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Nicola Uzunovski

 

1979, Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia

Currently lives and works in Venice and Helsinki

 

 

Education

 

School of applied arts, Skopje, Macedonia 1994-1998

Academy of fine arts, Naples, Italy 1998-2003

F.A.R. Superior course of visual arts Como, Italy 2003

Academy of fine arts, Time-space arts, Helsinki, Finland 2005

Venice University Institute of Architecture, MA Visual Arts Production, Venice, Italy 2003-2007

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2008 My Sunshine, Pollinaria, Pescara, Abbruzzi, Italy

2008 Snow, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy

2007 My Sunshine, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, curated by Massimo Premuda

2007 On your way, National Gallery of Macedonia, Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia

2005 Drops, Center for contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2005 Dream on, Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki, Finland

2004 Birthday Party, MoCA Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

2003 Drops, Accademia di belle arti di Napoli, Italy, curated by Ciriaco Campus

 

 

Selected group exhibitions

 

2008 Greenwashing, Palazzo Ducale di Laurino, Salerno, Italy, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Lattitudes
2008 Venecija via MKC, MKC, Skopje, Macedonia, curated by Sonja Abadzieva

2008 Cataclysm and creativity, Carey Rote and Ljiljana Nedelkovska, Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas, US

2008 Greenwashing, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rubbaudengo, Turin, Italy, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Lattitudes

2008 Cataclysm and creativity, Carey Rote and Ljiljana Nedelkovska, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2008 Why don’t you go straight!?. Galleria SpazioA, PIstoia Italy curated by Giuseppe a

2007 We did well to get out, Spazio per l’arte contemporanea Buttrio, Udine, Italy, curated by Paolo Toffolutti

2007 Between Resistence and Surrender, Object not found, Monterrey, Mexico, curated by Ruben Gutierrez

2007 White Lab, Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy, curated by Giulia Allegri

2007 Star prostor - Nova linija: Kakvo opštestvo!? Nadvor od volumenot!, curated by Biljana Isijanin

2007 Projectobject, Palazzo Bracciolini delle Api - Pistoia, Italy, curated by Stefano Coletto

2007 Denes, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2007 Inbetweenness, Ex Carceri San Michele, Rome, Italy, curated by Dobrila Denegri and L.Pratesi

2007 The Cat inside, Vienna International Appartment, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Silvio Salgado

2007 Evolution de l’Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, J. Carny, D. Majdakova, L. Pribisova and C. Pietroiusti

2007 Video report Italia 2004_05, MMSU Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

2007 Any Thing, Galleria Unorossodue, Milano, Italy

2006 Attitude, Magaza, Bitola, Macedonia, curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijanin

2006 Talk to the city, fabbrica del vapore, Milan, Italy

2006 Videoreport Italia 2004_05, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, Italy

2006 Art is Always Somewhere Else, 2nd International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania

2006 SelectedWorks, Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

2006 The sun on the wall, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria, curated by Gregor Podnar

2006 Artist in Discussion, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, curated by T. Bundalevska  and N. Vilic

2006 Progressive hope, Galleria HAOS, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Biljana Tomic 

2006 Becoming place, Castello di S. Terenzio, Lerici, Italy, curated by Luigi Giovinazzo

2006 Cric, Sierre, Switzerland, curated by Abrie Fourie, Rubén Gutiérrez

2006 Tends to infinity, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy, curated by Stefano Coletto

2006 Trajectory 2 - The sun on the wall, LCCA, Arsenal, Riga, Latvia, curated by Gregor Podnar

2006 The Galleries show, Extracity Center for Contemporary art, Antferp, Belgium

2006 The artist in conversation, Cifte amam, Skopje, Macedonia, curated by Tatjana Bundalevska and Nebijsa Vilic

2006 Off, Press to exit gallery, Skopje, Macedonia, curated by Biljana P. Isijanin and Marjan Denkov

2005 White niose, STILE BK, Turin, Italy, curated by Luca Vona

2005 Untitled, VentraXV, Milan, Italy, curated by Alessio Ascari and Eduardo Bonaspetti

2005 White and other, in any case art, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

2005 White Noise, Artlab Studio BK, Turin; Italy, curated by Luca Vona

2005 Multiplo 2, NO Gallery, Milan, Italy, curated by Stefano Coletto

2005 Arhipelag, Nova Gorica, Slovenia and Gorizia, Italy

2005 51th Venice Biennale, Real Presence-Floating sites, Venice, Italy, curated by Dobrila Denegri, Biljana Tomic

2005 Mars Pavilion, Venice, Italy, curated by Andrea Morucchio - Marco Baravalle - Interno3

2005 Plazamarket, Venice, Italy, curated by Progetto 0+

2005 8 x 12, Bevilacqua la Masa studios, Venice, Italy, curated by Stefano Coletto

2005 7th Biennale of young artists, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2005 10, Kaiku Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2005 Conflitti, Villa Serena, Bologna, Italy, project by Synapser

2005 Foresti a Venezia , Fondazione Bevilacqa la Masa, Venice, Italy, curated by Stefano Coletto

2005 Play 04, Care of, Milano, Italy, curated by Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi, Luca Valerio

2004 88ma Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy  

2004 Play 04, Galleria Moncada, Rome, Italy, curated by Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi, Luca Valerio

2004 Q13 Building, Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy, curated by Alberto Zanchetta

2004 Transmission, Bassano del Grappa, Italy curated by Progetto 0+,Joseph Kosuth, Rirkrit Tiravanija

2004 Real Presence 4, Muzej 25 Maj, Belgrade, SCG curated by Dobrila Denegri, Biljana Tomic

2004 QualsiasiTV, Base, Firenze, Italy progect by Rirkrit Tiravanija

2004 Guardarsi Intorno, Galeria A+A, Venezia, Italy curated by Cesare Pietroiusti,Rene Gabri             

2004 Tracce di un seminario, Viafarini, Milan, Italy curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio

2004 Space is the Place_03, T.P.O., Bologna, Italy  curated by Marco Altavilla, Anna de Mannincor       

2003 Bozicna izlozba, Galerija OK, Rijeka, Croatia, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic                    

2003 Talk Show, Viafarini, Milan, Italy, curated by Stefano Boeri, Hans Ulrich Obrist                                    

2003 Mappa mundi, chiesa di S. Francesco, Como, Italy, curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio

2003 Life is full of possibilities, Galleria T293, Napoli, Italy, Curated by Marco Altavilla

 

 

 

 

Grants and awards 

    

2007 Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award, Trieste, Italy

2006 SelectedWorks, Video Art Award Bassano dell Grappa, Italy

2005 - 2006 Bevilacqua La Masa, studio grant, Venice, Italy

2004 - 2006 Study grant, Ministery of culture of Republic of Macedonia

2003 - 2006 IUAV Venice University of Architecture  Scholarship

1999 - 2003 Scholarship, Accdemy of fine arts Naples, Italy

1999 Georgi Zoorafski Award, Skopje, Macedonia

 

 

 


Publications and catalogues
 
"Greenwashing", Ilaria Bonacosa and Latitudes, The Book Makers, Turin, Italy 2008
"Venice via MKC", Sonja Abadzieva, Mladinski Kulturen Centar, 2008
"Catastrophe and creativity", Carey Rote and Ljiljana Nedelkovska, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Macedonia 2008
"My Sunshine", Massimo Premuda, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy 2007
"On your way", National Gallery of Macedonia, Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia 2007
"Inbetweennes", Ex Carceri San Michele, Dobrila Denegri and Ludovico Pratesi, Rome, Italy, 2007
"Videoreport Italia 2004_05, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, Italy 2006
“Becoming place”, Luigi Giovinazzo, Lerici, Italy, 2006
"The artist in conversation", Tatjana Bundalevska, Nebijsa Vilic, Cifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia, 2006
"The sun on the wall" Gregor Podnar, LCCA, Arsenal, Riga, Latvia, 2006
"Absent Without Leave (Art is always somewhere else) ", Jenny Brownrigg, Branko Franceschi,
Irina Grabovan, Simona Nastac, Oana Tanase. Bucharest, Romania
"Press to exit project space book one" Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanovska, Press to exit, 2006
"Tende al infinito", Stefano Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia Italy, 2006
"Untitled", Viaventura XV, Alessio Ascari, Eduardo Bonaspetti, ed. Postmedia books, Milan, Italy, 2005
"Sonance network" Simon Hafale, Vienna, Austria, 2005
“50th Venice biennale”, Biennale di Venezia, Dobrila Denegri catalogue, ed. Marsilio, Venice, 2005
"White and other, in any case, art", Achille Bonito Oliva, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy, 2005
"Drops", Center for Contemporary Arts, Galleria Kursumli An, Skopje, Macedonia, 2005
"Play 04", Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi, Luca Valerio, Rome, Italy 2005
"7th Biennale of young Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2005
"Transmission", ProgettoZero+, Kjosk, Bassano dell Grappa, Italy, 2004
"Quaderni del corso Superiore di Arte Visiva", Giacinto di Pietrantonio e Angela Vettese, Charta, Milano Italy 2004
"Q13-Building", Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre Italy, 2004
"88-ma Colletiva", Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia Italy, 2004

