Artist and art historian
EDUCATION:
- 1992 - MFA in Graphics, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
- 1999 - Ph.D. in History of Art, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
- 2009 - Ph.D. in Art Psychology, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
TEACHING POSITIONS:
- 2011 - Professor of art psychology and chair of the Department of Art Psychology and Art Education at National Academy of Arts, Sofia
BOOKS INCLUDE:
- 2008 - Psychology of Art;
- 2009 - Psychological Approaches to the Art History
EDITORIAL POSITIONS HELD:
- Contributing editor, Art & Critic; editor in chief, ArtPsychology.net / Journal of Art Psychology
CURATORIAL WORKS INCLUDE:
- 2004 - "Visual Immortality", 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Shumen
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
- 2015 - Disconnecting of the Object, Goethe-Institut, Sofia
- 2012 - Unbroken Tools, Center for Visual and Multisensory Art, Plovdiv
- 2011 - Hidden Sources, Arosita Gallery, Sofia
- 2011 - Empathic Tools, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia
- 2011 - Empathic Tools, Rafael Mihailov Art Center, Veliko Tarnovo
- 2010 - Unpredictably Transparent. Heterochronic Installations, Gallery Atelie Plastelin, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2009 - Ectoplastic Drawings and Installations, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2006 - Exercises in Perfection, Irida Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2005 - Hallucinating Objects, Gallery Salon 77, Nis, Serbia
- 2002 - Victims of Decorating, XXL Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- 2015 - Redefining the Space of Everyday Life, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
- 2014 - The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District, Kunst und Kulturförderung, Berlin
- 2014 - Recorded Memories, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
- 2014 - The Untold Abstraction. Thematically directions and cross points of the abstract in Bulgarian art from the end of the 50s until 2014, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6, Sofia
- 2013 - Europe. South East - Recorded Memories - Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig
- 2012 - International Festival of Glass – Sofia 2012, Art Glass Exhibition Bulgaria – America, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia
- 2012 - Why Duchamp? From Object to Museum and Back, Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia
- 2012 - New Painting, Yuzina Art Gallery, Sofia
- 2011 - Shortlist – Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Rajko Aleksiev Art Gallery, Sofia
- 2011 - Unlimited – M-Tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Benchmark Business Center, Sofia
- 2009 - M-Tel Annual Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Varna Industrial Port, Warehouse No. 7, Varna, Bulgaria
- 2008 - Shortlist 2008 – Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Sofia Art Gallery, Bulgaria
- 2008 - A-A-H! All about Him, Goethe - Institute , Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2008 - SOFIA UNDERGROUND / ALONE, International Festival of Action and Performance, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2007 - Visual Immortality VI, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland
- 2007- Strategies in the Context of Childhood, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2006 - Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Srpska Gallery, Nis, Serbia
- 2006 - Die Kunst des Kraftaktes oder der Triumph des Sisyphus, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen, Germany
- 2005 - Donumenta 2005, Regensburg, Germany
- 2005 - Transformation of Reality into Ideology, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
CONTACT:
- peter_tzanev@yahoo.com
CV:
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