RASSIM

RASSIM® - Krassimir Krastev (born in 1972) is among the most prominent heralds of a radical change in the concept of art in the Bulgarian art scene during the 1990s. His most popular series is Corrections, in which the artist uses his own body to reproduce current social stereotypes – the typical attractive macho man seen in ads, the muscular bodybuilder, the junkie, the ‘other’. This concept has turned him into an emblem of not only the Bulgarian but also of the international art scene. RASSIM has taken part in the exhibitions Body and the East, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (1998); After the Wall: Art and Culture in post – Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2000); Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans, The ESSL Collection, Vienna (2003); 26.Bienale of contemporary art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004); RASSIM number one, horse champ Gallery, Strasbourg, France (2005); Glamour and Globalisation, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany (2006); REALITY CROSSINGS, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (2007); EXBODYTYON, Studio 25, Sofia (2008); Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. Transmediale, Berlin (2009); XXL Group. Reminiscences of the 1990’s, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia (2010); Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in Eastern European Art, ZACHETA National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, MUMOK Vienna (2010); {Poem 88}, Tanner-Hill Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2011); ON YOUR MARKS. Body-Sports and Society, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany (2011), RASSIM Broadcast, Studio 25, Sofia (2011),OLYMPISS GAMES, AROSITA Gallery, Sofia (2012),КRASSIM®ИР, SOFIA ARSENAL-MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Sofia (2016). In 1997 his exhibition Another Angle was awarded Exhibition of the Year from the Ata-Ray Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. RASSIM is one of the founders of the XXL Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. Courtesy of SARIEV Contemporary, Plovdiv.