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PERSONAL INFORMATION ДАТА И МЯ------..-Т. Names Neno Belchev Belchev Date & place of birth 16 September 1971, Varna, Bulgaria Current address Bulgaria, 9010 Varna, 12 Studentska Str., bl.12, 3rd floor, ap.12 Mobile telephone + 359 898 687 630 E-mail [email protected]; [email protected] Website www.nenobel.net

RESUME ДАТА И МЯ------..-Т. Neno Belchev was born in 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Varna. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Belchev works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture, new media and independent curator. Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and international exhibitions. He has made one full-length movie (2016), four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in Italy, Malaysia, India, Romania, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as residency-grants in España, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, , Portugal and Bulgaria. Among his most important international participations are: EAT: International exhibition, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA); INSOMNIA DYSLEXIA: 5th International Short Video Biennial, P74 Gallery, (Ljubljana, SLOVENIA / October 2015); EESA - Exhibition: Between democracies 1989- 2014: Memory and Commemoration, (Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA / September 2015); MONTAG MODUS I at CHB (Collegium Hunuarium Berlin), (Berlin, / May 2015); XXVIIth CEC ARTSLINK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA / 2014);XXVIIth CEC ARTSLINK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA / 2014); IN-SONORA VIII: at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA (Madrid, SPAIN; 2014); EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall (Hong Kong, HONG KONG / 2013); Solo exhibition MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA / 2011); SANCTIONED ARRAY – international video exhibition at White Box Gallery (New York, USA / 2010); "COMMERCIAL" ART VIDEO – international video exhibition at Apexart (New York, USA / 2010); WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BODY? Solo exhibition during the International Art Residency 2009 at OCAT, He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, CHINA / 2009); Wichita Falls Museum (Texas, USA / 2009); DEPO Tutun Deposi (Istanbul, TURKEY / 2009); Today Art Museum (Beijing, CHINA / 2008); Moerenuma Koen Hidamari Museum (Sapporo, JAPAN / 2007) and many others. His works are possession of the He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMCA – Sofia Museum for Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria), ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA); Varna City Gallery (Varna, Bulgaria), private collections in USA, the Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and more. Neno Belchev is one of the founders of the Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.

EDUCATION_g______------__. 1991 – 1997 Mural Painting, MA, National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia

LANGUAGES ______._ __-_._. Bulgarian – native, English – very good, Russian – very good, Macedonian – adequate

OCCUPATION = =. . …- - At the moment – Freelance artist 2008 - 2014 – Co-director of the International Video Art Festival VIDEOHOLICA

2000 - 2008 – Fulltime lecturer in painting and drawing in VFU (Varna Free University)

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GRANTS, AWARDS, HONOURS & COMPETITIONS Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

December 2020 – GRANT by ―Your Place‖ Art-Project of TEMPO ARTS, realised with public funding through Arts Council England’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund and East Sussex Arts Partnership', Hastings, UK; November 2020 – GRANT by programme ―CREATIVE INITIATIVES‖ of the Bulgarian National Fund ―CULTURE‖ August 2020 – GRANT by ―My Place‖ project of PECSD (Public Environmental Center for Sustainable Development), Ezeretz village, BULGARIA; 21 September 2019 – Special Mention for Experimental Impact, Video Hackers Fest: International Film Festival, Ovada, ITALY; July-August 2019 – GRANT at Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”); 20 June 2019 – zeitimpuls shortfilm: International Film Festival, (nomination for the zeitimpuls Award 2019), Vienna, AUSTRIA; Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 – GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (+Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”); 25 November 2018 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, (nomination in category FEATURE EXPERIMENTAL), Istanbul, TURKEY; 22 September 2018 – IV-th Film Festival Bremen, (nomination in category INNOVATION), Bremen, GERMANY; July 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; June 2018 – The Buddha International Film Festival, PRIZE for Best Multimedia Video, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA; November 2017 – FIRST PRIZE for VIDEO ART, La Esperanza! ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival, El Segundo, LA, CA, USA; October 2017 – FIRST PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 1st Russian (Russky) Film Festival, Moscow, RUSSIA; September 2017 – SECOND PRIZE in category BEST FILM, 12 Months Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA October - November 2014 – XXVII CEC ArtsLink Fellowship AWARD by CEC ArtsLink foundation (New York, NY, USA), realized in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA) December 2013 – FIRST PRIZE at DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition, (project of DUPINI art group), the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BULGARIA November 2013 – presented in ESPACIOENTER: International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture (project of ARTECHMEDIA), as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Canary Islands, SPAIN July 2013 – Winner of the ACID RAIN July 2013 Episode #59; ACID RAIN : an online video art platform; NY, USA July 2013 – presented in Playground AV Festival, as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Linz, AUSTRIA June 2013 – presented in Photometria Photo Festival 2013, as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival (Greece), curator: Katerina Katsoura November 2012 – presented in ESPACIOENTER Canary Islands, as a part of the representative selection of MIDEN video festival (Greece), curators: Gioula Papadopoulou and Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos May 2012 – SECOND PRIZE for video (anonymously as Nimodemus Chernev) at the street festival OTETZ PAISIY – competition: TEXT, Plovdiv, BULGARIA; December 2011 – long listed for the Kuryokhin Prize, St. Petersburg, Russia; November 2011 – GRAND-PRIX and FIRST PRIZE for video-art at 4th international video art festival NET, (catalog), Ufa & Chelyabinsk, RUSSIA; October 2011 – nominee / finalist at VIDEODORMO: International Festival of Contemporary Art, Bilbao, SPAIN September 2011 – Kronstadt Artist-in-Residency program of NCCA (National Center for Contemporary Art, Petersburg branch), Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA (travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) th August 2011 – THIRD PRIZE at 10 INTERNATIONAL KANSKI VIDEO FESTIVAL, (catalog), Kansk, RUSSIA http://www.festival-cannes.ru/ 2

