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Far", 2005 / "Desire and Resistance Determine the Motion", 2007 / "Two days'distance", 2007-2009. An important point in their common career are the video installations they created for facades of museums, public buildings and other public spaces as: "In the Out", 2002 was shown at the 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Cetinje, Montenegro. For the video installation "In the Out", Nina and Valentin were awarded the Annual Award of UNESCO: The 2002 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.In 2004 they created "Au-delà du Visible" for the "Nuit Blanche", Paris. After "Nuit Blanche", with the kind support of the city of Paris, the installation was shown during the months of November and December 2004. After adaptation to the specific architectural environment of different buildings and spaces, the installation was on display also in: The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, 2005 / 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Canada, 2008 / Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China, 2008 / Facade of the Bulgarian Embassy in Paris, 2008 / The National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010. Other video installations: "Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space", 2005 / "Play for Two Hands and Black", 2006 created respectively for the facades of the National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, subsequently adapted and displayed in the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France / Zendai, MoMA, Shanghai, China, Li Centre, Beijing / the Museum for Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan / The old Post, V. Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Cu29 Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. During the same period they created the installations: "I am The Best" (six channel video installation) 2002/2010 / "The Stranger in us", 2005 / "The other - no other than the self?" (Three channel video installation), 2010 / In 2012, ninavale created the site-specific installation "Physics and Metaphisics of the Dark Spot" for the space of Arosita Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. Ninavale's works was shown as well in many group exhibitions as (selection): "Crossing Time International", Dartington, UK, 2002 / "Die Beherrschung der Natur", Kunsthalle, Hannover, Germany, 2002 / "Sound and Image", Inner Space Multimedia Art Poznan, Poland, 2002 / "Return Nature II", Nanjing Shenghua Arts Centre, China 2003 / "Export - Import", City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2003 / "Cosmopolis I, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004 / "Two Asias, Two Europes", Shanghai Doloun Museum of Modern Art, China 2005 / Apollonia Art Centre, Strasbourg, France, 2005 / Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, 2007 / "Face" ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2007 / "Mediations", National Museum, Poznan, Poland, 2007 / "European Attitude", Ze