My artistic practice moves between painting, object, and installation, exploring how painting can extend beyond the flat surface and unfold into space, transforming it into a unified image. In my work, architecture is not a neutral background but an active element integrated into the compositional and conceptual structure of the work. I work with abstract forms, clearly defined color fields, and architectural references that function both as autonomous compositions and as parts of a spatial whole. Through this approach, the exhibition space becomes a site of visual and perceptual interaction. A central theme in my practice is memory — both personal and collective — embodied in transformed elements of everyday life, architectural fragments, and cultural artifacts, including Roman floor mosaics from my place of origin and motifs drawn from traditional Bulgarian visual languages. By removing these elements from their original context and reformulating them through an abstract visual language, I explore tensions between belonging and alienation, tradition and the present, as well as processes of cultural translation and loss of meaning. My color palette combines contrasting and pastel tones, with dominant hues of yellow, blue, and orange. These colors carry a biographical dimension and are connected to the different places in which I have lived, functioning as carriers of spatial and emotional memory. Through my installations and objects, I create spaces for dialogue and contemplation. My works do not offer fixed interpretations but invite viewers to move between meanings and become aware of their own position within this process.
EDUCATION
2014–2018
AWARDS
Nomination, VHV - Artwork of the Year, Hannover (DE)
2024
Nomination, 7. André Evard Prize for concrete - constructive art, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (DE)
Pavillon Stipendium, Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg (DE)
2023
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Space of Color, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (DE)
Contours of Memory, Prima Kunst, Kiel (DE)
2023
Traces of Something Recognizable, Gallery23, Hamburg (DE)
von einem Raum zum anderen, Kunstraum B, Kiel (DE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2025
Von Anfang an, Sammlung Kaufmann Mastaglio, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (DE)
Perspektiven. Blickwinkel deiner Welt, Youth For Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen (DE)
Space and Spacelessness, Hochschulgalerie HBK Braunschweig (DE)
Reduktion x Repetition x Reflexion, Raumlinksrechts, Hamburg (DE)
2024
7. internationaler André Evard Preis für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (DE)
EINhaus, Jugendbildungsstätte, Barmstedt (DE)
Sofia Art Fair, Sofia Tech Park, (BG)
12,25 qm:5, Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg (DE)
NEU?JA!,GalerieB, Hamburg (DE)
Everyone but Casper!,Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (DE)
2023
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg (DE)
Masters of Fine Arts, Graduate show, Kiel (DE)
Positions Art Fair, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (DE)
Konglomerat, Museum Night, Alte Mu, Kiel (DE)
zusammen-tragen, atelierumraum, Kiel (DE)
Walking Straight on a Crooked Path, GVUN, Nachod, (CZE)
Let's take a look at the side (Duo), Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia (BG)
2022
What about painting?!, sp ce Gallery, Kiel (DE)
Game Trails, Gallery Cube+, Kiel (DE)
ausbruch, xpon-art Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
Make up Wake up, Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster (DE)
Something To Declare, Nothing To Declare, off-space, Bremen (DE)
2021
2020
Rosa&Grün, Anscharpark, Kiel (DE)
PUBLICATIONS
2025
The Space of Color: Ana Kostova, Published by Hirmer Verlag, Edited by Galerie Kaufmann
2024
7. internationaler André Evard Preise für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, P. 54, Messmer Foundation, Riegel a. K. (DE)
Sofia Art Fair Catalogue, P. 52, Sofia Breathes Foundation, ISBN: 978-619-04-0314-2, Sofia (BG)
2023
salondergegenwart 2023, P. 54-55, salondergegenwart GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-945772-92-8, Hamburg (DE)
2020
European Masters Salon Painting, P. 128 - 131, KoMASK, Antwerpen, (BEL)
EDUCATION
2014–2018
AWARDS
2025
2024
2023
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2025
The Space of Color, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (DE)
Contours of Memory, Prima Kunst, Kiel (DE)
2023
Traces of Something Recognizable, Gallery23, Hamburg (DE)
von einem Raum zum anderen, Kunstraum B, Kiel (DE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2025
Von Anfang an, Sammlung Kaufmann Mastaglio, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg (DE)
Perspektiven. Blickwinkel deiner Welt, Youth For Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen (DE)
Space and Spacelessness, Hochschulgalerie HBK Braunschweig (DE)
Reduktion x Repetition x Reflexion, Raumlinksrechts, Hamburg (DE)
2024
7. internationaler André Evard Preis für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (DE)
EINhaus, Jugendbildungsstätte, Barmstedt (DE)
Sofia Art Fair, Sofia Tech Park, (BG)
12,25 qm:5, Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg (DE)
NEU?JA!, GalerieB, Hamburg (DE)
Everyone but Casper!, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (DE)
2023
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg (DE)
Masters of Fine Arts, Graduate show, Kiel (DE)
Positions, Art Fair, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
Konglomerat, Museum Night, Alte Mu, Kiel (DE)
zusammen-tragen, atelierumraum, Kiel (DE)
Walking Straight on a Crooked Path, GVUN, Nachod, (CZE)
Let's take a look at the side (Duo), Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, (BG)
2022
What about painting?!, sp ce Gallery, Kiel (DE)
Game Trails, Gallery Cube+, Kiel (DE)
aus_bruch, xpon-art Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
Make up Wake up, Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster (DE)
Something To Declare, Nothing To Declare, off-space, Bremen (DE)
2021
Rosa&Grün, Anscharpark, Kiel (DE)
PUBLICATIONS
2025
The Space of Color: Ana Kostova, Published by Hirmer Verlag, Edited by Galerie Kaufmann
2024
7. internationaler André Evard Preise für konkret-konstruktive Kunst, P. 54, Messmer Foundation, Riegel a. K. (DE)
Sofia Art Fair Catalogue, P. 52, Sofia Breathes Foundation, ISBN: 978-619-04-0314-2, Sofia (BG)
2023
salondergegenwart 2023, P. 54-55, salondergegenwart GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-945772-92-8, Hamburg (DE)
2020
European Masters Salon Painting, P. 128 - 131, KoMASK, Antwerpen, (BEL)