Ivan Moudov is a multidisciplinary artist from Sofia, Bulgaria.
His artistic practice comprises photography, video, performance and installation. In his work the artist questions the field of contemporary art within the system of power, as well as the socio-political and economic conditions, providing a critical and corrosive analysis on political and social conventions, as well as questioning individual behaviour.
Deconstructing the usual chain reaction of actions and facts, judging and analyzing them in a playful way, Moudov underlines the ambiguity of the real and the inadequacy of the instruments of interpretation. Furthermore, by subverting the existing norms and rules of the contemporary world, he aims at revealing their functioning and at analyzing them critically.
His work was exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, in venues such as: the 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Bulgarian Pavilion (Venice, Italy); Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich, Switzerland); Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, Germany); Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, Kosovo); 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK (Vienna, Austria); National Art Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria); The Institute of Contemporary Art (Sofia; Bulgaria); 7th Black and White Biennial (Romania); Struktura Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria); Regional Center for Contemporary Arts Toplocentrala (Sofia, Bulgaria); Le Plateau, Frac Île−de−France (Paris, France); Casa Cavazzini (Udine, Italy); Sariev Contemporary (Plovdiv, Bulgaria); Tobacna 001 CC, (Ljubljana, Slovenia); National Palace of Culture (Sofia, Bulgaria); The Warehouse (Dallas, USA); MSU (Zagreb, Croatia), among others.
Ivan Moudov graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia in 2002.
