Michail Michailov

Roaming, HD video (4 parts), 4'24'' camera: Hannes Anderle, edition is 5+2AP

Not that the pursuit of orientation is something new for Michail Michailov. But because of the worldwide covid19 shutdown, everyone suddenly loses their bearings, and nobody knows how the future will go. New thinking and new ideas are needed. Michailov lands lost and with hope at the same time on his rooftop, roams around and searches for new directions...

About the artist

Michail Michailov lives in Paris and Vienna and his artistic practice is concerned with drawing, performance, installation and video. He studied fine arts in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, and art history in Vienna. In addition to several residencies and awards, he received the Drawing Now Paris Art Award 2018. Success and failure, self-discovery and self-doubt, the search for happiness, the crossing of boundaries are recurring themes. He uses his own personality as a metaphor for existence, the self and the striving for individual self-realization in a globalized society.

Last Exhibitions: Craving nothing, Structura gallery, Sofia (2020); #Selfisolation, Sariev gallery, Plovdiv (2020); Dripping ceiling, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, (2019); Partie de campagne, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2019); Room for faliure, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami (2019); I am everywhere, Drawing Lab Paris, Paris (2019) Dust to dust, Untitled, re.riddle gallery, San Francisco (2019); Pour the Line, re.riddle gallery, San Francisco (2019), Best of 20 Years, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (2019)