Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva (born 1971, Kavadarci , North Macedonia) is a Macedonian- born artist [1] based in Brighton, UK. She has exhibited extensively and realised numerous commissions nationally and internationally, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm. Hadzi-Vasileva was selected by the Ministry of Culture to represent Macedonia at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with her work Silentio Pathologia, with Ana Frangovska, curator at the National Gallery of Macedonia. [2] Hadzi-Vasileva was commissioned by the Vatican for the Pavilion of the Holy See, at the 56th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale in 2015, with her work Haruspex. Hadzi-Vasileva attended the Royal College of Art, London and the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland. [1]

Work

Hadzi-Vasileva is a site specific installation artist who works across the varied media of sculpture, installation, video and sound, photography, and architectural interventions. This has included Ambush (2000), which was a temporary outdoor architectural intervention, where engineered tunnels were used to expose the roots of living trees with glazed roof areas allowing the visitors to see the world from below the ground, a project co-ordinated by Southern Arts, and hosted by ArtSway and the Forestry Commission. Central to Hadzi-Vasileva's practice is a response to the particularities of place: its history, locale, environment and communities. She often uses materials that already have an existing link or history to the specific environment, which often results in new and unusual methods of working. Past works have included the use of organic materials, foodstuffs (butter, fish skins, chicken skins, [3] internal animal organs such as: caul fat, lamb intestines, caws rectums; rice, and watercress) and precious metals (gold, silver, copper).


Awards

Hadzi-Vasileva has been the recipient of many awards including in 2017 Grand Prix, Osten Biennale for Awarded Authors in Macedonia, and in 2016 Golden Osten Award, at the Osten Biennial of Drawing in Macedonia. She won the 2013 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Awards, to develop a new commission for mima , Middlesbrough and Engage, London. In 2010 she received an award of recognition for special achievements in the field of Fine Art for the development of the town of Kavadarci by the national Assembly of Kavadarci, Macedonia. In 2009 she won the STEP Beyond Mobility Fund by the European Cultural Foundation. She was also selected to represent Macedonia at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She was commissioned by the Vatican for the Pavilion of the Holy See, at the 56th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale in 2015. Other awards including from Wellcome Trust in 2014-2015, The Arts Council England in 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021. She was recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2002, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize (2001), and Spitalfields Sculpture Prize (2010).

Residencies and commissions

Hadzi-Vasileva was Artist in Residency at Luxelake A4 Art Museum, International Programme, Chengdu, China. She was the first Artist in Restaurant at the Michelin- starred restaurant, Pied a Terre, London (2011). Other Artist in Residence awards have included Sydney Nolan Trust, Presteigne, Wales (2016), mima , Middlesbrough (2013), Gloucester Cathedral (2008–2009), L'H du Siege, Valenciennes (2007-2008), The Irish Museum of Modern Art (2005), The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship (2001) and ArtSway (1999–2000).

She was commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council to save and preserve one of the iconic Preston Park Twins, The Gilded Elm, as a new sculptural celebration of these ancient elms, in Preston Park, Brighton. She was commissioned by University of Nottingham to create a permanent site-specific commission Eurydice Prevails (2019); by Trails and Tales, in Scotland with Kilmardinny Tree (2017); at Nymans National Trust Garden with Rapture (2016). Site specific Commission for End of Life, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton with Fragility (2015); Bristol City Council to develop permanent work, Transpire (2010) for St. Bede's Catholic College in Bristol; Road to Nowhere (2002), a temporary work commissioned by The Samling Foundation for Kielder Forest, Northumberland. Other public art commissions have included HA[SOFT]RD (2014) commission now permanently at mima collection, Middlesbrough; The Colour of Red (2013), Natural Bennachie Project, funded by Creative Scotland as part of the Year of Natural Scotland 2013, Aberdeenshire; Resuscitare (2013) ArtSOUTH, Mottisfont Abbey; Visual Industries (2012) Billboards' for Ars Akta in Skopje; Raison d'être (2010–2013), a permanent commission for Southgate Shopping Centre, in Bath; ArtChitecture (2009) site- specific project in the New Forest, in collaboration with Snug Architects Ltd and TJ Thickett & Associates. Initiated by Solent Centre for Architecture and Design in partnership with ArtSway; We Are Shadows (2008) at Unit2, London; Weather Cycle (2006) was a winning Coastal Defence Commission to work closely with engineers, architects and the local community, through Suffolk County Council in Felixstowe; Life Cycle (2004) at Knowle West Health Part, Bristol; Re|Sort (2002) at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton; and Ambush (2000) at Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, the New Forest.

