Antoni Maznevski biography

Born in 1963 in Skopje, Macedonia, where he lives and works.

In Maznevski’s 30-year creative experience, interest in the ELEMENT OF TIME AS A MORPHOLOGICAL UNIT prevails.  He invoices the sociality of the subatomic world (at the given time) that determines and shapes personal living and phenomenological existence.                                                                   

Multidisciplinary author and one of the leaders of the revolutionary regional and wider art scene.

As a full professor at the state UNIVERSITY KIRILL AND METHODIUS, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – Skopje, he teaches the subjects of drawing, painting and transmedia practices, and intermedial for undergraduate and master’s studies.

Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. In 1995 holds a study stay in Salzburg (Summer Academy Salzburg), 1997 artist of the year award with an Artslink award-grant (ISP New York), 2005 represents Macedonia at the 52nd Venice Biennale. He has organized over 30 solo exhibitions (Wien, New York, Venice, Paris) at home and abroad. Participates in numerous international important exhibitions such as BLOOD & HONEY / Sammlung Essl Museum – Wien / curator Harald Szeemann, IN THE GORGES OF BALKANS / Fridericianum Museum – Kassel / curator Rene Block, 40 YAHRE : FLUXUS und die Folgen/ Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, THIS EARTH IS A FLOWER / Lodz, RADIATIONS / The Japan Foundation Forum – Tokyo, BOUNDLESS, BORDERS / Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, OCTOBER SALOON / ULUS Gallery – Belgrade, etc. His works are part of the collections of several world museums and art institutions.

BIOGRAPHY

1963 Born in Skopje / R.Macedonia / SFRJ
1991 Faculty of Fine Arts / Skopje /UKIM / undergraduate studies
1995 Specialist Degree / Summer Academy I Salzburg / Austria
1997 Study Residency Program / ArtsLink Residency Program / ISP / New York
2011 Faculty of Fine Arts / Skopje / UKIM / Master’s degree
1991 – 2003 Freelance artist
2003 active / Tenured Professor at FLU / UKIM / Mentor, painting and drawing / undergraduate studies
2003 active / Mentor / postgraduate studies
2003 active / Member, Chairman of the Committees of The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
2011 Executive Director / ISA – International Summer Art Academy – Ohrid
2016 Professional stay at MANA Contemporary, ESKF / New York
2016 – 2019 / Member of the Senate at UKIM / Skopje
2020 Subdean for teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts, UKIM, Skopje

