Hangzhou Triennial Of Fiber Art

Assadour Markarov is an artist and curator, associate professor at National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, Head of Textile Department, has been lecturing around the world, in Japan, UK, Ireland, Finland, currently is a visiting research professor in China Academy of Art at the “Varbanov” Institute of Tapestry and Studio for Space and Fiber Art, Sculpture Department in Hangzhou, China.

Markarov was trained as an artist in China, make his degree in traditional Chinese calligraphy and later in the field of contemporary textiles, researching in UK and Japan.

As an artist he works in different fields of visual art as painting, printmaking, works with hand made paper, calligraphy, sculptures and installations in space. His works have been exhibited in 15th Lausanne Biennial for contemporary textile art in Switzerland, 7th International Cairo Biennial of Contemporary Art, 10th International Lodz Triennial of Tapestry in Poland, "Fascinatie Texstyle 2" in the Museum Van Bommel-van Dam, Venlo in Holland, “Estampa” Madrid, Second Beijing Biennial for Contemporary Art, “August in art”, Festival of Contemporary art, Varna, Bulgaria and other major group exhibitions in Bulgaria.

Curatorial projects:

Curator (sole) Invited China’是 selector of 8th International Tapestry Triennial, Lodz, Poland, 1995. It curates the Bulgarian artists’ participation in “ESTAMPA 2000” and 2001, and Second Beijing Biennial for Contemporary Art.

Co – curates tour exhibitions “Wind from east” for Casa de Vacas, Madrid and Santillana del Mar, Spain in 2001 and the “Contemporary textile art” an exhibition with Japanese and Bulgarian artists in the National Art Gallery in Bulgaria with Keiko Kawashima in 2002.