Nationality

Bulgaria

Education

2008 – 2004 PhD (not finished), Art marketing, Thesis: Strategies of the Public Relations in the Art Marketing, Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria

2004 – 2002 MA Sales Management, Thesis: Marketing research of the attitudes of the young artists in Varna towards promotional tactics of visual arts, Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria

2002 – 1998 BA Marketing, Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria

Project/ Exhibitions

2010, 2009 Videoholica series of international screenings and presentations, elaborative project in collaboration with VisualContainer TV (Milan, Italy), In-Difference Festival (Belgrade, Serbia), Studio Videodom (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

2009 PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS, co – curator together with Neno Belchev, 2nd International Video Art Festival Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria

2008 ART COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT MARKETING, art research and installation, Open studio UNIDEE IN PROGRESS 2008, Cittadellearte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2008 MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FOR ART’S SAKE, marketing research, developed with the Unidee & UniCredit Grant, Cittadellearte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2008 UNIVERSITY OF IDEAS AT CAFE TEATRO – SOCIALE, co – curator together with Sakiko Sugawa (Japan) – Power Point Reflection (visual art installation), Biellese Biennial of Video Art (video art projection) and “To Meet” (performance), Cafe Teatro – Sociale, Biella, Italy

2005 GUESTS OF ISTANBUL BIENNIAL AND THEIR GUESTS, co-curator, City Art Gallery (Dobrich, Bulgaria) and Artea Centre Gallery (Varna, Bulgaria)

2001 TRANSLATION OF JOSEF BEUYS INTO BULGARIAN, art action & installation participant, Central Entrance of the Seaside Park, with the support of Varna Municipality, Varna, Bulgaria

Professional activities

Currently – 2008 Co-founder, co-director, VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival, Videoholica Association, Varna, Bulgaria http://www.videoholica.org

2008 – 2005 Communication officer, Art Museum Georgi Velchev, Varna City Art Gallery Department, Varna, Bulgaria

2008, 2006 Administrative support, 5th and 6th Edition, August in Art International festival of visual arts, Varna, Bulgaria

2007 – 2005 Part-time Lecturer, Department Marketing, Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria

Honors

2009 Jury Member, 8th International Kansk Video Festival (21 – 31 August 2009), Kansk, Russia

2009 Advisory board Member, ARTMargins: Contemporary Central & Eastern European Visual Culture

2008 UNIDEE – International Residence Program, Cittadellearte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Unidee & UniCredit Grant, Biella, Italy