 

 

 

 

Articles and Press
 
Simone Ciglia, Nikola Uzunovski, Espoarte n. 54 08-09 2008 p.144
Sonja Abadzieva, Utopia in service of human kind, Vest 09 08 2009 Skopje Macedonia
Marco Tagliafierro, Nikola Uzunovaki, Snow at Federico Luger Gallery, Reviews, Flash Art Italia 41, p 199 08-09 2008
Gordana Nastevska-Manasievska, I want to give more sun to Lapland, Tea Moderna, pp. 32-35, 20 08. 2008
Mattia Lenzi, Nikola Uzunovski, recensione, Artkey n.3 march 2008 p 69
Sara Stulle, Un posto al sole.., Zeno Magazine, n. 117. 1 2008, pp 38-40
Daniele Capra, NIkola Uzunovski. Trieste, Studio Tomaseo, Exibart, n48 2008 p 60
Eugenio Melotti, Specchio volante per rubare ni raggi dell sole, Panorama 03 01 2008 p 98
Dejan Bugevac, Najintimnite zelbi se istovremeno i najuniverzalnite, Globus, n.28 2007 p 56-57

Uzunovski, Premio emergente. Il Piccolo, 30 11 2007

My Sunshine, Nikola Uzunovski, Zeno Magazine, n. 112. 1 12 2008
Nikola Uzunovski, Oda na soncevata svetlina, Utrinski vesnik, 06.12.2007
Nikola Uzunovski, Izlozba vo prazen proctor,  Uzunovski, Vest, 29.10.2007
Saretto Cincinelli, Progettogetto Prove di Materializzazione, Flash Art italia, n.266, 2007 p 138
Matteo Chini, Any thing, Flash Art Italia, 263, April 2006
Gordana Nastevska-Manasievska, Vistinskiot pat e onaa nasoka sto samite si ja izbirame,
Tea Moderna, pp. 36-37, 24.1. 2007
Liljana Nedelkovska, Nikola Uzunovski: Kapki. Golemoto Staklo, n.19-20.2005 pp.123
Maja Cankulovska-Mihajlovska, Belo i drugo, Art Republika, n.4 2005 pp.43-45
Nebojsa Jakonov, Nikola Uzunovski megu velikanite, Utrinski Vesnik, 22.9.2005 pp.26
Gudo Curto, Il bianco e altro..., Torino Sette, La Stampa, 21. 10.2005 pp.
Palazzo Cavour, Torino Cronaca, 09 11 2005
Nebojsa Jakonov, Interesiranje za socijalniot kontekst na umetnosta, Utrinski Vesnik, 27.10.2005 pp.25
Francesca Pasini, L'artista vede prima di capire. Parola di Nonas, L'unita 27. 7. 2003 pp.28
Notizie, Flash Art Italia, n.244 2004 pp. 71

 

 

 

Workshops and lectures

 

University Cyril and Metodius, Skopje, Macedonia  Lectures, 2008
Academy of Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia, Workshop, 2007
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Lectures, 2006, 2007
Institute of Oriental Studies, Naples, Italy, Lectures, 2007

 

 

 

 

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