Iara Boubnova
“… unknown people, engaged in various trivial everyday activities, which Radostin Sedevchev reveals to the audience as seen through his own eyes. The major story and the important, common-scale re-reading of the past is absent… Instead, the artist engages in the the continuous scrutiny of the minor and insignificant, which everyone can understand and interpret on their own.”
Vladiya Mihaylova
Memory, time and identity together situate a perfect blend that erupts as a strange tentacular growth in your mind. A familiar, yet bizarre simulacrum of existence starts to appear on the photos you are confronted by. Its semi-amnesiac trope is the secret revealed in between the exhibition and your experience of it. The memento is the scars, cuts and bruises. You could ask yourself why it seems so familiar? It seems we are tricked to think that our photographic memory has an immune system disorder. Particularly in this line of thought, we are left with something neither eternal nor transient; a perverted sense of self carried through a retinal detAchment.
Lars Nordby
Born:
January 1988, Pernik, Bulgaria
Education:
2018
– PhD in visual arts, National Academy of art, Sofia Bulgaria
2017
– ICA Sofia- Close encounters visual dialogs, School4artists
2014
– National academy of art, Sofia, Bulgaria, MA Mural painting
2012
– National academy of art, Sofia, Bulgaria, BA Mural painting
Academic mobility:
2017
– Erasmus + Program. Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, Germany
2011
– Erasmus Program. North Wales school of art and design (Glyndwr University), Wrexham, Wales
Residencies:
2017
– NAF Academy: Bloom again. Eleusis, Greece
2014
– Cite internationale des artes. Paris, France
Artist talks:
2022
– A conversation with Radostin Sedevchev through the Room of Things, Manifesta 14, CNP, Prishtina
2018
– Something old something new something borrowed something blue, STRUCTURA gallery, Sofia, moderator Stefka Tsaneva
– 15 minutes of fame, Tell me bar, Moderators: Martina Vacheva and Valko Chobanov, Curator: Vera Mlechevska
2017
– Night shift No. 2, Hip hip library, Sofia, moderator Desislava Pancheva
Solo shows
2022
– One must imagine Sisyphus happy, Plus359 gallery, Sofia, curator Irina Batkova
– Zeitnot, Tam, Veliko Tarnovo
2021
– This clear-cut world died without leaving behind it a charnel house, National Gallery, Sofia, curator Iara Boubnova
2019
– “Neither eternal nor transient” Heerz Tooya gallery, Veliko Tarnovo,
2018
– Present absence, ICA-Sofia, curator Iara Boubnova
– Denomination, Ö space, Sofia (pop-up)
2017
– Unforseeable past, Vaska Emanuilova gallery, Sofia, curator Vladiya Mihaylova
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024
– Home 2124, Idea by Dimitar Solakov, ReBonkers, Varna
– Shame and guilt, Vaska Emanuilova gallery, Sofia, curator Galina Dimitrova-Dimova
– Ego-system / Eco-system
A selfie of an ecosystem-collective and its multiple practices, city Gallery Varna, curator: Iara Boubnova
2023
– Closing the Circle, MTACA artspace, Cluj
– Beyond all reason. In the mirror of surreal times, Structura Gallery Sofia, curated by Gregor Jansen
2022
– Riff Raff show, ICA-Sofia
– Stick your finger in the soil to smell where you are, Toplocentrala, Sofia, curated by Lars Nordby
– Self-splaining (a Triumph of Empathy), Manifesta 14, Venue: Gallery of the Faculty of Arts Rruga Agim Ramadani, Prishtina, curated by ICA-Sofia
– Over the past year, SAMCA curated by Iara Boubnova
– Tirazh: Collection of independent artist books
run by KO-OP Gallery and TI-RE platform
2021
– In Defence of Solid Material, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv, curated by Vesselina Sarieva
–No artist can predict the future, KO-OP art space, Sofia, curated by Martin Atanasov, Krasimira Butseva and Vasil Vladimirov
– The Pric/ze is Right – NEXT Balkan: Bulgarian Contemporary Art in Belgrade 2021, Ostavinska gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Voin de Voin, Martina Stefanova
– The possible institution, Swimming pool, Sofia, curated by Viktoria Draganova, assistant Galena Sardamova
– The herbarium as a place for strong ideas. Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Irina Batkova
2020
– InSitu-Institute, ICA-Sofia
– Fragments, Sofia hystory museum, curated by Vesela Nozharova
– Drawing Restrict, Rosa Stern Space, Munich, curated by Stefka Tsaneva
2019
– FINALE, Structura Gallery Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva
– Earthbound, Geothe institute Sofia, curated by Marie Himmerich
– Baza contemporary art award 2019, Sofia city gallery, curated by Daniela Radeva
– The goods of time, Geothe institute Sofia, curated by Anastasya Skvortsova
– Gaze & Dialogue: Splendours of Sino-Bulgarian Cultural Heritages, Ningbo Library Art Space, Ningbo, China
– Re/Constructions of Memory, 0GMS gallery, Sofia, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova
– Out of the box, Æther, Sofia
2018
– The shape of time, Red point gallery Sofia, curated by Martina Yordanova
– Baza contemporary art award 2018, Sofia city gallery, curated by Daniela Radeva
– Love moves, Generator, Sofia, curated by Simeon Vassilev
2017
– A show without a title but in the holiday spirit, ICA-Sofia, curated by Iara Boubnova
– Shifting layers, Sofia city gallery, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova
– School4artists, ICA gallery, Sofia, curated by Iara Bubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Krassimir Terziev
– The Image is No Longer Available. Credo Bonum gallery Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Vesela Nozharova
– Art Start: Young Artist to Follow in 2017. Credo Bonum gallery Sofia, curated by Vesela Nozharova, Stefka Tsaneva, Daniela radeva
– Mixed Pickles. gallery HfBK, Dresden, Germany, curated by Susanne Greinke
2015
– Sofia Queer Forum. Academia gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Vladiya Mihaylova
– Water Tower Art Festival. Underground mining museum, Pernik, Bulgaria, curated by Nia Pushkarova
2014
– Nefest 2. Zone culture exhibition space, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Nora Karalambeva
2013
– Photography – Ne fest. Rubber gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Nora Karalambeva.
– International Biennial of Painting. Chisinau, Moldova, curated by Tudor Zbarnea
2012
– Idea for Home, The Library. Sofia press Gallery; Debut Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Peter Tsanev