Simona Mancheva - contemporary paintress
Simona Mancheva
Simona Mancheva [1989] is a visual artist from Kavadarci, R.S. Macedonia. He is finishing his master's studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje [2013].
He continues his education through trainings, seminars, lectures and collaborations with various organizations and associations in Macedonia and abroad.
Her artistic interests focus on examining the fictional reality and even more fictional morals in society. Through her artistic research, she tries to reveal and break down our limited prejudices and stereotypes that limit our freedom and at the same time develop people's awareness of their rights and the satisfaction of their needs. In her practice, she works with gender and sexual discrimination, inherited stereotypes, sexual identity, socially marginalized groups, diversity, and variations of people and their bodies. Through her works, she wants to re-examine and intervene in these societal constructs, and understand the contradictions and stereotypes that arise from them.
Address: Elpida Karamandi 12 Kavadartsi
Tel. No.: 0038975438643
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: https://simonamancheva.gallery/
http://www.behance.net/SimonaManceva
Education
2024- Art Residency. PerfocraZe Int in Kumasi, Africa,
2023 - IMMA International Summer School 2023 Art & Politics #5 assembly
Course on Ecofeminist Discourses and Artistic Practices, Coalition Margins, Skopje
2022 - Art Institution Body Politics/ APIB program of Lokomotiva, Skopje
2011/2013 - MFA in Painting, Conservation and Restoration direction, Teaching pedagogy, Faculty of Arts, Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia.
2007/2011- BFA Faculty of Fine Arts, Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia.
2003/2007 - DSULUD Lazar Licenoski, Secondary School for Applied Arts/ painting
Solo exhibitions and projects
2023 - "Together, we breathe, eat, and drink" - Cultural Center Kisela Voda, Skopje.
2022 Crimes against the Body and Life (together with Zorica Zafirosvka), (APIB program) ART POLICY INSTITUTION BODY - Theoretical-Artistic Program, Locomotive - Center for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. Kavadarci, North Macedonia
We Breathe Together – Participatory project, SCS Centar-Jadro. Skopje, North Macedonia
As I Grew Up, House of Culture "Mirka Ginova" Demir Kapija, North Macedonia
2020 Selfhood, House of Culture Ivan Mazov-Klime, Kavadarci, North Macedonia
Group exhibitions, festivals and projects
2024 “Nananom“, LoveFest ,PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR, Kumasi, Gana, Africa.
“LoveRoom”- PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR, Kumasi, Gana, Africa.
2023 14. Biennial of young artists "AWAKENING", MOCA Skopje, North Macedonia
"Young Artists from the Vardar Region" - European House Veles.
"The voice of color and stone", Porta "Macedonia" Skopje, North Macedonia
2022 Places of Generosity: Transformative Stations, SCS Centar-Jadro. Skopje, North Macedonia
2021 Ambivalent March Interpretations – online exhibition
Familiar Strangers, Vacant Museum, online exhibition
Young Artist Award DENES 2021 (nominated) Youth Cultural Center. Skopje, North Macedonia
COV-ART Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Annual DLUK Exhibition, Ivan Mazov-Klime Cultural Center, Kavadarci, North Macedonia
Young Artists from Kavadarci and their Guests – online exhibition. Kavadarci, North Macedonia
2020 Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2020 x What is Fear?, online exhibition (TQAF) Thessaloniki, Greece
The View from Here, International Mural by Mail, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, OR
Art in Quarantine, online exhibition, printmakers.016, India
Being Together While Being Apart, online exhibition, SCS Centar-Jadro, Skopje, North Macedonia
Annual DLUK final exhibition, Ivan Mazov-Klime Cultural Center, Kavadarci, North Macedonia
Young Artists from Kavadarci and their Guests – online exhibition. Kavadarci, North Macedonia
Publications
2023 XIV Biennial of Young Artists, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje COBISS.MK-ID 60391173
2022 Calovski, Yane, (Ed.) (2022) A Toolkit for Building Public-Civic Institutional Models in Culture. Skopje: Jadro Association of the Independent Cultural Scene.
2020 The view from here, The Elizabeth Jones Art Centre, Portland, Oregon 503.286.4959
2018 The use of photography as a sculptural material in contemporary art, Publisher:HDLU Hrvatsko Drustvo Likovnih Umjetnika/Croatian Association of Artists, CIP no.001018875, ISBN 978-953-8098-30-7
XII Biennial of Young Artists, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje COBISS.MK-ID 108510474
2013 S-WORK, Special edition, STAR-STAR, December
Warren Neidich, The Noologist`s Handbook and Other Art Experiments (Edited by Suzana Milevska). Berlin: Archive Books. ISBN 9782918252184
