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Formada como pintora, a finales de la década de 1990 Dimitrina Sevova surgió en el seno de una nueva generación de artistas conceptuales búlgaros que trabajaban con nuevos medios, vídeo e instalaciones y exponían a escala local e internacional. Tras unos años dedicados en gran parte al comisariado independiente y a la organización de exposiciones, recuperó su estudio artístico, centrándose principalmente en la escultura y la instalación.


Dimitrina Sevova experimenta con las distintas fases de la arcilla y la fragilidad del material, desde objetos y vasijas de cerámica o porcelana moldeados o construidos a mano hasta esculturas y entornos de pinturas murales efímeras de arcilla sin cocer. Como en la alquimia, el trabajo con este material necesita una afinidad mutua entre el artista y el material. Su obra se exhibe a menudo en instalaciones específicas para un lugar y orientadas a un contexto, empleando diversos medios adicionales, desde objetos encontrados, dibujos, fotografía o vídeo, hasta el espacio y el tiempo informados por el juego y reflejando las disposiciones tecnológicas actuales. La investigación es un método y una forma de hacer, que se inspira en el realismo científico con su realidad objetiva, que Sevova desplaza mediante la imaginación a estados ambiguos, performativos y subjetivos de los objetos. Sus obras navegan entre dos sistemas, por un lado, los modelos representacionales y su ficción, y por otro, las cualidades abstractas, inmateriales y performativas de la propia realidad. Entre lo micro y lo macro, una misteriosa manifestación de magia natural y tecnológica en la oscuridad subraya ecologías poéticas y lodos terrenales.


El lema de sus prácticas es: deskill craft, re-skill art to reconnect thinking with making.

Obras de arte seleccionadas

Birds and trees
2022
Maps I
2023
Map II
2023
Human-Bird Head
2022
Speechless Act
2022
Nietzsche’s Truth
2023
Memento Mori
2022
Snake in the Garden
2023
2023
Every woman has her own spider(s)
2023
Forest at dusk (Investigation of Urpflanze)
2023
Other drawings and paintings
2023
Further works to be added
202x

Publicaciones

ImAtelier.ch, Dimitrina Sevova, 2023. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer for BANG BANG, Oral History –

Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors: Dimitrina Sevova, Museum

Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 30.06.2022

Rene Beekman, Net Art in Bulgaria. The first decade, OpenArtFiles, 2021

Book of Events 2019, Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

(Plovdiv: Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, 2019).

Ivana Sremčević Matijević, 20 years of VideoMedeja, documentary film, 2019.

Krassimir Terziev, (Self-)Tracking Shot. Film and Video in the Visual Arts in Bulgaria, 2019.

Lina Morawetz (ed.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse 2012, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2013.

Text by Dimitrina Sevova, and documentation of her curatorial group show and

public theoretical symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?

Sonja Eismann (ed.), Hot Topic. Popfeminismus heute, Ventil Verlag, 2007

Allan Siegel, Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the

Post-Soviet Age, Part I & II. In: ARTMargins (Contemporary Central & East European

Visual Culture), 2007-01-17 & 2007-05-08. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Svilen Stefanov, Transformations in Bulgarian Painting in the 1990s. Postmodern

Doubt in the “Traditional Matter”?, in Albena Vacheva, Georgi Chobanov (eds.),

Culture and Criticism. Part III: The End of Modernity? (Varna: LiterNet, 2003) (in Bulgarian)

Nina Czegledy, Chris Hill and Iliyana Nedkova, Crossing Over (Liverpool: Foundation

for Art & Creative Technology, 2001).

Iara Boubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev, The State of Video Art in Bulgaria, ArtMargins

(Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries), 2000-09-26.

Iliyana Nedkova, Catherine Williams, Mare Tralla, Virtual Revolutions: Act and Read,

1998-2000 (Liverpool: Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000).

Maria Vassileva, catalog of the exhibition Obsession, Central Mineral Baths, Sofia,

Bulgaria, curated by Maria Vassileva, idea Alla Georgieva (2000).

Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, catalog of the exhibition Erato’s Version, Gallery

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998) (in Bulgarian)

Publicaciones

ImAtelier.ch, Dimitrina Sevova, 2023. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer for BANG BANG, Oral History –

Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors: Dimitrina Sevova, Museum

Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 30.06.2022

Rene Beekman, Net Art in Bulgaria. The first decade, OpenArtFiles, 2021

Book of Events 2019, Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

(Plovdiv: Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, 2019).

Ivana Sremčević Matijević, 20 years of VideoMedeja, documentary film, 2019.

Krassimir Terziev, (Self-)Tracking Shot. Film and Video in the Visual Arts in Bulgaria, 2019.

Lina Morawetz (ed.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse 2012, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2013.

Text by Dimitrina Sevova, and documentation of her curatorial group show and

public theoretical symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?

Sonja Eismann (ed.), Hot Topic. Popfeminismus heute, Ventil Verlag, 2007

Allan Siegel, Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the

Post-Soviet Age, Part I & II. In: ARTMargins (Contemporary Central & East European

Visual Culture), 2007-01-17 & 2007-05-08. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Svilen Stefanov, Transformations in Bulgarian Painting in the 1990s. Postmodern

Doubt in the “Traditional Matter”?, in Albena Vacheva, Georgi Chobanov (eds.),

Culture and Criticism. Part III: The End of Modernity? (Varna: LiterNet, 2003) (in Bulgarian)

Nina Czegledy, Chris Hill and Iliyana Nedkova, Crossing Over (Liverpool: Foundation

for Art & Creative Technology, 2001).

Iara Boubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev, The State of Video Art in Bulgaria, ArtMargins

(Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries), 2000-09-26.

Iliyana Nedkova, Catherine Williams, Mare Tralla, Virtual Revolutions: Act and Read,

1998-2000 (Liverpool: Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000).

Maria Vassileva, catalog of the exhibition Obsession, Central Mineral Baths, Sofia,

Bulgaria, curated by Maria Vassileva, idea Alla Georgieva (2000).

Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, catalog of the exhibition Erato’s Version, Gallery

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998) (in Bulgarian)

Publicaciones

ImAtelier.ch, Dimitrina Sevova, 2023. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer for BANG BANG, Oral History –

Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors: Dimitrina Sevova, Museum

Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 30.06.2022

Rene Beekman, Net Art in Bulgaria. The first decade, OpenArtFiles, 2021

Book of Events 2019, Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

(Plovdiv: Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, 2019).

Ivana Sremčević Matijević, 20 years of VideoMedeja, documentary film, 2019.

Krassimir Terziev, (Self-)Tracking Shot. Film and Video in the Visual Arts in Bulgaria, 2019.

Lina Morawetz (ed.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse 2012, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2013.

Text by Dimitrina Sevova, and documentation of her curatorial group show and

public theoretical symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?

Sonja Eismann (ed.), Hot Topic. Popfeminismus heute, Ventil Verlag, 2007

Allan Siegel, Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the

Post-Soviet Age, Part I & II. In: ARTMargins (Contemporary Central & East European

Visual Culture), 2007-01-17 & 2007-05-08. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Svilen Stefanov, Transformations in Bulgarian Painting in the 1990s. Postmodern

Doubt in the “Traditional Matter”?, in Albena Vacheva, Georgi Chobanov (eds.),

Culture and Criticism. Part III: The End of Modernity? (Varna: LiterNet, 2003) (in Bulgarian)

Nina Czegledy, Chris Hill and Iliyana Nedkova, Crossing Over (Liverpool: Foundation

for Art & Creative Technology, 2001).

Iara Boubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev, The State of Video Art in Bulgaria, ArtMargins

(Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries), 2000-09-26.

Iliyana Nedkova, Catherine Williams, Mare Tralla, Virtual Revolutions: Act and Read,

1998-2000 (Liverpool: Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000).

Maria Vassileva, catalog of the exhibition Obsession, Central Mineral Baths, Sofia,

Bulgaria, curated by Maria Vassileva, idea Alla Georgieva (2000).

Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, catalog of the exhibition Erato’s Version, Gallery

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998) (in Bulgarian)

Public Lectures, Screenings and Presentations

2022              Oral History – Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors, curated by

                      Chris Regn and Dorothea Rust as part of BANG BANG – translocal hi:

                      stories of performance art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, public

                      interview with Dimitrina Sevova by Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer, 30.06.2022.
2018              Public lecture Spacing Love – Decolonising Eros: The Politics of Love,

                      Loss and Mourning of the Plural Performative, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm,

                      Sweden, and CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm.

