MARIANA VASSILEVA BULGÁRIA (1964) Mariana Vassileva nasceu em 1964 na Bulgária e actualmente vive em Berlim. Estudou na Universität der Künste em Berlim, Alemanha. O seu trabalho é baseado no quotidiano e nas questões contemporâneas de um mundo globalizado, como a mobilidade e vida urbana e a relação entre individual e colectivo. A artista utiliza o humor para expor a realidade do quotidiano, como nas exposições "Traffic police"(2008) and "Never carry two watermelons under one arm"(2011). Mariana Vassileva teve exposições individuais e colectivas por todo o mundo, em galerias, fundações e museus como: Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; The Canvas is the Screen, CaiaxForum, Barcelona, Spain; 1st Biennial of the End of the World (Bienal del Fin del Mundo), Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; 17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney, Australia; Still Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; August in Art Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria, 2010; Lichtsicht: 3. Projektions-Biennale Bad Rothenfelde, Germany; 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, entre outros. EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS E COLECTIVAS (SELECÇÃO) 2013 Res(v)olution, DNA / Berlin 2012 Solo video 2002 - 2012, Kunstverein Augsburg e.V. / Augsburg Solo video 2000-2012, Fundaciò Palma Espai d´art - Casal Solleric / Palma Beyond Time - International Video Art Today, Stockholm Kulturhuset / Stockholm Good Night, The Israel Museum / Jerusalem East is west, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore / Singapore 1 Hors-pistes 2012, un autre mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou / Paris 2011 Mariana Vassileva - Die sanfte Brutalität der Gleichzeitigkeit - The gentle brutality of simultanity, DNA / Berlin M O M E N T U M, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien / Berlin Menos Tiempo que Lugar, MNBA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Santiago Lichtsicht, 3. Projektions-Biennale Bad Rothenfelde / Germany Alchemy, Microwave International New Media Festival / Hong Kong 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (MNAC) / Moscow Drawing in relation, DNA / Berlin 2009-2011 Menos Tiempo que Lugar. El Arte de la Independencia. Ecos Contemporáneos, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo / Quito ; travelling through Latin America and Germany 2010 Transitland, Space (former galeria Priestor for contemporary arts) / Bratislava Transitland, Moscow Museum of Modern Art / Moscow Transitland. Videoarte de Europa Central y Oriental 1989-2009, El cuadro inquieto, Fundacion Francisco Godia / Barcelona Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance. Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age / Sydney Remote Vision. The Best of LOOP: New Video Art from Europe and the Americas, Arts Santa Mònica / Barcelona, Spain Reflection, DNA / Berlin Still Moving, The Israel Museum / Jerusalem Menos Tiempo que lugar, Museo National de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Parana in Curitiba Palacio Nacional de las artes - Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires Centro municipal de Exposiciones in Montevideo 2 2009 Just a Game, DNA / Berlin Impressions: Contemporary Art from Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje / Skopje Portrait Berlin, Palacio Nacional de las Artes Palais de Glace / Buenos Aires Transitland, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate / Sofia Expanded Drawing, DNA / Berlin Some Politics of Appropriation, Laznia, Centre for Contemporary Art / Gdansk Instants Video, Festival of Video and Performance / France, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Brazil Bienal Vento Sul / Curitiba Transmediale. Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP), Collegium Hungaricum / Berlin The Best of LOOP. Remote Viewing, Pacific Design Center / Los Angeles BAC! 09 Festival of Contemporary Art, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona / Barcelona 2008 Mariana Vassileva, Musée d´art Contemporain Montréal / Montréal New works, DNA / Berlin Revolution, San Diego State University Art Gallery / San Diego MEDIATIONSBIENNALE / Poznan Brilliant Noise. Late at Tate, Tate Britain / London The canvas is the screen, CaixaForum / Palma de Mallorca Videosalon3, Curatorial Rebound Project, Galerija 10m2 / Sarajevo 2007 Speedformel, DNA / Berlin 1a Bienal del Fin del Mundo / Ushuaia VISÕES BERLINENSES, Paço das Artes / São Paulo BAC! 07, Barcelona International Contemporary Art Festival / Barcelona Bulgaria? ...Oh, yes, Bucharest!, Week of Contemporary Art 2007, Centre for Contemporary Art / Plovdiv 3 2006 LOOP(2006/2004) / Barcelona II Festival Internacional de Videopoesia 2006 / Buenos Aires Optica Festival / Gijon 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art / Shumen Babylons Shade, ARTos foundation / Nikosia VIDEOART UNA VISIÓ ACTUAL, Sala d'Art CAIXA DE MANLLEU / Vic 2003 Up and Coming, ARCO, curated by Rosa Martinez / Madrid 2002 Blaue Nacht, Kunst Bunker / Nürnberg 2000 Festival of Vision, curated by Johann Nowak / Hong Kong 4