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April 2011 – Selected for the for GRANT of the Rooms Art Gallery Residencies, Newfoundland, CANADA (not realized) March 2011 – Two nominees in two categories at THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2011, video art festival, (catalog), Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, http://www.theoneminutes.org March 2011 – Included in the representative selection of danubeVIDEOARTfestival, Stadtkino Grein, Insburg, AUSTRIA; http://danubevideoartfestival.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/program/ August - November 2009 – GRANT at the OCAT (OCT CONTEMPORARY ART TERMINAL of He Xiangning Art Museum) International Art Residency – 2009, (catalog), Shenzhen, CHINA Sept - Oct 2008 – GRANT - artist in residency by REDline’08_Bordering on Us, programme in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE) (catalog), (www.imerge.com.pt ), Porto, PORTUGAL http://redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/ December 2007 – PRIZE for best artist for 2007 by BULART Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA; November 2007 – Short-listed for the International Artist Fellowship Leicester, Leicester, July 2007 – GRANT by STEP beyond programme by European Cultural Foundationр as a guest of ESPACE 29, Bordeaux and LES OUVRIERS DU CHAI, Sainte Foy La Grande, FRANCE January - March 2007 – GRANT – artist in residency at ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme, (catalog), Sapporo, JAPAN June 2006 – FIRST PRIZE for best video clip at STOPPING THE TRAFFIC OF PEOPLE, together with 3REC group, Varna, BULGARIA; April 2006 – PRIZE OF JURY for best video at ON DIFFERENCE # 2, together with 3REC group, (catalog), Sofia, BULGARIA; November 2003 – FIRST PRIZE for experimental photography at the 1st NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON, Varna, BULGARIA; November 2002 – Prize for young artist by BULART Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA; 1999 – PRIZE for print art in a competition dedicated to DON QUIJOTE OF SALAMANCA, SPAIN; 1989 – FIRST PRIZE in a competition for the design and painting of murals in a public building in Sofia

JURIES: . ------November 2018 – Member of the international jury of the ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: MATRIARCHS, El Segundo, LA, CA, USA; November 2016 – Member of the international jury of the UNSOLICITED EXHIBITION PROGRAM of apexart; NY, USA November 2015 – Member of the international jury of the TPA: 3rd International Performance Festival torinoPERFORMANCEART (a catalog), Torino (Turin), ITALY; August 2014 – Member of the international jury of the 13th INTERNATIONAL KANSKI VIDEO FESTIVAL, (catalog), Kansk, RUSSIA http://www.festival-cannes.ru/ December 2013 – Member of the jury on national level of «On Joue sur la Terre» the 4rd International Photographic Competition of the Fondation ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE, Varna, Bulgaria; January 2013 – Member of the jury on national level of « Мétiers du Monde» the 3rd International Photographic Competition of the Foundation ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE, Varna, Bulgaria; November 2012 – Member of the international jury of the 5th international video-art fest NET, (catalog), Ufa & Chelyabinsk, RUSSIA; August 2009 – Member of the international jury of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2009, http://www.videoholica.org/ August 2008 – Member of the international jury of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2008 http://www.videoholica.org/

SOLO EXHIBITIONS . - February 2021 – Live solo exhibition "SHOW YOUR TONGUE!‖ 3 at Celula de Arta, curator: Daniel Loagar, Bucharest, ROMANIA

February 2021 – Live solo exhibition "REMEMBRANCE PORTRAIT OF HOMETOWN" at gallery ―Бункер / Bunker‖, Franga

Hills, Varna, BULGARIA; 3

January 2021 – Online interactive project "SHOW YOUR TONGUE! TAKE YOUR PLACE!‖ 2 at TEMPOARTS, Hastings, UK Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

May 2020 – Online solo exhibition "SHOW YOUR TONGUE!‖ 1 at gallery "8", Varna, BULGARIA April 2020 – Live solo exhibition "A Real Anti-Military Outdoor Exhibition in an WWII Abandoned Military Bunker‖, Franga Hills, Varna, BULGARIA; July 2019 – Solo exhibition ―FLAGS‖, Espai Sant Marc, (Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA); December 2018 – AMERICAN DREAM: MADE IN CHINA, Open studio as a part of the ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA; April 2015 – ―THIS IS NOT I!‖ solo exhibition at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery Varna, BULGARIA June 2013 – series of solo exhibitions: THE RAINBOW DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYBODY at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery and gallery "8", Varna, BULGARIA September 2011 – Solo exhibition MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) at NCCA (National Center for Contemporary Art, Petersburg branch), Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA www.ncca.ru/events.text?filial=6&id=1143 May 2011 – NB-MONOGRAPHY – solo screening on VisualcontainerTV, Milan, ITALY www.visualcontainer.tv April 2010 – Solo exhibition SYLICONE IDENTITY - objects and drawings, in the frames of Con.Tempo - weekend for contemporary art, gallery ―8‖, Varna, BULGARIA, http://www.gallery8.net/wrk.php?EID=00191 November 2009 – WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BODY? Open studio during the International Art Residency 2009 at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum) http://www.ocat.com.cn/ Shenzhen, CHINA May 2007 – Solo exhibition SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 3, video art, photos, video-installations, Georgi Velchev Art Gallery Museum, Varna, BULGARIA http://www.moreto.net/events.php?n=1175 April 2007 – SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 2, installation from 3000 drawings, Gallery 8, Varna, BULGARIA March 2007 – SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 1 (video art, photos): Open studio during the ICC festival at the end of the at ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme, Sapporo, Japan February 2007 – Two men exhibition SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 1, as a part of at ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme, video art, photos, video-installations; HIDAMARI Art Museum, Moerenuma Koen, Sapporo, JAPAN (catalog) February 2005 – Solo exhibition, video art and paintings, Gallery 8, Varna, BULGARIA www.gallery8.net June 2004 – One-Man Outdoor Sculpture Show within the frame work of the International Theatre Festival VARNA SUMMER, installations and sculptures, Varna, BULGARIA April 2003 – Two men exhibition, Drawings, Town Gallery, Balchik, BULGARIA April 2003 – Two men exhibition, Drawings, Georgi Velchev Art Gallery Museum, Varna, BULGARIA June 2002 – Solo exhibition MATERIAL EXPRESSION OF PRAYER, OR QUINTESSENCE OF SUFFERING, (objects of black dough), Art Gallery Artin, Varna, BULGARIA January 2002 – Solo exhibition, Oil Paintings, Art Gallery ―8‖, Varna, BULGARIA November 2000 – GHOSTS, installation, Art Gallery Darzalas , Varna, BULGARIA September 2000 – Solo exhibition of Oil Paintings and Plastic Works of Art, Art Gallery BULART, Varna, BULGARIA August 1999 – Two men exhibition of Oil Paintings and Plastic Works of Art, Art Gallery BULART, Varna, BULGARIA February 1999 – NOT SERIOUS OIL PAINTINGS & PLASTICS: Solo exhibition, Art gallery for Print Art and Work with Paper, Plovdiv, BULGARIA August 1998 – Solo exhibition, Oil Paintings, The House of Navy, Varna, BULGARIA

