NIKOLA MIHOV

Born : 1982 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Sofia and Paris.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2010

Forget Your Past, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
Forget Your Past, Goat Milk festival, Bela Rechka, Bulgaria

2009

Forget Your Past, London Photomonth 09, This Is Not A Gateway Festival , London, UK
Forget Your Past, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Forget Your Past, Artnewscafe, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Pictures with the Eiffel tower, French Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia Art Gallery – An inside glimpse, video installation, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
TPK Hemus, together with Valeri Gurov, Artnewscafe, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2008

Near the Fence, 5th Fair of Culture, Student centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Open-Air Reading Room, Night of Museums and Galleries, Artnewscafe , Plovdiv , Bulgaria

2007

The Battle for CPE, Paris Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2005

Body Forms, Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2010

Digital Graffiti festival, projection art festival, Florida, USA
Canon Picture of the Year - Bulgaria 2009, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Section 13, Industrialna 11 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2009

Zero Budget Festival, Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland
EMYAN .2, Online Arts Festival
Art walks, open-air exhibition, Kalamata, Greece
Sofia Underground, festival for visual performance and contemporary art, Sofia,Bulgaria
Rompien, Museum of Romani Culture, Brno, Czech Republic
Synch Festival , music and visual arts festival, Technopolis Cultural centre, Athens, Greece
Biennial Phodar, 6th international salon of photography, Pleven, Bulgaria
From Yesterday till Tomorrow. Monuments of Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008

Puglia 2008, 13th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Bari, Italy
Aspects, International Meetings of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Moscow Biennial for Young Art, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Revelation2, Contemporary Photography Fair, Paris, France
Shortlist 2008, Exhibition of the Artist Nominated for the Gaudenz B.Ruf Award for New Bulgarian Art , Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Flow, Festival of Conversation for Culture and Science, Novi Sad, Serbia
BG Press Photo 2007, National Gallery for Foreign Art , Sofia, Bulgaria

2007

Bulgarian Photo Academy Annual Review, Academia Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Biennial Phodar, 5th international salon of photography, Pleven, Bulgaria

2006

Hype Gallery, Palais de Tokyo Museum, Paris, France

AWARDS

2010

Nominee for the Canon - Picture of the Year - Bulgaria 2009 Award, Photo Essay section

2009

Photo school Prize, Biennial Phodar, 6th international salon of photography, Pleven, Bulgaria

2008

2nd prize, Romipen Photo Contest, Prague, Czech Republic

2007

1st prize in Photojournalism, Bulgarian Photo Academy Annual Review, Sofia, Bulgaria
Diploma and special prize, Biennial Phodar, 5th international salon of photography, Bulgaria

Publications

REPONSES PHOTO, Photography magazine, France
PHOTO, Photography magazine, France
ABITARE, Architecture and design magazine, Italy, Bulgarian edition
BAK, International visual arts e-magazine, Turkey
EDNO, Lifestyle magazine, Bulgaria
INTRO, Urban Culture Magazine, Bulgaria

VIDEO WORKS

2009

Sofia Art Gallery – An inside glimpse – 4:40 min

2007

Be Shiny - 7 : 00 min., commissioned by Google
Individual Destiny - Collective Destination - 5:36 min
Human Flux - 1:58 min

Short Film Festivals

2009

Movies & Stills 2009, Shortfilm competition, Rödermark Germany
FEST, 5th , International Youth Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal
Pantheon, 8th International Experimental Film and Animation Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus

2008

Paris Tout Court, 6 th International Short Film Festival, Paris, France
Strange Screen 2008, 7th Festival of Experimental Video and Creative Documentary, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
In The Palace, 6th International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria
Miden, 4th video art festival, Kalamata, Greece
Filmini 2.0, 2nd International Short Film Festival, Sofia , Bulgaria
Future Shorts, International Short-Film Label, Sofia , Bulgaria

2007

Pleiades Film Festival 2007, Paris, London, Milan, Sofia, San Francisco, Tokyo, Yokohama

TV Broadcasting

Souvenirs from Earth, Videoart TV, France
MTV Italy, Once TV Mexico, BNT, TV Europe, MM TV, Bulgaria