Adelina Popnedeleva
Born 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
Education:
2019 Professor, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
2012 Associate Professor, National Academy of Art, Sofia
2008 PhD in Visual Arts and Theory of Art,
National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
1988 National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Selected solo exhibitions after 2000:
2018 Pink Light, SAMCA, Sofia
2016 Once upon a time…, gallery Art Alley, Sofia
Video installation “Fresh”, Uniart Gallery, Night of museums and galleries, Bulgarian-European cultural Dialogue Centre, NBU
2015- “3 video portraits “, Zwischen Spiel program, Gedok, Hamburg
2011- “Intimacy in public”, gallery Rezonans, Plovdiv, together whit Vihroni
Popnedelev
“Fresh” ,gallery Bulart, Varna
4 and a half weeks- part II, gallery Art Alley, Sofia
2010 Homely/ Unheimlich, Kunstverein, Baden, Austria, together whit James Voller
2009 On Nietzsche, Kafka and Comrade Lenin- 20 years later,
Goethe- institute, Sofia
City motives ,Goethe- Institut, Sofia
” Underground stores” ,National Gallery of Art, Sofia
“Initiations”, whit E. Panajotova and I. Lalev,
Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria
2005 OH MY HERO!, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia
2004 Symptom- Irida Gallery, Sofia
2002 Masochistic Performance after Hans Christian Andersen – festival BBI,
Fribourg, Switzerland ,curator Olivier Suter
2000 Masochistic Performance after Hans Christian Andersen, ATA, Sofia
Selected group exhibitions after 2000:
2020 Wittgenstein 2020, Gallery Podroom, Culture center Beograd,
Curator Denise Parizek together whit Jana Gligorijević and Zorana Đaković Minniti
Ljuben Farzulev and friends, SAMCA, curator L. Farzulev
Personal utopias, Plus359Gallery, curator Irina Batkova
State of exception, exhibition on line, curator Irina Batkova
“Entrez c’est ouvert ” à Fontenay sous-bois – on line
Exposition collective à la Halle Roublot , France
2019 Thank you Mr. Ruf, Gallery Gredo Bonum, Sofia
Wittgenstein 2019, Gallery R. Mihajlov, V. Turnovo curator Denise Parizek
Notes and footnotes, Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv, curator V. Mlechevska
Painting Technology in contemporary Art , Blagoevgrad City Gallery,
curator S. Stoitzov
Comment, Fiction, Document, Sofia City Gallery, curator D. Radeva
2018 Wittgenstein 1918-2018, House Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria, curator Denise
Parizek, Minna Antova
Curriculum Vitae, SAMCA, curator Nadezhda Dzakova
” Join the Dots-Connect the Distances”, Bulgarian Imago Mundi collection,
Salone degli Incanti,Trieste, Italy,curator Claudio Scorretti
“Synergy”, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Works from the collection of the National Gallery, curator Nadezhda Dzakova
“Tradition – Innovation – Individuality” BCP, Warsaw, curator Verginia Markarova
2017 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage
Works from the collection of the National Gallery, SAMCA
XXIII Festival of Bulgarian Documentary and Animation Cinema «Golden Rhyton», Plovdiv
Unique interior textile, UBA, Shipka 6
“Cultural traces of Chinese and Bulgarian Fiber Art” ,HANGZHOU CULTURAL & CREATIVE INDUSTRY EXPO,
11th Sino – Central and Eastern Europe Cultural and Art Exhibition
Feel before you die!, Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE, Frankfurt, curator A. Karamineva
Directions, Art Gallery of City of Burgas, Bulgaria
The professors, Gallery Shipka 6
2016 Second Triennial of fiber art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Group exhibition in gallery Yuzina, Sofia, curator V. Popnedelev
Competition for artistic video “George Papazov”, ” Contemporary Space “, Varna
Names from the 90´s – Art Gallery Petko Churchuliev, Dimitrovgrad
2015 The smell of sea, Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Paris, France Artcentre “Vihroni” in Gallery of Ministry of culture, Sofia
Focus Bulgaria, Vienacontemporary, self presentation program, curators Yara Bubnova, Vesela Nozharova, Desislava Dimova, Vesselina Sarieva
The summer Video Portrait Symposium, Bangor University, UK
Save the Dreams. Contemporary Artists from Bulgaria ,Fondazione Giorgio Cini ,Venice, Italy
Art for change, SGHG, Sofia, curator M. Vassileva
2014 8-th of March group, Gallery Racursi, Sofia
New shades in contemporary art, Blagoevgrad, curator Sasho Stoitzov
Living in post-socialism, BG video art, Lithuania, curator Neno Belchev
Contempo, international festival for contemporary art, Varna, curator Dora Doncheva
International Women’s Day, a collection of Slava Nakovska and Nedko
Solakov ICA Sofia, curator Iara Boubnova
Aesthetics of injury, Art alley gallery, Sofia, curator Adelina Popnedeleva
“Tetris” – festival for contemporary art forms, Veliko Tarnovo
2013 Portrait in the mouving image, Vandalarom and Jonchoping Lans Museum, Sweden, curator Tim Reed
2012 Love , gallery R.Aleksiev, curator M. Vassileva
Interventions. Adelina Popnedeleva and students.,GREDO BONUM GALLERY
“Faceless Self -Control”, performance, “From Orpheus to Schengen” ,curator Elena Velikova
A possible history, Bulgarian art through the collection of Sofia City Art Gallery
Why Dushamp?, Museum for contemporary art ,Sofia Arsenal, curator Maria Vassileva
2011 Unlimited, Awards for contemporary Bulgarian art, Mtel, Sofia, curator Irina Batkova
Re-production,Museum for contemporary art, Sofia Arsenal, curators Alla Georgieva,Nadezhda Dzhakova
Fasade,videofestival Plovdiv, curators Emil Mirazchiev,Svetlana Kujumdzhieva, Sevdalina Kochevska,Adelina Popnedeleva
Videoholika,Varna, curators, Pavlina Mladenova, Neno Belchev
Cross points, Haus Wittgenshtein, Vienna, Austria, curator V.Popnedelev
Out of time, SHGH ,Sofia , curator Boyan Manchev
2010 XVIII festival for documentary film ”Golden rhyton “, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Alchemy-performance in Lamezia, Italy, festival “Le arti del gesto”
Nirvana-performance in Santa Severina, Italy, “Le arti del gesto”
Coffee whit sugar 2,National Gallery Sofia, curator G. Dimitrova
Night of museums and galleries,Plovdiv,
KOPENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY ,CWS- coffee with sugar, Kopenhagen Art Institute
2009 Atlantis- Hidden Histories- New Identities, Reflections of Tomoroow, Art Today Association- Center for Contemporary Art, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curators E.Mirazchiev, Jakob Racek
Temptetion of chalga, Sofia City Gallery,curators Svetlana Kujumdzhieva,Vessela Nozharova
Born independent, Shipka 6 Gallery, Sofia
2008 Shortlist 2008, Gaudenz B. Ruf award for New Bulgarian Art ,Sofia City Gallery
Aktuelle szene Bulgarien, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany, curator Beate Reifenscheid
Awards for contemporary Bulgarian art, Mtel, , Plovdiv ,Centre for
contemporary art “Banya starinna”, Bulgaria
SALON D’AUTOMNE PARIS, Sarria, Spain
2007 Coffee whit Sugar, Lab. Preparat, Seoul
Visual Immortality, Visarte Gallery , Basel, Switzerland
La pratigue et la metaphore du tissage dans l’art d’Adelina Popnedeleva,
Centre George Chevrier, Dijon, France
Trieste Contemporanea, Focus Bulgaria, Trieste, Italy
2006 10 years video art in Bulgaria, cinema Odeon, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Art today, Plovdiv, Center for contemporary art, Shumen, idea Adelina Popnedeleva
Important Annoncement, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia 2-th International Biennial of Contemporary art ”Visual Immortality”, Shumen, Bulgaria
2005 Donumenta 2005, Regensburg, Germany
2003 Export- Import, City Gallery Sofia
2001 Solitary Pursuits, Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
2000 Women of the World, a global Collection of Art, White Columns, NY, USA,
Bulgarian and American Women Artists Collaborate, Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts, New York,USA
Curatorial activities :
2019 Garden of temptation, Gallery Tereza, Varna
2014 Aesthetics of injury, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia
Festival Contempo, Varna
2012 Interventions. Adelina Popnedeleva and students.,GREDO BONUM GALLERY
2009 Initiations, whit E. Panajotova and I.Lalev, Haus Wittgenshtein, Vienna, Austria
Cross point 2- international women workshop , art centre “Vihrony”
2008 Cross point- international women workshop , art centre “Vihrony”
2006 10 years videoart in Bulgaria – cinema Odeon, gallery Art Alley, University Varna, Centre for contemporary art Shumen, Centre for contemporary art Plovdiv
1998 Caprice- Ata centre for contemporary art, Sofia
Awards:
2016- Nomination in a competition for artistic video “George Papazov”
2010-An honorary diploma for documentary film , XVIII festival ,”Golden rhyton “, Bulgaria
2008- Gaudenz B. Ruf award for New Bulgarian Art, advanced artists
2004- Nomination for the awards of gallery “Iris” in the category “Exhibition of the Year”
Art residence:
Cité des arts, Paris, 2009
Membership in AICA, Bulgaria; Union of Bulgarian artists; 8-th of March group.