Stanimir Enchev

Stanimir Enchev is a Bulgarian contemporary artist whose practice moves between performance, spatial objects, and woven sculptural constructions. Working primarily with natural and found materials—wood, wool, rope, bones, discarded electronics, stone, and personal archives—he reconfigures remnants of everyday life into fragile, open systems that question value, memory, and structural stability.

Enchev has presented solo exhibitions in Sofia, Varna, and Kavarna, with work shown in Paris, London, and online platforms. His recent projects include Off-Meter Portraits (2025), Eve from the Closet (2024), and Archaeology of Artificial Intelligence (2023), series that explore how intimate histories, technology, and organic matter can be rewoven into new visual and emotional architectures.

I am a Bulgarian contemporary artist working with material reconfiguration, wall-based spatial structures and woven sculptural constructions. My practice moves between performance, spatial object and installation, often using natural and found materials such as wood, wool, ropes, bones, stone, discarded electronics and personal archives. Through these materials I explore value, memory and structural instability, asking what we keep, what we discard and how fragile systems hold together. Recent projects include “Off-Meter Portraits” (2025), “Eve from the Closet” (2024) and “Archaeology of Artificial Intelligence” (2023).

I graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts “Krastyo Sarafov” (NATFIZ) in Sofia, where I studied theatre with a strong focus on space, dramaturgy and visual composition. Over the years I have participated in numerous international workshops, laboratories and platforms across Europe that explore the intersections between theatre, dance and visual arts. Alongside this formal training, an important part of my education has come from working with rural masters and craftsmen in remote and marginalised regions, where repair, reuse and improvisation are a daily practice. This combination of academic st...

Solo Exhibitions
2025 – Uneven Portraits
City Art Gallery “Hristo Gradechliev”, Kavarna, Bulgaria

2024 – Eve from the Closet
City Art Gallery “Hristo Gradechliev”, Kavarna, Bulgaria

2023 – Archaeology of Artificial Intelligence
Historical Museum “Hamam”, Kavarna, Bulgaria

2023 – Interwoven Themes
Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria

Group Exhibitions
2024 – Group exhibition
Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Paris, France

2020 – Group exhibition
The Biscuit Factory, London, UK