Anton Stoianov (Sofia, Bulgaria; b. 1978) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Mural Painting at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and continued his education in 2001 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2007 he graduated in Fine Art from the University of Arts, Berlin. In 2006 he was an exchange student at California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
He works in painting, relief, installation, object design and scenography. Experimenting with familiar and unfamiliar materials, techniques, supports and formats, he explores the stylistic and conceptual aspects of contemporary painting. In his cycle of "Icons" he uses techniques and imagery of religious Byzantine painting and counteracts them with a new iconography based on current contradictory social stereotypes. The first work in the series was created in 2005.
Stoianov has participated in numerous group exhibitions, among which: the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2020); Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, (2023); SCOPE BLN, Berlin, (2023); Cu29, Plovdiv, (2023); 40 Years of Tom of Finland Foundation, Berghain, Berlin, (2024); Doza Gallery, Sofia Art Fair (2024); National Gallery / Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art (2025), and many more. He has held solo exhibitions in FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion; Plovdiv European Capital of Culture (2019); Art Cologne (2018); Structura Gallery, Sofia (2019); EXILE, Vienna (2022); Gallery xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin (2018); espace d'art contemporain 14N 61W, Fort de France, Martinique (2021), and Doza Gallery, Sofia (2025). In addition, presentations of his work were held at fairs in Istanbul and Berlin.
Anton Stoianov's work is part of the collection Louis Vuitton, Paris.
