Born Sofia, Bulgaria Lives and works in Paris, France
Among the other international prizes Valentin Stefanoff is awarded 2002 -The 2002 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Paris, France (together with NINA Kovacheva)
selected personal exhibition
* 2010 – Surplus Enjoyment / Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei, Taiwan
* 2008 – Desire and Résistance Determine the Motion / Sub Urban / Rotterdam
* 2006 – Play for Two Hands and Black / National Academy of Fine Arts / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2005 – Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space / National Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Au-delà de ce qui est Visible / National Museum for Contemporary Art, (MNAC) / Bucarest, Roumunia
* 2004 – Vidéo Rétrospectif / Maillon – Wacken / Strasbourg, France
* – Au-delà de ce qui est Visible / Nuit Blanche / Paris, France
* 2003 – Currency / Galerie Mabel Semmler / Paris, France
* 2002 – Wet Contact / Experimental Intermedia Galerie / Gent, Belgium
* 2000 – Open – Closed / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Belgrada, Yougoslavia
* 1998 – Identifications of the space / ATA Centre for Contemporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1998 – Identifications of the space II / Galerie Luc Queyrel / Paris, France
* 1997 – Identifications dans l’Espace / Galerie Luc Queyrel / Paris, France
* – Anonymement / ATA Centre for Contemporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1996 – Methods for self education / Cité Internationale des Arts / Paris, France
* 1994 – Valentin Stefanoff / Gallery Graficki Kolektiv / Belgrada, Yougoslavia
* – personal exhibition / Cultur Center “Wittgenstein” / Vienna, Austria
* – Autour de Valentin Stefanoff / Artothèque / Montpellier, France
* – 6 X 4 X 16, installation / Gallery Bernard Jordan / Paris, France
* 1993 – 6 x 4 x 16, installation / Institut Français / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1991 – inconnu / Musée des Beaux Arts / Le Locle, Suisse
* 1990 – inconnu / Gallery Dogenzaka / Tokyo, Japon
* 1990 – valentin stefanoff / etchings / Gallery NDA / Sapporo, Japon
selected group exhibition
* 2012 – Why Duchamp? From object to museum and back / Sofia Arsenal Museum of Conteporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2011 – International Film Festival / / Rotterdam, Holland
* 2010 – Close Encounter / Jeju Museum of Art / South Korea
* – Shortlist 2010, nominated artist / The Gaudenz B. Ruf Award /
* 2009 – Spectacle –To Each His Own / Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei, Taiwan
* – Marketplace / Arc Project Gallery / Sofia, Edinbourg, UK
* 2008 – Micro-narratives / Musée d’Art Moderne de St. Etienne / St. Etienne, France
* – La 4eme Biennial d’Art Contemporain de Québec / / Québec, Canada
* – European Attitude / Zendai Museum of Modern Art / Shanghai, China
* – Mediation Biennale / National Museum / Poznan, Poland
* – Shifting Identity / Li Space / Beijing, China
* – Au- dela du Visible, Intrude 366 Art &Life Project / Zendai MoMA / Shanghai, China
* – Horsecross, Primary Ingredients / Threshold Artspace / Pert, UK
* 2007 – Face / ZONE Contemporary, New York / NY, USA
* – Asia – Europe Mediations / National Museum / Poznan, Poland
* – Desire and Resistance Determine the Motion / Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain / Strasbourg, France
* 2006 – Sometimes Closed is… / Villa de Parc, Centre d’Art Contemporain / Annemasse, France
* – Important Announcement / City Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2005 – Two Asias, Two Europes / Doulon Museum for Contemporary Art / Sanghai, China
* – Etrangeté en soi / Apollonia Centre d’Art Contemporain / Strasbourg, France
* 2004 – Cosmopolis, 3.39% / Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art / Thessaloniki, Greece
* 2003 – Return Nature II / Nanjing Shenghua Arts Centre / China
* – 16ès Instants Vidéo de Manosque / 16ès Instants Vidéo de Manosque / Manosque, France
* – Wet Contact, video installation / Nuit Blanche, Musée du Montparnasse / Paris, France
* – One, Several, Many Odyssey, video installation / Museum of Cinema / Thessaloniki, Greece
* – Export – Import / City Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – The 2th Annual Detroit International Video Festival / MONA Detroit / MI, USA
* 2002 – Multimedia Art Festival / / Dartington, UK
* – Die Beherrschung der Natur / Kunsthalle / Hannover, Germany
* – Sound and Image / Xth Festival Inner Space Multimedia Art / Poznan, Poland
* – The 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art / / Cetinje, Montenegro
* – Face -Identity / National Gallery, Museum / Kraljevu
* 2001 – European Media Art Festival 2001 / / Osnabruck, Germany
