Neno Belchev was born in Varna, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Varna. After graduation of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, his works have been exhibited at wide range of international exhibitions at Moerenuma Koen Hidamari Museum (Sapporo), OCAT of He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen), White Box gallery and Apexart (New York), NCCA (Saint-Patersburg),Wichita Falls Museum (Texas), Today Art Museum, (Beijing) and many others. Neno works as freelance multidisciplinary artist as well as independent curator. He is one of the founders of the International Video-Art Festival VIDEOHOLICA. His works are possession of the He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen), China; Varna City Gallery, private collections in the United Kingdom,Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine, etc. In his work as an artist, Neno tries to understand the way how humans perceive the world. How they interact with their surrounding environment. His video-installations provoke different point of view in the minds of the observers, in order to break their previous models of perceiving the world.
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, HONOURS & COMPETITIONS:
November 2011 - GRAND-PRIX and FIRST PRIZE for video-art at NET, festival for video-art, Chelyabinsk, Russia no-festival.ru/awards/
September 2011 2011`Kronstadt Artist-in-Residency programme of NCCA (National Center for Contemporary Art, Petersburg branch), Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA (TRAVEL GRANT by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture) ncca.ru/en/articles.text?filial=6&id=42
August 2011 THIRD PRIZE at 1:0 FOR THE FEST – 10th INTERNATIONAL KANSKI VIDEO FESTIVAL, Kansk, RUSSIA, festival-cannes.ru/
March 2011 Two nominees in two categories at THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2011, video art festival, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, theoneminutes.org
August - November 2009 Grant – the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum) International Art Residency 2009 (catalog), Shenzhen, China ocat.com.cn/
Sept - Oct 2008 GRANT – artist in residency by REDline'08_BORDERING ON US programme
in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE) (catalog), (imerge.com.pt), Porto, Portugal redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/
December 2007 PRIZE for best artist for 2007 by BULART Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA, ebulletin.liternet.bg/news.php?page=news_show&nid=5165&sid=31
July 2007 GRANT by European Culture Foundation - special guest of ESPACE 29 for contemporary art, Bordeaux and LES OUVRIERS DU CHAI, Sainte Foy La Grande, FRANCE;
January - March 2007 GRANT – artist in residency in ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme(catalog), Sapporo, Japan, sair.exblog.jp/4583279/;
April 2006 PRIZE OF JURY FOR BEST VIDEO at ON DIFFERENCE # 2(catalog), Sofia, Bulgaria, ondifference2.i-space.org/index_en.php?page;
November 2003 FIRST PRIZE for experimental photography at the 1st NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON(catalog), Varna, Bulgaria fotosalonvarna.org/en/winner5.htm;

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
September 2011 ,,,,,,,,,,,,, MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) – video-art exhibition at NCCA (National Center for Contemporary Art, Petersburg branch), Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA ncca.ru/events.text?filial=6&id=1143
May 2011 NB-MONOGRAPHY – online solo exhibition at VisualcontainerTV, Milan, Italy visualcontainer.tv
April 2010 SILICONE IDENTITY – objects and drawings, in the frames of CON.TEMPO, gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria
November 2009 WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BODY? open studio in the frames of the International Art Residency 2009 at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum), ocat.com.cn/, Shenzhen, China
May 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 3, Georgi Velchev Art Museum, Varna
April 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 2, Gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria;
February 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 1 – video-art exhibition, art museum HIDAMARI (the Glass Pyramid), Sapporo, Japan sair.exblog.jp/4583279/ a3.stalker.bg/index.htm;
February 2005 Exhibition, video art and paintings, Gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria;
June 2004 Outdoor sculpture and installation show, Varna International Theatre Festival, Varna, Bulgaria (PRODUCTION GRANT by Municipality of Varna, Culture Department);
June 2002 MATERIAL EXPRESSION OF PRAYER, OR QUINTESSENCE OF SUFFERING, objects from black dough, Art Gallery Artin, Varna, Bulgaria

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
December 2011 Pixxelpoint 2011 - New Media Art Festival, (catalog), Nova Gorica, Slovenia pixxelpoint.org
October 2011 AURORA – A night of light, video and sound installations, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, USA
October 2011 THE POETICS OF WATER – international exhibition at the University of Maryland University College, (catalog), Maryland, USA umuc.edu/visitors/events/art/exhibits/the_poetics_of_water.cfm
August 2011 1:0 FOR THE FEST – 10th International Kansk Video Festival, (catalog), Kansk, RUSSIA festival-cannes.ru/
June 2011 FACING THE ARTWORK – the viewer in moving images, video art and shortfilmfest, Halle (Saale) GERMANY, werkleitz.de/
March 2011 THE ONE MINUTES AWARDS 2011, video art festival, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS, (catalog), theoneminutes.org
March 2011 danubeVIDEOARTfestival, Stadtkino Grein, Insburg, AUSTRIA
February 2011 ESPRESSIONI Performing Arts and Film Festival, curator Pavlina Mladenova (BG), Milan, Italy
November 2010 "COMMERCIAL" ART VIDEO – international video exhibition at apexart (apexart.org), NY
November 2010 SANCTIONED ARRAY – international video exhibition at White Box gallery, New York, USA
sanctionedarray.specifyothers.com/
November 2010 OUT OF OSTRALE, curators Andrea Higler and Martin Müller, Eupen, BELGIUM
November 2010 MEM - International Festival for Experimental Arts, Bilbao, SPAIN musicaexmachina.com/
October 2010 ONE NIGHT STAND at Little Wing, video programme of The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco Santa Fe, USA
August 2010 OSTRALE 2010 – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curators Andrea Higler, Martin Müller and Krzysztof Stanislawski, (catalog), Dresden, Germany (TRAVEL GRANT by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture)
August 2010 “August in Art” – International Biennial for Visual Arts, curator Maria Vasileva, (catalog), Varna, BG
June 2010 ONE NIGHT STAND, video programme of The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial, curators Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco Santa Fe, USA
May 2010 “grenzART 1” – festival for performing arts, obART, Kirschau, Germany,
October 2009 “The Invisible Generation”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, curator Per Hüttner & Daniele Balit, theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com/
October 2009 the exhibition “Bulgarian Connection”, curator Micelle Blume - Switzerland, gallery 44, Genoa, Italy
June 2009 the exhibition “TAKE ME TO THE RIVER - ISTANBUL”, curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Wichita Falls Museum, Texas, USA
May 2009 NOPASSWD international festival for contemporary art – Genoa, Italy nopasswd.com/
March 2009 international exhibition “TAKE ME TO THE RIVER”, curator Cohn Drennan - USA, Depo - Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, Turkey
December 2008 KAUNAS IN ART: “CONTEXTS” festival for contemporary art (catalog),
curator Krzysztof Stanislawski, Kaunas, Lithuania, menoparkas.lt/kaunasinart/contexts/kia-en.html
October 2008 REDline’08_Bordering on Us - International Meeting of Contemporary Art Community, Identity and Representation, IDEIAS EMERGENTES, Rua Santa Catarina, 777, Porto, Portugal (catalog) redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/
September 2008 Balkan Art Week “What Is White?”, Ada Street Gallery, London, England, curators: Jenny Lee and Piera Ravnikar, (catalog) terminal00.org/news/ (TRAVEL GRANT by Municipality of Varna, Culture Department)
June 2008 World One Minutes exhibition, Today Art Museum, (catalog), Beijing, China theoneminutes.org/public/index.php?thissection_id=1
March 2007 International festival for visual arts, ICC fest - 2007, Sapporo, Japan;