Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026

Base and Superstructure, Sarieva gallery @ Dot Sofia, Sofia

Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II, Cube gallery, Centre of Contemporary Arts Toplocentrala, Sofia

2025

Artefactual Nature (with Kalina Dimitrova), Roam Projects, Berlin

Time Twisted Around a Place, Twisted Around Time (with Kalina Dimitrova), Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia

Time Sticks to the Walls (with Tsvetelina Hristova), Doza Gallery, Sofia

2024

Top Inversion (with Ottjörg A.C.), Doza Gallery, Sofia

Between the Past That Is About to Happen and the Future That Has Already Been, installation in public space, apr 25 2024 — apr 25 2025, the site of the former mausoleum, Sofia

2023

Schritt für Schritt ins Paradies (with Ottjörg A.C.), roam projects, Berlin

I Come Briefly to this Place. I Watch it Move. I Watch it Shake, Punta gallery, Sofia, curated by Bojana Djikova

2022

BiosPolis (with Kalina Dimitrova), Station Contemporary, Bratislava, curated by Juraj Carny

Storm Door, Installation in public space, St. Kassinas Platz, Regensburg, curated by: Regina Helwig-Schmidt, Donumenta, comissioned by the city of Regensburg

Reconstructions of the Forthcoming, Structura Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva

2021

Schroedinger's Cat, (with Jelko Terziev), Plus 359 Gallery, Sofia

2020

New World Order, Structure Gallery, Sofia; curated by Maria Vassileva

Top 84 Ways of Going Greener at Home, Gallery Gallery, Sofia; curated by Albena Baeva, Rene Beekman

2019

Drift, Cultural Centre of Sofia University; curated by Kiril Vassilev

Future Unforgettable, Versus Art Project, Istanbul; curated by Firat Arapoglu

2018

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? (with Jelko Terziev), Plus 359 Gallery, Sofia

Images Staring at Images, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv; curated by Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva

2017

Peripheral Light Air and Sun (with Daniel Kötter), Geothe-Institut Sofia

Ghost Descending a Staircase (with Daniel Kötter.), Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia; curated by Iara Boubnova

2016

Transitional Newspaper, intervention in public space, project commissioned by Goethe-Institut Sofia

Some Gadgets see people, others - other gadgets, 09.04. - 29.04, 2016, Contemporary Space, Varna; curated by Maria Vassileva

The look objects give us looking back through us, Yuzina Gallery, Sofia; curated by Maria Vassileva

2015

Between the Past That is About to Happen and the Future That has Already Been, The National Gallery, Sofia; curated by Iara Boubnova

Between the Past That is About to Happen and the Future That has Already Been, Dobrich Art Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria; curated by Evelina Handjieva

2014

Off the Record, One Night Stand Gallery, Sofia

2013

Cosmopolis, The Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia gallery, Sofia; curated by Iara Boubnova

2008

Missing Scenes, Eibank Gallery, Sofia; curated by Svetlana Kuyumdjieva

Background Action, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; curated by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ

2007

Making Movies, Galeria Noua, Bucharest; curated by Aurora Kirali

Background Action, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia; curated by Maria Vassileva

2005

Remote Resemblances, Goethe-Institut Sofia, Sofia

2004

Excuse me, which City is this?, ICA-Sofia, Sofia; curated by Iara Boubnova

2002

On the BG Track, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade; curated by Daniela Kostova

Fifty Fifty (with David D’Agostino), Irida Gallery, Sofia

2001

Reality Pixels, Irida Gallery, Sofia

1999

Everything seems alright, The Kitchen, New York

1998

Multiple Shadows, Ata Centre for Arts, Sofia

Shots In The Darkness (with Dimiter Grozdanov), De Fabriek Gallery - Eindhoven

1997

Directed By…, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia

Let’s Dance. Clothes for Collective Life, XXL Gallery, Sofia

1996

To Cook Reality (with Mathias Imdorf), Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv

Spaghetti Pictures, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia

1995

The Endless Puzzle, intervention, National Academy of Arts, Sofia

1994

The Way of Living (with Rassim), The Ladder Gallery, National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026

Some Time Before the End, Vaska Emanuilova / Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, curated by Victoria Gyuleva

2025

What Do We Remember With?, Institute of Contamporary Art - Sofia, curated by Iara Bubnova

Shadows of the Body – Hallen 06 – Berlin Art Week, Wilhelm Hallen, Reinickendorf, Berlin, curated by Art Collection Telekom

