BIOSAMUIL STOYANOV  ( Dobrich. Bulgaría 1975)

Samuil Stoyanov is an artist and cultural activist who lives and works in Dobrich and Sofia,Bulgaria. Aside from many international group shows, Stoyanov has nine solo exhibitions, the last of which at the Institute for Contemporary Art - Sofia Gallery,Bulgaria, 2010, titled ON THE TOP – Exhibition of Samuil Stoyanov and its Effect on Global Warming. He is the winner of nine artist’s awards, the most significant of which are the BAZA Award, 2009 and the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art, 2011.

In 2010 he was a resident artist at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP),New York,USA.

Samuil was represented in Frieze Magazine by Nedko Solakov for the anniversary issue 141, September 2011 (20/20 article). Stoyanov works in the field of all the existing media, by multilevel treating various subjects of the day, trying to execute and investigate different aspects of the topics he is interested. Sometimes he is skeptical and often with the means of sharp irony.

Education:

2001 - MA in Ceramics, National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria in the studio of Professor Ivanna Eneva

Professional experiences and activities:

2010 - Residence at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2010 - Curator of What’s Up?20 Years Later Exhibition(together with Zdravko Toshev), Dobrich, Bulgaria

2011 - Participation in Art of Urban Intervention Project, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Italy and the Netherlands

2011 - Organizer of the Number of Mine Photo-competition dedicated to the ongoing at that time political elections

2011 - Working with the institutions. Latest activities, presentation for contempo.lab, Varna, Bulgaria

2012 - Curator of Recipes Project, Dobrich, Bulgaria

2012 - Lecturer at Art Gallery Dobrich, high school students.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2012 - The Sun and Other Stars, Astronomical observatory Nicolaus Copernicus Varna, Bulgaria

2010 - ON THE TOP – Exhibition of Samuil Stoyanov and it’s Effect on Global Warming,

ICA-Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria

2009 - Company of Captain B.C. (The Night Watch), Bulart Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

2007 - Kick the Time, Siemens artLab, Vienna, Austria; Curator: Maria Vassileva

2004 - Reverse, ATA Center/ ICA, Sofia, Bulgaria; Curator: Vessela Nozharova

Selected group exhibitions:

2012

URBAN DREAMS, The Ancient Bath, Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv, Bulgaria

53rd Belgrade October Salon; GOOD LIFE / ГУД ЛАЈФ (Physical narratives and spatial imaginations); Location: Old Geodesic Institute, 48 Karadjordjeva Street, Belgrade; Curators: Branislav Dimitrijevi? and Mika Hannula

Recipes Project, Temporary space and Art Gallery, Dobrich, Bulgaria

Interstices, Artycok.TV Online Exhibition; Curator: Eriola Pira

MusTempo, Graffit Gallery - Varna, Bulgaria; Curator: Maria Vassileva

Why Duchamp? From object to museum and back (125 years), Curator: Maria Vassileva, Sofia Arsenal - Museum for Contemporary Art

2011

East of Best, Roodkapje, Rotterdam/NL; curated by KOLEKTIF and Eric van Hartigh

exi[s]t>15 bulart, Bulart Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

Art Of Urban Intervention, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria

IRONAPPLAUSE.NET - YVAA Exhibition and Symposium in Bratislava, Slovakia; Curators

of the exhibition: Lucia Gavulova /SK/ & Tijana Stepanovic /HU/

Shortlist 2011, Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Sofia, Bulgaria

An Elusive Object of Art, part of curated by_vienna 2011: EAST by SOUTH WEST, Dana

Charkasi Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Curator: Iara Boubnova

After the Flight, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria; Curator: Iara Boubnova

2010

Museum Souvenirs, ICA-Sofia Gallery, Bulgaria

"Qui Vive?" 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art; Liberty, MMoMA;

Curators: SergeyYerkov and Daria Kamyshnikova

The Big Wave, 8th Biennial of Contemporary Art "August in Art", Varna, Bulgaria, Curator:

Maria Vassileva

Sites of Memory: Architecture and Remembering, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York;

Curator: William Stover

The Other Eye / Luchezar Boyadjiev: Artist in the Storage, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2009

From Ideology to Economy. Contemporary Bulgarian Art 20 years later, The State Central 

Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow, Russia; Curators: Iara Boubnova and

Maria Vassileva

con.tempo - weekend for contemporary art, Varna, Bulgaria; Curator: Dora Doncheva

M-Tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Port of Varna, Bulgaria

Shortlist 2009, Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Sofia, Bulgaria

Selected awards:

2011 - Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art - category "Advanced Artists"

2010 - Bulart Gallery annual award

2009 - BAZA Award for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria part of Young Visual Artist Awards

2007 - First Prize in TOGETHER since 1957 - Competition for art project organized by

Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2003 - Debutantes in the Field of Contemporary Arts and Culture Project Fund, April session:

Reverse/photo-video installation

2000 - Appointed by the academic jury to represent the Bulgarian National Academy of Arts

at the Second International Student Triennial, Istanbul, Turkey