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VENTSISLAV ZANKOV Address P.O.BOX 223 1618 Sofia Contact Mobile : +359 (0) 887 51 97 94 URL http://zankov.info |
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2016 Certified Master Film and Television Arts,
New Bulgarian University
2014 psychodrama-assistant (consultant) training programme
in psychodrama, sociometry and group therapy, diploma
¹ 222/13.07.2014,
PSYCHOTERAPY 2000 FOUNDATION, member of
the Federation of European Psychodrama Training
Organizations (FEPTO)
2013 Ph.D in visual arts, New Bulgarian University
1988 M.A. in Fine Arts, National Academy
of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, Department of Sculpture
professional experience
2017 Associate Professor, New Bulgarian University, Visual Arts Department
2014 Chief Assistant - New Bulgarian University
1997 – 2013 lecturer
- New Bulgarian University – Sofia,
2010 adjunct
lecturer, National Academy of Fine Arts
established annual award IRON MEDAL FOR CONTEPORARY ART
2009 founder of VENTSISLAV ZANKOV contemporary art foundation
2007-ongoing Art and Bulgaria [online] - editor in chief
2008 art
section at ontheweb.bg - editor
2005-2008 39grama – bi-monthly
/newspaper/ http://39grama.info, editor in chief
2004-2008 runs and moderates
“Close-up“
Discussion Club at “Hambara“, Sofia
2004 co-founder of E80 Association - Exit Strategies&Projects http://www.e-80.info
2003 Creative
director of Webstudio – New Bulgarian University
1999
establishing [Zet_maG]-
e-zine for art and culture in Bulgaria http://zetmag.org
co-founder of Interspace – Media Art
Centre, Sofia
establishing [elektrik_bg]
mailing list for art, culture, and
communication in Bulgaria
1992
president of AAA (Art-in-Action Association)
1990-1992 art teacher, High School of Applied Arts,
Sofia, Bulgaria
residencies
1997 Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris,
France
additional training
1991 course in “Use
of Computer and Video Technology in Education,” Sofia University,
Bulgaria
Workshops
2005 VocINet workshop: Interactive Storytelling, July 8-10, 2005, ICNM Salzburg
2000
communication front [crossing points] Plovdiv,
Bulgaria
http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront
1997 Net.shop, Fleshfactor Ars Electronica’97, Linz, Austria
MEMBERSHIPS
2009 VENTSISILAV
ZANKOV contemporary art foundation - president
2004 Board Chair E80
Association - Exit Strategies&Projects
http://www.e-80.info
1997 resident of Cite
des Arts Internationale, Paris, France
1990 elected member
of the Union of Bulgarian Artists
projects
2011 ‘IN*possible
ideas for art in public” project, supported by programme “Culture” of
Sofia; Central funds for strategic development –NBU, ‘Redhouse’
– centre for culture and debate
2009 ‘ZERO
Gravity’ supported by New Bulgarian University
2004-2008 All About Him project with
Goethe-Institut Bulgarien
& 39grama
2006-2007 4x4 off-road animals ‘close-up’
thematic discussions http://4x4.39grama.info supported by PROHELVETIA
2005 -2008 39grama newspaper supported by MATRA KAP (SMALL EMBASSY PROJECT)
PROGRAMME Netherlands Embassy-Sofia; French cultural institute –Sofia;
National fund “Culture’_Bulgaria,
2004-2008 ‘Close-up’ discussion club
/every thurasday at 6.30 PM http://zetmag.org/na_tjasno
2004 2005 'GO & SEE' PROJECT the visual, the conceptual, the political - modus operandi
‘close-up” thematic discussions supported
by PROHELVETIA
2004 June Poetry Readings IN
TRIBUTE TO HRISTO BOTEV
2001 White Male Straight project, supported
by PROHELVETIA
curatorial activities
2019 Bodies, international videoart
project: created by Magmart.Italy. curator
for Bulgaria, screenings – University theatre, NBU
2015 FOODS VIDEOART
PROJECT created by Magmart.Italy, curator for
Bulgaria – Plovdiv 2015
2014 F.I.V.E VIDEOART PROJECT,
ABOUT SENSES F.I.V.E. is the new international videoart project created by
Magmart.Italy. curator for Bulgaria
2013 100õ100=900 (100 videoartists
to tell the century) curator for Bulgaria
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 Bulgaria idea A. Popnedeleva,
curators – ventsislav zankov,
adelina popnedeleva, Nadejda Ljahova, Boris Kostadinov supported by
PROHELVETIA
2004-2005 ‘male in transition’
project ‘All about Him?’
