PETER TZANEV (1967)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Peter Tzanev

Peter Tzanev (b. 1967 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria) lives and works in Sofia. He holds a PhD in History of Art and a PhD in Psychology of Art. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Art Psychology at the National Academy of Art in Sofia, where he has spearheaded the creation of graduate courses in psychology of art and art therapy. Much of his work examines the relationship between art theory and psychology of consciousness. He is the author of books like The Psychology of Art (2008), Psychological Approaches in History of Art (2009), Image and Consciousness in Art Therapy (2018), co-authored by Prof. Vladimir Nikitin, and The Untold Bulgarian Abstraction (2014), co-authored by Prof. Stanislav Pamukchiev. Major individual exhibitions: Excursive Objects (2018) Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia; Disconnecting of the Object (2015) Goethe Institute, Sofia, and Contemporary Space Gallery, Varna; Emphatic Tools (2011) Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia; Unpredictably transparent. Heterochronic Installations (2010) Atelie Plastilin Gallery, Sofia; Ectoplastic Drawings and Installations (2009) Shipka 6 Exhibition Space, Sofia. Major participations in collective exhibitions: Parallel, Daire Gallery, 14th Istanbul Biennale Parallel Programme (2015); Athens Photo Festival (2015) Benaki Museum, Athens; The Forgotten Pioneer Movement (2014), District. Kunst und Kulturförderung, Berlin; Recorded memories (2013), Braunschweig Museum of Photography. Works by the artist have been exhibited at: the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka; CerModern, Ankara; Warehouse A‘, Port of Thessaloniki; Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre; Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo.

Peter Tzanev -Visual Hallucination with Tactil Obssesion, 2013

Peter Tzanev-Transcendental Nihilism, 2020

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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PETER TZANEV (1967)

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