Zhanina Marinova

Porträtfoto: Anna Niederleitner

ARTIST STATEMENT

Work in progress

Horizontal

I do not know why the format of the drawing I make is always horizontal. It is like the most natural feeling and I just let it flow. It is my own horizon where I can reach the unknown and the new. Symbolically the horizontal axis represents the path from birth to death, beginning to end, a linear time. It is standing for the dual nature of the human existence as evidenced by our symmetrical shapes – left and right, male and female, good and bad.

Then suddenly I finished the drawing.

Vertical

The print which follows the drawing is always vertical, balancing everything, being absolutely complete. Like the vertical axis which represents the body and our upright position, unique in the animal kingdom. Symbolic of our path, it is also representing our dual nature which embodies the spiritual and the temporal. Like a work of art.

Ausstellungsansicht FEMALE - lebt und arbeitet in Wien 2019

Dem von dominierender Vertikalität geprägten Siebdruck Sundogs (2019) von Zhanina Marinova gehen Zeichnungen voraus, welche die Künstlerin in der Horizontalen anlegt. Der Wechsel des Mediums bedingt auch den Wechsel der Ausrichtung und befragt so die Positionierung der Künstlerin, wie auch der Betrachtenden gegenüber der jeweiligen Arbeit.

Fotos: Marlene Fröhlich | LuxundLumen.com

Laufzeit: 27. Juni - 31. Juli 2019

AUSBILDUNG

1994 Born in Varna , Bulgaria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
January 2019 Diploma with distinction, University of applied Arts, Vienna
2013-2019 Graphics and Printmaking studies, class Prof. Jan Svenungsson, University of applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2018 Member of Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
2011 Lifelong learning program 'Leonardo da Vinci' - EProjectConsult - Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy
2008-2013 Fine Arts; Graphic & Printmaking - National School of Arts ''Dobri Hristov'' Varna , Bulgaria

AUSSTELLUNGEN

2019

ROOTS – Group exhibition – Produzentengalerie Wien 
Swimming Mission - Diploma exhibition - Künstlerhaus 1050 Vienna

2018

MUMOK Art Book Day - Art book fair at mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Essence 18 - Vienna AT
Charity Auction Salvatorianer x Dorotheum 2018 - Vienna AT
A moment of relation' - Couple exhibition - Luca Rubegni and Zhanina Marinova - Curated by Giulia Zandò - Civico 3 - Gallarate, Italy
LATARKA Gallery Budapest - "Boundaries" - Group Exhibition
‘Fastentuch’ (5m x 11m) with Thema ‘Human Trafficing’– Zhanina Marinova – St. Michael Church Vienna ,AT
Ball of the Sciences 2018 – (Group Project together with Antonio Neto and Eva Jurkova for curtain – 5m x 30m) – Vienna City Hall, AT
'mumok Bibliothek: Zhanina Marinova' - Präsentation von Künstler_innen-büchern - Museum of Modern art Ludwig foundation (MUMOK) Vienna

2017

"Melange Remix" - Gallery Hochdruck - Vienna, AT
TRACTATUS LOCUS - Group Exhibition - Wittgenstein Haus - Curator : Kristina Schrei - Vienna, AT
19th International Print Biennial Varna 2017 - Bulgaria
The Essence '17 '' Vienna ,Austria
''Raum macht Musik'' ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) - Radio Kulturhaus - Visual Artist, Vienna, AT
''Wie n verwoben'' - Group wall painting connected with the exhibition ''Wien von Oben'' - Vienna Museum
SOLO Exhibition - '' to mess with you(r) ordinary mind'' KUSHTA Creative Hub - Sofia, Bulgaria
Graphics Open 2 - Budapest , Hungary

2016

'Kunst & Käse' - Gallery ''Die Schöne''Vienna,Austria 
Artists as Independent Publishers - Group Exhibition - Vienna,Austria
Solo Exhibition ''Repeat<>Unique<>Attitude''Gallery ''Die Schöne'' Vienna , Austriacurated by Florian Appelt
''The Essence '16'' Vienna, AT 
''Moment'' - Group exhibition - EDUCULT - Museums Quartier - Vienna, Austria

2015

18th International Print Biennial Varna 2015 , Bulgaria

PUBLIKATIONEN

2018 'Charity Auction Catalogue - DOROTHEUM x St. Michael
2017 TRACTATUS LOCUS - Catalogue 
2017 Melange Book - Edition with originals lino-prints 
2017 19th Internaional Print Biennial Varna Catalogue 
2017 EDUCULT im Gespräch & Wimmer's Weekly (Interview)
2016 EDUCULT December Newsletter 
2016 pseudoscienza Art Magazine - Surprise Edition
2015 18th International Print Biennial Varna Catalogue
2015 ‘’Tools for Thoughts & Traces’’ Magazine of University of Applied Arts Vienna – Graphic and Printmaking

STIPENDIEN & AUSZEICHNUNGEN

2018 - "Heiliger Christophorus" - Wall painting proposal - 2nd place - Hotel Das Triest , Vienna
2012 - National youth Applied and Fine Art competition Sofia, Bulgaria - 3th grade in Fine Arts – Scholarship
2012 - Participant of 31th small Monmartre of Bitola,Macedonia 2011 - Participant of the Jubilee 30th small monmartre of Bitola , Macedonia