ABOUT THE ARTIST

Igor Josifov is a visual and performance artist whose practice explores the body, vulnerability, memory, and transformation through performance, fire, glass, installation, and sculpture.

For more than two decades, his work has examined the body as both a physical presence and a site of transformation. Fire has remained a recurring material and conceptual force throughout his practice, moving from direct encounters with the performing body toward glass, burned surfaces, porcelain, and materials transformed through heat.

His work has been presented internationally at museums, institutions, biennials, and cultural spaces across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia.

Josifov is currently in residence at Taoxichuan Art Center in Jingdezhen, China, developing Material Transmutation: Body of Fire and After the Break, a new body of work exploring rupture, material memory, and transformation through porcelain, glass, and fire.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & RESIDENCIES

Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezhen, China — Artist Residency (2026) • 47th Skopsko Leto, Historical Museum Suli An, Skopje (2026) • Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris — Artist Residency & Body of Fire (2025) • European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice (2019) • VIII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Uzbekistan (2018) • Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens (2014) • Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings — Artist Residency & Exhibition (2014) • Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (2012) • Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah (2011) • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2010) • Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris (2010) • Art Institute of Chicago (2009)