Лични данни и образование
Personal notes and education
Yavor Kostadinov was born in 1993 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He graduated from the National Academy of Art, in Sofia, Bulgaria – Painting MA (2018) and BA (2016). In 2015 he studied at Accademia di belle arti di Brera in Milan, Italy. From 2019 to 2021, he was an Assistant lecturer in Painting in the „Textile—art and design“ department at NAA Sofia. He has been a member of UBA (AIAP) since 2020.
He works in and gravitates around Plovdiv and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Part of the collective of creatives behind Galeriata / Галерията – an independent art space (Plovdiv, BG)
Избрани самостоятелни изложби
Selected solo exhibitions
2019
• „Some fears “, Vaska Emanuilova Gallery – branch of Sofia City Art Gallery,
curated by: Kyril Vassilev, Sofia, BG
• „Beyond all of this “, Art Gallery „Dimitar Dobrovich“Sliven, Uzunova house, Sliven, BG
• „Peculiar afternoon “- Kazanlak City Art Gallery, Kazanlak, BG
2018
•„Sickened but curious“ (2018) – „Geshov“ Gallery, Sofia, BG
•„Temporeal“(2018) – Art Gallery Serdica, Sofia, BG
Избрани общи и колективни изложби
Selected collective exhibitions
2024
• MEETINGS – collective exhibition facilitated by the Young Bulgarian Artists platform and Colleagues from Germany and South Korea - idea and assistance - mr. Todor Staykov
(26.09 – 16.10.2024) Exhibition Hall "Rayko Alexiev", Sofia
• "+1" - group exhibition (28.09 – 03.11.2024) (on the occasion of one year since the establishment of Galeriata, an independent art space) Curator: Vera Mlechevska; Galeriata – independent art space, Plovdiv
• “Parallel worlds” (collective exhibition of artists from the Painting section of the UBA) / 2024 (04.06.2024 - 28.06.2024), Exhibition Halls of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6, 1A, 1B, 1C
• Art Positive 2024 – Pink (15.03 – 12.04.2024), Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv
• THE BETTER PART OF US (29.02 – 04.04.2024), Curator: Maria Vassileva, Structura Gallery, Sofia, BG
2023
• Onomatopoeia 12+1 (2023); Onomatopoeia 12 (2023); Onomatopoeia 11 (2022); Onomatopoeia 10 (2021), Plovdiv, BG
• National exhibition and competition for painting and sculpture (2023, 2021, 2019), „Rayko Aleksiev“ Exhibition Hall, Sofia, BG; „In the beginning“ I, II, III & IV (2017,2017, 2020 & 2022) – UBA Exhibition Halls and „Rayko Aleksiev“ Exhibition Hall, Sofia, BG – initiatives of the Young Bulgarian Artists platform
• Opening of Galeriata / Галерията an independent art space, Collective pilot exhibition, Building of Eforia “Zograf”, Plovdiv, BG
• Еxhibition “Urban мythology” – part of the project Re:Connect Plovdiv (BG) – Timişoara (RO)
by “Art Today” Association, City Art Gallery Plovdiv, BG
• The Brick – ReBonkers, a project by “Process-Space” Foundation, Varna BG
• Art positive 2023 – ECO; Art positive 2021 – [Un]reality, „Kapana“ Gallery, Plovdiv BG
2022
• Exhibition of the 2020 BAZA Award for contemporary art nominees – part of The Young Visual Artists Award international network – Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
• Biographical: Places of the Experienced. Shadows of the Past, Shadows of the Future - UBA Exhibition Halls, Sofia, BG
• STAICHKI / CHAMBERS 2022, “A different space”, Small solo exhibitions,
curator: Sasho Stoitsov, Varosha (Old town), Gorna Djumaya a.k.a. Blagoevgrad, BG
2021
• DANUBE DIALOGUES festival of contemporary art ; Exhibition Bulgarian-Serbian Art Dialogues, Artists: Yavor Kostadinov, Monika Sigeti; Curators: Nadezhda Dzhakova, Slavica Popov, Bel Art Gallery, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 17, Novi Sad, SRB
• 32nd Process Space Festival, Balchik 2021; Exhibition „Rearangement of layers“ – video programme, Balchik, BG
• The Herbarium as a place for storing ideas (2021) – curator: Irina Batkova,
Sofia Arsenal - Museum for Contemporary Art, BG
• 7x5x3, Contemporary Bulgarian painting (2021) – curator: Lyuben Domozetski
UBA Exhibition Halls, Sofia, BG
2020
• Exhibition of the 2020 BAZA Award for contemporary art nominees – part of The Young Visual Artists Award international network – Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
• Portrait – painting and sculpture (2020, UBA Exhibition Halls, Sofia, BG
2019
• Open Art Files - Notes and footnotes, „Kapana“Gallery, curated by Vera Mlechevska and Krassimir Terziev, Plovdiv, BG (part of the program Plovdiv 2019 European capital of culture)
• Background: Young Artists from Plovdiv, (Sariev Gallery, Artnewscafe, Danchova house - Old Town, Gallery Cu29) a project of Sariev Gallery and part of the program of Plovdiv 2019 European capital of culture.