SOLO ART-ACTIONS & SOCIAL ART-PROJECTS - - - 1-31 December 2020 – the online art-project ―SHOW YOUR TONGUE! – TAKE YOUR PLACE!‖ is a TEMPO ARTS commission as part of 'Your Place' project and is realised with public funding through Arts Council England’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund and East Sussex Arts Partnership'; 23 August 2020 – SPHERE – solo art-action and ecological project, implemented with the support of PECSD (Public

Environmental Center for Sustainable Development), Ezeretz village, BULGARIA;

17 April 2020 – ART IS NOT A SPOON FOR EVERY MOUTH! – solo art-action on the Varna City Gallery’ doors, Varna, 4

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21 September 2019 – screening at the ―Kapana‖ Gallery as part of the project "Notes and footnotes", curator Vera Mlechevska, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; 9 September 2019 – CLUB OF PENSIONERS – solo art-action on the Varna City Gallery’ doors, Varna, BULGARIA; July 2019 – RAINBOW ON THE ROAD and ¿HASTA CUÁNDO? – solo art-actions, Sineu, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA; 13 December 2018 – screening of my first full-length video-art post-punk pseudo-documentary movie ―My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea at ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art) as a part of the ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 24 November 2018 – THE OLD LIMPING DANCER solo video- performance made in art center Singel 222, http://www.singel222.nl/ (Dordrecht, The Netherlands.) 17 January 2018 – screening of my first full-length video-art post-punk pseudo-documentary movie ―My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea at Structura Art Gallery, curator Maria Vassileva, Structura Gallery, Sofia, BULGARIA June 2018 since October 2008 – IMMIGRATION IN A SUITCASE: solo video- performance made on many places: PORTUGAL, , CHINA, ITALY, BULGARIA, GERMANY, FRANCE AND GREECE. April 2011 – UNTITLED – solo audio-visual performance (VJ-ing), based on the radio-play FACEBOOK by Elitza Mateeva, Varna City Radio Hall, Varna, Bulgaria October 2009 – HOW TO CROSS A STREET IN CHINA – solo art-action at ―THE INVISIBLE GENERATION‖, curators Per Hüttner & Daniele Balit, OCAT, Shenzhen, CHINA May 2009 – TROOPS LANDING OF RATS – solo art-action on NOPASSWD: festival for contemporary art – Genoa, ITALY June - July 2003 – CTEHATA (THE WALL): a mural (street-art graffiti project) – designed by Neno Belchev and performed by Neno Belchev and a team, Kabakum Beach, BULGARIA October 2001 – A TRANSLATION OF JOSEF BEUYS INTO BULGARIAN – art-action, ecological project together with Yavor Andreev (after the conception of Josef Beuys), Central Entrance of the Seaside Gardens, supported by the Varna Municipality, Varna, BULGARIA

FUTURE PARTICIPATIONS & EXHIBITIONS === 2021 – ALC videoart festival, Museum of Contemporary arts of Alicante, Alicante, ESPAÑA; 2021 – INCART; International contemporary art exhibition, Inca, Mallorca, ESPAÑA; 3-9 January 2021 – New Wave Motion Screenings, Hong Kong, HONG KONG;

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS .=== 11-14 November 2020 – XXXIII les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques, Marseille, FRANCE; 9 October - 25 November 2020 – "NeoNlitic 2.0"; International contemporary art exhibition "NeoNlitic 2.0",organized by ‖Would Be Nice‖; Curator: Mihaela Ion; - 5-25 November 2020 – Romanian National Museum of History, Bucharest, Romania; - 26-31 October 2020 – Chernivtsi Centre of Culture, Chernivtzi, Ukraine; - 9-16 October 2020 - Varna Regional Museum of History, Varna, Bulgaria; November 2020 – ―WATER‖ International Performance Festival, Bourgas, BULGARIA; 5 November 2020 – Frame x Frame Film Fest, Houston Ballet, Houston, TX, USA; 23-25 October 2020 – BIFFLA Broadway International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 22 October 2020 – El Festivalico Film Festival, Murcia, ESPAÑA; October 2020 – OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival, Lugano, SWITZERLAND; September 2020 – XXI Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Cerveira, PORTUGAL; 27-30 September, 2020 – III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Bogota and Pereira (COLOMBIA) and Santiago de and

Havana (CUBA);

26 September 2020 – Darkroom Film Festival, London, UK; 5

24-29 September 2020 – Semana por la Soberania Audiovisual, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

23 August 2020 – Balkan Can Kino film festival, Kastro, Sikinos, GREECE; August 2020 – XIV Video Art Miden, Kalamatas, Messinia, GREECE; 10 July - 10 September 2020 – 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GREECE; 26-30 June, 2020 – VII Concurso Europeo de Creación Audiovisual ―Ctl 59 Segundos‖, Navarra, ESPAÑA; 22-26 June 2020 – zeitimpuls Awards 2020, Vienna, AUSTRIA; 19 June 2020 – Erotic Film Stream goes to Eastern Europe, Le Sex Lab, New York, USA; June 2020 – Sylhet Film Festival 2020, Sylhet, BANGLADESH; 4-7 June 2020 – The BeBop Channel Content Festival, New York, USA; 31 May 2020 – Squat Betty Avant Garde Film Night, The Resistance Gallery, London, UK; 17-23 March 2018 – 20th Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, USA; 11-15 March 2020 – 23rd International Encounters Traverse Video, Toulouse, FRANCE; 23-28 January 2020 – Depictions of Living - Art and Activism: international exhibition at Art Pavilion in Mile End, curators: Samuel Ivan Roberts and Roshi Khakban, London, UNITED KINGDOM; 25 January 2020 – International Micro Film Festival, Madrid, ESPAÑA; 20 December 2019 – IntimaLente IntimateLens Festival, Napoli, ITALY; 6 December 2019 – Mobile Film Festival, Skopje, NORTH MACEDONIA; 1-7 December 2019 – ZUMA Film Festival, Abuja, NIGERIA; 20-24 November 2019 – ULTRAcinema International Film Festival, Mexico City, MEXICO; 24-26 October 2019 – Festival de Videodanza de Palma, Fundació Pilar and Juan Miró Mallorca, curator : Ágota Harmati, Palma de Mallorca, ESPAÑA; 12 October 2019 – OGA VideoArt Exhibitions 2019-2020, Roma, ITALY; 11-13 October 2019 – Bratina film festival, Dmitrov, Moscow region, RUSSIAN FEDERATION; 5-13 October 2019 – MoziMotion International Film Festival, Hilversum, North Holland, NETHERLANDS; 21 September 2019 – Special Mention for Experimental Impact, Video Hackers: International Film Festival, Ovada, ITALY; 19-20 September 2019 – Film Festival Bremen, Bremen, GERMANY; 16-24 September 2019 – BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival 2019, Bilbao, ESPAÑA; 7-14 September 2019– streetside cinema: film festival, Winston-Salem, USA; 1 September 2019 – New Wave Film Festival, Hong Kong, HONG KONG / CHINA; September 2019 – HALF: International Film Festival, Kerala, INDIA; 30-31 August 2019 – ―WATER‖ International Performance Festival, Bourgas, BULGARIA; July 2019 – Buenos Aires Film Festival, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; 27-30 June 2019 – Fest Anča: International Animation Festival, Zilina, SLOVAKIA; 20 June 2019 – zeitimpuls shortfilm: International Film Festival, (nomination for the zeitimpuls Award 2019), Vienna, AUSTRIA; 5 June 2019 – "One Shot" International Film Festival, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Yerevan, ARMENIA; May - June 2019 – MISTER VORKY: International Film Festival, Rima, SERBIA; 18-20 May 2019 – Côte d’Azur WebFest, Cannes, France + Beverly Hills, CA, USA; May - September 2019 – XXIV-rth International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, BULGARIA 19 April 2019 – Guerre e Paci OGA International Video Art exhibition, Roma, ITALY; 7 April 2019 – OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival, Lugano, SWITZERLAND; 4 April 2019 – Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point, WI, USA; March 2019 – ―Mr. MOV 2" International Video Art Festival, Brescia, ITALY; March 2019 – Sylhet Film Festival, Sylhet, BANGLADESH;

March 2019 – Trashxploitation: Traveling Film Festival, Belgrade, SERBIA;

28 February until 18 May 2019 – Experience 39: EAT: International exhibition, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El 6

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20 February 2019 – Anti-Hero ProductionGenre Fest 2019, Burbank, CA, USA; February 2019 – MedFF: International Film Festival, Syracusа, Sicilia, ITALY; December 2018 – NukhuFest: International Film Festival, New York, USA; December 2018 – Inshort: International Film Festival, Lagos, NIGERIA; December 2018 – Alternativa: Experimental Video Art and Film Festival, Belgrade, SERBIA; 25 November 2018 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, TURKEY; November 2018 – 400 years of Synod of Dordt 1618 - 2018 / IDENTITY 2018, Dordrecht, The NETHERLANDS; October 2018 – OGA VideoArt Exhibitions 2018-2019, Rome (Roma), ITALY; 19-21 October 2018 – Fatherhood Image Film Festival, New York, USA; 29 September 2018 – Experimental Video Exhibition, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA; 22 September 2018 – Film Festival Bremen, Bremen, GERMANY; September 2018 – Norman International Film Festival, Norman, OK, USA; September 2018 – BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival 2018, Bilbao, SPAIN; 19 August 2018 – Antropical 2018 „KOLA―, International site-specific festival, LUXEMBOURG; August 2018 – International video exhibition 'Wind', part of the International Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018, Geumgang, ; July - December – Transitions from Public to PostFuture: International video art exhibition, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, Los Angeles County, California CA, USA; July 2018 – Indie Best Films Festival (Ibestff), Santa Monica, California CA, USA; July 2018 – Hothouse Theatre's Nottingham International Video and Film Festival, Nottingham, UK; July 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENT, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; July 2018 – Madhouse Movies Film Festival; USA; 9 July 2018 – A Rebel Minded Festival, New York, USA. June 2018 – The Buddha International Film Festival, PRIZE for best multimedia video, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA; June 2018 – International Street-art festival, SPHINX 2018 OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, Thiba, GREECE; June 2018 – Killer Valley Comedy Film Festival, Talent, OR, USA; May 2018 – „Problem Is Never Small― – International site-specific exhibition, Amsterdam, The NETHERLANDS; April 2018 – BLNKA JAM - Downtown Urban Arts Festival 2018, Lubbock, USA; April 2018 – Flick! Experimental Film Festival, Greensboro, NC, USA; March 2018 – 18th Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, USA; January 2018 – ORION International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA; January 2018 – 11th International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh 2018, Dhaka, BANGLADESH; January 2018 – Los Angeles CineFest, Los Angeles, CA, USA; December 2017 – Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Festival, Kafein café-bar, 1429 Rue Bishop, Montréal, Québec, CANADA ; December 2017 – Frozen Chernozyom's day Video Art Festival, Voronezh, RUSSIA November 2017 – VII CINERAMABC - International Film Festival in Balneário Camboriú, Balneário Camboriú, BRAZIL November 2017 – XXX Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques Festival, Cinéma Les Variétés and Friche la Belle de Mai, curateurs: Naïk M'Sili and Marc Mercier, (catalog), Marseille, FRANCE (travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) November 2017 – FIRST PRIZE in category VIDEO ART, La Esperanza! ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival, El Segundo, LA, CA, USA October 2017 – VIII Sofia Independent FIlm Festival (So Independent), Sofia, BULGARIA; October 2017 – 1st Russian (Russky) Film Festival, FIRST PRIZE in category BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM Moscow, RUSSIA;

