code flow projects and works
Curatorial Projects
1 May at Kunsthof Zürich: First event of Opportunities for Outdoor Play? Playgrounds – New Spaces of Liberty (The Question of Form)
2013-05-01: With three reading-performances, a lecture-performance and a screening by:
Benjamin Egger, Harun Farocki, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (with Sam Porrit), Rudi Maier, Riikka Tauriainen
Curated by Dimitrina Sevova
Announcement with curatorial text available as PDF (644 KB).
Exhibition: Creative Assemblages – When aesthetics meet the economy or what do they have in Common?
2013-02-05 - 2013-04-05: International group exhibition at Siemens Sanat, İstanbul, curated by Dimitrina Sevova, co-curated by Mürteza Fidan and Melih T. Görgün.
With the participation of Benjamin Egger, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Ferhat Özgür, Elodie Pong, Roee Rosen, Riikka Tauriainen, Borjana Ventzislavova. Performances by Riikka Tauriainen, and Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin.
Opening: Tuesday, 2013-02-05, 19h00.
Performances: Wednesday, 2013-02-06, starting 18h30.
Curatorial text available as PDF (187KB).
Media-Scape Zagreb 2012 (Biennal for Time Based Art): 
Tactical Topics - Topical Tactics
2012-09-30 - 2012-10-19: Exhibition at the HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists), Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika, Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb, with a series of performances and lectures, co-curated by Ingeborg Fülepp, Sibylle Hoessler, Iva Kovač, Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova in Zagreb, Croatia.
With Pablo Alonso and Ignacio Uriarte from Spain, Barbara Caveng from Switzerland, Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn from France, Ana Elizabet, Igor Eškinja and Duje Jurić from Croatia, Andreas .muk. Haider and Mia Zabelka from Austria, Paul Magee from the UK, Martina Menegon and Stefano D’Alessio from Italy, Rivka Rinn from Israel and Germany, Heiko Daxl, Sibylle Hoessler, Peter Kees, Ilse Ruppert, Michael Saup from Germany, Riikka Tauriainen from Finland and Switzerland, Branka Uzur from Australia and Croatia.
Opening: Saturday, 2012-09-29, 20h00.
Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale): 
Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted Information
2012-08-01 - 2012-09-12: The main exhibition of the Sinopale 4, with a series of performances and events, co-curated by Aslı Çetinkaya, Elke Falat, Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova in Sinop, Turkey (with additional curatorial contributions by Beral Madra, Sean Kelly and Janet Kaplan).
With Alpin Arda Bağcık, Francesco Bertele, Brigitta Bödenauer, Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Quynh Dong, Monika Drożyńska, Köken Ergun, Harun Farocki, Karen Geyer, Shilpa Ghupta, Andreas (muk) Haider, Minna Hint, Berglind Hlynsdottir, Ashley Hunt, İnsel İnal, Volkan Kaplan & A. Erdem Şentürk, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Chris Oakly, Bernd Oppl, Monika Rechsteiner, Reinigungsgesellschaft, David Rych, Sümer Sayın, Liddy Scheffknecht, Lina Selander, Özlem Sulak, Riikka Tauriainen, Hande Varsat, Stefanie Wuschitz, Associazione E (Francesco Ragazzi & Francesco Urbano).
Opening: Friday, 2012-08-24, 19h00. Artistic production process, including public performances, lectures and screenings, ongoing since 1 August.
Exhibition: 
In Growing up Amid the Historical Mysteries of Proximity: Pros & Cons of Being Neighbours
2012-06-16 - 2012-07-21: A group exhibition with live events co-curated with Işın Önol at ITS-Z1, Belgrade. With Ana Hoffner, Apartment Project (participants of the Reciprocal Visit and Re-Locate Projects), Assaf Gruber, Dragan Ilić, Ha za vu zu (Güneş Terkol, Güçlü Öztekin, Özgür Erkök), Petra Elena Koehle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Lia Lapithi, Bernd Oppl, Riikka Tauriainen.
Opening: Saturday, 2012-06-16, 16h00.
