Rudi Ninov (b. 1992, Teteven) lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Städelschule, Frankfurt. He has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and worldwide. Awards: Linklaters LLP Prize (2020), Cultural Perspectives Foundation Scholarship (2019). His works are in collections such as Museum Voorlinden, the Netherlands, and Fondazione CRC, Italy. Rudi Ninov’s practice spans drawing, sculpture, painting, and writing, reflecting a dynamic interplay between two distinct aspects: the formal and the personal, the abstract and the figurative. His work unites bold, sculptural forms with carefully selected colour fields and defined edges, drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences, including music, found objects, comic strips, and visual fragments of fiction and poetry. His paintings function as visual scriptures, meditating on the interplay between spoken and written languages while offering a synesthetic experience that engages multiple senses. Rudi’s treatment of the painting surface is both surprising and playful, achieved through a complex process of layering and washing away thin layers of paint to create radiant colours, set like gemstones into precise contours. This enables fluid transitions between works, as if each painting slides into the next, forming a continuous dialogue across his practice. Frequently, his paintings are paired as diptychs or integrated into larger compositions - a diagrammatic structure that reflects his ongoing fascination with the cinematic techniques of early 20th-century animation.