2002-2003 ‘Aggression, Auto-aggression,
Accident’ international art&theory project in
collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bulgarien
http://zetmag.org/aggression
2001-2002 White, Male, Straight’
multimedia project - group exhibition, Sofia supported by Prohelvetia
foundation http://zetmag.org/white
2001 Sense
of style *painting &fashion Irida gallery Sofia
ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
FILMOGRAPHY
2017 A Night with
Boris Pavlovich Genre: Drama, Thriller, Short film Bulgaria, 2016 Director and writer: Georgi Svetlomirov, Operator:
Andrey Asparuhov, C: Ventsislav
Zankov, Niki Stoichkov
2016 „Morning coffee” 2016 short
16’34’’ Director Ventsislav Zankov,
producer No Blink! Studio – on 34 Bulgarian feature film festival ‘Golden rose”
2016
2015 Family Relics Director:Ivan Tscherkelov
producer Gala film
2013 ‘1:1
– Rassim talks’ documentary,director, camera idea Ventsislav
Zankov128 min, FullHD -6 June (Thursday) 2013, 7.30 p.m. – world
premiere Red hall, The Red House
–Centre for culture and debate
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS”
2024 WORKOUTS
“Exits:- exercises 2024” HOSTGALLERY, Sofia, May 1–30, 2024.
2023 “30
years „Without Innocence” – relics from one exhibition” Charta Gallery, Sofia 01.09.2023-15.09.2023
2022 Still here: prospective exhibition, sculpture, Credo Bonum
Gallery, 01.05-28.05.2022
2021 V&V
epicrises Exhibition
of Ventsislav Zankov at Vaska Emanouilova Gallery,
Sofia
2020 In Front
of Me, sculpture, painting, neon, the Raiko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
2016 THE
LAST BURGHERS OF CALAIS, sculpture ‘ONE’ gallery Artium – Serdika offices
THE LAST BURGHERS OF CALAIS sculpture, NBU
2015 “Visiting the store” - sculpture, showroom ‘Sklada’ 11
Benkovski st. Sofia
2014 Oh,
Happy Days ‘Rayko Aleksiev’
gallery Union of Bulgarian Artists Sofia
2012 Out
of /The/ Time - Inappropriate Sculpture and drawing Vuzrazhdane
gallery, Plovdiv
2011 The Last Boudoir 1991 -20
years later Sculpture, blood and video ‘Rayko Aleksiev’ gallery Union of Bulgarian Artists Sofia
New Ghostly Painings/ we are now all shadows/ „Rakursi“ Art Gallery, Sofia
Post-romanticism. Reloaded – Berlin, Bulgarian cultural
center
2010 The road left rests behind
us, drawing, Art 36 Gallery, Sofia
2009 ‘ZERO Gravity’ - painting,
sculpture Underground Hall – Modern Theatre, Sofia
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, Sofia
The White Side of the Darkness sculpture
‘8’gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2001
[error]tica, painting, XXL Gallery, Sofia
A Sense of Style, Irida Gallery, Sofia
2000 Porn? – a way to reach the plain truth, painting,
Vision and Sound National Autumnal Exhibitions, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria
1999 Tutti-frutti, or art as desert, paintings,
sculptures, and drawings, Micheva’s fashion cafe
1997
48 hours with Zankov, paintings, Admirer
Gallery, Sofia
1995
Without Innocence, paintings, Mix
Gallery, Sofia
1994 Works
on Paper, Wittgenstein House, Vienna, Austria
1992 Temples, series of
sculptures and drawings, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia
1991
Post-Constructive Intentions,
paintings, prints, and sculptures, AAA Gallery, Sofia
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, Sofia
performances/actions
2005 "7
BRIDES SPITTING" at the opening of the exhibition ‘HIM ‘ Rayko Aleksiev
Gallery, Sofia
2004 2-nd
of June / reading Botev, Murgash Gallery, Sofia
‘Symptom’ performance
thogether with Adelina Popnedeleva, Irida Gallery, Sofia
2003 A HOMELESS MAN, I
BADLY NEED A MERCEDES BEC action 25-27dec 2003 Vitosha
Blvd. Sofia
2002 Bubble
speech at the opening of Gadgets for Playing exhibition Irida Gallery Sofia
1997 Make