JUMP! DON'T JUMP. 10 YEARS SWIMMING POOL, Swimming Pool Projects, curated by Victoria Draganova

Double-Double, Host Gallery, Sofia, curated by Ivaylo Hristov & Yordanka Hristova

Jelko Terziev, Kalina Dimitrova, Krassimir Terziev: An Egg from Cow and Milk from a Hen, Kazanlak City Gallery, curated by Krassimir Terziev

LOOK – Ecology and Technology, Charta Gallery, Sofia, curated Elisabeth Thallauer and Rositsa Getsova

2024

Jelko Terziev, Kalina Dimitrova, Krassimir Terziev: An Egg from Cow and Milk from a Hen, May 9 — June 4, 2024, Dobrich City Gallery, curated by Krassimir Terziev

The Better Part of Us, Feb 29, 2024 — Apr 4, 2024, Structura gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva

Study of a Collection. Simeon Markov, May 31 — June 29, 2024, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv

Ego-system / Eco-system, May 23 — Jun 8, 2024, Varna City Gallery, curated by Iara Boubnova

Portable museum of rebellious art: ‘W(e) A(re) R(ebellious)’, Jan 23 — Feb 17, 2024, curated by Antoni Rayzhekov

2023

Don't Dream Dreams. A Selection from the Art Collection Telekom, Moderna galerija, MG+, Ljubljana, curated by Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher

Dream Home, Sep 14 — Oct 8, 2023, KO-OP Gallery, Sofia, curated by Vera Mlechevska, Boyana Gyaurova, Andriana Andreeva

Beyond All Reason. In the Mirror of Surreal Times, Structura Gallery, Sofia; curated by Gregor Jansen

Selected Artists from the Herbarium Collection, City Art Gallery Varna, curated by Irina Batkova

A Few Ways to Win the World, Doza Gallery, Sofia, curated by Vera Mlechevska and Dessislava Dimova

The Drawing – Without Limitations, Structura Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva

2022

Self-splaining (a Triumph of Empathy) (part of Manifesta 14), University of Pristina - Faculty of Arts Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo, curated by: Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia

Viena Contemporary, Structura Gallery, Sofia

The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things… from the Art Collection Telekom, National Gallery, Sofia, curated by: Martina Yordanova, Boryana Valchanova

2021

To Collect Contemporary Art. Vladimir Iliev Collection, National Gallery/ The Palace, Sofia; curated by Ivo Milev, Boryana Valchanova

Farce (Part of Curated By 2021), Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Curated By, Vienna, curated by Stephan Stoyanov

Parallel 42 - A Circle of Humanity, Exhibition from the Imago Mundi Foundation, The Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana, curated by: Elton Koritari and Albes Fusha

The Herbarium as a Place for Storing Ideas, Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, 8 April–30 May 2021; curated by Irina Batkova

Glass, Gas and Electricity, SARIEV Contemporary, Plovdiv, 2021, curated by Vesselina Sarieva
Souvenirs from the Future, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Sofia

Moving Images Moving Bodies, Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia, Credo Bonum Gallery, Bobina, Goethe-Institut Sofia, curated by: Ludwig Seyfarth, Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

2020

Shooting Ghosts. Online screening programme, Blink Video. Media Art Platform, 2020, curated by Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

25 years and 5 themes later. ICA – Sofia Retrospective, National Gallery/ The Palace, Sofia

after PASOLINI – visions of today, Center for Contemporary Art “The Ancient Bath”; curated by Bettina Steinbrügge and Benjamin Fellmann

Keeping the Balance. Works from the Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum Budapest; curated by Rainald Schumacher and Nathalie Hoyos

History Inbetween, Museum of Sofia; curated by Vessela Nojarova

From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures, online screening, 'post.moma.org', the MoMa online platform; curated by Inga Lāce and Lukas Brasiskis

2020 Do Not Link, online exhibition, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam; curated by Dirk Paesmans and Bob Bicknell-Knight

The world has not stopped spinning, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria; curated by Stefka Tsaneva

State of Normality, Structura Gallery; curated by Maria Vassileva

2019

Listen to Us – Artistic Intelligence (Works from Art Collection Telekom), The City Art Gallery; SKLAD; Old Plovdiv Museum Houses / Plovdiv European Capital of Culture 2019; curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher. Coordinator is Dimitrina Petrova

#comment #fiction #document. Video art works from the Sofia City Art Gallery collection, Sofia City Art Gallery; curated by Daniela Radeva

