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Biography

Veneta Androva (born in Sofia) graduated in Fine Arts from Weißensee Academy of Art and also obtained a degree in History of Art and Philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin. In her work, she combines diverse media and sources such as archival, documentary, or computer-generated material and painting, all interconnected through animation in simulated environments. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and Bulgaria, as well as Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Israel, where she did part of her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Androva has received several scholarships, including the Elsa-Neumann Scholarship, Cusanuswerk and Mart Stam Scholarship. In 2020, she was nominated for the German Short Film Award with her work 'From My Desert'. She also received the Prix Ars Electronica 2021 – Award of Distinction for her film 'AIVA' in the 'Computer Animation' category, as well as the Golden Horseman for Animated Film and the LUCA Gender Diversity Award at Filmfest Dresden. Her films have been selected to screen at numerous international film festivals, including the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, ARS ELECTRONICA – Festival for Art, Technology and Society, MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Sofia International Film Festival, Short Waves Festival, 25FPS International Film and Video Festival, and Short Film Festival Hamburg. She is currently based in Berlin.

Education

2018-2019

Master class (postgraduate programme) with Prof. Else Gabriel at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin

2016-2017

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel with Miri Segal, Michal Helfman and Avi Mograbi

2012-2018

Fine Arts at  Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (MFA/Diploma)

2009-2014

History of Art and Philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin ( B.A.)

Residencies

2022

Artist-In-Residence, Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz

Prater Digital, online residency program

2020

Specualtive Playrooms, online residency program at Kara Agora online Art and Research Center

Solo exhibitions

2023

The Secret Life of Mushrooms (VIDEO), Structura Gallery, Sofia (BG)

2018

The Good Fight is on the Gaming Floor, DISPLAY, Berlin (DE)

Awards / Scholarships / Grants

2022

Scholarship, NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds (DE)

Willi Münzenberg Forum – film award

2021

Golden Horseman For Animated Film for ‘AIVA’, International Competition, Filmfest Dresden

LUCA Gender Diversity Film Award for ‘AIVA’, International and National Competition, Filmfest Dresden

Prix Ars Electronica 2021 – Award Of Distinction for ‘AIVA’ in category ‘Computer Animation’, International Competition for CyberArts

‘From My Desert’ selected for ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary Experimental Films And Video Art From Germany’ Vol 5

2020

Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship by the Federal State Berlin (NaFöG)

Bulgarian Fund for Women – Project Funding

Special Mention Allegro Prize 2020, International Competition for Visual Artists, Poland

Nominee For German Short Film Award With ‘From My Desert’

Critics’ Jury Award for ‘From My Desert’, 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Croatia

2019

Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for Contemporary Art (FINALE), Bulgaria

Nominee for BAZA Award for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria

2016-2019

Artist Scholarship from Cusanuswerk

2015-2016

Mart Stam Scholarship

 

Selected Group Shows

2024

PORTABLE MUSEUM OF REBELLIOUS ART: ‘W(E) A(RE) R(EBELLIOUS)’, Structura Gallery, Sofia (BG)

2023

UNREST NOISES, die PUTTE, Neu-Ulm (DE)

I’M AFRAID I CAN DO THAT, TORULA art space, Győr (HU)

BEGEHUNGEN art festival, Palais Lichteinstein (DE)

EE TETRIS, Scope BLN (DE)

Unexpected Care, Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia (BG)

A Few Ways to Win the World, DOZA Gallery, Sofia

FROM UNIVERSE TO UNIVERSE, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Gallery, Berlin

2022

Jürgen Wittdorf (1932-2018) with Veneta Androva, Norbert Bisky, Harry Hachmeister, Bettina Semmer, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin

The House That Mum Built, Santos 32, London

POST NORMAL, Prater Gallery, Berlin

2021

10 + 1: Audio and Visual Codes of National Identity, Bulgarian Cultural Institut, Haus Wittgenstein (AT)

CyberArts 2021 Exhibition, part of Ars Electronica 2021 – Festival for Art, Technology & Society  (AT)

Becoming A Figure, Duo Exhibition with Peter Odinzow, Goethe-Institute Sofia (BG)

Brave New Earth: Looking Forward through Memories, curated by Nia Tabakova, VBK Berlin (DE)

facing B, Galeria Espacio Minimo, curated by Stephan Koal, Madrid (ES)