War Not Love performance, Kapelica gallery, Ljubliana, Slovenia
1992
Limits of Agony, Action
II, exhibition of blood prints, Shipka 6 Gallery,
Sofia
Beefsteak
and Fried Potatoes, one-man performance, Shipka 6 Gallery,
Sofia
1991
Limits of Agony - Action I, performance in state owned slaughterhouse, Sofia
Red, series of 4 performances
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, Sofia
1ààà, happening with the Art in Action association and 1000 Days
newspaper, Sofia
1990 Island, action with the Art
in Action association, Bougras
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2025 IMAGINE 2-06. 10 2025 SAF 2025 Sofia art fair 2025, Artists
on Focus Curated Exhibition
Border Mood , 2025 ONE
gallery
LIMITED PRINTS ONLY #4
| 21 11 – 21 12 - depoo.space
for fans only 2024 arosita*depoo space
THE POWER OF THE UNRESISTABLE WEEDS 35 years since the national exhibition 11.11.89
- city art gallery - Blagoevgrad
2024 Art matters, Sofia art fair 2024
03-06.10
Sofia Pride Arts:
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found
+359 gallery, Sofia,Curator: Reneta Georgieva 28.05 – 09.06.2024
2023 FOR
FANSY ONLY arosita,
depoo.space 2023 08-10.12
2022 ART AS
COUNTERACTION, 13.09-11.10.2022 city art gallery, Varna
2022 "Biographical:
places of experience, shadows of the past, shadows of the future" - annual joint exhibition of the "Painting" section of UBA,
04.05.28.05.2022
2021 FORMS
OF COMMUNICATION Doza gallery, Sofia
FOR FANS ONLY arosita, depoo.space
ROOTS: 16 Contemporary
Sculptors on Galin Malakchiev 22 07–19.09.2021 THE NATIONAL GALLERY Sofia Arsenal – Museum of
Contemporary Art
2020 GLASS,
GAS AND ELECTRICITY sariev
gallery 2.12.2020 – 02.02.2021
PARALLEL
Vienna 22.09-27.09.2020
Monev Contemporary
FOR FANS ONLY 17-31 DEC.2020 Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2019 Invisible
cities – Samples on Art in Public Space, Plovdiv part of the
program of “Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019″
OPEN
ART FILES: NOTES AND FOOTNOTES The project is part of the program of “Plovdiv
– European Capital of Culture 2019″
Painting
Technology in Contemporary Art. City Art Gallery, Blagoevgrad
2018 REALITY
DISPUTED Union of Bulgarian Artists CURATORS: STANISLAV
PAMUKCHIEV, PETER TSANEV. KIRIL VASILEV 05.12.17 - 12.01.18 | Gallery of UBA
"Shipka" 6, Sofia
Youthexhibition Vol. 2, 13.02-03.03.2018, Red point, Sofia
Supermarket Independent Art Fair, 2018 12-15 04, Stockholm - www.supermarketartfair.com
Allianz – group exhibition, Union of Bulgarian artists,
Sofia
2017 At the beggining is nature NATIONAL
SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 05.10.17 - 28.10.17 | Gallery of UBA "Shipka" 6, Sofia
Common
Ground Arosita gallery, Sofia “
27.04. – 5,05.2017,
2016 «Silent image and Blind text» about the role of text in Bulgarian art
after 1856, Sofia City Art Gallery (Municipal Gallery of Sofia)
Image and likeness – Municipal Gallery of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Habitat – international photo-exhibition „Synthesis” Gallery, Sofia
2015 Image and likeness – National
Museum of Bulgarian Arts (National Art Gallery)
IMAGO MUNDI Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche- 2015- MAP OF THE NEW
ARTFONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI SEP 1 - NOV 1 2015 Island of San Giorgio
Maggiore, Venice
Art for Change Sofia City Art Gallery
2014 CONTEMPORARY
ISTANBUL 13-16 NOVEMBER
2014
What
happened - Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
"that thing" the fridge by Boriana Ventsislavova
For
Fans –Arosita gallery, Sofia
New
Shades in Contemporary Art, Blagoevgrad, Sofia
DEL+REW
Goldsmiths
College, Postgraduate Art and Curatorial Studios, Laurie Grove Baths, New
Cross, SE 14 6 NW, London.
