i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, France, 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, Germany / 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) 1 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 May 2011 – Short listed for the ISIS Arts Research Residencies, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.nenobel.net ............... ... i ,, NENO’S CURRICULUM VITAE ж, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, UNITED KINGDOM 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