Neda Firfova's work operates on the blurred borders between art and design. Her practice questions the printed medium as a symbol of established truth in the digital age, and the modernist invention of the grid as a basic tool for the democratic distribution of printed information. Her work is often articulated in printed media but it just as often extends itself into conceptual acts, ready-mades, or performative events. Suggesting more open approaches towards information distributions, her work frequently stresses reverse editiorial processes, such that it invites—and integrates—interventions by collaborators, and the audience. These experiments contribute to a mode of inquiry that reframes and repurposes the way graphic designers claim authority by delivering work exclusively on paper and by means of multiplication.
Education
Design Researcher
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands, 04.2009 - 03.2011
MFA Graphic Design
TAMA Art University, Class Typography, Tokyo, Japan, 2007 - 2009
Research Student, Graphic Design Department
TAMA Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 09.2006 - 04.2007
BFA Fine Art Printing and Graphic Design
Academy of Fine Arts
University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje, Macedonia, 2000 - 2005
School of Architecture
University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje, Macedonia, 1999 – 2000
Selected Exhibitions
255 804km2 - Young Art from the Former Yugoslavia
group exhibition
BROT Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria.
27th May – 23rd June, 2011.
On Site Lab
group exhibition
Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.
20 - 30th November, 2010.
Tokyo Void
group exhibition
Sumida Park Riverside Gallery, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.
2 - 18th November, 2010.
Inflation of Radical Phrases as opposed to a Lack of Radical Movement
poster project
JVE Gallery Space & Lumiere Cinema, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
28th and 29th June, 2010.
255 804km2 - Young Art from the Former Yugoslavia
group exhibition
Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
18th July – 4th September, 2010.
Zensko Pismo
group exhibition
Remont, Belgrade, Serbia.
07 – 17th June, 2010.
Scratch and White Wine
performative interactive event and book launch.
LUDUS concept store, Skopje, Macedonia.
21st April, 2010.
Scratch and Wine
performative interactive event and book launch.
VACANT, Tokyo, Japan.
18th December, 2009.
Extra Artisan Trade Workshop Import Complete Export Programme
solo exhibition
VACANT, Tokyo, Japan.
18 – 30th December 2009.
Sorry I couldn’t be there
solo exhibition
Michimori Shoten, Tottori, Japan.
November 2009.
Something to do with boredom
solo exhibition
JVE gallery space, Maastricht, Netherlands.
September 2009.
Typeless, Meaningful.
solo exhibition
Store, Tokyo, Japan.
February 2009.
Tama Art University Graphic Design Master Class
group exhibition.
Ganka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
March 2009
DENES
Nominee for Young Visual Artist Award of the Year
Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia.
May, 2008
Simple words with Kana Simplified
solo exhibition and presentation
press to exit project space, Skopje.
January, 2007
Logocities
conference and group exhibition
Montreal, Canada.
May, 2007
Citism group exhibition
Press to exit project space, Skopje. February, 2006
Kontekst gallery, Belgrade. March, 2006
Mobile Studios, Sofija. May, 2006
Exhibiting with EMI Prototypes (Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska),
Multiplications Exhibition
Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia.
July, 2004
Work
No Wonder Studio, designer and partner, 2010
Works independently as an artist and a graphic designer from 2006.
Tama Art University Graphic Design Department, Spring 2008
Teaching assistant
Press to exit project space Skopje, 2004 - 2008
Graphic designer and collaborator
Main Responsibilities: Designing printed matter for exhibitions and projects organized by the project space. Involvement in the design program of the project space.
Republika, Skopje, 2004 - 2006
Junior art director and creative conceptualist
Clients: Diners, Sony, Nova Intertnational Schools, EMS, Macedonian Post, Inaqva
DDB, Skopje, 2002 - 2004
Junior creative, graphic designer
Clients: Skoda, McDonalds, Mobimak, Komercialna Banka