My work begins with paper—its surface, fragility, resilience, and capacity for transformation. At the center of my material research is the question of how matter carries traces and how identities emerge through processes of making and change. I accompany each work from the transformation and production of its materials to its artistic intervention and development into a series. Through drawing, stone lithography, papermaking, and painting with self-made iron gall ink, I investigate the relationships between human, object, and history. Artefacts, memories, and cultural inheritances become witnesses rather than illustrations, opening spaces where personal and collective narratives intersect across generations, languages, and cultures.
VITA:
born 1995 in Shumen, Bulgaria
2024 Maister student degree in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (Prof. Ralf Kerbach)
2021- 2022 Artistic Research Project “Hands of Percetion. Drawing with and on paper” EU4ART, HfBK Dresden
2015 – 2021 Diploma in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (Prof. Ralf Kerbach)
co-founder of erlenwerk, Workshop for traditional printmaking and papercraft in Dresden
Guest lecturer for drawing, traditional printmaking and papermaking at Faculty for Pedagogy in the Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Art and Design in UJEP in Ústí nad Labem , Hellidens Folkhögskola in Tidaholm and others
Scholarships and Awards:
2026 Working scholarship in the Cultural Institute of Wroclaw, Poland
2023 Working Scholarship at Kunstverein Röderhof
2023 Working Scholarship at Steindruckwerkstatt des Künstlerhauses, München
2023 Price for bulgarian Artist, AMATERAS international Paper Contest, Sofia
Solo Shows:
2026 Express Check-In, Recepcja, Wroclaw
2025 The Greates Hits! erlenwerk, Dresden
2024 Time shelter, Hole of Fame, Dresden
2023 Baustelle in München, Steindruckwerkstatt des Künstlerhauses, München
2019 Harvest Moon, Full Moon Gallery, Dresden
Group Shows:
2026 (UN)WIRCKLICH? , Roten Haus, Meersburg
2025 Junge Kunst und die Antike, Winckelmann Museum, Stendal
2025 Growing in Sight, Hole of Fame, Dresden
2025 Liebe zur Farbe, Oktogon Dresden
2024 Self-Typography on Paper, Atelier Mitte, Berlin
2024 Master Preis, Ketterer Kunst, München
2023 Ode des Handwerks, Japanisches Palais, Dresden
2023 Kontinuum, Döbele Kunst, Mannheim
2023 Deajan International Art Show (KOR)
2022 Speed Dating, Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR), Motorenhalle Dresden (DE)
2022 Transit city, Opava Cultural Ogranization- ART HOUSE (OKO), Opava
(CZE)
2021 .UM, Meisterschüler:innen der Klasse Ralf Kerbach, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, DE
2021 Diplomausstellung 2021 , Oktogon HfBK Dresden, DE
2021 Besetzung, Gruppenausstellung, Dresden, DE
2020 Prospektive, Fachklasse Kerbach HfBK Dresden und Fachbereich Richter AdbK Wien, Dresden, DE
2020 Harvest Moon, solo exhibition, Full Moon Gallery, Dresden, DE
2019 Prospektive, Fachklasse Kerbach HfBK Dresden und Fachbereich Richter AdbK Wien, Wien, AUT
2018 Touch and Kiss, Faculty for Fine Arts, Veliko Tyrnovo, BG
2018 SMS: Sprösslinge Mit Spass Exhibition Kerbachklasse, Stadtgalerie Radebeul, DE
2018 Dresden Export Project , Gallery Saigon, Ostrava, CZE
2017 The Cold East, Künstlermesse Dresden, DE
2016 Temporary balance – permanent quakes Gabrovo, BG
