Born in 1957 in Kharkov, Ukraine. Lives and works in Sofia.
Education:
Art and Design Academy, Kharkov
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007 - "Happy Birthday To You!" Artist’s Association FABS, Warsaw
2003 - ATA Center/ Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia, Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2006 - "Wild Girls", EXIT ART, New York (curators Jeanette Ingberman, Jodi Hanel, Sarah Ryhanen, Juana Gallo)
- "Important Announcement", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia (curators Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva)
- "The Upgrade! International", Oklahoma (curators Yana Kostova, Ivo Ivanov)
- "Traffic of People, nine author’s positions", The Red House, Sofia
2005 - "Play Sofia", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curator Hedwig Saxenhuber)
2004 - "Cosmopolis", State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
- "Privatizations. The Post-communist Condition", Kunstwerke, Berlin (curator Boris Groys)
- "Multiplication", British Council / Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
- "The Sphinx Will Devour You", Karsi Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul (curator Beral Madra)
- "No Volume", Book Art Museum, Lodz
- "Four Rooms", ADS Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
- "New Europe & The Balkans", Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (curator Iliyana Nedkova)
2003 - "Beauty And The East", Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel
- "Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans", The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (curator Harald Szeemann)
- "Import-Export", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002 - "Mirror Of The Balkans", National Museum Gallery, Kraljevo; National Museum, Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro
- "Bound/less Borders", Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, Belgrade; Cetinje, Sarajevo, Skopje (curator Rene Block)
Public Collections:
House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Art Gallery "Petko Churchuliev", Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
Awards:
1990- Prize for painting, X International Biennale for Humor & Satire in Arts Gabrovo, Bulgaria
1998- Award from Foundation for support of Art in Bulgaria
Selected Bibliography:
2006
SEGA/NOW.BG, 23.03/2006,"One possibility for women conversation", Elina Venelinova
SEGA/NOW, BG, 07.03/2006, "Women artists from two generations draw again the history", Nikoleta Topalova
NOVINAR, BG, 13.03/2006, "City Art Gallery present two generation women artists", Ludmila Gabrovska
EVA. BG, March/2006, "Women talk about Women in City Art Gallery
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG, #10, 17.03/2006, "Reflections Multiplied", Irina Genova, Diana Popova
DUMA/WORD, BG, 21.03/2006, "Reflections Multiplied",14 authors from two separate epochs are collected "before mirror", Snezana Karlukovska
39 grams, BG #12, 15.03/2006
TRUD/LABOUR, BG, 8.03/2006, "Women hardships" text by Neda Nesheva
REFLECTIONS MULTIPLIED, March 8-April 7/2006, Maria Vassileva, "(Un) Shared Reflections", Irina Genova, Sofia Art Gallery, BG
ALTERA, BG, vol.5, # May/2006,"Space Counterpoints", text by Vladia Mihaylova
2005
Flash Art, May June/2005, "Cosmopolis 1: Microcosmos x Macrocosmos", Sarah Douglas
ALTERA, BG, vol.2, # march /2005, "The 8 th of March group", Maria Vassileva
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG, #3, 28.01/2005, "Cosmopolis 1", Maria Vassileva
GULLIVER, BG, # 10, March, 2005,"Mother’s milk for domestic favourits ", Adriana Popova,
Lik, BG,# 2.02/2005, "Bulgarian artists in Cosmopolis", Maria Vassileva
2004
CRITIQUE & HUMANISM, BG, vol. 18, # 2/2004
Focus 21/2004,Galerie,DE, "Provokationenaus dem wilden Osten,Ronald Berg
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU,FEUILLETON,DE,25.05/04,"Armut,Gier und Ohreigen",Ulrih Clewing
ORANIENBURGER GENERALANZEIGEN,Feuilleton,08.06/04,"EHER kritisch als leicht",Thomas Joerdens
MARKISCHE ODERZEITUNG, Frankfurt (Oder), DE, 11.06/04, "Kunst nach dem ZKommunismus",Tim Ackermann
