Sandra Stoycheva and Magdalena Nikolova presented the exhibition Balance Point at UniCredit Studio. 

Magdalena Nikolova and Sandra Stoycheva, two young Bulgarian artists, presented their joint exhibition entitled Balance Point at Unicredit Studio.

The exhibition is curated by the non-profit organization So Close, So Far in cooperation with UniCredit Bulbank and it features painting, kinetic art and a video installation.

“The exhibition Balance Point is part of the Global Women Leader’s Forum, an event under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU and its theme is the balance between the private and professional life of each of us [women]” said Tsvetanka Mintcheva, Director of Global Banking Services Division and member of both the Management Board of UniCredit Bulbank and the Council of Women in Business in Bulgaria.

According to her, Balance Point shows art’s place in the modern busy world of women. 

 

The artists behind the exhibition, Magdalena Nikolova and Sandra Stoycheva, also welcomed the visitors and thanked UniCredit Studio and So Close, So Far.

 

Balance Point helps visitors in their search for a balance between the material and the spiritual, the private and the professional, desires and obligations and it presents this search for balance as an internal process, which shapes the modern woman.

 

The exhibition will be opened to visitors between June 6 and June 23, 2018 at UniCredit Studio Gallery, every weekday from 10 AM to 19 PM and on Saturdays from 11 AM to 18 PM.  

 

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Magdalena Nikolova successfully defended a doctorate in Textile Art and Design at the National Academy of Art Sofia in 2018. She has presented reports and published academic texts concerning the development of textile art in the period of contemporary art. As an artist she specializes in textile art, painting and graphic art. She has participated numerous times in group and individual exhibitions. Her works have become part of many private collections in Bulgaria and abroad. In 2006 she studied in South Karelian Polytechnic University, Finland. In 2007 she won First Prize, which is awarded to master’s degree students that have graduated from the National Academy of Art for their creative stay in CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS – Paris, France.  www.magdalenanikolova.com

 

Sandra Stoycheva studied Graphic Art in the National Academy of Art Sofia between 2000 and 2002. She graduated with a degree in Graphic Design in 2008 and she received a degree in Audio-visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2011. In 2011 she won the audience award for her work, which was entitled Hourglass, in a talent of the year competition, which was part of the STRP festival in Eindhoven, Holland. She has participated in numerous art projects in Holland, Austria and Bulgaria, one of which was the construction of a kinetic decor for a well-know theatrical production in Amsterdam. Her installation entitled Wave Made of Rocks was bought at the So Close, So Far exhibit in 2012 and given to National Gallery Sofia for their Contemporary Bulgarian Art collection.  https://sandrastoycheva.wordpress.com

 

About UniCredit Studio:

The UniCredit Studio Gallery of Contemporary Art was founded in 2012 when Bulgaria was selected from among more than 20 European countries to host the first UniCredit Studio after the Gallery was first opened in Italy. It serves as a contemporary art platform, its mission being to present the art of young Bulgarian and international artists.

 Since then the gallery has hosted exhibitions of young and talented Bulgarian artists like Andrey Hambarski, Ivaylo Hristov, Ognyana Serafimova, Velizar Dimchev, etc.

In 2016 the gallery hosted the world-famous exhibition Living On A Dollar A Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor by Renée C. Byer, a photojournalist and Pulitzer prize winner.

The gallery has facilitated momentous photography events such as Fotofabrika Festival, Photography Month, etc. As of the beginning of 2017 UniCredit Studio has a new home in the renovated ground floor of UniCredit Bulbank in Sveta Nedelya Square right at the center of Sofia.  

 

ABOUT THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION SO CLOSE, SO FAR:

So Close, so Far is a non-governmental organization, whose aim is to make Bulgarian culture and contemporary Bulgarian art popular at home and abroad. Since 2012 the organization has successfully curated five large-scale national exhibitions and it has presented the work of more than 60 contemporary Bulgarian artists who live abroad. In 2017 the organization started conducting its activity on an international scale with its Fragmented Stories Project: Sofia-Berlin – a one-of-a-kind cultural exchange, thanks to which 23 contemporary German artists came to Sofia, while the Gallery of the Association of Berlin Artists hosted an exhibition which featured young Bulgarian artists. 

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Additional media information:

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Beatris Nikolova, tel +359 (0) 2 9232 528, cfbusjt/ojlpmpwbAvojdsfejuhspvq/ch

Ekaterina Ancheva, tel +359 894 518 193 , flbufsjob/bodifwbAvojdsfejuhspvq/ch