Allianz
– group exhibition, Union of Bulgarian artists,
Sofia
2013 NetRrjet
Exhibition, Prishtina, Kosovo (December
2013)
2012
Clair, Madam, Solange - stage design 2012-2013
Sporadic
Biphocality - A project by
Dr. Gatev - Museum
for Contemporary Art – SAMCA With the special
participation of Prof. Stanislav Pamukchiev, Ventsislav Zankov and Rassim
ArtUp -
Media Art in Bulgaria Greece and Turkey
a project of Goethe Institut
A
POSSIBLE HISTORY.Bulgarian
Art Through the Sofia City Art Gallery Collection
The exhibition is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the foundation of of the
Sofia City Art Gallery as an independent institution
Allianz National exhibition Union of Bulgarian artists
gallery
THE COLLECTION. NEW ACQUISITIONS 2010-2011
Sofia City Art Gallery 14 June 2012 - 26 August 2012
Sofiaunderground 19.05.2012 Union of Bulgarian artists gallery
Allianz Regional exhibition Union of Bulgarian artists
gallery
Sexpression – Winter salon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopie,
Macedonia
2011 ENERGY 07 December 2011 - 13
January 2012 Yuzina Art gallery, Sofia
Re-production - 09.09. – 02.10.2011, Sofia Arsenal
–Museum for Contemporary Art
Tabuscript Robert Bosch Stiftung
Tabuscript Gedok Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany 2011
Tabuscript Karton gallery Budapest, Hungary
“20 years the fridge” - the fridge, Sofia
“SGUARDI SONORI 2011” festival of media and time based art
CLAC - CENTRO LABICANO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA in ROME
“SGUARDI SONORI 2011” festival of media and time based art PALAZZO ORSINI -BOMARZO ( VITERBO) ITALIA DAL 19
FEBBRAIO AL 20 MARZO
National exhibition “Small sculpture and drawing”2011 Union of Bulgarian artists
2010
MADATAC (Muestra Abierta
de Arte Audiovisual Contemporáneo) 5.12.2010 Madrid,
Spain
–official selection
Infinite
Spaces Squardi Sonori- 2010-2011 - Festival of media and time
based art , Museo della Civilta Romana – Italy
National Sculpture
Exhibition 2010 Sofia, Bulgaria
Video Art from Bulgaria
Screening in 3H+K Gallery, Pori, Finland
Videoarte de la Europa del ex-Este / Ex-East Europe Video Art
„Transfera” Madrid, Spain
TabuScript project - Cultural Center „CK" Skopie, Macedonia
The other eye Municipal
gallery of Sofia project
Section 13 Union of Bulgarian artists “Industrialna”
Gallery 11 Sofia
Third
international Bad taste festival „Death in Sofia” - atelier “Plastelin”
2009
Casoria Contemporary Art
Museum / Italy permanent exposition http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/ita/
Sguardi_Sonori/index.html
Water tower – 12.06- 19.06 Teahouse, Sofia
18. dokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries Neubrandenburg,
GERMANY/Szczecin, POLAND
Second international Bad taste festival „WC Vaptzarov” - atelier “Plastelin”
- Sofia
Sculpture – national
exhibition – Union of Bulgarian Artists Sofia
2008
Current Scene Bulgaria - LUDWIG museum –Koblenz, Germany
Personal Moments, Toshina Art Galerie,
Leipzig, Deutschland/Germany/
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, Varna, Bulgaria
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 Plastic / Conceptual - contemporary Bulgarian art collection - a selection of the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Bulgaria, Union of Bulgarian Artists
‘Zeitgeist –Face Control’ contemporary
Bulgarian photography at the Photonic Moment 2007 Photon Gallery - Ljubliana, Slovenia
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 centre – Collogne, Germany
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
Bulgaria” “Krag+’ Gallery Sofia
THE ART OF THE
OVERHEAD Basement,
Enghavevej 42, Copenhagen.
Capturing Utopia Fournos, Center for Digital Culture Athens, Greece
‘The Portrait’ painting – national
exhibition, Union of Bulgarian artists, 6. Shipka
str. Sofia
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. Sofia
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 Germany
EUROSCREEN21 PAN MUSEUM Germany www.euroscreen21.de
EXPROT/IMPORT Municipal Gallery of Sofia
2002
Art Vienna.02
Author/Size Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia
The Bulgarian Painting after
1989, National Palace of Culture,
Sofia
Erotic Photography, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
Come, whoever you are, annual exhibit, Irida gallery, Sofia
2001 Ostensive -
contemporary art from Eastern Europe, participation
with videoscreening, Leipzig, Germany, http://www.ostensiv.de/filmpro.htm
Archaeology of Desire, Videoarchaeology Festival of Videoart,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Body &the East, Exit Art Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Bulgaria-Korea.
Joint exhibition of modern painting –Sofia Municipal gallery,
Contemporary Art Museum of Hong-ik University, Seul
VA[media.doc]VA,
Videoarcheology Festival
of Videoart, Sofia
net.congestion, International Festival of Streaming Media,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, http://net.congestion.org
Actors and shadows
– ATA Gallery, Sofia
Balkan Video
federation festival of video art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia http://www.dijafragma.com/
nonflash/projects/bvf.htm
Communication front 2000, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1998
Commercial/non-commercial? Irida Gallery, Sofia
The Other Olympia, Irida Gallery, Sofia
1998
Phothone Digital LAB, 150xSimbolo, Bern,
Switzerland
e-mages'98 comme_exchange, Vevey, Switzerland
BODY & THE EAST - From the
1960s to the Present, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubliana,
Slovenia
1997 Ars
Ex Natio, Annual Exhibition
of the Soros Center for the Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
EXPLOSIONS Kapelica gallery, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Menschenbilder, IFA Gallery,
Berlin, Germany
Contemporary bulgarian art National art gallery selection at National
Palace of culture -Sofia
1996
International Triennial of Painting Sofia’96, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Evidence. The Real Diversity, Annual
Exhibition of the Soros Center for the Arts,
Municipal Gallery, Sofia
The Visual
Image of the 90’s, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
Admirer, inauguration
of Admirer Gallery, Sofia
Erotic Salon, Season’s
Gallery, Sofia
1995 VideoHart , December, Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for the Arts, Archaeological Museum, Sofia
