PLAMEN DEJANOFF

Plamen Dejanoff (1970 Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Vienna.

EDUCATION

1989-1991

Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

1992-1997

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

1995-1996

MAK Center For Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

 

1997-1998

Monbusho, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

 

1999-2000

Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden

SOLO SHOWS

2026

Heritage Project (United), Credo Bonum Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria

Heritage Project (Stephan Stoyanov Collection), private view, Art Agency Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria

Heritage Project (United), Kunsthaus Graz & Credo Bonum Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

2024

Plamen Dejanoff, Trifon Ivanov Museum, Pinksummer, Milano, Italia

Plamen Dejanoff, Heritage Project, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Plamen Dejanoff, Heritage Project (Collection & Webstage), Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Heritage Project (Construction & General Rehearsal), Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

 

2023

Plamen Dejanoff, Heritage Project II, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Heritage Project, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Arbanasi, Bulgaria

 

2022

Home Exhibition I-XII, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2021

Home Exhibition I-XII, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2020

Home Exhibition I-X, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2019

Plamen Dejanoff, Layr, Rome, Italy

The Bronze House, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Arbanasi, Bulgaria

 

2018

Plamen Dejanoff, The Bronze House, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

Plamen Dejanoff, The Bronze House, SGHG Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Bronze House, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

2017

Plamen Dejanoff, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

Plamen Dejanoff, Foundation Requirement, FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Plamen Dejanoff, Austrian Sculpture Park, Unterpremstätten, Austria

Plamen Dejanoff, SGHG Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Plamen Dejanoff, The Bronze House, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

Plamen Dejanoff, The Bronze House, Layr, Rome, Italy

 

2016

Plamen Dejanoff, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

Plamen Dejanoff, Foundation Requirement, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland

Plamen Dejanoff, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

Plamen Dejanoff, LAUBA Center for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

 

2015

Foundation Requirement , 21er Haus Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Foundation Requirements, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Foundation Requirement, ICA Institut fo Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

Artelier Collection, Graz, Austria

Gallery Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

 

2014

Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany

 

2013

Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

CMS, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

2012

MAMBO Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Italy

FRAC Fonds régional d’art contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

 

2011

Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

CMS, Vienna, Austria

HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany

 

2010

MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2009

Firma London, Berlin, Germany

 

2008

Galerie Nicola Von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland

Uszynska Schaufenster, Vienna, Austria

 

2007

Michelle Nicole Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

Jan Winkelmann, Berlin, Germany

Izola Art Center, Milan, Italy

Schloss Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup, Germany

 

2006

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

ESAD/La Shaufferie, Strasbourg, France

Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2005

Jan Winkelmann, Berlin, Germany

Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

Galeria Miroslav Kraljavic, Zagreb, Croatia

Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

2004

La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France

 

2003

Quarantine Series, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jan Winkelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany

JRP Editions, Geneva, Switzerland

 

2002

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Tomato S.A., Lugano, Switzerland

Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2001

MAK Galerie, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Siemens Arts Program, Munich, Germany

Air de Paris, Paris, France

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

2000

Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

Projectroom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

 

1999

Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden

Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany

L’ELAC, l’espace lausannois d’art contemporaine, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

1998

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels, Austria

Le Consortium, Dijon, France

 

1997

Air de Paris, Paris, France

Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Kunstverein/Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany

GROUP SHOWS

2025

TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

2024

NAK Annual Editions 1992-2024, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

 

2023

Im Zeitraffer. Ein Blick ins Archiv des Kunsthauses, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

 

2022

New Space Show, Layr, Vienna, Austria

Café Del Mar, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna, Austria

Collection I-II, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

3rd International Home Biennial, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2021

Was sein wird. Von der Zukunft zu den Zukünften, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Threesome #6, FPAC Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy

Collection I-XII, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2nd International Home Biennial, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2020

Kunst_Handwerk Zwischen Tradition, Diskurs Und Technologien, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Collection I-IX, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

Kunst_Handwerk Zwischen Tradition, Diskurs Und Technologien, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany

Light After Darkness, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria

1st International Home Biennial, Plamen Dejanoff Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2019

Kunst_Handwerk Zwischen Tradition, Diskurs Und Technologien, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Zu viel ist nicht genug! Die Schenkung “Sammlung Artelier” – Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

 

2018

Collection – Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, France

kunst.porzellan.kunst, Palais Dorotheum & Augarten Museum Vienna, Austria

Black Mirror, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salisburgo, Austria

Pinksummer goes to Palermo, Pinksummer, Palermo, Italy

Black Mirror Part II, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

 

