My work deals with a broad range of subjects and patterns – from profound personal experiences of the everyday, through conceptual staging and abstract results from experimenting with the photographic process. The focal point is not determined, the narrative is not scripted. The viewers are encouraged to enter the works trough their own eyes and their own life.
Blurring the lines between photographer/editor/collector, my work bounces between the banal and peculiar as well as the personal and public with focus on a tangible mystery.
Although the focus is clearly on the intricacy of the different practices, my works steer clear of obsessing on the minute, the detailed with a vaguely melancholic monumentalism.
Maximilian Pramatarov
Born 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria
lives and works in Vienna, AT and Sofia, BG
EDUCATION
2002
MA in Theology, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
2012
MA in Photograpy, University for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
confrontations down the Danube – Galerie Heike Curtze Wien, AT
2019
Intentional Errors – Heerz Tooya Galery, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2015
giselle – Ve.SCH, Vienna
2014
BOW / LOST – Startgalerie MUSA, Wien
2013
Lost Tiger and ‘improved’ works, 0gms gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
It’s not the viewpoint, it’s the view, 0gms drawer, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012
Three sharks (in love), edition photo, Vienna, Austria
2010
Special guests, Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria
2008
Post-tensions, C17 – Vienna, Austria
EXHIBITIONS PARTICIPATIONS
2018
connected by, Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna, AT
2017
A Sexist Exhibition ONE NIGHT STAND Gallery, Sofia, BG
CAPRI BY NIGHT – Offenbachplatz Schauspiel, Köln, DE
TALISMAN book presentation – edition Furor im Asia Paradies, Wien,AT
Sofia Art book Fair (workshop and book presentation), Sofia BG
2016
Road Registers – xhibit – Academy of Fine Arts – Vienna
Beton – Kunsthalle Wien
2015
Map Of The New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2014
Gott ist nicht genug, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, Austria
13 13 13, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
2013
Bulgarian Artists in Vienna. Contemporary Practices at the
Beginning of the 21st Century, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Fashion!!! what a coincidence!, Foto K, Vienna, Austria
Verkligheten show, Coordinates (as part of the 0gms drawer), Umeå, Sweden
2012
Magnet & Antimagnet, ica , Sofia, Bulgaria
Das Schloss von herrn Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein Haus , Vienna, Austria
Inklusion, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
BAZA award nominations, Sofia city art gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Essence 12, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Happily ever after, Foto-raum, Vienna, Austria
2011
Holzwege, Schloss Eschelberg, Austria
2010
Taten & tatzen festival, Vienna, Austria
Different Eyes, Bäkerstrasse 4 gallery, Vienna, Austria
Blue skie’d And clear, Carbon 12 gallery, Dubai, UAE
Dadada archive, Corridor gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ROMA – the road to contemporary art, Rome, Italy
Jennyfair, Vienna, Austria
Salon Vienna, Soho galerie, Vienna, Austria
2009
A piece of water – Vertikale galerie, Vienna, Austria
The essence – Expositur vordere zollamtstraße – Vienna, Austria
A gap between two houses, nha san duc studio – Hanoi, Vietnam
Review, bäkerstrasse4 gallery, Vienna, Austria
A piece of water, Küntlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Subjekt als koerper im raum, Ve:sch – Vienna, Austria
2008
Sneak preview, carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Luring into, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
The Plan B, factor44, Antwerpen, Belgium
Eikon student (p)ages, Schloss Wolkersdorf, Austria
380 nm 780 nm, platform Quelle, Vienna, Austria
DieVeranda, Vienna, Austria
2007
Eskimo cozmetics, Pistolet gallery – Sofia, Bulgaria
2006
Franz jagt urselbein – Raum mit licht – Venna, Austria
2005
Habitat, brick-5 – Vienna, Austria
2004
Rien ne va plus, Heiligenkreuzerhof – Vienna, Austria
PUBLICATIONS
Maximilian Pramatarov – confrontations up north (work in progress 2020)
Maximilian Pramatarov – working free accomplished lost TIME (2017)
Maximilian Pramatarov – Stay up late (2016)
Maximilian Pramatarov – confrontations down the e80 (2016)
Maximilian Pramatarov – confrontations down the danube (2006)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Photo-collection of the Ministry of Culture Austria
Arthotek der Stadt Wien, Museum auf Abruf
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
OTHER
2014
BMUKK Artist in residence, London, England
2011
Publication in 100 days of active resistance – curated by Vivienne Westwood
2007
fluc club t-shirt design winner (1st place)
2006
EIKON Magazine, 15 years jubilee edition cover winner (1st place, issue #56)