Kamen Stoyanov was born in 1977 in Rousse, Bulgaria. In 2003 he received МА at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria and in 2005 he received MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Over the past few years, his actions, videos, installations, photographic works and performances have been shown, among others, at the following exhibitions: Will I be happy? (solo), Inda Gallery, Budapest, (2016); Let them draw, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria(2015); Look at me! I am made for you!, Projektraum LS43, Berlin (2015); Urbanauts, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna(2015); Past future-future past, Transmediale 2014, Supermarkt, Berlin (2014); The Movement of the Whole, Inda Gallery, Budapest (2014); Stoyanov `s Tomato Product´s, (solo) Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia (2013); Unexpected Encountrers, Camera Austria, Graz (2013); Material and Culture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2012); 17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2010); Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan (2010); At Arm's` Length, (solo) MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, (2008); MANIFESTA 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino, Italy, (2008). He was awarded, among others, with the following prizes: The Sovereign European Art Prize (2011); Otto Mauer Prize (2011); Alexander Resnikov Award (2010); Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft (Galerie für Zeitgenoessische Kunst Leipzig, 2008); MUMOK Prize for the Zone1 at the VIENNAFAIR (2007);
He lives and works in Vienna and Sofia.
A rubber boat is moving in the sea leaving white traces, which dissolve afterwards into smaller waves. One realizes slowly the sense behind the not linear movements. The boat tries to write again and again letter after letter, the word “Impossible”. It is several days trial to make the impossible possible.
