ABOUT

Filipina Stamenkova (born 1990) graduated in Textiles from the National Academy of Arts in 2013, before redirecting her academic interests to the history and theory of art, with a focus on contemporary art.

She co-founded #soSofia in 2015, a city-branding project presenting a contemporary view of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. That same year, she launched 2MBD, a multidisciplinary studio working with leading cultural and commercial clients. In 2016, she co-founded the ABVA Foundation, dedicated to preserving and promoting Bulgarian visual art heritage.

In the 2020s she came back to art in its purest form. Her interdisciplinary approach led her to experiment with a variety of media. Some of her signature works are objects representing ordinary, scaled-down household items made of mirror. In her painting, as well as her easel sculpture, the artist is interested in the dialogue she herself conducts with reality — a reality that one can accept and sustain only with a subtle sense of humour and a naïve childlike view of the world and its eternal, insuperable dramas. It is also a kind of game: a play of lights and shadows dancing between them, of rhythmically flashing rays of light; a play of reflections, when the creator is, now, in the role of the reflected and, at another time, in that of the reflecting.