ELITSA BARAMOVA – BARAMÓ
Bulgaria
BARAMÓ is a pseudonym of ELITSA BARAMOVA. Born in Sofia, she spent her early childhood with her family in Cuba. This colors her presence with the colors of the “joy of life.” She took her first lessons in drawing from her father. She grew up in an environment of educated and traveling parents. Works in the field of abstract painting, video art, happening, drawing, figural painting, graphic design (book, poster, corporate identity), contemporary jewelry objects. An artist with experimental research, she is the creator of the visual language “Sediment Process” The practice of the author often involves conceptual texts with the visual part. The author’s practice includes various genres. She works in the field of painting, video art, happening, drawing, graphics, graphic design, and contemporary jewelry. Baramó works in the field of abstract painting, and in parallel returns to nature, in search of new structures. She creates figurative and expressionistic paintings. Baramó often includes conceptual texts with the visual part. After her last appearances, she was classified as a NEO-EXISTENTIAL artist by Prof. Ph.D. Kr. Delchev
EDUCATION
National Academy of Arts Sofia
MEMBERSHIP
Union of Bulgarian Artists, Painting Section
EXHIBITIONS
2021 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „Parallel Realities“/ “Passing Landscapes” projects, Sofia/ Bulgaria
2020 – Bulgarian Cultural Institute, “Passing and Remaining Landscapes” project, Budapest, Hungary
2018 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, „The Architect” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria; classified as a neo-existentialistic painter by PhD Kr. Delchev- Sofia University. (https://www.baramo.art/criticism-the-architect-project)
2017 – White house culture center; – h. Hebros – “Homo Saltans” project, Plovdiv/ Bulgaria
2013 – East-West, Municipal Gallery, retrospective exhibition, Bankya/ Bulgaria
2008 – Maxim gallery, „Monads” project (painting and happening), Sofia/ Bulgaria
2006 – Alte Feuerwache gallery „Cuba Libre – Street Sequences“ project, Göttingen/ BRD
2006 – VERDI Institut, Retrospective, Lage Hörste/ BRD
2005 – BG Culture Institute, Retrospective, Berlin-Mitte/ BRD;
2005 – Gropius museum, „Form follows fiction” project, Alfeld/ BRD
2004 – Laatzen municipality, BRD; – Goethe Institute, „Déjà-vu“ project, Göttingen/ BRD;
2004 – Kuenstlerhaus, „Anthropocentimetries” project, Göttingen/ BRD
2003 – Studio Wasserscheune, „Metamorph@sen project, painting and happening with Jazz Musician
2002 – Nikolov gallery, Retrospective, Halle-Saale/ BRD
2001 – Artamonzev gallery, „Polyphonic” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria
2000 – lokal Arzberger, Expressions – by invitation of Municipality-Vienna/ Austria
2021 – gallery Sonia Monti, Paris, France, international exhibition contemporary art
20/21 – [a]cube contemporary gallery, Abstract Art Contest (II., III. edition)
2019 – Art Fair West – Norwich/ UK; –Luxart gallery, „La Grande Bellezza” project, Rome, Italy;
2018 – Armory artweeks, Stricoff gallery – Chelsea, „The Architect” project, New York/ USA;
2017 – Art Basel, Artbox., „Nomads” project, Switzerland
2016 – Art meets History project, Grimbergen – Brussels/ BE (exhibition in the context of EU master painters)
2014 – V & V gallery, Vivaart gallery, Vienna/ Austria
2012 – Europe gallery, Sofia/ Bulgaria
2010 – Iliya Beshkov Art Gallery, V-th Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven/ Bulgaria
2009 – Foreign Art Gallery „10 years of Francophonie“, „Parallel realities” project, Sofia/ Bulgaria
2001 – Musée des Beaux Arts, “Alienation” project, Ottawa/ Canada
AWARDS
2020 award for Mural painting – RAL Indoor Murals project, CODAworx- Philadelphia/ USA
2020 painting award – Abstract contest, [a]cube contemporary, Sofia/ Bulgaria
2005 painting award – Rolf Broenstrup- Hanover/ BRD
2003 Goethe Institut grant (part of the subsidy for an event Catalog)
2003 painting award -Laatzen, Hanover/ BRD
2001 national representative on the IV. Francophone Games (competition of Ministry of Culture), Ottawa/ Canada