Ivan Moudov | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Ivan Moudov

One-month stay in Kamov Residency

Born 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.

Solo Exibitions (selection): 2011 - “One Square Meter”, Hilger Contemporary, Vien, 2010 “Wine for Openings” Cabaret Voltaire”, Zurich “Ivan Moudov”, Binz 39, Zurich, 2009 “Romanian Trick” Artericambi, Verona, 2008 “Wine for Openings”, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo “Trick Or Treat”, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig “Welcome”, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, curated by Katia Anguelova “Ivan Moudov”, The 1st at Moderna, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, curated by Ulf Eriksson, 2007 “Already Made”, Siemens ArtLab, Vienna, curated by Iara Boubnova, 2006 “MUSIZ”, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, curated by Maria Vassileva “Guide” (with Sibin Vasilev), Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv“New Hope”, Goethe Institut, Sofia, 2005
“Reloaded”, Warszawski Aktyw Artystow, Warsaw, curated by Zbigniew Libera “Ivan Moudov”, Quartier 21, Temporary Home Gallery, Vienna, curated be Vlad Nanca “Fragments”, ATA Center / Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, curated by Iara Boubnova “MUSIZ”, Poduyane Station, Sofia 4 4, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, curated by Vessela Nozharova, 2000 “Still Life”, Remont Gallery, Belgrade “Still Life”, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, itd.

Group Exhibitions (selection): 2011 - “KONTAKT COLLECTION”, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia “Site Inspection – The Museum on the Museum”, Ludwing Museum – Museum of contemporary art of Budapest, Budapest “Rearview Mirror”, The Power Plant, Toronto
“Beziehungsarbeit”, Kunst und Institution, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vien “Hidden Publics”, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana “NON”, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
“Rearview Mirror: New Art form the Central and Eastern Europe”, Art Gallery of alberta, Alberta, Canada, 2010 - “Curated by: Walter Seidl – Physikallat in Sport und Beruf”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna “Languages and Experimentations- Young Artists in a Contemporary Collection, MART, Rovereto, Italy“Studies and Theory”, Kwadrat, Berlin“Electrified 02- Hacking Public Space, SMAK, Gent “Transitland”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia MNCARS, Madrid “Monumento A La Transformation” Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz “Monument to Transformation”, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb 2009“History, Memory, Identity: contemporary photography from Eastern Europe”,Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena
“Working Title. Tytu Roboczy”, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau“Reflection of tomorrow”, Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv“Harburger Herge”, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg “Transitland”, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia “Transmediale- Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP)”, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin“28th Biennial of Graphic Arts”, Ljubljana, curated by Alenka Gregoric and Bozidar Zrinski:After Ego” ATA Centre for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Plovdiv, curated by Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva “Collection Dubai”, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Curated by November Payner“Techniques” ICA-Sofia Gallery, Sofia, curated by Maria Vassileva and Iara Boubnova “Monument to Transformation”, City Gallery Prague, Prague, curated by Vit Havranek and Zdenek Baladrin 10 Years of , Association for Contemporary Art, Graz “Performing the East”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, itd.  Artists Residencies: 2009 BINZ 39, Zurich, 2008 KulturKontakt, Vienna Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2006 Recollets, Paris, 2002/03 Post Diplome, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon

Photo: http://www.slash.fr/en/evenements/ivan-moudov-the-glory-hole

Terra Incognita

01.06.-10.07.2012.

In his works Ivan Moudov explores and questions the developmental principles of dominant contemporary western art, with special emphasis on it the impossibility of its globalization and expansion in countries that don't have the neccessary prerequisites. One of his more known ironic actions are consisted of thefts of smaller parts of artworks exhibited in famous world museums. The goal of these ironic actions was to create a collection as a basis for the fondation of Museum of contemporary art in Bulgaria.

During his residential stay in Paris, Moudov realized a project involving the storage of 100 bottles of luxurious Pommery champagne labeled with the following text: Champagne for the opening of the Museum o contemporary art in Sofia in the wine cellar of the mentioned famous manufacturer. The bottles will be stored there until the, yet undetermined,  opening date of the Museum.

In his interactive installations and performances, in addition to objects that are intended for use in impossible and non-existing situations, Moudov uses relational esthetics – like for example blocking the audience in the gallery until the doors are opened from the outside. He relates to gallery space according to Nicolas Bourriad's theory by which the space loses its original purpose and meaning as space for consumation of art and becomes solely the space for social interaction.

Moudov uses gallery as a public trap. In the project Terra Incognita he exposes this phenomenon in contemporary extremely and organized world and tries to allocate it in the sphere of his personal future. For this project he will write his vision of the script for his stay in Rijeka, pass it on to a large number of his friends, colleagues, acquaintances, artists and visitors of the SIZ Gallery. They will all be able to change script. Moudov will then select a certain number of scripts to follow – and by using actors-volunteers. This action will be filmed, and the final work will be presented in the SIZ Gallery.

NGO SIZ

→ www.g-siz.com

SIZ Gallery was founded in 2009, at the initiative of artists and curator Nemanja Cvijanovic. By 2010. the Gallery acts as one of the most important programs of the NGO The Other Sea. Active  participants of the gallery are, artists and designers,: ABS group, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babic, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Focus Group aka Iva Kovac and Elvis Krstulović, Igor Grubic, Janez Jansa, Sinisa Labrovic, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler, SCRAP, Slaven Tolj and associations NGO The Other Sea. SIZ Gallery is designed as an artist run gallery in which all  artists  are actually shareholders of the Gallery, and jointly decide on the program, promotion, guest appearances, etc.

In 2011. members  of the Gallery  established the NGO SIZ, thorugh which annual programme the Gallery continues to exist. In 2013. SIZ  (NGO and the Gallery) starts a collaboration with Museum of modern and contemporary art in Rijeka -  its annual program will be presented in the Mali salon gallery in Rijeka's main street Korzo. SIZ is defined by artistically never more relevant model of functioning of the collective association of equal individuals whose puropse is joint appearances in the art system. SIZ Gallery through a specific approach to artistic system emerged as one of the most interesting programs in Rijeka and beyond. Small, independent, rapidly rotating exhibitions thar connect Croatian contemporary art scene with artists from both the immediate region and other countries. Programme of the Gallery,  through the presentation of some of the most interesting tendencies in contemporary art, which in a  determined way, reflect social reality and its various, specific, dimensions such as politics, culture, ideology, cultural policy, etc., is aimed at informing the public and creating a critical counterbalance to the programs of large institutions.

With the founding of the Gallery and later by founding of the Association SIZ they try to act positively in the exhibition scene in Rijeka, where the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had created  a positive impact on the cultural life of the city, primarily educating audiences for contemporary visual language. Unexpectedly large and encouraging interest in international and regional art scene for SIZ Gallery which annually receives dozens of offers for collaboration, and in a way has become an important center of contemporary visual arts and cultural scene in general.

Through Gallery SIZ to date the following has been achieved ...

2009.: Nemanja Cvijanovic, Sinisa Labrović, Slaven Tolj, Igor Grubic, Sinisa Labrović, Club of Art Lovers and Oliver Ressler; 2010.: exhibitions Tomislav Brajnović, Cesare Pietroiusti, ABS Group, Rodion, Janez Janša, Janša and Janez Jansa, the artist duo Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (also director and advisors one of the most important international exhibitions - Document 13 - Ms. Carolyn Christov Bakargiev); 2011. Vlado Martek, Marijan Crtalić, collective GREY, art group Claire Fontaine, Sasha Huber, Milijana Babic, and Marko Markovic; 2012 and 2013.: Alexi Kukuljevića, Ivan Moudov, Stefan Pasquini, Ciprian Muresan, Ibro Hasanovic, Kristina Norman, Giuliana Racc0, Hudradea Collective and Fokus group.

Summary: NGO  SIZ (SIZ - Self-management community of interests) is running the SIZ gallery. The Gallery started as a programme organized by the NGO Drugo more (The Other Sea) in 2009. During its 3-year long existence the Gallery created a certain recognisable profile of visual content in regional and local cultural community.

It gradually became a significant point of contemporary artistic production and pratice. The content it presents is focused on works of Croatian and foreign artists that reflect various dimensions of social reality and its numerous fine nuances in specific ways.