October 2017 – Twin Lion International Short Film Festival, Bombay (Mumbai), INDIA;

October 2017 – Denial as the Leading Principle: International Video Event, Cinema the Movies, Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS 7

September 2017 – IV Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

September 2017 – Short Film Festival SHORT FORM, Gornji Milanovac, SERBIA September 2017 – Hope Film Awards, Texas, USA September 2017 – 12 Months Film Festival, SECOND PRIZE in category BEST FILM, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA August 2017 – Mt Buller Short Film Festival, Mt Buller, Victoria, AUSTRALIA July 2017 – Vagrant International Video Film Festival, National Historical Museum, Minsk, UKRAINE; July 2017 – ―Mr. MOV" International Video Art Festival, Brescia, ITALY July 2017 – XXXVIII (38th) Durban International Film Festival, Durban, SOUTH AFRICA; July 2017 – FotoFilm Tijuana, International Video and Film Festival, Tijuana, MEXICO; July 2017 – NEW YORK FILM WEEK; International Video and Film Festival, VIDEOLOGY, NY USA; July 2017 – LANDSCAPES - International Film Festival of Sever do Vouga, Sever do Vouga, PORTUGAL; June 2017 – ―Sign on Sign off‖: International Video Event, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, GERMANY; June 2017 – Process-Space: 26-th International contemporary art festival, Rousse, BULGARIA June 2017 – "ONE SHOT" International Short Film Festival, Yerevan, ARMENIA May - September 2017 – XXIII-rd International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, BULGARIA May 2017 – IV-th Derby International Film Festival 2017, Derby, UNITED KINGDOM May 2017 – Whistle Stop Film Festival, Nashville, USA April 2017 – "Proceso de Error" 2017, 4º Festival Internacional de Video Experimental, Casa Plan, Valparaíso, CHILE March 2017 – XXI-st Sofia International Film Festival 2017, Sofia, BULGARIA January 2017 – 7th Yashwant International Film Festival 2017, Mumbai (Bombay), INDIA; January 2017 – 121 & 1 International Video Event, Gate 3 Gallery, curators - Yoss Stybel & Vadim Nemirovskiy, Haifa, ISRAEL; January 2017 – XV-th Pune International Film Festival 2017, Pune), INDIA; August 2016 — MEDIA MEDITERRANEA – NATJEČAJ „PRIJE/POSLIJE― International exhibition for gif-art, Titov park, Pula, HRVATSKA (CROATIA) July 2016 – KEEP THE PROCESS WARM! International exhibition of drawings at CenterPerformArt Salina, curator: Marc Giloux / Montauban, FRANCE October 2015 – INSOMNIA DYSLEXIA: 5th International Short Video Biennial, curator: Ece Pazarbaşı, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA September 2015 – EESA -Exhibition: Between democracies 1989- 2014: Memory and Commemoration, Curator: Judy Peter, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA August 2015 – IMAGO MUNDI: an exhibition of 148 Bulgarian artists in the Map of the New Artt, curator Claudio Scorretti, Fondazione Cini, Venice (Venetzia), ITALY; June 2015 – MUESTRA MARRANA: VII international festival about postpornography and dissident sexualities, Mexico City, MEXICO May 2015 – MONTAG MODUS: performance series, curator: Lena Szirmay-Kalos, CHB (COLLEGIUM HUNGARICUM BERLIN) / Berlin, GERMANY March 2015 – CAVIA'S Amsterdam Experimental Film & Video Festival Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS January 2015 - USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW III, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, GERMANY November 2014 – TPA: the performance art international festival torinoPERFORMANCEART, curators: Manuela Maco and Guido Salvini; Turin, ITALY November 2014 – GNARL FEST 2014: International Video Art Festival, (catalog), Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK October 2014 – Creative Climate Awards NY, USA September 2014 – MAKE8ELIEVE & EVERYBODYS PERFECT: International Film Festival, Genèvе, SWITZERLAND September 2014 – BIDEODROMO: International Festival for Experimental Arts, Bilbao, SPAIN

September 2014 – Second INSTA Media Festival, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

August 2014 – LOVELY DAYS: video art festival, curator: Branko Franceschi, Bol, CROATIA 8 Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

July 2014 – ZooArt2014: site-specific exhibition in former zoo gardens, (catalog), curator: Michela Giuggia, Cuneo, ITALY July 2014 – MIDEN: International video and short-film festival, Kalamata, GREECE June 2014 – WAYFINDING FILM FESTIVAL, (curators: Emily Puthoff &Elena Sniezek), Force Field Project; Philadelphia, USA June 2014 – DON'T EVEN DREAM! : International group exhibition, curator: Anna Buyvid, RuArts gallery; Moscow, RUSSIA May 2014 – l'Œil d'OODAAQ 2014: International Video Art Festival, (catalog), Rennes, FRANCE May 2014 – RESONANCE: international series of video screenings; Lovebomb, Richmond, USA March 2014 – IN-SONORA VIII: Sound and Interactive Art Festival, curator: Maite Camacho Perez; (catalog), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA, Madrid, SPAIN November 2013 – DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition, the Old Post Office, Veliko Turnovo, BG October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition in the frames of the 3rd International World Culture Festival 2013: Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe (世界文化藝術節 2013-東歐芳華), curator: Mee Ping Leung, (catalog), HONG KONG / HONG KONG, CHINA October 2013 – 3rd MULTIMEDIA SHOWCASE: International exhibition, AXA, 1a Avenida, Porto, Portugal September 2013 – CHANNELS: The Australian Video Art Biennial, (catalog), Melbourne, Australia July 2013 – PRIZM 14: International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Millennium Art Museum, Sheffield, UK July 2013 – „STREET．LIFE" – an online exhibition, cold bench gallery July 2013 – MIDEN: International video and short-film festival, Kalamata, GREECE July 2013 – Acid Rain July 2013 episode: an online video art platform, Acid Rain , NY, USA June 2013 – KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), in the frames of Sofia Design Week, Sofia, Bulgaria June 2013 – TPA: the performance art international festival torinoPERFORMANCEART, curators: Manuela Maco and Guido Salvini; Turin, ITALY June 2013 – OTETZ PAISIY: the street festival, curator: Stefka Tzaneva, Plovdiv, BULGARIA, http://opsfestival.com/ June 2013 – the 9th edition of Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, GREECE May 2013 – OPEN MONUMENT: International Group Exhibition and the online platform THINKABOUTSPACE (catalog), Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien / Berlin, GERMANY April 2013 – LETTERS FOR PORTUGAL: International exhibition, Gallery StudioTeambox, LX Factory, Lisbon, PORTUGAL November 2012 – LES INSTANTS VIDÉO: XXV International video festival, Marseille, FRANCE October 2012 – SIMULTAN ―The beginning of the end‖ 2012: International video and short-film festival, Timisoara, ROMANIA http://www.simultan.org/festival September 2012 – MESSAGE TO MAN: XXII International Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA September 2012 – Contextile 2012 - Contemporary Textile Art Triennial (in conjunction with the European Cultural Capitol Guimarães„2012), Guimarães, PORTUGAL (travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) http://contextile2012en.wordpress.com/artists/ July 2012 – MIDEN: International video and short-film festival, Kalamata, GREECE July 2012 – SHOOP – digital art exhibition, studio DFTU, Dallas, TX, USA June 2012 – CROSSTALK Video Art Festival 2012, Budapest, HUNGARY May 2012 – FAR (Festival on Art as Research), Ottersberg, GERMANY (http://art-as-research.org/ ) March 2012 – LE TEMPS DE L’EAU (in conjunction with the 6th World Water Forum), (catalog), curator Cohn Drennan - USA, the Musee de Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE March 2012 – international video exhibition "VIDEO, VIDEO SPINNING TOP", curator Pavlina Mladenova, VivaCom Art Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria December 2011 – PIXXELPOINT 2011 - New Media Art Festival, (catalog), curators BRIDA, Nova Gorica, Slovenia / Gorizia,

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October 2011 – AURORA – A night of light video and sound installations, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, USA 9

October 2011 – VIDEODORMO - International Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Bilbao, ESPANJA Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

October 2011 – THE POETICS OF WATER – international exhibition at the University of Maryland University College, (catalog), Maryland, USA http://www.umuc.edu/visitors/events/art/exhibits/the_poetics_of_water.cfm August 2011 – 1:0 FOR THE FEST – 10th International Kansk Video Festival, (catalog), Kansk, RUSSIA http://www.festival-cannes.ru/ June 2011 – FACING THE ARTWORK – the viewer in moving images, video art and shortfilmfest, Halle (Saale) GERMANY, http://werkleitz.de/ March 2011 – THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2011, video art festival, (catalog), Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, http://www.theoneminutes.org March 2011 – MAGMART International Videoart Festival, Naples, ITALY March 2011 – danubeVIDEOARTfestival, Stadtkino Grein, Insburg, AUSTRIA February 2011 – ESPRESSIONI Performing Arts and Film Festival, curator Pavlina Mladenova (BG), Milan, Italy January 2011 – OUT OF OSTRALE, curators Andrea Higler and Martin Müller, Pecs, HUNGARY November 2010 – "COMMERCIAL" ART VIDEO – international video exhibition at apexart (www.apexart.org), NY November 2010 – SANCTIONED ARRAY – international video exhibition at White Box gallery, New York, USA http://www.sanctionedarray.specifyothers.com/ November 2010 – OUT OF OSTRALE, curators Andrea Higler and Martin Müller, Eupen, BELGIUM November 2010 – MEM - International Festival for Experimental Arts, Bilbao, SPAIN http://www.musicaexmachina.com/ October 2010 – ONE NIGHT STAND at Little Wing, video programme of The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco Santa Fe, USA October 2010 – Video Exhibition "DOWN STAIRS, UP STAIRS', curator Pavlina Mladenova (Bulgaria), Gyeonggi Creation Center, SOUTH KOREA October 2010 – OUT OF OSTRALE, curators Andrea Higler and Martin Müller, Katowice, POLAND August 2010 – OSTRALE 2010 – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curators Andrea Higler and Martin Müller, (catalog), Dresden, GERMANY (travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) August 2010 – ―August in Art‖ – International Biennial for Visual Arts, curator Maria Vasileva, (catalog), Varna, BULGARIA June 2010 – ONE NIGHT STAND, video programme of The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco Santa Fe, USA May 2010 – ―grenzART 1‖ – festival for performing arts, obART, Kirschau, GERMANY, October 2009 – ―The Invisible Generation‖, OCAT, Shenzhen, CHINA, curator Per Hüttner & Daniele Balit, http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com/ October 2009 – the exhibition ―Bulgarian Connection‖, curator Micelle Blume, gallery 44, Genoa, ITALY June 2009 – the exhibition ―TAKE ME TO THE RIVER - ISTANBUL‖, curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Wichita Falls Museum, Texas, USA May 2009 – NOPASSWD festival for contemporary art – Genoa, ITALY March 2009 – the exhibition ―TAKE ME TO THE RIVER‖ (in conjunction with the 5th World Water Forum), curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Depo - Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, TURKEY (travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) December 2008 – KAUNAS IN ART: ―CONTEXTS‖ festival for contemporary art (catalog), curator Krzysztof Stanislawski - Poland, Kaunas, LITHUANIA, http://www.menoparkas.lt/kaunasinart/contexts/kia-en.html/ October 2008 – REDline’08_Bordering on Us - International Meeting of Contemporary Art Community, Identity and Representation, IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777, Porto, PORTUGAL (catalog) http://redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/ October 2008 – 10th international panorama of independent films & video makers, Patras, GREECE

September 2008 – Balkan Art Week ―What Is White?‖, Ada Street Gallery, London, ENGLAND, curators: Jenny Lee and Piera Ravnikar, (catalog) http://terminal00.org/news/ (travel grant by Varna Municipality)

