Kamen Stoyanov
Born in Rousse, Bulgaria in 1977
Kamen Stoyanov the Bulgarian artist living in Vienna often deals with the questions of identity, migration, historical definition, social and cultural communication in his works by gathering first-hand experiences of the social, artistic and cultural relations of the given country as a scholarship-holder.
He uses the urban public places and the architectural environment as exhibition spaces, themes of photography and contrasts them with the current or inherited cultural relations, habits. The real participants of cultural life and he himself pose in his provocative and ironic works.
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Biography
| 2008 | Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig |
| 2007 | Prize for Visual Arts of the City of Vienna MUMOK Prize, Viennafair Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris |
| 2006 | Stipend from BKA, Austria for residency in Rome |
| 2005 | Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
Single exhibitions
| 2009 | Chinese Rap and Another Stories, Inda Gallery, Budapest Looking for an Art Piece, Kunstverein Salzburg |
| 2008 | Forget it, we can not afford this, Studio Galeria, Budapest Just a photo, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna At Arm's` Length, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna |
| 2007 | Places where the world breaks away, Let´s go to Giurgiu, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia Places where the world breaks away, Let´s go to Giurgiu, Canneti House, Rousse |
| 2006 | Less Politics, Plattform, Raum fuer Kunst, Vienna |
| 2005 | Bingo topology, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt We are late, Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna |
| 2004 | Modality, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia |
| 2003 | WORK/S (with Vasilena Gankovska), Irida Gallery, Sofia |
| 2002 | FINE (with Vasilena Gankovska), MAK Galerie, Vienna |
Group exhibitions
| 2010 | Best Before End, Inda Gallery, Budapest |
| 2009 | ATLANTIS I , Hidden Histories – New Identities. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, REFLECTION OF TOMORROW, Art today association , Center for contemporary art Plovdiv, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Feedback 1989– 20 years fall of the berlin wall, Exhibition at Hotel Dajti, Tirana Common History and Its Private Stories. Geschichte und Geschichten, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna FERNE NÄHE, Zyklus 4.0, Zeitgenösische Kunst aus Mitteleuropa, Stift Lilienfeld, Austria After Ego, Art today association , Center for contemporary art Plovdiv, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria BAZA Award for Contemporary Art: Exhibition of the Nominee Artists, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Landscape, contemporary, Haus der Fotografie-Dr. Robert-Gerlich-Museum, Burghausen, Germany Flavors of Austria, Taf- the Art Founfation, Athens |
| 2008 | MANIFESTA 7, the european biennial of contemporary art, Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy Gyumri 6th International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2008, GCCA - Gyumri Centre of Contemporary Art, Armenien Neo-Si, Galerie Tristesse, Berlin Am Sprung, OK, center for contemporary art, Linz Stay, Stay, Stay, Central Bathhouse, 1 Banski Square, Sofia Transfert, La BF15, Lyon Where the east ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden OPEN SKY. Räume jenseits ihrer Praxis, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz“ For a happier tomorrow, Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark Manual CC – Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, Uqbar, Berlin Trespassing, Inda Galerie, Budapest In Passing 1, Kuenstlerhauspassage, Vienna |
| 2007 | Nightcomers Videoscreening, International Istanbul Biennale Lange nicht gesehen. Begegnungen mit dem Museum auf Abruf, MUSA, Vienna Multiplicities, ARC projects, Sofia Between Welcome and Goodbye, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia In Search Of Lost Time, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Shrinking cities, Dauhaus, Sofia |
| 2006 | Last Minute, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig Shrinking Cities, Rousse Art Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria Every Day, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg WAZZUP, Fotogalerie, Vienna Visual Immortality, 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Shumen Heute kein Evidenzproblem, Westlicht, Vienna |
| 2005 | Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna I can See Clearly Now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna colectionwise, Galerie 5020, Salzburg Update, Künstlerhaus, Vienna |
| 2004 | Kunst als Fotografie, Fotografie als Kunst , Semperdepot, Wien Art Position, Otakringerbrauerei, Vienna Line/Spot, Black Dragon Society, Vienna Reproduction without Alternative, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia The Globalisation and the Human, Theatherwerkstaette, Sofia Next Europe, Künstlerhaus, Vienna |
| 2003 | Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan, Essl Collection, Vienna (Curator Harald Szeemann) Mutual Fields, Galerie 5020, Salzburg Wo steht der Baum der uns trennte, off space, Vienna |
| 2002 | The Portrait, Irida gallery, Sofia Endlich sechs und 20, Westlicht, Vienna KUHnst, Maskfoundtion, Vienna Border Crossing Reconsidered - Beyond Hybridity, Fringe Club, Hong Kong |
| 2001 | Cartridge Box, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia Looming Up, Aspekte Galerie der Munchner Volkshochschule, Munich; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna Trendification, Real Presence, Belgrade |
| 2000 | Unique Sign - Unique Location, Mostar, Bosnia - Herzegovina |