Dimitrina Sevova

Born 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria; 1985-1990 National College of Fine Arts and Art History in Sofia, Bulgaria; 1991-1998, student at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia; 1998 Master of Painting.

Artist, freelance curator, theorist, and writer working across old and new media in contemporary art practices and theory. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2002. In 2002, founded with Alain Kessi the critical media art and theory collective code flow (http://www.code-flow.net). She has been instrumental in fostering the practices and debates around digital culture, gender and politics in Bulgaria as media artist and activist in the 1990s and as founder 1996 and curator until 1999 of the TED Gallery in Varna, with more than 50 exhibitions and as many events over the four years of its existence.

Her latest large-scale installation “Unbeschreiblich weiblich” including the screening of her video documentary movie of the same title, pieces from her personal archive and other objects was made for the “Lost and Found” exhibition at Shedhalle, Zurich, 2007. As part of the art collective code flow she did the cooking performance and show “Private National Foods with Multinational Appetites” with accompanying exhibition with objects and photography at the Les Complices gallery, Zurich, 2005, and the Digitaler Dachstock #2 under the title “luncheon on the grass – postproduction by code flow” at Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland, 2006, with two specially produced video pieces and three older works. In 1998 the Grand Prix at the 2nd International Triennale of Graphic Arts in Sofia, and consequently was invited to do a solo exhibition at the 3rd Triennale 2001, “Pretty Mouth and Brown My Eyes,” with installations of objects and digital photographs.

As a member of the women artists’ group 8th March, she participated in a number of projects, such as “Exchanging Places,” ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2001, including a travel grant and research stay in Bucharest, “Bulgaria, N.Y., Bulgarian and American Women Artists Collaborate,” at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York, USA, 2000, including a travel grant and research and production stay in New York, and “Obsession,” at the Central Municipal Baths, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1999.