MARTIN PENEV (1985)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Martin Penev

Martin Penev (born 1985) lives and works in Sofia. In 2009 he received a master's degree in Theology from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and in 2012 he received a master's degree in Digital Arts from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. Since 2010 she has participated in group and solo projects in a number of festivals and events in Bulgaria and abroad. Among the group shows are: 2017 - Shifting Layers. Young Art at the Museum - group exhibition, SCAG, Sofia (BG), curated by Vladiya Mihaylova; 2018 - Art Start: Young Artists to Follow in 2018 – group exhibition, Credo Bonum gallery, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia (BG), curated by Vessela Nozharova, Daniela Radeva and Stefka Tsaneva; 2019 - Open Art Files: Notes and footnotes, group show, Kapana gallery, Plovdiv (BG), curator - Vera Mlechevska.
Among his solo shows are: Wonderful Urban Story - The Fridge, Sofia, 2018, curated by Stefka Tsaneva; Unforeseen - Institute for Contemporary Art - Sofia, 2018, curated by Iara Boubnova; An Object of Concern - Swimming Pool, Sofia, 2018, curated by Victoria Draganova; It Happened Here - Institute for Contemporary Art - Sofia, 2020. In 2018 he won the BAZA young artist award, and in 2019 he is an artist in residence in Residency Unlimited, New York.
He has interests in object, installation, interactive design, media arts and performance.

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Martin Penev - Selected works 1

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The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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