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Iara Boubnova
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"