Pravdoliub Ivanov

Pravdoliub Ivanov, born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia. His art includes installation, photography, object and drawing. In 1993 he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. He has worked at his Alma Mater as Assistant Professor since 1996. He is also a member of the Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia.

He represented Bulgaria at the Venice Biennale (2007); participated in the biennales in: Berlin (2006); Athens (2006); Sydney (2004); Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana (2000); Stanbul (1995); Triennale in Milano (2017). He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in among others: Fridericianum Museum, Kassel (2003); Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg (2003); Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (2009); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011); MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow (2012); TANAS and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2013); Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2015); Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2016); Arsenal Gallery, Białystok (2019). He was a fellow of the Henry Moore Foundation, CES Artslink in New York, KulturKontakt in Austria and others. The artist took part in the residence Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

His works are part of the international institutional and private collections: Deutsche Bank; Deutsche Telekom; ERSTE Bank in Vienna; Europe Investment Bank in Luxembourg; Koc Collection in Istambul; National Gallery, Sofia; Arsenal Gallery, Białystok.

Web: www.pravdo.com

Exhibitions in the gallery: Half-truth, Just Another Boring Day, Neglectable Incidents at the Level of the Eyes

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