Atanas Botev graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje (graphic art), 1997.
He received MA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 1999. He is working as custodian on the Open Graphc Art Studio in the Museum of the City of Skopje. Besides the graphic arts he takes up paintings, drawings, installations, performances.
He has participated on the conference New History of Modern Art-Eastern Europian Avant-gardes at the University of Chicago
Workshop with Juta Bauer, Goethe Institute, Belgrad .
Workshop in Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Study stay in Cite International des Arts in Paris.
The same year a stay in New York as ISCP (international studio & curatorial program) artist in resident
Out of the Studio, Art in General, NYC
Open Studio, ISCP, NYC
Young Visual Artists Annual Award DENES 2006 Skopje
Sponzor’s Award, 4th International Sloon of Comix, Belgrad
Annual award of Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje
"26 of July" fondation Frank Harcord Manning, SkopjeSkopje, Lucid Synesthetic Dialogue, Gallery OKO
Nurnberg, Der Kreis Gallery
Skopje, Deus Sex Machina, Museum of the City of Skopje
Skopje, What deconstruction is not?, Cultural Center Information
Skopje, An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, press to exit project space
New York, Kinds of Sight(s), MC Gallery
Skopje, Museum of the City of Skopje
Skopje, Kinds of Sight(s), Cultural Center- Tocka
Skopje, Open Graphic Art Studio
Groznjan, Ritam, Gallery Fonticus
Skopje, Generation XXX, Museum of the City of Skopje
Skopje, Osten-Biennial of awarded artists, MANU (Macedonian Academy of Sience and Art)
Skopje, Art and Dictature-Retrogarde Narratives, Museum of the City of Skopje
Tirana (Albania), ALARM Project, Art Contact Festival, Porto Palermo
Skopje, Creating New Witnesses to the Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Center if the Jews
Groznjan, Istra (Croatia), Plavo, Gallery Fonticus
Skopje, ALARM 2:1, Open Graphic Art Studio
Skopje, Hacked places /Hacked Faces-International curatorial video art project, Open Graphic Art Studio
Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Skopje between Science and Fiction; City Lab Project
Madrid (Spain), Project-4 International festival
Madrid (Spain), DVD Project-3 International festival (Macedonian video art selection)
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Sarajevska zima-Vatra, Gallery Collegium Artisticum
Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vatra, Gallery Aluminij
Ohrid, Alarm Container
Bitola, (Never)Work - Akto Festival
Skopje, Identites-8th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art
Groznjan, Istra (Croatia), Art Colony Groznjan 2009, Gallery Fonticus
Pristina (Kosovo), Identites-8th Biennial if Young Artists, Kosova Art Gallery
Groznjan, Istra (Croatia), Vatra, Gallery Fonticus
Sofija (Bulgaria), The month of contemporary macedonian artists, National Palace of Culture
Skopje, World Bank and Swiss Ambassy presents:Climate Change, Swiss Ambassy Gallery
Zenica (Croatia), Fire, Museum of the City of Zenica
Skopje, Creativity and Disaster, Museum of Contemporary Art
Paris (France), 107 Macedonian artists, Cite International des Art
Nis (Serbia), Golden Pen of Belgrad 2007, Gallery Nis
Subotica (Serbia), Golden Pen of Belgrad 2007, Modern Gallery Likovni susret
Sombor (Serbia), Golden Pen of Belgrad 2007, Ciltural center Laza Kostic
Texas (USA), Creativity and Disaster, Weil Gallery
Novi Sad (Serbia), Space for New Dialog, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Skopje, Curatorial Workshop, Open Graphic Art Studio
Skopje, Graphicon, Open Graphic Art Studio
Paris (France), Ensamble(s), Cite Internationale des Art
Bitola, Old Space- New Line, Magaza Gallery
Varsava (Poland), Contemporary Macedonian Drawing, Gallery BWA
Skopje, Super(h)EROS, Mala Stanica-National Gallery
Belgrad (Serbia), Golden Pen of Belgrad 2007, Biennial of illustration, Gallery Progres
Skopje, Continental Breakfast- MEMORY (W)HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art
Shamalier (France), International Triennial of Graphic Art
Bitola, 5th International Triennial of Graphic Art, Art Gallery
Skopje, Young Visual Artist Award DENES 2006, Kursumli An-Museum of Macedonia
Sumen (Bulgaria), Visual Immortality-International Biennial forContemporary Art
Utrecht (Holland), Eastern Neighbours, Cultural Center Babel
Belgrad (SCG), 4th Interernational Sloon of Comix, Happy Gallery- SKC
Pristina ( Kosovo), Young Visual Artists Award Winner 2006
Sofia ( Bulgaria), New Macedonian Graphic Art, Sofia Press Gallery
New York, Open studio, ISCP
Skopje, On Line, Multimedial center Mala Stanica-National GallerySkopje, 7th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art
Bratislava (Slovakia), 20th Biennial of illustration
Varna (Bulgaria), 13th International Graphic Biennial
New York , Art and Religion, MC Gallery
Belgrad (SCG), New Macedonian Comix, Happy Gallery- SKC
Skopje, Almanac-Karlotta Blondal’s Project (NIFCA), Open Graphic Art Studio
Osijek (Croatia), New Macedonian Graphic Art
Veles (Macedonia), Graphic Circle-International mini print Biennial
Skopje, 6 th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art
Bitola, 4th International Triennial of Graphic Art, Art Gallery
Bratislava (Slovakia)
19 th Biennial of illustrationRijeka (Croatia), Man and Fish- Ex-Libris
Ostrow Wielkopolski (Poland), International Biennial of small format and Ex-Libris, Museum Miasta
Skopje, Body Thinks, Open Graphic Art Studio
Zagreb, (Croatia), The month of contemporary macedonian culture, Matica Hrvatska
Skopje, Comic in Movement, Museum of Contemporary Art
Rijeka (Croatia), 50 Anniversary of the Council of Europe - Ex Libris
Gevgelija, Possible City Project (BOSH Festival)
Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Possible City Project
Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Coffee and cigarettes
Bitola, Coffee and cigarettes (AKTO festival)
Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Autograph
( P)reference, Open Graphic Art Studio, 2000 (Brochure; Konca Pirkovska)
Body things, Open Graphic Art Studio 2002 (Catalogue; Suzana Milevska, curator)
Kinds of Sight(s), Cultural center Tocka, 2003 (Brochure; Suzana Milevska, curator)
Comic, Tomislav Osmanli (Publisher: Kultura, 2004)
Conceptualization of the Manifestable, Museum of the City of Skopje, 2005 (Catalogue, Aleksandar Stankovski)
7th Biennial of Young Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005 (The Large Glass No.19/20, art magazine; Ana Frangovska)
Macedonian Comic, (Art Republic No.6, 2006, art magazin; Vladimir Velickovski)
Litle Nocturne (and other drawing, oneirisms and foolishness), Mala Stanica-National Gallery, 2006 (Brochure; Nikola Gelevski)
About contemporary macedonian comics (Stripburek, strip magazin; Ivanka Apostolova)
About the art...and helthcare (Utrinski vesnik, daily news, 2007; Zlatko Teodosievski)
Super(h)EROS, Mala Stanica-National Gallery, 2007 (Catalogue, Sonja Abadzieva)
Art with atitide and massage (Nova Makedonija, daily news, 2008; Vladimir Velickovski)
Want Deconstruction is Not? ( Dnevnik, daily news, 2008; Nadica Smilevska)
The Art in an Age of the Television, the Billboards and the Terrorism, Cultural Center Information, 2008 (Catalogue, Sonja Abadzieva)
Fire, Gallery Fonticus, 2009 (CD-rom catalogue; Eugen Borkovsky, curator)
Macedonian Art - XX century, 2009 (Publicher: Macedonian Academy of Art and Science, Maja Cankulovska)
Deus Sex Machina, Museum of the City of Skopje, 2010 (Art book, publicher: Museum of the City of Skopje; Emil Aleksiev)
Machines and Their Desires, Museum of the City of Skopje, 2010 (Art book, publicher: Museum of the City of Skopje; Goce Smilevski)
Plavo, Groznjan (Istra), Gallery Fonticus, 2011 (CD rom catalogue; Eugen Borkovsky, curator)
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