Kiril Prashkov, This Forest Looks Quite Politically Correct, 1995
wood, white paint, ca 270 x 300 x 10
Art in Landscape, International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria, 1995
Kiril Prashkov, Lamentation (It’s Hard To Be A Macho Nowadays), 2002
digital print, dimensions variable
Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut, Belgrade, Scopje, Rijeka, Sofia, Bucharest, 2002-2003
In the Gorges of the Balkan. A Report, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2003
Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2005
Kiril Prashkov, Reading And Eating, 2001
(part of the book Bugs/Reading and Eating, produced together with Bruce Checefsky)
digital print, 20 x 156
Reading And Eating and other texts and watercolors, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, 2002
Reading And Eating Texts, Grass. Ink, Wood, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, 2002
(part of the book Bugs/Reading and Eating, produced together with Bruce Checefsky)
digital print, 20 x 156
Reading And Eating and other texts and watercolors, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, 2002
Reading And Eating Texts, Grass. Ink, Wood, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, 2002
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Kiril Prashkov
Born: June 30, 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia
From 1984 to 1989 - Editor in “Kultura” weekly in the department of Visual Arts. Author of several articles on contemporary Bulgarian and foreign art.
From 1990 to 1992 - Editor in “Fax-Art” weekly.
In 1991/92 – President of the Club of (eternally) Young Artist.
Since 1995 – Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia (Founding Member)
Individual Exhibitions:
2007 - Mind Your Step. Eibank Art Gallery. Sofia
2006 - Responsible Painting. French Institute. Sofia
2005 - Quotations. Moscow’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004 - Natural Modernism. French Institute, Sofia
- BC + KP + 36 = Project (together with Bruce Checefsky). SweetThirtySix Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2003 - Drawing as Craftsmanship. ATA Center/Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
2002 - Reading & Eating Ink, Grass, Ants, Wood. Remont Gallery, Belgrade
- Bugs/Reading & Eating (together with Bruce Checefsky) and other Texts and Watercolors, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
2000 - “The Most Wooden piece of Beethoven’s”, Performance together with Krassimir Jeliazkov and Plamen Mirchev, Varna, City Gallery
- “Quotation”, Goethe Institute, Sofia
- “Hommage to Pushkine. The Text as a Still-Life”, City Gallery, Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
- “Hommage a Pouchkine. Le texte comme nature morte”, French Institute, Sofia
1999 - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1998 - "Short Stories about Love and Writing", Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
1997 - "Swiss Cross Book", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
- "Swiss Cross Book", Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
- "Art - Advertisement. Symbols and Vegetables. From Drawing to Object and from Object to Text", French Institute, Sofia
- "Switzerland Revisited", Residency of the Ambassador of Switzerland, Sofia
1996 - “The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven’s”, Dossev Gallery, Sofia
1995 - “Bulgarian Still-lifes for Foreigners”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “European Kitchen Painting”, Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven’s”, Autumn Exhibitions, Old City, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Oh God, No/O Yeah” Book and other Books and Vegetables”, KulturKontakt, Vienna
1994 - “National Style”, KA Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria
1993 - “From Switzerland with a Wooden Fence”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “Gruezi”, Scuol-Nairs, Switzerland
1989 - Gallery of The Decorative Art Magazine, Moscow
1986 - 108 Rakovski Str. Gallery (together with Zlati Velev), Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2006 - Important Announcement, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
- Danube Flood Relief Benefit Auction, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Mucsarnok, Budapest
- Wild Capital, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
- Memory (W)Hole, Continental Breakfast, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
- Urban Legends, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2005 - Play Sofia. project space, Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna
- Memory (W)Hole, Continental Breakfast, Ljubljana castle, Ljubljana
2003 - In the Gorges of the Balkan. A Report, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut, Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Kassel
- EU-wide-en-largement, Europarliament, Brussels
- EXPORT/IMPORT. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002 - In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut, Belgrade, Scopje, Rijeka
- Reconstructions, IV Biennial in Cetinie, Montenegro
2001 - EUROPA ERWEITERN, Industriellen Vereinigung, exhibition of KulturKontakt, Vienna
1999 - Apollonia Summer Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
- Drechtoevers Sculpture Park, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
- "200 Years Pushkin", Association of Art Galleries, Moscow
- Special Selection, International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany
- "Recipes. Contemporary Art Manual", Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
1998 - “Archive", 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
- "The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession", Helsinki
- "Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringer strasse, Munich,
Germany
- "The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession", Wien
- "Art and Notes", Municipal Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria
1997 - "Back and Forth", 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
- “Photographics” project, International Print Biennial Varna’97, Bulgaria
- "ARS EX NATIO. Made in BG", 4th Annual Exhibition of the SCA - Sofia, Plovdiv
1996 - "Bulgarian Glimpse Show", Moscow
- "Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova", IV St. Petersburg Biennial, Russia
- "Art on Wheels", project of "Food Carrier/Papp", Munich, Germany
- "Art in Landscape", International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- "Plastic Image of the 90-ies", National Palace of Culture, Sofia
- “The Art Colony, Galichnik”, Skopje
1995 - "Art in Landscape", International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- “30 Grand Prix”, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
- “Projects by...”, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
- “AFRICUS", 1st International Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994 - Section 13, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
- “Book-Art", International Show of the program of KulturKontakt, Horn, Austria
- ARTEST, Sredetz Gallery, Sofia
- “N-forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations", Soros Center for the Arts, Sofia
- “Moisture - Plainair of Avant-garde Art", Arkoutino, Bulgaria
- Show of The Art Colony, Galichnik, Macedonia
- “Ritual = Art, Art = Ritual", 3rd Multimedia Festival, Sofia
- “In Search for the Self-Reflection", Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Artists of LETTRE INTERNATIONALE" Magazine, Wien
- “The Nail", Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1993 - “Works on Paper", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- 1st International Print Biennial, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- International Print Biennial, Biella, Italy
1992 - “Exhibition of the Artists Born under the Zodiacal Sign of Cancer", Sofia
- “Hair from a Brush", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “Medical Check-up", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1991 - International Triennial of Prints, Krakow, Poland
- “Illusions, Illusions...", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “Happy-end”, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1990 - “Moderate Avant-garde within the Framework of Tradition", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “End of Quotation", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “10/10/10", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist,
1987 - “Authors' Proof", Sofia
since
1984 (biannually) - National Biennial of Illustration and Book-Design, Sofia
1983 (biannually) - International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
Curatorial Experience:
1999 - Bulgarian participation at the “Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans",
National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; State Exhibition Hall, Bucharest; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
1994 - “The Artists of LETTRE INTERNATIONAL", Magazine, Wien
1992 - “Exhibition of the Artists Born under the Zodiacal Sign of Cancer”, Sofia
1990 - “Moderate Avant-garde within the Framework of Tradition”, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1989 - Young Bulgarian Graphic Artists, Moscow, Russia; Ulan-Bator, Mongolia
1987 - “Authors' Proof", Sofia
Residencies:
2005 - Saskala ArtRadius, Haukivuori, Finland
2004 - Independent Projects, ArtsLink Program, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2002 - Ziel 1 = Kunst = Ziel 1, Burgenland, Austria
1999 - ArtsLink Program, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Drechtoevers Sculpture Park, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
1996 - "Art in Landscape", international symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
1995 - "Art in Landscape", international symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- KulturKontakt' studios, Vienna
1994 - Program "Book-Art", KulturKontakt, Horn, Austria
- The Art Colony, Galichnik, Macedonia
1993 - ARTEST/BINZ 39, Kulturzentrum Scuol-Nairs, Switzerland.
Education:
1983 - National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia
Born: June 30, 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia
From 1984 to 1989 - Editor in “Kultura” weekly in the department of Visual Arts. Author of several articles on contemporary Bulgarian and foreign art.
From 1990 to 1992 - Editor in “Fax-Art” weekly.
In 1991/92 – President of the Club of (eternally) Young Artist.
Since 1995 – Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia (Founding Member)
Individual Exhibitions:
2007 - Mind Your Step. Eibank Art Gallery. Sofia
2006 - Responsible Painting. French Institute. Sofia
2005 - Quotations. Moscow’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004 - Natural Modernism. French Institute, Sofia
- BC + KP + 36 = Project (together with Bruce Checefsky). SweetThirtySix Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2003 - Drawing as Craftsmanship. ATA Center/Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
2002 - Reading & Eating Ink, Grass, Ants, Wood. Remont Gallery, Belgrade
- Bugs/Reading & Eating (together with Bruce Checefsky) and other Texts and Watercolors, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
2000 - “The Most Wooden piece of Beethoven’s”, Performance together with Krassimir Jeliazkov and Plamen Mirchev, Varna, City Gallery
- “Quotation”, Goethe Institute, Sofia
- “Hommage to Pushkine. The Text as a Still-Life”, City Gallery, Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
- “Hommage a Pouchkine. Le texte comme nature morte”, French Institute, Sofia
1999 - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1998 - "Short Stories about Love and Writing", Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
1997 - "Swiss Cross Book", TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
- "Swiss Cross Book", Ata Center for Arts, Sofia
- "Art - Advertisement. Symbols and Vegetables. From Drawing to Object and from Object to Text", French Institute, Sofia
- "Switzerland Revisited", Residency of the Ambassador of Switzerland, Sofia
1996 - “The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven’s”, Dossev Gallery, Sofia
1995 - “Bulgarian Still-lifes for Foreigners”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “European Kitchen Painting”, Akrabov Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Most Wooden Piece of Beethoven’s”, Autumn Exhibitions, Old City, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Oh God, No/O Yeah” Book and other Books and Vegetables”, KulturKontakt, Vienna
1994 - “National Style”, KA Gallery, Burgas, Bulgaria
1993 - “From Switzerland with a Wooden Fence”, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- “Gruezi”, Scuol-Nairs, Switzerland
