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. Currently, he is a PhD student at NAA Sofia.
From 2019 to 2021 he was an Asst. lecturer in Painting, „Textile – art and design“ department NAA Sofia. 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
• 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
PhD student in the Painting Department at NAA Sofia
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
