Past Resident
2010: CEC Artslink, Inc
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a curator and art critic from Sofia, Bulgaria. Her research focus and curatorial practice are centered on the relations between the aesthetics of form and current social and political issues within the new generation of Bulgarian artists. Recently, she carried out a series of projects that dealt with the cultural features of the local context, among them The Temptation of Chalga (2009), curated in collaboration with Vessela Nozharova, and The Bold and The Beautiful (2010). In 2009, she was invited as a guest curator at the 15th Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with Alter Ego, a project discussing the artists role in the global processes of political and supranational growing.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva (1977, Bulgaria) holds a Master Degree in Art History from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. In 2010, she enrolled in a PhD program at the Institute for Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2003, she has been the curator of the Cibank Gallery, where she has organized more than 80 exhibitions. Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a committed art critic and writes a column for Kultura, Bulgaria’s foremost culture and art weekly. She is also an independent consultant on contemporary art to several Bulgarian weekly and monthly pubications. In 2008, she co-founded the Art Affairs and Documents Foundation (A.A.D.F.), the sole association of young curators in Sofia.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Temptation of Chalga, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Sofia City Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova.
Daniela Kostova, Body Without Organs, 2006, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, Alter Ego, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Center for Contemporary Art.
Nikoleta Marković, Alternative Economies, 2009. Courtesy of the curator.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Bold And The Beautiful, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Raiko Aleksiey Gallery. Photo courtesy of Simeon Stoilov.