2012              Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale), Sinop, Turkey, public screening Production

                      and Subversion of Subjectivity: Questions of Authenticity, Authority and

                      Multiplicity, and public lecture Shadow and solar individual – multiple subjectivities,

                      and the question of visibility in the movies of Maya Deren, Eleonor Antin,

                      Yvonne Rainer and Kara Walker.
2011              Seminar Artist Selfmanagement organized by Julia Sheppard and Nicole

                      Biermaier in the Master of Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich,

                      Switzerland; public lecture and workshop Self-organization and self-responsibility in art

                      – Collaborative strategies for visibility of independent positions in creative long-term processes.

2010              art + argument, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by

                      Aoife Rosenmeyer: (When it comes to art,) we are still painting on the walls of

                      caves. With Giovanni Carmine, Fabian Chiquet, Morgan Falconer and Dimitrina Sevova.

2009              This Human World human-rights film festival, Schikaneder cinema, Vienna,

                      Austria; public screening of Unbeschreiblich weiblich with presentation by the

                      artist as part of the official program of the festival.

2008              lost&found – Von Verlusten und Strategien der kulturellen Selbstermächtigung,

                      Lothringer 13 Laden in Munich, Germany, curated by Alice Cantaluppi,

                      Isabel Reiss and Anna Voswinckel; public screening of Unbeschreiblich

                      weiblich and presentation by the artist.

2007              11 VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia; public screening of Unbeschreiblich

                      weiblich as part of the official program of the festival.

2006              International symposium Art – Place – Technology, Liverpool School of Art

                      and Design / FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom; lecture-performance Identifications

                      of curatorial practices in media space. The figure of the successful media curator in

                      the first decade of the 21st century, with code flow (Dimitrina Sevova and Alan Kessi).

2001              International symposium Never look back – Politics of Friendship, Shedhalle

                      in Zurich, curated by Renate Lorenz, Marion von Osten and Elke aus dem Moore;

                      public lecture Women’s exhibitions – alternative models in Bulgaria.   

                      Conference “Understanding the Balkans” in Skopje, Macedonia, curated

                      by Melentie Pandilovski; public lecture Fragmented and Deterritorialized

                      – The Balkan Patient or the Balkan Client, in collaboration with Alain Kessi.         

2000              Computer Space 2000, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria; public lecture Virtual Identity.

Bibliografía

ImAtelier.ch, Dimitrina Sevova, 2023. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer for BANG BANG, Oral History –

Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors: Dimitrina Sevova, Museum

Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 30.06.2022

Rene Beekman, Net Art in Bulgaria. The first decade, OpenArtFiles, 2021

Book of Events 2019, Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

(Plovdiv: Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, 2019).

Ivana Sremčević Matijević, 20 years of VideoMedeja, documentary film, 2019.

Krassimir Terziev, (Self-)Tracking Shot. Film and Video in the Visual Arts in Bulgaria, 2019.

Lina Morawetz (ed.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse 2012, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2013.

Text by Dimitrina Sevova, and documentation of her curatorial group show and

public theoretical symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?

Sonja Eismann (ed.), Hot Topic. Popfeminismus heute, Ventil Verlag, 2007

Allan Siegel, Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the

Post-Soviet Age, Part I & II. In: ARTMargins (Contemporary Central & East European

Visual Culture), 2007-01-17 & 2007-05-08. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Svilen Stefanov, Transformations in Bulgarian Painting in the 1990s. Postmodern

Doubt in the “Traditional Matter”?, in Albena Vacheva, Georgi Chobanov (eds.),

Culture and Criticism. Part III: The End of Modernity? (Varna: LiterNet, 2003) (in Bulgarian)

Nina Czegledy, Chris Hill and Iliyana Nedkova, Crossing Over (Liverpool: Foundation

for Art & Creative Technology, 2001).

Iara Boubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev, The State of Video Art in Bulgaria, ArtMargins

(Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries), 2000-09-26.

Iliyana Nedkova, Catherine Williams, Mare Tralla, Virtual Revolutions: Act and Read,

1998-2000 (Liverpool: Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000).

