Biography
Neno Belchev lives between Brussels, BE and Varna, BG. He works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of drawing; painting, installation, sculpture, new media and independent curator. Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and international exhibitions. He has made one full-length experimental movie (2016), four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in Italy, Malaysia, India, Romania, the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as residency-grants in España, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France, Portugal and Bulgaria. Among his most important international participations are: EAT: International exhibition, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA); XXVIIth CEC ARTSLINK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in KALA Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, USA / 2014); IN-SONORA VIII: at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte REINA SOFIA (Madrid, SPAIN; 2014); EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall (Hong Kong, HONG KONG / 2013); Solo exhibition MAYATNIK (PENDULUM) at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA / 2011); SANCTIONED ARRAY – international video exhibition at White Box Gallery (New York, USA / 2010); "COMMERCIAL" ART VIDEO – international video exhibition at Apexart (New York, USA / 2010); WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BODY? Solo exhibition during the International Art Residency 2009 at OCAT, He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, CHINA / 2009); Wichita Falls Museum (Texas, USA / 2009); DEPO Tutun Deposi (Istanbul, TURKEY / 2009); Today Art Museum (Beijing, CHINA / 2008); Moerenuma Koen Hidamari Museum (Sapporo, JAPAN / 2007) and many others. His works are possession of the He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMCA – Sofia Museum for Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria), ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA); Varna City Gallery (Varna, Bulgaria), private collections in USA, the Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and more.
Neno Belchev is one of the founders of the Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
Archive records · BUNA vol. 4 / 2026
AFRO-GORGONA, 2026
Curators- Gallery / Collective
- Herbarium Collection
- Curator / Team
- curator
The Herbarium project focuses on exploring the creative process of making art, isolated from the contexts of its presentation as an ecosystem independent of external circumstances. Our partnership with Bulgaria’s largest platform for contemporary visual art, Forum ‘Buna’, challenges the concept of the Herbarium by offering the opportunity to observe how the collection’s holdings interact with various fields of art presentation. As part of Buna, we are presenting a new box by an artist who works independently, without interaction with the festival’s curatorial team. In the fourth edition of Buna, we present Neno Belchev’s herbarium box. The project, provisionally titled *The Head of Personal Gorgona Medusa*, focuses on the artist’s interest – dating back to his childhood – in ancient myths based on ancient Greek and ancient Indian epics. In recent years, whilst working on a project that ‘delves into’ the gesture of the protruding tongue, Neno has rediscovered these myths, examining them through a new ‘lens’ and drawing parallels between them.