EXHIBITIONS
2020 “MADE IN ЛЕЩЕН“, Little bird place. Group exhibition
2020 “Dualism“,ONE Gallery, group exhibition
2020 "(YOU)(BE)Like me" Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2020 "The Past. Method of use", Nuance Art Gallery, Sofia
2019 "HOMOSOC", PORT A , documentary exhibition, Sofia
2019 "FORMS" AETHER, group exhibition, part of Sofia Pride Events, Sofia
2019 "Art Start" Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Sofia
2018 "EXISTENCE MINIMUM", REPUBLICA , solo exhibition, Sofia
2017 "Open studio", Cite International Des Arts, Paris
2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague
2014 Via Pontica- International Youth Arts Festival, Balchik
2013 SOHO (Sofia Holistic Coworking Company), first solo exhibition, Sofia
EXHIBITIONS
2020 “MADE IN ЛЕЩЕН“, Little bird place. Group exhibition
2020 “Dualism“,ONE Gallery, group exhibition
2020 "(YOU)(BE)Like me" Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2020 "The Past. Method of use", Nuance Art Gallery, Sofia
2019 "HOMOSOC", PORT A , documentary exhibition, Sofia
2019 "FORMS" AETHER, group exhibition, part of Sofia Pride Events, Sofia
2019 "Art Start" Goethe Institut, group exhibition, Sofia
2018 "EXISTENCE MINIMUM", REPUBLICA , solo exhibition, Sofia
2017 "Open studio", Cite International Des Arts, Paris
2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague
2014 Via Pontica- International Youth Arts Festival, Balchik
2013 SOHO (Sofia Holistic Coworking Company), first solo exhibition, Sofia
A project by Iskra Blagoeva
A project by Iskra Blagoeva
Rumen Georgiev - photography
Rumen Georgiev - photography
Rumen Georgiev - photography
RASSIM®
(Krassimir Krastev)
Born 1972 in Orehovitsa, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
1998 – Graduation in National Academy of Fine Art, Sofia
Select Solo Exhibitions
2018 - SALT, ONE MONEV Gallery, Sofia
2016 - KRASSIМИР, Sofia ARSENAL-MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORATY ART, SOFIA
2014 - NO TO RACISM YES TO RASSIM
2012 - OLYMPISS GAMES, AROSITA Gallery, Sofia
OIL PAINTINGS, CREDO BONUM, Gallery, Sofia
2011 - RASSIM Broadcast, Studuo 25, Sofia
2008 - EXBODYTION, Studio 25, Sofia
2005 - Rassim number one, horse champ Gallery, Strasbourg, France
2003 - SAVE - action, Blood & Honey- Future’s in the Balkans, Sammlung ESSL,
Wien
Corrections 2, ATA- center for contemporary art, Sofia
2002 - Corrections 2, Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI), Fribourg, Switzerland GYM, Irida Gallery, Sofia
2001 - Corrections, HOY Gallery, Belgrade
Shut up & Grow, ATA- center for contemporary art, Sofia
Corrections, FRAC, Montpellier, France
1997 - I love Denitsa, Art in Bulgaria magazine, #41
1996 - Another Angle, Ata-ray Gallery, Sofia Poster, Advertisement in Art in Bulgaria Magazine, #29
1995 - Drug, Ata-ray Gallery, Sofia
Fly, fly information, ATA-ray Gallery, Sofia
1994 - Project – the way of life, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
My Idol, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia

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RASSIM®
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 – ARMORY ARTWEEKS with ARTBOX PROJECTS-Switzerland, New York
2017 – PAST AND PRESENT OF A COUNTERCULTURE NARRATIVE, XXL group, NATIONAL
GALLERY, ONE GALLERY, Sofia
Affordable Art Fair with the Red Dot Depot-Sofia, Hamburg, Germany
2016 – SILENT IMAGE AND BLIND TEXT. About the Role of Text in the Bulgarian Art after
1856, SOFIA CITY ART GALLERY, Sofia
LET Them Draw, SARIEV Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2015 – MAP OF THE NEW ART, Fondazione Georgio Cini, accompanying exhibition at the
56th international Art Exhibition-la Bianale di Venezia, Venice, Italia
GREYSCALE (20 Contemporary Bulgarian Artists) Museum Medzimuria, Hrvatska
