Raya Korkut

Raya Korkut is a Bulgarian-born multidisciplinary artist working between Sofia and Vienna. Her practice explores personal memory, spatial identity, and emotional architecture through painting, drawing, installation, and photography. A graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Mag.art., with distinction), her work blurs the line between interior landscapes and external structures—often reflecting fragmented narratives and silent tension.
She has exhibited internationally, from solo exhibitions in Sofia to group shows in Vienna, and was awarded the Velux International Painting Prize for Austria and the Red Carpet Art Award. Recent projects include the founding of her studio-gallery Tebeshir, a space for intimate dialogue and community-centered art.
Raya’s visual language is experimental yet emotionally grounded—reflecting the undefined spaces between what we remember, what we construct, and what we choose to reveal.

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Major in fine arts, Mag.art.

2025 Solo exhibition “2&200”, Arosita gallery, Sofia

2021 Exhibition and opening of own studio – “Tebeshir” gallery, Sofia

2018 Participation in the PEACE project, MOYA, Atelierhaus Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2017 Group exhibition DISTRICTA # 23 CREAU, Vienna

2016 Exhibition at the Red Carpet Showroom at the Volkstheater, Vienna

2012 Solo exhibition "Front / Back", Bulgarian Cultural Institute "Haus Wittgenstein", Vienna

2007 Solo exhibition, gallery "Pagane", Sofia