2017

In/On the Way: Migrations of Fear, KGLU, Grado, Slovenia

Oh…, MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

Les Objets Domestiquent, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France

The Present Order Part Three – GfZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

La décroissance, pour une économie esthétique – CAP Le Centre d’Arts Plastiques Saint-Fons, France

The Present Order Part Two – GfZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

A Show Without A Title But In The Holiday Spirit, ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

Balak #7, Balak Espace Temporaire d’Art Contemporain, Charleville Mézières, France

Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

Don’t Look Like A Line, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Le travail à l’œuvre / L’alternative, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Migrations of Fear, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

 

2016

Manifesta 11. European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Franz West Artist Club, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

The Present Order, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany

La Ville, Au Loin, FRAC Centre Fonds Régional d‘Art Contemporain de la Region Centre, Orleans, France

Anti-musée Rétrospective des galeries fermées, Fri Art, Freiburg, Switzerland

The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

NAK Benefizauktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

Collection Gallery & Friends (20 Years), Galerie Mirko Mayer / m-projects, Cologne, Germany

Cabaret der Künstler, Zunfthaus Voltaire / Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2015

Andy Warhol sul comò, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

Flirting with Strangers, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

48 Drawings, Spike Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The Vacancy, Crone Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

2014

Special Guest (Parabol) Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Sammlung Lenikus, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Bildmeister, Altes Zollamt, Vienna, Austria

Les éditions, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Lotte Sonnenstein: BILDMEISTER extended, Temporäre Halle für Kunst, Linz, Austria

A Stone, A Word Activated By, Bickle Raum, Vienna, Austria

Cover-Up, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

 

2013

Le Futur commence ici, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France

Experience Pommery, Une Odyssee: 30 ans du FRAC Champagen-Ardenne, Reims, France

Curated by, Why Painting Now, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Plamen Dejanoff / Karen Kilimnik / Hans Peter Feldmann, Windsor Collection, Windsor, Vienna, Austria

Contemporary Practices at the Beginning of the 21st Century, SGHG Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Fotos – Österreichische Fotografien von 1930ern bis heute, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

 

2012

Moment Ynglingagatan 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Nuove Acquisizioni – Matthew Day Jackson, Plamen Dejanoff & de Rijke deRooij, MAMBO Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy

Jahresgaben, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Editionen, MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Post Tenebras Lux – Eine Übersichtsausstellung, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2011

54th Venice Biennale, Italy

The Avantgarde: Specters of the Nineties, Marres – Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Hirschfaktor. Die Kunst des Zitierens, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

Sequel 2, Artelier Collection, Graz, Austria

Car Cculture – Meiden der Mobilität, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

2010

Erased Walls – Mediation Biennale, Poznan, Poland

Konstellationen – Sammeln für ein neues jahrhundert, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Destrøy Design – Aarhus Kunstbygning – Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark

PUZZLE – Die Sammlungsausstellung 2010 – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany

Destroy Design – MUDAC – Musée de design es d’arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland

LA PUNTA DELL´ICEBERG – Villa Croce, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

Sequel 1, Artelier Collection, Graz, Austria

Originalfunktional – Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria

 

2009

SOCIAL CRITICISM 1993-2005, an Art Historical Exposé, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden

Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild, Das Portrait im Wandel der Zeit, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

“The Artist” WDW Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

2008

Art & Entrepreneurship, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK

Design’In présente Living Box, Hangar à bananes, Nantes / Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

Art & Entrepreneurship, Chelsea Art Museum New York, USA

IMAGES, FORDE Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Art & Entrepreneurship, Global Art Forum/Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Art & Entrepreneurship, Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

 

2007

Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Deutsche Geschichten, GFZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

M.tel Award NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria

Souffle, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

Black Star, Pinacoteca di Savona, Savona, Italy

Images, Spike/Into Positions, Vienna, Austria

Made In – Assab One, Milan, Italy

 

2006

6th Shanghai Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

SEE History 2006. Schätze bilden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera Center for Contemporary Arts, Terni, Italy

Prospective Sites, Roaling Boards, Vienna, Austria

Runaway, Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia

Nefertiti, 2nd Contemporary Art Biennale, Shumen, Bulgaria

Jrp|Ringier, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France

Let’s Paint, MQ Museums Quartier Arena 21, Vienna, Austria

 

2005

Cochabitats, Gallery Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Criss-Cross-Alphabet, MSU Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

Drive, GAM Modern Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy

Exit, Ausstieg aus dem Bild, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

Slices Of Life (Blueprints Of The Self In Painting), Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA

