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Curators
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Iara Boubnova
Iara Boubnova, curator and art critic from Sofia was born in Moscow, Russia, where she graduated from the Department of Art History and Theory at Moscow State University and worked as a Junior Editor at the Soviet Artist Publishing House. Since 1984, she has lived in Sofia, Bulgaria and worked at the National Gallery for Foreign Art as a curator of the Department of East European Art.
For the last three years Boubnova has worked as the leader of the Visual Seminar, a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the urban environment of neo-capitalism. Among other important curatorial projects are Joy at Casino Luxembourg and Dialectics of Hope, 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2005, Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt am Main in 2002 — all as co-curator; Talk with the Man on the Street part of the 4th Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro; Double-Bind (co-curator) in 2003, Locally Interested in 1999 — both in Sofia and Ars ex Nacionem. Made in BG in 1997 and In Search of the Self-Reflection in 1994 — both in Plovdiv.
She curated and organized the Bulgarian National Participations at the 48th Biennale di Venezia, 1999; the 3rd Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, 1997; the 4th St. Petersburg Biennial, 1996; the 4th Istanbul Biennial, 1995; and the 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial, 1994.
Boubnova is President of AICA Bulgaria and since 2002 has been a board member of the International Foundation Manifesta. Iara Boubnova is the founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art — Sofia.
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