Surplus Enjoyment- An Exhibition by Nina and Valentin

2010 / 03 / 12 Fri.

2010 / 04 / 25 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

  • Venue

    MOCA Studio

About

Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, currently living and working in Paris, France, are internationally recognised contemporary European artists. Their common projects (mostly video installations) reveal a fruitful symbiosis between two creative minds, which at the same time have retained their own individuality, the result being a third, as it were, identity.
Always economical in terms of images, without eye-catching special effects, often without text, with a very carefully devised sound background, the two artists’ works drive the viewers to pose themselves fundamental questions about existence in the contemporary world. Many of their recent video installations are intended for the façades of different museums and public buildings. For the video installation In the Out, which is based on the same principle, they were awarded the 2002 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.

The current MOCA exhibition, entitled Surplus Enjoyment, combines six recent projects. What brings them together is the exploration of that excess of desire, which, according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, determines our relationship with and alienation from the Other.

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Curator/Artists

Nina Kovacheva
Valentin Stefanoff

She started her professional career at the end of the 80's as well. Her work appears as photographs, installations, objects and video. In her work she questions the human existence, cultural taboos bounding with the body, the conventions, the stereotypes and the behavior.

At the beginning of his professional career at the end of the 80's he concentrated on addressing the problems of recognizable visual signs and their interaction with meanings and codes. Later on, his interest for spatial visual constructions was reinforced and he dedicated himself mainly to installations, operating with a language close to minimalism, involving the visual mediation of video, camera obscura, mirror reflections and spatial lighting effects. The artist usually drives his spectators to recognize almost physically alienation and loneliness, pressing them to ask basic questions about existence in the contemporary world which is frequently perplexed by fictive communication.


Most recently, some of their double solo presentations included:

2009 - Aesthetic and Environment – Human as Art, Art Taipei, presented by MOCA, Taipei Taiwan
– National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, DA Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
- MTel Awards, Varna, Bulgaria

2008- Micro-narratives, Museum of Modern Art, St. Etienne, France
- Shifting Identity, Li Space, Beijing, China
- Au-delà du Visible, video installation, pont Alma, Paris, France
– Mediation Biennale, National Museum Poznan, Poland
-The 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
- European Attitude, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China

2007 - Wet Contact, Face, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY, USA
- Desire and Resistance Determine the Motion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France
- Micro-narratives, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
- Asia – Europe, National Museum, Poznan, Poland

2006 - Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France
-Important Announcement, Municipale Gallery of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Play for Two Hands and Black, Nationa Academy of Fine Arts, Sofiia, Bulgaria

2005-Au-delà de ce qui est visible, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania
-Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
-Two Asias, Two Europes, Duolun MOMA, Shanghai, China

2004 - Au-delà de ce qui est Visible, Nuit Blanche, Paris France
-0.039225, Cosmopolis, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
-Vidéo Retrospectif, Maillon – Wacken, Strasbourg, France

2003 - Export -Import, Municipale Gallery of Art - Sofia , Bulgaria

2002 - Wet Contact, Experimental Intermedia Gallery, Gent, Belgium
-Kunsthalle Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Crossing Time International, Dartington Gallery, Dartington College of Arts, UK
-In the Out- video installation,4th Biennial for Contemporary Art, Cetinje Montenegro


Among the others international prizes NINA Kovacheva & Valentin Stefanoff were awarded as well The 2002 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Paris, France

Artworks

The world is too much with us II
The other no other than the self?
Wet Contact
Desire and resistance
Phases of accumulation and extraction in a limited space
I am the best !!
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