Kamen Stoyanov
Installation
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New Piece of Art, 2013
performance
6 min. video
unique image
300 x 400 cm New Piece of Art was a performance and a temporary installation for the duration of Sofia Contemporary 2013.
An abandoned billboard in the fields near Sofia Airport was over-painted by the artist with black colour. The action happened on the place and had a duration of about an hour. The artist was fighting with the size of the image and with the wind.
The second part of the project was an opening speech for the New Piece of Art. Here the artist behaved like if he was somebody from the municipality or from the festival and talked about the intention and the means of the work. Watch Kamen Stoyanov's opening speech here -
Noise Trial, 2013
photo, video and text
each 100 x 150 cm
edition 2/5+1AP Watch here video to the artwork -
Museum’s Socket, 2015
electrical socket from Sofia City Art Gallery,
video 2' 26'' An old electrical socket from a museum (Sofia City Art Gallery) has been exchanged by the artist with a new one. The Museum Socket got through the years many layers of paint, tape etc. and looks in itself as a piece of painting and sculpture at the same time.
In the video one can see its demontage and the montage of a new socket and the short talk between the artist and the electrician.
In the final installation the Museum Socket is put on pedestal and connected to the electricity in the new space in order to give a power for the projected video of its replacement.
Video
Object
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Operantium, 2016
artist book
1100 pages
A4 with 10,5 cm back
еdition 2/10+1AP
Set of book and video documentation, 49”
The artist book Operantium combines all drawings from the same titled performance in June 2016 at Kunstverein Gleis70 in Zurich. Video -
Sign of Exclamation, 2015
50 x 55 x 50 cm
edition 1/5+1AP
Mixed Media
Artworks with Light
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High Voltage Fence, 2015
Neon
80x80cm -
Forget it, we can’t afford this, 2011
neon
approx. 25 x 300 cm -
We Own this Shit, 2014
neon, photography
each 80 x 120 cm
edition 2/5+1AP -
Yes, 2012
neon
60 x 40 cm
edition 2/3+1AP -
Synchronisation, 2013
light box
80 x 120 cm
edition 1/5+1AP
video 5.25 min, 2010 Kamen Stoyanov used for his action an empty billboard construction placed next to the Sofia airport. The artist climbed on it, fixed a hammock and finally placed himself on it, replacing the missing advertisement. He communicated with the arriving people by observing them and in this way awaked their interest. Video -
Future Idea, 2013
light box
80 x 120 cm
edition 2/5+1AP -
High Voltage Fence, 2015
neon
80 x 80 cm
edition 1/5+1AP
Painting
- Town of Shadows 9, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 8, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 7, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 6, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 5, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 4, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 3, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 2, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
- Town of Shadows 1, 2024 acrylic paint on canvas 46 x 55 cm
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Achtung!, 2019
painting
50 x 70 cm
Drawing
Photography
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Inside Lenin´s Head, 2019
4 photos, each 40x60cm
After standing on Lenin´s former pedestal for the work Hello Lenin, in 2003, I visited the statue at its current place. As the people in my hometown in Russe, Bulgaria, don´t know, where to put these Communist monuments, Lenin lies down in the area of one of the City´s plant nurseries. -
Phantasy is more important (The Upsidedown House), 2018
Diasec
100 x 133 cm
edition of 5+1AP -
Phantasy is more important (From the Upsidedown House), 2018
Diasec
100 x 150 cm
edition of 5+1AP -
Phantasy is more important (Triangle in Valentina Castle), 2018
Diasec
100 x 150 cm
edition of 5+1AP -
At Hotel 1000 Columns, 2015
two photographies
each 80 x 120 cm
edition 1/5+1AP -
Looking Through the Fence, 2017
photo print on textile
305 x 340 cm
edition 3+2AP
Video
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The City of the People, 2024
digitalized 16 mm film, length 3.50 min.
black and white, silent
Edition of 5 -
New Istanbul Dream, 2017
short documentary,
experimental movie
28 min
edition 5+1АР New Istanbul Dream investigates the construction side and process of the third Istanbul Airport situated northwest of Istanbul, on the Black sea. This is happening in different ways. The film shows the changing of the environment and the destruction of nature through the construction works for realizing the Megadream of current Turkish power - the biggest airport in the world. This is the basic conflict in the film. This conflict is embodied by a performative layer based on Karagöz - the traditional Ottoman shadow theater. This layer opens a space of an imaginary and activist movement and searches literary and metaphorically for a way out. The movie ends with a musical performance of the adapted and especially changed song Karagözlum by the Istanbul band Zoomk Ru Tu. Watch the movie trailer here -
IN-VISIBLE, 2018
documentary-essayistic movie, 30 min
"IN-VISIBLE" shows not only an unusual view of the city of Ljubljana, but also explores the question of what lies behind the visible and the known. The filmmaker Kamen Stoyanov talks to the artist, author and geomancer Marko Pogačnik, who was part of the famous Slovenian artist group OHO.
His second encounter is Taubi, the initiator of the city tour „Invisible Ljubljana“ on which he takes the filmmaker Stoyanov with him. The unusual about this guided tour is that it is given by people with long experiences of homelessness. Today, Taubi lives in a residential house funded by the city. These places are taken up in the film and related to each other and to other places. The artist Pogačnik also dealt intensively with the hidden geography of the city with their energies and power points.
The cinematic communication between Pogačnik and Taubi is accompanied by the reflections of the filmmaker on the image and sound levels.
Trailer -
Phantasy is more important, 2016-2018
HD video
5:40 min
edition of 5+1AP "Phantasy is more important" shows guest houses and their surrounding in the mountain village Marchevo in Bulgaria. The video starts with a close up of a realistic figure of Einstein looking out from a balcony. It stays as an attraction/advertising for the House&SPA Einstein. This sculptural silence continues during the whole video, which is composed by still sequences. The culmination point is a house, which at the first view appears skew. It is slowly becoming visible that it was built upside down. The last sequence shows the village from above, rotated in 180 degrees. -
Impossible, 2015
HD video
39.35 min
edition 3/5+1AP Watch the video here -
Akvarel, 2017
video 12' 40''
edition 5+1АР Watch video preview here -
Ask the Artist, 2016
Manifesta, Cabaret Voltaire,
Zunfthaus der Künstler, Zurich
HD video, 23”
edition 3+2АР Watch the video here