(NO)ORDINARY PEOPLE & PLACES
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Sometimes Art is something that is too high to be touched, too complicated to be understand, too far from us. That’s why I thought that people must have their own experience with my art. In my project (NO)ORDINARY PEOPLE&PLACES except my works where the visitors can see themselves in the eyes of the mirror portraits, they can make their own selfies - self-portraits on a mirror surface. They see themselves and try to draw their eyes, their souls. This became one of my best projects but not only like an artist, like a human being. I give them pieces of my passion for drawing, of my emotions when I am in front of the painting. I am so proud of involving hundreds of people - artists, amateurs, kids, adults, people who are scared to make sketches, other who loved it. They all have this great opportunity to touch Art. They are not foreigners in the Art World anymore, they are not just watching, they are a very important part of it. In my art no one is a stranger. Every self-portrait has his place in my exhibition. There were old people who didn’t smile for a long time or a young boy who never try - they all were human stories. After the lockdown and a lot of bad things that happened to us that was something that opens their heart. I collect these drawings from Paris, Barcelona, London, Brussels and Sofia and hang them in one of my last Solo Shows in Venice in May at Palazzo Pisani Revedin. For me that was the way to make a strong community, to share empathy, to become closer and to help each other. The interaction with the audience that I make - Try to Draw your Selfie, this self-portraits are the parts of the whole picture. When you look in the mirror and see what I see - the good in each of us, then no one will remain alienated from the world of the beauty of human soul. In my work, everyone is at home, no one is a foreigner and no one is a stranger to the other.
My work I share with my husband and partner, co-worker in most of my projects, technical and emotional expert Iliya Zaykov. He is a photographer, SFX in the movie industry and a contemporary artist. As a part of my team with his support he helps me to go through the whole process and to show my ideas in their best way to the world.
(NO)ORDINARY PEOPLE AND PLACES - that's how I highlighted my project that started as "Doctors without masks" because of my paternal family - most of them medics and helping, being useful, giving society all of their best. Helping medics to be more than just professionals, experts or other clichés, 4 years ago I said to myself: I want to show these (no)ordinary people to the world, I want those who risk their own lives every day to be like the people of show business - to try to make them as an ideal to follow, to make them celebrities like people who think only of their wealth. If you don't give anything to the society, if you just enjoy life and others around you suffer, what is your contribution, how do you deserve this luxury? And then I began to create a "Golden Hands" community around me with a new charge, with new ideals, with a new feeling for the world and my own world. I started to help, in my own way to the (NO)ORDINARY people around me to feel that they are not alone, that they can overcome difficulties, that there is something to be in this world and that someday it will be appreciated. I added in this list people with different professions and occupations, from different places, with different moods and lives. And this became the most important project in my life - to help, but also to show through various experiments what I do and what is to be a motivator on the front line. Without pretension, without special techniques, with a pure heart and soul!
Main Solo Shows and Participations, Exhibitions and Awards:
2024 – Brussels – Solo Show - curator Amedeo Arena - Espace Art Gallery
2024- Contemporary Venice – participation exhibition of ITSLIQUID GROUP curator Amaride Ferrante - Palazzo Pisani Revedin
2024 – Venice – Solo Exhibition – during the 60th Venice Art Biennale – Musa International Art Space – Musa Pavilion Palazzo Pisani Revedin– curator Natalia Gryniuk
2024 – Barcelona – Exhibition Woman’s Essence – Musa International Art Space
2024 – USA Tour – Art Expo New York – Pier 36 – Fondazione Effetto Arte – curator Maria di Pasquale
2024 – USA Tour – Los Angeles – Fondazione Effetto Arte – curator Maria di Pasquale
2024 – Pitturi Amo – Top Selection Paris
2024 – Pitturi Amo – Top Selection Milan – International Prize of Europe – Francesca Reger …
2023 – USA Tour – Mayami–Washington- Los Angeles-New York_ Fondazione Effetto Arte – curator Maria di Pasquale
2023 – Fly Art Gallery – Exhibitions Florence and Rome
2023 – Sofia – Toplocentrala – organized by “Ideas Factory” founder Yanina Taneva
Result of Baba Residence Exhibition, Performance and Workshops – Victoria Draganova
2023 – Sofia – 50. Book Fair – “Like” Workshop – coworker Dessi Alexieva
2023 – Venice – Tour Europa – Fondazione Effetto Arte
2023 – UNICI Project – signed work by Vittorio Sgarbi, participation in Exhibition etc
2023 – Vidin – organized by “Ideas Factory” founder Yanina Taneva – Result of Baba Residence Exhibition, Performance and Workshops – curator Galina Dimitrova-Dimova
2023 – Brussels – Espace Art Gallery – Fondazione Effetto Arte curator Maria di Pasquale
2022 – London – Spacio Art Gallery – Tour Europa – Fondazione Effetto Arte curator Maria di Pasquale
2022 – Barcelona – MEAM European Museum of Modern Art – Tour Europa – Fondazione Effetto Arte
2022 – Paris Art Shopping Carrousel du Louvre – Tour Europa – Fondazione Effetto Arte
2021 – Sofia – Solo Exhibition “Sketchbook N5” – Sofia Press Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists
2021 – Sofia – Credo Bonum Gallery – curator Galina Dimitrova Dimova
2020 – Sofia – Doctors without masks – 4 Exhibitions, Performance & Book – Municipality Award for the project– coworker Dessi Alexieva
2020 – Sofia Gallery Serdica – Solo Exhibition and Performance 50/50 Scretch Art – curator Sonya Kovacheva
Covers of Books of Professor Pavel Pavlovich – Print house Brill
Performances and installations in the projects of Stefaniya Yanakieva – the first professional curator I worked with
To 2015 – Many participations in Exhibitions of Union of Bulgarian Artist with Drawings, Performances and Printmaking; Sofia Underground and participation with the project in Cairo, Biennale of Contemporary Art in Egypt curator and founder Ruen Ruenov; Participations with Fashion in the main Forum of Bulgarian Fashion
2000-2020 – Art and Creative Director Advertising, PR & private projects
Completed National Academy of Art Sofia
Member Union of Bulgarian Artists
Prizes:
Bulgarian Municipality Award
Leonardo Davinci Prize
Michelangelo Prize
Botticelli Prize
