Svetlana Mircheva

Svetlana Mircheva graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. She took Olafur Eliasson's class in IUAV, Venice. In 2004 was awarded the International Media Art Award of ZKM, Karlsruhe, for her project Mistakes. After a decade of art directing and graphic work in big advertising agencies as Ogilvy, Demner, Merlichek&Bergmann and Capital Light Magazine, she concentrated in contemporary art. In 2010 she was among the nominees for the BAZA Award and in 2012 was the Bulgarian nomination for Henkel Art Award for East European Art. Mircheva was one of the curators of Sofia Design Week 2012. In 2015 she was presented in Focus Bulgaria at Vienna Contemporary.
Her solo exhibitions are “Random Show", Vaska Emanouilova, Sofia (2011); “Possible Exhibitions", Nurture Art, New York (2012); “103 Mistakes", Un Cabinet D'Amateur, Sofia (2012); “Images of the Word", Un Cabinet D'Amateur, Sofia (2014); “Sounds of Sea, Heart and Sun", Contemporary Space, Varna (2018).
Her works have been exhibited in Radar, Venice; Temporary Contemporary, London; Viper, Kunsthalle, Basel; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Stuttgart; Studio Voltaire, London; BAZA Award; WUK, Vienna; MMOMA, Moscow; ISCP, New York; Periscope, Salzburg; Interstate Projects, New York; Vienna Contemporary; Saatchi Education Center, London; Sofia Arsenal-Museum for Contemporary Art; National Academy of Art, Sofia; KulturKontakt, Vienna; Here and everywhere, Plovdiv; Goethe Institute, Sofia; Sofia City Art Gallery; Structura Gallery, Sofia; European Parlament, Brussels; Archives, Strasbourg; Æther, 0gms, Sofia; Elizabeth Kostova Foundation-New York, Sofia.
Svetlana Mircheva's work is in the collection of National Art Gallery, Sofia.