My educational background in theatre led to my developing an affinity towards video and photography. The visual side of my works retains a sense of playfulness and live experience characteristic of the stage arts.
Over the past few years, my visual research has centered on “Objects of the inattention” – things whose existence we do not suspect or those which we ignore due to their randomness, brokenness, unplanned nature, their resulting from mistakes, their lack of importance – in other words, things which we do not think about.
I also have an affinity for collaborations with the fields of literature, music, and stage arts.
Solo Exhibitions
Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria,2021, curated by Nadejda Pavlova
Gallery Synthesis, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021, curated by Nadejda Pavlova
Apartment 101, under ONE DESIGN WEEK international festival for contemporary design and visual culture, Plovdiv 2015
+ tova gallery, Sofia 2014
Siemens artLAB, Vienna
Exhibitions
The real museum, Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaia 2020, curated by Nadezhda Dzhakova
Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria,2020, curated by Vessela Nojarova and Gergana Minkova
Atelie Plastelin, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018
Balabanov house, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate under “City in Transition”
Human Traffic: Ten Authors’ Opinions — video exhibition
“Saborna street” — The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, 2005
Images from the blind spot, Oct 22 — Nov 14, 2004, Sofia Art Gallery
M.A.P.: case study.02: Mini Festival for Media Art, December 2002, Sofia Art Gallery
Art‐Hostel, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. — Oct. 2002
International Photographic Meetings, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Oct. — Nov.2002
Destination Bulgaria — a traveling gallery — The Red House, Sofia, 2002
Mylos, Thessalonique (Greece), 7 December 2001 — 7 January 2002
Vladin Dom, Cetinje (Montenegro), March 2002
Belgrade (Serbia), April 2002
Chisinau (Moldova), May 2002
Pristina (Kosovo), 2002
Destination Bulgaria — a traveling gallery — Dublin, UK, 2001
Destination Bulgaria — a traveling gallery — Madrid, Spain, 2001
PROJECTED VISIONS — Videos from Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Slovenia
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (France), October 2001
School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg (France) — “night video”, November 2001
Awards
Best Fashion film — Chelsea Fashion and Film Festival — New York 2017
Coup d’Or Experimental — Chicago Fashion Film Festival 2017
Best video — Cinemasports 2006 , Sofia
The audience’s “Best video” award — Cinemasports 2006, Sofia
The audience’s “Best video” award — Cinemasports 2005, Sofia
Nominations
Best Direction — CANIFF 2017 — Canada
Best Fashion Film IBICINE 2018 — Ibiza
Best Experimental — Bucharest Cinefest
Best Editing — International Fashion Film Awards 2017
Official selection
Mercedes Benz Bokeh South African International Fashion Film Festival 2017
ASVOFF international Fashion Film Festival — Paris
Berlin Fashion Film Festival
Chicago Fashion Film Festival 2016 & 17
Barcelona Planet Film Festival
Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Art 2018 — Vienna 2017
MFFF — Mexico Fashion Film Festival 2017
Modepalast — Ried & Vienna 2017
CCDC — Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival Hong Kong 2017
La Jolla International fashion Film Awards, San Diego 2018
Cayman International Film Festival 2018
Balkan Film and Food Festival — Tirana
Des Arts Des Cines 2016 — Saint‐Etienne
Byron Bay International Fashion Festival
Fashion Films RD 2017 — Republica Dominicana
Geofilmfestival — expocinema 2017 — Padova
Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival 2016
Sofia International Film Festival 2017
Festival By Chance — Pecs, Hungary, 8 — 15 March 2008
GRAVITY‐FREE ART II festival, July 2005, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
Coffee with Sugar — screening program curated by Galia Dimitrova:
Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance — a joint project of ten curators from eight countries presented throughout November 2005 – March 2006 in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic), Zagreb, (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Iasi (Romania), Graz (Austria), Sofia (Bulgaria), Holon (Israel), Novi Sad (Serbia)
International Exchange Screening Project Coffee with Sugar Seoul, Korea 1 June — 31 August 2007
Exhibition Venues: Cafe factory, Yri cafe, Cafe Vam, Total Museum of Contemporary art
Coop media festival 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS — A selection from Bulgarian and international festivals and projects, April, 2003 The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Art‐Hostel “usually we spend our time in the garden”
5th Sofia film festival video‐art program, Euro‐Bulgarian Cultural Center
Music and Film Festival — video art program 2001 — Sofia, BG
Kiev Media Art Festival, 15‐21.2002, Kiev, Ukraine
Video Archeology — video festival, Sofia, BG, curator B. Kostadinov