SELECTED INDEPENDENT EXHIBITIONS

2020 – As it is / National Gallery of RS Macedonia / Cifte hammam, Skopje, cat.exh.
2020 – Blue Resonance / Cultural and Information Center, Skopje / 2020 / cat.exh.
2020 – 21: Representations / Zaneta Vangeli – Antoni Maznevski / Intactus – Temporary 56 / Gallery FLU / Skopje
2017 – Temporary Skopje51, Venice 52, Copenhagen 54 / Gallery FLU / Skopje / 2017 / cat.exh.
2016 – Stimuli (ESCF) / ESKF, MANA Contemporary / New York / cat.exh.
2013 – Singularity 49 (Gallery 49) / Gallery MC / New York / cat.isl.
2012 – Patterns of Probability / Public Room – Author’s Studio / Skopje / cat.exh.
2011 – Patterns of Probability / Palais Porcia / Vienna / cat.exh.
2009 – Crossways / Prima Center / Berlin / 2009 / cat.exh.
2008 – Bio-Geo-Teo / Gallery MC / New York / 2009 / cat.exh.
2008 – Crossways / National Gallery of Macedonia Mala Stanica / Skopje / 2008 cat.exh.
2007 – Crossways / Mala Stanica / Skopje
2006 – Franch Curve as Morphological Unit / MOZG / Bidgoszsc / exhibition, performance, lecture
2005 – Mocart`s Boat / 51st Venice Biennale / Pallazo Zorzi / Venice / Macedonian pavilion / Pallazo Zorzi, Venice / cat.exh.
2004 – Mozart’s Boat / Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje / Skopje / cat.exh.
2003 – Exhibition of sculptures / Gallery of E.M. Sandoz & David Weill / Paris / cat.exh.
2002 – Exhibition of sculptures and drawings / Museum of the City of Skopje / Skopje / cat.exh.
1999 – It and I / CIX Gallery / Skopje / cat.exh.
1998 – A Se Esse / CIX Gallery / Skopje / cat.exh.
1997 – Meantime / Youth Cultural Center / Skopje / cat.exh.
1996 – The End / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje / cat.exh.
1992 – Pictures / Cultural-Information Center / Skopje / cat.exh.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 – Under the Parachute of Shapes and Colors / Artworks Advisory / New York / cat.exh.
2018 – Connections in the Collections, Italian-Macedonian parallels (Connessioni tra Collezioni, Parallelismi Italo – Makedoni) / Museum of Contemporary Meno art, Skopje / cat.exh.
2018 – Linear drawing / Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje / cat.exh.
2018 – ESKF Events / Novado Gallery / New Jersay
2016 – Global Vilage / Honig Factory / Koog Avdzaan / Netherlands / cat.exh.
2016 – Global Vilage / City of Landshut / Germany / cat.exh.
2016 – Global Vilage / Kulturhuset Brenden / Brondey Strand / Denmark / cat.exh.
2016 – WBX Benefit / White Box Gallery / New York / cat.exh.
2016 – Join the Underground / Undercurrent Project Gallery / New York
2015 – Walking on a Barrier / Green Gallery / Rovinj / Croatia / 2015 / cat.exh.
2015 – Brikolage / Embassy of the R. of Macedinia in Austria / Skopje / 2014 / cat.exh.
2015 – In the Zone / Piazza delle Murate / Le Murate – Progetti Arte Contamporanea / Firenze / cat.exh
2014 – Solidarity, Unfinished Project / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje, 2014 / cat.exh.
2014 – Zone / Center of Visual Communication / Rovinj / cat.exh.
2014 – Transfiguring – Macedonian Contemporary Art / Gallery – Czhech Centers / Prague / cat.exh.
2013 – Transitional Government, the Artist and the Dictatorship / “White Nights” / National Gallery of the Republic of Macedonia / Skopje / 2013 / cat. exh.
2013 – Reflection, White-Black or Not / Casoria Contemporary Art Museum / Naples / cat.exh.
2013 – Artistic Eastern / NLB Gallery / Skopje / cat.exh.
2012 – The ultimate gold collection of personal memories / 1960-2010 / 1990-links: Macedonian Fine Arts 1990-2000: EUFORIA / “White Night” / Youth Cultural Center / Skopje, 2012 / cat.exh.
2012 – Made in Macedonia / La Galleria Pall Mall / London / cat.exh.
2012 – Donations / downloads, 2000-2011 / Museum of Contemporary art / Skopje / cat.exh.
2011 – In Sity / Nokia Cultural Center / Talinn
2011 – Fragments-Macedonian art scene 1991-2011 / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje, 2011 / cat.exh.
2011 – Love it or leave it / The Balkan Trilogy / Museum Of Contemporar Art / Skopje, 2010 / cat.exh.
2011 – Synaesthesia / Gallery SREDEC / Sofia / cat.exh.
2010 – Arts Lottery / Ronald Feldman Gallery / New York / cat.exh.
2010 – 30 Years Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje / UKIM / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje / cat.exh.
2010 – Synaesthesia / Complesso monumentale di San Michele a Rip Grande / Rome, 2010 / cat.exh.
2010 – Synesthesia / Museum of the city of Belgrade / Belgrade / cat.exh.
2010 – Synaesthesia / Palais Porcia / Vienna: MOCA Skopje / cat.exh.
2009 – Venice via MKC / Youth Cultural Center, Skopje; Gallery Sredec, Sofia; Sarajevo Winter, Sarajevo / cat.exh.
2008 – Painting Symposium / Zervas Art / Patras / cat.exh.
2008 – Macedonian Contemporary Artists / Gallery MC / New York / cat.exh.
2007 – International Painting Exhibition, Ithaca / Ithaca /Greece / cat.exh
2004 – October Salon / ULUS / Stidentski Kulturni Centar / Beograd / cat.exh.
2003 – Flipside / Artist Space / New York / cat.exh
2003 – Blood & Honey / Museum of Contemporary Art / Sammlung Essl / Vienna / cat.exh
2003 – Wandering Library Project / 49th Venice Biennal / Venice / cat.exh.
2003 – In te Gorges of a Balkans / Museum Fridericianum / Kassel / cat.exh
2003 – Boundless, Borders / Museum Fridericianum / Kassel / cat.exh.
2002 – Boundless, Borders / Museum of the City of Balgrade / Belgrade / cat.exh.
2002 – Museum Robevci / Ohrid / cat.exh.
2002 – 40 Years: Fluxus und die Folgen / Kunstsommer Wiesbaden
2002 / Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden / Wiesbaden / cat.exh.
2001 – 15th International Exhibition of Drawings / Modern Gallery Rijeka – Museum of Modern and Contemporary art / cat.exh.
2000 – This Earth is a Flower, Construction in Process / Lodz / Poland / cat.exh.
2000 – Radiations – Recent Macedonian Fine Art / The Japan Founda-
tion Forum / Tokyo / cat.exh.
2000 – Brown Sugar / Kunsthaus / Nuremberg / cat.exh.
2000 – Letter Box Weimar / Weimar / cat.exh.
1997 – Open Studio / International Studio Program / New York / cat.exh.
1996 – Radiations – Recent Macedonian Art / Bayerische Landesbank
Gallery / Munich / cat.exh.
1996 – Radiations / Velkovic Pavilion / Belgrade
1996 – Radiations / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje / cat.exh.
1996 – 11 11 Portrait / 3rd annual exhibition of SCCA – Skopje / Art City / Skopje / cat. exh.
1995 – 1/2: New Macedonian Art / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje / cat. exh.
1994 – Image Box / 1st Annual Exhibition of SCCA – Skopje / Cultural Center Mala Stanica / Skopje / cat.exh.
1991 – 16 Youth Biennale – Rijeka / Moderna Galerija Rijeka – Museum of modern and contemporary art / Rijeka / cat.exh.

SELECTION OF PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

A SE ESSE (sculpture) / Albertina Museum Vienna / previously, Essl Museum, Art of Gegenwart / Vienna
STIMULI XI (painting) / ESKF, MANA Contemporary / New York
TV TEST II / Modern Gallery Rijeka – Museum of Modern and Contemporary art / Rijeka
TV LANDSCAPE (sculpture) / Museum of Contemporary Art / Skopje
BODY AND SOUL (sculpture) / Artists Museum – Construction in Process / Bidgosch
BIOGENS X (pastel) / Trust for Mutual Understanding (John & Jody Arnhold Foundation)
WANDERING LIBRARY GROUP PROJECT (book – drawing) / Library of Aleksandria / Aleksandria
A SE ESSE – BILLBOARD / ArtsLink / New York
A SE ESSE – BILLBOARD (photo panel) / Goethe Institut Belgrade / Belgrade
SYNTHETIC BIOGENS (object) / Zervas Art / Greece
NYC, NYC (painting) / Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, Max`s Kansas City Project
PAGE 1991 (oil on canvas) / Cultural Information Cente – KIC / Skopje
The End (TV sculpture) / Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje
INSTANT II (photo panel) / Globall Vilage
The End (drawing) / Osten / Skopje

AWARDS:

  • Artist of the Year / 1997 / SCCA / Arts Link Residence Program /
    New York
  • Sculpture Award /A Drop of Truth / 50 years-DLUM
  • Representative of the Republic of Macedonia on the 51st Venice Bi-
    ennale / Mozart’s Boat / 2005 / Venice
Antoni Maznevski biography