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

2011

Empathic Tools, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia

2011

Empathic Tools, Rafael Mihailov Art Center, Veliko Tarnovo

2010

Unpredictably Transparent. Heterochronic Installations, Gallery Atelie Plastelin,

Sofia, Bulgaria

2009

Ectoplastic Drawings and Installations, National Centre for Contemporary Art,

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria

2006

Exercises in Perfection, Irida Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2005

Hallucinating Objects, Gallery Salon 77, Nis, Serbia

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

2011

Shortlist – Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia

2011

Unlimited – M-Tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Benchmark Business Center, Sofia

2009

M-Tel Annual Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Varna Industrial Port,

Warehouse No. 7, Varna, Bulgaria

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

2007

Visual Immortality VI, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland

Strategies in the Context of Childhood, National Centre for Contemporary Art,

Sofia, Bulgaria

2006

Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Srpska Gallery, Nis, Serbia

Die Kunst des Kraftaktes oder der Triumph des Sisyphus, Klinikum der Stadt

Ludwigshafen, Germany

2005

Donumenta 2005, Regensburg, Germany

Transformation of Reality into Ideology, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

CONTACT: peter_tzanev@yahoo.com

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