BIO
Zoran Georgiev was born 1985 in Gevgelija, Macedonia. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has MA in Painting from the National Art Academy, Sofia BG (2012). In 2014 he won the BAZA Award for Young Artists for which he had been shortlisted before a number of times. He won the Essl Art Award for Young Artist from Central and Eastern Europe in 2013 and in 2011 the Award for Painting from the International Foundation St. St. Cyril and Methodius. The same year he was shortlisted for the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art in Sofia.
Zoran Georgiev uses various mediums in his artistic practice including object, installation, photography, drawing and painting. He works with a wide range of quotidian objects that have been re-appropriated, altered or rendered useless. His artistic vision has been sharpened by the ability to see the complex interconnectedness of the “mundane” with art and to make that connection visible.
His solo exhibitions include “Mission Failed”, ICA Sofia, BG (2017); “Nostalgic Future”, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, BG (2014); “Capital”, 0GMS Gallery, Sofia, BG (2012) and “Temporary, but Permanent”, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, BG (2012). The artist has participated in many group shows in Bulgaria and abroad among them 20th Cerveira International Biennial, Vila Plana De Cerveira, PO (2018); “Deep Maps”, Kunstraum Dada Post, Berlin, DE (2018), ”Shifting Layers”, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG (2017), “Per Anhalter”, Kunsthalle am Hamburgerplatz, Berlin, DE (2016); “Art for Change”, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG (2015); “Focus Bulgaria”, Vienna Con-temporary Art Fair, AT, (2015); “Transcending Cultures”, Essl Museum, Vienna, (2013-3014); “Love”, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, (2012), “Museum Souvenirs”, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG (2010).
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Born1985 in Gevgelija, MK.
Lives and works in Berlin, DE.
EDUCATION
2012
MA in Fine Arts at the National Art Academy in Sofia, BG
2010
BA in Fine Arts at the National Art Academy in Sofia, BG
SOLO SHOWS
2021
Scrolling Trough the News Feed, Bulgarian Culture Institute, Berlin, DE
2020
Recent Myths With Traditional Patterns, dual show with Zara Alexandrova, Gallery gallery, Sofia, BG
2019
Bite The Bullet, dual show with Zara Alexandrova, Art space WERK, Berlin, DE
2018
Almost Real, dual show with Zara Alexandrova, Villa Blunk, Wriezen, DE
2017
Mission Failed, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG
2014
Nostalgic Future, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, BG
2012
Capital, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova, 0GMS Gallery, Sofia, BG
Temporary, Yet Permanent, Sariev Contemporary Gallery, Plovdiv, BG
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023
Virus Diary Biennial | Cryptic Lineages, Diptych Art Space and Atelier Silvia Trăistaru: Camera 30 | Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest, RO
Virus Diary, Ost Andreas Festival, Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG, Nürnberg, DE
2022
The Center for Narrative Practice, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, XK
Digital Dictatorship, Rosengarten am Schlossberg, Graz AT
Virus Diary, Romanian Cultural Institute in Vienna, AT
Virus Diary, Museum Banatului Montan, Resita, RO
PS ANTI | ANTE | PRO: Diary of Friends & Virus Diary, Auditorium (Aula) of the Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig, DE
Spontaneous Connections Between Unrelated Phenomena, Structura Gallery, Sofia, BG
Virus Diary, Multicultural Center of Transylvania University of Brașov, RO
Bulgarian-German Network Meeting, ROAM Art space, Berlin, DE
Occupy #3 Networks, Consulate General of Greece and Consulate General of France in New York, USA
Subversives Design, NRW - Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
2021
Virus Diary, ABM Confecciones, in Madrid, ES
Virus Diary, Borderline Art Space, Iași, RO
Virus Diary, Black and White Biennial, Art Museum Satu Mare, RO
Biennial exhibition of the 31st and 32nd session of the art residency in Galichnik, Mala Stanica - National Gallery of R.N.Macedonia, MK
10 + 1: Audio and Visual Codes of the National Identity, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna, AT
2020
Virus Diary, online exhibition, White Cuib Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
Souvenirs From The Future, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG
Re_Define, curated by Michael Koch, Jochen Schlick und Illa Wingen, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
Epidemics – a global catastrophe, a punishment, or a chance to reinvent yourself and the world?, Art Moves Festival, Torun, PL
The Crown of The Corona, curated by Boris Kostadinov, online spaces of Artqol, Berlin, DE
Witz und Ironie, 43. Kunstpreis der Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe, DE
2019
Contemporary Bulgarian Artists, curated by Zuzu Caratanse and Valeri Chakalov, Exhibition Hall “Constantin Brancusi”, Palace of the Parlament, Bucharest, RO
Uprooted, Green Heel Gallery, Berlin, DE
Thank you, Mr. Ruf!, curated by Vessela Nozharova, group exhibition in honour of the Swiss collector and Patron of Art Gaudenz B. Ruf, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, BG
Hybrid Reality, I Anhydrite Biennale of Media Art, Kyffhäuserland, DE
Poetics of Image, National Autumn Exhibitions Plovdiv, BG
Walter Koschatzky Art Prize, MUMOK Hofstallungen, Vienna, AT
Dimensions of Publicness, 24th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art, Museum of Humor and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, BG
Transformart, XTRO Ateliers and Rathenau Hallen, Berlin, DE
2018
XX Cerveira International Biennial, Vila Plana De Cerveira, PO
Transformart, XTRO Ateliers and Rathenau Hallen, Berlin, DE
Trophy Hunters, curated by Sheena Malone, Kunstraum Dada Post, Berlin, DE
Fake, Krudebude Projektwohnung, Leipzig, DE
Flashback Displacements, Project Space Voodoo 55, Berlin, DE
Join the Dots – Connect the Distances, Imago Mundi Collection, curated by Claudio Scoretti and Irina Ungureanu, Salone Degli Incanti, Trieste, IT
DIN A4, Kunst-Quartier, Osnabrück, DE
I am..., Decumanus Gallery, Krk, HR
Deep Maps, curated by Sheena Malone, DADA Post Art Space, Berlin, DE
Personalized Traditions, curated by Rumyana Yoneva, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, BG
2017
Shifting Layers, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
Translations in Context, curated by Carleen Coulter and Kika Jonsson, KN Space for Art in Context, Berlin, DE
Let Them Eat Fake, curated by Anna Choutova, Bones and Pearls Studios, London, UK
2016
Per Anhalter, curated by Julia Brodauf , Kunsthalle am Hamburgerplatz, Berlin, DE
Silent Image and Blind Text, curated by Plamen Petrov and Ramona Dimova, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2015
Art for Change, curated by Maria Vassileva, City Art Gallery Sofia, BG
Map of the New Art, Luciano Benneton Collection, curated by Claudio Scoretti, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT
What Do You See?, curated by Maria Vassileva and Daniela Radeva, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
Focus Bulgaria, curated by Vessela Nozharova and Iara Boubnova, Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, AT
Caution, Wet Paint, curated by Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva and Vladiya Mihaylova, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2014
Prehod For Sale, curated by Iara Boubnova, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG
Procrastination, site-specific project on various billboards curated by Sonja Abadzieva, Skopje, MK
Exhibition of the nominees for BAZA Award for contemporary art, curated by Daniela Radeva, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
Young Art from CEE, Ringturm Gallery, Vienna, curated by Philippe Batka, AT
The Romanian-Bulgarian Union. A Retrospective, collaboration with 0GMS Gallery, curated by Vlad Nanca, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO
2013
Transcending Cultures, curated by Johanna Langfelder-Hain and Viktoria Tomek, Essl Museum, Vienna, AT
Never Ending Story, curated by Rumyana Yoneva, Rakursi Gallery, Sofia, BG
Exhibition of the nominees for BAZA Award for contemporary art, curated by Daniela Radeva ,City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
Untitled, collaboration with 0GMS Gallery presented at Gregor Podnar Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
2012
Love, curated by Maria Vassileva, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, BG
Magnet and Antimagnet, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG
Exhibition of the nominees for BAZA Award for contemporary art, curated by Daniela Radeva, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2011
After the Flight, curated by Iara Boubnova, ICA Gallery, Sofia, BG
Shortlist, Exhibition of the Nominated Artists for Gaudenz Ruf Award, Rayko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, BG
RESIDENCIES
2021
Visual Intrusion - Art Residency Galichnik, MK
CCN Residency - Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, AT
2015
ISCP Residency, New York, USA
AWARDS
2014
BAZA Award for Contemporary Ar
2013
ESSL Art Award CEE
2011
Grand Prize from the National competition for young Bulgarian artists organised by the International Foundation St. Cyril and St. Methodius
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Poetics of Image, National Autumn Exhibitions Plovdiv 2019, catalogue, pages 22 - 25
Dimensions of Publicness, 24th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, catalogue, pages 204 - 205
2016
Transfiguring, Luciano Benetton Collection, catalogue, pages 130 - 131
2015
Caution, Wet Paint, catalogue, pages 32-33
Image and Likeness, Collection Nikolay Nedelchev, catalogue, pages 170 - 171
Art for Change, catalogue, pages 49 and 99
Save the Dreams, Luciano Benetton Collection, catalogue, pages 118 - 119
2013
Gallery 0GMS, catalogue, pages 80 - 83
ESSL Art Award, catalogue, pages 28 - 29, 84, 111 - 114
2012
Shortlist: Ruf Award, catalogue, pages 44 - 47