dimitrina sevova, curator of
ich tier! (du mensch) at perla-mode
Dimitrina Sevova
Born 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria; 1985-1990 National College of Fine Arts and Art History in Sofia, Bulgaria; 1991-1998, National Academy of Arts, Sofia; 1998 Master of Painting. Working and living in Zurich since 2002. Artist, freelance curator, theorist, and writer working across old and new media in contemporary art practices and theory. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2002. She has been instrumental in fostering the practices and debates around digital culture, gender, feminism and politics in Bulgaria as media artist and activist since the mid-1990s and as founder 1996 and curator until 1999 of the TED Gallery in Varna, with more than 50 exhibitions and as many events over the four years of its existence, and as co-founder of the Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and member of the Art Today Association. She is also co-founder of code flow, a critical media art and theory collective www.code-flow.net, 2001.
Selected curatorial projects – 2009: “Queerscapes – The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer of the Oasis on the Horizon” at Dadahaus/Cabaret Voltaire and Perla Mode, Zurich, Switzerland. 2007: “Aggression” at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. 2005: “Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation” at Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; co-curated as part of code flow “Polyphony – Collaborative Practices, Part 2” at Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland. 1999-2001: “Communication Front”, international discursive project in the East-West context with more than 40 participants in each of the three editions, with theoretical seminars, production workshops and international exhibition.
Publications – 2007: “The Fake Book: Critique of Pure Image – Between Fake and Quotation” with selected theoretical texts (online publication). 2004: “KonsequenZ”; 2002: “Communication Front – Crossing Points East-West”.