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^о 1966 in Vratsa, Bulgaria

Tzvetelina Maximova is a Veliko Tarnovo based visual artist. She works in the field of contemporary visual arts – painting, graphics, land art objects and installations, uses classical and experimental techniques as well natural materials, pigments, wood, paper..

Activity:

·         Solo exhibition, September 2024 – NARRATIVA gallery, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

·         Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022, 2023, 2024 - Nature Art Cube 12x12x12+Nature
          exhibition, Korea, (catalogue)

·         VI Balkan Quadrennial of Painting The Myths and Legends of My People, Stara Zagora,                          Bulgaria 2024, (catalogue)

·         Project AUGUST IN ART – Curator Rumen Serafimov, Boris Georgiev Art gallery, Varna,
          Bulgaria 2023, (catalogue)

·         BUILDING WINGS III, 2023, Zwischen Schwerkraft und Leichtigkeit, Scheune Lehen, Austria

·         Triennial National Exhibition "Veliko Tarnovo - Space for Inspiration", Bulgaria 2023,                          (catalogue)

·         60 years of Dobrich Art gallery, Bulgaria 2023, (catalogue)

·         Solo exhibition, April 2023 – 10 Orlovska gallery, Gabrovo, Bulgaria

·         Exhibition PHENOMENOLOGY - 10 Orlovska gallery, Gabrovo, Bulgaria 2023

·         II Tsukuba Biennale 2022, Tsukuba Art Center, Japan

·         Project ART AS OPPOSITION – Curators Rumen Serafimov and Cvetan Krastev, Boris Georgiev
          Art gallery Varna, Bulgaria 2022, (catalogue)

·         National Exhibition of Fine Arts 2022, Sliven, Bulgaria, Nominations, (catalogue)

·         Project BUILDING WINGS, DEPOO gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 2022

·         Festival for treskultur og innovativ trearkitektur I Stor-Elvdal 2022, Sollia, Norway

·         Project TRAVELLING TO EAST, CAM MUSEUM, Napoli, Italy 2022

·         GNAP - France 2021, Saint-Lactencin and the Communauté de Communes Val de l’Indre /
          Brenne, France (catalogue)

·         PAPER and COLOR - The Paper workshop, curator Dobrich Art Gallery, Bulgaria 2021 (catalog)

·         Project 7x5x3 - Contemporary Bulgarian Painting, Project "MACROmicron - Limited Infinity",
          curator Elitsa Terzieva - part of seven discussion fields in contemporary Bulgarian painting,
          Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria 2021 (catalogue)

·         GNAP - France 2020, on-line exhibition, Korea (catalogue)

·         VI Tsukuba International Artist in Residence program, Tsukuba Art Center, Japan 2018

·         One of organizers and participants of GNAP Estern Europe, Rural Stages, Gabrovrsi, 2017

·         IV Tsukuba International Artist in Residence program, Tsukuba Art Center, Japan 2016

·         One of organizers and participants of yearly Gabrovtsi ART-NAture Symposium 2012-2022

·         Green Gallery Residence, Israel 2014

·         50-th  Anniversary of Dobrich Art gallery, Bulgaria 2013, (catalogue)

·         Curator and organizer of Graphical workshop Small format, 2006-2008, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

·         IWANO Project Residence 2006 – Novi Sad, Serbia

·         Curator and organizer of Duppini project Traces-Projections, Bulgaria 2005

·         One of organizers and participants of yearly Duppini workshops, Bulgaria 2001-2007

 

Additional qualification:

2009                    Specialization in Cite des Arts, Paris, France

2004                    Member of Union of Bulgarian Artists

2000-2022           Member of Duppini Art Association

 

Awards:

2025   National exhibition-competition "Oh, happy days", Award for an established visual artist, 10 Orlovska gallery, Gabrovo, Association "ARTeria", Bulgaria

2022   Nominations for Painting and by Union of Bulgarian Artists Nomination – National Art exhibition - Sliven 2022, Bulgaria

2021   Award of Veliko Tarnovo Municipality – 7 Biennale of Ecclesiastical Arts

2020   Nomination for Painting, 10 Biannual of the small art forms, Ilia Beshkov gallery, Pleven, Bulgaria

2019   Nomination for Graphics, Allianz Bulgaria National Awards, V. Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2017   Award for Painting, Allianz Bulgaria National Awards, Ruse, Bulgaria