August 2008 – 7th Biennial for Visual Arts ―August in Art‖, Varna, BULGARIA, curator Philip Zidarov, (catalog), 10 www.augustinart.com Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

June 2008 – World One Minutes exhibition, Today Art Museum, (catalog), Beijing, CHINA www.theoneminutes.org/public/index.hp?thissection_id=1 July 2007 - 4th International festival for contemporary arts, PRODUCT - 2007, (catalog), Varna, BULGARIA, http://www.product-festival.com/artists_07.html March 2007 – International festival for visual arts, ICC fest - 2007, Sapporo, JAPAN November 2006 – THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2006, video art festival, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS http://www.theoneminutes.org/public/index.php?thisarticle=80&page=3 October 2006 – PRIX EUROPE SPOT COMPETITION 2006, video art festival, Berlin, GERMANY September 2006 - 4th International Festival for Sort Films In the Palace, Participation together with 3REC group, (catalog), Balchik, BULGARIA August 2006 - 5th International Festival of Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART, curator Tsvetan Krustev, The Town Gallery BORIS GEORGIEV, (catalog), Varna, BULGARIA www.augustinart.com/edition_2006_en.php?issueID=6 April 2006 – DENKARIUM / TAILORING THINKING - SPECIAL: VIE-SOF, Vienna, AUSTRIA November 2005 – LOOP: The Place for Video Art Lovers 2005, video art festival, Barcelona, SPAIN October 2005 –THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2005, video art festival, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS August 2004 – 4th International Festival of Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART, Varna, BULGARIA, (catalog) August 2003 – International Biennial CHANGING CHANELLS, London Biennale Pollinations, Berlin, GERMANY June 2003 – International Project DIE WOLKE OBLAKAT, Varna, Bulgaria / Kassel, GERMANY December 2002 – International Exhibition 14 X 14 EXHIBITION 2002, Century Gallery, London, UNITED KINGDOM http://www.centurygallery.org.uk/archive/2002/2002127_123_14x14.htm August 2002 - 3rd International Festival of Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART, VARNA, BULGARIA 1999 – International Exhibition, Competition dedicated to DON QUIJOTE, Salamanca, Spain. 1996 – 13th International Print Biennial, Biella, ITALY 1993 - 7th International Print Biennial, Varna, BULGARIA

SELECTED GROUP NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS ==… December 2019 – Artificial Light / 7-th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, curator: Daniella Radeva, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BULGARIA December 2018 – Go - Went - Gone / 6-th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, curator: Daniella Radeva, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BULGARIA December 2017 – 5-th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Space Gallery, CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BULGARIA September 2016 – the premiere of my first full-length video-art post-punk pseudo-documentary movie ―My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea‖ at the XXXIV National Festival for Bulgarian Feature Films ―Golden Rose‖, Varna, BULGARIA; December 2015 – ERROR 003: third annual contemporary art exhibition of CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery (catalog), CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BULGARIA January-March 2015 – ART FOR CHANGE: national retrospective exhibition of last 25 year in Bulgarian contemporary art, curator Maria Vassileva, СГХГ (Sofia City Art Gallery), (catalog), Sofia, BULGARIA December 2013 – THE THIRD FINGER: first annual contemporary art exhibition of CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery (catalog), CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery, Varna, BULGARIA April 2013 – KoshmART: contemporary art exhibition (catalog), GRAFIT gallery, Varna, BULGARIA

December 2011 – 15th anniversary exhibition of the gallery, Gallery BULART, Varna, BULGARIA April 2010 – CON.TEMPO – weekend for contemporary art, Varna, BULGARIA

July 2009 – Annual national exhibition for Bulgarian contemporary art for the prize of MobilTel’09, Sklad N7, (catalog), Varna, 11

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June 2008 – 20 X 20, 20th anniversary exhibition of the gallery, Gallery 8, (catalog), Varna, BULGARIA April 2008 – Exhibition of Artists from Varna, Gallery SHIPKA 6, Sofia, BULGARIA July 2007 – Exhibition of the National symposium PLATOTO, City Art Gallery, Shoumen, BULGARIA April 2007 – ILLUSIONS IN THE LANDSCAPE, the Town Art Gallery SIRAK SKITNIK, Sliven, BULGARIA October 2006 – THE DRAWING, gallery ―SHIPKA 6, Sofia, BULGARIA September 2006 – MEDIARTOPEDIA, Art Museum GEORGI VELCHEV, Varna, Center for contemporary art, Shumen, Town Art Gallery, Dobrich and Gallery SHIPKA 6, Sofia, BULGARIA September 2006 – Exhibition of the International Symposium WIND AND SEA, City Art Gallery, Kavarna, BULGARIA July 2006 – the video art fest CINEMASPORT 3 together with 3REC group, Home of cinema, Sofia, BULGARIA July 2006 – Exhibition of 3REC group, video art, Art Gallery - Museum GEORGI VELCHEV, Varna, September 2005 – 7 Х 2 +-1, Action of the group 11, City Art Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA August 2005 – THE BATHING MAN, Action of the group 11, Museum ROME’S BATHS, Varna, BULGARIA May 2005 – LOCKED SPACES, City Art Gallery, Dobrich, BULGARIA http://www.dobrich.com/n_readnews.php?id=4706 March 2005 – PAPER WORKS, Curator Valeri Chakalov, Center for Contemporary Art, Shumen, BULGARIA January 2005 – FROM DIFFERENT POINTS, Central House of the Architect, Sofia, BULGARIA December 2004 – Exhibition, ABC - ART BULGARIAN COMMERCE, City Art Gallery, Sofia, BULGARIA March 2004 – General Regional NUDE, City Art Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA January 2004 – National exhibition of Sculpture, Raiko Aleksiev Gallery, Sofia, BULGARIA November 2003 – 1st National Photographic Salon, Varna, BULGARIA October 2002 – 1st Biennial of Small Forms of Art, Pleven, BULGARIA October 2002 – the Jubilee-Competition for Young Artists under the Patronage of Foundation SAINTS CYRIL & METHODIUS, 6 Shipka St., Sofia, BULGARIA June 2002 – 1st Youth’s Salon VARNA SUMMER, City Art Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA

