Gergana Nikolova

My painting style is driven by emotions and various ideas. I extract philosophical ideas from books and seek to transfer emotions from music on the canvas as accurately as possible. I also play the piano and naturally, music in general is very important to me. I find these two branches of art – painting and music – very similar. The technique that I’m using is greatly influenced by the classical examples – I’m following exact stages whereas I’m working with multiple layers. For several years I was painting with oil paint. Then I decided to try with acrylics - I combine them with structure pasts, vanish or pigments, in order to achieve different effects. The experiment is crucially important to me and takes a central part – as part of the work process but also as a starting point of communicating with the viewer through his intuitive searches.

2014 - 2016 - MA in Painting, National Academy of Arts, in the class of prof. Bozhidar Boyadzhiev, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 - 2014 - BA in Painting, National Academy of Arts in the class of prof. Bozhidar Boyadzhiev, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 - 2010 - English Language School "Geo Milev", Ruse, Bulgaria

Solo Exhibitions:

2020 - "Schein", Gallery-bookstore "Sofia Press", Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 - "12 000 Moons Patience", Gallery "Debut", Sofia, Bulgaria

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 - Online Exhibition I Infinite Dreams by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine - 1 February - 1 June 2021
2021 - "KROMATIC@RT" Exhibition, M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020 - "PORTRAIT" - General exhibition of "Painting" and "Sculpture" sections, UBA, Gallery of UBA "Shipka 6", Sofia, Bulgaria
2020 - "No „I“, No „Have“, No „Being“", Academia Gallery of NAA, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 - "The Reality Dispute", Exhibition hall "Raiko Aleksiev", Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 - Group exhibition of the winners of the competition for contemporary art "NEWance", Gallery “Nuance”, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 - Plein Air of the Darik Radio “Sound and Colour”, Magazia 1, Burgas, Bulgaria
2017 - "Landscape", Gallery of UBA "Shipka 6", Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 - "Still life & Interior", Gallery of UBA "Shipka 6", Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 - "TRANSFORM 2016:Transformation of Image", Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 - Exhibition:"Young Artists Present Young Artists", Gallery Rakursi, Sofia, Bulgaria

Art Fairs:

2018 - "ARTMUC" Art Fair, Isarforum, Munich, Germ...