Neno Belchev

Neno Belchev lives between Brussels, BE and Varna, BG. He works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of drawing; painting, 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 experimental 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 / 2013); Solo exhibition MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Saint ...

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

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, HONOURS & COMPETITIONS
October 2022 – GRANT by the artist-in-residency at the "Moving Body" performance festival, Varna, Bulgaria;
July 2022 – GRANT by the "CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIPS" program of the Bulgarian National Fund "CULTURE";
October 2021 – GRANT by the "CREATIVE INITIATIVES" program of the Bulgarian National Fund "CULTURE";
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 – GRANT online A-i-R by “Your Place” Art-Project of TEMPO ARTS, realised with public funding through Arts Council England’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund and East Sussex Arts Partnership', Hastings, UK;
November 2020 – GRANT by programme “CREATIVE INITIATIVES” of the Bulgarian National Fund “CULTURE”;
August 2020 – GRANT by “My Place” project of PECSD (Public Environmental Center for Sustainable Development), A-i-R at Ezeretz village, BULGARIA;
July-August 2019 – GRANT at Espai Sant Marc AiR programme, Sineu, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, ESPAÑA;
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”);
July 2018 – Freedom Film Festival; PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA;
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