
Krasimir Krastev
Born 1972 in Orehovitsa, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
Contact RASSIM rassim1972@gmail.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008 – EXBODYTION, Studio 25, Sofia
2005 – Rassim number one, horse champ Gallery, Strasbourg, France
2003 – SAVE – action, Blood & Honey- Future’ s in the Balkans, Sammlung ESSL,
Wien
Corrections 2, ATA- center for contemporary art, Sofia
2002 – Corrections 2, Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI), Fribourg, Switzerland
GYM, Irida Gallery, Sofia
2001 – Corrections, HOY Gallery, Belgrade
Shut up & Grow, ATA- center for contemporary art, Sofia
Corrections, FRAC, Montpellier, France
1997 – I love Denitsa, Art in Bulgaria magazine, #41
1996 – Another Angle, Ata-ray Gallery, Sofia
Poster, Advertisement in Art in Bulgaria Magazine, #29
1995 – Drug, Ata-ray Gallery, Sofia
Fly, fly information, ATA-ray Gallery, Sofia
1994 – Project – the way of life, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
My Idol, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 – REALYTY CROSSINGS, Kuunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
VIENNAFAIR, KUNSTAGENTEN Gallery, Wiena
JUST WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES TODAY?, Antje WACHS Gallery, Berlin
VIDEOSPRITZ#2, RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARTE E DOCUMENTI IN
VIDEO. Galleria Comunale d’ Arte Moderna. Triest , Italia
In the Presence of the Body, West Hall Gallery 111, RPI, Troy, New York
2006 – Glamour and Globalisation, PhoenixHalle, Dortmund, Germany
(re)view–identities, KUNSTAGENTEN Contemporary Art GALLERY, Berlin
2005 – Significant Other, Gallery 111, New York
2004 – 26.BIENALE SAO PAULO, Sau Paulo,Brazil
Shake the Limits, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2003 – Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans, The ESSL Collection,Vienna
Writing Identity.Autobiography in Art.Galerie
fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Defenseless and Bad, L Gallery, Moskow
2002 – ART OF TORTURES AND EXECUTION – ART AGAINST TORTURES AND
EXECUTION, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
2001 – LOOMING UP, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Body and the East, EXIT ART, New York
2000 – After the wall, Hamburger Banhof Museum, Berlin
WHAT, HOW & FOR WHOM, Moderna galerija, Zagreb
It could be Obsession, ROTOR/ Association for Contemporary Art,
Graz, Austria
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
1999 – After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Translocation New Media/ Art, Generally Fondation, Vienna
1998 – Body and the East, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraftemessen 2, Kunstlerwerkstatt
Lothringerstrasse, Munich
1997 – Art ex Natio. Made in Bulgaria, 4th Annual Soros
Center for the Arts (SCA) Exhibition, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Menchenbilder. Foto und Videokunst aus Bulgarien, IFA Gallery, Berlin
1996 – Bulgarian Glimpse Show, Bulgarian Cultural Center, Moskow
Selected Bibliography
Steiner Barbara and Yang Jun, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, London, Thames & Hudson, 2004, 54-57.
Paolo Bianchi, Re:Location Shake, Kunstforum, November-Desember 2004
Iara Bubnova, Inventing a People, Flash Art, May- June 1999
Iara Bubnova, Crowds the post office, Flash Art, March- April 1999
Body and the East (cat), 1998
Christopfer Philips, Report from Sofia, Art in America, October 1998
Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraftemessen 2. Salon Verlag (cat), 1998
Menchenbilder. Foto und Videokunst aus Bulgarien, (cat), 1997
Boris Kostadinov, RASSIM, Kultira weekly, #25, 21/ 7/ 1996
Evidences. The real Diversity (cat), 1996
Iara Bubnova, The Drug, Kultura weekly, #43, 21/10/ 1995