Daniela Kostova
Daniela Kostova | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Known for | Art installations |
| Notable work | Adventure Playground, Loose |
| Awards | International Art Award Onufri in Tirana, Albania, 2000 |
| Website | www.danielakostova.com |
Daniela Kostova (born 1974) is a contemporary Bulgarian visual artist known for her photography and video based installations.[1]
Life and career
Daniela Kostova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and received her M.F.A. from the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in New York and the National Art Academy in Sofia. Her works have been exhibited in places such as the Queens Museum of Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), the Kunsthalle Wien (Austria) and others. In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Kostova received travel grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), the American Foundation for Bulgaria and the European Cultural Foundation. In 2011, she won the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art and at the same year she started together with Stanislava Georgieva the Bulgarian Artists in America (BAA). In 2016 Kostova exhibited as an A.I.R. Gallery Fellow and was a resident at the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U)[2] in Berlin. In 2019 curator Philippe Batka selected one of Kostova's works for the 12th year of wrapping the Ringturm building in Vienna, Austria. Kostova lives and works in New York City. She is the Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery and a Board Member of the CEC Artslink exchange program.
Daniela was Director and curator of Irida Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria (2000-03).
Works and installations
Kostova's work addresses issues of geography and cultural representation. In 2004 Kostova’s installation Fixing Reality[3] was created by placing a large blue screen in several public settings in the United States. The screen digitally projected images of her home country Bulgaria in an attempt to bridge the geographic[4] and social gaps between the two countries. [5]in 2019 Her art work “Cosmonaut 1001″[6] which features a baby astronaut with communist and capitalist patches on its suit and a white dove sitting on his helmet, was selected as part of the project Future Dreaming[7] to cover the Ringturm building[8] in Vienna. A recurring topic in Kostova's work is the perception of "Safe Play" and what it stands for in different cultures and social contexts. Her installations "Adventure Playground" and "Loose" are both covering this topic. In 2017 her installation “Stuck” which was a large-scale photo-mural, was commissioned for the exhibition “Shifting Layers” at the Sofia City Art Gallery in Bulgaria. The installation was a reflection on living conditions affected by climate change, and the realization that things can dramatically turn overnight, shifting from play into tragedy.
Selected exhibitions
- Future Dreaming, public installation, 2019, Ringturm building, Vienna
- The Higher Ground, site-specific installation, 2018, Shoestrings Gallery, NYC
- Adventure Playground, site-specific installation, 2017, Cindy Rucker Gallery, NYC
- Stuck, site-specific installation, 2017, Sofia City Gallery
- Loose, site-specific installation, 2016, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
- It’s Delovely, site-specific installation, 2015, Academic Gallery, NYC
- Play Date, site-specific installation, 2015, Backerstrasse4 Gallery, Vienna
- Flip-House, site-specific installation, 2013 Queens Museum of Art
- Site-specific installation, 2008, Estacion Indianilla Museum, Mexico
- Site-specific installation, 2005, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
References
- ^ https://www.at-work.org/en/notebook/daniela-kostova-notebook/[citation to reliable source, print or e, goes here]
- ^ "Daniela Kostova | People - ZK/U Berlin". www.zku-berlin.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
- ^ "Daniela Kostova - 3 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
- ^ "Daniela Kostova". AtWork. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
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- ^ Reese, Nathan (2014-02-07). "Past, Future or Alien?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
- ^ "Art Magazine | Issue 6". artqol. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
- ^ "Daniela Kostova: Future Dreaming - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.