ARTIST PROFILE

Vesselina Zagralova

  • Bulgaria (b. 1977 in Stara zagora)
  • Currently in Vienna, Austria.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The work of Vesselina Zagralova deals with issues that shape today‘s society – consumption, religion, gender roles, social rules, human behavior and human beings themselves. Media (television, newspapers, Internet), history and everyday life are points of reference. Each artwork is a reflection of something happening in the real world, either in the present or in the past.

People and objects get a symbolic meaning, which calls gridlocked social rules of yesterday and today into question. Objects that surround us as children and as adults and form our role models and our view of the world, for example appear as a whole army  threatening to kill us. Objects become part of the human being or the human being turns into the object.


BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1977 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Lives and works in Vienna since 2004.
 
EDUCATION
 
1998-2003
Studies at the University „Sts. Cyril and Methodius“, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Department of Religious Painting (emphasis murals)

 
Group Exhibitions
 

2015

In-House Artists collective exhibition | Vienna International Centre

Small | Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna

Oh mein Gott! | Ausstellungsraum, Vienna


2014

Heuriges 2014 | Ausstellungsraum, Vienna


2013

Heuriges 2013 | Kunsthaus Mengerzeile 3, Berlin + Ausstellungsraum, Vienna

Das Absurde in der Realität | WUK Projektspace, Vienna

Intrnationale ARTconnection on Humanity | BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna

Begegnungen in Wien | Rearte Gallery, Vienna 


2012

Art Diplomacy | BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna

International ARTconnection | Künstlerhaus, Wien

Pangaea | Castle Laxenburg, Laxenburg 

Kulturelle Verschiedenheit | United Nation, Conference, Vienna

International Day of Peace | Korea Cultural House, Vienna


2011

Art Connection | Gallery Kandinsky, Vienna 

Agora | BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna 

Pangaea | Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna + European Parliament, Vienna + ICD Conference, Brussels


2007

First International Exhibition of Contemporary Christian Art | Russia, Moscow


Single Exhibitions


2005

Byzantinische Fenster | Gallery Jüttner, Vienna