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RASSIM®

RASSIM® (Krassimir Krastev, born 1972) is among the most prominent heralds of a radical change in the concept of art in the Bulgarian art scene during the 1990s. His most well-known series, Corrections, features the artist using his own body to reproduce current social stereotypes — the typical attractive macho man seen in ads, the muscular bodybuilder, the junkie, the “other.” This concept has turned him into an emblem not only of the Bulgarian but also of the international art scene.

 

RASSIM® has participated in major exhibitions such as Body and the East (Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 1998), After the Wall (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2000), Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans (ESSL Collection, Vienna, 2003), the 26th São Paulo Biennale (2004), Gender Check (ZACHETA, Warsaw; MUMOK, Vienna, 2010), and Transitland (Transmediale, Berlin, 2009).

 

In 1997, his exhibition Another Angle was awarded “Exhibition of the Year” by Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia. He is also one of the founders of the XXL Gallery in Sofia.

Portrait of Melania Trump 2025: The Holographic Code of the Artist, 2025 Urine and Gold on Hahnemühl
RASSIM®, Madonna 2025: The Holographic Code of the Artist, 2025 Urine on Hahnemühle paper, 300 gsm 2
N15, 2025 Wax honeycomb, gold paint on wooden board 27 3/5 × 15 7/10 × 2/5 in | 70 × 40 × 1 cm
N14, 2025 Wax honeycomb, gold paint on wooden board 27 3/5 × 15 7/10 × 1 1/5 in | 70 × 40 × 3 cm
N6 From the series Disappearing II, 2024 Wax honeycomb, gold paint 16 1/10 × 10 1/5 × 2/5 in | 41 ×
N13 From the series Disappearing II, 2024 Wax honeycomb, gold paint 16 1/10 × 10 1/5 × 2/5 in | 41 ×
N7 From the series Disappearing II, 2024 Wax honeycomb, gold paint 41 × 26 × 1 in | 104.1 × 66 × 2.5
N8 From the series Disappearing II, 2024 Wax honeycomb, gold paint 16 1/10 × 10 1/5 × 2/5 in | 41 ×
Future Blue N2, 2019 Blue stone on canvas 21 7/10 × 17 7/10 × 4/5 in | 55 × 45 × 2 cm
Future Blue N13, 2023 Blue stone on canvas
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