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 Plovdiv and exhibits most often in 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
2025
• "Sky. Abyss. Whisper. Shriek" (05.-30.06.2025) – painting and drawing exhibition,
Galeriata – independent art space, Plovdiv
• "Paths, Passages and Dwellings" – (series in progress) (14 - 31.05.2025) paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, video – Alma Mater Gallery / Cultural Center of Sofia University
• "Under. Over. Near. Far." (11 - 23.03.2025) – drawing and painting, Balabanov House, Old Town, Plovdiv
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
2025
• Garden of Hooks – Jecza Gallery & Himera Annual Summer Show
Curator: Norbert Filep, Jecza Gallery / Himera Space, Timișoara, Romania
• Art Positive 2025 – Transparent (08.04 – 08.05.2024)
Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv
• Balkan Painting Quadriennale – The Myths and Legends of My People 2024 (18.12.2024 – 20.02.2025), Art Gallery Stara Zagora
2024
• Encounters – exhibition of the group Young Bulgarian Artists with colleagues from Germany and South Korea Initiated and supported by Todor Staykov (26.09 – 16.10.2024) “Rayko Alexiev” Exhibition Hall, Sofia
• +1 – group exhibition (28.09 – 03.11.2024) On the occasion of one year since the creation of Galeriata independent art space Curator: Vera Mlechevska; Galeriata, Plovdiv
• Parallel Worlds. Painting Section Exhibition (04.06 – 28.06.2024)
Union of Bulgarian Artists, Exhibition Halls, Shipka 6, Halls 1A–C, Sofia
• 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
2023
• Onomatopoeia 12+1 (2023); Onomatopoeia 12 (2023); Onomatopoeia 11 (2022); Onomatopoeia 10 (2021), Plovdiv (various locations)
• National Exhibition – Competition for Painting and Sculpture (2023, 2021, 2019)
“Rayko Alexiev” Exhibition Hall, Sofia
In the Beginning I–IV (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022)
UBA Exhibition Halls, Shipka 6, and “Rayko Alexiev” Exhibition Hall, Sofia
(initiatives of the Young Bulgarian Artists platform)
• Opening of Galeriata / The Gallery at the Ateliers – Collective Pilot Exhibition
Zograf Ephorate Building, 73 Rayko Daskalov St., Plovdiv
• Urban Mythology – exhibition under the project Re:Connect Plovdiv – Timișoara
“Art Today” Association, City Art Gallery Plovdiv
• The Brick / 2023
Organized by Process – Space Foundation, ReBonkers Cultural Center, Varna
• Art Positive 2023 – ECO; Art Positive 2021 – [Un]Reality
Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv
2022
• Exhibition of the Nominees for the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art 2022
Sofia City Art Gallery
• Biographical: Places of Experience. Shadows from the Past, Shadows from the Future
Union of Bulgarian Artists, Exhibition Halls, Shipka 6, Sofia
• STAICHKI / Rooms 2022 – A different Space – Chamber solo exhibitions
Curator: Sasho Stoitsov, Varosha District, Gorna Dzhumaya (today Blagoevgrad)
2021
• Danube Dialogues – Festival of Contemporary Art
Exhibition: Bulgarian–Serbian Artistic Dialogues
Artists: Yavor Kostadinov, Monika Sigeti; Curators: Nadezhda Dzhakova, Slavica Popov
Bel Art Gallery, Novi Sad
• 32nd Process – Space Festival – Shifting the Layers (video program), Balchik
• Herbarium - a Place for Storing Ideas
Curator: Irina Batkova, National Gallery – Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia
• 7x5x3 – Contemporary Bulgarian Painting: Figuratively Speaking
Curator: Lyuben Domozetski, UBA Exhibition Halls, Shipka 6, Sofia
2020
• Exhibition of the Nominees for the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art 2020
Sofia City Art Gallery
• Portrait – Painting and Sculpture
Union of Bulgarian Artists, Exhibition Halls, Shipka 6, Sofia
2019
• Open Art Files: Notes and Footnotes
Curators: Vera Mlechevska, Krassimir Terziev
Kapana Gallery, Plovdiv
• FON: Young Artists from Plovdiv
Sariev Gallery, Artnewscafe, Danchova House, Cu29 Gallery, Plovdiv
2018
• Beyond the Surface – National Autumn Exhibitions Plovdiv
Curator: Galina Lardaeva
• Shock and Horror – Goethe-Institut Sofia
Curator: Stefka Tsaneva
• The Dispute about Reality – Part II: The Youngest in Bulgarian Painting and Sculpture
Curators: Stanislav Pamukchiev, Peter Tsanev, Kiril Vassilev
“Rayko Alexiev” Exhibition Hall, Sofia
2016
• Graduates of the National Academy of Arts
Bulgarian Cultural Institute – Wittgenstein House, Vienna, Austria
2015
• Ancora nuovi segni – students of Prof. Omar Galliani’s course
Spazio Espositivo Antonello da Messina, Legnano, Italy
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
