Martina Vacheva

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MARTINA VACHEVA

b. 1988  in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2003-2007 National School for Fine Arts “Tsanko Lavrenov”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2009-2013 National Academy of Arts in Sofia, B.A. in “Books and printed Graphics”, Bulgaria
2012 Erasmus student in illustration (under Georg Barber), Burg Giebichenstein Halle Design and Fine Arts University, Halle an der Saale, Germany
2013-2015 National Academy of Arts in Sofia, M.A. in “llustration”, Bulgaria

Residency

2022 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2018 MGLC Ljubljana Residency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA


Awards

2024 Award category “artist” of BUNA (forum of contemporary art Varna) with her solo show VLACHUGANE organized by Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019  Research Residency Award of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia
2017 BAZA Award winner for contemporary Art

 

Solo exhibitions

2025
The March of Decadence, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main, DE.

2024
Olympics in local and world disciplines (c: Vera Mlechevska), Octopus Art Space, Sofia, BG.
VLACHUGANE (The depth of the water) (c: Vladiya Mihaylova), Archeological Museum, Varna, BG.
VLACHUGANE (The depth of the water) (c: Vladiya Mihaylova), Toplocentrala, Sofia, BG.
The Round (c: Vera Mlechevska), Octopus Art Space, Sofia, BG.

2021
Circle Pit (c: Vesselina Sarieva), Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, BG.

2020
The Sex and the City (c: Valko Chobanov), Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, BG.

2019
КОРEНИ / Roots / Wurzeln (c: Peter Daners, Annika Schank), Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE.

2018
Mud, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, BG.

2016
Sereality (c: Vera Mlechevska), SARIEV Contemporary Gallery, Plovdiv, BG.

 

Group exhibitions

2025
You’ve got the potion, I’ve got the remedy, Soldout Design & Untiled Gallery, Sofia, BG.
Transparent, Kapana gallery, Plovdiv, BG.

2024
SHAME AND GUILT (c: Galia Dimitrova-Dimova), Vaska Emanuilova Gallery (Sofia City Art Gallery), Sofia, BG.
GROUP THERAPY, Collections in Dialogue – Art Collection Telekom and Prague City Gallery, Stone Bell House, Prague, CZ.

2023
Don’t dream dreams – Works from the Art Collection Telekom (c: Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana,
Places of Sorrow (c: Domenico de Chirico, Velizar Dimchev), Cu 29 gallery, Plovdiv, BG.
BEYOND ALL REASON. IN THE MIRROR OF SURREAL TIMES (c: Gregor Jansen), Structura gallery, Sofia, BG.
A Few Ways to Win the World (c: Dessislava Dimova, Vera Mlechevska), Doza gallery, Sofia, BG.

2022
How to Deal with the World’ – Art Collection Telekom (c: Rainald Schumaher, Nathalie Hoyos), Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE.
New Plovdivian Realism (c: Pravdoliub Ivanov), SBH, Sofia, BG.
Spontaneous connections between unrelated phenomena, 2008-2021 BAZA award winners (Marina Slavova), Structura gallery, Sofia, BG.

2021
Diversity/United, Tempelhof Berlin, DE.
Diversity/United, New Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, RU.
The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things (c: Martina Yordanova, Boryana Valchanova), National Gallery of Art – The Palace, Sofia, BG.
See Me Moving Placeless (c: Mira Gakjina and Jovanka Popova), Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, MK.

2020
Souvenirs from the Future, ICA-Gallery, Sofia, BG.
Crack up – Crack down, Ujazdowski Castle (c: Slavs and Tatars, co-curator Michal Grzegorzek, Warsaw, PL.

Keeping the Balance (exhibition of Deutsche Telekom – Art Collection Telekom) (c: Krisztina Szipocs, Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher in collaboration with Magyar Telekom), Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, H.

2019
Earthbound (c: Marie Himmerich), Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Sofia, BG.
Background: Young Artists from Plovdiv, Danchov house, Plovdiv, BG.
33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (c:Slavs and Tatars), Ljubljana, Slovenia, SL.
Listen to Us – Artistic Intelligence (Deutsche Telekom – Art Collection Telekom) (c: Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher), Plovdiv, BG.

2018
Immersion – Background: Young Artists from Plovdiv (c: Vera Mlechevska), Bulgarian Embassy Finland, Helsinki, FN.
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE.
BAYWATCH (c:Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher), KVOST, Berlin, DE
DIAS DE ROMANCE (c: Carmen Ferreyra), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSchock und Schrecken (c:Stefka Tsaneva), Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Sofia, BG.

2017
Let Them Draw II (Drawing and Withdrawing) (c: Pravdoliub Ivanov), SARIEV Contemporary Gallery, Plovdiv, BG.
Exhibition of nominees for the BAZA Award for contemporary art, Sofia City Art Gallery, BG.
The Image is no Longer Available (c: Vesela Nozharova), Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, BG.
My Dear Provincialist (c: Victoria Draganova, Valko Chobanov), Swimming Pool, Sofia, BG.
In Motion (c: Studio Komplekt), Societe Generale platform, Sofia, BG.
Art Start: Young artists to follow in 2017 (c:Vessela Nozharova, Stefka Tsaneva, Daniela Radeva), Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, BG.

2016  
Lifestyles and Still Life (c: Vera Mlechevska), Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes, London, UK.

2015
Deviation (c: Stefka Tsaneva), Ancient Baths Contemporary Art Gallery, Plovdiv, BG.

Reviews

Shows at Jacky Strenz

MARTINA VACHEVA

The March of Decadence
September 5 – October 25, 2025