BORYANA PETKOVA
b. 1985 Sofia, Bulgaria
1998-2008 deconstruction period – research in self destruction and transformation
2011 – 2018 reconstruction period
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 No Blood Relations, ARSENAL – Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2024 Straight in the Eyes, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg
2024 Non Effective Drawing duo show with Emmanuel Béranger, Drawing Lab, Paris, France
2024 S.I.S, Galerie S, Paris, France
2024 Corpstexte duo show with Maéva Croissant, La Vitrine, Limoges, France
2023 Burnt. Burn. Will Burn, curator Snejana Krasteva, Plus359 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Mother Tongue, Residency Unlimited, New York City, USA
2022 Icy Water Burnt My Throat, RigLab, Migennes, France
2022 Hyperdrawing, duo show with Katrin Strobel, curator Joana Neves, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
2022 Can You See the Black Cloud? duo show with Olga Sabko, Ilian Rebei Gallery, Paris, France
2021 Pinned Dreams, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 Spit It Out!, curator Chloé Bonnie More, Studio 10, Paris, France
2020 Craving Nothing, duo show with Michail Michailov,curator Maria Vassileva, Structura Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 Mutuus, duo show with Cedric Ostrillo, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France
2018 H220cm, curator Irina Batkova, Plus359 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 Written (Not) Said, Contemporary Space, Varna, Bulgaria
LIVE PERFORMANCES (selection)
2025 IInside Out! Live performance for the presentation of the nominated artists, Carta Bianca Prize
2025 S.I.S. live performance, exhibition I Want to See My Mountains, curator Svetlana Racanovic, Cetinje, Montenegro
2025 ILY, exhibition Obstiné.e.s, curator Yvannoé Kruger, Poush, Paris, France
2025 S.I.S live performance, BUNA Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2024 S.I.S live performance, AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, Paris, France
2024 Spit It Out!, ARSENAL – Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2024 GUARDIAN, BUNA Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2024 LINK, with the participation of Marion Zilio, Drawing Lab, Paris, France
2024 S.I.S live performance in public space, Paris, France
2023 SeeN, exhibition CulturFoundry, 100C, Paris, France
2023 Burnt. Burn. Will Burn, Plus359 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Mother Tongue, Residency Unlimited, New York City, USA
2023 HeadHeart, exhibition Contact Zone, Poush, France
2023 Collection of Voices, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2022 SeeN, exhibition Fluide Motor, curated by curatoral collective MITOSIS, Garage MU, Paris, France
2022 Spit it out! curated by Marie Gayet and Plateau Urbain, exhibition VOCI UMANE, Paris, France
2021 Link, performance with Wura Natacha Ogunji, curated by Joan Neves, Drawing Now, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 Room service, curated by Chaos and Cosmos, Hotel La Louisiane, Paris
2025 I Want to See My Mountains, curator Svetlana Racanovic, Cetinje, Montenegro
2025 Obstinate, curator Yvannoé Kruger, Posuh, Aubervilliers, France
2024 Everything Spoke So Vividly, curator Jan Philipp Fruehsorge, Biennale Disegno, Rimini, Italy
2024 The Nature of Relationships, curator Irina Batkova, BUNA, Varna, Bulgaria
2023 Machine Made, curators Margherita Balzerani & Noélig Le Roux, MIAM – Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
2023 Zone of Contact, curator Yvannoé Kruger, Poush, Saint-Ouen, France
2023 Needles in a Haystack, curator Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Silence Spring, curator Pascal Neveux, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
2022 Gulliver’s Sketchbook, curator Ludwig Seyfarth, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 pARTage, ARTAIS, Paris, France
2022 Dangereuse Beauty, curator Stefan Ivanov, Burgas, Bulgaria
2022 VOCI UMANE, curator Marie Gayet, Chapelle Reilly, Paris, France
2022 HYPERDRAWING, Drawing Now Art Fair, curator Joana Neves, Paris, France
2022 Emotions Are Facts, curator Chloé Bonnie More, Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2021 Relevateurs, curators Anael Pigeat & Yvannoé Kruger, Galerie Christian Berst Art Brut, Paris, France
2021 Body of Drawing, curator Ludwig Seyfarth, Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier, France
2021 Intersection, curator Yvannoé Kruger, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, France
2021 Moving Images, Moving Bodies, curator Ludwig Seyfarth, ICA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 Roots, curator Nadejda Djakova, Museum of Contemporary Art Arsenal, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 AVALANCHE, curator Andy Rankin, PAL Project, Paris, France
2020 Long Minutes (online screening), curator Bronwyn Lace, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 Formes Vivantes, curator Jean-Charles Hameau, Musée National Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, France
2019 FINALE (Gaudenz B. Ruf Award Exhibition), Structura Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 L’Arbre de Darwin, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
2017 Polyphonia, curator Frans Oosterhof, Goethe-Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Salon de Dessin 6B, curators Marie Gautier & Claire Lune, Saint-Denis, France
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2025 Laureate, Prix Carta Bianca, nomination by Hou Hanru
2024 AGADP Donation for the Documentation of a Performance
2024 First Prize for Live Performance, BUNA Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2020 Nominee, Baza Award for Conteporary Art*, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art*
2018 Mention, Fénéon Prize, Paris, France
2017 Laureate, Biennale de Mulhouse 017, France
2016 Nominee, Baza Award for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 Laureate, Drawing Prize, Pierre David-Weill, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France