PETER
TZANEV
Artist and art historian
EDUCATION:
MFA in Graphics (1992), National Academy of Arts, Sofia
Ph.D. in History of Art (1999), National Academy of Arts, Sofia
Ph.D. in Art Psychology (2009), National Academy of Arts, Sofia
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Professor of art psychology and chair of the Department of Art Psychology and Art Education at National Academy of Arts, Sofia (2011)
BOOKS INCLUDE: Psychology of Art (2008);
Psychological Approaches to the Art History (2009)
EDITORIAL POSITIONS HELD: Contributing editor, Art & Critic; editor in chief, ArtPsychology.net / Journal of Art Psychology
CURATORIAL WORKS INCLUDE: “Visual Immortality”, 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Shumen (2004)
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2015 |
Disconnecting of the Object, Goethe-Institut, Sofia |
2012 |
Unbroken Tools, Center for Visual and Multisensory Art, Plovdiv |
2011 |
Hidden Sources, Arosita Gallery, Sofia |
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2011 |
Empathic Tools, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia |
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2011 |
Empathic Tools, Rafael Mihailov Art Center, Veliko Tarnovo |
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2010 |
Unpredictably Transparent. Heterochronic Installations, Gallery Atelie Plastelin, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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2009 |
Ectoplastic Drawings and Installations, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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2006 |
Exercises in Perfection, Irida Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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2005 |
Hallucinating Objects, Gallery Salon 77, Nis, Serbia |
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2002 |
Victims of Decorating, XXL Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 |
Redefining the Space of Everyday Life, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul |
| 2014 | The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District, Kunst und Kulturförderung, Berlin |
2014 |
Recorded Memories, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest |
2014 |
The Untold Abstraction. Thematically directions and cross points of the abstract in Bulgarian art from the end of the 50s until 2014, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6, Sofia |
2013 |
Europe. South East - Recorded Memories - Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig |
2012 |
International Festival of Glass – Sofia 2012, Art Glass Exhibition Bulgaria – America, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia |
| 2012 | Why Duchamp? From Object to Museum and Back, Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia |
| 2012 | New Painting, Yuzina Art Gallery, Sofia |
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2011 |
Shortlist – Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia |
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2011 |
Unlimited – M-Tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Benchmark Business Center, Sofia |
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2009 |
M-Tel Annual Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Varna Industrial Port, Warehouse No. 7, Varna, Bulgaria |
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2008 |
Shortlist 2008 – Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Sofia Art Gallery, Bulgaria A-A-H! All about Him, Goethe - Institute , Sofia, Bulgaria SOFIA UNDERGROUND / ALONE, International Festival of Action and Performance, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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2007 |
Visual Immortality VI, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland Strategies in the Context of Childhood, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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2006 |
Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Srpska Gallery, Nis, Serbia Die Kunst des Kraftaktes oder der Triumph des Sisyphus, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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2005 |
Donumenta 2005, Regensburg, Germany Transformation of Reality into Ideology, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria |
CONTACT: peter_tzanev@yahoo.com