ARTIST PROFILE

Kristina Karelova Stoyanova

  • Bulgaria (b. 1977 in Karlovo)
  • Currently in Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Kristina Stoyanova work ranges from video art to installations, drawings and photography. Main themes in her works are language, communication, miss-understanding, as well as gender cliches, social-cultural stereotypes, architecture and art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

  • Unspecific Shapes, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.

2011

  • Does not compute, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.

2008

  • Tasogare Doki (with Tasogare World), Ballhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • Object Manipulating Economy, Fröhls, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

2014

  • The City - A Screen, diverse locations in several cities in Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Factum, Video art exhibition, eXaf, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • Twilight@Midnight, Klüngel, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2012

  • Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, United States.
  • Bound, Staller Center, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.

2011

  • Cabaret, Black Box Theater, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.
  • Emerging, Gallery North, Stony Brook , United States.
  • Videoholica Varna, Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria.
  • CAA Exhibition, Time Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York City, United States.
  • Photography, The Green Point Gallery, New York City, United States.

2010

  • Art Student Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York City, United States.
  • Brood, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.
  • Maieutics, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.
  • Glamouring (with Moira Williams), DUMBO, New York City, United States.

2009

  • Flashback, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Now, respiration of the side story, Art Forum JAFRO, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Trendwände, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Dis solution, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2008

  • Art Entre Quatre Murs, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
  • On Produceability, New Talents Art Biennial, Cologne, Germany.
  • Start from zero, Kalamatra Video Art Festival Miden, Miden, Greece.
  • Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
  • Fieber tief in den Taschen, Schloss Waldhausen, Waldhausen, Germany.
  • On Produceability, Alti Aylik, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Wir sind auch Film, Black Box, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Kunst jetzt "Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis", Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany.

2007

  • Kunst Film Tag, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Meine Nachbarn waren begeistert, Förderverein Alte Post, Neuss, Germany.
  • Turtle Project with Michael Shamberg, Woburn Studios, London, United Kingdom.
  • Regarding Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2006

  • Das letzte Wort der Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2005

  • Starp Citu Riga, Mainz, Riga (Latvia) and Mainz (Germany), Riga, Latvia.
  • Gegenwärtig, Stadtraum Mainz (public art), Mainz, Germany.
  • Neongrau, Kunstraum Mato, Offenbach am Main, Germany.

LOCATION

  • Born 1977 in Karlovo, Bulgaria.
  • Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

EDUCATION

  • 2009 - 2012
    State University of New York, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, United States
    Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts
  • 2005 - 2007
    Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Meisterschüler in Fine Arts (Rita McBride)
  • 1996 - 2000
    Sofia University "Kliment Ochridsky", Sofia, Bulgaria
    MA (not finished) in Literature and Linguistics

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2013
    Artist Grant
    Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, United States
  • 2013
    Travel Grant for USA
    Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2013
    Project Grant
    Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2012
    Step Up 2012 Real Art Ways Consolation Prize
    Real Art Ways, Hartford, United States
  • 2010
    Artist Award
    Simons Center, Stony Brook, United States
  • 2009
    Fulbright Scholarship
    Fulbright Foundation, NYC, United States

RESIDENCIES

  • 2015
    Toulouse, isdaT Artist Residency, Toulouse, France
  • 2014
    Water Tower Artist Residency , NEW, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • 2013
    Artist Residency Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, United States
  • 2008
    Studio Residency, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany