Mariana Vassileva / biography



1964		born in Bulgaria

1994-2000		studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany

		lives and works in Berlin, Germany



Solo exhibitions
2012		Mariana Vassileva : The gentle brutality of simultanity / Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand Mariana Vassileva - solo video 2000-2012/ Fundaciò Palma Espai d´art - Casal Solleric / Palma, Majorca, Spain
2011		Mariana Vassileva - Die sanfte Brutalität der Gleichzeitigkeit - The gentle brutality of simultanity / DNA, Berlin
2010 2009		Mariana Vassileva, Dominik Mersch Gallery / Sydney, Australia Just a Game, DNA / Berlin, Germany Mariana Vassileva Videos, Starkwhite Gallery / Auckland, New Zealand Mariana Vassileva, Olga Korper Gallery / Toronto, Canada Index Glass, Galleri Image / Aarhus, Denmark
2008		Mariana Vassileva, Musée d´art Contemporain Montréal / Montréal, Canada New works, DNA / Berlin, Germany
2007 2006		Speedformel, DNA / Berlin, Germany Reflections, videokunstreihe im foyer, screen spirit_continued, Städtische Galerie Bremen / Bremen, Germany Black Box Foundation / San Juan, Puerto Rico Goethe Institut / Sofia, Bulgaria Gallery Art&Food / Gijón, Spain Nothing is just, with Rivka Rinn, DNA / Berlin, Germany

2005		Spiegel / Licht, DNA / Berlin, Germany

2004		Rasender Stillstand III, Prima Center / Berlin, Germany

2003		Rasender Stillstand II, DNA / Berlin, Germany

2000		Rasender Stillstand I, Galerie Weißer Elefant / Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions
2012		Beyond Time - International Video Art Today, Stockholm Kulturhuset / Stockholm, Sweden Good Night, The Israel Museum / Jerusalem East is west, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore / Singapore, Indonesia Hors-pistes 2012, un autre mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou / Paris, France
2011		Berliner Zimmer / Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzgowina Alchemy / Microwave International New Media Festival, Hong Kong, SAR 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (MNAC) / Moscow, Russia Drawing in relation / DNA, Berlin XVIII. Rohkunstbau / Rohkunstbau, Berlin Lichtsicht / 3. Projektions-Biennale Bad Rothenfelde, Germany Everything changes / DNA, Berlin Kunst aus Australien Tradition und Moderne / Alison & Peter Klein Eberdigen-Nussdorf, Germany Berliner Zimmer - MMCA / Thessaloniki, Greece Espiritu de epoca - Ofelia Martin y Javier Nunez - (MIAC)/ Arrecife, Spain Smell colour. chemestry, art and education, Arts Santa Monica / Barcelona, Spain Menos Tiempo que Lugar, MNBA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Santiago, Chile Artes Visuais - A carta da Jamaica, Oi Futuro / Belo Horizonte, Brazil Alles wandelt sich, DNA / Berlin M O M E N T U M - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien / Berlin When a painting moves...something must be rotten / Stenersenmuseet / Oslo, Norway

2010		What surrounds me, Dominik Mersch Gallery / Sydney, Australia Weniger Zeit als Raum, Die Kunst der Unabhängigkeit, Goethe institut / Lima, Peru August in Art Biennial Varna 2010 / Varna, Bulgaria Picnic Festival, fundacion Marcellino Botin / Santander, Spain Menos Tiempo que lugar, Museo National de Bellas Artes / Santiago de Chile, Chile Menos Tiempo que lugar, Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Parana / Curitiba, Brazil Menos tiempo que lugar, Palacio Nacional de las artes - Palais de Glace / Buenos Aires, Argentina Menos tiempo que lugar - el arte de la Indipendencia - Centro municipal de Expociones / Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay Momentum, TAiK / Berlin, Germany Still Moving, The Israel Museum / Jerusalem, Israel Der Brief aus Jamaika, Oi Futuro / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Transitland - Space (former galeria Priestor for contemporary arts) / Bratislava, Slovaquia Transitland, Moscow Museum of Modern Art / Moscow, Russia Transitland. Videoarte de Europa Central y Oriental 1989-2009, El cuadro inquieto - Fundacion Francisco Godia / Barcelona, Spain Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid, Spain   17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance. Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age / Sydney, Australia  Remote Vision. The Best of LOOP: New Video Art from Europe and the Americas, Arts Santa Mònica / Barcelona, Spain Reflection, DNA / Berlin, Germany
2009- 2011		Menos Tiempo que Lugar. El Arte de la Independencia. Ecos Contemporáneos, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo / Quito, Ecuador; travelling through Latin America and Germany
2009		The Best of LOOP. Remote Viewing, Pacific Design Center / Los Angeles, CA, USA BAC! 09 Festival of Contemporary Art, CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona / Barcelona, Spain ¡Cuando una pintura se mueve… algo debe estar podrido!..., Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) / Santurce, Puerto Rico Bienal Vento Sul / Curitiba, Brazil Transmediale. Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP), Collegium Hungaricum / Berlin, Germany Vidéos Europa, Le Fresnoy / Tourcoing, France Instants Video, Festival of Video and Performance / France, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Brazil Hängung #4, Querschnitt, Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein / Eberdingen, Germany Impressions: Contemporary Art from Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje / Skopje, Macedonia Portrait Berlin, Palacio Nacional de las Artes Palais de Glace / Buenos Aires, Argentinia Transitland, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate / Sofia, Bulgaria Expanded Drawing, DNA / Berlin, Germany Some Politics of Appropriation, Laznia, Centre for Contemporary Art / Gdansk, Poland
2008		Video Performance, Methoden der Selbstbetrachtung, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst / Münster, Germany MEDIATIONSBIENNALE / Poznan, Poland Brilliant Noise. Late at Tate, Tate Britain / London, UK Hermandades Escultoricas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan / Merida, Mexiko Collection Videos & Films Jean Conrad & Isabelle Lemaître, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Kiel, Germany Beyond Stereotypes, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein / Aachen, Germany Revolution, San Diego State University Art Gallery / San Diego, USA Portrait Berlin, Goethe Instirut Krakow / Krakow, Poland The canvas is the screen, CaixaForum / Palma de Mallorca, Spain Videosalon3, Curatorial Rebound Project, Galerija 10m² / Sarajevo, Bosnia

