Kaliya Ka

Kaliya Kalacheva is a contemporary artist working in abstract painting. Her practice explores repetition, memory, and metaphysical space through layered compositions that investigate the tension between chaos and structure.
Her works incorporate metallic, gold, and holographic elements, expanding the painted surface beyond traditional boundaries and introducing light as an active component.
She graduated in Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2011, she received the Edmond Demirdjian Foundation Young Painter Award. She participated in residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2014) and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany (2016). In 2017, she received special recognition at the Women in Art competition in Orlando, Florida. In 2020, she was honored as a young artist at the Biennale in Burgas, and in 2021 she received an award at the National Painting and Sculpture Competition.
Her works are included in collections such as the Hugo Voeten Art Center (Belgium), the Imago Mundi Collection, the National Art Gallery (Sofia), and the Sofia City Art Gallery, as well as in private collections internationally. She has held over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 100 group...

2011 National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, MA Painting.
2007 Ecole Boulle, Paris, France
2009 National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, BA Painting.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2025 Chryzopoeia, Little Bird Place Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2025 Eternal recurrence, Doza Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Mixed Reality, Little Bird Place Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Weightlessness, Rakursi Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Bio Center, Little Bird Place Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
2021 Zen/Kitsch, Credo Box, part of Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia
2020 Change The Scenery! at Little Bird Place Gallery, Sofia, BG, Imaginary Constructions at Rakursi art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2018 Light, A+ Gallery, Sofia, BG
2017 Air on Wood Nuance Gallery, Sofia, BG, Tandem, [A]cube contemporary, Sofia, BG
2016 Pieces, Yuzina Gallery, Sofia, BG
2015 Close/Open, “Rakursi” Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2014 Golden Mean, Blue Gallery, Varna, BG
2013 National autumn exhibitions, Plovdiv - “Forcing up the choice”, Curator Galina Lardeva, Balaban house, Plovdiv, BG, Addressless, Forum Art Gallery, Khaskovo, BG, Where do you go?, Modern Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2012 Wait!, “Rakursi” Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2011 Escalation, “Sofia-Press” gallery, Sofia, BG

Selected group exhibitions:
2025 "The Shandelier of the Arsonist", Rakursi Art Gallery, Sofia, BG
2024 "Volume" collaborative installation with Gergana Tabakova, Kapana Gallery, ...