Thank You Mr. Ruf. Exhibition in honor of Swiss collector and philanthropist Gaudenz B. Ruf, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia; curated by Vessela Nojarova

Izler/Traces, Galeri Mod, Istanbul; curated by Firat Arapoglu

Transitional Newspaper. Issue 6: Metropolitan, Largo, Sofia, Vision for Sofia Project; curated by Vladiya Michaylova

Open Art Files: Notes and footnotes, Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv; project by Open Arts Foundation, part of Plovdiv European Capital of Culture 2019; curated by Vera Mlechevska; video programme curated by Krassimir Terziev and Vera Mlechevska

The Good of the Time, Goethe-Institut Sofia; curated by Anastasya Skvortsova

Objectively (in)correct, Espace PORT A gallery / Sofia Art Week; curated by Martina Stefanova

2018

Infinity and the Image, Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul; curated by Osman Nuri İyem and Firat Arapoglu

Spider's Web, İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi; curated by Firat Arapoglu

Before the Past – After the Future, 6th Canakkale Biennial, Korfmann Library – Troia Foundation; curated by CABININ / Videoist

New Worlds: Art between Museum and Laboratory, Museum Villa Rot, Orsenhausen, DE; curated by Marco Hompes

Cosmodrum, One Monev Gallery, Sofia, curated by Ralitsa Konstantinova

Forms of Coexistence, Structura Gallery, Sofia; curated by Maria Vassileva

2017

Let Them DrawII (Drawing and Withdrawing), Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv; curated by Pravdolyub Ivanov

Com ∩ ties – Thresholds / Seuils / Drempels, Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels; curated by Ive Stevenheydens & Maïté Vissault

A Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul; curated by Irina Batkova

The Image is no Longer Available, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia; curated by Vessela Nojarova

Fourth Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Space, Varna

34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival

2016

Toyphilia and Toy Phobia, ICA-Sofia, Sofia; curated by Iara Boubnova

Pies in the Skies, Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels

Social Contract, Izolyatsia, Kyiv; curated by Kateryna Filyuk

4th International Literary Festival, National Palace of Culture, Sofia

European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck

Let Them Draw. Group exhibition about drawing, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv; curated by Pravdolyub Ivanov

2015

Focus Bulgaria | Vienna Contemporary, Vienna; curated by Vessela Nozharova, Iara Boubnova

Being Post-digital, One Design Week, UPA, Plovdiv; curated by Rene Beekman

South by Southeast, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong; curated by Anca Verona Mihuleţ and Patrick Flores

Si tu veux voir le monde, ferme tes yeux: part 1, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels

Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from ARTEAST 2000+ Collection, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Snejana Krasteva, and Bojana Piškur

Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey

Art for Change 1985-2015, Sofia City Art Gallery; curated by Maria Vassileva

2014

Prehod for Sale, ICA-Sofia; Curated by Iara Boubnova

The Romanian-Bulgarian Union. A retrospective, Salonul de Projecte, Anexa, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest; Curated by Vlad Nancă

Disconsent, Center for Contemporary Art “The Ancient Bath”, Plovdiv; Curated by Iara Boubnova

Know Thyself, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Sofia; Curated by Iara Boubnova

2013

New Acquisitions in the Black Box. Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels

A Possible History. Bulgarian art through the Sofia City Gallery collection, Sofia City Gallery, Sofia

2012

Scramble for the Past. Video Program, Walk-in Cinema, SALT Beyoğlu

Why Dushamp? From object to museum and back (125 years), Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia; curator: Maria Vassileva

Group Show, 0GMS Gallery, Sofia.

2011

Unlimited – Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Sofia

Spare Time. Utopias on the verge of the Commonness, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; curator: Boris Danailov

After the Flight, ICA-Sofia, Sofia; curator: Iara Boubnova

The Big Bang, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia; curator: Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva

2010

Museum Souvenirs, ICA-Sofia, Sofia *

The Big Wave, Varna City Art Gallery, Varna; curator: Maria Vassileva *

Beyond Credit. Contemporary Art and Mutual Trust, Sanat Limanı, Antrepo, Istanbul; curatеd by Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Maria Vassileva *

Territories of the (in)Human, Wuertembergischer Kunstverein - Stuttgart, curatеd by Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ *

Grenzenloss, Artpoint Gallery, Vienna; curator: Hedwig Saxenhuber

Breaking Walls - Building Networks, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; curators: Iara Boubnova, Lydia Chatziiakovou, Christos Savvidis, Thalea Stefanidou *

