Kamen Stoyanov

Born in Bulgaria, 1977 Kamen Stoyanov the Bulgarian artist living in Vienna often deals with the questions of identity, migration, historical definition, social and cultural communication in his works by gathering first-hand experiences of the social, artistic and cultural relations of the given country as a scholarship-holder. He uses the urban public places and the architectural environment as exhibition spaces, themes of photography and contrasts them with the current or inherited cultural relations, habits. The real participants of cultural life and he himself pose in his provocative and ironic works. http://www.kamenstoyanov.com/
Biography
2005
MA at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Solo exhibitions
2017
Ask the artist, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2016
Restless, das weisse haus, Vienna, Operantium, Projektraum LS43, Berlin, Will I be happy?, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2014
We own this Shit, solo project at the Viennafair, booth of Inda Gallery, Budapest
2013
Something from Nothing, Rousse Art Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria Stoyanov´s Tomato Products, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia IT IS NOT SO HARD TO MAKE SOME ART, Inda Gallery, Budapest
2011
Impossible Stories, Jesuiten Foier, Vienna Fun and Struggle, Love, Vienna Out there, 1646, Haag, Netherland
2010
Bringing Cultura, Ex-garaza, Maribor, Slovenia A small story about Cultura, 0gms Drawer Gallery, Sofia Plaster Me, Lokal_30, Warsaw Kamen Stoyanov, Videogalerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2009
Chinese Rap and Another Stories, Inda Gallery, Budapest Looking for an Art Piece, Kunstverein Salzburg
2008
Forget it, we can not afford this, Studio Galeria, Budapest Just a photo, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna At Arm's` Length, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2007
Places where the world breaks away, Let´s go to Giurgiu, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia Places where the world breaks away, Let´s go to Giurgiu, Canneti House, Rousse
2006
Less Politics, Plattform, Raum fuer Kunst, Vienna
2005
Bingo topology, Kunstraum Lakeside, KlagenfurtWe are late, Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna
2004
Modality, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
2003
WORK/S (with Vasilena Gankovska), Irida Gallery, Sofia
2002
FINE (with Vasilena Gankovska), MAK Galerie, Vienna
Group exhibitions
2017
BIENNALE WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS, Wrozslaw, Poland, Do or Die, Lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw, Migration of Fear, Forumstadtpark, Graz, Von (Nicht-)Orten und zufälligen Begegnungen, 5020, Salzburg, Fantastic Capitalism, GPLcontemporary, Vienna 2017 (IM)PERSONAL, curated by Boris Kostadinov, LLLLLL, Vienna 2017 The Frame that blind us, A.P.A.Gallery, Budapest
2016
Abbild – Realitaet, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Winter Sale, waterside contemporary, London, Lifestyles and Still Life, Lubomirov / Angus-Huges, London, So close, so far, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Look at me! I am made for you!, Projektraum LS43, Berlin, Let them draw, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Vienna on the move, Lightbox Studio Aoyama, Tokyo, Buchstabenfest, Bad Radkersburg, Austria, Perform Painthink, ART for ART Theaterwerkstaetten, Arsenal Objekt 19, Vienna, die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #5, das weisse haus, Vienna
2015
+45+55+95+, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Focus Bulgaria at viennacontemporary, Vienna, Art in Resistance, SPIELART Festival 2015, Munich, Germany, Mature and Angry, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Vienna for Art’s Sake!, Winterpalais Prinz Eugen / Belvedere, Vienna, URBANAUTS, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Interior, Exhibition project at Hoerlgasse 10, Vienna, Sofia Underground, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, die weisse ab-haus-verkaufs-kunstschau #4, das weisse haus, Vienna
2014
The Dark Side of The Night, Anniversary Program 10th Edition Plovdiv Night 2014, Congrational Church, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, The Movement of the Whole, Inda Gallery, Budapest, Unframed, Art Without the Frame, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Artist’s Book, RedHouse, Sofia, Bulgarian Labor, geh8 Kunstraum & Ateliers e.V, Dresden, The collection. New acquisitions 2012-2013, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, The longest distance is the one that separates us, Gallery Cella, Opava, Czech Republik, Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Dance with Us, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Past future-future past, transmediale 2014, Supermarkt, Berlin, ARTSLAB, The Territorial Complex, GPL Contemporary, Vienna, Vom Aussenraum zum Innenraum, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam e.V., Germany, Die Glorreiche 7, In der Kubatur des Kabinets, Fluc, Vienna, TWEET KIM IL-SUNG!, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Measures of saving the world_part 5, <rotor> Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
2013
Unexpected Encountrers, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria Places and Protests, Elias Canetti Association, Rousse, Bulgaria Bulgarian Artists in Vienna. Contemporary Practices at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Collecting Makes Friends, Le Quartier, the art center of Quimper, Bretagne, France Phantoms & Ghosts, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna Near, Closer, Togheter, SOFIA CONTEMPORARY, Sofia On the suspense or how to hide a bomb under the table, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia The intransigent ticket- the artist as a filter, Csula Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles New Opening.New Beginning, Lokal_30, Warsaw The First Ten Years Of The Lentos, Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, Austria
2012
AiR Ungarn 2011-2012, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, The Keyhole of Mister Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna, Urban Dreams, Art Today Association, Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Material and Culture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, Reactions, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, It isn ́t in the can, Open Space, Vienna, I ́d like to walk on the moon, Gallery Enrico Astuni-Bologna, Remember to remember, Arco, Madrid, Common History and Its Private Stories, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Enduring Value? Cooperation springerin, Kunshaus Bregenz, Austria
