Kalina Mavrodieva "Drawings" - 10.10. - 24.10.2017

Kalina Mavrodieva was born in 1988. in the town of Troyan. She started her professional education in Plovdiv and in 2007. graduated from the National Art School "Tsanko Lavrenov". In 2012. she graduated in "Textile" at the National Art Academy in Sofia. During her bachelor degree she studied four months of painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan under Prof. Renato Galbusera and Prof. Italo Kyodi. The time spent in Italy has a strong impact on her work. In 2014, Kalina Mavrodieva graduated in Painting in the class of Prof. Andrei Daniel at the National Academy of Fine Arts. Important relation foe the  painter is the acquaintance and the friendship with the artist Kolyo Karamfilov, who for the little time he is acquainted with the young artist, invites her to participate in several joint and general exhibitions.

In 2015. Kalina is invited to participate in the curator's exhibition, Evgenia Kikodze (Moscow Museum) and Antonio Jezha, "Soft norm" at Ärtplay Gallery, Moscow, Russia. In the same year she participated in another curatorial project of the Sofia City Art Gallery "Attention: Fresh paint!" (Curators: Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva and Vladyana Mihaylova).

The greatest achievement and honors so far has been the receipt of the "Collector's Award" from the Esel Museum at ESSl ART AWARD CEE 2015. As in 2015-2016, participates in the DIVERSITY OF VOICES exhibition at the Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria.

In 2014 she was nominated for the Stoyan Kambarev Art Award and was awarded the Unique Credit Bulbank special prize "Art Flight". In the same year Yordan Parushev was nominated and awarded in the National Competition. In 2013, was nominated for the ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013.

Kalina Mavrodieva is the author of four solo exhibitions: Painting in Nuance Sofia (2015); "Alienation" Gallery U.P.A.R.K., Plovdiv (2014); "Body" Gallery U.P.A.R.K., Plovdiv (2011); "Maybe Maria" Sereakova House Gallery, Troyan (2011).

Other participations in group, international and national exhibitions of contemporary art are: "Image and Similarity", National Art Gallery Sofia (2015); "Paper in Contemporary Art", National Competition Jordan Parushev, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia, Bulgarian Cultural Institute Paris (2014); International Exhibition TRANSFORM, Konstantin Brancusi Hall, Parliament of Romania, Bucharest (2014); "Young art as an object of desire" Gallery Rakursi, Sofia (2014); "Everything is good when it starts well" Varna Art Gallery (2014), "Tomasian Project", Gallery U.P.A.R.K., Plovdiv (2013), U.P.A.R.K.

Currently, Kalina Mavrodieva lives and works in Sofia.

For her second exhibition at the Nuance Gallery, the artist herself says:

"On each individual drawing I work a little for a long time, so the picture brings the overlay over time and the footprint it leaves on it. In the process, the broadcasting of the picture is constantly changing. I stop when I feel her spirit, its uniqueness. The material that attracts me the most is the paper. For me, the paper is special and provokes me to be as frank as possible at work. I like the softness and the radiance it gives to the image. So it helps me with what I'm searching for in each of my works. It is very important for me to feel the picture so far. The atmosphere and the state in which I am involved. Sometimes the contact with the picture is like a memory, but I can not remember from when. Like a pleasant smell or taste of childhood. "