expozitie “At First, There Were Three Friends” – Malgorzata Sidor (PL) si Nadejda Oleg Lyahova (BG) @ HT003 GALLERY, Bucuresti

HT003 GALLERY va invita 11 mai 2007, orele 19.00, la vernisajul expozitiei “At First, There Were Three Friends”.
Autoare: Malgorzata Sidor (PL) si Nadejda Oleg Lyahova (BG).
(Fotografie, video, instalatie).
Adresa: Str. Hanul cu tei, Nr. 22, sector 3, Bucuresti.
(Luni – vineri: 11 – 18; Sambata: 10 – 15)
Contact: + 0740 032 142; [email protected]

MAŁGORZATA SIDOR (b.1960) Works with photographs, sculpture, objects, phenomena and events, through which she poses and represents a problem that she wants to solve at the moment. Her most significant aim lies beyond the aesthetic effect. The themes of her works are related to fundamental questions of being. She always tries on the one hand to approach the nature of the object, looking at matter, and on the other to recognize lows/mechanisms that govern individuals and societies.
Selected works: This was my 50th birthday, 2000; Blush 1-2, 2000; Antesound, 2000; Where there’re two, there’s one, 2002; Shadow, Sleep and Phenomenon 1-2, 2002-3; Messengers 1-2, 2002; No Volume 1-2, 2003; Strongman, 2004; We are not here at present, please call again later 2006.
Studied at Media and Communication Dept., Goldsmiths’ College, University of London and University of Lodz. Initiator and organizer of international arts meetings: Siteations, Cardiff, UK, 1994; Nothing New Under the Sun, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Southdown, UK, 1996; Golden Seed, Mt Abu, India, 1997; Honey Forest, Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland, 1998; Antesound, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznań, Poland, 2000; Atopos, former Poznański Factory, Łódź, Poland, 2001; Terrestrials, Warszawa, The Old Norblin Factory, 2002; No Volume Pałac Sztuki, Lwów, Ukrain 2003; Phantoms 1, Borne Sulinowo 2005; Phantoms 2, Koneser Factory,Warszawa. Received scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998. Since 1998 Fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Founder of “Wandering Cooperation”. Initiator and co-founder Artists’ Association fabs. She lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

NADEZHDA OLEG LYAHOVA (b1960).
For a time she devoted herself to painting and stage design. It was about 1995
that she appeared on the alternative art scene with sculptures and
installations of hand-made paper. She is concerned with the various
extreme states regarding both space and time. Central to some of her
work is the preoccupation with the incorporation of the environment or
the use of non-durable materials such as soap, ice, etc.

Education:1979-1984-National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia,
BulgariaProfessional practice:1988-1990- Art director at the Bulgarian
National Television 1992- Stage designer for Dialog Theater1990- Working
freelance – actions, installations, objects, applied graphics
Solo exhibitions:
2005- THE LIONS OF SOFIA, Goethe Institut, Sofia
2004- VANITAS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan-
VANITAS, Sofia Art Gallery
2002- IMAGES OF A TRANSFORMATION, Sofia Art Gallery
2001 – SWEET DREAMS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
2000 – ENDLESS FAIRYTALE, Book Art Museum, Lods, Poland
1999 – SOAPY REFLECTIONS, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
1998 – HOLLOWS OF METAL, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia – EXPERIMENTS
TO MEASURE TIME, TED Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
1997 – VARIANTS, Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia – SEA OF HOPE, National
Theater, Sofia
1996 – ETERNAL CLOISTERS FOR TRANSIENT HEARTS, Art 36 Gallery, Sofia –
REST, Autumn Exhibitions, Old Town, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1995 – IN BETWEEN, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia
Selected group exhibitions:
2005 – DONUMENTA, Regensburg, Germany – FREEZE, Centre for Contemporary
Art The Old Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria – EN DIRECT DE BULGARIE, Association
Espace Gibert, Lezignan-Corbieres, France – PHANTOM, FABS, Borne
Soulinovo, Poland
2004 – MULTIPLICATION, Sofia Art Gallery- THE SPHINX WILL DEVOUR YOU,
Curator Baeral Madra, Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul – THE GLOBAL AND
THE MAN, Curator Galia Dimitrova, Sfumato Theatre, Sofia – IN THE
CONTEXT OF OURS OWN , Art Gallery Dimitrovgrad, Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria-
FOUR ROOMS, ADS Gallery, Sofia – THE LANDSKAPE, New Ground, Curator
Maria Vassileva, Shipka 6 gallery, Sofia – BULGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC
ASSOCIATION, Sofia Art Gallery – FINE ART COLLECTION, Embassy of the US
in Bulgaria, Sofia Art Gallery
2003 – No Volume, FABS, National Palace of Art, Lvov, Ukraina
– Beauty and the East, Janco Dada Museum, Artists village Ein Hod, Israel
– WHITE, MALE, STRAIGHT PROJECT, Nich, Serbia – EXPORT-IMPORT, Curator
Maria Vassileva, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002
– TRANSPARENCY, Centre for Contemporary Art The Old Bath, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria – WhiteMaleStraight project, Curator Ventsislav Zankov, Sofia
– TERRESTRIALS, FABS, Curator Malgorjata Sidor, The former Norblin
factory – Department of Museum of Technology, Warsaw
2001
– CHANGE OF PLACES, Curator Maria Vassileva, ATA Center for Contemporary
Art, Sofia- SHOP – ART (WOMEN AT THE MARKET-PLACE), curator Maria
Vassileva, St. Sofia Underpass, Sofia
– DONT LOOK AT ME IN THAT VOICE, Shipka 6 gallery, Sofia
– SPIRIT AND MATTER, II-nd Festival of Visual Arts, August in Art,
Georgi Velchev Museum, Varna, Bulgaria
2000- BULGARIA, NY, Women Artists Collaborate, Elisabet Foundation for
the Art, New York City