About
My work begins with drawing, paper, surface, and their interaction as a way of thinking. I explore how identity forms through traces — how personal memory intersects with collective images shaped by history, migration, and cultural inheritance. Artefacts from past cultures, especially from the Balkan region, enter my work not as illustrations of history, but as witnesses. Through abstraction and transformation, they become mirrors between generations, cultures, and languages. I am driven by a fundamental question: why do we feel the need to leave marks behind — and what do these marks reveal about our desire to endure?
I work with ink, self-made iron gall ink, watercolor, stone, and handmade paper produced in my Dresden studio. Material is never neutral; it carries time, resistance, and unpredictability. In serial investigations I examine the behavior of ink — from fluid, branching lines to dense, gestural accumulations. These drawings form the basis for prints where spontaneous gesture confronts reproducible process. Paper shifts from support to object — a body that holds tension, fragility, and memory.
VITA:
04.11.1995 – Shumen, Bulgaria
2024 Maister student in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (Prof. Ralf Kerbach), DE
2015 – 2021 Diploma in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (Prof. Ralf Kerbach), DE
co-founder of erlenwerk, studio for traditional Printing Techniques and Papercraft
member of the International Association of Paper Makers and Paper Artist (IAPMA)
member of the Association of the Bulgarian Art Therapists (ABAT)
co-funder of exhibition projects Pressure me, Dresden, DE
artworks in the archive of Künstlerhaus München, Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden, AMATERAS Foundation and private collections
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS and INTERNSHIPS:
2024 nominee Masterclass Prise 2024, Ketterer Kunst, DE
2023 Scholarship for Art Residency, Kunstverein Röderhof, Röderhof, DE
2023 Art Residency, Papierwerk Glockenbach, München, DE
2023 Scholarship for Art Residency, Stone Printing Studio at Künstlerhaus München, DE
2023 Prize for Bulgarian Artist, AMATERAS International competition for Paper Art, Sofia, BG
2022 scholarship for Artistic Research Project EU4ART_differences, HfBK Dresden
Further Contributions and Participations:
2025 Workshop for Papermaking, Conference of European Federation of Art Therapy, Brunel University, London
2024 guest lecturer at Mini Litho Symposium, Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and LITHO LITHO at Lithomerize, CZE
2023 lecture Hands of Perception, contribution at the A.Re Days, Aba Roma, IT
2022 lecture History of the Stone Printing Workshop at HfBK Dresden,International Symposium of Lithography, Tidaholm, SWE
2019 Art Summer School, Mariz, CZE
2019 International Symposium of Contemporary Lithography, Litomerice, Ústí nad Labem, CZE
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Zeit Zuflucht, Hole of Fame, Dresden, DE
2023 Baustelle in München, Workshop for Stone Printing, Künstlerhaus München, DE
2020 Harvest Moon, Full Moon Gallery, Dresden, DE
Group Shows:
2025 Growing in Sight, Hole of Fame, Dresden (DE)
2025 Junge Kunst und die Antike, Winckelmann Museum, Stendal (DE)
2024 Masterclass Price 2024, Ketterer Kunst München (DE)
2024 Self Typography, Atelier Mitte Berlin (DE)
2024 Epilog, Döbele Kunst Mannheim (DE)
2023 Ode des Handwerks, Japanisches Palais Dresden (DE)
2023 Cliffhanger, Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE)
2023 Paper Alive, International Paper Congress of IAPMA, Dresden (DE)
2023 Steinbruch, Kunstverein der Stadt Glauchau Art Gluchove, Glauchau (DE)
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, Breitscheidstraße 78, 01237 Dresden, DE
2020 Prospektive, Fachklasse Kerbach HfBK Dresden und Fachbereich Richter AdbK Wien, 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
