Born in Moscow. Curator and Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Sofia; Project Leadership of "Visual Seminar"
educational background
2000
Russian Academy for Fine Arts, Contemporary Art History Department, Ph.D. specialization
1986
Graduate Student, Moscow State University, Department of History and Theory of Art and Art Criticism - extramural studies. Dissertation topic: "The sense of 'fin de siècle' in Russian and East European art from the 1980 - 1990ies"
1983
MA, Moscow State University, Department "Art History, Theory and Criticism"
professional background
employment:
since 1997
Chairman of the Museum Board, The National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
since 1985
Curator of the Department of East-European Art, The National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
1983 - 1984
Editor in "Sovetski Hudozhnik" (Soviet Artist) Publishing House, Moscow, Russia
independent activity:
2005
Co-curator of the 1st Moscow Biennial
since 2002
Board Member of the Manifesta International Foundation
2000-2002
Advisory Board Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
since 1998
Flash Art correspondent for Bulgaria and the Balkan region
1995
Founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
teaching background:
since 2000
"Personalities and Trends in Contemporary Art", Department of Cultural Anthropology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia;
The First National Curatorial Training Course, Sofia (organiser and lecturer)
since 1999
"New Technologies and Art", Department of Visual Arts and Communication, Postgraduate Course, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
since 1998
"Personalities and Trends in Contemporary Art", Department of Visual Arts and Communication, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
1997
Curatorial Workshop in the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, USA
since 1996
"Beauty and Truth. History of Contemporary Art", Department of Visual Arts and Communication, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
1996-1999
"Contemporary Museum", Department of Management in Tourism, New Bulgarian University Sofia
grants and fellowships:
1999
Getty Grant Program - Summer Institute in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Rochester,NY, USA
1997
Resident Lecturer at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, USA, the ArtsLink Program of CEC and "Open Society Institute", USA
1995
The British Council Fellowship in Arts Policy and Management, City University, London
Getty Grant Program - Fellowship. Research topic: "Between Despotism and Liberalism. The Neoconceptualism in Eastern European Art in the 1980-ies and 1990-ies"