Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva

Artistic Director from 2015 till 2021

Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is an art historian, critic and curator. One of the most recognizable faces of the contemporary art scene in Bulgaria. For over ten years she has been working as a gallerist in Sofia and has emerged as an active critic and author of independent projects. She has extensive experience in the organization of exhibitions, festivals, events in public space. She attended courses and residencies in Germany, Austria, the USA, South Korea. Her interests as an art theoretician encompass both the most up-to-date artists and trends on the art scene, as well as the period of the 1950s and 1960s and the problems of socialist realism. She works with numerous public institutions and non-governmental organizations in Bulgaria and abroad. She is one of the founders of the first independent curators association in Bulgaria. Prior to her position as artistic director of “Plovdiv 2019” which she occupies from 2015 till 2021, she participated in the team that developed the cultural strategy of Plovdiv Municipality 2014-2024.