Iglena Rousseva

I'm a freelance visual artist based in Sofia, Bulgaria and associate professor in National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Bulgaria (Classes include History of Photography and Applied & Experimental Photography).
My research interests are focused on the research and interpretation of dynamics in the historical relationship between photography and painting. I've published numerous articles in periodicals and specialized press on the topic.
Art Projects: In my photography I'm implementing a number of mix media techniques, montages and collages, but I also love to make silver analog pictures, hand-made books and theatre photography. My works are grouped in cycles with titles: "Forest Faces" (2018 - in progress), "Urban Geometry" (2013-2018), "Sofia" (2013-2018), "Fruits of Earth" (2015), "Fruits of Love" (2002-2015), "Something in Nothing" (2014), "Tracks" (1980-2016), Animal Humans (1984-2016), "Contemporary Mythology" (2013-2015), "Gray and Colour" (1997-2000), "Shadows of Presences Past" (1984-1997), "Asleep and awake" (1986-87), "Glass Shard" (1989-91), etc.
I have participated in a series of group exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, UK, Serbia, Poland, Denmark and Bulgaria. My works are part of the collections of...

2002 – Successfully defended associate professor habilitation in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Bulgaria.
1994 – Specialized "Creation, organization and storage of photographic museum collections" in the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland and UMPRUM Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
1986 –"Photography" at FAMU, Prague, Check Republic

Solo exhibitions:
September 2019 - "Animal Humans", National Autumn Exhibitions “Poetics of the Image”, Plovdiv 2019
February 2017 – "Fruits of Earth and Love", Gallery "Rayko Alexiev", Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 – "Things", Balabanov's House, The Ancient Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2016 – "Metamorphoses", Museum of Photography and Contemporary Visual Arts, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2007 – "Shadows of the Past Presence", Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 – "Ritual Masks" PI Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2003 – "A Ritual Masks" Gallery "Artist Proof Studio", Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 – "Gray and color," House of radio and television, The Ancient Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1999 – "Photo and graphy" Czech Centre in Sofia
1998 – "Gray and Color" gallery "Ata-Ray", Sofia
1997 – "Shadows of the Past Presence", gallery "Art 36", Sofia
1996 – "Photography" Gallery schedule and work on paper, The Ancient Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1994 – "Game Time" gallery "Ata-Ray", Sofia
1993 – "Game Time", International Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
1985 – Graduation Exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic