ARTIST STATEMENT

I work with the ordinary items in my environment: mass produced goods from the store, advertising catalogs from the supermarket etc. What interests me is how their 'reading' can be changed by a shift in the context they stay in. Basically, I cut, paste and delete things, and what I am looking for at the end is a work that by the simplest means reflects on social and ontological matters.

Sometimes I work with universally recognizable images, like a logo or a famous art work, things parts of 'the common knowledge'. My focus here is on the becoming of a 'symbol', and the way it can be re-used to serve as an element of a new work. By this I am mediating on the notion of an artwork itself.

BIOGRAPHY

Vikenti Komitski is born in 1983 in Sofia. He graduated Sculpture in the Sofia Fine Arts Academy.
He works with found objects and footage, photography and installations.
His last solo show was Update at Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna in 2015
Among the group shows he took part in are: Balkon zum Balkan in Kunsthalle Baden Baden, (2014), Places of Transition in Freiraum, Museumsquartier Vienna (2014), Go West! Muzeon Art Park, Moscow (2012); Is It Free?, NutureArt Gallery, New York (2012), East Of Best, Roodkapje, Rotterdam (2011), Entrepot, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna(2011)Beyond Credit, Antrepo 5,Istanbul (2010); FQ Test, GMG Gallery, Moscow (2010); Photo I Photo You, Calvert 22, London (2010) and others.
He was a resident artist at Quartier 21, Museums Quartier and in Krinzinger Projekte in 2014, Vienna, ISCP, New York in 2012, Futura, Prague in 2011 and SIM in Reykiavik in 2009.
Vikenti Komitski is the 2011 winner of the Baza award for contemporary art.
Since 2012 lives and works in Berlin.