Public Theoretical Symposium: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms
2012-01-19 - 2012-01-20: A two-day theoretical symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name to contextualize the exhibition and the artists' works and raise a public critical discussion among scholars, the artists and a broad audience. With lectures by Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, The Centre of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Eva Egermann, Maren Grimm, Esther Kempf, Lucie Kolb, Elke Krasny, Boyan Manchev, Işın Önol, Bernd Oppl, Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Dorothee Richter, Nicola Ruffo, Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter, Dimitrina Sevova. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. Organized by Kunsthalle Exnergasse at Museum Halls, WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien.
Exhibition: Reality Manifestos - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / A study of détournement as Art Forms
2012-01-19 - 2012-03-03: A group exhibition with Marc Bauer, Sabina Baumann, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Bogna Burska, Brice Dellsperger, Konstantinos Manolakis, Michele O’Marah, Cora Piantoni, Elodie Pong, “Schmale, Scheirl, Knebl Werke” (Toni Schmale, Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl), Rebecca Ann Tess. Curated by Dimitrina Sevova. At Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Währinger Straße 59, 2nd Staircase, 1st Floor, 1090 Wien.
Opening: Wednesday, 2012-01-18, 19h00, with a performance by The Centre of Attention, and a sound performance and DJ set by DJ Sweatproducer (Anne Käthi Wehrli).
Finissage: Saturday, 2012-03-03, 19h00, with a public interview by Hans Scheirl.
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Invisible City - Technologies of the Body
2012-01-08 - 2012-02-05: An exhibition project as a result of a long-term research and collaboration between the artists Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Gisèle Schindler, Riikka Tauriainen, and the curators Işın Önol and Dimitrina Sevova. At Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich, Dienerstrasse 70, 8004 Zürich.
Opening: Sunday, 2012-01-07, 19h00, with a reading of Antonin Artaud and Italo Calvino.
One Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling)
2010-10-01 - 2010-11-21: A group thematic show in two chapters curated by Dimitrina Sevova, which takes a look at various forms of reflection on aesthetic possibilities and political implications of individual stories of ordinary people in relation to society at large. At White Space | Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Militärstrasse 76 (backyard, entrance via Kanonengasse), 8004 Zürich.
Opening of First Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-01, 19h00.
Opening of Second Chapter: Friday, 2010-10-29, 19h00.
2010-04-09 - 2010-04-25: A group show investigating the ethical-aesthetic-political aspects of human-animal relations, curated by Dimitrina Sevova at Perla-Mode, in conjunction with a mirror exhibition at Dienstgebäude, Ich Mensch! (Du Tier), curated by Isabel Reiss and Cathérine Hug, and a common series of special events.
Opening: Friday, 2010-04-09, 19h00.
Queerscapes – The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer of the Oasis on the Horizon
2009-06-05 - 2009-06-07: The exhibition and art event of the Offpride – the alternative queer festival, Zurich, organized by Dimitrina Sevova, will take place at Cabaret Voltaire and Perla Mode on Fri / Sat / Sun, 5 / 6 / 7 June.
A three-day group show with screenings, lectures, performances, kindly hosted by Cabaret Voltaire/Dadahaus (Spiegelgasse 1) and Perla Mode (Langstrasse 84 /Brauerstrasse 37). Do-it-yourself from archives to everyday life art practices, providing a dense web of insights, approaches, positions, views, perspectives. And a movie program, live performances, talks, discussions, streamings.
Idea and co-ordination: Dimitrina Sevova, with the active support and inspiration of Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli and Lucie Kolb and the entire offpride queer festival organizing working group and queer scene
Documents in English: Invitation card, program, statement, portfolio
Dokumente auf Deutsch: Einladungskarte, Programm, Statement, Portfolio
Kunsthalle Winterthur: "Aggression"
2007-10-20 - 2007-12-04: Dimitrina Sevova is co-curating with Oliver Kielmayer the international group show "Aggression" at Kunsthalle Winterthur.
Dimitrina Sevova is also curating an exclusive program of lectures, screenings and discussions around the topic of "Aggression".