BIJUTSU TECHO, Monthly Art Magazine, August/04,"Privatizaciones", Sumie Kawai
ZITTY, Ausgabe 11, DE, 13.05/2004,Ankundigung ausstellung, Kunsttipp
KUNSTTERMINE, Ausgabe 2, DE, May-juli/04,Hinweis congress
NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG, DE, 15.06/04, "Grenzganger auf Zuckerguss’, Claudia Schwarz
DER TAGESSPIEGEL BERLIN,Tiket, DE,27.05/04,’Gleich knallt’s",Rita Preuss
KUNSTASPEKTE/ www.kunstaspekte.de,23.06.2004, KW: Privatisierungen
Neue Zurcher Zeitung Deutschland #136, 15.06/2004,"Grnzganger auf Zuckerguss, Claudia Schwartz
STAR Online/ Turkey, www.stargazete.com.tr, 23.06/2004,Sfenks seni yiyip yutacak…
1/ONE ,BG, #3/2004,Svetlana Kuyumdzieva
KAPITAL/ light, BG # 11, 20-26/03/2004, " Who be afraid of Eight of March?", Diana Popova,
TRECA, # 1-2, Vol. V, 2003, (Casopis Centra za zenske studije - Zagreb), Vassileva, Maria. Bugarska
Zenska Grupa 8. Mart: Izmedu mita i stvarnosti
2003
LIK, BG, summer/2003, Export-Import, Interview from Kiril Prashkov with Klemens-Peter Haze
DNEVNIK/DIARY, BG, 10/06/2003, "New Alla Georgieva’s exhibition e satire on violence"
KAPITAL/ light, BG, #14, 5-11/07/2003, ‘With good word and a gan", [Diana Popova
POLITIKA, Belgrad, Serbia & Montenegro, 25/06/2003, M .Borchevich
24 HOURS, BG, 20/03/2003, Maria Vassileva
OBSERVER, Kronen Zeitung, Salzburg/. 15/05/2003, "Dort sind wirklich tolle Kunstler!",Erwin Melchart
NZZ/ Austria 8/06/2003,"Wo Blut und Honig Fliessen",Gerhard Mack
SUDDEUTSHE ZEITUNG, 11/06/2003, "New York,Moskau, Kosovo", Sabine B Vogel
WELT SONNTAG,02.06/2003,"Spielerish und manchmal derb",Volker Corsten,
http://www.wams.de/data/2003/05/25/101806.html?prx=1
2002
POLITIKA, Serbia & Montenegro 21/10/2002, "Mirror of the Balkan",M. Borchevich
POLITIKA , Serbia & Montenegro,25.06/2002, "Boundless borders", M. Borchevich
BALKAN UMBRELLA, June/2002, "Art and Gender. The Positioning of a Women’s Art Group, text by Danica Minic
FAIR PLAY, The Gender & Development Magazine of the KARAT Coalition,
Peace and War, 6/ 2002, BG, " Fair Play presents Alla Georgieva", Dimitrina Sevova
2001
ART IN BULGARIA, # 84-86/2001, "Women’s strategies after the times of male separation", Maria Vassileva
DNEVNIK/DIARY,BG, 27.06/2001, "Exercise for naïve person", Maria Vassileva
THE SOFIA ECHO,BG, 16-22.11/2001, Artist exchange program yields results", Rozalina
Hristova
LITERATUREN FORUM/LITERARY FORUM, BG, # 26, 3-9.07/2001, "The project "SHOP ART", Maria Vassileva
DEMOCRACY,BG, 23.06/2001, "Women on the market" appropriate the CUM underpass"
LITERATUREN FORUM/LITERARY FORUM, BG, # 17(458), 01.05-07.05.05/2001,
Woman body - from the Inside to the Sign, Maria Vassileva,
http://www.slovo.bg/old/litforum/117/mvasileva.htm
2000
DNEVNIK/DIARY, BG, #17, 02.03/2000, "From the popular customs to existence", Maria Vassileva, TV
DNEVNIK,#3, "The Art has a Sex"
LITERATUREN VESTNIK/LITERARY NEWSPAPER,BG, #12, 29.03-04.04/2000,Obsession, Svetlina Foteva
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG,#13, 07.04/2000, "Bulgarian Art stage in resume",Irina Dakova
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG,#12, 31.03/2000, "New tonality in Russe", Maria Vassileva
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG, #6, 18.02/2000, "Women in the Bath", Yara Bubnova
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG, #5, 11.02/2000, "Women artists in Bulgaria and in the world", Diana Popova
KULTURA/CULTURE, BG, #26, 07.07/2000
DEMOCRACY, BG, #36,08.02/2000, "Elegance pick in the wound of the creative equality", Galina Bogdanova and Maria Vassileva
1999
KULTURA/CULTURE,BG, #25,25.06/1999, "The Exhibition",Dessislava Deneva
DEMOCRACY,BG, 13.04/1999, "The Bath possessed an artists"
MONITOR,BG, 10.04.1999, "Twelve artist appropriate the City Bath",Maria Vassileva
24 CHASA/24 HOUR, BG,07.04/1999, "Woman undress her husband in the middle of Central Bath", Mila Vacheva
TRUD/LABOUR, BG, 07.04/1999, "Avanguard women wash in the Bath", Neda Nesheva
1998
KULTURA/CULTURE,BG, #11, 20.03.1998
SEGA/NOW, BG, #10, 12-18.03/1998, "Nine artists decorated 9th of March"
1997
TRUD/LABOUR, BG, 06.03/1997, "Bulgarian women erotic experiments", Krassimira Koeva
