Bio

Atanas Botev

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.

From National Treasure

Workshop, artist in resident and symposium

2010

He has participated on the conference New History of Modern Art-Eastern Europian Avant-gardes at the University of Chicago

2009

Workshop with Juta Bauer, Goethe Institute, Belgrad .

2008

Workshop in Santa Fe (New Mexico)

2006

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


Awards

2006

Young Visual Artists Annual Award DENES 2006 Skopje
Sponzor’s Award, 4th International Sloon of Comix, Belgrad

1996

Annual award of Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje
“26 of July” fondation Frank Harcord Manning, Skopje


Solo exhibitions

2012

Skopje, Lucid Synesthetic Dialogue, Gallery OKO

2010

Nurnberg, Der Kreis Gallery
Skopje, Deus Sex Machina, Museum of the City of Skopje

2008

Skopje, What deconstruction is not?, Cultural Center Information

2007

Skopje, An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, press to exit project space

2006

New York, Kinds of Sight(s), MC Gallery

2005

Skopje, Museum of the City of Skopje

2003

Skopje, Kinds of Sight(s), Cultural Center- Tocka

2000

Skopje, Open Graphic Art Studio


Group exhibitions

2013

Groznjan, Ritam, Gallery FonticusSkopje, 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

2012

Tirana (Albania), ALARM Project, Art Contact Festival, Porto Palermo

Skopje, Creating New Witnesses to the Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Center if the Jews

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

Skopje, Creativity and Disaster, Museum of Contemporary Art

Paris (France), 107 Macedonian artists, Cite International des ArtNis (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

2007

Paris (France), Ensamble(s), Cite Internationale des Art

Bitola, Old Space- New Line, Magaza Gallery

Varsava (Poland), Contemporary Macedonian Drawing, Gallery BWASkopje, Super(h)EROS, Mala Stanica-National Gallery

Belgrad (Serbia), Golden Pen of Belgrad 2007, Biennial of illustration, Gallery Progres

2006

Skopje, Continental Breakfast- MEMORY (W)HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art

Shamalier (France), International Triennial of Graphic ArtBitola, 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 Gallery

2005

Skopje, 7th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art

Bratislava (Slovakia), 20th Biennial of illustrationVarna (Bulgaria), 13th International Graphic Biennial

New York , Art and Religion, MC Gallery

2004

Belgrad (SCG), New Macedonian Comix, Happy Gallery- SKC

Skopje, Almanac-Karlotta Blondal’s Project (NIFCA), Open Graphic Art Studio

Osijek (Croatia), New Macedonian Graphic ArtVeles (Macedonia), Graphic Circle-International mini print Biennial

2003

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 illustration

Rijeka (Croatia), Man and Fish- Ex-Libris

Ostrow Wielkopolski (Poland), International Biennial of small format and Ex-Libris, Museum Miasta

2002

Skopje, Body Thinks, Open Graphic Art Studio

2001

Zagreb, (Croatia), The month of contemporary macedonian culture, Matica Hrvatska

Skopje, Comic in Movement, Museum of Contemporary Art

1998

Rijeka (Croatia), 50 Anniversary of the Council of Europe – Ex Libris


Performances

2012

Gevgelija, Possible City Project (BOSH Festival)

2011

Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Possible City Project

2010

Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Coffee and cigarettes
Bitola, Coffee and cigarettes (AKTO festival)

2009

Skopje, SKOPJE URBAN STORIES: Autograph


Publications / Bibliography

( 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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