1989 - Gallery of The Decorative Art Magazine, Moscow
1986 - 108 Rakovski Str. Gallery (together with Zlati Velev), Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2006 - Important Announcement, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
- Danube Flood Relief Benefit Auction, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Mucsarnok, Budapest
- Wild Capital, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
- Memory (W)Hole, Continental Breakfast, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
- Urban Legends, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2005 - Play Sofia. project space, Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna
- Memory (W)Hole, Continental Breakfast, Ljubljana castle, Ljubljana
2003 - In the Gorges of the Balkan. A Report, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut, Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Kassel
- EU-wide-en-largement, Europarliament, Brussels
- EXPORT/IMPORT. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002 - In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
- Bound/Less Borders, First Outdoor Touring Balkan Project, Goethe Institut, Belgrade, Scopje, Rijeka
- Reconstructions, IV Biennial in Cetinie, Montenegro
2001 - EUROPA ERWEITERN, Industriellen Vereinigung, exhibition of KulturKontakt, Vienna
1999 - Apollonia Summer Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
- Drechtoevers Sculpture Park, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
- "200 Years Pushkin", Association of Art Galleries, Moscow
- Special Selection, International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany
- "Recipes. Contemporary Art Manual", Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
1998 - “Archive", 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
- "The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession", Helsinki
- "Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraeftemessen II", Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lothringer strasse, Munich,
Germany
- "The Century of Artistic Freedom. 100 Years Vienna Secession", Wien
- "Art and Notes", Municipal Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria
1997 - "Back and Forth", 3rd International Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
- “Photographics” project, International Print Biennial Varna’97, Bulgaria
- "ARS EX NATIO. Made in BG", 4th Annual Exhibition of the SCA - Sofia, Plovdiv
1996 - "Bulgarian Glimpse Show", Moscow
- "Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova", IV St. Petersburg Biennial, Russia
- "Art on Wheels", project of "Food Carrier/Papp", Munich, Germany
- "Art in Landscape", International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- "Plastic Image of the 90-ies", National Palace of Culture, Sofia
- “The Art Colony, Galichnik”, Skopje
1995 - "Art in Landscape", International Symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- “30 Grand Prix”, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
- “Projects by...”, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
- “AFRICUS", 1st International Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994 - Section 13, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
- “Book-Art", International Show of the program of KulturKontakt, Horn, Austria
- ARTEST, Sredetz Gallery, Sofia
- “N-forms? Reconstructions and Interpretations", Soros Center for the Arts, Sofia
- “Moisture - Plainair of Avant-garde Art", Arkoutino, Bulgaria
- Show of The Art Colony, Galichnik, Macedonia
- “Ritual = Art, Art = Ritual", 3rd Multimedia Festival, Sofia
- “In Search for the Self-Reflection", Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- “The Artists of LETTRE INTERNATIONALE" Magazine, Wien
- “The Nail", Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1993 - “Works on Paper", Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia
- 1st International Print Biennial, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- International Print Biennial, Biella, Italy
1992 - “Exhibition of the Artists Born under the Zodiacal Sign of Cancer", Sofia
- “Hair from a Brush", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “Medical Check-up", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1991 - International Triennial of Prints, Krakow, Poland
- “Illusions, Illusions...", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “Happy-end”, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1990 - “Moderate Avant-garde within the Framework of Tradition", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “End of Quotation", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
- “10/10/10", Club of the (eternally) Young Artist,
1987 - “Authors' Proof", Sofia
since
1984 (biannually) - National Biennial of Illustration and Book-Design, Sofia
1983 (biannually) - International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
Curatorial Experience:
1999 - Bulgarian participation at the “Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkans",
National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; State Exhibition Hall, Bucharest; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
1994 - “The Artists of LETTRE INTERNATIONAL", Magazine, Wien
1992 - “Exhibition of the Artists Born under the Zodiacal Sign of Cancer”, Sofia
1990 - “Moderate Avant-garde within the Framework of Tradition”, Club of the (eternally) Young Artist, Sofia
1989 - Young Bulgarian Graphic Artists, Moscow, Russia; Ulan-Bator, Mongolia
1987 - “Authors' Proof", Sofia
Residencies:
2005 - Saskala ArtRadius, Haukivuori, Finland
2004 - Independent Projects, ArtsLink Program, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2002 - Ziel 1 = Kunst = Ziel 1, Burgenland, Austria
1999 - ArtsLink Program, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Drechtoevers Sculpture Park, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
1996 - "Art in Landscape", international symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
1995 - "Art in Landscape", international symposium, Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
- KulturKontakt' studios, Vienna
1994 - Program "Book-Art", KulturKontakt, Horn, Austria
- The Art Colony, Galichnik, Macedonia
1993 - ARTEST/BINZ 39, Kulturzentrum Scuol-Nairs, Switzerland.
Education:
1983 - National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia
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