FOR FANS, Arosita Gallery, Sofia
Salon of the Galleries / represented by SOFIN Gallery, National Palace of Culture,
Sofia
Drawings, ART 36 Gallery, Sofia
The faces of the landscape, Arosita Gallery, Sofia
2014 – MOIS EUROPEEN DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE A SOFIA, Musee d’histoire de Sofia, Sofia
XXL Group & Frends, Galerija Srbija, Nis, Srbija
ART FAIR, Huandzhou, and China / represented by Yuzina Gallery
ALL I CAN DO IS ART, Czech Center, Prague
XXL-2014, Yuzina Art Center, Sofia
2013 - THIS BOOK IS GREAT, BELLUARD BOLLWERK INTERNATIONAL, Fribourg,
Switzerland
XXL.New cattish academism, Contempo 2013, Varna
FOR FANS, Gallery Arosita, Sofia
A POSSIBLE HISTORY, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
2012 - Acquisitions 2012, SAMCA-Sofia Arsenal MUSEUM FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART, Sofia
XXL GROUP. NEW PAINTING, Yuzina Gallery, Sofia
Sporad Bifocality-a project by Dr.Gatev, SAMCA-Sofia Arsenal MUSEUM FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART, Sofia
New Spiteful Academism, AROSITA Gallery, Sofia
2011 – Self – portraits and portraits, AROSITA Gallery, Sofia
ON YOUR MARKS. Body-SPORTS AND SOCIETY, DEUTSHES HYGIENE-MUSEUM,
Dresden, Germany
Re-productions, Sofia Arsenal-Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia
{Poem 88}, Taner – Hill Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2010 – XXL Current. Academy Gallery, National Academy of Fine Art, Sofia
XXL Group. REMINISCENCES OF THE 1990’s, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
Gender Check, Feminity and Masculinity in Eastern European Art, ZACHETA National
Gallery of Art, Warsaw
THE COLLECTION. NEW ACQUISITIONS 2008-2009, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
The Other Eye. Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2009 - Gender Check. Feminity and Masculinity in Eastern European Art, MUMOK
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europa 1989-2009. Transmediale,
Berlin
From Ideology to Economy. Contemporary Bulgarian Art 20 years later,
The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow
2007 – REALITY CROSSINGS, Kuunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
VIENNAFAIR, KUNSTAGENTEN Gallery, Wiena
JUST WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES TODAY? ANTJE WACHS Gallery, Berlin
VIDEOSPRITZ#2, RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARTE E DOCUMENTI IN
VIDEO. Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna. Triest, Italia
In the Presence of the Body, West Hall Gallery 111, RPI, Troy, New York
Select Bibliography
Kotsopoulos, Nikos. Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe, London, Black Dog, 2010, -
Steiner, Barbara and Yang, Jun. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, London, Thames & Hudson, 2004, 54-57.
Chu, Henry. Where cars dangle and patrons flock, Los Angeles Times, November 23, 2004
Paolo, Bianchi. Re:Location Shake, Kunstforum, November-December 2004
Andelkovic, Branislava and Dimitrijevic Branislav. CONSUMING MASCULINITY. RASSIM, (cat) 2001
Stefanov, Svilen. Avant-garde and Norm, Sofia, AGATA, 2003
Ina, Blom. After the Wall, Frieze Magazine, January - February 2000
Stefanov, Svilen. After the Wall: Art and Culture in post – Communist Europe, (cat), 1999
Iara, Bubnova. Inventing a People, Flash Art, May- June 1999 Iara, Bubnova. Crowds the post office, Flash Art, March- April 1999 Badovinac, Zdenka. Body and the East (cat), 1998 Christopfer,Philips. Report from Sofia, Art in America, October 1998 Bulgariaavantgarde. Kraftemessen 2. Salon Verlag (cat), 1998 Menchenbilder. Foto und Videokunst aus Bulgarien, (cat), 1997 Boris Kostadinov, RASSIM, Kultura weekly, #25, 21/ 7/ 1996 Evidences. The real Diversity (cat), 1996 Iara Bubnova, The Drug, Kultura weekly, #43, 21/10/ 1995
