NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOV NIKOLOV

Born in 1965 in Sofia (Bulgaria)/ Lives and works in Brussels
1990/1995 National School of Visual Arts La Cambre/ Brussels/ Belgium
1995/1997 Institut Saint-Luc Brussels- Master in Digital Art
Currently Professor of Digital Art at ENSAV La Cambre/Brussels/Belgium
Media:
drawing, sculpture, ceramics, virtual reality, 3D printing
Plastic language
The author considers virtual reality as an archaic impulse/desire for a spatial, almost tangible reality, in contrast to the two-dimensional frame-picture, photography, film-invoking a much more radical dematerialization and virtualization at the level of imagination. Virtual worlds give everything " out of frame " and are conceived as an exalting regression and direct spatial unfolding of sensations despite the technological dimension of this medium. According to the author, virtual reality is closer in spirit and functioning to archaic arts such as ceramics or ritual complexes.
In 2000 and 2002 Nikolay Konstantinov worked as 3D art director on the feature-length documentary Orpheus, a virtual museum of Bulgarian archaeological heritage. Out of this far back in time experience of months spent in the archaeological museum among a fabulous amount of treasures, one of this year's installations was born, mixing virtual reality and ceramics, entitled " 1624 sparks of amazement ".

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND ACTIONS

2024 Sofia Art Fair with Structura Gallery
2021 STUDIO VIEWS AND NEW WORKS, curated by Maria Vassileva - solo exhibition Structura Gallery, Sofia  
2020 One Art Foundation, Creative synergy between art and science, Magritte Hall, Knokke
2019 Art Düsseldorf 2019 Art22 Gallery
2019 Art Cologne with Art22 Gallery
2019 SHOW Studio Views with Art22 Gallery
2018 Art Cologne with Art22 Gallery
2018 Chromatic Aberration Solo Exhibition in the Stephane de Bruin Collection Space
2017 JUBILEE GROUP SHOW Art22 Gallery /Brussels/Belgium 2016
2016 ArtFair.De, Art22 Gallery, Cologne
2016 Solo Exhibition Art22 Gallery/Brussels/Belgium
2016 Chabah Yelmani Gallery /Brussels/Belgium
2015 participation in group exhibition Chabah Yelmani Gallery /Brussels/Belgium
2010 HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW project / installation
in an urban context./Gallery Fst Forward/Antwerp/Belgium
2006 projection (Look and Tell 2)/ AXIOM THEATER/ Houston/ Texas /
2006 projection (Look and Tell 2)/ The Oxbow School/ Napa/ California/ USA
2006 PROJECTION (Look and Tell 2)/ 111 Minna Gallery/ San Francisco/ California / USA
2001-2004 Multiple participations in collective exhibitions/100 artists for human rights/ Brussels/
1998 Painting exhibition /Galerie Mireille Batut d'Aussy/ Paris/ France
1997 Painting exhibition / Galerie Rubin Forny/ Paris/ France
1996 Painting exhibition / Galerie Rubin Forny/ Paris/ France
1995 Group exhibition / Galerie Rubin Forny/Paris/France
1993 Exhibition of drawings/Galerie Espace Parallèle/Brussels/Belgium

AWARDS
2006 International Microcinema Competition 1995 USA
Mediatina Price
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Galila Barzilai Hollander Collection
Hugo Vouten Collection
Stephane de Bruin Collection

Nikolai Konstantinov Nikolov
Email: nkonstantinov@yahoo.fr
address: 74 Avenue Emile de Beco 1050 Brussels gsm: 0032477 42 01 81
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