2011
Common Identity, Space Gallery, Bratislava METAmART. Kunst und Kapital. Der Ausstellungsparcours, Künstlerhaus, Vienna The 2011 Sovereign European Art Prize Finalist´s exhibition, Haskoy Yun Iplik Fabrikasi, Istanbul The Bulgarian Pavilion,Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia Unlimited, BenchMark Business Center, Sofia New York, Rio, Tokyo, Inda Gallery, Budapest Space Odyssey, Maerz, Linz, Austria Meet everyone at once, start an artist run space, 0gms Projects, Sofia Museums, Galleries, Homes and other stories, Galeria Enrico Astuni, Bologna Zonen_prekaer, Kunstsaele Berlin Neosi, Schattendorf, Austria Glocal Gestures, Schmiede, Hallein, Austria
2010
17th Biennale of Sydney, Songs of survival in a precarios age, Sydney Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan Auguts in Art Biennal, Varna, Bulgaria Who is your audience, Galeria Enrico Astuni, Bologna Over the counter, the Phenomena of Post-socialist Economy in contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Budapest Tanzimat, Augarten Contemoporary, Vienna Blickwechsel, austrian photography today, Westlicht, Vienna 0gms, Whitespace gallery, Bangkok, Taiwan Best before end, Inda Gallery, Budapest Fluorescent Adolescent, Schunck, Heerlen, Netherland Long time no seen - The Brno House of Art - Central Building, Brno Persona, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia Swallow it, dog, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney
2009
ATLANTIS I, Hidden Histories – New Identities. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, REFLECTION OF TOMORROW, Art today association, Center for contemporary art Plovdiv, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Feedback 1989– 20 years fall of the berlin wall, Exhibition at Hotel Dajti, Tirana Common History and Its Private Stories. Geschichte und Geschichten, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna FERNE NÄHE, Zyklus 4.0, Zeitgenösische Kunst aus Mitteleuropa, Stift Lilienfeld, Austria After Ego, Art today association , Center for contemporary art Plovdiv, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria BAZA Award for Contemporary Art: Exhibition of the Nominee Artists, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Landscape, contemporary, Haus der Fotografie-Dr. Robert-Gerlich-Museum, Burghausen, Germany Flavors of Austria, Taf- the Art Founfation, Athens
2008
MANIFESTA 7, the european biennial of contemporary art, Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy Gyumri 6th International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2008, GCCA - Gyumri Centre of Contemporary Art, Armenien Neo-Si, Galerie Tristesse, Berlin Am Sprung, OK, center for contemporary art, Linz Stay, Stay, Stay, Central Bathhouse, 1 Banski Square, Sofia Transfert, La BF15, Lyon Where the east ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden OPEN SKY. Räume jenseits ihrer Praxis, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz“ For a happier tomorrow, Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark Manual CC – Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, Uqbar, Berlin Trespassing, Inda Galerie, Budapest In Passing 1, Kuenstlerhauspassage, Vienna
2007
Nightcomers Videoscreening, International Istanbul Biennale Lange nicht gesehen. Begegnungen mit dem Museum auf Abruf, MUSA, Vienna Multiplicities, ARC projects, Sofia Between Welcome and Goodbye, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia In Search Of Lost Time, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia Shrinking cities, Dauhaus, Sofia
2006
Last Minute, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst LeipzigShrinking Cities, Rousse Art Gallery, Rousse, Bulgaria Every Day, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg WAZZUP, Fotogalerie, ViennaVisual Immortality, 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ShumenHeute kein Evidenzproblem, Westlicht, Vienna
2005
Play Sofia, Kunsthalle Wien, ViennaI can See Clearly Now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna colectionwise, Galerie 5020, SalzburgUpdate, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2004
Kunst als Fotografie, Fotografie als Kunst , Semperdepot, Wien Art Position, Otakringerbrauerei, Vienna Line/Spot, Black Dragon Society, Vienna Reproduction without Alternative, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, SofiaThe Globalisation and the Human, Theatherwerkstaette, Sofia Next Europe, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2003
Blut & Honig, Zukunft ist am Balkan, Essl Collection, Vienna (Curator Harald Szeemann)Mutual Fields, Galerie 5020, SalzburgWo steht der Baum der uns trennte, off space, Vienna
2002
The Portrait, Irida Gallery, SofiaEndlich sechs und 20, Westlicht, Vienna KUHnst, Maskfoundtion, ViennaBorder Crossing Reconsidered - Beyond Hybridity, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2001
Cartridge Box, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, SofiaLooming Up, Aspekte Galerie der Munchner Volkshochschule, Munich; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, ViennaTrendification, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz Real Presence, Belgrade
2000
Unique Sign - Unique Location, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Awards, grants, residencies (selected)
2016
Artists -in-Residence Program Gleis70, Zurich, Switzerland, 2016 BKA - Austrian Federal Ministry, Scholarship, Istanbul
2012
MAK Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles
2011
The Sovereign European Art Prize, Otto Mauer Prize, Austria, Walter Koschatzky Art Award
2010
Alexander Resnikov Award
2009
BMUKK – Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture Scholarship, Beijing
2008
JAK (Attila Jozsef Circle), Scholarship, Budapest, Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Galerie fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst Leipzig
2007
Prize for Visual Arts of the City of Vienna, MUMOK Prize for the Zone1 at VIENNAFAIR, Cite Internationale des Arts, Artist in Residence Program, Paris
2006
BMUKK – Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture Scholarship, Rome
2005
Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Works in collections (selected)
Lentos, Linz, Austria, MAK MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, Public Collection of the Austrian Government Sofia Art Gallery, Bulgaria WORKS IN PRIVAT COLLECTIONS ESSL MUSEUM for Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Austria, EVN Collection, Austria