Bio

Live and work in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Education:

Royal College of Art – London / Curating Contemporary Art and Design:
Theory and Practice summer school, 2021
Master degree painting in National Art Academy-Sofia Professor Andrei Daniel
Bachelor degree painting in Academy of Music Dance and fine Arts-Plovdiv
Residency Program – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2007
Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2021 BELCANTO – FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion – Plovdiv
2019 Never Ending Fun – Gallery Cu29 – Plovdiv
2017 Ballistic Exhibition – Gallery Cu29 – Plovdiv
2014 Franky’s World – The Book Club – London
2014 Naked eye – UniCredit Studio – Sofia
2012 Sofia Design Week – Fun House The Clock – Sofia
2012 U.P.A.R.K.  Gallery-Plovdiv
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 Kunst Zürich 2019 – Curated by Albena Mihaylova Manz
2019 Thank you Mr. Ruf! – Credo Bonum Gallery – curated by Vessela Nozharova
2019 BACKGROUND: Young Artists from Plovdiv – Curated by Sariev Gallery – Plovdiv
2019 LISTE / Аrt fair – Basel  “Generation between Enthusiasm and Destruction” Curated by Albena Mihaylova Manz
2016 U.P.A.R.K. – group exhibition curated by Yovo Panchev – Plovdiv
2014 Franky – Contempo – International Contemporary art Festival – Varna
2013 Emerging Artists Group Exhibition – The Daniel Libeskind Space – London
2013 Otets Paisiy Street Festival – Solo Exhibition – “Naked Eye”, Plovdiv
2012 Monsters and fairies – An Inquest-Apology of the Fabulous Credo Bonum Gallery-Sofia
2011 “EAST of BEST”-Young Bulgarian Contemporary Art – Roodkapje Rotterdam
2011 Franky reality project – Interactive installation,Night of Museums and Galleries – Plovdiv
2011 “Boxes for Dreams” art project of Nikolay Marinov – Union of Bulgarian artist Gallery – Sofia
2010 Exhibition of the Nominated Artists for the Ruf Award- Gallery “Rayko Aleksiev” Sofia
2010 Border situation: The Figure in contemporary art – Gallery Industrial 11”-Sofia
2009 Group Exhibition of young artists – City Gallery Plovdiv
2009 Art Positive- “Sweet”- Contemporary art in Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv
2009 Art Project of Stefan Bohnenberger in Bulgaria – “Wenn Werte Form werden”- Goethe-institut in Bulgarien – Sofia
2008 Bulgarian-French exhibition “Identity” National Art Gallery-Sofia
2007 Swiss culture program in Bulgaria – exhibition the best of Center for Contemporary Art -Plovdiv present in Red-House Sofia Center for Culture and debate
2007 Bulgarian-French exhibition „ RENDEZ-VOUS ” Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv
2007 Art Positive- “Art takes”- Contemporary art in Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv
2006 Art Positive-“Light” Contemporary art in Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv
2004 Art Positive-Contemporary art in Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv
2004 Exhibition for yang artist – City Gallery Plovdiv
Awards:

2013 Young talents award of UniCredit Bulbank and Stoyan Kambarev foundation
2010 Gaudenz B. Ruf Award – shortlisted artist in category Young Artists
2007 Prize for best work –“Art takes”- Contemporary art in Center for Contemporary Art –Plovdiv