BULGARIA
I’m working mainly in the field of painting like to call myself an industrial painter. I am most attracted to create architectural spaces, I like to bury myself in the lines and lights of the cities. I’m working with various techniques and materials. In the last 5 years, I have been working on my very own technique, extremely innovative and interesting, I call it "pieces", through this method I manage to tear the layers of the painting and collage them on the canvas, in this way I’m forming sometimes absurd combinations. Four years ago I started to work on wooden boards that convey a completely different vision and message of my work. Now on the Emerging Artist Platform, I’m presenting my work with gilding. I’m using various metallic leaf colors such as gold, silver, and blue.
Bio:
Kaliya Ka is an MA graduate from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2011 she won the Prize for promising young artists of the Edmond Demirdjian Foundation. She was shortlisted for the 2012 MOST award. In 2017 Kaliya won the International Artist recognition at Women in the Arts Awards "Celebrating the Genius of Women" exhibition and competition in Orlando, Florida. Her paintings are part of the collections of Art center Hugo Voeten, Belgium, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, National Art Gallery, and Sofia City Gallery, Bulgaria. Kaliya Ka was a resident artist in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2014 and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany in 2016.
Selected Solo exhibitions
2020 “Imaginary Constructions”, “Rakursi” Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 "Light" A+ Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 "Air on Wood" Nuance Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, "Tandem", [A]cube contemporary, Sofia
2016 “Pieces”, str. Moskovska 11, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 “Close/Open”, “Rakursi” Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 “Where do you go?” Modern Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 “Wait!”, “Rakursi” Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Selected Group exhibitions
2019 “Natural Forms” Little Bird Place, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 "AlterEgo" Nirvana Gallery, curator Tsvetelina Anastasova, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Accessible Art Fair Brussels, Musee Juif de Belgique
2015 „Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art“, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
“Image and likeness”, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
“Caution: Wet paint!”, Sofia City Gallery, Bulgaria
2014 “My name is Artist”, curator Vesela Nozharova, Art center Hugo Voeten, Belgium
Eurasia Art Express Project, MBC Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2013 “Forcing up the choice”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curator Galina Lardeva
Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest, Romania
International painting biennial, Chisinau, Moldova
2012 “Chances Choices Changes”, Organized by the World Bank, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG
“Love” – project “Idea for Home”, curator Maria Vassileva, “Raiko Aleksiev” Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010“Transform” - Tophane Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey