DANIELA IVANOVA KOSTOVA

BORN: 15 June 1974, Sofia, Bulgaria Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria,
k. Mladost 1A, blk.503, en.2, ap.40 Tel.:++ 359 2 76 68 41
E-mail: danykosto@hotmail.com URL: www.daniela.dir.bg

EDUCATION:
1998 - National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2001 - “Frame”, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy - “Play back”, curated by Boris Kostadinov, ATA Center, Sofia 1999 - "Life is cinema", XXL Gallery, Sofia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2001 - Tirana Biennale, Tirana - “Shop Art”, Sofia - “Trendification”, Graz, Austria - “Looming up”, curated by Walter Sedl, Vienna - WRO 01 9th International Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland - “Sculpture Time” , Skopie - “Macrovideo”, Sofia

2000 - "Onufri"; National Gallery, Tirana - "Video Medeja" Festival, Novi Sad - "Videoarchaeology"- International Video art Festival, curated by Boris Kostadinov , Sofia - "At Room Temperature"; curated by Desi Dimova ;"Hot spot" installation, Alternative space, Sofia - "Transfestival", "Labin Art Express", Labin, Croatia - "Balkan Art Generator", Ohrid, Macedonia - "Balkan Art Generator", Brusseles - "Subjects and Shadows", curated by Maria Vasileva; "Frame", video installation, ATA Center for Contemporary art, Sofia - "Anti- Feminism/Anti- Machismo"; "Fair play", video installation, XXL, Sofia - "Paranoia Style", curated by Desi Dimova; "Cover", video, ATA Center, Sofia

1999 - "Life is cinema", action, XXL Gallery, Sofia - "Betaville", curated by Ilina Koralova and Andreas Spigel;"Mikrolife", video installation, Sofia - "Millenium bug", curated by Diego Espozito; "On focus", installation, XXL Gallery, Sofia - "Culture - Subculture", Annual Soros Exhibition;"De Ja Vu", performance, &"Videocatalogue", Varna - "Sky party", video, Alternative Space,Sofia - "Alternative galleries"; "Videocatalogue", Bath, Plovdiv - "Young critics present young artists"; Sofia - Multimedia Catalogue Promotion with BoryanaDragoeva and Mindstorm , Club "Grease", Sofia - Sofia Underground Festival, curated by Ruen Ruenov;"De Ja Vu", performance, Sofia

1998 - Sofia Underground Festival, curated by Ruen Ruenov;"Double Fault", performance, Sofia - "Ubertraung"; "Double fault", performance; Leipzig, Germany -

1997 - "Individual topographies"; Sofia City Gallery - "Laborart ", Karlukovo, Bulgaria, workshop participant and curator - Process / Space Festival, curated by Dimitar Grozdanov; "Three Fates", installation, Balchik, Bulgaria - Drawing 97; "Personal Hygiene", installation, XXL Gallery, Sofia, - "Macroland", workshop by Mike Hentz;"Agorafobia", installation; "Izothink", performance, Viena

1996 - "Expressing Handicap", art competition; "Life is Cinema", painting , Forum Flandro Bulgaricum , Sofia

GRANTS/AWARDS:
2000 - Onufri 2000, First Prize of the International Competition on Visual Arts, Tirana 1999 - Young Artist Award - "Art in Bulgaria" magazine 1996 - Grant in competition "Expressing Handicap", Sofia

LET’S DANCE - CLOTHES FOR COLLECTIVE LIFE - XXL Gallery, Sofia, 199729


"Fair play", video installation, XXL, Sofia

"On focus", installation, XXL Gallery, Sofia


"Frame", video installation, ATA Center for Contemporary art, Sofia

1999 - "Life is cinema", action, XXL Gallery, Sofia