2018
•„Beneath the surface “- National Autumn Exhibitions Plovdiv (2018), curated by Galina Lardeva
•„Shock and horror “(2018) – Goethe Institute, curated by Stefka Tsaneva, Sofia, BG
•„The debate about reality“ - part II – the youngest in Bulgarian painting and sculpture (2018), „Rayko Aleksiev“ Exhibition Hall, curated by Stanislav Pamukchiev, Peter Tsanev, Kyril Vassilev, Sofia, BG
2016
• Exhibition of NAA Sofia graduates in the Bulgarian Cultural Institute – BKI „Haus Wittgenstein“,
Vienna, AUT
2015
•„Ancora nuovi segni“ – students of prof.Omar Galliani, Spazio Espositivo Antonello da Messina, Legnano, ITA
Awards and others.
▪︎ (2021) Resident at Cité International des Arts Paris, FRA – Studio of the UBA
▪︎ Nominated for the 2022 & 2020 Baza Award for Contemporary Art - part of The Young Visual Artists Awards international network
▪︎ Young artist awards from national exhibitions in Bulgaria: Veliko Tarnovo (2020), Gabrovo (2017), Sliven (2018), Montana (2018) ▪︎ An award for painting from the (2018) „Allianz Bulgaria“ exhibition and competition;
▪︎ A nomination (2018) for the „Sirak Skitnik“ art award and nomination (2018) and painting award (2020) from the National Art Exhibition - Sliven, Art Gallery „Dimitar Dobrovich“ Sliven, BG (2018).
▪︎ „Anastas Staykov“ award as a graduate from the National Art High School „Tsanko Lavrenov“ in Plovdiv, BG
Произведенията на автора се намират в
In collections:
▪︎ Art Gallery „Dimitar Dobrovich“ Sliven, BG; ▪︎ City Gallery Blagoevgrad, BG
▪︎ Art Gallery „Hristo Tsokev“, Gabrovo, BG ▪︎ Art Gallery Kazanlak, BG
▪︎ Art Gallery „Kiril Petrov“, Montana, BG ▪︎ Allianz Bulgaria corporate collection
▪︎ Sofia City Library, Sofia, BG ▪︎ Other private collections of independent collectors and private galleries.
Професионален статус
Professional status:
Independent artist
Избрани каталожни издания към изложби
Selected exhibition catalogue editions
2021 • DUNAVSKI DIJALOZI/DANUBE DIALOGUES 2021,
Festival savremene umetnosti podunavskih zemalja
Contemporary Art Festival of the Danube Countries, Novi Sad, 2021,
ISBN 978-86-89277-48-7
2019 • Young Bulgarian Artists – National Exhibition – panting and sculpture contest 2019
2019 • Open Art Files : Notes and footnotes
ISBN 978-619-91470-0-9
2019 • The debate on reality – Contemporary Bulgarian painting and sculpture,
ISBN 978-954-28-2859-4
2018 • Beneath the surface – National Autumn Exhibitons Plovdiv 2018