See also the Aggression newspaper (PDF, 449 KB).
"Fake", aka "Critique of Pure Image
- Between Fake and Quotation"
2005-10-07: Opening of the project "Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation" at the Center of Contemporary Art "Ancient Baths", Plovdiv. International exhibition (until 2005-11-08), three-day theoretical symposium with strong international participation (2005-10-08 till 2005-10-10).
Video Works
Unbeschreiblich weiblich
2007
75 min
Dimitrina Sevova's project "Unbeschreiblich weiblich" was commissioned for and premiered in the context of an installation with photographs from the artist's personal archive, objects and text, in the "Lost & Found" show at Shedhalle, Zürich, curated by Alice Cantaluppi, Isabel Reiss, Anna Voswinckel. "Unbeschreiblich weiblich" is dedicated to the reflection on how women and other characters in the alternative local scene in Sofia, Bulgaria, deal with pop culture.
luncheon on the grass – postproduction by code flow
Premiered in August 2006 at the second edition of Digitaler Dachstock, the digital and media art attic at Haus für Kunst Uri in Altdorf in central Switzerland, curated by Martina Weber.
Photographic Works
All Power Is Theater! Female Masculinity
Dimitrina Sevova's series of three photographic self-portraits as a drag king, "All Power Is Theater! Female Masculinity", produced initially for the All About Him Campaign (A-A-H!), and short-listed to participate in the exhibition 2008-06-09 - 2008-06-30 in front of the Ivan Vazov Theater in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ten of the works in the exhibition will then be selected to be realized as billboards in the streets of Sofia later in the year.
Books and Publications
Communication Front Book, Crossing Points East-West
Lectures, presentations, screenings
2012-08-23, 16h45: With excerpts from films by Maya Deren, Eleonor Antin, Yvonne Rainer and Kara Walker.
In the context of Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale), co-curated by Işın Önol, Aslı Çetinkaya, Elke Falat and Dimitrina Sevova in Sinop, Turkey under the title Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted Information (with additional curatorial contributions by Beral Madra, Sean Kelly and Janet Kaplan).
Screening: 
Production and Subversion of Subjectivity: Questions of Authenticity, Authority and Multiplicity
2012-08-19, 21h30: With films by Elodie Pong, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Rebecca Ann Tess, Ana Hoffner, Brice Dellsperger.
In the context of Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale), co-curated by Işın Önol, Aslı Çetinkaya, Elke Falat and Dimitrina Sevova in Sinop, Turkey under the title Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted Information (with additional curatorial contributions by Beral Madra, Sean Kelly and Janet Kaplan).
Lessons from dogs – a walk through the city with Jacques Tati
2011-10-11, 20h00: Each One, Teach One / Theory Tuesdays 2-Year Anniversary Special / Film Night organized by Philip Matesic, selected and presented by Dimitrina Sevova. At Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zurich.
With an introductory presentation, and excerpts from different Tati films, and the documentary The Magnificent Tati by Michael House (2009).
Find here the introductory text by Dimitrina Sevova (PDF, 100 KB).
2011-02-08, 20h00: Theory Tuesday organized by Philip Matesic, selected and presented by Dimitrina Sevova. At Corner College (Perla-Mode), Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zürich.
With an introductory presentation, and excerpts from different Soviet Avant-Garde films, and specifically Dziga Vertov - Chelovek S Kinoapparatom AKA Man With A Movie Camera [Alloy Orchestra Score] (1929).
art + argument at Claudia Groeflin Galerie
2010-12-09, 19h30: at Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Dienerstrasse 12, 8004 Zurich
art + argument organized by Aoife Rosenmeyer:
(When it comes to art,) we are still painting on the walls of caves.
With Giovanni Carmine, Fabian Chiquet, Morgan Falconer and Dimitrina Sevova
2010-12-07, 20h00: at Corner College (Perla-Mode), Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zürich
Theory Tuesday organized by Philip Matesic, selected and presented by Dimitrina Sevova
With an introductory presentation, excerpts from different Surrealist films, and a program of short films.
See also our chronology