Hristo Yordanov is an artist and designer based in London, drawing from a background in traditional fine arts, digital arts, design and computing. His practice centres on interactive installations, generative art and net-based projects that explore abstraction as a transformative process – beginning with something tangible and removing all traces of the real.
Exhibited internationally across the UK, Bulgaria and Croatia, his work has been supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and shown at institutions including Goldsmiths University London, Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, Fubar Expo Croatia, ATA Centre for Contemporary Art Sofia, Art Today Association Plovdiv and XXL Gallery Sofia.
Co-founder of X-Lab / Cosmopolit, an underground techno-art collective active across Bulgaria throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Currently working as a designer in London while maintaining an active artistic practice.
Exhibitions & Engagements
- 2023 – Great Sounds Seek Silence, St. James’ Hatcham Church, London
- 2022 – 8th Fubar Expo, Institut français de Croatie, Zagreb
- 2022 – Choreo Archive, Skewed Gallery, London EC1M
- 2022 – At The Edge of Safe House, Safehouse 1 & 2, Peckham, London
- 2022 – Ephemerence, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
- 2022 – HuXi Respiration, The Great Hall, Goldsmiths, London
- 2013 – Cityscape, Art Centre Gallery Iva, Shumen
- 2005 – Labyrinth, Centre for Contemporary Art, Banya Starinna, Plovdiv
- 2004 – Beyond the River, City Art Gallery, Iliya Beshkov, Pleven
- 2003 – Human Waste for Recycling, Week of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
- 2002 – Christo & Angels, XXL Gallery, Sofia
- 2002 – Schizoid Architecture, ATA Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia
- 2001 – Jouk, 1st place Computer Animation, International Art Forum, Sofia
- 1999-2005 – Co-founder and visual artist, X-Lab / X-Kernel / Cosmopolit, Bulgaria
Press
- The Invisible Measure: How Digital Systems Shape Art and Power – published in Stories On A Table, Medium.com
- Great Sounds Seek Silence – London
- Cityscape Exhibition – Shumen
- Labyrinth – Art Installation, Plovdiv
- Schizoid Architecture – net.art VR project
- Level Zero – Digital Interactive Art
- Jouk – 1st place Computer Animation
Awards & Grants
- 2005 – Pro Helvetia / Swiss Arts Council Grant – Labyrinth installation, Plovdiv
- 2001 – 1st place, Computer Animation & Digital Video – 13th International Art Forum Computer Space, Sofia
Early Life & Recognition
Born in Bulgaria, Hristo (Христо) showed an early aptitude for visual art, earning special prizes at international children’s exhibitions across Hungary, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Bulgaria and the Soviet Union (now Russia). This early international exposure to creative competition laid the foundation for a practice that has always moved across borders and disciplines.
Between 1999 and 2005, he co-founded and organised Cosmopolit — a series of underground techno-art events held across Bulgaria — working as a visual artist, designer and VJ under the aliases X-Kernel, X-Lab and Chris Yordanoff at festivals and clubs including Metropolis, Smirnoff Experience, Solar, Club Indigo and Decadence. During this period, he performed alongside international artists including Carl Cox, Sven Väth, Armand van Helden, Kevin Saunderson, Astral Projection, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Chris Liebing, Cari Lekebusch, Atmos, Marco Zaffarano, Marcus Carp and Caetano Parisio, and Bulgarian artists including Steven, Radi, Balthazar, Yasen Petrov, Alex Metchev and Paul, among others.
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