Selected Curatorial projects and shows:
2022:
SIT / carpet-meeting-place-exhibition / artworks by Luchezar Boyadjiev,
Pravdoliub Ivanov and Driton Selmani / curated
by Vesselina Sarieva / 24 November 2022 – 24 December 2022
/ LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina, Kosovo / On the Carpet talk - discussion with
the participants and local artists - 24th November , 5 pm /
Link
Manifesta 14 / “Prishtina
is Everywhere” podcast / episode by Vesselina Sarieva
- “The Carpet. Meeting place in your art institution?”, Guest speaker: Luchezar
Boyadjiev / Writers from around the region investigate people’s changing
relationship with public space through the lens of transition, migration and
water, capital, love, ecology and speculation /
Link
Echo / group exhibition / The exhibition rediscovers the early
artistic practices from the 1970s and 1980s of authors Vladimir Ivanov
and Stanka Tsonkova – Usha in a dialogue with recent works by the young artist
Sophia Grancharova / curated by Vesselina Sarieva / 11 February – 12 March
2022, Sarieva, Plovdiv. / Link
2021:
FUTURE UNFORGETTABLE / multi-genre situation in six time and thematic phases /
September - December 2021 / exhibitions, documentary video series, screenings,
meetings with artists, debates, exhibition tours, collaborations with
collections, publications / Plovdiv, Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Varna / concept by
Vesslina Sarieva / https://futureunforgettable.com
Brittle Power / group exhibition and educational programme / Rada Boukova,
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Vikenti Komitski, Rudi Ninov, Nedko
Solakov, Mariana Vassileva, Sibin Vassilev / Curated by René Block and Vesselina
Sarieva / 5 June 2021 - 5 September 2021 / Kunsthal 44Møen, Møen, Denmark /
Link
LET THEM DRAW III / curated by Pravdoliub Ivanov and Vesselina Sarieva / Alec
Finlay, Galina Dimitrova, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Mariana Vassileva, Sevda Semer,
Vlad Nancă 12 February 2021 – 31 March 2021 / Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv /
Link
2020
MAGIA NATURALIS / based on the ideas of Boyan Manchev and Vesselina Sarieva /
Phase I/ Bignia Wehrli, Marta Djourina, L / Texts: Boyan Manchev, Vesselina
Sarieva / 26 June - 28 August 2020 / Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv / Link
2019
BACKGROUND: Young Artists from Plovdiv/ Mitch Brezounek, Martina Vacheva,
Dimitar Genchev, Velizar Dimchev, Yavor Kostadinov, Lyubomir Krastev, Trifon
Tashev, Valko Chobanov, Dimitar Shopov / 5 July – 30 August 2019 / Sariev
Contemporary, Danchova House in the Old Town, Cu29 gallery / Link
THE GALAXIES OF TEKLA – Drawings for book covers 1979-1989 / Tekla Aleksieva / 2
November - 27 December 2019 / Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv / Link
2011
POOR, BUT SEXY / Anton Stoyanov (Berlin), Vikenti Komitski (Sofia), Voin de Voin
(Berlin), Lazar Lyutakov (Vienna), Lubri (Sofia), Rada Boukova (Paris) / 17
September 2011 - 30 October 2011 / Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv / Link
Other curatorial projects have been implemented within the programs of
Sariev Contemporary,
Plovdiv, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv, the NIGHT/Plovdiv festival,
FLUCA: Austrian Cultural Pavilion, etc.
Selected participations in Exhibitions:
2021:
Future Unforgettable Phase VI – The Sky is a Color - The Mad Carpetmaker =
Лудият килимар (project with Luchezar Boyadjiev), Sarieva, Plovdiv / Link
2007:
In Search of Lost Time, The Sofia City Art Gallery, group show, curators Vera
Mlechevska and Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva / Link
"Eskimo Cosmetics", group show, gallery Pistolet, Sofia
Poetry:
2020:
magia naturalis - echo | statics | dynamics | light /
program poem / May - June 2020 / Link
2006:
OSHT book of poetry, Janet-45 Publishing, editor Georgi Gospodinov, 2006. Link
2005:
Poetic installation the poetic cycle "osht" reading room, a literary series that
took place at the Ancient Bath, Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, 2005 and
the "Red House", Sofia.
