Born in 1957 in Kharkov, Ukraine. Lives and works in Sofia.
Education:
Art and Design Academy, Kharkov
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008 - "Tales of Love, Great and Small", ARC Projects, Sofia
2007 - "Happy Birthday To You!" Artist’s Association FABS, Warsaw
2003 - ATA Center/ Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia, Sofia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 - 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale (curators Gabriela Salgado, Bisi Silva and Syago Tsiara) (forthcoming)
- "Influenced by USA" Hellenic American Union, Athens (curator Iliana Fokianaki) (forthcoming)
2008 - "Contemporary Bulgarian Art", Ludwig Museum in Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz (curator)
- "Wasteland", Approach Art Gallery, Pecs, Hungary (curators Kata Oltai and Barnabás Bencsik)
- "HACK.Fem.EAST", Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin (curators Tatiana Bazzichelli, Gaia Novati, Iliyana Nedkova)
- "33rd National Caricature Exhibition", Shipka 6 National Centre for Contemporary Art Gallery, Sofia.
- "The Collection. New Acquisiotions", Sofia City Art Gallery (curators Maria Vassileva, et al)
2007 - "Shortlist 2007," Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, Sofia City Art Gallery
- "Multiplicities", ARC Projects, Sofia (curators Iliyana Nedkova and Chris Byrne)
2006 - "Wild Girls", EXIT ART, New York (curators Jeanette Ingberman, Jodi Hanel, Sarah Ryhanen, Juana Gallo)
- "Important Announcement", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia (curators Maria Vassileva, Daniela Radeva)
- "The Upgrade! International", Oklahoma (curators Yana Kostova, Ivo Ivanov)
- "Traffic of People, nine author’s positions", The Red House, Sofia
2005 - "Play Sofia", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (curator Hedwig Saxenhuber)
2004 - "Cosmopolis", State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
- "Privatizations. The Post-communist Condition", Kunstwerke, Berlin (curator Boris Groys)
- "Multiplication", British Council / Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
- "The Sphinx Will Devour You", Karsi Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul (curator Beral Madra)
- "No Volume", Book Art Museum, Lodz
- "Four Rooms", ADS Gallery, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
- "New Europe & The Balkans", Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (curator Iliyana Nedkova)
2003 - "Beauty And The East", Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel
- "Blood & Honey / Future’s in the Balkans", The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (curator Harald Szeemann)
- "Import-Export", Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2002 - "Mirror Of The Balkans", National Museum Gallery, Kraljevo; National Museum, Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro
- "Bound/less Borders", Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, Belgrade; Cetinje, Sarajevo, Skopje (curator Rene Block)
Public Collections:
European Investment Bank, Vienna
Bulgarian Consulate, Dundee
Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia
House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Art Gallery "Petko Churchuliev", Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
Awards:
2008 - Grand Prix 08 (Caricature) by Union of Bulgarian Artists (with Chavdar Georgiev)
2007 - Gaudenz B. Ruf Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art: Nomination
1998 - Award from Foundation for support of Art in Bulgaria
1990 - Prize for painting, X International Biennale for Humor & Satire in Arts Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Selected Bibliography:
2008
‘Alla Georgieva’s Exhibition Tales of Love, Great and Small’, Milena Dimitrova, cult.bg Visual Art History, 15 December 2008
‘Alla Georgieva’s Exhibition at ARC Projects’, Milena Dimitrova, LIK, Issue 12, December 2008
‘Alla Georgieva: The Story of an Art Project’, Svetla Petkova, Kultura, Issue 43 (2526), 10 December 2008
‘Kitch as Visual Code’, Svetlana Kyuimdjieva, Kultura, Issue 41 (2524), 26 November 2008
‘In search of love and its limits ... An exhibition looks at the private life of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin’, Boriana Batemberska idealist.bg, 25 November 2008
‘Great and small love’, Daniela Radeva, Edno Magazine, Issue 75, November 2008, p. 152
2007
'Alla Georgieva. Between Difference and Understanding’, Iliyana Nedkova, n.paradoxa, Volume 19, IN/Difference, London, KTPress, January 2007, p.
2006
"Reflections Multiplied", Irina Genova and Diana Popova, Kultura Magazine, 17.03.2006
"Space Counterpoints", Vladia Mihaylova, Altera Magazine, vol.5, May 2006
2005
"Cosmopolis 1: Microcosmos x Macrocosmos", Sarah Douglas, Flash Art, May/June 2005
"The 8th of March group", Maria Vassileva, Altera Magazine, vol.2, March 2005
"Mother’s milk for domestic favourites ", Adriana Popova, Gulliver, Issue 10, March 2005
"Bulgarian artists in Cosmopolis", Maria Vassileva, LIK Magazine, Issue 2, February 2005
2004
‘Provokationenaus dem wilden Osten’, Ronald Berg, Focus, Issue 21, 2004
‘Armut,Gier und Ohreigen", Ulrih Clewing, Frankfurter Rundschau, Feuilleton, 25.05.2004
"Kunst nach dem Kommunismus", Tim Ackermann, Markische Oderzeitung, Frankfurt (Oder), 11.06.2004
"Grenzganger Auf Zuckerguss’, Claudia Schwarz, Neue Zuricher Zeitung,15.06.2004
‘Gleich Knallt’s", Rita Preuss, Der Tagesspiegel Berlin, 27.05. 2004
‘Sfenks seni yiyip yutacak… ‘ Star Gazete, Istanbul, 23.06.2004
"Who is afraid of Eight of March?", Diana Popova, Capital Light, Issue 11, 20-26.03.2004
2003
‘Bugarska Zenska Grupa 8. Mart: Izmedu mita i stvarnosti’, Maria Vassileva, Treca, Zagreb Issue 1-2, Vol. V, 2003
"Dort Sind Wirklich Tolle Kunstler!", Erwin Melchart, Observer, Kronen Zeitung, Salzburg, 15.05.2003
"Wo Blut Und Honig Fliessen", Gerhard Mack, Nzz Austria, 8.06.2003
"New York, Moskau, Kosovo", Sabine B Vogel, Suddeutshe Zeitung, 11.06.2003
"Spielerish Und Manchmal Derb", Volker Corsten, Welt Sonntag, 02.06.2003
2002
"Mirror of The Balkans", M. Borchevich, Politika, Serbia, 21.10.2002
"Art And Gender. The Positioning of a Women’s Art Group », Danica Minic, Balkan Umbrella, June 2002
"Fair Play Presents Alla Georgieva", Dimitrina Sevova, Fair Play Magazine, Peace And War Issue, June 2002rassimira Koeva