* – In-Between-Out, video projection / Ancien Plovdiv / Bulgaria
* 2000 – International Art Forum for Video and New Media / / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Engraving 1997-2000 / Neapolis Municipal Centres for Engraving / Thessaloniki, Greece
* 1999 – Deuxième Biennale de la Gravure d’Ile de France , (60 artistes européen) / / Versailles, France
* 1997 – Intergrafia’97 / World Award Winner Gallrry / Katowice, Poland
* 1996 – Festival of Engraving / Seoul’96 / Corée de Sud
* 1995 – The 1st Triennale of Engraving Art / Sofia’95 / Bulgaria
* – SAGA / Tanguy Garric / Paris, France
* – Autour de Valentin Stefanoff / Artothèque / Montpellier, France
* 1994 – SAGA / Tanguy Garric / Paris, France
* – N formes – Reconstructions and Interpretations / Annual exhibition of Soros Center / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Triennale de la gravure / Krakow’94 / Poland
* 1994 – IIIéme Biennale de l’art graphique / Belgrade’94 / Yougoslavia
* – 25st Internatinal Exhibition of drawing and engraving / Bradley University / Peoria, Il., USA
* 1993 – Art bulgare / Edifice du Conseil de l’Europe / Strasbourg, France
* – Objet – Bulgarian Style / / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1992 – Chefs d’œuvres de l’estampe du XX ème siècle -De Bonnard à Baselitz / Bibliothèque Nationale de France /
* 1991 – XIX Biennale of Graphik Art / / Ljubljana, Yougoslavia
* 1991 – Triennale of Contemporary Art / / New Delhi, India
* – L’Utopie sans illusion / Atelier Contraste / Fribourg, Suisse
* 1990 – Art of today – III / / Budapest, Hungary
* 1990 – The end of Citation / University of Sofia / Bulgaria
* – International Biennale of Busan / / South Korea
* 1989 – L’Europe des graveurs / / Grenoble, France
Works in the collections of:
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg; MoCa Taipei, Taiwan ; Threshold artspace, Horsecross collection, UK ; Museum for New Arts, Detroit MI, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art-Belgrad, Serbia; The French National Library, Paris; Cabinet des Estampes Centre Genevois, CH; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, CH; The National Art Gallery, Sofia; The City Art Gallery-Sofia; MTel collection for Contamporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Other galleries in Bulgaria; Artoteque Montpelier, France; Collection “Art Dialogue”, Paris, France ; many private collections
Valentin Stefanoff
Born Sofia, Bulgaria Lives and works in Paris, France
Among the other international prizes Valentin Stefanoff is awarded 2002 -The 2002 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Paris, France (together with NINA Kovacheva)
selected personal exhibition
* 2010 – Surplus Enjoyment / Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei, Taiwan
* 2008 – Desire and Résistance Determine the Motion / Sub Urban / Rotterdam
* 2006 – Play for Two Hands and Black / National Academy of Fine Arts / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2005 – Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space / National Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Au-delà de ce qui est Visible / National Museum for Contemporary Art, (MNAC) / Bucarest, Roumunia
* 2004 – Vidéo Rétrospectif / Maillon – Wacken / Strasbourg, France
* – Au-delà de ce qui est Visible / Nuit Blanche / Paris, France
* 2003 – Currency / Galerie Mabel Semmler / Paris, France
* 2002 – Wet Contact / Experimental Intermedia Galerie / Gent, Belgium
* 2000 – Open – Closed / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Belgrada, Yougoslavia
* 1998 – Identifications of the space / ATA Centre for Contemporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1998 – Identifications of the space II / Galerie Luc Queyrel / Paris, France
* 1997 – Identifications dans l’Espace / Galerie Luc Queyrel / Paris, France
* – Anonymement / ATA Centre for Contemporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1996 – Methods for self education / Cité Internationale des Arts / Paris, France
* 1994 – Valentin Stefanoff / Gallery Graficki Kolektiv / Belgrada, Yougoslavia
* – personal exhibition / Cultur Center “Wittgenstein” / Vienna, Austria
* – Autour de Valentin Stefanoff / Artothèque / Montpellier, France
* – 6 X 4 X 16, installation / Gallery Bernard Jordan / Paris, France
* 1993 – 6 x 4 x 16, installation / Institut Français / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1991 – inconnu / Musée des Beaux Arts / Le Locle, Suisse
* 1990 – inconnu / Gallery Dogenzaka / Tokyo, Japon
* 1990 – valentin stefanoff / etchings / Gallery NDA / Sapporo, Japon
selected group exhibition
* 2012 – Why Duchamp? From object to museum and back / Sofia Arsenal Museum of Conteporary Art / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2011 – International Film Festival / / Rotterdam, Holland