2020

Souveniers from the future, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Sofia (BG)

Everything is just fine (with us), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Sofia (BG)

2019

Startpoint Prize 2019, Prague (CZE)

I ENGINEER, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, WERKSCHAU Halle 12, Leipzig (DE)

Monitoring, 36th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (DE)

FINALE/Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Structura Gallery, Sofia (BG)

BAZA Award for Contemporary Art, Sofia City Art Gallery (BG)

Perfekte Zustände, X LANE, Belin (DE)

ArtStart, Tomorrow never dies, Goethe-Institute & Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia (BG)

2018

DEFYING CURRENTS, The Shelf, Berlin (DE)

Shock and Horror, Goethe-Institute Sofia (BG)

2017

שמשקרנית at “2000”, Jerusalem, (IL)

2016

“In’ei raisan” in Japanese-German-Center, Berlin (DE)

KUNSTHOCH46 – 25. Auswahlausstellung des Cusanuswerks, Burg Galerie, Halle (DE)

DEMO:POLIS – Das Recht auf Öffentlichen Raum, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)

2015

Kunst im Labor, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)

WEIßENSEE TRIENNALE, Ordnungsamt Berlin-Mitte (DE)

Rien ne va plus, Süddeutscher Kunstverein, Ammerbuch Reusten (DE)

2014

CYBERALTAR – a networked performance on translocal identities, TRASLACION #3, Berlin/Buenos Aires (DE/AR)

WEIßENSEE TRIENNALE, Berlin-Warszawa-Express (DE/PL)

 

Festivals / Screenings

2023

ITFS International Animated Film Festival Stuttgart, “AVA – Artificial V Art” short film program  (DE)

Goethe Institut Canada, “AVA – Artificial V Art” short film program (CA)

Go Short-International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, short film program “AI” (NL)

2022

65th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DE)

15th Filmzeit | Das Allgäuer Autorenfilmfestival (DE)

68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)

Go Short-International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, short film program “New Wave of German Filmmakers” (NL)

FUTUR 21 – Art, Industry, Culture Festival, short film program curated by Blicke Film Festival, LWL Industriemuseum (DE)

KÜNSTLICH, short film program curated by FILMFEST Dresden, Deutshes Hygiene-Museum (DE)

Bias in technologies, short film program curated by Goethe Institut San Francisco and Canada, part of IMAGE+BIAS project

2021

Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival (PT)

25th PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (EE)

22nd Izmir Short Film Festival (TR)

3rd Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (TR)

EthicAI=FORUM 2021, curated screening by Goethe-Institutes in Athens, Bucharest, Ankara, Sarajevo, Sofia and Zagreb

38th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (DE)

15th Short Film Festival Cologne (DE)

29th blicke filmfestival des ruhrgebiets (DE)

5th VISIONÄR Film Festival Berlin (DE)

31. Message to Man International Film Festival (RU)

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival (PT)

17th 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (HR)

Ars Electronica ANIMATION FESTIVAL | A New Digital Deal (AT)

LINOLEUM, Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (UKR)

Moving Images Moving Bodies, Goethe-Institut Sofia (BG)

FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival (SVN)

33rd FILMFEST DRESDEN International Short Film Festival (DE)

Videoabend ‘Kurze Emotionen’, riesa efau Kultur Forum Dresden (DE)

Her Accurate Private Mind, curated video streaming program part of Sofia Art Projects (BG)

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (UKR)

FLATPACK Film Festival, Birmingham (UK)

37th Short Film Festival Hamburg (DE)

13th Short Waves Festival (PL)

13. Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen (NL)

25th Sofia International Film Festival (BG)

Hungry Eyes Festival, Gießen (DE)

34th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Part of ‘Emerging Artists – Contemporary Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany’ Vol. 5 (DE)

2020

Shooting Ghosts / Bulgarian Artist Films & Videos on Blinkvideo (DE)

14th KFFK Short Film Festival Cologne, Nr. 14 (DE)

63rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DE)

16th 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb (HR)

LINOLEUM, Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (UKR)

BOOM, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin (DE)

2019

Monitoring, 36th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (DE)

62nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DE)

FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Anima+, Sao Paolo (BR)

EMAF 32. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE)

18. MONSTRA, Lisbon Animated Film Festival, (PRT)

2018

61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig (DE)

27. European Film Festival dokumentART films&future, Neubrandenburg (DE)