LEKTURES & PRESENTATIONS ----- 24 April 2018 – Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of Neno Belchev: MINI Pop Up, Varna, Bulgaria; 21 November 2014 – Curatorial talk about the exhibition "LIVING IN THE POST-SOTZ" in Vilnius Acamedy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania; 11 November 2014 – Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of Neno Belchev: an Artist Talk at KALA Gallery, KALA Art Institute as part of the XXVII CEC ArtsLink Fellowship AWARD, Berkeley, CA, USA; 28 October 2014 – Artist talk at Nahl Hall as visiting artist at California College of the Arts (Oakland branch), Oakland, CA, USA 4 November 2012 – CYLINDER: Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of Neno Belchev at X-MAX gallery as part of the 5th international video-art fest NET, Ufa & Chelyabinsk, RUSSIA http://no-festival.ru/ 22 September 2011 – PENDULUM: Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of Neno Belchev at the National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA www.ncca.ru/events.text?filial=6&id=1143 20 November 2010 – Lecture-presentation about the activities of Neno Belchev at the CON.TEMPO, Varna, Bulgaria 24 July 2010 – Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of VIDEOHOLICA in the art association KRAN, Kumanovo, MACEDONIA; 15 November 2009 – Lecture-presentation about the art-activities of the international video art festival VIDEOHOLICA in the OCAT, http://www.ocat.com.cn/ , Shenzhen, CHINA; 24 September 2009 – Lecture-presentation of the activities of Neno Belchev, Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China;

27 August 2008 – Lecture-presentation about VIDEOHOLICA in CITADELLEARTE of Michelangelo Pistolleto Foundation, Biella, ITALY. http://unidee2008.wordpress.com/program/

26 July 2007 – Lecture about Bulgarian video art in LES OUVRIERS DU CHAI, Sainte Foy La Grande, FRANCE 12

27 July 2007 – Lecture about Bulgarian video art in ESPACE 29 for contemporary art, Bordeaux, FRANCE Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------http://www.espace29.com/spip/IMG/pdf/dossier-varnatexte_neno.pdf/ 30 March 2007 – Lecture-presentation of the art-activities of Neno Belchev in Sapporo, Japan, Art Museum Georgi Velchev, Varna, BULGARIA; 20 January 2007 – Lecture-presentation of the art-activities of 3REC group, Inter+Cross Creative Center, Sapporo, JAPAN; 6 September 2006 – Lecture-presentation of the art-activities of 3REC group on 4th International Festival for Sort Films in the Palace, Balchik, BULGARIA

ORGANIZING ACTIVITY …. ======March 2013 - November 2014 – curating / organizing of the video-art exhibition of Bulgarian video art ―LIVING IN POST_SOC‖ in Kaunas, Lithuania 1 September 2014 – curating of the video-art exhibition in the abandon soviet monument on the hills of Varna. October 2013 - August 2014 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2014, http://www.videoholica.org/ January - August 2013 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2013, http://www.videoholica.org/ January - August 2012 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2012, http://www.videoholica.org/ May – June 2012 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art exhibition VIDEOHOLICA SPECIAL SELECTION 2011 at SAMCA (Sofia Arsenal - Museum For Contemporary Art), Sofia, Bulgaria January - August 2011 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2011, http://www.videoholica.org/ January - August 2010 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2010, http://www.videoholica.org/ January - August 2009 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2009, http://www.videoholica.org/ February - August 2008 – Together with Pavlina Mladenova curating / organizing of the video-art fest VIDEOHOLICA 2008 http://www.videoholica.org/ http://www.augustinart.com/edition_2008_en.php/ August 2006 – Curating of the art-action THE ABANDONED SWIMMING POOL at the 5th International Festival of Visual arts AUGUST IN ART, Curator Neno Belchev, South Beach, Varna, BULGARIA www.augustinart.com/edition_2006_en.php?issueID=6/ October 2003 – Joint Curators’ Project of Stefka Georgieva and Neno Belchev, City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria April 2001 – SPRING OF YOUNG ARTISTS, Curator Neno Belchev Gallery Artin, Varna, BULGARIA

CONFERENCES PARTICIPATIONS ..===--== . May 2004 – ELIA/AEC international conference of arts and music institutes in southeast Europe THE BOLOGNA PROCESS: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGHER ARTS EDUCATION? Ljubljana, SLOVENIA September 2004 – Conference THE PROCESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART AND HIS INFLUENCE ON THE HIGH EDUCATION, Chernorizets Khrabar Free University, Varna, BULGARIA

SYMPOSIUMS & WORKSHOPS -==== = - September 2019 – International symposium WIND AND SEA, Kamen Brjag, BULGARIA; August 2018 – International sculpture symposium in the Art School of Tryavna, Tryavna, BULGARIA;

September 2015 – LOMEA: International sculpture symposium in the National Nature Park ROUSSENSKI LOM, Bozhichen village, Roussenski Lom , Rousse region, Bulgaria;

August 2015 – International sculpture symposium in the Art School of Tryavna, Tryavna, BULGARIA; 13

July - August 2015 – ART IN NATURE: International sculpture symposium (project of DUPINI art group), Gabrovtzi village, Page ------www.nenobel.net ...... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------

Veliko Turnovo region, BULGARIA; July 2008 – National symposium Sculpture and Drawing, Kamen Brjag, BULGARIA; July 2007 – National symposium PLATOTO, Shumen, BULGARIA; September 2006 – International symposium WIND AND SEA, Kamen Brjag, BULGARIA August 2006 – Symposium THE IMAGINARY TEMPLE, 3rd edition ILLUSIONS IN THE LANDSCAPE, Aladza Monastery, BULGARIA July 2004 – Workshop ARTS MANAGEMENT, Project ABC, Sofia, BULGARIA www.projectabc.cult.bg/participants.html May 2004 – National Sculpture Symposium Sea of Forms, Golden Sands, BULGARIA September 2002 – 1st International Symposium DIMENSIONS PLASTIC WORKS OF ART IN WOOD, Pamporovo, August 2002 – 10th International Symposium ART CERAMICS, Trojan, BULGARIA

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