* 2010 – Close Encounter / Jeju Museum of Art / South Korea
* – Shortlist 2010, nominated artist / The Gaudenz B. Ruf Award /
* 2009 – Spectacle –To Each His Own / Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei, Taiwan
* – Marketplace / Arc Project Gallery / Sofia, Edinbourg, UK
* 2008 – Micro-narratives / Musée d’Art Moderne de St. Etienne / St. Etienne, France
* – La 4eme Biennial d’Art Contemporain de Québec / / Québec, Canada
* – European Attitude / Zendai Museum of Modern Art / Shanghai, China
* – Mediation Biennale / National Museum / Poznan, Poland
* – Shifting Identity / Li Space / Beijing, China
* – Au- dela du Visible, Intrude 366 Art &Life Project / Zendai MoMA / Shanghai, China
* – Horsecross, Primary Ingredients / Threshold Artspace / Pert, UK
* 2007 – Face / ZONE Contemporary, New York / NY, USA
* – Asia – Europe Mediations / National Museum / Poznan, Poland
* – Desire and Resistance Determine the Motion / Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain / Strasbourg, France
* 2006 – Sometimes Closed is… / Villa de Parc, Centre d’Art Contemporain / Annemasse, France
* – Important Announcement / City Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 2005 – Two Asias, Two Europes / Doulon Museum for Contemporary Art / Sanghai, China
* – Etrangeté en soi / Apollonia Centre d’Art Contemporain / Strasbourg, France
* 2004 – Cosmopolis, 3.39% / Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art / Thessaloniki, Greece
* 2003 – Return Nature II / Nanjing Shenghua Arts Centre / China
* – 16ès Instants Vidéo de Manosque / 16ès Instants Vidéo de Manosque / Manosque, France
* – Wet Contact, video installation / Nuit Blanche, Musée du Montparnasse / Paris, France
* – One, Several, Many Odyssey, video installation / Museum of Cinema / Thessaloniki, Greece
* – Export – Import / City Art Gallery / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – The 2th Annual Detroit International Video Festival / MONA Detroit / MI, USA
* 2002 – Multimedia Art Festival / / Dartington, UK
* – Die Beherrschung der Natur / Kunsthalle / Hannover, Germany
* – Sound and Image / Xth Festival Inner Space Multimedia Art / Poznan, Poland
* – The 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art / / Cetinje, Montenegro
* – Face -Identity / National Gallery, Museum / Kraljevu
* 2001 – European Media Art Festival 2001 / / Osnabruck, Germany
* – In-Between-Out, video projection / Ancien Plovdiv / Bulgaria
* 2000 – International Art Forum for Video and New Media / / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Engraving 1997-2000 / Neapolis Municipal Centres for Engraving / Thessaloniki, Greece
* 1999 – Deuxième Biennale de la Gravure d’Ile de France , (60 artistes européen) / / Versailles, France
* 1997 – Intergrafia’97 / World Award Winner Gallrry / Katowice, Poland
* 1996 – Festival of Engraving / Seoul’96 / Corée de Sud
* 1995 – The 1st Triennale of Engraving Art / Sofia’95 / Bulgaria
* – SAGA / Tanguy Garric / Paris, France
* – Autour de Valentin Stefanoff / Artothèque / Montpellier, France
* 1994 – SAGA / Tanguy Garric / Paris, France
* – N formes – Reconstructions and Interpretations / Annual exhibition of Soros Center / Sofia, Bulgaria
* – Triennale de la gravure / Krakow’94 / Poland
* 1994 – IIIéme Biennale de l’art graphique / Belgrade’94 / Yougoslavia
* – 25st Internatinal Exhibition of drawing and engraving / Bradley University / Peoria, Il., USA
* 1993 – Art bulgare / Edifice du Conseil de l’Europe / Strasbourg, France
* – Objet – Bulgarian Style / / Sofia, Bulgaria
* 1992 – Chefs d’œuvres de l’estampe du XX ème siècle -De Bonnard à Baselitz / Bibliothèque Nationale de France /
* 1991 – XIX Biennale of Graphik Art / / Ljubljana, Yougoslavia
* 1991 – Triennale of Contemporary Art / / New Delhi, India
* – L’Utopie sans illusion / Atelier Contraste / Fribourg, Suisse
* 1990 – Art of today – III / / Budapest, Hungary
* 1990 – The end of Citation / University of Sofia / Bulgaria
* – International Biennale of Busan / / South Korea
* 1989 – L’Europe des graveurs / / Grenoble, France
Works in the collections of:
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg; MoCa Taipei, Taiwan ; Threshold artspace, Horsecross collection, UK ; Museum for New Arts, Detroit MI, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art-Belgrad, Serbia; The French National Library, Paris; Cabinet des Estampes Centre Genevois, CH; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, CH; The National Art Gallery, Sofia; The City Art Gallery-Sofia; MTel collection for Contamporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Other galleries in Bulgaria; Artoteque Montpelier, France; Collection “Art Dialogue”, Paris, France ; many private collections
