Daniela Kostova - Alumni

Daniela Kostova is Bulgarian artist living in the USA. Her works take form of single and multi-channel video installation, performance and documentary. They address issues of geography and cultural representation, the production and crossing of socio-cultural borders, and the process of translation and communication.

Daniela graduated both from the Electronic Arts Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2005 and the National Academy of Art, Sofia in 1998. In the period 2000-2003 she worked as director and curator of Irida Art Gallery in Sofia.

Her solo exhibitions are Body Without Organs, CEC ArtsLink, NYC, NY 2006, Frame, Placentia Arte, Piacenza 2001 and Play Back, ATA Center, Sofia 2001. In 2002 she visited USA as an ArtsLink residency fellow at the CIA, Cleveland, Ohio followed by a Graduate Fellowship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2003. In 2000 she took the First Prize in Onufri- International Competition on Visual Arts, Tirana.

Daniela Kostova participated in numerous exhibitions and conferences in Bulgaria and abroad. Among others are South East Passages, Biennale Donna, Ferrara 2006, Wearable Futures, Hybrid Culture in the Design and Development of Soft Technology, SCAN, Newport 2005, Don't Touch The White Woman, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino 2004, In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2003, Film Series, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Colon 2003, Blood and Honey-Future's in the Balkans, Sammlung Essl, Vienna 2003, Twice Upon a Time Balkan Video, Instituto Svizzero, Rome 2002, Introducing Sites, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig 2003, Escape 1, Tirana Biennale 2001, Tirana, Small Power Strategies, Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna 2001, Looming up, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 2001. For more information please visit her website.