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, and materials transformed through heat.

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

Josifov is currently developing Material Transmutation: Body of Fire at Taoxichuan Art Center in Jingdezhen, China.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2009) • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2010) • Palazzo Mora, Italy (2019) • Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece (2014) • Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France (2010) • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia (2012) • VIII International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2021) • Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE (2011)