Maria Vassileva, catalog of the exhibition Obsession, Central Mineral Baths, Sofia,

Bulgaria, curated by Maria Vassileva, idea Alla Georgieva (2000).

Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, catalog of the exhibition Erato’s Version, Gallery

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998) (in Bulgarian)

Publicaciones

ImAtelier.ch, Dimitrina Sevova, 2023. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Chris Regn and Ursula Scherrer for BANG BANG, Oral History –

Live Interviews with Performance Art Actors: Dimitrina Sevova, Museum

Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 30.06.2022

Rene Beekman, Net Art in Bulgaria. The first decade, OpenArtFiles, 2021

Book of Events 2019, Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture

(Plovdiv: Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, 2019).

Ivana Sremčević Matijević, 20 years of VideoMedeja, documentary film, 2019.

Krassimir Terziev, (Self-)Tracking Shot. Film and Video in the Visual Arts in Bulgaria, 2019.

Lina Morawetz (ed.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse 2012, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2013.

Text by Dimitrina Sevova, and documentation of her curatorial group show and

public theoretical symposium Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks?

Sonja Eismann (ed.), Hot Topic. Popfeminismus heute, Ventil Verlag, 2007

Allan Siegel, Curatorship, Culture and the Public: Curatorial Practice in the

Post-Soviet Age, Part I & II. In: ARTMargins (Contemporary Central & East European

Visual Culture), 2007-01-17 & 2007-05-08. Interview with Dimitrina Sevova.

Svilen Stefanov, Transformations in Bulgarian Painting in the 1990s. Postmodern

Doubt in the “Traditional Matter”?, in Albena Vacheva, Georgi Chobanov (eds.),

Culture and Criticism. Part III: The End of Modernity? (Varna: LiterNet, 2003) (in Bulgarian)

Nina Czegledy, Chris Hill and Iliyana Nedkova, Crossing Over (Liverpool: Foundation

for Art & Creative Technology, 2001).

Iara Boubnova and Luchezar Boyadjiev, The State of Video Art in Bulgaria, ArtMargins

(Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries), 2000-09-26.

Iliyana Nedkova, Catherine Williams, Mare Tralla, Virtual Revolutions: Act and Read,

1998-2000 (Liverpool: Audio-Visual Research Editions, 2000).

Maria Vassileva, catalog of the exhibition Obsession, Central Mineral Baths, Sofia,

Bulgaria, curated by Maria Vassileva, idea Alla Georgieva (2000).

Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, catalog of the exhibition Erato’s Version, Gallery

Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998) (in Bulgarian)

Premios y Becas

2021              One-year studio scholarship / residency, Kasernenareal Uster,

                      Akku Uster, with personal exhibition (2022)
2020              One-year studio scholarship, Mediacampus, Zurich, What’s

                      Next Studio / Z-Kubator ZHdK
1999              Grant for CD-ROM production “Adam & Eva” from SOKI 

                      Students’ Society for Computer Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1998             Grand Prix – 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia,

                     Bulgaria (the award includes a personal exhibition in the frame

                     of the next edition of the Triennial)
1996              Drawing Award for Young Artist of the Union of Bulgarian Artists

                      1st Prize for Painting – 100 Years of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994              1st Prize for Drawing of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in the competition

                       exhibition “Drawing” in memory of the artist Vasil Stoilov, Gallery Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria

Premios y Becas

2021              One-year studio scholarship / residency, Kasernenareal Uster,

                      Akku Uster, with personal exhibition (2022)
2020              One-year studio scholarship, Mediacampus, Zurich, What’s

                      Next Studio / Z-Kubator ZHdK
1999              Grant for CD-ROM production “Adam & Eva” from SOKI 

                      Students’ Society for Computer Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1998             Grand Prix – 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia,

                     Bulgaria (the award includes a personal exhibition in the frame

                     of the next edition of the Triennial)
1996              Drawing Award for Young Artist of the Union of Bulgarian Artists

                      1st Prize for Painting – 100 Years of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994              1st Prize for Drawing of the Union of Bulgarian Artists in the competition

                       exhibition “Drawing” in memory of the artist Vasil Stoilov, Gallery Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria

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