ARTIST STATEMENT

I create conceptually based work using a variety of media, from video and photography, to performance and installations.

My art is influenced by my travels and my experience of different communities and cultures around the world. I explore themes like language, communication, cultural stereotypes and gender identity. I am interested in the ways culture and language shape ones thinking, communication and forms of expression. Language has a central role in the way we perceive the world around us, especially in this time of globalization where the language we speak is in many cases not our native. My works question in particular the historically and socially constructed stereotypes about culture, gender, identity, and the role of the language in creating those stereotypes. 

BIOGRAPHY

Kristina Stoyanova was born in Karlovo, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with a „Meisterschuler“ with Prof Rita McBride and holds an MFA from SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. She has received several grands and awards, in between: a Scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation; a Project Grant from Kunststiftung NRW, Germany; a Travel Grant from Ministerium für Kultur und Sport NRW, Germany. She was a resident artist at Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA, Water Tower Mönchengladbach, Germany and isidaT, Toulouse, France. 

Kristina Stoyanova has exhibited nationally and internationally in countries like USA, the UK, France, Japan, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria.

Currently she lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.