Krassimir Terziev

Background

Krassimir Terziev was born on December 8, 1969 in Dobritch, Dobrich Province, Bulgaria.

Education

In 1997 Krassimir Terziev received a Master of Arts degree in Painting from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. In 2012 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cultural Anthropology from Sofia University.

Career

From 1998 to 2004 Krassimir Terziev was a founding member of interSpace Media Art Center. In 2005 he was co-directing, with Rene Beekman, XFILM festival for Experimental Film, Video & New Media in Sofia. He was artist-in-residence in Stuttgart, Vienna, Manchester, Eindhoven, Tornio, New York and Sofia. Since 2012 he has lectured at the Sofia University and the National Academy of Arts, Sofia.

In 2015 he had a solo exhibition "Between the Past That is About to Happen and the Future That Has Already Been" at the National Gallery, Sofia, curated by Iara Boubnova. Recently he showed work in exhibitions at Structure Gallery (Sofia, 2017), Argos Centre for Art & Media (Brussels, 2017, 2016, 2015), Gaia Gallery (Istanbul, 2017), SARIEV Contemporary (Plovdiv, 2017, 2016), Osage Art Foundation, (Hong Kong, 2015), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, 2015), Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana, 2015).

Terziev is the author of the Extra Work: Taking the figure of the extra in cinema as a metaphor (2008), Recomposition. Author, Media and Artwork in the Age of Digital Reproduction (2012), Between the Past That is About to Happen and the Future That has Already Been (2015).

Achievements

• Krassimir Terziev is one of the leading Bulgarian contemporary artists. He is acclaimed for his works in experimental film and video art and recognised as one of the most profound researchers in these areas in Bulgaria. His work spans a diversity of media, including video/film, photography, painting/drawing, and text, questioning the boundaries between reality and fiction, while exploring the manifold transitions and tensions between a globalized world, dominated by overwhelming multiplicity of symbolic imagery, and its material groundings in technological, physical and human 'hardware'. It is a part of the public collections of Centre Pompidou/MNAM, Arteast 2000+ Collection, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Sofia City Art Gallery, Kunstsammlung Hypovereinsbank among others.

Works

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• installation

  • Let's Dance/ Clothes for Collective Life

    1996

  • Monument to the Time Elapsed

    2013

  • Monument to the Time Elapsed III

    2018

• painting

  • Light

    1998

  • A24

    1998

  • More Lights

    1998

  • It's a Perfect day

    2001

  • Wow

    2001

  • You!?

    2001

  • Auslaender

    2002

  • Bimbo

    2002

  • Landscape in three Planes

    2007

  • Double King Kong

    2007

  • Googleland

    2007

  • Green Screen

    2007

  • Landscape in three Planes

    2007

  • The Fall of King Kong

    2007

  • Above / Below

    2015

  • Sinchronous Drift

    2015

  • MoonPalmEarth

    2015

  • 2020. A Working Day

    2014

  • Cleaning Black

    2016

  • Blue, Red, Green: Like all Languages, the Language of Things is Useful either for Revealing the Truth, or for Concealing It

    2016

  • Blue, Red, Green: Like all Languages, the Language of Things is Useful either for Revealing the Truth, or for Concealing It

    2016

  • Blue, Red, Green: Like all Languages, the Language of Things is Useful either for Revealing the Truth, or for Concealing It

    2016

  • Continuation of the Flight

    2016

  • Study for Base and Superstructure

    2018

• photography

  • Family

    2015

• picture

  • Apollo Melanist Programme

    2018

  • Apollo Melanist Programme

    2018

Views

Quotations: "In the world of global networks, images of different historical and technical origin, media and materiality coexist with me, preventing me from focusing, making me worries. My only useful move is to put them in front of me, but often this is not enough and I have to put them in front of others around me so they help too."

Membership

Krassimir Terziev is a member of the Institute for Contemporary Art - Sofia.