2007		The Canvas is the Screen, CaiaxForum / Barcelona, Spain Martes de Galería, Martes de Videoarte, BlackBoxArt Foundation / San Juan, Puerto Rico Garten Eden. Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle in Emden / Emden, Germany Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Reina Sofía / Madrid, Spain BAC! 07, Barcelona International Contemporary Art Festival / Barcelona, Spain Bulgaria? ...Oh, yes, Bucharest!, Week of Contemporary Art 2007, Centre for Contemporary Art / Plovdiv, Bulgaria Video Killed The Painting Star, DA2 Salamanca / Salamanca, Spain Wunder der Prärie, zeitraum_ex!t, Büro für Kunst Mannheim / Mannheim, Germany leibhaftig, Städtische Galerie / Ravensburg, Germany leibhaftig, Kunstverein Konstanz / Konstanz, Germany FACCIA LEI, Spazio Thetis / Venice, Italy Visual Immortality VI, M54 Projektraum / Basel, Switzerland Mariana Vassileva, Asli Sungu, zeitraumexit e.V. / Mannheim, Germany 1a Bienal del Fin del Mundo / Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina VISÕES BERLINENSES, Paço das Artes / São Paulo, Brazil Portrait: Berlin, The Moving Gallery, Nebraska Art Association / Omaha, USA; Goethe-Institut / Washington D.C., USA Nuovo Polo Natatorio / Triest, Italy

2006		VIDEOART UNA VISIÓ ACTUAL, Sala d'Art CAIXA DE MANLLEU / Vic, Spain Vokuhila – Fragen der Form, DECK Gallery / Stuttgart, Germany II Festival Internacional de Videopoesia 2006 / Buenos Aires, Argentina Optica Festival / Gijon, Spain Babylons Shade, ARTos foundation / Nikosia, Cyprus Paradise: A Step to the Left, tactileBOSCH, More Front Studio / Cardiff, Wales 2^nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art / Shumen, Bulgaria People and spaces, Riga Congress Center / Riga, Latavia Das kommt davon, Backfabrik / Berlin, Germany LOOP / Barcelona, Spain

2005		VideoNow!, White Trash Contemporary / Hamburg, Germany In Absentia, Exhibiton at the HOUSE Project, Chapter Art Center / Cardiff, Wales Open Space, curated by Iara Boubnova / Vienna, Austria

2004		LOOP / Barcelona, Spain all about...SKULPTUR IN BERLIN, whiteBOX, Kultfabrik / Munich, Germany Neither In the Sky, Nor On the Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje, Macedonia

2003		ZEITGENÖSSISCH! Kunst in Berlin, KPM / Berlin, Germany KEUMSAN Gallery / Seoul, South Korea Up and Coming, ARCO, curated by Rosa Martinez / Madrid, Spain

2002		INSIDEOUT 5. Festival of Contemporary Art UNDABDIEPOST2002, / Berlin, Germany Blaue Nacht, Kunst Bunker / Nürnberg, Germany

2001		Fünf Sterne - Fluchtwege, Galerie Weißer Elefant / Berlin, Germany

2000		Festival of Vision, curated by Johann Nowak / Hong Kong, China



Works in public collections
		La Colección de Arte Contemporáneo del Ayuntamiento de Pamplona / Spain Museum for Contemporary Art Scopje / Macedonia La Caixa / Caja de Ahorros de El Monte y Fundacion el Monte / Spain Lemaitre, London-Paris Collection Jean Mairet Kunsthalle in Emden / Germany The Israel Museum / Israel