VITTO VALENTINOV (1977)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Vitto Valentinov

Vitto Valentinov was born in 1977 in Sofia, Bulgaria where he lives and works. He works in the field of installation and participatory art. Vitto studied mural painting at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, (1997-1999), after which he graduated from the AKI Academy for Art & Design (1999-2004), and DAI-Dutch Art Institute (2004-2006) in Enschede, the Netherlands. In 2006 he made his film debut with the short film „Falling on the Fovea”, a joint project accomplished with Kristina Yanachkova, which participated in „The Projection Project” exhibition at the MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. That same year Vitto returned to Bulgaria and specialized in film directing at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (2007-2009). He has numerous exhibitions in galleries, museums and festivals, including Biennale de Kunstvlaai 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sofia Design Week 2012, Bulgaria; Contempo - International Art Festival 2014, Varna, Bulgaria; TEDxBG 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria; Space SSEE Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea; CEC Artslink Residency Program in New York and Cincinnati, USA; ICA- Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; SAMCA Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bulgaria; Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria; Art Hall “Rayko Aleksive”, Sofia, Bulgaria; Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Goethe - Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria; The New New - Art Science Tech Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece and Vienna Contemporary 2015 - Focus Bulgaria, Vienna, Austria.

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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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VITTO VALENTINOV (1977)

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