Vernissage on Friday, 28 February, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The programme titled ‘In the Home of Vera Nedkova’ continues to present contemporary Bulgarian artists in the apartment filled with myriad memories and testimonies of the spirit of the time in which Vera Nedkova lived and created.
Alongside Nedkova’s paintings, five canvases by Angela Terzieva are arranged. At first glance incompatible in their pictorial and compositional technique, they seek a dialogical bond concentrated on the female figure and sensitivity. Focused on a diverse perspective but a specific approach, Terzieva’s works present the body as an independent object in which the artist seeks a synthesis between movement and repose. In endeavouring to build a new pictorial reality devoid of concreteness and narrative, she expresses herself freely, without taboos, focusing on her own body, rethinking the idea of its perfection in the consumer world in which we live.
Diana Draganova-Stier, curator
ANGELA TERZIEVA
Born in 1987 in Sliven. In 2012, she graduated in Painting from the National Academy of Arts.
Solo exhibitions:
2015 Total Body, Uzina Gallery, Sofia
2013 Yordan Kyivliev Gallery, Sliven
Awards:
2024
Award of the Petko Zadgorski Burgas Art Gallery at the ‘Friends of the Sea’ National Exhibition, Biennial of Contemporary Bulgarian Art;
Award of the ZOOM Architectural Studio at the ‘Parallel Worlds’ Exhibition
2021
The Union of Bulgarian Artists Award at the National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition and Competition for Young Bulgarian Artists
2015
Edmond Demirdjian Foundation Painting Award for Promising Development and Dedication to Art
Selected group exhibitions:
2024
Port Prim Art Fest, at the Petko Zadgorski Art Gallery, Burgas;
‘Friends of the Sea’ National Exhibition, Biennial of Contemporary Bulgarian Art, at the Petko Zadgorski Art Gallery, Burgas;
‘Parallel Worlds’, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia;
‘Emotional Decompression’, an exhibition also displaying works from Kaloyan Iliev – Kokimoto’s collection, at the House of the Architect, Varna
2023
‘Sometimes Silence’, at the Goethe-Institut Gallery, Sofia
2022
‘Shared Space’ National Autumn Exhibitions, in the courtyard of the Balabanov House, Plovdiv;
Angela Terzieva and Mark Boychev, at the Rayko Aleksiev Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia
2021
National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition and Competition, at the Rayko Aleksiev Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia;
‘Feminine Self-portraits’, at the Stubel Gallery, Sofia
2019
‘In the Open Air’, works by young contemporary Bulgarian artists on billboards in underground stations in Sofia
2018
‘Alter Ego’, Nirvana Gallery, Sofia
2017
‘The Dispute Over Reality’, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia;
‘The First Seven Years’, at the Contemporary Space Gallery, Varna
2016
‘Interior and Still Life’, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia;
Allianz Bulgaria National Competition for Painting, Sculpture and Graphics:
Final Exhibition of the Nominees, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia;
‘Art Athina’ International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens
2015
Edmond Demirdjian Foundation Painting Award for Promising Development and Dedication to Art;
Joint exhibition with Eleonora Terzieva, at the Rakursi Gallery, Sofia;
‘Attention: Wet Paint!’, at the Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia;
Exhibition of the Finalists of the Contemporary Bulgarian Art Competition, at the Nuance Gallery, Sofia
2014
‘The Assembly of Shame’, at MOZEI, Sofia;
‘What Happened?’, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia;
6th National Landscape Exhibition, Vidin;
42nd OSTEN World Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia
2013
‘Utopia’, at Glossary Depot, Sofia
2012
‘Bread’, part of the project titled ‘Idea for a Home’, at the Shipka 6 Exhibition Centre, Sofia
