MICHAIL MICHAILOV (1978)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Michail Michailov

Michail Michailov lives in Paris and Vienna and his artistic practice is focused on drawing, performance, installation and video. He studied Fine arts in Veliko Tarnovo,
Bulgaria, and History of art in Vienna. In addition to several residencies and awards, he received the Drawing Now Paris Art Award (2018) and the Austrian State Scholarship for visual art (2017).
Success and failure, self-discovery and self-doubt, the pursuit of happiness and overcoming limits are recurring themes in his work. He takes up various cultural phenomena that influence human behaviour and question a society striving for perfection. In doing so, he use his personality as a metaphor for existence, the ego and the striving for individual self realisation in a globalised society.

Last exhibitions
EN ETRE/Jeun Creation 70, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris-Pantin (2020); Falling Up, re.riddle, Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); Cruel Summer Camp, Exile gallery, Vienna(2020); Craving nothing, Structura gallery, Sofia (2020); #Selfisolation, Sariev gallery, Plovdiv (2020); Dripping ceiling, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, (2019); Partie de campagne, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2019); Room for faliure, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami (2019); I am everywhere, Drawing Lab Paris, Paris (2019); Dust to dust, Untitled, re.riddle, San Francisco (2019); Best of 20 Years, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (2019)

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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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MICHAIL MICHAILOV (1978)

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