Wale und Aale, Ve.Sch, Vienna; curator: Lazar Lyutakov

Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava

2009

Extras & Actors, Argos vzw Centre for Art and Media, Brussels *

Technics, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Sofia; curators: Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva *

Liquid Frontiers, Lille 3000, Lille; curator: Iara Boubnova *

Atlantis I. Hidden Histories – New Identities. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Curator: Emil Mirazchiev, co-curator: Jakob Racek

2008

Zero Gravity, Contemporary Art Centre “Ancient Bath”, Plovdiv; curators: Bettina Steinbruegge, Vessela Nojarova

Transfert/ Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, IUFM/Confluences, Lyon *

Stay, Stay, Stay, Central Bath, Sofia

Primary Ingredients, Threshold artspace , Perth, UK; curator Iliyana Nedkova

2007

Shortlist 07, Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia *

The Projection Project. Budapest Episode, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest; curator Mark Kremer *

Reale Sensationen, HVB Kunstpalais, Munich, DE; curator Lóránd Hegyi

Something Common. Something Personal, Art Vienna, ICA-Sofia booth, Vienna

Searching for an Ideal Urbanity, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; curators: Fabrizio Galanti, Jean-Baptiste Joly

Kino wie noch nie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; curators: Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki *

Suitcase Illuminated #5. On Parallel Economy. P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana; Musee d'art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris; curators: Katia Anguelova, Alessandra Poggianti *

We Love Cinema, Hessel Museum of Art /Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; curator Ozkan Canguven

Odysseus in Search of Europe, Online project by Goethe-Institut Network

10 Years Video Art in Bulgaria, travelling exhibition, Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna; curator Adelina Popnedeleva

2006

The Projection Project, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA); curators Mark Kremer, Edwin Carels, Dieter Roelstraete *

Wildes Kapital II, Kunsthaus Dresden; curators Cristiane Menicke, Torsten Birne, Sophie Goltz *

Kino wie noch nie, Generali Foundation, Vienna; curators: Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki *

New Video New Europe, The Kitchen, NYC

Terziev, Serapionov, Suljevic, Beton Salon, MQ, Vienna

2005

Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; curator Hedwig Saxenhuber *

Central. New Art form New Europe, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna *

New Video New Europe. A Survey of Eastern European Video, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Art, Grand Forks

2004

New Video New Europe. A Survey of Eastern European Video, TATE Modern, London, UK; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US

Impakt Festival for experimental film, video and new media, Utracht, NL

Extended Views – StadSchal, Maastricht, NL

Central. New Art form New Europe, Galerie Hilger & Siemens Austria, Wien, At/ (C)

The Making of Balkan Wars, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopije, Mk (a project by Personal Cinema)(C).

New Video New Europe. A Survey of Eastern European Video, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (curator Hamza Walker)(C).

The Making of Balkan Wars, Media Art Lab, ARCO 04, Madrid, Es (a project by Personal Cinema Group)(C).

2003

9TH. Cairo Biennial – The bulgarian participation in the Bienial, Ehnaton Art Center, Cairo, Egypt. (C)

Blood Lines & Connections, Contemporary Art Museum, Denver, USA; curator Sydney Payton

Video Art BG: Contemporary Video Art from Bulgaria, Klinikum Ludwifshafen e.g., Munich, DE; curator Svilen Stefanov

Forum of European Cultural Exchanges Thessaloniki 2003, Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki, GR; curator Nina Vagic/Personal Cinema

Video Screening 04: Travelling Programme, Galerie Martin Janda Raum fuer Actueller Kunst, Vienna; VTO, London; Zero, Piacenza; Kurimanzutto, Mexico City; ICA, Sofia; curator of the bulgarian programme Yara Boubnova

The Last East-European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yu; curators Stevan Vukovic/Dragan Todorovic; curator Galina Dimitrova (C)

Import – Export: Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofa, BG; curator Maria Vassileva (C)

2002

Kontext:Europe: Impuls von Balkans, Public Art Festival, Theater des Augenblicks, Vienna, At

European Perspectives – Insbruck Art Expo, At

2000

Hold Your Breath, Artequil Gallery/off project, Monteral; curators Galina Lardeva/BLUNT

1998

Translocation: Media Art from South Eastern Europe, Generali Foundation, Viena, At , Curator Iara Boubnova

1997

Ars ex Natio: Made in Bulgaria, various locations, Plovdiv, curators Iara Boubnova & Maria Vassileva
Video Positive ‘97: Virtual revolutions, Liverpool, UK