1994 N Forms?
Reconstructions and Interpretations, Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for the Arts, Dossev
Gallery, Sofia
1993 A Personal
View, May, 2nd Anniversary Exhibition of the Lessedra
Gallery, Despred Hall, Sofia
1991
Happy-end, Club of the (Eternally)
Young Artists, Sofia
Cream- Art, ten art
critics’ selection for young artists, Sofia
Light Machines, installation
at the Creation happening, Proshek
Brewery, Sofia, organised by the AAA
Island, action of the AAA, Burgas, Bulgaria
A stage design for
The 199 Theatre, Sofia
1aaa, happening of the AAA, sponsored
by 1000 Days newspaper, Sofia
1990 Moderate Avant - Garde within the Framework of Tradition, Club of
the (Eternally) Young Artists, Shipka 6 Gallery,
Sofia
PRESENTATIONS / SYMPOSIA /CONFERENCES
2024 The way a sculptor applied digital technologies
in his free time "Digital Technologies in Architecture,
Design and Visual Arts", scientific and practical conference NBU
2007 Marginal
Art – presentation National academy of Fine arts,
Bulgaria
2002 Digital Weekend international
festival for digital art ‘Digital culture [uninstall]’
lecture –National Academy of Fine Arts-Sofia
2001 Understanding
the Balkans, International
conference, Skopije, Macedonia
1999 Panthograph, Centre for
Metamedia, Plazy, The Czech Republic
10 years
later, project, Communication Front, Plovdiv
1997 Beauty
& the East, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 Performance,
Ideology and the Future of Utopia Round Table, Second Annual
Performance Studies Conference at Northwestern
University, Chicago, USA
1995 Artificial
Environments as Artifact, International
Symposium, Prague, The Czech Republic
VIDEO PROJECTS
2001 Local
Literacy, a series of three videos, as part of
Videoarchaeology –3, The Archaeology of
Desire, Sofia,
Bulgaria
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 videoinstallation IFA Gallery, Berlin
1992-1995 The Last
Supper, 13-channel videoinstallation, Archaeological Museum, Sofia
net/media projects
2007-ongoing Art and Bulgaria [online]
ARTCHANNEL.BG video&audio online art-archive
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 Bulgaria, [engl] [bg]
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” (art
streaming server) [engl] [bg] The Balkans
belong to us, where do we
PLAIN-AIRS
1990
International Painting Symposium, Galicnik Art Colony, Macedonia, participation by invitation
1991
International Symposium for Wood Sculpture, Yasna Polyana, Bulgaria, participation by jury selection
1989 International
Symposium for Wood Sculpture, Yasna Polyana,
Bulgaria, participation by jury selection
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Ventsislav Zankov; still here exhibition
catalogue ISBN 978-619-90518-4-9
2021 Ventsislav Zankov; In Front of Me, exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-619-90518-3-2
2018 Ventsislav Zankov; THE ENDS OF TIME An attempt at self-reflexive archeology of the creative process ISBN
978-619-90518-2-5
2017 Ventsislav Zankov; THE LAST
BURGHERS OF CALAIS” exhibition
catalogue, ISBN 978-619-90518-1-8
Amy Bryzgel; Performance Art
in Eastern Europe since 1960 ISBN: 978-1-7849-9422-8
2015 Ventsislav Zankov; “Oh, happy days” exhibition
catalogue ISBN 978-619-90518-0-1
2013 Ventsislav Zankov; „THE LAST BOUDOIR” exhibition catalogue ISBN 978-954-535-801-2 with the support fo Gaudenz Ruf award and New Bulgarian
University
2012 Ventsislav Zankov; “Carne
tremula” NBU “Sledva”magazine issue
27|2012 p20-33
Ventsislav Zankov; IN-possible
ideas for art in public - catalogue, NBU ISBN 978-954-535-801-2
2011 Ventsislav Zankov; The Last
David - Yuzina Gallery
exhibition catalogue
2009 Ventsislav Zankov; Zero Gravity - catalogue 2009 NBU
2005 2-nd of June / reading Botev project catalogue
2004 Encultura magazine ,
issue 2, Toledo, Espania
2002 Ventsislav Zankov; Den Balkan verstehen Springerin, Hefte
fuer Gegenwartskunst, Band VIII, Heft 1/02 , Wien, Seite.14-16
2001 Ventsislav Zankov; Morning Funeral Agency – project, Lettre Internationale magazine
Ventsislav Zankov; Metamorphoses of Utopia, a
collection of texts and projects from 1991-2001, paperback, illustrated
Ventsislav Zankov; F in Fire stands for Fear, catalogue, Sofia, 2001
[error]tica catalogue, Sofia, 2001
2000 Ventsislav Zankov; The silence that invites no interpretation, Manifesta 3 catalogue, Slovenia
Ventsislav Zankov; The silence that invites no interpretation, CF2000, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1999 Ventsislav Zankov; Dear… Album-magazine, Spring 1999, issue 5, year 2, Sarajevo
Ventsislav Zankov; Because, Lettre
internationale magazine, issue 21, 1999, Sofia
Ventsislav Zankov; FAQ Lettre internationale magazine, issue 21, 1999, Sofia
1998 Body
and the East From the 1960s to the Present exhibition catalogue
Publisher Moderna galerija (Museum of Contemporary Art), Ljubljana
1997
LIMES AGONIAE, catalogue
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