Exhibitions


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 10 Years of The Body, Zari Gallery, London, England.

2019 Flavorings, Luxelakes a4 Art Museums, Chengdu, China.

2018 Internal Beauty, Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London, England.

2017 Angels and Animal Delights, St John's Waterloo, London, England.

An Intimate Gaze, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, England.

2016 Making Beauty, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, England, supported by Arts Council England

(ACE).

Inherent Beauty III, Osten Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia.

2013 Silentio Pathologia, Representing the FYR Macedonia, 55 th International Art Exhibition, La

Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Supported by ACE and Ministry of Culture, Macedonia.

2012 Small Objects, Makers Cabinets, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, England.

2011 The Wish of the Witness, Pied a Terre, Two Michelin star restaurant London, England.

Inherent Beauty 2, Museum-Gallery Kavadarci, Macedonia.

2010 Inherent Beauty, Public Room, Skopje, Macedonia. Supported by Ministry of Culture,

Macedonia

2009 Motectum, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England.


Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2022 Vitae, Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, Thirsk, England.

An exhibition of small things with big ideas, White Conduit Projects, London, England.

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.

2021 The Touch, Future Ecologies, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia.

DI CARTA / PAPERMADE 5Th edition, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy.

2020 SI MUOVE, Diplomatic Art, Timisoara, Romania.

Cure 3, Bonhams, London, England.

25 Years, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, England.

Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England.

The 20th Hands Across the Pacific Art Exhibition, Chengdu, China.

2018 Cure 3, Bonhams, London, England.

Agency, Eagle Gallery, London, England.

2017 Osten Biennale, Gevgelija, Macedonia

International Residency Prize, Sidney Nolan Trust, The Gallery, Presteigne, England

Reoccurring Undulation VI, Coastal Currents, Shiwreck Museum, Hastings, England

A Scientific Encounter, Musée d'Anatomie de Montpellier in Montpellier, France.

2016 Osten Biennial of Drawing, Osten Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia.

Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.

Transfiguring, Imago Mundi – Macedonia collection, Italy.

2015 Haruspex, Representing Vatican City at Pavilion of the Holy See, 56 th International Art

Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Supported by a grant from Vatican City.

A Foreign Encounter, Galerie FOE 156, München, Germany.

2014 In the shadow of the breast, Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.

2013 Reflection: white-black or not, CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli, Italy.

2012 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.

Skin and Texture, part of Art Lending Library, Market Gallery, Glasgow International Festival

of Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland.

References

    1. AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 23 December 2021.

    2. Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 23 December 2021.

    3. "Bristol butcher chicken skins for art". 29 August 2010. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2021.

    4. Medical marvels: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's gracefully gruesome sculptures take Nottingham

    Reviews : Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva


    IMMA

    Daily Express, "£30,000 for dead wood", Monday 16 August 2004

    Evening Post, "We're rooting for Elpida", Tuesday 17 August 2004, p7

    Dnevnik, by Vesna I. Ilievska, January 2013

    Arts Council England, by South East, December 2012

    The Independent, by Alice Jones, September 2011

    The Wall Street Journal, by Bruce Palling, September 2011

    Arts Council England, by South West, October 2009

    AnOther, by Ananda Pellerin and Neil Wissink, October 2011

    New Scientist, by Kat Austen, September 2011

    Mutual Art, by Lauren Meir, October 2011

    The Guardian, by Hazel Davis, November 2009

    Utrinski Vesnik, by Katerina Bogoeva, November 2011

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