Art Bio
Name: Ivaylo Zlatkov
Born in 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Located in Berlin, Germany
Email: spatialmadness@mail.de
Photo, video and digital artist
Important exhibitions and shows so far:
Sole fine art photography exhibition Room Apparitions, Sofia, April-May 2000
Participation at group photo exhibitions: Oostende, Belgium, July 2001, NE USA, August 2003, Y-galerii in Tartu, Estonia, February 2004, Plastelin Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria November and December 2008
The First Prize of the Dutch FOTO magazine for Platvorm voor onbekend talent (Unknown Talent Platform), August/September 2001
Participation at group exhibition at Y-Galerii, February 2004, Tartu, Estonia
Empty Moon – Video Show at Y-Galerii, January 2006, Tartu, Estonia
Participation at the interactive medium workshop organized by Mediamatic, Amsterdam 23 – 30 November 2007. Presented an experimental interactive medium video
Participation in “Punk & Draw” Exhibition, May 2009 (Underground edition)
Participation in “With 900 Horse Powers into Contemporary Arts” Exhibition, May 28, 2009, Sofia
Participation amongst the nominations at “Sofia Today” competition during Sofia Film Fest by Wim Wenders, March 2009 and at the exhibition at Cinema Palace in Sofia, June 29, 2009
December 4, 2009 Digital Art Sole Exhibition at Apero Electro 7, French Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria
May 2009, Digital art exhibition at the French Cultural Institute in Sofia
“Remix Yourself” interactive video show at Plastelin Gallery in Sofia, August 2009
“Interact”, interactive video show at DaDa Cultural Bar in Sofia, July 2010
Digital Art Exhibition at DaDa Cultural Bar in Sofia July 9 – August 3, 2010
VJ Interactive visualization of the concert of the Bulgarian music band Ambient Anarchist at PorkPie, Sofia, August 12, 2010
Interactive video show at DaDa Cultural Bar, Sofia, July 2010
“Black & White Magic Seance”, interactive video show and digital art exhibition at DaDa Cultural Bar, Sofia, July - August 2011
“Undead”, the Halloween edition of 'Black & White Magic Seance’, interactive video show at The Zone, Reuterstrasse 95, Berlin October 31, 2011
“Da Christmas Zone”, Interactive VJ show at The Zone Berlin, 25 December 2011
“Secret Singles”, Interactive video show at Jules Verne Club, Sofia, February 2012
“Berlining”, Interactive video show at Twins Club Sofia, 13 March 2012
Interactive visualization at Panke Berlin, 12 October 2012
Interactive drawing performance at club Neu!Berlin Sofia, 28 February 2013
“Showtime Again”, Interactive video show at club Neu!Berlin Sofia, 16 June 2013
Artist-in-recidency at Obinitsa, Estonia ,19 August 2013 – 1 September 2013 & digital art exhibition
“Geometrical Theatre”, Interactive video show at club Neu!Berlin Sofia, 3 October 2013
Interactive VJ-ing for the Jam Session by Antonio Kama at The Zone, Berlin, 26 December 2013
Interactive VJ show at Aviatrix Berlin, 24 January 2014
Digital art exhibition ‘Cosmic Design and Architecture’ at Jakobi galerii, Tartu. 28 November 2014 – 8 January 2015.
Interactive video show at the opening of the exhibition ‘Cosmic Design and Architecture’ at Jakobi galerii, Tartu. 28 November 2014 – 8 January 2015
Guest teacher at Tartu Higher Art School, subject: Applications of interactive video and digital art, Second semester 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Participation at the group exhibition Art Fusion - A Creative Showcase at Studio 8 in Berlin 23/24 June 2023
Studies and concepts:
Humanities, media, photography and video art, geography and GIS at: Sofia University, Theatre and Cinema Academy of Sofia, Tartu University, Royal Fine Art Academy in Ghent, WBS Jena, also working as a freelance translator
Between 2009 and 2015 I used to make interactive video shows which are sometimes combined with digital art exhibitions depending on the conditions, concept and context
May 2019 – September 2019, Advanced Training for GIS and Spatial Data Specialist, WBS Jena, Germany
Currently I would like to involve my works in a cool communication via mixed media technics and software applications by using own visual language and poetry
All software used is open source software and all open data used are under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licences
based on OSM: https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze