Neno Belchev

Neno Belchev was born in 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Varna. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Belchev works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture, new media and independent curator. Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and international exhibitions. He has made one full-length movie (2016), four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in Italy, Malaysia, India, Romania, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as residency-grants in España, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France, Portugal and Bulgaria. Among his most important international participations are: EAT: International exhibition, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA); XXVIIth CEC ARTSLINK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA / 2014); IN-SONORA VIII: at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA (Madrid, SPAIN; 2014); EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall (Hong Kong, HONG KONG / ...

1991 – 1997 Mural Painting, MA, National Academy for Fine Arts, Sofia

GRANTS, AWARDS, HONOURS & COMPETITIONS
21 September 2019 – Special Mention for Experimental Impact, Video Hackers Fest: International Film Festival, Ovada, ITALY;
July-August 2019 – GRANT at Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA (Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”);
20 June 2019 – zeitimpuls shortfilm: International Film Festival, (nomination for the zeitimpuls Award 2019), Vienna, AUSTRIA;
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 – GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art), El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA (+Travel Grant by Creative Development Programme of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FUND “CULTURE”);
25 November 2018 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, (nomination in category FEATURE EXPERIMENTAL), Istanbul, TURKEY;
22 September 2018 – IV-th Film Festival Bremen, (nomination in category INNOVATION), Bremen, GERMANY;
July 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA;
June 2018 – The Buddha International Film Festival, PRIZE for Best Multimedia Video, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA;
November 2017 – FIRST PRIZE for VIDEO ART, La Esperanza! ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival, El Segundo, L...