Ventseslav Kostov
18.12.1944 – 20.04.2006
Place of birth
Svishtov, Bulgaria
Education
1969 -1974 — Academy of Fine Arts – Warsaw, Poland MA in Industrial Design
1968 – 1969 — Academy of Fine Arts – Krakow, Poland
1965 – 1968 — Academy of Fine Arts – Sofia, Bulgaria
Scolarships
1997 — Course for Business appraisers of fine arts
1981 — Seminar, Biennial for Industrial Design, Ljubljana
1980 — First National Design Seminar – Sozopol, Bulgaria Occupation
2003 — Part-time lecturer – New Bulgarian University
1993 – 1996 — Team-leader of architectural model realization of the housing estate ‘Dream City’, Sofia
1982 – 1985 — Part-time lecturer – Technical University, Sofia
1981 – 1982 — Lecturer at the II and III National Design Seminar
1980 – 1990 — Representative of the Bulgarian Artists Union in the National Commission for Evaluation of Projects for Children
1975 – 1993 — Designer in National Centre of Industrial Design
Group Exhibitions
2002 — ‘Mirror Palace’ – VII Sofia Downtown Festival, National Palace of Culture
1999 — ‘ Street’99’ – IX ‘Process – Space’ International Avantguard Festival – Balchik
1997 — ‘The National Theatre’, Sofia
1995 — ‘Mirage’ – V ‘Process – Space’ International Avantguard Festival – Balchik
1994 — ‘Water Mirror’ – S.O.F.A. International Festival – Nyborg, Denmark
1974 ‘Reflections’ – Repassage Gallery – Warsaw Group Exhibitions
2005 — ‘Window’ – Exhibition in the City Art Gallery – Sofia
2004 — ‘ Cite des Arts, Paris ‘ – Exhibition-competition, National Centre for Contemporary Art — ‘Peisage’, National Centre for Contemporary Art — ‘Plus=Minus’, National Art Gallery, Sofia
1998 — ‘Design – Thought & Feeling’, National Exhibition of Design section of Union of Bulgarian Artists (UBA)
1997 — ‘ Cite des Arts, Paris ‘ – Exhibition-competition, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1995 — ‘Video-Wall’, within the ‘Video&Hart’, curator Kamen Balkanski, Museum of Archeology, Sofia
1984 – 1989 — Industrial Design Exhibitions, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1978 — Kinetic Op-Art Exhibition, Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
1974 — ‘Reflections II’ – University of Warsaw
1973 — ‘Reflections I’ – Repassage Gallery, Warsaw Residencies
2005 — Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris Memberships
1999 — Member of the Agency for author rights control
1994 — Member of the National Council of Design
1994 — Member of the Board of the National Design and Advertising Association
1992 — Member of MENSA International, Bulgaria
1984 — Member of Bulgarian Artists Union affiliated to the International Association of Art – IAA (UNESCO)
Solo Exhibitions
2017 – ‘Wor(l)dreflections’, Curator: Peter Tzanev, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia
2024 – ‘For Her’, Curator: Ivo Milev, Credo Box, Sofia