Daniela Kostova

About

Bulgarian, b. 1974   —   Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, installation, performance and video. Her work addresses issues of geography and cultural representation, the production and crossing of socio-cultural borders, and the uneasy process of translation and communication. Daniela develops elaborate photo shoots with intricate sets and characters, outputting the images on vinyl, wallpaper or plastic. Larger than life domestic scenes are brought into active connection with the exhibition site, becoming architecture themselves and redefining the space. Her work is exhibited at venues such as Queens Museum of Art (NY), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva), Antakya Biennale (Turkey), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel) and others. In 2016 she had a solo show as an A.I.R. Gallery Fellow and was a resident at the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U), Berlin. In 2011, Daniela won the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art. In 2009, 2007 and 2006 I received travel grants from NYFA, the American Foundation for Bulgaria and the European Cultural Foundation. Reviews include New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Art in America. Kostova is Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery, Co-Founder of the Bulgarian Collaborative and a Board Member of CEC Artslink, NY.