Filip Velkovski, (1988) is a visual artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.
His artist research draws upon mental images, dreams and marginal mythologies. He use the medium of painting, installation and digital illustration in order to produce fictional scenarios and subversive spaces. Velkovski's works are composed of thick layers of colors and variety of materials, through which he emphasize the material and metaphysical aspects of the medium itself and its relation to the society.
Filip's work recently has been selected for XII Biennial of Young Artists at MoCA, Skopje, N. Macedonia (2018); participated in workshop exhibition in "Neu Neu Gallerie" - experimental gallery space as part of Documenta XIV in Kassel, Germany (2017); and same year he had his first solo exhibition "Liminal Figures" in MKC Gallery, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Since 2012 Velkovski has been affiliated with art collective КУЛА (Tower), a platform for inter-crossing artistic tendencies and inventive initiatives of the cultural agenda of the city of Skopje.
Alongside his art practice, Filip work as a curator for a multimedia art festival “It’s easier to breathe underground” in Skopje, N. Macedonia. Together with a group of artists, he initiated the festival in 2013, and have been organizing it on an annual basis ever since. Taking place in an underground garage, the aim of the festival is to occupy public space and transform it into a gallery and performance platform. In Velkovski's role as the festival’s fine art exhibition curator, he has experimented with exhibiting fine art in the unorthodox settings, looking at how the work’s context changes within the site-specific location of the industrial environment of the garage.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 The Haystacks of Time @ Gallery Pioneri, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2020 The Lumens @ Cultural Centre 750, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Idioms @ Cultural Centre Yadro, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2017 Liminal Figures @ Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Collaborative Exhibitions:
2023 Nick of Time @ Project Rooms, Glasgow, UK (with Lorraine Hamilton).
2021 Iconography of the Ritual: Swimming in the Sticky Lake @ Youth Cultural Centre Gallery, Skopje, N. Macedonia (with Ivana Mirchevska and Elena Chemerska).
Symbiom @ Social Garden “Bostanie”, Skopje, N. Macedonia (with Zorica Zafirovska, Ana Ivanovska, Andrijana Andreeva, and the collective “The Green Ark”).
2020 Scene without Scene – Site specific installation @ Kalishta abandoned church, Struga, N. Macedonia (with Dorotej Neshovski and Goran Ristovski).
2019 Dream-Out – Site specific installation @ abandoned Cinema Coffee, Struga, N. Macedonia (with Sali Ertung, Viktorija Poposka, Milko Nestoroski and Goran Ristovski).
Group Exhibitions
2024 Crowd @ Gallery Kotur, Skopje N. Macedonia.
2023 The Time is Now (biennial) @ National gallery – Mala Stanica, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
20 Years of Art Point Gumno @ The Officer House, Bitola, N. Macedonia.
2022 Strewn Taboos @ Garage (GSA), Glasgow, UK.
The Living Room @ the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK.
Rising Stars (Royal Society of British Artists) @ Royal Over – Seas League, London, UK.
2021 Portals (Cre-Art) @ Cultural Informative Center, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Art of Boredom @ EU residency (Hosted by Euro - Ambassador David Geer), Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2020 White River @ Art - Point Gumno, Sloeshtica, N. Macedonia. mARkeT @ Green market (public space), Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2018 Restart @ Youth Cultural Centre Gallery, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
12TH Youth Biennial: Would it be Late if Time Stopped @ Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2017 Neu Neu Gallerie (public engagement workshop) @ Aschrott Park, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany.
It’s easier to breathe underground 3 (public space) @ Plochnik Garages, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2016 Indoctrination @ Youth Cultural Centre Gallery, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2015 Land Art Interventions @ Cultural Centre Kula, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Student Plenum Occupation @ University St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2014 I.K.N.A.V. @ Cultural Centre Kula, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Pixels @ Cultural Centre Kula, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
Paratisima @ Youth Cultural Centre Gallery, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
It’s easier to breathe underground 2 (public space) @ Plochnik Garages, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2013 It’s easier to breathe underground 1 (public space) @ Plochnik Garages, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2011 Transform (International Student Exhibition) @ National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.
K.N.N.T. @ Gallery 7, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
2010 Bake it @ Bake House Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Nuovo Studio Annual Exhibition @ Cultural Informative Centre, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