2017   Nomination for Painting, National exhibition Veliko Tarnovo-space for inspiration, V. Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2015   Nomination for Painting, Allianz Bulgaria National Awards, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2011    Award for Painting, Allianz Bulgaria National Awards, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2009    Specialization in Cite des Arts, Paris, Francе

2008    Honour Prize - Painting, Biannual of the small art forms, Ilia Beshkov gallery, Pleven, Bulgaria

2003    Award for Painting, Autumn fine arts exhibition, Rafael Mihailov, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2002    First price for Young artists, with Duppini Art group, Exhibition of the young painters, Rafael Mihailov Art hall, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

1999    First price at the International competition 2000 Years under the Bethlehem Star, Odessa, Ukraine 

Ownership works: Tsukuba Art center – Japan; Geumgang Nature Art Biennale – Korea; Green Gallery, Israel; Casoria Contemporary Art Museum – Naples, Italy; public collections of Allianz Bulgaria and Union of Bulgarian Artists; IWANO Project collection – Serbia; American College Veliko Tarnovo – Arcus collection; Duppini Art center - Gabrovtsi; Bulgarian Art galleryes: Veliko Tarnovo, Dobrich, Razgrad, Radnevo, Stara Zagora, Varna, Pomorie; private collections in the country and abroad.

7x5x3 - Contemporary Bulgarian Painting - Seven discussion fields of contemporary Bulgarian painting 2021

Project "MACROmicron - Limited Infinity"
curator Elitsa Terzieva

part of Project 7x5x3 - Contemporary Bulgarian Painting 2021
seven discussion fields of contemporary Bulgarian painting (catalogue)

https://sbh.bg/en/za-nas/fondacija/proekti/7-h-5-h-3-sedem-diskusionni-poleta-v-syvremennata-bylgarska-jivopis/1/494

March 10 – April 10, 2021
The Gallery of the UBA, 6 Shipka Str.

The 7 х 5 х 3 project brought together 7 curator projects, presenting 5 authors by 3 works each. It was motivated by the rise of a new generation of art critics and artists, working in the conditions of a dynamically changing art scene. In its essence, this was a exploratory project attempting to find an answer to what is happening today within the broad and multifaceted space of contemporary Bulgarian painting.

The 7 х 5 х 3 project was an update of the three editions of the 10 х 5 х 3 project, which is now well in the past. In 2001, 2006 and 2011, some 30 points of view were proposed and 150 artists were presented who had contributed to the shaping of new trends in the development of contemporary Bulgarian painting. This later project involved 7 young art critics who analyzed and presented arguments about current processes in contemporary Bulgarian painting. Stanislava Nikolovaʼs Critical Review project drew bridges between past and present. Five artists presented their artistic reflections on certain program texts allotted for each of them, written by some of the most prominent art critics of the 1920ʼs: Sirak Skitnik, Nikolay Raynov and Geo Milev. @Boriana Valchanovaʼs Nuances presented authors who apply diverse approaches to the making of their artistic matter, who use non-conventional materials, techniques and devices. In her project, MACROmicron, Elitsa Terzieva analyzed how to “master” the infinite and bring it within the limits of human senses, using the hypersensitivity of artists. Surreal or Beyond Reality and Rumena Kalcheva posed the question of whether it is possible to speak of Bulgarian surrealism as a distinct field in contemporary Bulgarian painting. In Beyond Conception, Suzana Karanfilova constructed her project around a consciously selected critical position on current events in Bulgarian art and peopleʼs lives. Valentin Slaveev and his Transcription within Spaces attempted to find the conventions between a painting, thought of as a closed space in its material limitations, and its author as an open space, familiar with his/her own inner world, yet able to transcribe the outer one. In Figuratively Speaking, Lyuben Domozetsky contemplated on the meaning and the position of images in contemporary painting. The project was implemented jointly with the “Painting” section of the UBA. A catalog was published in Bulgarian and English.

The project was supported financially by the Ministry of Culture.

 

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VIDEO
of the MACROmicron project exhibition
artists: Veselin Nachev, Stiliyana Uzunova, Veliko Marinchevski, Galab Galabov, Tzvetelina Maximova
curator: Elitsa Terzieva