The Quarantine Series Book, Quarantine Series, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Among Global Players, Fox Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

Portraits, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

Coloured Environmental Design (Art & Design in The Daily Life), Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium

 

2004

Stock Zero – Opera, MNAC Museum National de Arta Contemporana, Bucharest, Romania

Noch Einen Wunsch, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Arredare la casa abitare il museo, Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum, Genoa, Italy

Europas Zukunft, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst/B.V.K./alpha 2000, Leipzig, Germany

Challenge, Gallery Priestor, Bratislava, Slovakia

Who’s to follow?, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Trafic d’influences, Tri Postal, Lille, France

 

2003

Money for Nothing, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1st Prague Biennale, Czech Republic

Deluxe, Monasterio de Prado, Valladolid, Spain

Dessinez avec Desiree, Galerie Meyer-Keiner, Vienna, Austria

2nd Ceramic Biennale, Albissola Superiore, Italy

The Collection, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Málaga, Spain

Money for Nothing, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

 

2002

Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Uncommon Denominator, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

Deluxe, Sala de Exposiciones de Plaza de España, Madrid, Spain

windsor.collection, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy

JRP Editions, Galerie Choakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany

Die Sammlung als Labor, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

There is a Light that never goes out, Villa Galvani, Pordenone, Italy

Ideas for Living, Inkijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

S.O.S, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

JRP Editions, Gallery Joao Graca, Lisbon, Portugal

TRANS-POSITIONS – Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France

 

2001

2nd Berlin Biennale, KW, Berlin, Germany

1st International Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania

Encounters, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The Constructing of an Image (Germany), Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Windsor Collection, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtchaft, Düsseldorf, Germany

Social Hackers, Centre d’edition contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Objekte, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Das Diskursive Museum, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Black Silver & Gold, Galerie du Bellay, Mont Saint Aignan, France

Home Sweet Home, Kunsthaus /Jahresmuseum, Mürzzuschlag, Austria

Test The World, MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

 

2000

Worthless (Invaluable), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Contacts, FRI-ART Centre d’Art Contemporain, Freiburg, Switzerland

Democracy, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Plan B, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Trance_actions, Gallery Art & Essai, Rennes, France

windsor.collection, Philomene Magers Monika Sprüth, Munich, Germany

Unhomely Home, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany

Aussendienst, Kunstverein/Stadt Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

The World is Not Enough, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany

Thanks, Air de Paris, Paris, France

Fuori Uso. Under the Bridges, Pescara, Italy

Milch von Ultrablauen Strom, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

Zeitwenden – Ausblick, Museum Moderne Kunst, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria

After the Wall, Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary

Acquisitions 96-98, FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France

Bonjour Chez Vous, Espace Jules Verne, Bretigny sur Orge, France

Sabotage, Verein Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Social Hackers, Gallery MUU, Helsinki, Finland

Négociations, CRAC Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France

After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Collection 2000, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Project #0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

 

1999

1st International Biennale, Melbourne, Australia

Ideas For Living, Gallery Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

This is Yesterday, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain

Expanded Design, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

Dream City, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

And/Or, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Publi©Domain 3, Vienna, Austria

Triennale zur Fotografie, Graz, Austria

Hinter dem Lärm – Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria

Oficina Europea, GAM Modern Art Gallery, Bologna, Italia

Zeitwenden – Ausblick, Kunstmuseum, Bonne, Germany

Neuerwerbungen, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Le Capital: tableaux, diagrammes & bureaux d ́études, CRAC Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France

I know what you did last summer, Air de Paris, Paris, France

After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Rue Louise Weiss – Abbaye St André – Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France

 

1998

Fast Forward 2: Trade Marks, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

Ontom, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Maxis Midis & Minis, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

Remarks on Interventive Tendencies, DCA Danish Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Life Style, KUB Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria

Weather Everything, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Kunst ohne Unikat – Artelier Contemporary, Graz, Austria

La Tabla, Air de Paris, Paris, France

Kunst ohne Unikat – Neue Galerie Graz – Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Le Consortium.Coll, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

 

1997

Enter: Audience/Artist/Institution, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerna, Switzerland

x-squared, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

Dramatically Different, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

Medium of Exchange, CCH Congress Center Hamburg, Germany

Bon Année, Air de Paris, France

6th International Cairo Biennale, Egypt

 

1996

The Garage Project, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

Junge Szene, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

East International, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts/Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

Chance (3 Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard), Whiskey Pete’s Casino, Las Vegas, USA

Affairs, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria

 

1995

Final Projects, Schindler House MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

Werkstatquartier, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria