of Sofia
2000
Art Vienna.02
Author/Size Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
The Bulgarian
Painting after 1989,
Erotic
Photography,